Alex72

Project Reality is making the PR mod for ARMA2. Pure PVP in a new way apparently. Keep an eye out for that. MP browser yes still the same however its very fast for me - always was. The game is great. Be a man and re-install.

Im getting a similar setup. Same CPU and same MOBO. I picked that MOBO because it looked great for the price and it has the X58 chip so i think its pretty good gear. I baught a GTX275 wich i play on HIGH with atm and as long as there isnt much AI it kinda rocks. However im buying a 5870 as well as i want the extra power. The 5850 i think is better than the 275 so i think it will be good. You can always go higher later when prices drop but that card will definatelly run A2 well enough. Im going for WD Blacks as well. This time im making sure i put everything separate however thinking of ARMA2 working a lot due to streaming world. That means Windows on 1 HDD and ARMA2 on 1 HDD and the pagefile on my old 80GB 7200RPM i have now. This way they all can work separately without having the mechanical needle jumping wild at all times. Im thinking however of going 2xWD Black 500GB in Raid0 for ARMA2 (and what other game i will get) and see if that wont speed things up regarding A2 streaming. Should help some and with the prices being rather low on the 500GB it seems like a smart thing to test. I will prolly go small SSD little later for the OS as well to speed that up but its not relevant here. The case i checked out Fractal Design Define R2 (again stuff i have in the shop here). For air cooling it has 7 slots (under, front, back, side, top) wich should give nice flow during summer. It also has sound proof material all over. The sliding HDD slots have mounts for SSD as well wich is nice. But i might go with ACE EDGE 990 wich is a swedish case with 7 fan slots as well. Not sure. But the Fractal Design is not that expensive and yet seems pretty decent. I baught the Corsair TX650W and for the stuff im getting its enough. I think it even handles SLI or crossfire with the gear im getting. I chose the OCZ Gold 6GB 1600mhz ram on top of it all and a BULK X-Fi fatality EAX 5.0 soundcard wich had decent price and should deliver nice sound. So in the end im going with basically what your thinking of buying and seeing how A2 runs for me now apart from when too much AI i think it will be good enough to make you happy. :)

1. Gameplay settings. Headmovement = 0% (means slider all to the left). 2. No blur? Just turn off (Very Low) Post Processing Effect and there is no blur AFAIK. Dont know how someone doesnt like those 2 but hey were all different. EDIT: I have Headbob set to 30% and Post Processing Effects on LOW. LOW gives shines from the sun on metal wich is great (and the odd cow can shine but...). Headbob 30% (or even 20%) gives a feeling of "being there" instead of 0% wich is like having a stick up your ass while moving - floating head style kinda.

Noticed when the BMD's fire the main gun at distance you only hear 1 bang even though you see lots of tracers (sustained fire). Maybe you knew this. Just thaught i report it. Also, maybe just maybe the BMD's arent seen as armoured vehicles? Running an air support script wich has AT cluster on the menu always seem to miss the BMD's. It always hit other tanks. Thaught i mention that too. I guess you guys work hard on other stuff now and we cant wait to see that too. :) Thanks.

Deffo man! Im with ya homey. :D Just meant not too loud so you can have it plus scream on your mates at the same time! Lets see what the boys come up with. :cool:

^^Definatelly. :) With lighter vehicles the sound could be heared some 10-20 meter radius even though low at that the radius edge, and from tanks/helos it could be heared as now - very short radius. I dont think ACE has inside radio sounds though? I only heared it outside so far wich is cool by me cause it adds to the immersion big time. Inside can be disturbing yet good if lower inside and little louder outside. Not loud, but you know what i mean. Tricky one to get really good - i know. Im sure the ACE team will get there. :)

Wow thats quite a rig you got there. Dont know what the case has to do with this though but hey with a pc like that its nice to brag a bit - i know i would. :D Did you try the video memory setting in the games options? GTX295 is 1GB VMEM? Set it to HIGH in the game and not VHIGH or DEFAULT. Just an idea.

Might come in PDF but you have to pay i think?

