1.7 beta impressions

[Peav 0]

EDIT: Just played Evolution and amazingly the Kamov fired rockets at my Hummveee!!!! Gave me a shock as am so used to just ignoring it!!! Now, will it use its cannon on infantry I wonder (oh please oh please! ) ?

I got owned by a Kamov last night on Evo Latest running on our server with version 1.07b. It didnt ffar the hmmwv but used the cannon. I bailed, it came back round and shot me. They actually have a purpose now * loads stingers into hmmwv *

I have noticed as mentioned that it seems to be using the HardDisk alot more causing pauses and stutters. Noticed this more on the delivery boy SP mission when your truck hits the town just before the pick up.

Other than that I have noticed quite an increase in speed. Being able to run at 1440*900 with Very High HDR, mainly high details, with AA off AF on high, shadows normal.

Pretty modest system :-

3500 A64 @ 2.65Ghz

2GB Corsair TwinX (480 DDR)

Ati X1950Pro AGP 512MB

Audigy

Etc..

[b4ck 0]

Well, this patch doesn't fix 8800 GTX/GTS problems: I still can't play with all this low res textures spammed everywhere..

My Specs:

BFG 8800 GTX with 101.54 Nvidia drivers

E6700 @ 2.7 Ghz

2 GB Corsair RAM

Windows Vista Home Premium

[sickboy 13]

My Impressions:

8800 Sucks, but that's a different story.

NV Drivers 160.03, as expected; texture issues on my 8800

Overall:

- Smoother, even at lower fps, the fps is more constant. No Slowdowns

- Higher FPS on the same settings as before

- Even with AI-Manager test mission on ingame server, 215 units and AI logics running, still a very smooth experience, higher fps too!

- New Menu Animations are nice

- Multiplayer commands like the createVehicle etc really work correctly now

my impression - soldiers have no weapons and they walk like in first monty python comedy series - ministry of silly works

No Weapons is an error/incompatibility in one of ur used addons.

Quote[/b] ]Another thing... when are we going to be able to use the sight post on top of the M4 ACOG? that is infact for close range.

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[Mr_Tea 0]

my impression - soldiers have no weapons and they walk like in first monty python comedy series - ministry of silly works

Again.

This is caused by unofficial retextured units, and will not happen to Arma without using mods.

[BroK3n 0]

Mr Tea is correct.

Vilas, with your extensive library of your own addons, that's gonna cause a few problems with new patches since they werent made for future patches. Try taking out all the addons you have and see if that bug is still there. It shouldnt be.

[jordan_dj21 0]

1.07 causes a drop in framerates compared to 1.05. Is this because its a Beta patch and not a normal patch. Will the final 1.07 patch run more smoothly or is this what I should be expecting?

I did some FPS tests  playing the exact same mission (in Corazal) 5 times using each version. The average results don't make good reading for me.

1.05 - Average FPS 22

1.07 - Average FPS 17

all settings on normal with PP and blood on low.

[neonblack 0]

I've been toying around with the beta patch since yesterday, and I've noticed some slightly improved performance. Its still laggy as hell with my ATI Radeon XPRESS 200-series video card on anything other than "low quality" settings, but the patch has helped.

And in the mission editor, where you can select a year for the mission, I've noticed it only goes from 1995 to 2009. Umm... Think you can extend that from, say... 1800 to 2100?

[twisted 128]

i find the beta better in many ways.

everyhting seems smoother.

however i find the gfx inconsitent. isometime i have textures drop out/ no icons on menu then i do.

vid card is 8800 GTS 320

[vilas 477]

QUOTE]vilas check your weapons configs.

There is a new "class rifle" since 1.05.[

like in OFP/ARMA tanks

in ofp there was "otocvez" now "mainturret" - this name change causes that addon from OFP cannot work in ARMA without special config

so now BIS replaced "rifle" with (i don't know because i havent check new config) "carbine" for exapmle

what is sense of such class name changing ?

