What video memory option would be best for me?

[Saint Warrior 10]

Hello everybody,

I am running steam version of ArmA 2 on such machine:

AMD Phenom II X4 Black Edition 3.0 Ghz

Gigabyte Ultra Durable 3 Motherboard with 4 GB DDR2 800 Mhz RAM

XFX ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB GDDR5 2X256 Bit

Seagate 1.5 TB HDD

Windows XP SP3 32 Bit

Settings in ATI CCC:

16X Antialiasing

16X Antisotroping filtering

Maximal Catalyst AI

Vait for vertical refresh - OFF

Settings in Arma 2:

Resolution:1650 x 1050 x 32

3D Resolution: 1650 x 1050

View distance: 2580 metres

General settings: Very high

Advanced settings: All set to High

I am getting various FPS from 20 to 40 during campaign gameplay, but experience serious performance drops in Chernagorsk - slowly loading textures, significant framerate decrease.

So, the question is, taking into consideration that my GPU is four times more powerfull then recommended for ArmA as well as I use one of the top lined AMD quad cores - will switching to Very High video memory option give me any performance increase playing Chernagorsk missions?

Thanks for your replies.

[Poppis 10]

Well, there's only one way to find out.

[flake 10]

Settings in ATI CCC:

16X Antialiasing

16X Antisotroping filtering

I'm sure the AA/AF settings should be *application controlled*. Your FPS aint that bad considering other peoples performance issues. remember to defrag your HD after every patch. Also I found deleting the .profile file is a godd move, but back it up first to preserve your key bindings.

I use *high* for mem settings.

[Saint Warrior 10]

I'm sure the AA/AF settings should be *application controlled*.

Thanks everybody for advice, I will give it a try. I maxed settings in CCC just to trigger Crossfire in-game. Suprisingly, my videocard never gets hotter than 74-77 degrees Celsius with 50 percent fan usage during most intensive combat scenes in ArmA 2, but nevertheless FPS is suffering.