santafee 10 Posted December 12, 2009 Hey, im running Arma2 currently pretty smooth with my components. The only thing which is killing the graphical atmo of it, is like i mentioned, the annoying textures which flicker and popping up later and slow. Will a new component fix that? I heard that new Harddrives would kill that issue and this should be one of the chepest thing to upgrade right now. My Rig is still MID-Class and i run all games smooth on VeryHigh Settings and cant see the reason to upgrade a expensive Graphic Card or CPU allready, just for ArmaII. my PC: E8400 3.00 Dual Core 4 Gigabyte RAM HD 4850 512 MB WIN XP. I was wondering if the HD4850 with double Memory[1024] MB would bring a performance boost and stop the flickering, maybe for use in crossfire also? Or il get one of those SDD? Drives, which will stop that issue ?...Thanks for Infos Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bulldogs 10 Posted December 12, 2009 From what I hear the SSD's fix the issue for many, but if the bottleneck is somewhere else then that may not be it (and SSD's are very expensive) If you haven't already, I would recommend trying out the beta patches (try several different ones) to see if you still get the issues with them. Oh, and make sure you have Anisotropic filtering set to very high in Arma 2. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
santafee 10 Posted December 22, 2009 Hey, my problem is mostly solved. This happens as my HDD broke ;) I had XP, where Arma2 was installed on a different[older HDD]. so as i installed XP and Arma2 new on my new Samsung HDD, look, the texture popping up is drasticly changed in a good way. There are stil some popping up, but they do so fast, that you can hardly realize it and its only in very far distance. HDD´s are an very important performance factor for Arma2, just to let you know,must have to do with the RPM of the HDD...Guess the rest ist of my "only 512MB" Graphiccard, but i can stand it........so im just gonna thank my broken old HDD lol :) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jasonnoguchi 11 Posted December 22, 2009 or transfer the addons folder onto a ramdisk or 2.0USB Flash (still much under debate even though much data and evidence points towards it working). I did it the USB way and it greatly improved stuttering and pops. Without it, there will be 3 1 sec stutters when I run the first test of Arma2mark (the UAZ one) and with the USB way, I have never again gotten that stutter and pops in that test ever since. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kklownboy 43 Posted December 22, 2009 Hey, my problem is mostly solved.This happens as my HDD broke ;) I had XP, where Arma2 was installed on a different[older HDD]. so as i installed XP and Arma2 new on my new Samsung HDD, look, the texture popping up is drasticly changed in a good way. There are stil some popping up, but they do so fast, that you can hardly realize it and its only in very far distance. HDD´s are an very important performance factor for Arma2, just to let you know,must have to do with the RPM of the HDD...Guess the rest ist of my "only 512MB" Graphiccard, but i can stand it........so im just gonna thank my broken old HDD lol :) I find 2GB of VRAM very nice. Also setting the ingame Video Memory to Default or high ect can help in some flickering, along with AA and AF. Just have to test it for your system. As for the "popups" yeah a faster HDD and or SSD and RAMDisks(if you have the extra RAM) really help with that. With my game on a SSD (old lame Gskill Jmicron)but not my OS, along with my RAMDisk with most of the land/water/objects ect... I haven't any popups to speak of. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bangtail 0 Posted December 22, 2009 Hey, im running Arma2 currently pretty smooth with my components.The only thing which is killing the graphical atmo of it, is like i mentioned, the annoying textures which flicker and popping up later and slow. Will a new component fix that? I heard that new Harddrives would kill that issue and this should be one of the chepest thing to upgrade right now. My Rig is still MID-Class and i run all games smooth on VeryHigh Settings and cant see the reason to upgrade a expensive Graphic Card or CPU allready, just for ArmaII. my PC: E8400 3.00 Dual Core 4 Gigabyte RAM HD 4850 512 MB WIN XP. I was wondering if the HD4850 with double Memory[1024] MB would bring a performance boost and stop the flickering, maybe for use in crossfire also? Or il get one of those SDD? Drives, which will stop that issue ?...Thanks for Infos No need for SSDs if you don't want to deal with that kind of outlay. Just grab 2 WD 1TB (or 2 TB) Black drives and put them in RAID0. Very fast, large storage space at a much lower price. http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/24310-western-digital-caviar-black-2tb-hard-drive-review-12.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
InFireBaptize 0 Posted December 22, 2009 No need for SSDs if you don't want to deal with that kind of outlay.Just grab 2 WD 1TB (or 2 TB) Black drives and put them in RAID0. Very fast, large storage space at a much lower price. http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/24310-western-digital-caviar-black-2tb-hard-drive-review-12.html RAID0 won't help, i have it and texture would still flicker and pop up especially when you zoom in/out. The only thing can remedy this is virtual ram (i tried it) and SSD which i don't have thus can't comment. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bangtail 0 Posted December 22, 2009 (edited) RAID0 won't help, i have it and texture would still flicker and pop up especially when you zoom in/out. The only thing can remedy this is virtual ram (i tried it) and SSD which i don't have thus can't comment. Yah, you aren't using WD Blacks so it's apples and oranges Im afraid. I was very specific in what I suggested. I didn't say "any old HDs in RAID0". I play A2 on Intel SSD's but I have run it off WD Blacks in RAID0 (and just vanilla) and I saw no pop ups, texture lag etc. Edited December 22, 2009 by BangTail Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
