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Hello, I copied my Arma 2 folder to another location and I plan to patch the game now to 1.03. Will I be able to revert to patch 1.02 in case of any problems just by moving the folder back? I would also like to test 1.03 performance and appearance against 1.02 if it was possible to switch versions this way. Are there also any registry changes which I should back up or moving folders is enough? Thanks

Guys please try this software to test the stability of your system in an extreme conditions: http://majorgeeks.com/Prime95_d4363.html Just run it, click "stress testing" on the first question and then run a torture test. Leave it running and if it works for several tens of minutes without error, then you may consider your system to be stable. It would be very good to prove that Arma2 does not crash because of a HW instability. I recommend also to check your CPU temp with this program (it also shows all voltages, fan speeds and GPU temp) and rather not test it too long with temps over 80°C (but my Q6600 works flawless even with 85°C :)

Spamurai do you know what was the temperature of your 8800GT when it made problems? For me Arma 2 works quite good (means average fps of 25 during the Razor 2 mission for example) on 1600*1200, AA normal, anisotropic high, textures very high, shadow, terrain and object detail medium, postprocessing low. It runs the same in my Windows 7 on the second hdd. Irishdeviant you should be more specific with the performance problems you have and the graphic settings you use. Shadow and object details do the most performance difference, but I see you tried also minimum settings... I recommend trying 3DMark06 or vantage to see if that runs good. Also I think you made a mistake with installing 32bit version of OS which is quite deprecated a long time ago. You realize that your system can use only 3.5GB of RAM and the rest will just rust? ;-) The game IS very CPU intensive, because I had 30fps with my Q6600 @3.7GHz in one spot and then I had 20fps after underclocking it to 2.7GHz in the same spot! Over and underclocking GPU did nothing!

thanks it works!

Hello I somehow made my profile corrupted (wrote about it already) So if you please have a savegame before mission Manhattan then please send me (if is possible). Or any save after it so I could load it and return to that mission. Thank you

Hello, I installed Windows 7 on another partition in my computer, but I forgot first to change the my documents path to the same path as I have in Vista, so Arma 2 would use the same profile folder. Now it created in c:\users\vitas\documents and it still creates there even after I changed my documents default folder to d:\dokumenty. How can I make Arma to create profile and settings in d:\dokumenty? Thanks ---------- Post added at 11:04 ---------- Previous post was at 09:27 ---------- hm I have tried this launch parameter: -profiles=d:\dokumenty\Arma 2, but it contains a space so it created just Arma. I tried then -profiles="d:\dokumenty\Arma 2" but this did not create any folder at all :-] So I guess I can rename it to a name without space and use that parameter. But will Arma remember the profiles folder after I launch it without that parameter? I will test... ---------- Post added at 11:07 ---------- Previous post was at 11:04 ---------- aha it created a subfolder called users. So somehow it turned out to be multiuser which wasn't before:)

hm thanks but thatdid not help :-\ Anybody have some savegame before mission Manhattan which he could send me please? :)

ups so it seems I have lost my progress in a campaign while playing with this! :-\ There is still the file called vitas.ArmA2Profile and it has lastCampaignMission="Manhattan"; line in it,butwhen I click campaign I have only the first missionto choose! That file is beside Arma2.cfg which actually gets changed when I change some graphics settings so WTH happened? Can it be restored somehow please?

and me too!

yes they should. I haven't done many missions yet but I don't think they are that stupid. Don't forget that at least they have x-ray eyes and see the enemy mush sooner then you ever could ;-)

bugs in manhattan mission: I was about to fly to Gvozdno, but the chopper flew over the enemy base and I automatically talked through radio that we found it. They told me not to engage them yet and wait for the team boomerang. In about 10minutes team boomerang told through radio that they are there, but I did not want to attack the base yet, so I was rather searching Gvozdno for that woman. I did not find her, but after I wanted to attack enemy base, boomerang team did not respond to the radio message and did not helpe us attacking the base. Also the artillery support option somehow disappeared

Razor two mission failure ending bug if you fail in this mission then there is a dialogue but it is so fast that you don't have a chance to read it and also there is no audio. I am pretty sure I did not have accelerated time... ---------- Post added at 19:06 ---------- Previous post was at 19:02 ---------- Razor two AI chopper needs IQ boost Maddox tends to land with his chopper hundred meters away from the requested location even if it is on a big open space and he often crashes into houses and then you cannot use the air support for the rest of the mission. I guess this would apply to all AI air units, but I only experienced this so far.

