Graphics are VERYYY messed up please help...

[fooflinger 10]

Hi, I just recently purchased Arma 2 to go along with my brand new computer which i just got delivered to me the other day.

Here are my specs:

Windows 7 64 bit

Intel Core I7-920

8 gigs of DDR3 1066mhz ram

ATI Radeon HD 5870

I Updated to the latest drivers, and installed crysis, and Empire total war. I could run both maxed out, highest res, with AA. (only x 4 for crysis) I got excited seeing how well these games ran..I couldd't wait to test ARMA 2.

So i booted the game from Steam, and it began lagging before any graphics were even displayed. I checked the graphics and barely anything was even on high...Now when I started the campaign, I couldn't beileved how bad the game looked. People were missing faces, textures, and for the most part, NOTHING was rendered or even had textures for that matter, and the game was STILL lagging.

I've read some threads with pretty much the same problem, and it seems like some people beileve that windows 7 + lots of ram + arma2 = disaster...But I havent seen any awensers as to how to fix it, or any evidence that proves that the ram is really the problem. Can somebody please help? I've been wanting to play this game for awhile now...Thanks.

[Ish 11]

Simple.. Remove some RAM and see how it goes.. In any case, I thought this was solved with 1.5..

[no use for a name 0]

You don't have to physically remove any RAM; just use the -winxp command in your shortcut. But like said it should have been fixed in 1.05

[fooflinger 10]

I'm sorry guys, the issue was that it was not patched. I thought that steam patched every game automatically, but I was mistaken. Thanks for the feed back anyways! :)

Edited January 10, 2010 by fooflinger

[soul_assassin 1750]

I run 1.05 on 8gigs RAM, and it finally runs smooth :)