NVIDIA video card(s) owners read here!

[fabrizio_t 58]

Running nvidia drivers 191.07 on my notebook.

I noticed that GPU temperatures are in average 10°C warmer than with 186.XX drivers. Anybody had a similar experience ?

[=wfl= sgt bilko 10]

Arma2 was running ok for me in 195.39 Beta. However another game crashed badly with nv4 in loop state. So i reverted back to 191.07.

[reconteam 19]

So I presume the actual 191.07 drivers offer the same increase the 191.03 beta did, does the new 195.39 beta offer any more ArmA2 adjustments?

[armafreak 10]

Is anyone using the new SLI profiles for 191.07? Do they make much of a difference?

[reconteam 19]

Asus P6T

I7 920 overclocked to 3.3 GHz.

GTX 260 (216 model), driver version 191.07

4GB DDR3 RAM (I forget what speed)

10,000 RPM 300GB hard drive.

Windows Vista SP2 Home Premium 64x

Steam edition of ArmA2. Fully updated.

And my game runs like crap at 1920x1200. Well it runs okay in single-player but it in multiplayer it is sluggish and "chunky" to describe it nicely. The patched up version of ArmA1 I used to have installed ran much smoother, and multiplayer coop scenarios with ACE mod ran very well. Right now multiplayer domination scenarios are unenjoyable due to performance/lag issues.

[demonlord89 10]

Asus P6T

I7 920 overclocked to 3.3 GHz.

GTX 260 (216 model), driver version 191.07

4GB DDR3 RAM (I forget what speed)

10,000 RPM 300GB hard drive.

Windows Vista SP2 Home Premium 64x

Steam edition of ArmA2. Fully updated.

And my game runs like crap at 1920x1200. Well it runs okay in single-player but it in multiplayer it is sluggish and "chunky" to describe it nicely. The patched up version of ArmA1 I used to have installed ran much smoother, and multiplayer coop scenarios with ACE mod ran very well. Right now multiplayer domination scenarios are unenjoyable due to performance/lag issues.

Strange. I almost got the same specs and i got no problem. Have you turned off physx? Im running beta with great FPS.

[kklownboy 43]

Asus P6T

I7 920 overclocked to 3.3 GHz.

GTX 260 (216 model), driver version 191.07

4GB DDR3 RAM (I forget what speed)

10,000 RPM 300GB hard drive.

Windows Vista SP2 Home Premium 64x

Steam edition of ArmA2. Fully updated.

And my game runs like crap at 1920x1200. Well it runs okay in single-player but it in multiplayer it is sluggish and "chunky" to describe it nicely. The patched up version of ArmA1 I used to have installed ran much smoother, and multiplayer coop scenarios with ACE mod ran very well. Right now multiplayer domination scenarios are unenjoyable due to performance/lag issues.

19/20 is still high for a 260gtx all by its self. But you will find that the betas will help you alot. But when you say MP what missions, gametype are you talking about. And what is your VD and ingame settings when you play SP, because MP servers/missions have set VD and terrain settings?

[Psychotic_God 10]

I had to sign up here in these forums to reiterate on all of these issues. First; I purchased the boxed version of the game, I have it patched to the latest 1.04, I am running the latest beta drivers from nVidia and lets see...Hm....well if there's any questions or you all need more info I will be glad to report.

Second; I am appauled at this games performance. However I do think this game is awesome as a whole. I am a HUGE fan of War type games, in paticular WWII games. e.g. Red Orchestra. Warning: Spam ahead---> www.187th.net is my gaming Unit (not clan)

Third; This game runs horribly on my Gaming Rig and I find is disgusting that I can't even run it above "Normal" settings. I am aware that in every game there will have issues no matter what system you have however.

The last time I had this big of a issue with a game was with FarCry-II. Some may be aware but let me tell ya, It was a complete nightmare. Here I payed $50.00USD for the game and I spent nearly a month on their forums to get the game to run properly but to no avail. So I ended up giving the game to a local 2nd hand store.

I hope I won't do the same for this game but I will if I don't find some type of resolution

Finally, I don't see a reason why we need to adjust OUR computers to have a game work. It should be the other way around. Provided that users have the requirements to run the game in question.

So with all that said I am going to keep reading in hoping to find some support to this games poor performance on my rig.

