arma 2 textures and fps big drop

[Wartooth6 10]

hello,

iv been playing arma for about a week now, must say, its pretty much crack to me.

although, since i bought the steam version, because i was too impatient to wait for it to come out in canada, i tried to install some mods and somehow steam wouldnt launch arma anymore, it kept asking for a cd key.

so i googled the problem, found out i had to delete arma, and re download it.

i did that, and now, textures dont show up properly, iv spent a couple hours calibrating the graphics trying to work things out, but still no avail.

my system specs are :

Intel Q9300, 2.5Ghz, 1333Mhz FSB, 6MB Cache

nVidia 780i SLI Chipset

8GB DDR2 SDRAM

nVidia 9600GT 512MB Vram

2x 640GB SATA Drive

Super-Multi DVD±R/RW Drive

7.1 Channel HD Audio

Acer Chassis with Custom Water-Cooling System

750W Power Supply

Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit

[Bulldogs 10]

Try going into Steam and right click on Arma 2 then select properties. Goto local files then click verify integrity of cache...

That should help, other than that, when you install mods you should just be copying the mods to a directory under the Arma 2 directory :

(Steam installation directory)\SteamApps\common\arma 2\

under that directory you place the mods in their own directory (like @noblur, or @mymod, or whatever the mod is called) then load steam, goto mygames, then right click arma 2, click properties, click set launch options... then put in the box -mod=(whatever the name of your mod/s is)

Example : -mod=@noblurA

[Wartooth6 10]

that is how i was installing mods, im going to try that steam thing right now,

and just to clarify this, when i say textures are low, i mean nintendo NES low.

lol

---------- Post added at 03:33 AM ---------- Previous post was at 03:27 AM ----------

ok i tried to verify the cache, and also tried to defragment the cache, niether worked properly. this is such a shitty day.

lawl.

---------- Post added at 03:47 AM ---------- Previous post was at 03:33 AM ----------

FOR FUTURE REFERENCE

anyone expieriencing this problem, its due to the Nvidia update for 9600, if this has been covered here, am for wasting bandwith or w/e