PhysX? What are you talking about? :)

yes but you know how long it takes them to get on sometimes so I rather do it first :-\

Please remake these menus. I really don't understand why they are still the same - confusing and unpractical like in original flashpoint. Imagine a situation when you want your team to get in a vehicle but you want to be a driver - if you just select them and click a car, one of them will not getin because he wants to be a driver and if you are faster, it is already your place. (this is also quite silly - he can choose different seat but he does not) So I do it via the get in menu where there is always about two pages of vehicles hundreds meters away, but please WHY is not the car one meter in front of me on the first place of the list? Sometimes there are cars of the same type, so I order my team to get in the one which is 11,12 or 1 o'clock, but what a surprise if they run somewhere hundreds meters away. The same situation applies to the actions menu - please add a distance information to it so I don't send my soldiers kilometers away by mistake. And yes, maybe I am just silly and do it some strange way, then tell me how do you order your team to getin a vehicle if you want to drive?

Are you serious? :) I actually did not fire at all :-D ---------- Post added at 15:36 ---------- Previous post was at 14:58 ---------- another funny situation: after I found out how to make Maddox's huey fly my team somewhere I requested flight to Elektrozavodsk. We were about to land when suddendly some another chopper probably wanted to land on the same spot as we and crashed into us. Not very heroic end of the Razor team :-] ---------- Post added at 16:16 ---------- Previous post was at 15:36 ---------- second try with huey: finally the chopper did not crash, but it got screwed up again somehow and we stopped hovering about 40meters from the landing zone. Setting new landing zone did not make Maddox move the chopper anywhere. So I restarted a mission once again and we flew...finally we hovered in about 2 meters and the pilot said we should get off. I jumped first and ordered the rest to get off too, but before I hit the ground the chopper flew away with my team onboard:) He landed directly in the base (the LZ chosen by me was about 100m from the base) and my team got off while I had to go there by foot :-]

Hello so I bought Arma 2 and started with trainings. Unfortunatelly the bugs appeared quite fast:-] In a basic training first I did an obstacle course, then I went to a shooting range and it started to be weird. After the training shots I agreed to try to shoot as much as I can (or whatever he asked me). I happened to miss twice and the man standing there told me "oops that was bad, wanna try again?" Or something like that, so I answered yes and shot again, but immediatelly after first shot he said it again and asked me again. Then I realized he is in a loop and he kept saying these sentences over and over even when I was annoyed and going away :) When the captain asked me what next I selected to try car driving, but I did not even get close to a car and it somehow got reset and he asked me again "what next" so I chose something else. It also happened that the training selection menu did not appear after I finished something so I had to restart the mission :-\ When I finally got to the second stage of the basic training (after a car driving) I was told to pick up a rocket launcher and shoot something. So I began to look for it while suddendly I heard somebody shooting really near us! :o It sounded quite loud like somebody was hidden in a grass near. I thought there is a shooting range somewhere near and somebody is training, so I ignored it, but the captain (I guess it was Shaftoe) recognized the danger and rather layed down and took cover. I was about to arm the rocket launcher finally, but suddendly I heard something like an MP5 burst and the captain was dead! And the mission ended blaming me for killing him! What kind of comedy is this? :j: I tried several other trainings and they seemed OK. I only failed to complete that army commanding training where I was standing on a tower and had to order the groups to move to some locations. They had some trouble getting to the final waypoint inside the village or something because even after a long maneuvering and formation changing to get all those tanks to that small circle it did not continue:-] OK so now I started a campaign and I am on a ship. I decided to go shooting skeets but I missed the location and talked to Alexander Hitch with those red flapping targets instead. So I grabbed the gun and started shooting them. But after about two hits Alexander started to yell at me where am I shooting and that this is the final warning and such :o I stopped shooting trying to figure out what am I doing wrong, but did not find out anything :) So I continued shooting the targets while Alexander was either saying "good shot" or that I missed or "where are you shooting?", even when I hit the target every time :-\ This random speech may sound fun for the first few moments but it seems that he keeps talking like that for all selections he offers...:-\ So I better get back to playing and hope I will make some progress before I encounter some other funny bugs which would need to be commented ;-)

