Demo Woes

[bomber_jacket 10]

Hello,

I recently downloaded the ARMA II demo on STEAM after watching some fantastic youtube gameplay videos. The concept for this game is fantastic and amazingly unique but I'm having some significant problems with the demo that's keeping me from buying retail. Problems like low fps (barely reaching 20 with low settings) draw distance, fuzzy graphics and major lag issues in multiplayer.

My question is this; are these problems insignificant in the patched retail or is it just my system? I really want to get into this game, kudos to Bohemia for a great concept.

System Specs;

AMD Anthlon II X2 245 @3.0ghz

EVGA 9800gtx+

4gb DDRII 800 RAM

WD 500GB

WINDOWS XP HOME SP3

Sorry in advance if im posting in the wrong section, thanks.

[Antigoon 10]

If you're asking about whether or not your pc can play Arma2 with decent settings and framerates, you should look at this thread;

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=72181

As far as I'm concerned it's one of the best games ever, together with its predecessors!

[NAM assassin 10]

i downloaded the arma 2 demo and when i try to open it, it says it failed because X3DAudio1_6.dll was not found can anyone help me?

[EDcase 87]

Hi and welcome Bomber Jacket,

Your system should be OK to run ARMA2 but not with full settings.

The retail version with the latest patch runs much better than the demo but its still the most demanding game on hardware that exists so it may not look as good as youtube vids. (check their system specs)

Make sure to defrag the HD and dissable any unecessary services (if you know how)

Edited June 16, 2010 by EDcase

[[frl]myke 14]

i downloaded the arma 2 demo and when i try to open it, it says it failed because X3DAudio1_6.dll was not found can anyone help me?

Darn, sometimes i think a "Search"-function would be cool on this board. Oh wait, there is one: http://forums.bistudio.com/search.php