Kevlar2007

Oh man why you need to defend them, there is nothing to be defended here, people have real problems and are discussing them. What I am asking myself is why BIS haven't started where they stopped with version 1.96 and improved OFP further, sorted out bugs and annoyances that where left there instead of starting to develop new game engine from scratch with all and more bugs then in OFP was there in version 1.96. Perhaps because at that time they had support from Codemasters own developers or something, I don't know.

@Danbri: I didn't know that, sorry. For me it was there right out of the box in Version 1.0, it was still there in Version 1.01. Then I was asking for help in the forums. As a response most of the people was telling me that my system has a problem or that my GFX Card is broken and whatnot. But I was convinced that my system is O.k. because I never have had such problems only with ARMA. BIS have done something in ARMA and after Patch 1.02 all this problems disappeared and never returned back till now , i don't know what will happen with new patches.

@Danbri: I have had same graphic spikes, glitch problem in ARMA as you but since patch 1.02 it is solved and never occurred again and I have not changed anything in my configuration. So I think that a source of this problem was in the game, in my case anyway, that makes me think that your problem is also caused by something that is programmed into ARMA since patch 1.08 but I also could be wrong because ARMA behaves strangely and differently on many systems one can only make vague assumptions.

I have no problem with it just do what you think is best, live and let live, like I already said. What is so offensive in calling someone fanboi, I call myself funboi and whats a problem, or is it better if I call someone "Mr. Fan", "president of fanland" or "king and queen of fanpire".

ohhh man maddog are you some sort of a forum priest and this is your religion, i made some fun comment whats a big deal with it, I don't complain if you and your like make funny comments on me, just be cool and live and let live man.

@danbri: You must open the properties of the link you use to start ARMA and the add the -maxmem=512 to the end of the text written in target edit box, it must be after arma.exe. It is only a startup parameter for arma.

I have just nothing better to do.

Small developer is not a reason to make a game like this, look at some 6 years old mods that are made free from some 3 or 4 people teams and they have most of the things implemented that are more realistic then in ARMA. Problem is not the small team but misconception of the game, besides that BIS is not so small, in the days as FarCry came out Crytec had only 5 Developers working fulltime on FarCry and they have produced the Engine and the Game that worked almost perfectly after that they started to grow.

there are working voice channels but you can't see who is actually speaking what I find annoying.

@John_McClane: look at some of my older posts than you will find the links and elaborations of the missing features, I don't want to repeat them all the time.

ARMA is so disappointing because it should be OFP 1.5 and now it is only worse then OFP 1.0 and misses all the important features that even 6 Years old games have but it claims to be a most realistic military simulator. Sure if you want to play military ballet and salute around, move slow and clumsy, cannot hop over smallest obstacles and watch beautiful sunsets and take same screenshots and make some videos of all that than it is cool. For me it looks like simulation of some retarded army of zombis.

Ha, Ha, Haaa Matt you are so unreal , and a real Fanboi, you should get reward for that amount of Fanboism.

I agree with you Alfish and add everything I already said in this thread. I also miss more of realism, it says "most realistic simulator" in most parts ARMA is not realistic at all. Look at this very old UT mod called Infiltration and you will see what I miss in ARMA and this game is old. Graphic is not so important for me OFP graphic is good enough for me, what I need is better realism and removing all this small anoyances and bugs that made me stop play OFP, but now ARMA made almost no important progress compared with OFP. Yes it has better graphic and big island but with the costs on performance and quality and no important progress is made towards better OFP.

@maddmatt: you should read the post, then think about it and then write a answer. If you and similar posters here would do that then you would see that it was rethorical. I am not insulting nobody here only giving my opinion on the state of the development of the ARMA as a product. Or is the fact that arma is buggy and I have lost my confidence in BIS and rest of my post insulting BIS? What is BIS some godlike institution which is not allowed to be criticized and everything negative is a blasphemy? @wolle: I also just read your post and I will stop further arguing.

I never said I am never posting something useless and the question was rethorical so it is not meant to be answered but if you wish just go on.

