BrunoDerRabe

Hi Zipper5, may I ask you a question please. As I usualy also use two Steam accounts, I had to realize that I have to be logged into that account wich contains ARMA2 etc. ( that blocks for me the usage of my other steamgames on that acount - ARMA2 etc. included) on some other gaming PCs in the house, as soon as I just want to use the dedicated ARMA2 OA Steam server ... there is a trick wich I don´t like ( and the game tends to crash / wich it usualy does not ) ... logging into 2nd acount and starting the server.exe manualy - is there no way for steam to UNLOCK the server ( just the dedicated server not the game for another acccount?/ the files are there in the Steamfolder anyway) ...there is some 5MBit upload to be used at my end, hosting is my pleasure. Allso copy and paste of the whole gamefolder (from DVD instalation) to a second PC to run as a server is no good anymore. If on the other machine ArmA2 etc. has been used via a steam account you receive an error messeage -ArmA 2 OA error window: Failed to load file "baf\addons\air_d_baf.pbo" -decryption of headers failed It would be perfect if these 2 installations would cope with each other, instead of damaging each other ( read my post above please)

there are a few choices you have: https://support.securom.com/removaltool.html Thats what I did after getting this securom error ( guess it happened at my end because of a broken Installation/ checking out at the moment how a Steam Installation of ARMA2&ARMA2 OA&BAF corrupts a preinstalled disc installation of ARMA2&ARMA2 OA&BAF) have two bunches of them/ 3 PCs so it makes sense: DEVELOPERS please test this !!!! I did read something here about better autodetection, but there is another Problem, DISC and STEAM instalation harm each other .... me spending already 3 days and nights on this issue ( including uninstall of both , reinstalling in different orders etc things getting worse if you try to configure a dedicated server there the incompability/inaccessibility starts best you use a systemrestorepoint and delete all profiles under your useraccount:application data or my documents [differs between Vista (for example C:\Users\Admin\Documents C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local ) and W7 delete everything you find about ARMA2 I did use system restorepoint and the rest in this order 1. ARMA2 2. ARMA2 Patch 1.08 in one piece 3. ARMA2 OA from Disc [ Version: 1.51.71083 ] 4. ARMA2 OA Patch 1.55 5. BAF DLC from Sprocket btw BAF needs a higher patchlevel of OA than the one from the disc ARMA2 OA comes with Patch 1.06 onboard on the disc.... but the above order worked for me best

Is there a chance to rename a Steam dedicated server with some right click and entering the SET LAUNCH OPTIONS ?

developers please read: by the way I would love to play the game with the profi settings but with a peace of mind saving option as in regular mode ( saving anytime ) anyway great stuff

I own the following Operation Flashpoint Cold War Crisis=1 Copies Operation Flashpoint Red Hammer=1 Copy Operation Flashpoint Resistance=1 Copies Armed Asault =2 Copies Armed Assault Queen's Gambit=1 Copy ARMA II=2 Copies ARMA II Operation Arrowhead=2 Copies ARMA II British Forces=1 Copy

At my end it was a driverproblem and also different RAM did help. I did use the Windows built in Memory Diagnostics to narrow down the source. Before this I wasn´t aware that the PC had a problem at all. Reducing RAM speed from 800MHZ to 667MHz helped too. At the end of the day I did swap RAM with other PC´s RAM. By the way the RAM wasn´t faulty. It was just a mismatch RAM/motherboard.

On one PC with an Asus P5Q Deluxe motherboard and Vista Ultimate SP2 x64 on a SATA HDD I had to install the latest Intel® Matrix Storage Manager Driver V8.9.0.1023 for Windows XP_Vista_7 3264bit (Asus Support) to solve the intallation problems for ArmA2 and OA. Other 2 PC`s were easy. Without these update also the patches didn´t work, and installation of ArmA2 and/or OA was a more a lottery than anything else. Also an 6 years old MSI EIDE DVD RW did´t do any good, so I did add and use a more uptodate SATA DVD RW from LG. Just in case I also reduced the RAM from 4 to 2 GB just for the installation. I got quite desperate, lol. But now it is fixed here. Hope that helps a wee bit.

