Billy Bones

Thinking about a new card , I have a HD5770 1gb ddr5 , should I got for the HD7870 Ghz Edition or step up into the entry level of the HD7900s ?

Ability to play dead = new prone pose. Unless your dead even in full prone you can tell the enemy is alive I think it would add even more realism and be good for ambushes.

Just had a quick go with the sniper, player as sniper I added a spotter in Editor and 1 enemy. I moved forward and went prone, enemy contact was on runway below my position, I heard my spotter call out enemy 600 yards - then he started to open fire. Q do you have to add commands in the editor to stop my spotter opening fire ? Another general Q? on weapons with bi pods to steady the weapon, how do you or can you put them into use.

To see Road signs clearly ? I have tried it out , I can see the signs clearly standing some 6-7 feet away, move to 12 to 15 feet from the sign and its all blurred out .. I have a HD5770 with 1gb of DDR5 on it ...

Tried a search on this thread ? Destruction = will Arma3 have building destruction not the 4 walls falling in on each other kind, but being able to blow hole in buildings.

I bought Arma2 and set most opts to high, but I get buildings flickering , roofs and walls coming in and out, sign posts only clear to read right up close, grass a stuff flickering and when running now and again the games freezes for a spilt second. Window XP SP3 Core2 E7400 2.8Ghz clocked to 3Ghz 4Gb DDR3 ATI HD5770 1Gb DDR5 I am not an expert but if the Core2 is not enough that would be more to do with Frame Rate would it not, as for the graphics 4GB DDR and a HD5770 1Gb DDR5 on board I would think should be enough to set to the highest settings. I did a test and set Graphic settings to Normal and ran the 2 benchmark missions .. No1 Daylight 46fps .. No2 Night with explosions .. 17fps.

Just wondering if this is a decent frame rate for the demo .. Demo frame rate test .. Intel Core 2 - 2.8Ghz 3Gb DDR 3 ATI HD 5770 1Gb DDR5 XP Home 32bit Video Settings. Visability .. 3600 Texture Detail : Very High Video Memory : Very High Anisotropic Filtering : Normal Antialiasing : High Terrain Detail : Very High Objects Detail : Very high Shadows : High Postprocess Effects : Low Res : 1400 x 1050 3D Res: 1400 x 1050 32 FPS

Some of the signs and edges of buidling and canvas covers flicker in the demo, how do I stop this ? I had a HD5770 1Gb DDR 5 , there are new drivers out so I uninstalled the older ones rebooted and installed the new drivers , rebooted again. But when I went into the game to reset my res which had been 1600 x 1200 that choice of res was not in the list any more ? why would this be ? thanks

in the demo I was on a hill side looking down into a court yard with an enemy squad in it, could not see them, left click to zoom didn't help, I heard the radio saying 1 click away. When they came out of the compound and onto the road I was told to target one of them a red circle appeared round him and the distance he was from me and it was 260 mts or yards ? but 260 - he was tiny and near transparent you could hardly make them out. I had very thing on very high .. 1600-1200 res ---------- Post added at 10:08 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:53 PM ---------- there is a rifle squad in that square ..even out on that road they didn't look that much better or bigger very hard to see.

The crosshairs were so I would have a better view of the area zoomed. The 3D 100% - worked .. truth be told I didn't know what it did .. but much better now .. Thanks

Thanks all for the info .. One other thing about the game , the sun, now if I stand outside on a sunny day ( little chance of that in Scotland in July ) then no matter if the sun is in the east or west there is no change or very little of light. Yet in the game if I am facing away from the sun the land is brighter than if I face in the direction of the sun. It shows more so the little bird, facing away from the sun the panels are there to be seen, face in the direction of the sun the the shadow blacks out the panel and dials it should not be that harsh. And it should not be down to adjusting gamma.

I seen some of the bumf about OA and the mention or did I pick it up wrong , about a better gameplay engine or upgraded. Q? Is , this there an upgrade in OA to the gameplay engine, that includes better destruction of buildings and so on.

Thanks I'll go through the buttons ...

As I said its not a purchase breaker ... The look of the game is fantastic , the lighting made the game graphics. One Q though , in the demo I went on the mission to attack the Mine , the gun I have ? I was 700-800mts out and using the scope I could not hit a thing, nor could I see how much I was missing by, the centre + was only of use and hitting enemy targets when I got down to about 500mts. Or am I miss using it?

Looks like I'll be getting after d/ld the demo , but in the edit part of the demo I was messing about in a tank next to an oil pipeline station. While I could destroy the buildings and the little bridge over the pipeline, no matter how many shells I fired at the pipeline it would not break , nor when I rammed at it full speed in a tank the tank just bounced back off it. While not a purchase killer , its a bit disappointing that in this new game (standalone) that you can't destroy pipelines with tank shells nor ram through it with a tank if that's you want.