hmm. I will test it with rivatuner too, but I have an experience that texture detail can be set to maximum in almost every game without any problem...maybe only if you'd have a really low RAM...

and what is the graphic memory settings? I did not notice any effect changing this. Also what is the "default" option I have there. Shall I choose default so it will use my 896MB VRAM?

And it actually works against jagged edges compared to higher % fillrate... OK and you say that those AA options are actually MSAA?

aah somebody remembers Shadow Warrior! :D Thanks Randir. Rekrul I know, I have played a lot of OFP, Resistance and I tried a bit of Arma, but you know one would expect that BIS will learn from all those games they already did and will not make the same silly mistakes like before :-] Yesterday I was in Cernogorsk searching the power plant and I found an SUV car between the plant building and a wall with its front through the wall! :) When I shot it, it started jumping like crazy and being crushed by the wall and the building because the engine realized it is where it should not be! That was funny :) After 10minutes of continuous crushing sound, some villagers came asking me what the hell is going on, so I took out the grenade launcher and shot the car. It started to burn and looked destroyed, but the crushing did not end... OK I am just making it up a bit with those villagers :D

I would tell you to overclock your CPU even more :) http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SL9S8 look here, you can pump the voltage up to 1.5V which is considered safe by intel (which means there are reserves yet). They say about my Q6600 that the thermal specification is 71°C, but I usually have it on 80°C while gaming for about a year now without problem :) About the AI using a lot of CPU in the town - I went through the Cernogorsk mission and I had fps around 25-35 (still playable), so now I tried just walking alone through Cernogorsk in editor and found out that AI does not take that much cpu power, because my fps was almost the same as it was in the mission! It's just that big number of buildings eating power. How to make town missions faster - lower the shadow detail, object detail and terrain detail. Shadows are the most demanding, object detail and terrain have less effect. CPU is the biggest performance bottleneck I tried lowering CPU frequency from 3.7GHz to 2.7GHz (via Easy Tune 6) while standing in Cernogorsk on one spot and fps dropped from 30 to 20! (1600*1200, fillrate 100%, details high or medium) Overclocking the GPU had no effect... Lowering the fillrate or both 3D and interface resolution has also almost no effect compared to lowering details. At least on my system it was either 30 or 31fps in 1600*1200 or 1280*1024...

basic training bugs: - shooting range guy gets into loop and keeps saying that I suck and if I want to try again - captain Shaftoe gets killed by some invisible assasin during the AT training Ship training bug Alexander Hitch keeps asking "where are you shooting?" or randomly says "too bad, you missed" even if a player hits everything.

Sorry I am that kind of person who notices such things a lot :) And even if it is nothing big it really looks ridiculous. I must admit that I really enjoyed the night assault on Pusta and the other missions after it. I noticed only one bug so far - after the Cernogorsk mission there was not the next mission button but only the end. I think I could not do anything else then I did, so I clicked to replay it from last autosave, but it was right before the last cinematic, so I watched it again but then I could advance to the next mission even if the same thing happened. Now I am playing that adventurous travelling and searching mission and I am really nicely surprised that these non linear missions are in the game. I just hope I don't get stuck as usual :) ---------- Post added at 01:16 ---------- Previous post was at 01:12 ---------- Alex I know now, I told moderator to move it there...I think I will write the same thing again with just a few sentences. I could not help myself, because some of the situations were so ridiculous for me that I had to write a story :)

what? I don't think this is something nobody noticed and I described it well so developers can fix it in next patch hopefully! Maybe it should have been in troubleshooting, but there is no way to move the thread for me.