Probably distance of view. :j:

probably you are right, only difference I do see in the benchmark with the GTX260 dedicated for physics, the action (firefights) in the OA 08 Benchmark start earlier, so you do see most of it .... and not when the camera is turning away strange, isn`t it? I did repeat this tests several times My favorite settings for Testsystem B are now: 1920x1200 Sichtweite: 3876m Qualitätspräf.: Sehr hoch Menüauflösung: 1920x1200 3D Auflösung: 150% 2880x1800 Texturendetails: Sehr hoch Grafikspeicher: Voreinstellung Anisotrop. Filter: Hoch Antialiasing: Hoch Landsch. Details: Sehr Hoch Objektdetails: Sehr hoch Schattendetails: Sehr hoch Nachbearb.-Effekt: Deaktiviert Menügröße: Sehr klein Seitenver.: Breitbild 16:10 The settings are optimized to get the very best smooth high quality images in ArmA2 1.07 while playing the game on the following configuration. 257.21 WHQL Testsystem B: CPU: AMD PhenomII 940 4x3,0GHZ @ 3,0GHZ Memory: 8GB A-DATA DDR2-1066 Motherboard: Asrock K10N780SLIX3-WiFi Graphics Cards Manufacturer: Point Of View and Gainward 2 NVIDIA GPUs: 1 x NVIDIA GeForce 470 GTX plus 1 x NVIDIA GeForce 260 GTX dedicated to physics Sound: Creative X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Hard Drive(s): 2 500GB Maxtor hard drives in stripe raid Notes: Cooler Master RealPower Pro 1250W, CPU Cooler Noctua NH-U12P, Chieftec Bigtower, Windows 7 Ultimate 64

found it also very interesting, but please keep in mind some very important detail: 2 NVIDIA GPUs: 1 x NVIDIA GeForce 470 GTX plus 1 x NVIDIA GeForce 260 GTX dedicated to physics

ArmA2 Benchmark #1 Profi with these settings for both systems: 1920x1200 Sichtweite: 3876m Qualitätspräf.: Sehr hoch Menüauflösung: 1920x1200 3D Auflösung: 125% 2400x1500 Texturendetails: Sehr hoch Grafikspeicher: Voreinstellung Anisotrop. Filter: Hoch Antialiasing: Hoch Landsch. Details: Hoch Objektdetails: Sehr hoch Schattendetails: Sehr hoch Nachbearb.-Effekt: Deaktiviert Menügröße: Sehr klein Seitenver.: Breitbild 16:10 The settings are optimized to get the very best smooth high quality images in ArmA2 1.07 while playing the game on the following configurations. 257.21 WHQL Testsystem A: CPU: AMD PhenomII 940 4x3,0GHZ @ 3,0GHZ Memory: 8GB A-DATA DDR2-1066 Motherboard: Asrock K10N780SLIX3-WiFi Graphics Cards Manufacturer: Gainward Triple NVIDIA GPUs: 3 x NVIDIA GeForce 260 GTX Sound: Creative X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Hard Drive(s): 2 500GB Maxtor hard drives in stripe raid Notes: Cooler Master RealPower Pro 1250W, CPU Cooler Noctua NH-U12P, Chieftec Bigtower, Windows 7 Ultimate 64 with patch 1.05: 20-21 FPS with patch 1.07: 26 FPS Testsystem B: CPU: AMD PhenomII 940 4x3,0GHZ @ 3,0GHZ Memory: 8GB A-DATA DDR2-1066 Motherboard: Asrock K10N780SLIX3-WiFi Graphics Cards Manufacturer: Point Of View and Gainward 2 NVIDIA GPUs: 1 x NVIDIA GeForce 470 GTX plus 1 x NVIDIA GeForce 260 GTX dedicated to physics Sound: Creative X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Hard Drive(s): 2 500GB Maxtor hard drives in stripe raid Notes: Cooler Master RealPower Pro 1250W, CPU Cooler Noctua NH-U12P, Chieftec Bigtower, Windows 7 Ultimate 64 with patch 1.07: 28 FPS

