Kevlar2007

It might show if for some reason ur running out of videoram.. If ur not running out, then you at least know that by fact, instead of thin air guessing Yeah I will try that also and report the results when I finished the test, but it can take some time.

So, how much videoram do you have in use while having low fps etc? I havent tried to monitor my video RAM usage yet. But what should it bring for me when I set all my settings to lowest possible setting and still get the FPS drop.

I have tried also 1024x768 resolution with lowest settings but still I get only 20 FPS in the forests, so it is also not the solution. Yeah,I am joking sure! Arma is not visually the best game I have and still with view distance 500m and lovest settings everywhere only 20 FPS in Foliage is not acceptable and 9800XT is not so bad it is made for shader 2.0 and still performs very good. I still think Arma Engine must be checked and optimized.

There is something wrong in the Arma Engine, I have allready posted elsewhere, I have tried everything and even on lowest settings from the driver and from the game I have only around 15 FPS in the Forests, near the Gras or Bushes even at 500 m view distance. I have clean system and can run every other game I have at 1280x1024 in medium to high settings. Please don't replay like "yeah buy new GFX card", "my system works your system is not set up properly" or such because I can't hear it any more. My system is optimized, clean and set up properly. There is no consistance in the FPS drops among different systems. Perhaps BIS had optimized the code too much on one of the development configurations so that if you are lucky that you have similar motherboard, CPU and GFX card everything works perfectly and on other systems it works poorly, I don't know. Only I know BIS should check the Arma Engine and try to fix this because in certain places Game is not Playable like it is now. My Specs: P4 3.2 GHz HT, ATI Radeon 9800XT, 2048 MB RAM, Audigy 2ZS.

You don't need this software to change this setting you can do it trough system prefrences for this look at this post from Micrsoft Knowledgebase : Systemchache For me this settings doesn't change anything.

Prior to patch 1.02 I also had this failure, I must say that setting the Texture Detail to very low and activating tripple buffer and z-Buffer 24Bit solved this problem for me completely. After the patch 1.02 I don't have this error even with Textures Very High and without tripple buffer and forcing 24Bit Z-Buffer but what still remains for me is big FPS drops near Foliage or Grass even with all settings on very low. There must be still something wrong in the games engine that causes this FPS drops perhaps this cases by some systems also this spike error too. I also think this is problem of ATI and BIS, ATI should check their drivers but BIS should also further optimize the engine. I have an ATI Radeon 9800XT.

Hi All, I have weird graphic problems. After some time of play I get some polygons all over the screen, sometimes this poliys seem to be shadows that are wrong calculated around the objects. I can solve this problems sometimes if I switch to desktop and back after reloading this polygons are away. Sometimes I get exactly the same failure in graphic also in scenes that are renderend behind the menu screen. I have tried different settings but it happens allways after some time. I have Arma German Version with patch 1.01 applied. My Specs: Pentium4 3.2 GHz HT 2048 MB RAM Radeon 9800XT Soundlbalster Audigy 2 ZS Windows XP Professional Does someone have similar problems or any idea how to solve this problem? Best Regards!

Well said kronos, i agree with you. I think it is problem of whole gaming industry nowday as all new games and sequels of the games are screwed. I think publishers and console pushing from M$, and not so good software development of the gaming companies is mostly to blame for the situation. M$ and GFX card developers are changing the standards to fast and are complicating things for developers trough this they want to force gamers to buy über rigs or to switch to consoles in which they are investing their money. So the games are only postpooning the release dates or are released prematurelly without good ideas and full of bugs only to earn big $. But world is like it is stupid!

Its probly as unstable as the full version is. have you really expected that demo will be better then the retail version?! Retail version runs like crap and I paid for it man(I am really stupid), I hope they will fix it in a Year or so.

I sign this, and what I would also like to have is knife as a weapon, and simple possibility to shoot from moving vehicles, ships etc.while sitting there in open parts of them and the best of all would be the ability to walk on moving vehicles,ships and transport other vehicles on them. Then ARMA would be perfect for me!

