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Well not reading all the rubbish posted above , but just wanting to aknowledge that at Fusion clan we SIMPLY play using Q's addons 3 times aweek and im sure our fun wouldnt be the same without this work. Times work like this and yoma's etc CAN go unpriased by all but the vet gamers on the ground know and use and love these works. Not sure if this is enough but thanks anyway guys. Dave http://www.fusion-squad.eu/

Well i am very happy. The leap from the last beta in performace was huge for some reason for me at aleast from 45 fps to 58 fps Smoother running & clearer , no more tweeking if it stays like this! Win 7 I do use triple buffering and turn off vsync. Zero frames ahead rendered. No physics. Using Nhancer. 1- 8800gts 640 ram watercooled Intel e6300 1.86ghz (conroe) oc'd to 3.33ghz water cooled (Q3 2006) twin raptors raid O striker extreme 680i mb Because of my cards age i use no AA , PP off , shadows off Video mem on very high The rest on normal , Q.P. on very high screen size etc both at native res 1680-1050 We had to wait BIS but now all is forgiven. A number of us whilst playing , did have a strange problem however of "over running" when you release the key the animation keeps going for a few seconds ,so basically you dont stop running where you should have , but were not sure if this is mod related. David

Agreed ... game killer ....... its like being a blinkered Horse.... The rest, ok good work.......... but ruined at the end Dave

Good Job Celery Regards Dave Aka Fusion_spare ic-a [NBDF] Maj.Spare My Webpage

looks great here maxed settings 60fps ... E6300 2CPU running at 2.972 watercooled striker extreme 4 gig ocz ram watercooled twin raptors NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS G80 (Omega 1.169.25) watercooled Windows Vista ver.6.0 build 6000 [No Service Pack] samsung 226bw 22 inch 1680x 1050 native res GOOD JOB GUYS Dave

Try joining a squad in which is part of a league like ecl for example . Ive been part of a clan playing ofp & now arma for 8 years many country have there own clans speaking your language using also teamspeak which enhances the playing aspect of the game. heres the clan im part of .....english speaking / european based squads... german server . http://www.fusion-squad.eu/ And play in this league which has many maps to keep you interested from skirmish 4v4 to larger 8v8 ctf & combo maps after which you will never play evo again.......... http://www.european-combat-league.com/ obviously you will need the addon pack(s) and anti cheat software battleye.... from bis and join a clan to train with them .. we play 3 times a week tuesdays thursday and sundays.... If you need anyhelp ...post on the forums and you will be directed to the addons required.. David

@stun yer got to agree with you about bis and the settings ... they dont just work how you think they should do  ... And if you play 1.08 you can forget it .. pisses me off play arma totally till 1.09 beta came out and after tweeking the setting its finally fun to play .. I went back to 1.08 for a match the other night and went to bed so angry that i wish i hadnt bothered. For me the grass business lowered in 1.09 as in kegertys mod has made all the diffeence i seem to have seen a slight advantage with the nvidia 71.16 VISTA 32 drivers and some updaters drivers from nvidia for my striker extreme but it moves ahead slowly not as one would have expected to work when i purchased my graphics card nearly a year agao now. Still i think post procsssing to low helps me most followed by terrian at very low and shadows off .. i have now been testing antilasing at normal which gives an edge over off. Next week Im going to try sli for the first time , knowing that maybe the fps may even go down but hoping to push the distance up to max for flying those harriers. What actually happens setting frames render ahead to 0 or 1 ?  And where is this setting to be found? Dave

Not sure how you get 70 fps unless you have a crt monitor as my with my 60hz lcd monitor the frame rates match the refresh rate  ie 60hz from asking around it seems that it really unless your forcing the refresh rates as i did at 1 time getting 75hz /75fps but it was a false reading and the visual quailty was worse anyway for me ... to repeat the same things as above native settings for lcd at 16:10 60hz and once you hit 60fps that it .....obviously a better GPU OR X2 ups your quality ... and that seems about all.......once you have a dual core running over 3 then arma does not seem to improve. Yes i know arma uses one core but maybe your system uses the other helping to take load of the first core.(anyway my idea based on owning 3 pcs with  OC 'S win2000, xp and vista and various qualitys of graphics cards/cpu's. Dont waste money on quad core /super pc's for arma ...maybe for ofp2 or arma 2 , but we shall have to wait and see. Dave

ok  well  what monitor are u using ? 22inc lcd ? Anyway try 16.10 ratio with quality on very high then set 60hz and screen size to suit your native rate of monitor  Always save settings and exit arma to save fully the new settings as they go back previous ones if you go test .... Your view distance is too high for normal game play really 1200 is fine unless flying or distance shooting.this will help on frame rates. then as before turn post processing to low and then play with shadows / terrian details etc till your frame rate goes up and quality balance remains acceptable .. Again depands on what your doing for ctf and multiplayer games.... speed is everything and nice grass sucks as your kissing it while your dead. If your playing against the AI who cares anyway ...there too super anyway. You dont need good fps but a nice cross to stick on your grave lol. As for utilities ....best ask elsewhere dont tweek my graphics card  now as it costs to much to replace really. good luck m8 Dave