My Specs:

• EVGA E759 CLASSIFIED LIMITED EDITION 3-Way SLI

• Intel Core i7 920 Nehalem (clocked @ 4.2)

• Swiftech H20-220-APEX

• Mushkin 6GB (3 x 2GB) DDR3 1600

• x3 EVGA GeForce GTX 285 1GB (01G-P3-1180-AR) in TRi-SLi

• X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro

• CORSAIR - 1000HX PSU

• Windows 7 64bit

• x4 150g VelociRaptors in RAID 0+1

• x2 74g Raptors in RAID-1 (storage)

• Dell S2309W 1920x1080 res Monitor

and With all the other fixens

[lee_h._oswald 0]

You should really try the latest beta patch and then wait for 1.05 final.

MfG Lee

[Yoma 0]

I hope I won't do the same for this game but I will if I don't find some type of resolution

Finally, I don't see a reason why we need to adjust OUR computers to have a game work. It should be the other way around. Provided that users have the requirements to run the game in question.

So with all that said I am going to keep reading in hoping to find some support to this games poor performance on my rig.

My Specs:

• EVGA E759 CLASSIFIED LIMITED EDITION 3-Way SLI

• Intel Core i7 920 Nehalem (clocked @ 4.2)

• Swiftech H20-220-APEX

• Mushkin 6GB (3 x 2GB) DDR3 1600

• x3 EVGA GeForce GTX 285 1GB (01G-P3-1180-AR) in TRi-SLi

• X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro

• CORSAIR - 1000HX PSU

• Windows 7 64bit

• x4 150g VelociRaptors in RAID 0+1

• x2 74g Raptors in RAID-1 (storage)

• Dell S2309W 1920x1080 res Monitor

and With all the other fixens

-Try the latest beta version of Arma2!!!

-Have you disabled the silly hyperthreading in that 920 yet?

-I wouldn't know what the performance in Tri-Sli would be for a game like Arma, but i do know that more cards is not allways better ;-)

Also there may be driver issues on this kind of setups in Windows7 (which is after all a brand new OS)

General pcgaming-guideline (at least for me) is: do not go for exotic setups, you'll have more trouble,pay more and enjoy less.

-You may be expecting too much (maxing out the viewdistance etc), where pc's that can actually handly the "full monty" may not exist yet :D

Finally, I don't see a reason why we need to adjust OUR computers to have a game work. It should be the other way around. Provided that users have the requirements to run the game in question.

Start an internet petition against hardware and softwareprogress and go buy a console or some other restricted,shitty platform :P

Edited November 12, 2009 by Yoma

[Psychotic_God 10]

OK..thanks alot! I will defintely try that. I also see that disabling some of the GPU's setting might work as well. Hm...I will keep trying cuz' I want to PLAY DAMNIT!

EDIT

Would this be the LINK or....

Edited November 12, 2009 by Psychotic_God

[Yoma 0]

yep that's it!

AddonSync can also warn you about new beta's.

(BIS is currently very actively bringing out new beta's again about 1 each day or 1 in 2 days, so having a tool that tells you there is a new one is quite handy)

[the chief 15]

I had to sign up here in these forums to reiterate on all of these issues. First; I purchased the boxed version of the game, I have it patched to the latest 1.04, I am running the latest beta drivers from nVidia and lets see...Hm....well if there's any questions or you all need more info I will be glad to report.

Second; I am appauled at this games performance. However I do think this game is awesome as a whole. I am a HUGE fan of War type games, in paticular WWII games. e.g. Red Orchestra. Warning: Spam ahead---> www.187th.net is my gaming Unit (not clan)

Third; This game runs horribly on my Gaming Rig and I find is disgusting that I can't even run it above "Normal" settings. I am aware that in every game there will have issues no matter what system you have however.

The last time I had this big of a issue with a game was with FarCry-II. Some may be aware but let me tell ya, It was a complete nightmare. Here I payed $50.00USD for the game and I spent nearly a month on their forums to get the game to run properly but to no avail. So I ended up giving the game to a local 2nd hand store.

I hope I won't do the same for this game but I will if I don't find some type of resolution

Finally, I don't see a reason why we need to adjust OUR computers to have a game work. It should be the other way around. Provided that users have the requirements to run the game in question.

