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from what i read from cod4 forums programmers at infinity ward were facing the same problems BI are looking at now with grass/bushes. According to their developer blog they found that they could raise frame rates by "self shadowing objects" meaning the artist actually draws the shadow on some of the objects. all i can say is it works and it looks fantastic. BI developers take note.

CoD4 maps are also about 1/100th the size of ArmA's main island... of course you where going to say that! this game doesnt render the entire island while your playing a small part of it . so what the heck does that have to do with frame rate drops

the sad thing is call of duty 4 can have nice bushes where player blend using camo and run at 60fps and the arma community cant. developers seem to get console games higher frame rates than pc theses days. and now we all have low detail config just to get it to run at 30fps.

means absolutely nothing if its not in game footage if its not running on a typical rig.

i see... so what he really means is buy ARMA: Queens Gambit and it should be fixed in the expansion b/c ARMA engine/tree/ bush lod cant be tweaked any more than 25%? it makes me wonder though want type of pc this developer is running when they developed this game that they are getting smoother frame rates than the rest of us.

BI made 1.01(patch), 1.02(patch), 1.04, 1.05(patch), 1.06, 1.07(2 beta patches) and 1.08(patch). You can say alot but BI really tried and changed alot to the game and compared to 1.00 there are (almost) no really big bugs left, ofcourse there are minor things but no game is perfect or works perfect on every PC. there still the fog problem, texture issues that cause frame drops, blood sweat and tears the single campaign which by the way is still broken. so what are they really fixing? trying and fixing is is 2 different things. i really want to love arma but its almost unplayable. but knowing bis it might take 20 patches and 3 expansions to fix.

Remove what exactly? Vegetation? Or stop using alpha textures on it? That would be pretty odd i got the impression that what he ment was: remove the vegetation wich creats lag/problems and replace with the 25% improved one, instead waiting for "next project" correct me if i missunderstood. ps- I wish that was possible. thats exactly what i meant. i only lag around certain bushes as well so remove bush that cause lag and replace them somehow. if there was ever a recall needed this is a perfect example if it cant be fixed. but i just dont want to point the finger at bohemia becuase apparently nvidia shares some the blame as well read the link below http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=41351

i read an article on this very same problem. it was was either the inquirer or register and they stated nivida received alot of complaints from developers about the fog/haze bug in its 8800 series cards and they are looking to fix this bug in this September. not only has it been a problem for the arma community but it shown up in the WIC (world in conflict) community as well. ill post the link when i find it. someone should possibly sue nvidia for waiting so long to address this issue especially if they made claims of huge performance gains. sign the petition by the way http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?screwnvd heres the link http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=41351

aimed at ohara: how about a complete removal of the things that are causing frame rate issues.? i think its quite unfair to gamers who bought this game to address the issue as "well we will implement such and such improvement in the next game." this is my own summarized quote interpretation.

is anyone using the new nvidia driver?

i get exactly what your saying better optimization on bi part is appreciated. flash point to me was no where near as bad as arma. but strangely i still like this game go figure. and it is somewhat playable for the most part. the one thing that pisses me off is the pine trees. there is zero excuse for an engine to take such a hit that it creeps it to a crawl around a tree. zero BI!!!! i still achieve over 30 fps for the most part and every game thats out is always on max settings except this game.

i keep hearing people here using beta driver 100.2 correct? but isn't that a vista driver because i searched and i couldn't find it . last beta driver i checked on nvidia website was 80 something. someone link me website to this driver!!

that exactly what i meant. i was hoping this new driver may help resolve the issues so many people complained about because my card is arriving in the next few days. see what i meant about performance issues so it seems based on your armamark without knowing your setup its a combination of an nvidia/arma issue when it comes to haze/performance issues

fixed the link.. 8800 still had problems with fog so what your saying is complete bullocks. thats whats keep half of us from buying a 8800.. so do the the research before posting.

nvidia just released new driver for XP how have they worked for you?? will the fog clear and performance improve?? here's the link: http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_97.94.html