Sorry but you dont know how to tweek fps ingame? or why you should do it ?  please be more clear.. why .. well because I dont have a top end card my 8800gts 640 is good for arma but it does not come near a 8800gtx OC 768 X2 i.e SLI........ So you tweek... meaning lowering setting to get faster frame rates which means worse visuals (nice picture/sexy looking grass etc)  but better performace in multiplayer games and flying jets with view distances set very high which obviously put stress on your card..... How to ..well download FRAPS a frame rate program and as many ppl have written ....play with your settings ... Addding extra ram to my striker extreme mb didnt improve my frame rates and i didint notice any change in armas speed or loading........... Overclocking my cpu made a big difference leaving my ram at 850  instead of pushing it to 1150 (as water cooled ocz ram should be able to do) helped me from not having my systen crash all the while ....... so tweeking system and arma setting go hand in hand  .. nividia drivers whql work for me......... the betas after lots of testing i nomally avoid unless i have problem related to new hardware i have installed . How you lean to tweek ? ... well the hard way  .. lots of arma lock ups .. lots of systems crashes  lots of time and lots of patience ......... which runs out often with my motherboard.. And most of all lots of google trawling... SICKBOY  what does the tweek in the arma cfg do exactly? Dave

ok.. arma settings are not logical or so it seems to me. so change one thing at a time not multiples of settings at the beginning till you get used to them, your native resolution ifor you monitor is the best to use also dont force 75hz on a 60hz lcd  monitor.(some driver versions did allow this ) so start default set refresh rate and  screen size to siut your monitor (native) put your quality preference to VERY HIGH and then work backwards ie.. Try putting post processing to low first of all .. this seems to change the most for me frame rates .. then try shadows / but never combine them to much as they dont seems to add together ....often the results get worse .. so try always from default remembering to set up your refresh rate screen size always you will know when its right as the difference is obvious +++ plus not to mention dont use 1.08 but a must is version 1.09 beta ...as anything else  JUST TOO PAINFUL I use a e6300(1.8 oc'd to over 3.17)  4 gig of ram ocz ,1- 8800gts 640mg and get 60 fps. monitor samsung 226bw And oh yer windows vista  for all you vistas haters Arma at 1680x1050 60hz  QP at very high @ 16:10 ratio shadow details at very low for ctf skermish maps pp effects.. low oh yer have fraps running and test between each tweek. Dave

I have the same issues with the 8800gts 640 xt oc version I cannot run it on high as my frame rates go down to the 20-30 range which is horrble after playing at 60 fsp constant. So i prefer to play on all low settings mainly. One question is arma's frame rate linked to fresh rate of the monitor because can never get it above 60fps ... have once got ti to 75fps using a different refesh rate but it seemed worse quality wise any ideas on this sickboy? My rig..... which i can only get 11048 on 3dmark 06 which i think could be better . Striker extreme bios 1301 Intel e6300 watercooled 1.8 running oc'd to 3017 unlinked Twintech 8800gts oc to 658core /983 clock watercooled syncmater 226bw full native res 4gb ocz pc9200 flex XLC watercooled 1150 ram (running strangly running at 849) Thermaltake alum kandalf LCS case Enermax infiniti 720w psu (3 -28amp rails) vista 32bit twin raptors raid 0 Dave

i have 16:9 and 16:10 options  could be my graphics card ... but hay your the expert so u tell me. This res gives me crystal clear Arma  Dave ps ...could be my vista drivers as i dont have this res you talk about only 1360x768 above the one i use and it does not have 75hz option

Well I had plenty of issues with vista concerning everything from modems to nvidia drivers for my chipset ... but Arma has always worked in vista every patch even the betas... 1.05 , 1.07  in 1.05 and 1.07 i had 70 pfs but ti took time to work out that the settings for me only worked on 75 hz as 60hz lowered the fps and at one screen size (as below) and 16:9  Cabt explain for the life of me why i use lower setting and get worse fps... could be nvidia . Used to get lower fps in 1.05 when zooming in but this seems to have gone now since I oc'ed my processor ... Cooling and a GOOD PSU must help loads. I have All settings on normal but can play on high and very high with no drop in frame rate 75hz refresh 60hz makes it worse ...and distance on 2000 Screen LCD samsung 226bw 2ms @16:9 - 1280x1204 75hz Striker extreme mb e6300 oc @ 3.2 hz watercooled 8800gti 640 600/900 watercooled 2gb 1150mhz ocz watercooled ram WD Raptor 150gig- twin raid 0 Enermax 720w infiniti psu  (2-28amp & 1 -30amp rails) +12v Vista 32bit ---finally working well rubbish bb connection 5050kbps / 352kbps ping avg 65ms :-( Dave aka [FUSION] Spare http://www.fusion-squad.eu http://www.european-combat-league.com/