kikinchaz

Annoys me how people say "when its ready". As blatently its pretty ready if the US already have the updated version!! I wish they would give us some decent information instead of leaving us in the dark

With the game now out in the US there still doesnt seem to be the new patch Will it be coming later today or do we have to wait..again ?

I agree, ive had constant problems with the mode. Custom maps and Coop are fantastic

Well theres aloada random drivers on there as ive looked before but i am not sure which can be trusted etc. Alot of them are just 8 Series drivers with a tweaked file to allow all cards.

I knew someone would say that lol. Because i just play all my games windowed and thats how im used to it. If a game is only fullscreen i rarely play it and it becomes a waste of money. Just my personal preference. Im using Forceware 93.81 - most recent beta ones i think. Pisses me off how Nvidia have totaly forgotton about XP non 8 Series cards.

I have an Nvidia 7800GTX and my fps is between 20-30. Quite unimpressive tbh. With V-Sync forced off. Also i noticed how blood and other general player textures look much much nicer in some other players screenshots even when i max out the texture settings and others to very high?

My Specs are : 256mb Nvidia 7800GTX, 3.2 Dual Core Pentium processor, 2 gigs of 533mhz DDR2 RAM. As you can see my specs are easily enough for the recommended of ArmA. After playing the game i had a really crap FPS and the game looked shoddy too. I just figured meh, wait for patches n stuff might be solved. So today i decided to try out the game fullscreen and run at 1280x1024 instead of my windowed 1024x768. Instantly the freaking menu's even became so much clearer!? I jumped into the game and it ran so much smoother!? I cranked up the graphics settings to everything on high (apart from AA and disable shadows) and the game looks so much nicer and runs so much nicer. Note: this is the only game i have ever encountered windowed problems on my computer with This shows the serious awful windowed support the game must have, problem is - i only play games windowed  Can you guys fix the windowed support seriously soon? Also i turned up my Anti Aliasing settings from low to medium, and instantly the game became very blurry , this must be a bug. I set it back down to low and everything looks clear again.

I would definately listen to a ArmA podcast I love gaming podcasts their often informative and funny - good luck with it.

There has been an report related to blurry visuals in *windowed* mode. (One ATI card, one NVidia) Not to be mistaken with the Depth-in-Field Vision effect! (postprocess high in settings) So;..do you have the same blurry visuals in *Fullscreen* mode as well? Or only, if you run the game windowed? (There seems to be some 'downsampling' involved) Do you have set postprocess effects to low or high? Are you indeed having blurry visuals *if* postprocess is set to *low* ? Ill have to check in fullscreen if i have the same issue. But i have post processsing on low. Alot of my settings are on low/medium which i wouldnt expect on my computer as my specs are quite above the recommended requirements. Rainbow 6 vegas runs sweet and the requirements for that are massive. Apparently OFP had lots and lots of patches when it was released so hopefuly BI will support the game like they did OFP. When I play it personally it seems very buggy but you can just see the potential seeping through and it makes you want to carry on playing. (PS. i used to play OFP alot but not from its release, wow they were some good times) Hopefully 1.05 will help abit.

I agree with this view totally. I think atm it reallly really needs some performance tweaking and bug fixing, but you can just see the brilliant potential there. I hope BI do a good job of getting the game sorted - and by the looks of it so far their working hard Looking forward to playing with you guys when the new patch is out I have a average fps of around 25 but it drops and improves in different areas. Would expect abit better compared to the recommended requirements and my specs. And also about the depth of field - is there anyway to disable coz im almost certain in all the pics from review sites etc are much much clearer than myn.

Theres not many servers yet but then again its not even meant to be out yet. I find the game is slightly blurry at distances in windowed mode =/ Performance wise the game really needs some patches as i wouldnt expect it to run like it does on my rig. I mean vegas runs sweet and the requirements for that are insane. I have a 3.2ghz dual core pentium, 2 gigs of 533mhz ram, 256mb 7800GTX Nvidia - and it still runs abit shitty in places.

Hey there, I recieved my UK copy of ARMA this morning day before release The version is 1.04.5121. Does this mean I will not be able to play online with people with the German and other versions? Also how do you play the game windowed but change the resolution - the demo opened in 1024x768 fine but the retail decides it wants to open in 800x600 each time. Even with "-window -x=1024 -y=768" Edit : Sorted the window problem now. Opened the ARMA.cfg in My Document\ARMA and edited the line to : winW=1024; winH=768;

It wasnt so much that it doesnt run very well. Well i suppose that was a matter but i was more concerned about just how clunky and unpolished the game was. The only thing i can say that really blew me away was the smoke effects which look really nice especially from the air. And yes i know theyve created a huge world and bugs are bound to happen etc. But then again there are many massive worlds in other games. These worlds in other games also contain alot more different objects and people etc (compared to the open empty country in ARMA) but yet still dont contain the amount of bugs here. I absolutly loved operation flashpoint and i would love ARMA to live to up to it but atm its like playing a beta. Sadly all the demo has done has made me not want to purchase the game in its current state Theres too many fantastic games coming out within these next few months and I think all of us are having to be more picky with which we will buy and which we wont. Ill wait for the ArMa reviews and read the comments on these forums to make a decision.

With the UK release getting closer i was wondering if the Full game seems to perform better than the demo? With the demo i constantly get crashes etc and its just irritating! Also will the UK release have a newer patch or will it be the same?

Disable or Lower Anti Aliasing. Anti Aliasing often causes blurring in games...dunno why.