Barely Plays

[rabidchicken 0]

I am very disappointed in the massive array of bugs I am encountering. It took me several hours to even be able to begin the first mission of the campaign. Here are just a few of the more serious issues.

The game hangs during cutscenes. It continues to run but in the first mission it would bring up the message about the convoy and then stay there. If you save and then reload the game it gets it unstuck sometimes. Most times the camera just stays stuck watching the convoy drive off into the distance.

Textures seem to disappear and are replaced by flat colours. When this happens I hit esc and the game freezes. Crt-alt-del and reload and it resumes from where it hung(most times).

Night missions are almost impossible. I am trying to play one of the early missions where you have to blow up some tanks in a camp. Problem is that it is pitch black and night vision is buggy as all hell. It works well for a few secs and then it begins to darken. This seems to happen when you use any form of zooming. This makes a fire fight real fun when you have the soldiers coming at you and your screen just starts darkening for no reason.

So how did these bugs make it past beta testing? Or has BI decided that the customer should beta test it for them? And now most importantly, what is BI doing about it now?

I decided to hold off buying this game until I saw a few patches released. Made no difference as it seems I am stuck with another unplayable game. Well I have 5 more days before the return policy expires so maybe they can release a decent patch before then. I think BI should make a note to test products in the future or change their name to JoWood.

And yeah in case people didnt notice I am not happy. My post would have been more polite if I wasnt forced to wait 6 hours after registering to be able to ask for help. Way to also drop the ball on the tech support side of things.

[NeMeSiS 11]

So how did these bugs make it past beta testing?

Maybe you are the only one encountering all this?

(Except for the HDR which for some people is extremely weird)

[-=MaVerick=- 0]

Quote[/b] ]Night missions are almost impossible.

I know what you mean, that problem became even worse with the beta patch. Raise up the gamma in such kind of missions, its not a solution but it helps.

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So how did these bugs make it past beta testing? Or has BI decided that the customer should beta test it for them? And now most importantly, what is BI doing about it now?

I doubt that there was some kind of beta testing, at least for the campaign but BI is trying to catch up with patches. The rumors say that another patch will be released with the US release.

Quote[/b] ]My post would have been more polite if I wasnt forced to wait 6 hours after registering to be able to ask for help.

Haha lucky guy. It took them over a week to finally unlock my account. By that time my problem was solved long ago...

Anyway, I still got some hope that ArmA will be perfecly playable one day.

BTW maybe we could help you with some of your Bugs if you would give us your System Specs.

Greetz

mav

[Iroquois Pliskin 0]

It definately will be playable after a few patches. (it's playable for me at the moment ). As for performance, get everything to lowest-low and start increasing settings step by step and you'll reach the golden middle. Shadows, postprocessing -- > FPS hogs, disable them or lower if its unplayable.

[dirtylarrygb 0]

It definately will be playable after a few patches. (it's playable for me at the moment ). As for performance, get everything to lowest-low and start increasing settings step by step and you'll reach the golden middle. Shadows, postprocessing -- > FPS hogs, disable them or lower if its unplayable.

ARMA eats PC's, even the very best machines can only run it around meduim settings at high res with a fast stable FPS.

Yes the box should have said unless you own a very fast PC this game may suck. Be intresting to see how honest the Crysis box is?

note ARMA is a nice reminder that even the fastest PC's are not capable of everything. Try supreme Commander at high res as well ;}

Set everything LOW, drop screen res DOWN, then the game will start to work fast. ARMA is way ahead of its time.

You machine may run BF2 fine etc, ARMA is like runnign 2 copies of BF2 at the same time.

Either OC your machine, fine tune it or upgrade it. In the mean time drop GFx settings and even screen res and you can have fun. Cuirrently the machine that runs ARMA at HIGH res with 8xaa and 2000+ res at 100 FPS is in the RND labs in Silicon valley.

Notes the sexy Dsy' video is produce without AA with many setting not close to very high. And thats look fab.

[Mr_Tea 0]

Not all Arma users get that strange texture errors.

All i get is a to low texture quality from 150 meters with the 1.05+ beta patch.

Besides that the beta patch works good.

[gepa 0]

It definately will be playable after a few patches. (it's playable for me at the moment   ). As for performance, get everything to lowest-low and start increasing settings step by step and you'll reach the golden middle.    Shadows, postprocessing -- > FPS hogs, disable them or lower if its unplayable.

