Public Beta Patch 1.07.5154

[-Puma- 2]

yay way to go BIS!!! game looks much better, love the a-10, and got 90FPS in desert, with my old 7600gt

[spetznaz14 0]

8800GTS 158.22 Win XP

Same problem, hdd reads like mad as well.

8800 GTS 320MB

[mattxr 9]

8800GTS 158.22 Win XP

Same problem, hdd reads like mad as well.

8800 GTS 320MB

Same with 165 Win XP 32 I also dont get no actions in the action menu.. which them makes it impossible to board a vehicle or xchnage weapon or use any action.

[dob 0]

I'v instal beta 1.07, whith 1.05beta, and start game> editor> put 1 unit and launch, but no principal weapon or animation, i try now to instal again after erase all trace of last beta patch.

config : DELL XPSM1710, GEforce GO 7900 GTX 512mo and 2ghz memory whith dual centrino.

game : european 505 GAMES BOX

[4 IN 1 0]

i am still waiting my workstation to finish off its last task so that i could turn it off and when home to test, i just wish that i CANNOT have a comfirm on these problem, or else.......i think its a time to switch back ATI later

[xav 0]

Special forces from US and East side only have pistols now, and Guards from independants have no weapons at all

Not for me. They are armed as normal. Although the west spec ops now appear to be wearing bicycle helmets. Weird, but if that's what they wear, that's what they wear

I have the Australian release 1.04, patched to 1.05 with the international patch, now running the 1.07 Beta (International).

I had a bug like that a while ago... had to do with an Addon I was using, forgot which one... Anyways it appeard only after i installed patch 1.05

Thanks for the insight!

The problem was Mech_BMD.pbo ... The BMD1 addon.

Sorry about the false report. I'll return and do more testing and try to make more valuable reports to BIS.

But if you have that BMD addon, take it out...

[Bob.Moore 0]

yeah i get the same error message i got when trying to patch my game to 1.05, different pbo errors

[nth1739 0]

So it sounds like the patch may be having issues with the 8xxx series of Nvidia cards?

Are those who are having issues with HDD spinning and no shadows on trees all using the 8xxx series cards?

Can anyone comment on the performance of the patch using a 7950 gt card?

[Jack-UK 0]

8800GTS 158.22 Win XP

Same problem, hdd reads like mad as well.

8800 GTS 320MB

Are you trying to do that '2GB memory tweak' by disabling the windows page file? or have you extended it? try setting it to normal or something.. maybe its loading far too many textures from the HD... also try a HD defrag to speed it up...

[spetznaz14 0]

8800GTS 158.22 Win XP

Same problem, hdd reads like mad as well.

8800 GTS 320MB

Same with 165 Win XP 32 I also dont get no actions in the action menu.. which them makes it impossible to board a vehicle or xchnage weapon or use any action.

Does your hdd read like mad as well or is that just on mine?.

[dob 0]

Special forces from US and East side only have pistols now, and Guards from independants have no weapons at all

Not for me. They are armed as normal. Although the west spec ops now appear to be wearing bicycle helmets. Weird, but if that's what they wear, that's what they wear

I have the Australian release 1.04, patched to 1.05 with the international patch, now running the 1.07 Beta (International).

I had a bug like that a while ago... had to do with an Addon I was using, forgot which one... Anyways it appeard only after i installed patch 1.05

Thanks for the insight!

The problem was Mech_BMD.pbo ... The BMD1 addon.

Sorry about the false report. I'll return and do more testing and try to make more valuable reports to BIS.

But if you have that BMD addon, take it out...

i hope for me that solve my probleme because the patch is long to install, but, big thank bis for hard work

[4 IN 1 0]

8800GTS 158.22 Win XP

Same problem, hdd reads like mad as well.

8800 GTS 320MB

Same with 165 Win XP 32 I also dont get no actions in the action menu.. which them makes it impossible to board a vehicle or xchnage weapon or use any action.

Does your hdd read like mad as well or is that just on mine?.

i think most LOD issus would have a same effect on such thing, boxed map texture, ulter low terrian/object texture, crazy HDD etc

[mattxr 9]

8800GTS 158.22 Win XP

Same problem, hdd reads like mad as well.

8800 GTS 320MB

Same with 165 Win XP 32 I also dont get no actions in the action menu.. which them makes it impossible to board a vehicle or xchnage weapon or use any action.

Does your hdd read like mad as well or is that just on mine?.

Nah, i just load with loadsa dodgy textures, HDD seems normal.

It worked great in the 1.06 demo too. Im about to test Old 8800 Drivers but must be a 8xxxx related problem.

I bet Suma is working hard.. or down the pub lol

[maddogx 13]

Just tested a few things in the beta 1.07 patch. Here's a condensed review:

Graphics & performance:

I'm very pleased with the overall graphics performance in 1.07b. Although I can't really say that there is an FPS increase, the framerate does seem to be more stable and seems more benevolent toward increasing certain graphics settings.

+ FPS more consistent

+ Slight performance increase

+ Was able to increase view distance from 1500 to 2200 without significant performance drop

- Shader performance still not very satisfying (bushes and trees still cause massive FPS drop on anything but low shader settings)

Sounds

Nothing much to report here. I haven't tested VOIP in multiplayer so I can't say anything about the changes in that area.

