Some help needed

[Jan.K 10]

SOrry to ask this as i see about 1 bilion treads about it, problem is all suggest diff things.

Couls you pls have a look at my sig with specs and reccomend how to set it up for arma, rin game at 1980*1080, well tried anyway, settings at high and it runs like...well, poo.

Thx in advance

[Aeneas2020 10]

Welcome to the forums....couple of things a) you should probs post with a more descriptive thread titles (like Help with gfx settings). b) you could just try lowering the settings yourself surely and find a way to make it work to a frame rate you like?

Ok anyway try firstly dropping the terrain detail to normal and disabling anti-aliasing. That should give you a performance boost right off the bat. Then start messing around with shadow and texture details until you find something you like.

If i were you i would set everything to normal detail (other than AA turn that off it doesnt do anything right now anyway). once everything is set to normal keep upping the settings until you find a happy medium.

[=wfl= sgt bilko 10]

Most people seem to recommend:

- Disable HyperThreading in BIOS

- Disable PostFX ingame

- Set 3D Res ingame to 100% (same ratio as Interface Resolution)

[qwertz 10]

What Windows version ?

Here's the magic trick for Win7 (and pot. Vista, not tested):

In your ArmA2.cfg, set these values:

GPU_MaxFramesAhead=0;

GPU_DetectedFramesAhead=0;

Video Memory=default or very high

Also, as already said, Hyperthreading should be OFF.

[ast65 10]

With his rig he shouldn´t have to lower ingame- settings. I have basically the same setup (I920 + 5850) and run the game maxed out in 1920*1080 (AA high) with 5k VD and have always smooth framerates (30- 40).

[domokun 515]

Jan: all of the above are true but if they don't provide sufficiently good performance, try these suggestions and let us know how you get on...

[Jan.K 10]

With his rig he shouldn´t have to lower ingame- settings. I have basically the same setup (I920 + 5850) and run the game maxed out in 1920*1080 (AA high) with 5k VD and have always smooth framerates (30- 40).

You serius? :)

Its a brand new system, guess i need to jump into bios and have a look around cause there is no way i can get 30 fps out of this maxed out.

Maybe some of you have a suggestion on a forum i can go to to get some tech help? All this is rather new to me :)

Thx again

[qwertz 10]

You serius? :)

Its a brand new system, guess i need to jump into bios and have a look around cause there is no way i can get 30 fps out of this maxed out.

Maybe some of you have a suggestion on a forum i can go to to get some tech help? All this is rather new to me :)

Thx again

Yes your system should be fine for 30 fps average + (everything on max).

I have an i7 920 @4GHZ and a HD5870 @ 1050/1300 and frames are around 40-50 on average.

Have you tried the suggestion I made above?

Also you can try a mild overclock on both CPU and GPU which is possible without any extra cooling and quite easy to do.

[Jan.K 10]

thank you ill give it a try tonight.

About the Hyperthreading OFF, wont that mess up my other games?

[no use for a name 0]

I thought instead of disabling hyperthreading you can just use the -cpucount=x to get the same effect?

[MavericK96 0]

What Windows version ?

Here's the magic trick for Win7 (and pot. Vista, not tested):

In your ArmA2.cfg, set these values:

GPU_MaxFramesAhead=0;

GPU_DetectedFramesAhead=0;

Video Memory=default or very high

Also, as already said, Hyperthreading should be OFF.

MaxFrames and DetectedFrames should be 0? I've always read they should be higher than normal, if anything. Is there any more information about this you could link me to?

Not saying you're wrong, just curious as to what difference this actually makes.

[Jan.K 10]

well did as you suggested and game running at 40+:)

well atleast the few i tested, bench 2 rn at about 25, that ok?

FSAA brings it to its knees tough:( from 50 to about 10....

[Alex72 1]

MaxFrames and DetectedFrames should be 0? I've always read they should be higher than normal, if anything. Is there any more information about this you could link me to?

Not saying you're wrong, just curious as to what difference this actually makes.

I find the value "1" on both of them is best for my PC. Mouse is really responsive with that value and the game feels much smoother as in better FPS (even though it isnt but the effect is the same). Value range from 0-4 and even on my other gear i had i found "1" to be best.

[Jan.K 10]

@qwertz

What drivers are you using? i lose 30fps just by setting fsaa to low, cant play without fsaa :(

[qwertz 10]

@qwertz

What drivers are you using? i lose 30fps just by setting fsaa to low, cant play without fsaa :(

I use the 10.3 drivers. What do you mean with "FSAA" - do you mean the in-game settings or driver settings in CCC ? Are you using a higher rendering resolution than screen resolution ?

I am playing with vanilla CCC settings and "High" in-game AA settings. Try switching to "normal", does not make much of a difference. What view distance have you set ?

MaxFrames and DetectedFrames should be 0? I've always read they should be higher than normal, if anything. Is there any more information about this you could link me to?

That depends very much on the game and your settings. At least with ATI, Vsynch can't be disabled in ArmA which plays a role here. Typically the performance benefit of rendering frames ahead only works if Vsync is disabled.

For many games, by allowing for a few frames to be rendered ahead, you increase the performance at the cost of some input lag (as you are always a few frames "behind"). For some games (Oblivion comes to mind and now Arma 2), disabling it actually increases performance, at least on my system with and ATI graphics card and an i7 on Windows 7.

I had terrible stuttering on Windows 7 with ArmA 2 and rendering-ahead enabled. (Interestingly, it worked OK on my Win XP install on the same hardware).

Disabling it solved the problem completely.

:)

qwertz

Edited April 21, 2010 by qwertz

[Jan.K 10]

i have my card maxed out in CCC, putting it to default made my game fly so its something inside there it dont like, gonna start enabling stuuf and see when it "breaks"

Thx again

[Jan.K 10]

well it seems it dont like plants togheter with a high Anisotroic setting, cutting fps by 10-15 for each level i put it up, no biggie i guess :)

[no use for a name 0]

hmmm that's weird why that card has such a problem with AF...I'm running a gtx 260 and can max out AF; however AA is a different story :D