tonedog12

hi, ive read that a good way to test if your cpu is bottlenecking your system is the following. test the game at an extremely low resolution. If your framerates improve, then CPU bottleneck is not your issue. If framerates stay the same, then CPU bottleneck could be your issue. is this true?

ive just had this happen as well in arma2. i initially started a campain on win 7 64 bit. everythin was fine up until the 5th or 6th mission (the one where you have to track down tupolov. when i went to reload the save game the fps went from 25-30 fps right down to 10 which was unplayable. i then reinstalled the game on my xp 32 bit OS as ive read that performance can be better. i restarted the mission and the fps was back up to 25-30 fps again, so far so good. i just tried reload the mission and am now gettin the error message the OP posted. im almost at the end of the road with arma2 now. ive spent way more time tryin to get the game runnin at an acceptable level that i have playin the damn thing. and yes, all my drivers are up to date and ive got the latest patch. if ive now lost all that progress then i done with it!:mad:

hi, would i be right in sayin that there are no more betas for arma2, as in 1.07 is the last update?

it appears ive posted this in the wrong forum, dumbass that i am:rolleyes:

i was just curious to know if everyone else whos played the arma2 campaign had similar issues and if there were mods that helped obviously not. cheers for the tips anyways.

wanna explain what you mean by that a bit better? by default, the AI squadmates should follow me but they always end up laggin behind. when i then order regroup thats when they normally get lost. even when i sometimes issue move orders they will head of in the opposite direction. there defo seems to be some pathfinding issues.

hi, im finding controlling the AI very frustating in that they wont go where i say and they even get lost when they're meant to be following me. ace is the big mod for arma 2 right? does this do anything with the AI to help with the above issues?

i was lookin for somethin similar. are there any mds out there that improve the squad AI so for example they dont get lost as the try to follow me. or they dont just keep gettin lost in general:(

hi, i found this following piece of info from a guide to improving gaming performance. Blazing Performance! If you want to take it a step further, if you buy an additional hard drive, you can, if you are running Windows XP Professional, and with a little work and reconfiguring set-up dynamic disks with striping (equivalent to a RAID 0 configuration) and basically double your hard drive access speed by taking advantage of NTFS striping function where data is stored across two drives. The performance boost is tremendous – literally 200%. Once you’ve experienced the performance boost gained by striping you will never want to go back to a single drive “basic†disk system. im runnin win 7 64 bit and have a 2nd hard drive installed which has xp pro on it. does anyone here have such a configuration? if so, how is it done? cheers

hi, just got a query bout the super AI option. ive read that it maxes out all the AI bots you meet in the campaign. how many people play with it on? im lookin for a realistic, challenging experience. what i dont want is the AI to have superhuman skills which would make the game very frustating. also, i see that its possible to play the campaign coop in OA. is this also possible in arma2?

alright thanks.

yeah thats what i meant, there are no more betas for arma2, only OA?

hi, im on the siege of chernogorsk mission. the 1st objective is to kill the sniper which ive done. the 2nd objective is to get the high ranking officer called lopotev. im supposed to find him in a large warehouse but when i get to the warehouse there isnt any way in! ive been all the way round it several times but i cant find an actual door to gain access. its defo the correct location cos the objective flag is right beside it. what am i doin wrong?

it took me forever to get the team on location usin the regroup command but they got there eventually and the cutscene happened. and your right, for some reason the performance is slightly better with shadows on very high, strange one that! is there any way to stop miles gettin killed after the cut scene or is that meant to happen?

so with all the latest beta i still struggle to get over 20 fps in these campaign missions.

i had high for this latest patch improving the performance of this game but alas no, im still stuck on the same campaign mission. its the one where a city is bein assaulted. i have all settings on normal which up until this certain mission hasnt causes any probs. on this mission however my fps drops to 15-20 which is horrible. even when i put all settings to lowest i barely make 20 fps! i know people say why bother with sp, its mp that this game is all about, but when i buy a game i expect to be able to finish the campaign. in the readme for this patch is said there would be big performance gains in built up areas, well not for me. is there gonna be another patch or is this it?

well at least i now know its not just me then. i wonder why no work has been done on this issue with the beta patches?

i assume no work has been done on this issue with the beta patches?

hi, title says it all really. ive been workin through the campaign with most settings on high and VD at 2000 with no issues, fps ranging between 25-40. ive just hit the 4th mission where an assault on the capitial is takin place, fps has all of a sudden dropped to 15-20 which for me is unplayable.:o i done a test with the same mission, i put all settings and VD to the lowest options and what fps do i get, 30!! theres so much to like about this game but whats the point if the game engine blows so badly? do these crap fps affect everyone on this campaign mission or missions in towns? spec core 2 duo 6750 oc'd to 3400ghz 4gb ram (1066mhz) geeforce gtx 260 896mb win7 64bit and yes ive been usin arma2 latest betas + ive tried variuos different nvidia drivers

title says it all. the question goes for both beta patches and official patces.

alright thanks, good to know that. so hows the latest betas anyways, has there been a big increase in performance and stability? i know the last time i played i started to have weird graphic/texture problems which made it unplayable.

so everytime a new beta patch is released then i must restart my campaign? the reason i ask is cos i havent played since just after 1.04 was released but i stopped playin due to poor performance and ctds. i was thinkin of startin a new campaign but its gonna be a pain havin to start over wach time.

add me to the list, i just had this artifact/graphic problem for the 1st time. i thought it might be my card overheating but the temp was 50c which is fine. havent had this problem before 1.04 so the patch is lookin like a likely culprit. Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 (OC'd to 3.4ghz) BFG GeForce GTX 260² (GTX 260-2) OC MAXCORE 896M 2GB ram 800mhz Gigabyte S775 Intel P35 GA P35C DS3R rev 2.0 Creative Sound Blaster X-FI Xtreme Audio 24BIT S/Card 7.1 OEM Viewsonic 24IN LCD WIDE VA2413WM 1920X1080 550W PSU windows xp 32 bit

anyone?

hi, is there any way to have friendlies have tags on the hud but not enemies? ive tried various settings without success. extended hud info is the only setting which controls tags and ive tried using this with friendly tags on and enemy tags off but enemies still have tags on the hud. any ideas?