JuggernautOfWar

Biggest problem I'm having is finding the weapon caches to blow up. I look all around the village and there's nothing. EDIT: I found it on a roof halfway in the sky lol.

I don't know any kind of scripting. Can I still use that? If I have to do a little set-up before the mission that's fine, but I don't want to be forced into creating a whole mission myself. Maybe I just have to stick to the standard BIS Warfare. That seems to be to the only one with working AI and a (barely) full feature list.

Why doesn't the helicopter pilot have access to the rocket pods by default? Is there a mod for the pilot in attack helicopters having rocket control?

I'm trying to make a mission at night during a full moon so the night is bright. I've tried looking up the moon calendars online and adjusting my mission to the exact time of a full moon, but the night is almost pitch-black. I remember OFP had realistic, true to life astronomical cycles. It appears either ArmA 2 does not or I'm just doing something wrong. On a related note why can we even select the different years, months, and days? I'd think the only thing which matters is the time of day.

I'm so sorry to hear about your loss. :( If you need anything from California let me know. :)

DMarkwick are there plans for any future releases from you? I remember hearing something about something happening in your personal life, stopping development of your mods. Is this still the case? I've been away from the community for a while. Are you using any other addons at all? ACE for example.

Between right windows and right control, below right shift.

Oh the irony...:rolleyes:

Is ACE2 compatible with the most recent beta patches? I heard there was some trouble getting them to work flawlessly together.

What specifically isn't compatible with ACE2? I'm downloading ACE2 right now but I don't want the Extras from it, only the core features. May I still use WarFX:Blastcore without the addon packs? I love Blastcore so I'd hate to have to stop using it because of ACE2.

Great mission, but it'd be great to see the ability to use aircraft. Currently when you press "respawn" to change to another unit you may not select any aircraft, even directly above you.

What's a good Warfare gametype for single player (playing by myself in a local server)? Same here, I love having a randomly generated mission every time I play. Keeps things fresh! Thanks for the link to Cipher. I played the original Cipher mission so much but I was unaware there was a version out for OA. Too bad it's kinda buggy compared to the original.

A: The enemy HQ (objective area) spawns in the most random places. Yes I know it's supposed to be random, but on top of a mountain with no cover around whatsoever? That seems a little weird to me, and not as fun. I liked the original Cipher's mission areas because they'd always spawn next to some sort of village or town. B: Complete lack of weapon diversity (no machine guns or backpacks, only a few launchers, etc) makes for rather repetitive roles. I'm always going rifle + MAAWS. Other than that we've got ourselves a wonderful conversion from an ArmA II favorite! The SecOps module is active if you enable the appropriate parameter.

Awww man I hate post processing. No thank you, old tracers are better. I can't stand all the blurring, focusing, and extreme lighting when PP is turned on. Also lowers fps quite a bit in complex scenes.

From what I've seen so far I've concluded this is not the case. I even looked up the moon cycles at the naval observatory. When I plug that data into the game I get something way different than what is happening in the real world. Ah well. I guess I'll have to keep wasting my time adjusting my time, pressing "preview", selecting my difficulty, pressing continue on the map screen, waiting for it to load, then finally change it again. :(

The new tracers in the extra addon look more like lasers than tracers. The effect is good, but the coloring is just bright white. Needs more coloring red/green. I am using HDR Very High.

UPDATE: After extensive testing I have concluded the only graphics option to have any affect on performance is Video Memory. On Default it boosts fps by roughly 10, whereas any other setting (even low) comes with lower fps. Not even AA or either resolution setting affects fps in the slightest. This is the strangest thing. I wish I could find a way to increase my fps. Hello fellow forum members. I've been away from the community for a while since I moved and haven't had the time to even install ArmA until just today. Upon configuring my graphics options I was immediately reminded how resource intensive ArmA 2 really is. Suddenly I came down from 60fps to 21 in the menu just by adjusting a few settings. I'd like to increase my average fps by about 10 so I get 31. Which settings can I sacrifice without having much of a negative impact on visual fidelity? Since I have been away from the community for so long, I've been completely out of the mod scene as well. I'd really appreciate some pointers on what is recommended. I previously used: JSRS Soundmod 0.8 WarFX Blastcore 1.1 Some old version of Mando Missiles Note: Not a fan of ACE mod. Too clunky and cumbersome for my taste. Thank you for giving this a read! I hope to hear from all of you, especially with the performance tips. :) System specs:

Hello there. Could we please get a changelog from 1.1 to 1.2? I've looked in the downloaded archive and all over online, nothing found. Also what's the difference between standard WarFX tracers and the separately linked ones on the first page?

Well Steam just started downloading the entire OA game from scratch. I have NO IDEA why, but you've got no clue how much I'm raging right now. My internet is so damn slow the eta is 16 hours until the game I've already got installed completes installing... again. It's randomly missing the .exe and essential game files, but the directory is still there. I'll continue trying ways to improve my fps once Steam finishes my download and finishes pissing me the hell off. What will that change? I just installed the game.

I am running 1680x1050. I've tried running everything maxed out, then immediately doing a few benchmarks with everything on low in 800x600 and I get the same exact average fps of ~21. The only setting which makes any sort of a difference is Video Memory Low-VHigh and Default. When set to Default I get a much higher fps, but other than that everything's crap. What the hell? This is the strangest thing I've ever seen.:eek: Seeing these results I can't help but lose some hope. I feel the engine is just optimized like crap and maybe cannot take advantage of some of my hardware. I really don't know what the specific problem is, but this is very frustrating for me. :( Ideas?

"Cannot open file 'C:\(...)arma 2 operation arrowhead\Expansion\addons\characters_e.pbo'" How do I fix this? UPDATE: I went into the game directory only to find half the game data is gone somehow. Steam is again downloading all of Operation Arrowhead. I've never had this happen. What did happen? This really sucks because I have extremely slow internet right now. :aa: you Steam!

Wow guys thank you all so much for the useful information! I'll get right on that. I can't help but wonder how much of an improvement I'll get from +200~300 MHz.

Thank you so much for your very extensive reply, very helpful. Could you please point me in the right direction to overclocking my CPU? I really don't want to be so cheap I overclock rather than buy a new CPU, then break my CPU and have to buy a new one anyway. I defiitely don't have the money for that. :( I think this is my best bet because no matter what I change in the video options I get roughly the same fps. That leads me to believe it's my RAM or CPU bottle necking my GPU.

My view distance is at 5KM. Any less and flying/aiming is quite difficult. What can I change to improve performance without feeling like I'm playing with year 2000 graphics? AA doesn't change the average fps much at all. 3D resolution at 100% looks great but I get ~20fps average. At 80% I get ~30-35 fps average but appears as I'm looking at a blurry picture of mud. Texture quality at Very High or "Default"? The default setting for me is Very High... if that makes any sense at all. UPDATE: After extensive testing I've found Anti Aliasing being off or medium literally does not change the fps whatsoever.

If I were you I'd just install Spritied Machine's ArmA II Launcher.