Arma 2 Loves Windows 7!

[Razorman 10]

Wow is the best way to describe the difference between running Arma2 on windows 7 compared to the other 2 main operating systems, XP & Vista.

I run 2 rigs of the same spec (see sig) side by side in my home office.

I dual boot one between XP & Vista & the other Vista & Windows 7

Arma 2 installed across all 4 operating systems, one Steam & one Metaboli german download version, patched to english, they all communicate & play well over lan in co-op & both machines can play online at the same time as both diff legit copies.

Results as follows:

Arma 2 1920x1200 all details very high except terrain detail to low & post processing disabled.

Vista = average 33fps

XP = average 42fps

W7 = average 55fps!

Looks fantastic & plays smooth as butter.

The rigs are well maintained with all latest official drivers.

We are having an awsome time online, superb work BI, can't w8 for expansions & patches.

[nuxil 2]

your test is faulty unless its a clean install of each Os.

if your Xp install is lets say 3 month old install and your win 7 is 1 week... offcource you will get better results in win7.

do a clean install of each os then do the test,

[Cain_ 10]

Make sure to do the installation of both 3 system at the same time, during full moon aswell! (This way the moons gravity on earth is the same)

Good Luck!

[Binkowski 26]

I had a drastic performance increase from XP 32bit to 7 64bit, probably because of my 4GB's of RAM but still.

[dlnorthc 10]

Does ArmA 2 utilize DirectX 10 at all? Remember XP has no support for it, if it does it seems natural that Vista/7 would run the game better. The same was true for me for Crysis -- I was amazed how much being able to turn the graphics up actually HELPED my ability to play the game. :)

[Dead3yez 0]

Does ArmA 2 utilize DirectX 10 at all?

No, it does not.

[jw custom 56]

The same was true for me for Crysis -- I was amazed how much being able to turn the graphics up actually HELPED my ability to play the game. :)

Crysis... lol.. i played it on WinXP with everything on max and that was on my previous computer. Maybe it's about the computer it's played on :eek:

[Alex72 1]

I installed XP clean and then ARMA2 (only thing i installed), and then i wiped and installed Win7 with ARMA2 and i got better performance in the later.

Alex

[telejunky 0]

Seems to be interesting. I can download windows 7 via msdnaa but i always thought that there is a better performance on xp pro. If this comes true to multiple user then i will change to 7 :)

[Relemar 10]

windows 7 owns xp

[echo1 0]

Does ArmA 2 utilize DirectX 10 at all? Remember XP has no support for it, if it does it seems natural that Vista/7 would run the game better. The same was true for me for Crysis -- I was amazed how much being able to turn the graphics up actually HELPED my ability to play the game. :)

The devs said that it was going to use some DX10 features, so I'd it depends on what settings you have enabled.