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Grillob3: Lao Fei Mei offers good advice. You'll find that tweak and many other among these tried and tested tweaks to get the game running smoothly but looking great. And let us know how you get on...

A2Free (allows you to play a few missions) = €0 OA (allows you to play DayZ + many missions) = €15 on Sprocket Combined Ops = A2 + OA (allows you to play every mission out there) = €25 on Sprocket Arma X Anniversary = A2 + OA + BAF (British expansion pack) + PMC (Mercs exp pack) + A1 + Queens Gambit (A1 exp pack) + OFP = €50 on Sprocket Sprocket is BI's online store which allows buyers to download games. WE favour it because it doesn't have any pesky DRM and all your money goes direct to the developer (rather via some greedy middle-man).

Good functional descriptions from Orcinus. Gunter maybe you could include them in the readme?

The link to v1.03 is broken on Armaholic. Foxhound: could you please fix it?

boomdan: your CPU and GPU are fairly average so do not expect to play the "game smoothly, maxed out". To start with I'd make the following changes: Tex detail: Low -> Normal AF: Low -> Normal AA: Low -> Disabled Terrain: Low -> Normal Objects: Very Low -> Normal Shadow: Disabled -> High PP: Low -> Very Low This should make the game look better with little or no impact on performance Try these tried and tested tweaks to get the game running smoothly. Let us know how you get on.

hypertek: these tried and tested tweaks should help you get the game running smooth AND looking good Let us know how you get on!

I knew that the British army likes to be bold and that it often lacks resources but this account of 9-man pathfinder unit facing 2000 iraqis (inc. Republican Guard) rather takes the p1ss: http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9722000/9722405.stm http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/betrayed-behind-enemy-lines-army-captain-breaks-silence-on-elite-units-fight-for-survival-7715789.html Their 80km extraction (inc. 4 ambushes) sounds like the perfect mission for OA (just need to find a good 40x40km map).

OK then try this recent suggestion from the game's main developer e.g. add "-maxVRAM=2047" to your startup line Also ensure that you're running the latest beta patch

for sure. I have a 7850, overclocked to 7870+ speeds and it runs very nicely (1920x1200 with x16AF no AA but SMAA instead). Plus I only paid €200 for it ;)

According to this 1-year old benchmark, a 480 has comparable performance to a 6970 under OA, except that it runs hotter, consumes more power and it noisier: http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2011/04/05/amd-radeon-hd-6790-1gb-review/5 And according to this 1-week old benchmark a 7870 has comparable performance to a 6970, except that it runs cooler, consumes less power and it quieter: http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2012/05/10/nvidia-geforce-gtx-670-2gb-review/4 Given that you can get 7850 for $240 which can be easily overclocked (via ATi's own Catalyst Control Centre) to 7870 speeds, is a good deal if you look at price/performance AND very efficient.

Does that mean that the map is 20x20km?

Under Settings > Video > Video Memoery what value are you using? Default? Very High?

Indeed it seems that you can now grab Combined Operations (A2+OA) for only $15 from Amazon's Digital Services Unless you're buying direct from the farmer, I'd fast for a few days ;)

jasonnoguchi: I'd recommend updating CBA, ACE and WarFX (with WarFX Blastcore) then replacing @HiFi with @JSRS and @GL4 with @ASR_AI.

Jedra: does your quick-fix work in MP environment?

See if your budget can't stretch an extra $20 (to $240) as it'ed allow you to grab a Radeon 7850 which could easily be overclocked to 7870. Otherwise there's a limited offer of a Radeon 6950 at only $200 inc. P&P. That's an incredible deal, particularly if you overclock it and/or flash it's BIOS to 6970. With either of these cards overclocked you'd be approaching performance levels of a 580 for half the price: Check-out this benchmark for a full and fair comparison of these cards' performance under OA

Jaypaul97: install Robalo's ASR AI mod and Dapman's First Aid mod. Then enjoy reactive AI with realistic accuracy and responsive first aid.

Open the ATi's Catalyst Control Centre (installed by default when you install ATi's video drivers), select the category "Gaming", then "3D Application Settings" and then scroll down to the section entitled "Catalyst AI" and move the slider from right to left (from Quality to High Quality). Does that help?

I'm very interested in your mod and I wish I could help with it's development but I can't code for toffee. If you need help with research, documentation and/or voice-overs, let me know.

NouberNou: can you confirm these combinations? a) 1.60 = @ACRE + @JayArma2Lib + dsound.dll at root b) 1.60 beta = @ACRE + @JayArma2Lib_new + remove dsound.dll from root If so is it serious if my TS3 client continues to display "Arma2 connected: No"? The reason that I'm now now longer getting the error message in-game "Warning: ACRE is not connected to Teamspeak". Also, is there anyway, outside of a MP that can I be sure that it is all working correctly?

Lightspeed: any chance that you could update your campaign to run on IceBreaker's new release of Lingor?

Thanks for the tip but I think that I haven't committed that particular error, i.e. I'm running CO with the latest beta (92767), the latest TS3 server (3.0.3), the latest TS3 client (3.0.6) and the latest ACRE (1.4.4) What? O what? Am I doing wrong? :( I even tried installing it again but via Six Updater and that doesn't work either. In fact it has me more confused because there are now 2 folders @JayArma2Lib_new and @JayArma2Lib. Which one should I use?

That is the noBlur mod from Oktane. I find it indispensable at it allows me to activate Post-Processing (Settings>Video>Advanced) and set it to Low (to enjoy pretty visual effects) without the nausea-inducing and performance-sapping blur. You'll find it detailed in this thread, along with a 2-dozen other tried and tested tweaks: http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?85124-ArmA2-OA-%28low%29-performance-issues&p=2081466#post2081466

SpamJabber: the choice of components depends on your budget. So what's your limit?

Yes, Yes and Yes. To be precise I'm using the 175 build of CBA from the 0.8.3 package which is the latest on Dev Heaven I checked again this evening and I'm still encountering the error message "Warning: ACRE is not connected to Teamspeak" whenever I start a mission in OA. I run TS3 server, then TS3 Client, connect to the TS3 server and then OA. Is that the right order? My comrade is also encountering the same problem. I even disabled my antivirus (Avast 6) to see if that helped (it didn't). So, any ideas? Because I'm at my wits end...