Video Help

[Afroman1567 10]

Hello,

I had just received a new copy of ArmA II in the mail today. I installed it and when I started playing campaign, it was laggy. If i turned it wouldnt do it immedeatly or smoothly. I am looking for some help because I don't want to just throw $30 in the garbage.:(

Any help please? Ill answer your questions about my comp etc

Edited July 8, 2010 by Afroman1567
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[andromedagalaxe 10]

Should be posted in sticky above and will probably get moved, but the first thing you need to do is post your computer specs. The second thing you need to do is post your Arma 2 game video settings. We can't help until we have seen those

[Afroman1567 10]

Should be posted in sticky above and will probably get moved, but the first thing you need to do is post your computer specs. The second thing you need to do is post your Arma 2 game video settings. We can't help until we have seen those

How can I post those? im not a computer whizz. sorry

[andromedagalaxe 10]

How can I post those? im not a computer whizz. sorry

It's ok. The most important thing for Arma 2 is to know what kind of processor you have, what kind of video card you have and your RAM. If you know that, let's start there. If you don't know, the community can help you find that pretty easily.

Arma 2 has video options that you can customize. go to video options, hit advanced and set everything on normal or low and turn anti-aliasing and post processing off. See if that fixes your problem. If not, there may be other things you have to do, such as defragging your hard drive. Set view distance at 1600 to start if it isn't there already.

Edited July 8, 2010 by andromedagalaxe

[Afroman1567 10]

It's ok. The most important thing for Arma 2 is to know what kind of processor you have, what kind of video card you have and your RAM. If you know that, let's start there. If you don't know, the community can help you find that pretty easily.

Arma 2 has video options that you can customize. go to video options, hit advanced and set everything on normal or low and turn anti-aliasing and post processing off. See if that fixes your problem. If not, there may be other things you have to do, such as defragging your hard drive. Set view distance at 1600 to start if it isn't there already.

i have some info...

Manufactor: Toshiba

Ram:3 (2.75 is usable.)

Processor:AMD Athlon II Dual Core M300 2.00 GHZ

Hows that for some specs? :D

I couldnt find anti-aliasing and i saw some view thing but it wasnt what you said (view thingy) i found post processing, but it says effects, it only goes down to low, so it must not be the right thing (unless it is)

Edited July 9, 2010 by Afroman1567
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[Nicholas 5]

Your playing this on a laptop? There's your problem. This game wasn't intended for regular laptops.

[Afroman1567 10]

Your playing this on a laptop? There's your problem. This game wasn't intended for regular laptops.

So there isnt ANYTHING to do besides buy a new computer?

[Nicholas 5]

Honestly? No. You can't really upgrade a laptop other than a RAM upgrade.

Play on lowest settings and enjoy the gameplay not graphics.

[LJF 0]

I've played on a laptop, it's certainly possible. In fact, I've played A2 on a 1.6 dual core with 2gb of ram and a graphics card that doesn't officially exist :D

[T.S.C.Plage 0]

1: Patch ArmA2 to 1.07 if you haven't done that already.

2: Turn off AA, AF, Post Processing, reduce your resolution and the view distance and lower all other settings to normal or less (in the video options menu of the game).

If that doesn't helps...get a new computer. :p

[Afroman1567 10]

1: Patch ArmA2 to 1.07 if you haven't done that already.

2: Turn off AA, AF, Post Processing, reduce your resolution and the view distance and lower all other settings to normal or less (in the video options menu of the game).

If that doesn't helps...get a new computer. :p

I got some questions... I couldn't find AA and im not sure what af is. I found Post Processing Effects, it only goes to low, is that what your talking about?

[T.S.C.Plage 0]

AA means Antialiasing and AF is Anisotropic Filtering both are settings you can access in the video/grafic options of your game but you've to click "advanced" in the selection first. There you'll also find a Postprocessing option and I'm quite sure you can set it to "deactivated".