Maxmem... how does it help?

[Animal-22 0]

Specs:

Intel DC 2 Ghz

2 GB RAM

8800GTS 340MB

Windows Vista

I have serious LOD issues as many people with Vista and 8800 series cards have detailed on here.

I lowered all my video settings to "low" except for resolution (1280x1024x32) and the game is completely stable and runs well with no LOD issues.

I have seen some discussion about the "-maxmem=512" startup parameter, but I am not clear on how this helps. More importanly, I have heard other people using different values for the maxmem parameter (like 1024).

My question is, how does this impact the video performance in ArmA? How does increasing or decreasing the parameter value effect LOD issues?

Thanks in advance,

Animal22

[CameronMcDonald 146]

The -maxmem command is a workaround for the "cannot create system memory texture" CTD bug. It has no effect on the LOD bug, AFAIK - that's a driver problem (hopefully solved by the latest 8800 ones released).