Controls & Weapon handling

I really like the new optics on the grenade launchers and on the NVGs. Only negative thing is that when going into optics from the 3rd person perspective, the "zoom" into the optics seems a bit slower. It was nicer before.

+ The NV Goggles are pure awesomeness

+ GL optics are great and make firing grenades twice as fun

- Sluggish zoom from 3rd person to optics

New Features

+ I'm more of a helicopter fan, but the A-10 is nice

+ The Armory is a fun toy and great for testing addons

- The new special forces helmets need some getting used to. They seem too small somehow.

Bugs!

I found a new bug - when lying down on a steep slope, if you look from the 3rd person perspective, your soldier's neck seems twisted and stretched. Try it, you'll see what I mean   .

[SeppSchrot 0]

I can confirm the texture problems.

Patched a German 1.05 with additional beta patch.

GFX: 8800 GTS

HDD: 2 WD Raptor 36MB RAID

MEM: 2GB

OS: WinXP SP2 Home

When I place an A10 or a chopper in the editor, I have no icon for the chopper (but a yellow square). When I board the plane or chopper, I have absolutly no interiour textures and my HDD keeps reading with noise as if it had a read-write error.

Overall impression is I have a 50% more loading time, even when opening the editor on Rahmadi. (On previous version it started without delay.)

UPDATE:

Well, after starting the game via the new link made by the installer, I seem to got rid of the no-texture thing.

(Before I started with additional FinMod-Soundpack.)

However, the longer loading time stays.

And inside vehicles, the textures switch between 2 resolutions at short intervalls. (.5 seconds). Not only the textures of the cockpit but also these of my uniform.

[trini scourge 1]

I like that rumble capability was added to the X360 controller, however the buttons seem to be 'locked', i.e. i cannot remap the joystick buttons. (which makes flying a pain)

[OFPDude 0]

ok I'm impressed with game and speedy releases of patches but I can't understand why a stable/final patch has not been released...where is final patch 1.06 we now have another beta patch 1.07...what's going on.

does this mean that the US release is also beta version 1.07

[ArMoGaDoN 0]

Help?  I installed the 107beta as before, no errors on installing.  Have the 505 UK version DVD, ATI graphics Asus 1950Pro. Latest drivers on that.

When I run the beta with the shortcut it gives this error and won't run...

'arma.exe - Unable To Locate DLL'

'The dynamic link library XINPUT1_1.dll could not be found in the specified path....etc.'

The DLL is NOWHERE to be found on any of my disk drives.  What is it? Where can I find it?  What is it a part of??  Nor can I find and similarly name xinput* dll on disks either.

Help??     PLease don't tell me that it's XP or Vista only... I run Win 2000......

(edit: more info below in another reply from me)

[Heatseeker 0]

Ofcourse im about to try 1.7b.

I have 505's 1.4 patched to 1.5 but im using the 1.5beta patch. I would like to be able to run 1.5beta for MP compatbility.

Do i just rename the 1.5 beta folder and exe before i install 1.7?

I need to be able to run both 1.5beta and 1.7beta.

[-=seany=- 5]

great, new patch. I happy with the beta tag, may as well get it right before proper release.

Anyways, can anyone confirm what to do about the old 1.05beta patch? do i just install 1.07 along side it? can I delete the old patch? does it contain fixes that are not included in 1.07?

thanks

[d3dsh33p 0]

i would suggest just rename your old beta folder and files as needed

lovin the patch, and im uploading it to the server now... all 4.17 gigs

[troop 0]

^

You *must* have already patched to non-Beta 1.05 official version.

If your ArmA folder *already* contains the 1.05+(=Beta)

'folder' you *should* rename it to avoid mixing up

Beta patches 1.05+ and fresh 1.07

[LoFFeN 0]

The performance is much better, and the A-10 is kickass awesome.

But has anyone here gotten a Weapon bug?

I tried to play a bit in the editor, playing a mission I have made using Jonnys USMC.

Anyway the character didn't carry his M16 just the AT-4 was visible. So I switched through the weapons and I could fire the rifle, but he didn't have it in his hands nor on his back either?

So I fired up the Editor again using the Default BIS Units. Still the same Weapon bug. I made a video off it.

Watch it here: ArmA - 1.07 Beta Bug

So any suggestions about what's wrong?

[ArMoGaDoN 0]

Right then, been scanning google about that xinput1_1.dll problem, seems that good old Microsoft have done it again with the (in)compatibility minefield.

Looks like that dll is a part of directX that only installs on XP or above?  I run Win 2000.  (edit: just downloaded and installed latest DX runtime, and still it has NOT installed those DLLs)

The game specs say Win 2000.

This will need to be fixed if the marketing and sales gumf is going to be believed.  I really hope that whatever BIS have done that brought in that dll dependency will work without that damn library!

Or is there ANY way that I can install the various DLLs that that brings in, onto Win 2000 and actually have them work properly?  or can BIS please PLEASE remove that dependency?

Thanks..?!?!?!?!?

        @MS

[mattxr 9]

Ofcourse im about to try 1.7b.

I have 505's 1.4 patched to 1.5 but im using the 1.5beta patch. I would like to be able to run 1.5beta for MP compatbility.

Do i just rename the 1.5 beta folder and exe before i install 1.7?

I need to be able to run both 1.5beta and 1.7beta.

Just install it over and you can still click your old links on the desktop to use 1.05+