Buckly 10 Posted October 5, 2009 Hello, I have read and searched the forums. I tried to tweak my graphics but now they are worse. When I move every thing blurs and gets laggy. I switched every thing back to what I thought I had set before and still no improvement. I am running a AMD 550 OC'd to 3.5, 8800 GTS 512, 4G of 667 RAM(5-5-5-18-2T). So does any one have any ideas where my setting should be? I played with the vsync, AA and AF, and set them back. There were a few guides posted but some links didnt work. Any help would be great, thank you for your time. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TimRiceSE 10 Posted October 5, 2009 Hm, im afraid your cpu is probably restricting you very much... GPU is also a little dated but i had reasonable fps on the same model, before upgrading... To remove the motion blur when you turn etc, turn OFF post processing. Also make sure your 3d resolution and interface resolution are set the same, which should also be your monitors native resolution. Im afraid that the vast majority of the settings most likely will need to be set to low or normal at highest. Certainly antialiasing at no higher than low. Set texture memory to "default" and it should figure that out for itself. Tweak a little around that for yourself and try increase settings a little bit until you find something that works for you. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Buckly 10 Posted October 5, 2009 Hm, im afraid your cpu is probably restricting you very much... GPU is also a little dated but i had reasonable fps on the same model, before upgrading...To remove the motion blur when you turn etc, turn OFF post processing. Also make sure your 3d resolution and interface resolution are set the same, which should also be your monitors native resolution. Im afraid that the vast majority of the settings most likely will need to be set to low or normal at highest. Certainly antialiasing at no higher than low. Set texture memory to "default" and it should figure that out for itself. Tweak a little around that for yourself and try increase settings a little bit until you find something that works for you. OK I will fool around, but I just upgraded to the Castillo 550 BE from a 4800. Guess I am am gonna have to save up and get a bigger CPU. Thought this was a good one since I unlocked it to a Quad core, and thought 3.5 was well above recommended specs. What does post processing do? Also will me getting a 5850 card help improve game play and will faster ram help? I ask because I am waiting for them to arrive. Thanks for your response ---------- Post added at 09:31 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:17 PM ---------- OK did some more messing around and found if I turn off the post processing I can run every thing at high and still looks real good. I know the post processing has some thing to do with effects, so is a bigger OC or CPU the only way to get it working or will my new vid card help out? Thanks again Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bulldogs 10 Posted October 5, 2009 The new vid card is likely to give a good performance increase, especially if you're planning to play at high resolutions, but if your frame rate starts getting low in the campaign and sits a certain fps regardless of video setting then that's the CPU restricting it, but otherwise it's likely to be the graphics card. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Buckly 10 Posted October 5, 2009 I just dont see how a quad core at 3.5 can be restricting it? If some one could explain that would be great. What are people running this game on if a quad 3.5 is bottle necking it? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flaxpants 10 Posted October 5, 2009 I run it on a Core 2 E6400 2.13, 8800GTX (768mb) with 4 gig ram, 1440 * 900. I can run it on mostly high settings, it looks great and my framerate is smooth. Not much help to you I know but like you, I don't see how your processor can be causing you so much trouble. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Buckly 10 Posted October 5, 2009 I run it on a Core 2 E6400 2.13, 8800GTX (768mb) with 4 gig ram, 1440 * 900. I can run it on mostly high settings, it looks great and my framerate is smooth. Not much help to you I know but like you, I don't see how your processor can be causing you so much trouble. Yeah I can run it all high just cant use the post processing. Oh well guess I will just skip it. I have most setting at high like I said. But thanks for all the input. Do you run post processing flaxpants? ---------- Post added at 12:43 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:43 AM ---------- Oh and I run it at 1650x1050 my native res for my monitor. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flaxpants 10 Posted October 5, 2009 Yes I do, on medium I believe. I don't really have to sacrifice too much to get it to run. My AA is set to low. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kklownboy 43 Posted October 5, 2009 turn off Post Processing. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
m5holmez 10 Posted October 6, 2009 Hello, I have read and searched the forums. I tried to tweak my graphics but now they are worse. When I move every thing blurs and gets laggy. I switched every thing back to what I thought I had set before and still no improvement. I am running a AMD 550 OC'd to 3.5, 8800 GTS 512, 4G of 667 RAM(5-5-5-18-2T). So does any one have any ideas where my setting should be? I played with the vsync, AA and AF, and set them back. There were a few guides posted but some links didnt work. Any help would be great, thank you for your time. Defintely the GPU holding you back, my old 9600GT struggled at times and after an upgrade to the 4890 arma 2 has been a lot more responsive on higher settings. The new 5850 is even better yet so it should allow you to play higher vid settings inc PP, AA, AF etc etc. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
