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@ eddogg823 It says in your sig that you run Vista, I assume you don't dual boot with XP or anything but ArmA is horrible on Vista, along with every other piece of software that isn't designed with a Microsoft tech team beside the designers. Vista is very poor at system management, read any tech site or review, Vista bad, XP good ... something to try before you preach (oh and Dell, I agree, yuuukk!! @ D007 The 8800 driver issue is a long standing one and is yet to be solved. Don't let this deter you from your purchase, they're fantasic cards ... I have one! Please take the time to read the initial post, He runs a Core2Duo, thats just common courtesy. He's still using that Core2Duo (you are right?), furthermore you obviously have little or no programming experience. Dual Cores can actually be a programming hit to unthreaded apps, because 2Duo's share on chip memory there can be extended propogation delays onchip as one chip accesses memory forcing the other to wait. Im not saying this necessarily happens for ArmA but I doubt the multithreading is good enough for it to have amassive performance boost OR hit. As far as the 2Duo, its a better chip because of its power managment and efficency, the second core is (for the timebeing at least) a bit of a gimmick! In short More cores != More performance (well, not right now anyways). N.B. most of the high spec games now are either processor limiting OR HDD limiting, even SATA II is not fast enough to get info into RAM to eliminate all delays, propogation from the processor cycle request to the writing of a read request is still much shorter than the read action. Fancy graphics cards are great but make sure you have the system to back them up. Oh, if you were wondering ... E6750 Core2Duo (with 1333MB/s FSB) Asus P5K Deluxe 4G's of XMS2 Ram Gainward 8800 GTS 320M Western Digital Raptor 74Gb (8mb cache) 20" ACER wscrn :EDIT: What I said about SATA II is wrong, apologies. Its ALMOST fast enough, however no HDD on the market spins fast enough to make use of SATA II, ever wonder why the WD Raptors, the fastest SATA drives on the market only use SATA I? Even 10,000rpm wont get you to 150Mb/s, never mind 300Mb/s!

Mmm, I agree, I remeber the old suite for OFP and how (and I dont use this word lightly) invaluable it was when designing MP missions. I can only hope that when I get my new computer and get playing ArmA that this suite is as good as its predecessor, which I have no doubt it will be. Thanks alot to all of the CoC guys and everyone else who contributed, for taking the time to get this ready for the community, we cant give you money (well, I cant, im a student) but we can give you a well deserved ...