ArmA2 Benchmark #1 Profi with these settings for both systems: 1920x1200 Sichtweite: 3876m Qualitätspräf.: Sehr hoch Menüauflösung: 1920x1200 3D Auflösung: 125% 2400x1500 Texturendetails: Sehr hoch Grafikspeicher: Voreinstellung Anisotrop. Filter: Hoch Antialiasing: Hoch Landsch. Details: Hoch Objektdetails: Sehr hoch Schattendetails: Sehr hoch Nachbearb.-Effekt: Deaktiviert Menügröße: Sehr klein Seitenver.: Breitbild 16:10 The settings are optimized to get the very best smooth high quality images in ArmA2 1.07 while playing the game on the following configurations. 257.21 WHQL Testsystem A: CPU: AMD PhenomII 940 4x3,0GHZ @ 3,0GHZ Memory: 8GB A-DATA DDR2-1066 Motherboard: Asrock K10N780SLIX3-WiFi Graphics Cards Manufacturer: Gainward Triple NVIDIA GPUs: 3 x NVIDIA GeForce 260 GTX Sound: Creative X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Hard Drive(s): 2 500GB Maxtor hard drives in stripe raid Notes: Cooler Master RealPower Pro 1250W, CPU Cooler Noctua NH-U12P, Chieftec Bigtower, Windows 7 Ultimate 64 with patch 1.05: 20-21 FPS with patch 1.07: 26 FPS Testsystem B: CPU: AMD PhenomII 940 4x3,0GHZ @ 3,0GHZ Memory: 8GB A-DATA DDR2-1066 Motherboard: Asrock K10N780SLIX3-WiFi Graphics Cards Manufacturer: Point Of View and Gainward 2 NVIDIA GPUs: 1 x NVIDIA GeForce 470 GTX plus 1 x NVIDIA GeForce 260 GTX dedicated to physics Sound: Creative X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Hard Drive(s): 2 500GB Maxtor hard drives in stripe raid Notes: Cooler Master RealPower Pro 1250W, CPU Cooler Noctua NH-U12P, Chieftec Bigtower, Windows 7 Ultimate 64 with patch 1.07: 28 FPS

The memory usage (private workingset) doesn´t exceed here 1.075.372K with the settings above. With visibility 10000 memory usage rise but the game is still running rock stable. Checked out different settings of visibility / with always highest avaible details ( did run each at least for 20 minutes or longer). No issue like yours on this machine. Just once while TAB in TAB out to watch the memory usage the game wasn´t accesible anymore, memory usage was about 1.300.000k .... Tried very hard to reproduce this ``hang``, but no luck ( or better I am lucky that I couldn´t manage) - but the game never used that amount of memory later again - always stayed around 1.200.000K . I recommend you first to undo the OC. Run the CPU with standard settings @ 2833 MHz(myself very familiar with OC). All drivers up to date? http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&ProductID=2578&DwnldID=10884&strOSs=All&OSFullName=All%20Operating%20Systems〈=eng May be it is worth to check this out as well: http://www.duplexsecure.com [sCSI Pass Through Direct (SPTD) layer]

4GB and 8GB with NVIDIA 191.07 and 8GB with NVIDIA Beta 195.39 are having no issues with beta 6000 running on 2x260GTX in SLI mode 3829 DISTANCE OF VIEW, POST PROCESSING OFF, EVERYTHING ELSE MAXED OUT 4GB language="German"; adapter=-1; 3D_Performance=93750; Resolution_Bpp=32; Resolution_W=1920; Resolution_H=1200; refresh=60; Render_W=2400; Render_H=1500; FSAA=4; postFX=0; HDRPrecision=8; lastDeviceId=""; localVRAM=919994368; nonlocalVRAM=1878618112; GPU_MaxFramesAhead=1000; GPU_DetectedFramesAhead=3; 8GB language="German"; adapter=-1; 3D_Performance=93750; Resolution_Bpp=32; Resolution_W=1920; Resolution_H=1200; refresh=60; Render_W=2400; Render_H=1500; FSAA=4; postFX=0; HDRPrecision=8; lastDeviceId=""; localVRAM=919994368; nonlocalVRAM=2147483647; GPU_MaxFramesAhead=1000; GPU_DetectedFramesAhead=3; More good news: the new beta 6000 in combination with the new beta driver from NVIDIA BETA 195.39 and 8GB RAM make things even better as there was an issue with the postprocessing in the past 3829 DISTANCE OF VIEW, EVERYTHING MAXED OUT language="German"; adapter=-1; 3D_Performance=93750; Resolution_Bpp=32; Resolution_W=1920; Resolution_H=1200; refresh=60; Render_W=2400; Render_H=1500; FSAA=4; postFX=3; HDRPrecision=8; lastDeviceId=""; localVRAM=919994368; nonlocalVRAM=2147483647; GPU_MaxFramesAhead=1000; GPU_DetectedFramesAhead=3; __________________ AMD Phenom II 940 BE @ 3.00 Ghz 8MB Cache (2MB L2 und 6MB L3) A-DATA DIMM 4 GB DDR2-1066 (Vitesta Extreme Edition) 2x = 8GB Asrock K10N780SLIX3-WiFi MAXTOR STM31000340AS ATA Device 2x 260GTX or 3x 260GTX club SLI profile 6975 Cooler Master RealPower Pro 1250W (9x PCIe, black) Acer P241w 1920 x 1200 Windows 7 Ultimate X64 __________________ tested while hosting a multiplayer games with the map - Tschernarussland Mission #3 [bLUEFOR/ slot 2 - LMG-gunner (always new game) 50 playerslots/PROFI ]