madmossy

afaik this is a driver related problem, not arma, the same thing happens in other games on the 8800's.

Got mine via the morphicon torrent, came down at a blazing 800k/s patching now

P4 is a huge bottleneck for the 8800 series, even a c2d 6300 at stock speed doesnt provide enough grunt to really push an 8800 to its limits. If your really after something to utilize your 8800 to the fullest you need to aim for something along the lines of the c2d 6600+ and overclock the crap out of it.

P4 is a huge bottleneck for the 8800 series, even a c2d 6300 at stock speed doesnt provide enough grunt to really push an 8800 to its limits. If your really after something to utilize your 8800 to the fullest you need to aim for something along the lines of the c2d 6600+ and overclock the crap out of it.

Actually ran into that same problem myself, number 9 was stuck in the tent, ran upto him, shot him then continued on to the 4x4 and drove off to the next way point as normal. Seems there is a bug in the path finding for that unit.

tried that numerous times could never get it working.

Im actually getting more and more interested in this idea as time goes by, im still not 100% convinced but getting there, one thing though i have the chance of getting a trackir 3 with extra's for 40 quid would it be worthwhile getting that or just pay the extra 30 for quid trackir4 ?

silly question, but i notice you went from an old agp card to a new graphics card, when you installed the new hardware did you connect the pci-x/molex power supply to the graphics card ? its a small 6/4 pin connecter that connects onto the graphics card at the far edge (opposite side of the metal case bit). The symptoms you explain can be put down to insufficient power on the card (ie works for 2d operations but falls over and dies in 3d).

silly question, but i notice you went from an old agp card to a new graphics card, when you installed the new hardware did you connect the pci-x/molex power supply to the graphics card ? its a small 6/4 pin connecter that connects onto the graphics card at the far edge (opposite side of the metal case bit). The symptoms you explain can be put down to insufficient power on the card (ie works for 2d operations but falls over and dies in 3d).

Been using Geil for 5-6 years never had problems with it, both my flat m8s use it also, no problems at all. Windows doesnt report memory correctly anyway it rounds things down ie instead of correctly reporting 1Gb as 1024Mb it reports it as 1000Mb. As for the issue your having with memory only being reported as 2046 instead of 2048 im not 100% sure on that, is the memory overclocked ? if it is set back to the default speed and see how that goes for you. While memtest95 is an excellent tool to determine if ram is faulty, it might report error's even if your system is perfectly stable. I know for me I get errors in memtest and cant complete prime95 without errors but my system is perfectly stable often left on for days/weeks at a time without issue. All I'd say is down clock the memory if its overclocked, try one dimm only, swap them out to determine which is fault if there is a faulty one at all. If you get no problems with either DIMM then it could be something else like motherboard drivers or worse case a faulty motherboard. Depending on your motherboard, you might wanna double check the manual and read up on any forums you can find as some boards are unstable when the memory is in different RAM slots, like the DFI Ultra-D is more stable when ram is the orange slots compaired to the yellow ones.

Stick with windows XP atleast until Feb'07 as current driver support for nvidia and ati graphics cards is very poor under windows vista. Once vista is released at the end of january we should start to see better drivers that improve performance instead of hinder it as it is currently.

If I were you i'd stop trying, IF you do manage to get it working you'll be horribly mortified by the incredibly poor frame rates graphical detail. Your better off sticking it on a decent desktop machine with a geforce 7 series or ATi x1900 series graphics card to get the game playing like its meant to be played. Geforce 7 series or ATi x1900 series cards arent expensive you can pick up the NVidia 7900GS for around 130 quid or the ATi 1950 Pro for 130 quid, there are of course higher end models that range in price all the way upto 450 quid but thats for people with deep pockets.

If I recall correctly, the rudder controls are linked to the banking controls by detault in ArmA. If you go into the options and re-map the rudder controls to not be linked to bank, then this problem should go away Which controls exactly ? still not use to helo terminology :P Thats what it looks like currently.

Im no expert at helo flying but I seem to have a little problem when it comes to rotating the helo. When i hover, i use the rudder (X+C on keyboard) but the helo seems to bank left/right rather than rotate. Is there some trick to this or is just a flight model thing ?

Amazing pilot skills m8, what controls are you using ? keyboard+mouse or joystick

imho the m249 is a little too accurate when your not proned. fired up the demo version just for a giggle yesterday and went onto that team map where you have to liberate the town. Think i racked up like 34 kills before i died, you can walk around with the m249 and use it like a rail gun if your reactions are fast it was fun as hell but hardly realistic. also found out that if you press and hold l-alt when using the m249 it locks your target recticle in place and you can hold down the fire button and get zero/minimal recoil even when standing.

Above video isnt available yet, here's mine anyway, taken from retail version flying one of the single player missions to destroy a convoy. mouse+keyboard controls + im no expert :P

Biggest improvement you will see will be from a newer graphics card, something along the lines of an ATI x1950 pro (~£130) or an NVidia 7900 GS (~£130) both cards offer excellent performance and value for money. Unfortunately though when it comes to ArmA even top of the range £500 graphics cards are struggling to get decent performance.

I think too many people (mainly younger players) have come to ArmA expecting some huge CS/BF2 clone when in fact they are totally different games. It's like i said in a thread on a different forums. CS/BF2 are fast paced action first shooters with a few military references. ArmA is a military based infantry simulation with a few references to the fps genre. TOTALLY DIFFERENT GAMES!

Everyone else seems to be getting it fine so I doubt blaming BI is going to help, maybe check your connection as it's what seems to be at fault.

wouldnt be getting over 100fps in the desert if that were the case: P

you call that bad? hah, spoiled brat you The annoying thing is my frame rate remains the same as above even when played at much much lower resolutions brat would denote that im a "young" gamer, boy do i wish that were true, but unfortunately for me, vietnam ended a few years before i was born

Still runs just as bad as the retail version. 30-35 fps all options very low/low at 1440x900 (monitors default res) 25-30 fps same resolution with all options on HIGH, AA on normal. Difference in visual quality just doesnt justify the frame rate differences. Its only in urban area's as well, in the desert my frame rate peaks at 100+ with high detail, the plant life is just a HUGE fps killer.

Problem i have is getting a decent enough frame rate so that infantry combat is actually playable. Aiming either with or without ironsight can be incredibly sluggish, going prone results an fps drop of ~30-40% thanks to all the grass, bush's etc. What baffles me even more though is that my frame rate barely changes at all even when switching my resolution from an incredibly bad looking 800x600 to my TFT's default resolution of 1440x900. System specs are, AMD Opteron 146 @ 2.8Ghz, 1.5Gb RAM, GeForce 7900GS (610/800). Tried multiple drivers but just cant get an acceptable frame rate where close quarters combat doesnt involve me struggling to aim due to sluggish/jerky responses because of a poor frame rate.

Anyone have tips for piloting choppers, I can move around ok (crash more often than not though :P) but when it comes to slowing down/stopping I always overshoot my target by miles. Im using keyboard/mouse mainly but do have a cheapy joystick at hand.