ARMA eats PC's,  even the very best machines can only run it around meduim settings at high res with a fast stable FPS.

Yes the box should have said unless you own a very fast PC this game may suck.  Be intresting to see how honest the Crysis box is?

note ARMA is a nice reminder that even the fastest PC's are not capable of everything.  Try supreme Commander at high res as well ;}

Set everything LOW,  drop screen res DOWN,  then the game will start to work fast.  ARMA is way ahead of its time.

You machine may run BF2 fine etc,  ARMA is like runnign 2 copies of BF2 at the same time.

Either OC your machine,  fine tune it or upgrade it.  In the mean time drop GFx settings and even screen res and you can have fun.  Cuirrently the machine that runs ARMA at HIGH res with 8xaa and 2000+ res at 100 FPS is in the RND labs in Silicon valley.

Notes the sexy Dsy' video is produce without AA with many setting not close to very high.  And thats look fab.

i would beg to differ I can play ArmA fine on my system as long as i use 1.04 with all settings cranked up and not noticable slow down. ( Only time is when I bring up the scope can take 2 whole seconds for it to work). You have to make sure you are using the most stable driver version for your PC.

I use Vista Home Prem

Tagan 700w Duel Engine SLI ready.

3 gig OCZ PC6400 800mhz 4-4-4-15

Q6700 Extreme

2 x 8800 GTX in SLI.

P5N-E SLI Mobo 3070 Bios

22" Samsung Widescreen TFT.

I am not tried the beta driver but plan on it over the weekend.

[dirtylarrygb 0]

It definately will be playable after a few patches. (it's playable for me at the moment ). As for performance, get everything to lowest-low and start increasing settings step by step and you'll reach the golden middle. Shadows, postprocessing -- > FPS hogs, disable them or lower if its unplayable.

ARMA eats PC's, even the very best machines can only run it around meduim settings at high res with a fast stable FPS.

Yes the box should have said unless you own a very fast PC this game may suck. Be intresting to see how honest the Crysis box is?

note ARMA is a nice reminder that even the fastest PC's are not capable of everything. Try supreme Commander at high res as well ;}

Set everything LOW, drop screen res DOWN, then the game will start to work fast. ARMA is way ahead of its time.

You machine may run BF2 fine etc, ARMA is like runnign 2 copies of BF2 at the same time.

Either OC your machine, fine tune it or upgrade it. In the mean time drop GFx settings and even screen res and you can have fun. Cuirrently the machine that runs ARMA at HIGH res with 8xaa and 2000+ res at 100 FPS is in the RND labs in Silicon valley.

Notes the sexy Dsy' video is produce without AA with many setting not close to very high. And thats look fab.

i would beg to differ I can play ArmA fine on my system as long as i use 1.04 with all settings cranked up and not noticable slow down. ( Only time is when I bring up the scope can take 2 whole seconds for it to work). You have to make sure you are using the most stable driver version for your PC.

I use Vista Home Prem

Tagan 700w Duel Engine SLI ready.

3 gig OCZ PC6400 800mhz 4-4-4-15

Q6700 Extreme

2 x 8800 GTX in SLI.

P5N-E SLI Mobo 3070 Bios

22" Samsung Widescreen TFT.

I am not tried the beta driver but plan on it over the weekend.

But what res how cranked up? 8800 users expect everything maxed at 1600 res at 100 FPS with 8xaa and 16 x af because almost any other game can't even slow an 8800.

ARMA and Supreme Commander are the exceptions, even the 8800 has to start turning options down.

Link with CPU's are also causing bottle necks in the above games, try using 10 Km view distance on max settings and watch your PC start to hurt.

Max setting is everything maxed, AND SSAA on.

Fear, BF2, WOW, Far Cry you name it the 8800 can run it with SSAA on and stupid res with every single option maxed. But not ARMA.

it will take either 8800 SLI to work fully or the next gen GPU's to achieve that.

I can max out even with SSAA at 1280x1024 but not 1600x1024 in 16:9 things start to lag. Also I can't do 10 km VD and not get Lag my machine is just not fast enough.

But at the settings I have I'm very happy with ARMA it looks and plays great.

104 ran great but FOG for 8800 users and low view distance. With no fog and 10km views comes a performance cost.