One quick question: When you are happy with the game why don't you go play the game instead of making the disappointed thread becoming even bigger filling it with useless statements?

Yeah right, when game testers would only test sunset/sunrise simulation and cool landscape presentation ARMA would get best scores but they are testing also gameplay and other aspects of the game, ooohhh so pity for ARMA.

I am disappointed of ARMA besides numerous bugs, performance issues and conceptual misconceptions also while ARMA lacks for some basic military sim concepts that could be found in even some very old mods like in Infiltration mod for UT. It is very old game with outdated graphic but all other concepts in game are more advanced than in ARMA. ARMA looks almost like some arcade shooter compared to this very old mod. Look at this cool review Infiltration Review to see what we are missing. I think that BIS should first implement all this cool handling stuff in game and then after focus on making large scale islands and cool graphic. Large islands are useless anyway when servers can only handle up to 40 players without laging, for proper utilization of the 20 km^2 island bigger amount of players in MP are needed at least 100 and more. But what I am writing here there are still plenty of bugs that must be corrected until BIS can start to actually improve the game now they are only recreating OFP in 1.96 state with cooler graphic, bigger island and other useless stuff instead of improving OFP and making a true sequel. But whatever perhaps Codemaster will do better job with Operation Flashpoint 2 who knows. One is sure for me I won't buy any new games from BIS in the future because I don't see any useful progress in quality and content of the games they are making, and I lost confidence in BIS in recent times.

Yeah, and for what sake we have this 20 km^2 big island to play on it with 32 players, this game can only show its true potential with massive battles with 100 and more players but what the f**k server lag already with 44 players, way to go BIS.

I would like to see ARMA actually finished and working as it should be and improved over OFP besides graphic and then after I played it for some time a year or so there could be an expansion, but this expansion should make ARMA to Game 2 because when it will be finished it will be 2010 or somethin.

I sign this, too and think almost the same as you Op4 BuhBye.

I would be happy to have the vegetation similar to farcrys but with no lag and FPS drops than the ARMA vegetation that causes lag. For sim game I don't need uber cool mega vegetation I need only good simulation of vegetation that permits me to play fluently. FarCrys vegetation was done very good from that point of view. I think only way to solve this problem is to reduce the number of polys for the trees and reduce usage of alpha textures in trees, like use more 3d modeling for making the trees and not only vertices with many alpha textures.

I would be happy to have the vegetation similar to farcrys but with no lag and FPS drops than the ARMA vegetation that causes lag. For sim game I don't need uber cool mega vegetation I need only good simulation of vegetation that permits me to play fluently. FarCrys vegetation was done very good from that point of view. I think only way to solve this problem is to reduce the number of polys for the trees and reduce usage of alpha textures in trees, like use more 3d modeling for making the trees and not only vertices with many alpha textures.

I have found 2 interesting free games in the net True Combat:Elite and Urban Terror they are not so big like ARMA and don't have so big scale as ARMA but they are functional. True Combat:Elite is very interesting and realistic CQB modern combat game. So if you are into some fun in the time you are waiting for ARMA to become more functional and "mature" perhaps you should try one of this games in the meantime.

It is true just negating my statements doesn't make your be true. You have pointed out that his CPU meats only minimum requirements, and that was based only on frequency values, so your statement is not complete and not relevant. Next Gen games that use DC are already listed somewhere in this thread it should be good for you to start reading the posts instead of flaming here in this thread. When it is your nature than it is wrong, so how it would be to cool down and stop repeating everything you said over and over just to spam this thread. Could you just accept that there are people with different opinions or you are some egomaniac that must convince everybody to accept your opinion. There is another thread called ARMA is awesome, I think and this is only my opinion, that you should go there summarize your objections in one post, or better let mods make a sticky out of your opinions so everybody can read it all the time they come in this forums to satisfy your ego. The fact that you are a Vista lover shows that you are not competent, which DX10 Game are you playing as I know there are no DX10 games out at the moment, that makes you even less credible to me. But perhaps I am not informed that well on that matter.