jumpinghubert

i hope someone in the future makes a test we can compare to our machines or the testing sites makes the timedemos available they used to bench arma2. The tests aren´t fully nonsense but a little bit. Nearly nonsense ist the last test to make different graphic settings on different cards..

here another test HD5870 benched with Arma2: http://www.hardware.fr/articles/770-13/dossier-amd-radeon-hd-5870.html I hope there will be in the future a benchmark from the Arma2-Demo. You can integrate it into the main Game to take advantage from patched A2. regards from germany

I think all people have vista-only give xp a chance: 20-30% more fps. Thats the experience of many people with dual boot system in many forums. win7 give lower fps too. Its nonsense to say "vista runs great". Its the question, HOW great... win7 4900 armamarks xp 5300 armamarks in gaming scenarios (big city) the difference is bigger (28fps (win7) to 40fps (xp))

xp-32bit sp3: 5300 Armamarks win7 RC : 4900 Armamarks with win7 i have lower cpu-usage (xp average 70%, win7 average 60% in the same scenario).

update patch 1.02! no difference, editor 2 groups fight: average 70% cpu-usage editor 10 groups fight: down to 50% cpu-usage. xp-home tested. nvidia 185.85 driver. Please post your results.

little update with Arma2 1.02: xp: 5100 Marks win7: 4500 Marks average cpu-usage in a small singleplayer-szenario (editor) on xp: 72% on win7: 55-60%

I have installed xp-32bit and Win7-64bit RC. Very good performance on both: Armamark (xp): 5150 Armamark (win7): 5020 settings all very high/objectdetail high/landscape normal, 1680/1050, noblurA-Mod (from Kegety´s). Latest nvidia-betadriver. I have to correct, after patch 1.02 installed I get on win7 4500 armamarks points and still about 5100 points on xp-32 sp3.

in Arma2Mark nearly the same performance: Patch 1.01: average fps: 51,... Patch 1.02: average fps 50,... In the last test of the Armark I have more stuttering in the actual patch (both second run)

I get this error message in Arma2-Mark when I set landscape & objectdetail from high to very high. Set on high it runs. Veryhigh it crash to desktop after first scene. Using win7 64bit nvidia 186.18

:) 16xAF driver setting

maybe my damn old p35 board :)

dpclat.exe, 1 minute length (windows idle): max: 22 µs av: 3-4 µs readtest.exe, second run: Frontbuffer reading speed (back) --------------------------------- Format: 01 - Speed: 292.072 Mpix/s 876.216 MB/s Format: 02 - Speed: 323.052 Mpix/s 1292.21 MB/s Format: 03 - Speed: 368.662 Mpix/s 1105.99 MB/s Format: 04 - Speed: 396.536 Mpix/s 1586.15 MB/s Frontbuffer reading speed (front) --------------------------------- Format: 01 - Speed: 296.572 Mpix/s 889.717 MB/s Format: 02 - Speed: 320.384 Mpix/s 1281.53 MB/s Format: 03 - Speed: 365.997 Mpix/s 1097.99 MB/s Format: 04 - Speed: 392.692 Mpix/s 1570.77 MB/s

no problems with 185.85 and 186.08 with G200 & xp-home. Better performance for me than 182.50.

huge performance drop with 178.13, settings high/veryhigh/fillrate: 100%. With this older driver I have in the config under "nonlocalvram" 258998271; with newest drivers: 527433727 186.08: 72 fps (saved scenery in editor) 173.13: 55 fps (same scenery)

done :). I hope I do it in the right way.

any other results?

new bench with normal setting thanks alot binkster and protegimus for detailed information. XP and Arma2 on different harddrives. My shortcut: "-maxmem=3072 -mod=@VopSound_2.0 -nosplash -cpucount=4

second run: Score: 4300.8 OFPMarks Sys: Asus GTX 280 @756/1512/2642, Q6600 @ 3,96 Ghz 4GB Ram xphome -maxmem=2650 -no swapfile at all -set fillrate in cfg to screenresolution -set to 16xAF in nvidia controlpanel

thx for the info, maruk!

@ all with performance-issues: if you want up to 40% more performance then give a try the lowplants-addon from kegety´s. greets from germany

@OFPCAT look at my posting ahead of yours. http://www.kegetys.net/arma/

hello, if you want up to 40% more performance then give a try the lowplants-addon from kegety´s. greets from germany

@DaleyG how you disabled the hud in the screen?