Some progress

[Foop 10]

I've had arma2 for a couple of weeks now and had been getting bogged down with it. I was probably spending more time reading these forums than playing the game. Anyway, last night I seemed to make a break through for a variety of reasons. So I thought I'd tell people about in case others are struggling in the same way I was:

I finally managed to get a decent framerate by disabling vsync in the ATI catalyst drivers. Previously it had been at 'off by default' which I thought would be enough, but it wasn't. So now it's hardwired to off all the time. I would guess the framerate is up around 50-60 now, and yes this does make a difference to how playable the game is. Even on a slow paced game like arma2.

I watched the new vid from Jan about the mission editor. Watching vids like this is great for learning to play the game. Much better than playing the tutorials, or reading the manual. I've seen very few vids that try and describe how to play the game, most seem to be infatuated with the idea of being a film director and just show endless slow-mo panning shots. Anyone have links to good instructional vids ?

Inspired, I played around with the editor for an hour and had lots of fun. I then played a port of 'clean sweep 1' that I found in the user missions forum, and actually managed to complete it ! I'm terrible at this game, so that's quite an achievement for me. However I only managed to complete it by ignoring my team completely and going off on my own.

Then tried 'clean sweep 2', found it fun, but way too hard. I have no idea how to deal with the BMP. I tried to lure it onto a satchel charge but that seemed a very 'gamey' way of getting it - and certainly requires playing the level a few times to know how it's likely to behave. I'd love to see a vid of someone completing this level. Can anyone recommend a set of easy missions for beginners to learn with ?

Then finally I went back to the campaign (Manhatten), spent a frustrating half hour getting nowhere, then switched off in disgust.

So my advice is; ignore the campaign. Play user missions or your own missions instead.