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    First of all hello to everyone here @ Armaholic!

    I would like to contribute my findings to help others here to get their Arma2 running better. I had some serious trouble getting Arma2 to run properly but finally I have found a solution which works for me and the game runs smoothly with everything at their highest settings. I used to get serious lag and texture corruption and the game would slow down to single digits, but here's how I fixed it: First I set v-sync off from the nvidia control panel, secondly I added the -winxp parameter since I have 8 gigs of ram. I modded my arma3.cfg like so: (localVRAM=1073741824; nonlocalVRAM=120000000; ), localVRAM is set like so because my gpu has 1024mb of ram the nonlocalVRAM is set near to the amount that I have set my paging file to. And ofcourse set the Arma2.cfg to read only after making the changes. Now, once I get in the game it still lags like hell, but here comes something that really helped to get my game running smoothly: once I load the game and load a save it lags and textures are corrupted and all that, but then I go to the graphics settings and turn everything to their lowest setting, excluding the resolutions (mine are @ 1680x1050), once everything is set at the lowest settings, the game runs smoothly, then I start to put the values back to the highest settings one by one (textures and video memory last) and the game keeps running just as smoothly as it does with the lowest settings. This is strange, I know but this is the way I got my game running good with great graphics. I also updated my graphics drivers to the latest 186.18 drivers. Also remember to defrag!

    My rig btw:

    q6600 @ 3000mhz

    8 gigs of ram

    gtx 285 with 186.18 drivers

    Creative X-fi Xtreme Gamer

    Hope this helps!

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    i have nearly the same machine as you. youre running 64bit xp?

    i thought that -winxp parameter is useful only for 31bit op system. also "running good" is very subjective term. can you pls try single player mission village sweep with fraps? i have 40-53 fps there and dont need to alw change settings as you describe.

    my settings are:

    visibility -2538

    texture-normal

    video-very high

    aniso-very high

    terrain-low

    object-norm

    shadow-high

    post-disabled

    resolution 1600x1200 fillrate(100%)

    my config looks like this without tweaking(except aa):

    language="German";

    adapter=-1;

    3D_Performance=100000;

    Resolution_Bpp=32;

    Resolution_W=1600;

    Resolution_H=1200;

    refresh=60;

    Render_W=1600;

    Render_H=1200;

    FSAA=3;

    postFX=0;

    HDRPrecision=8;

    lastDeviceId="";

    localVRAM=1059086080;

    nonlocalVRAM=527433727;

    thank you for your reply

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