ARMA is all screwed up. I now have installed patch 1.02 and weird graphic errors are away and performance improved a bit but now I get new errors, now I get Crashes To Desktop randomly. Why is this loading happening when you get out of map screen it is totaly annoying!? This all reminds me more and more to BF2 where every patch introduced new errors so they never got it patched. I think we are getting the same situation with ARMA but hope that I am wrong. I have German Version, and CTDs happen all in Multiplayer.

I have no problems with aim now since patch 1.02 I have many CTDs, but problems with graphics are solved, now I have new problems, I think this game is messed up alot it reminds me more and more to BF2 where every patch introduced new problems to the game and solved old so they never got it patched right. I am starting to think we will get same situation with arma. I hope I am wrong!

I have tried that and it inproves performance for me. After I changed this I made my light settings in arma higher and noe i can run it on normal settings. Thank you.

But not everybody agrees as to what the perfect game is, that's why it would only sell one copy. If Perfect Game sells only one copy because not everybody agrees as what perfect game is, why than not perfect game sells more than one copy? Everybody does not agree about a game that is not perfect? I repeat, there is no Perfect Game because you can't please everybody taste and wishes. But this has nothing to do with the topic.

There is no Pefect Game, but from itteration to itteration game should get better and bugs should get fewer and content should get richer. About ONE copy, why only ONE is there only ONE customer in the world, i could think of at least two customers.

I am dissapointed of Arma. It is not a new game but successor of the OFP so I have expected to have more mature game because game will inherit all the good things from OFP and add some new things that makes OFP even better. I think BIS spent too much time on graphics and eye candy instead to add more to gamplay and make better and feature rich expansion of OFP. What I have now is the bugged game like OFP was in release 1.0 with unpotimized engine that is playable only on very low settings and there it doesent look much better than OFP engine but it is sold for full prize. When will software developer learn how to make reusable software components so they don't need to reinvent everything from scratch and porduce new bugs. I still think ARMA has great potential like OFP also had but now I am expecting that ARMAs potenial could be faster put in use than OFPs. Every game has good potential it is only the question if this potential will be implemented or not, and implementation costs time and money, community can do many things with addons but most annoying things are hard coded in the engine and can only be fixed by BIS. Also some feedback from BIS regarding bugs would be nice. Best Regards!

I will not buy new GFX card for arma, I hope BIS can do some optimization of the engiane cause till now I only have such problems with Arma, and arma has from all games I have played recently lowest visual quality.

Today I tried Maruks suggestion to set Texture to very low combined with activated Tripple Buffer and 24 Bit Z-Buffer this seems to solve the problem for me, now I can play without problems. Thanks! My new questions: Will it ever be possible for me to play Arma with texture details on high setting? Why Tripple Buffer and 24bit Z-Buffer settings have impact on the game when this settings belong to opengl which have nothing to do with DirectX? Best Regards!

I have tried Omega drivers and for me they are worse than the original Catalyst drivers. With omega drivers I have massive problems with HDR additionaly to the weird polygon problem.

I can again reasure that for my case this error is not Hardware Error or Driver Error. I have tested my Graphic Card with different benchmakrs and I can Play all Graphic Intensive Games withaout any Problems only by AA I get this error. So please give me some constructive response instead of continuosly repeating each others. Perhaps this problem you all had was caused trough your hardware configuration but for me its not.

It is not heat I have checked this, and it is not an NVIDIA Card as you can see from my specs!

Now I am sure we are beta testing it for the final release in Q1 2007. I think they didn't test it enough before release. I only hope they will quickly solve major problems so I can play it at all, because in current state I can't.

No its worser then this, i can't play at all when it happens. If I look in some direction some wierd polygons seems to come from on point in the picture and cover whole screen, if I turn around and look in oposite direction everything seems to be allright. It seems to me that it has something to do with shadows of the objects.

Hi all, I have tried everything you suggested but nothing helps here. Thanks anyway!

Thank you for the replies, I will try this later, I also watched on the Morphicon Suport Forum about this and it seems that there are many of players that have the same problem with 9800 cards pro and XT. I do not have problems with overheeting, I have played all graphbic demanding games in recent time and I never had any problems. I will try your suggestions later, now I don't have time to play. Best Regards!