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/operation-arrowhead-arma-ii/63251

I struggled at first because I would use the outside view , but when I went into the cockpit it became much easier.

After getting intel to go to a town to speak to a fighter there and he will give me info on the 2 escaped prisoners, I get there and after talking to him he say we have to got to a Cowshed. When we get there 2 lots of emenies are coming at us 1 from the right hillside the other 1 from the left, we killed them, but when I speak to him after the fight he says he will only give me his name and serial no ? I looked in the talk log to see if I missed his info on the 2 Im hunting , but there nothing there ? only a record of our 1st chat when I told him this officer he know sent me to speak to him and that he would help with info on where the 2 could be hiding out. But the 2nd chat after we killed the ememy near the cowshed, all that was on the chat log was he would only tell me his rank and serial no. As far as I know if I and my squad help defend the village he will be forth coming with some info, that I did but no info?

Got a kill using the UVA , enemy APC , looked good. Only thing is the camera is still a bit wonky, I waited until it was flying in a straight line and point the camera where I thought the nose of the UVA was, but still a slight movement of the camera seemed to send it swinging. Either that the flight of the UVA is unstable.

What weapons cache ? after my team leader was killed and we were recused I was asked if I want to rest or carry on, I picked carry on and was made team leader. I was told that I should speak to an intel officer in the camp in town, I went there and spoke to the english intel officer and he told me to talk to the other intel officer in the camp. The other one pointed me to this guy in the town/village to talk to as he would have a good clue to where both of the eascaped prisioner were likely to be hiding out. That was my 1st mission , I went to the village spoke to him told him that I was sent by the intel officer he knew and that he might have a clue to where the 2 I was looking for might be hiding out. He was about to tell me when he said we had to go to the cowshed, there we fought and killed 2 lots of enemy troops and after the fight when I spoke to him all he said was that he would tell me him rank and serial no. I have been on no other mission, this one is the 1st one of this part of Red Harvest I have taken on. So I have not found my weapon caches or did anything else that would stop him telling me the info he has.

Is it the norm in Arma2 for bodies to be sticking through walls ? One of my team go shot next to a wall , calling for medical aid I went to him half his body, bottom half was my side of the wall top half on the other side. Same when I shot an enemy, I shot him on a landing near a window , he fell slightly to the side. When I went up the stair and shot another guy in a room then carried on up to the next level to see if there was anyone else in the room above, there wasn't, well not in the room. What was sticking into the room from the other side of the wall was the guy I had shot earlier, top half of his body sticking out of the wall half way up it. On through walls and such , can the enemy AI see though walls ? I was in a barn and I was being shot at even moving to the side of where I was standing got the feeling that they knew where I was even though he was the other side of the barn wall some 30-40 yards away.

Thanks for the replies, I thought as much with the barn so not bothered about that, the reply about the gun sticking through a wall and shooting you now that is a bit to much.:D

Graphics Benchmarks .. v Set Up .. what should I see .. Core2 E7400 2.80Ghz 4Gb DDR3 ATI HD5770 1Gb DDR5 XP Home 32bit Arma2 .. 1.05 latest patch and EW Hotfix Game setting .. Visibility ... 1600 Brightness .. 1.0 Gamma .... 1.0 Quality Preference ... High Interface Res ... 1280 x 1024 3D Res .... 1280 x 1024 Texture Detail ... Normal Video Memory .. Normal Anisotropic Filtering ... Normal Antialiasing ... Disabled Terrain Detail .... Normal Object Detail .... Normal Shadow Detail ... High Postprocess Effects ... Low Interface Size ... Small Aspect Ratio .... 4.3 Normal Benchmark 2 (night fight) 18FPS .. Surely to god I should be seeing better than 18fps . Its not as if I have all the details on High

Seen that , I jumped and nothing moved so I just x4 speed and landed the jump I was asked if I wanted to try again, I did and this time the controls worked.

Basic game with 1.05 patch and EW Hotfix , no add ons or other mods. These are Boot Camp "bugs" ??? 1. Medic .. Carry man , carry does not appear at first on the menu, you have to drag him a bit and even then walk around and step back and forth to get it to appear. And when it does and I pick Carry, the animation of it ? the guy I pick up when 1st at shoulder high he's off to the right of my player with a gap, seconds later it snaps into him in the correct position on my shoulders. But I can not move I am stuck in place, the move buttons WSAD do not work. After pressing a few I found that with pressing the C button I crouch down and get the guy off my back, it takes a few goes of going through the same thing before I get one where I can walk over to the officer. 2. Parachute jump , when in Freefall I can move my player in all directions, but as soon as I deploy the chute the buttons do not work, I can not move him does not move right or left and speed up and slow down do not work either. I tried the jump a few times and it was the same each time, Freefall chute closed I can move my player and the buttons work as soon as I open the chute the button don't work.