...Continue New campaign New scenarios (SP missions) New MP games/modes New sounds (plus the overhauled sound engine mentioned) ...Maybe activated 3D editor... Maybe Prolly im even missing something. :) Yeah it will be a w e s o m e.

^^Same here. No problems with ACE and JTD Smoke & Fire. Make sure mod order is correct. CBA first and then all ACE mods. JTD after that. Good luck. About the MP issue not seeing smoke when joining. That was the same in ArmA1 and i dont know if it can be fixed completelly. In ArmA1 JTD smoke could also not show at all for others - join or not so definatelly a great step forward with this version. However only DM knows more in depth about this.

You can speak for me too bud. :)

Like Beton says (just clarifying even more here) you always need to make another folder called "addons" inside the initial modfolder. So @SummerVeg/Addons/Files go in here

Looks superb indeed. Good work guys.

Damn i never saw the very end of the latest OA trailer until now lol. Counter measures popped. :) Thaught the ARMA2 logo at the end was the end...

^^ Just put 2 forward slashes in front of this entry: #define ACE_NOVOICE located in the userconfig/ACE folder. So it looks like this: //#define ACE_NOVOICE You find it in here: x:\Program Files\Bohemia Interactive\ArmA 2\userconfig\ACE\ace_clientside_config.hpp Not in the ARMA2/ACE folder, but ARMA2/Userconfig/ACE folder.

Yeah sorry SB. Lots of that going these days. Im everywhere reading everything it seems, but miss the obvious ones where i know i should look...

ladlon: You should take some time and read the forum. Suggestions and extensive talks about moving our heads/upperbody a bit more has been discussed a lot. And suggestions here is more for discussion - not as a proper suggestion for game changes. You all know where thats done.

Making the clickable area bigger yes - another action menu option no thanks. I play with mods so i have enough actions as it is. And i usually dont have problems with doors as i know it is the area close to the opening side you click. I dont even have to scroll for the action - just click middle mouse when looking at the area. Worked perfect so far with very few mis-clicks.

I just got the GTX275 and even though smoother gameplay i do see more CTD's now. I've ordered a 5870 as well. Time will tell wich works A2 best. But i will be in the same boat soon enough with an i7 + Nvidia for at least a month before i pick up the 5870. Well see how it works out.

Ohh... Thanks SB. :o Hehe i got a bit surprised when some T-90's i was lasing popped smoke due to it. Very nice and yeah they got away. Bastards. :) EDIT: Any plans on making the "Enable Radio Sounds" module more audible later in the future? I could hear it when i stand against a vehicle but it has a very short range around it. Its definatelly realistic if the radio is inside an armored one i guess, but for atmosphere i think if the range was a bit further out it would be more immersive. I remember ECS where i crawled upon a russian roadblock and a UAZ stood parked on the road. The soldiers was standing around the car and i heared the orders/traffic from the radio even from the ditch even though not very loud. Very immersive. Its also very seldom the ACE radio sounds i noticed. I guess its not that easy finding good radio transmissions. Very nice you implemented it however.

Anyone gets the empty sandbags to work in the latest build? I remembered they were limited to not work when on tarmac (good desicion), but i ran all over the island and couldnt get any action up.

Thanks Paul! Great review that finally has a person behind it that really gets it. :)

With my AMD X2 6000+ i even experienced severe lag when 4 BMD's plus an A-10 started battling. That was on Thirsk among a lot of trees, water, rocks and tons of other debris. Usually it doesnt go that bad so i guess its true in what environment they are in matters. High time throwing that CPU out the window. However a bit OT.

Hmm i have a normal account and it looks like this when i click "more options" (just under the big blue image UPLOAD button): And dont worry. You didnt let anyone down.

^^ Why dont you ask Pauld? Its his thread. :) Were trying to figure out photobucket and the auto resize though. Trying to sort it so we can see all the glory. See it does work: http://i953.photobucket.com/albums/ae20/phoboo/BMD.jpg EDIT2: Its by the UPLOAD button. It says MORE OPTIONS. Click there and choose NOT to resize. :) (1MB file size + High Definition is the options to click). Remember to link it though. Otherwise mods will remove it (<100kb images).