So with all that said I am going to keep reading in hoping to find some support to this games poor performance on my rig.

My Specs:

• EVGA E759 CLASSIFIED LIMITED EDITION 3-Way SLI

• Intel Core i7 920 Nehalem (clocked @ 4.2)

• Swiftech H20-220-APEX

• Mushkin 6GB (3 x 2GB) DDR3 1600

• x3 EVGA GeForce GTX 285 1GB (01G-P3-1180-AR) in TRi-SLi

• X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro

• CORSAIR - 1000HX PSU

• Windows 7 64bit

• x4 150g VelociRaptors in RAID 0+1

• x2 74g Raptors in RAID-1 (storage)

• Dell S2309W 1920x1080 res Monitor

and With all the other fixens

Hi,

I had the same problems for months, until I disabled the hyper threading in the BIOS.

My details are:

2 weeks, after turning off the Hyper Threading for my I7 CPU in the BIOS setup, I can confirm that all is now significantly better with ArmA2. So now I run ArmA2 with the following setup and this works well for me:

I have now altered my ingame video settings to all be very high rather than using default.

I am using the latest Nvidia beta driver 195.39

I am using the latest ArmA2 beta patch 104.60141

I am turned on v-sync in the NVidia settings for ArmA2 because I use a TrackIR

I have turned off Hyper Threading for my I7 CPU in the BIOS setup. It still runs 4 CPUs and 4 threads.

I can now play missions on multiplayer dedicated servers without crashing to desktop. Typically I am getting good FPS, anywhere between 28-50 even when a mission has many entities on the map, in fast moving vehicles, in urban areas and forests.

As I have been using all the latest beta patches from BIS, which are synchronized very nicely via the YOMA 2009 synchroinzer tool. Cheers BIS and YOMA!!!

Happy to help futher if needed.

Edited November 14, 2009 by the chief

[Lucky44 13]

*sigh*

I've tried a lot of things, and nothing seems to get my rig running in SLI mode with Arma2 looking good. I just continue to get the flickering texture issues, right from the first loading menu. I've tried the 186.18 driver, but as soon as I add the Arma2 profile to the Nvidia control panel, it gets the flickering. I've tried the 191.07 (i.e., the current latest release) and the 195.39 too, but with SLI mode, they all get the flickering and no improvement in frame rates (in fact, they seem a bit lower).

When I disable SLI mode and use a single GPU, it works fine. I'm greedy...my single GPU frame rates are in the high 20s to low 40s, but I'd like to get them higher. (And that's with max settings.)

My rig:

Asus P5n32-E SLI with dual-core Intel CPU at 3.0ghz

4gig RAM

dual EVGA GTX 285 video cards (1gig DDR3 Vram each)

Any suggestions?

[kklownboy 43]

*sigh*

...

When I disable SLI mode and use a single GPU, it works fine. I'm greedy...my single GPU frame rates are in the high 20s to low 40s, but I'd like to get them higher. (And that's with max settings.)

My rig:

Asus P5n32-E SLI with dual-core Intel CPU at 3.0ghz

4gig RAM

dual EVGA GTX 285 video cards (1gig DDR3 Vram each)

Any suggestions?

3.0 is not enough CPU to push your SLi. It should give you more rez(1900/1200 ect) with VH fillters. Think 3.8 4.2gz. IMO.

As for the flickering? you mean like a strobe? or textures flashing? All you can do on the texture issues is work it out with your 3D settings nvida CP. Try lowering to HQ or less than highest.. If your strobing, then try AFR2 or even SFR, there is a reg hack for that. http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.php?p=1358202&postcount=211. And maybe Crysis.exe profile...

[Lucky44 13]

3.0 is not enough CPU to push your SLi. It should give you more rez(1900/1200 ect) with VH fillters. Think 3.8 4.2gz. IMO.

As for the flickering? you mean like a strobe? or textures flashing? All you can do on the texture issues is work it out with your 3D settings nvida CP. Try lowering to HQ or less than highest.. If your strobing, then try AFR2 or even SFR, there is a reg hack for that. http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.php?p=1358202&postcount=211. And maybe Crysis.exe profile...

Thanks for the info.

Really? The speed of the processor is too low for the video cards in SLI? I didn't know that high CPU speed was important. I thought the cards handled the video stuff. Why does the CPU need to be high?