making life harder to addonmakers ? what is a sense of changing class name for rifles,

of course i will find this new class as i return from my office

but for me this is just making life harder and thats all

addonmaking is sens of beeing in ARMA community

if now you suggest delete all to use game properly - sorry

OFP was famous for user stuff, no other game can be such editable by user, in no ther game i can put my own car, my trosers, my gun and make missions, islands and much more

if ARMA do not accept it , than *** it, RTCW, MOHAA are still giving me much more fun, the only reason i use ARMA is that for me this is engine and platform to make my own vehicles, weapons, in future my island, to make my own mod and to play it, no matter other people download it or not

i use it for my own fun and i release it to others fun

for me ARMA is platform software, not game in which i play, i play only my units in my missions, i havent played even one mission of ARMA, althought OFP was genious for me and i will be remeber it even as old man - if not with alzheimer :/

in RTCW, MOHAA i cannot do my own "Nysa" and drive in it as "Peoples' Army" solider with machinegun from my childhood (PM63 RAK & P64 were my favorite toys when i was in my mother work unit, i have grown among Polish soldiers)

if i have to delete custom addons - ARMA makes no more sense as a software :/

ARMA is for me engine, which i cannot create myself because i am not programmist,

[sickboy 13]

if i have to delete custom addons - ARMA makes no more sense as a software :/

"Delete custom addons" is the text of unknowing ppl.

I dont think you still belong to the "Unkowing" ppl Vilas, so how about you do what any Addon Maker should do in this case:

1. Trace back the Issue

2. Resolve the Issue

3. Be a happy Camper

In the time you write all your complain posts, you can easily have found and fixed your problem, but you seem to prefer complaining rather than tracking back and fixing

If you need help with it, just ask.

It's even highly possible that some of the addons you use are wrongly setup (either your own addons, or possibly other peoples custom addons), and then it's possible that they work in older versions but not in newer versions. I remember your complaining about the weapons cfgModels and you were pointing to everywhere (BIS, other addon makers etc. etc.) while you simply configged ur addons improperly urself mate..

My large addon pack for instance (the one that's ~1400mb unpacked, with allllll the cool stuff in), it simply worked, every single version, apart from the bin.pbo that we of coarse need to update when we get a new version (logically). Also, since 1.05+ there is setting for burstsound that we needed to add, also not crazy.

[vilas 477]

i downloaded patch late at night yesterday, i run it, i saw no guns, i wrote post

now i am in the office on duty

when i will be back home i will try to see what's on

but changing classes is for me just annoying

like with this "otocvez" > "mainturret", "otochlaven">"maingun",

my weapons classes are in 2 files - modern and WW2

what is new class if not "rifle" ? "carbine" "riffle" "karabin" "long_rifle" ? "autmaticrifle" ?

[sickboy 13]

i downloaded patch late at night yesterday, i run it, i saw no guns, i wrote post

now i am in the office on duty

when i will be back home i will try to see what's on

but changing classes is for me just annoying

like with this "otocvez" > "mainturret", "otochlaven">"maingun",

That was from OFP --> ArmA, not from/between versions. Besides, I hardly think that this is the only thing that prevents OFP addons to be used in ArmA

If there is a new class Rifle or whatsoever since v1.05, then that should not interfeir with your Addons...

If the class before was called Riffle and is now renamed to Rifle, then it can indeed cause issues for you if your weapons were based on Riffle. The engine would've given an error message if you would include the class correctly like:

class Riffle;

and not:

class Riffle {};

As "class Riffle {};" creates an empty class if the original Riffle class doesnt exist and as such you won't see any Guns anymore indeed, but also no error. Again, if this is the case then this is again an addon configuration fault..

The correct usages were posted by Rastovich in your Units Thread roughly 1 month ago.

[whisper 0]

like with this "otocvez" > "mainturret", "otochlaven">"maingun",

Well, you gotta agree that "mainturret" and "maingun" make way more sense for many many people

[Average Joe 0]

Heh I guess BIS have got somewhat of a situation, Higher Spec pcs run worse of then the Lower end pcs, most feedback is opposite to the next, ouch.

[sickboy 13]

Sorry for this off-topic banter btw guys

Quote[/b] ]my weapons classes are in 2 files - modern and WW2

what is new class if not "rifle" ? "carbine" "riffle" "karabin" "long_rifle" ? "autmaticrifle" ?

www.kegetys.net , Armed Assault, PBO Tools Package --> Download, Unpack, run cpbo once.

Then use it to unpbo Addons\Weapons.pbo and maybe dta\bin.pbo

then use the unrap from the pbo tools package to unrap config.bin and take a look I would say.

You can also go for Mikero's PBO tools, he also has proper unpbo and derapify (for config.bin-->cpp)

Biki Link with classes (though I also do not find Rifle class there :P) http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:ArmA_Classes

[raedor 8]

Please go on with the discussions here, there already is a beta patch thread.