I mean textures sort of flashing, yes. As I said, it looks great at Very High with one card, so till I get a better plan, that works.

What is AFR2 or SFR?

NOTE: I found that in SLi Mode, even WoW looked screwed up...something is funny. Maybe that's really a CPU problem. -And btw, I'm running at 1920x1200.

Edited November 17, 2009 by Lucky44

[mr.peanut 1]

Finally, I don't see a reason why we need to adjust OUR computers to have a game work.

Amen!

[killakaze 10]

There is a new Nvidia beta driver 195.55, out as of 2009.11.17, http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

[Richey79 10]

Thanks for the info.

Really? The speed of the processor is too low for the video cards in SLI? I didn't know that high CPU speed was important. I thought the cards handled the video stuff. Why does the CPU need to be high?

For sure.

I use 3 ATI cards in Crossfire. Didn't see the full benefit until I switched to a processor I could clock to 3.7ghz. The CPU is the workhorse in splitting the tasks between the gpus. If you think about it, of course the weakest component in the system is going to produce stutters, and you won't be able to overcome those, no matter how strong the graphics cards are.

Basically, I've found that more gpu power= smoother performance in A2 cities. More cpu power= smoother performance to have more units and -especially- more scripts running.

[rocket 9]

Really? The speed of the processor is too low for the video cards in SLI?

Twin GPU's can actually reduce performance due to their operation by your mobo and by software/driver issue.

Your GPU output is entirely based on what the CPU/Motherboard combination can supply the cards. Sometimes throwing more hardware into the mix is just more overhead... SLi causes some CPU overhead, so if your CPU is already being taxed and you enable SLi you can actually loose some FPS

[Lucky44 13]

OK, thanks. So is clock speed more important than "horsepower"? That is, would I get more bang for my buck with a faster CPU that's more mid-level, or a slower clock-speed high end CPU? Say a quad-core Pentium D 965 Extreme @3.73Mhz vs. an i7 920? (I can put the D965 into my current mobo, but I'd need a new mobo for the i7 chip, I realize.)

Edited November 18, 2009 by Lucky44

[=wfl= sgt bilko 10]

Thanks for the info.

Really? The speed of the processor is too low for the video cards in SLI? I didn't know that high CPU speed was important. I thought the cards handled the video stuff. Why does the CPU need to be high?

With that MoBo, part of the problem is the bandwidth. The MoBo is PCIe 1.0.

I have the same MoBo and the same problem. I simply don't get that much out of my GPU's when running SLI (not even when I OC the CPU).

[killakaze 10]

ive got a core 2 quad q9550 on a pretty old motherboard a ga-p35-s3 that didnt originally support this cpu till a later patch came out, i also have 8gb of ddr2 1100 ram and i dont think the board supports the ram properly, i think my mb is pcie 1.0 too and i have a 285gtx 2gb ive been looking at buying a new mb becuase i overclock and put the vcore up quite abit the highest multiplier i can do is 8.5 on this mb whats a good mb to get a bigger fsb multiplier for my cpu.

what do you think of a GA-EP45-UD3L

Edited November 19, 2009 by Killakaze

[gunterlund21 10]

ok here is a new one. Have Arma 2 since it came out. Last 3 months it has worked great with my 9800 gx2. Now all of a sudden the graphics stop working and screen goes black even though the game is running. Alt tab out to windows and a message appears stating my nvidia drivers have been reloaded. Never seen this before and only happen in Arma 2. Am using beta versions but even when I run vanilla arma 2 it still does this. Could this mean my card is going bad? Outside of Arma 2 everything works normally.

[Colt45_GTO 10]

ok here is a new one. Have Arma 2 since it came out. Last 3 months it has worked great with my 9800 gx2. Now all of a sudden the graphics stop working and screen goes black even though the game is running. Alt tab out to windows and a message appears stating my nvidia drivers have been reloaded. Never seen this before and only happen in Arma 2. Am using beta versions but even when I run vanilla arma 2 it still does this. Could this mean my card is going bad? Outside of Arma 2 everything works normally.

give the pc a clean out. and i'm talking a hoover and a 1" paint brush. clean the cooling fans off, and the heat sinks on everything that has them. sounds like its overheating.