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"Normally" when I see artifacts like that I would say RAM overheating/unststable clocks. Is this happening right away or over time? If it is happening over time then I would go with my original statement. If it's happening right away then I would look at the basics like trying different drivers, making sure DX is up to the latest version available etc, basic troubleshooting stuff.

Actually for me this is the first ARMA of 3 I bought all on release that I have actually enjoyed playing and NOT struggled with performance. As you can see in my Sig my rig is relatively "top shelf" and so were my rigs when ARMA and ARMA II came out. I have always run the flagship ATI/AMD card of the generation skipping a few lemons and the best bang for the buck CPU of the day, but I remember just giving up in frustration over the absolute dismal performance and left them to "marinate" This one has been a joy to play out of the box it's only fault is that this one came with very little in the box to play with from the beginning. My SJ mates and I have been playing CTO Occupation on Altis and not had a dull moment or performance issue. Edit: Forgot too mention my actual performance. With pretty much running the "Very High" preset and a 3K view distance I get 40-60 fps all the time on Altis playing Occupation Totally happy with that when other memebers of SJ with older rigs are running in the teens despite trying my best to help them thru the GFX configs to see if we can get a few extra FPS wherever we could. So I see both sides of the coin.

I just popped over here to see if I could find an answer to this bug. Bumping the Osprey with the bike sorted it out for me. Thanks

It IS an ATI problem....I can rename it any number of CF .exe's and it near doubles the fps. ATI just needs to make one that works with ArmA(the stobing of the HDR is the main issue)

If you mean the Dual Core Optimizer or just the Processor Driver? I would get both the latest of them.

If you want later drivers for your card head over Here and try the latest Mobility Modder Oh and ATI far from sucks just the OEM's who use them do

Sry to ask but what does changing the Arma.exe to fear.exe do? Is it like the same fix that was for Oblivion for a while? Basically just tricking it into using a known, working Crossfire .exe forcing it to run in Crossfire as ArmAstill isnt in the list so there is no gain in performance in Crossfire mode.

Its a whole package(Driver/CCC) so you can pretty much do it however you like.

Im glad the leak is fixed. But still no Crossfire support(figured if they took the time to look at this game they coulda done that too..) Island Fly-over arma.exe=18-20 fps fear.exe=50-53 All on Normal/Low shadows disabled.

+1 Im sick of ATI just passing over games for their supposed "profile free" Crossfire. Seems every new game I play seems to need ATI to make a Profile for or else CF doesnt work. Now here were are months on with ArmA and still nothing...

It is good to see you over here looking into it. I hope while your at it you may take a look at Crossfire as well as there is no performance gains from it at this point.

Actually Im not sure how the ATI Catalyst team is split up now but when the 7.3s came out it was brought up on another forum that one of the actual Catalysts Devs is a regular and he was completely unaware of the issue. I will also surmise that it will be a low priority for them until it has NA release("global"), then it may be pushed up on the list.

Well let me say this game has been gathering dust on my HDD almost since its release and it disappoints me to no end. So here I am months later a big patch and a Beta patch, yet STILL this game runs like crap on my Rig(yes I cant hold BI totally responsible ATI have to shoulder it too) So yeah the Rig in my Sig can barely maintain playable FPS on NORMAL let alone actually turn anything up(tho it still bizarrely goes UP when changing somethings to higher settings) NOW before anyone trys to give me the stuff about "update your drivers, yada yada" I KNOW how to maintain my Rig and I have NO issues with any other games I play and am also aware that running almost year old drivers will "fix" it which is pretty sad. (Okay TDU doesnt run so hot either but again thats them not me) Im used to running game in 8xAA 16xAF and games just flying here(yes Im not forcing any of those things because they dont work anyway) 2nd Issue: WHY are there still no proper Joystick sensitivity settings in the GUI?? you guys knew about this back around 1.02 and gave us a "hack job config fix" Are you saying I STILL have to use that? Why cant I use my Rudder Pedals?(there is clearly a Pedals Mapping in the Flight Controls) and yes AGAIN I know how to set that up as well as I have been flying IL-2 for well over 3yrs now... I understand that may be sorted down the road but its not like it hasnt been asked for since 1.02 along with having some sort of Joystick Sensitivity adjustments. While I can see there has been alot of progress made I guess Im just a little disappointed after all these months of waiting to be able to play this amazing game the way I should be able to, only to fire it up with all the latest patches and the same SIMPLE issues are still there

Yeah I disabled Crossfire yesterday just to see if it made any difference. Basically it runs the same(As I have known all along ATI has yet to do any kind of optimizations for this game, let alone any sort of Crossfire profile for it)I suppose IF they did a Crossfire I would be able to play it. I do truly suspect it is the ATI drivers that are the issue. I am currently using the Beta set they put out a week or so ago that added a Crossfire Profile for STALKER and Im playing quite a bit of TestDrive Unlimited and it is also suffering from alot of performance issues(tho I CAN play it with HDR+2xAA and maintain a decent 25-35 FPS) but they are aware of its low performance on pretty much all machines and a patch is slated for May. Basically the only way I can get any decent FPS out of it is to put everything on Very Low and run a a little AA and AF.

Im sorry mate you are obviously REALLY wrong on that one. Why dont you go visit AMD and clear yourself up The 165 is a single core the 170 is a DUAL CORE.(heck you could see that pretty clearly in the benchmark pics I posted...) But just to set you straight,heres a little link for ya Opteron 170 Dual Core.... As for having NV card nope, ATI guy(I am aware that this is also an ATI driver issue as they have YET to make any sort of fix with the handle leak issue or provide any kind of working Crossfire profile) Of course, the Opteron 165 is an Dual Core Prozessor as well. I got both; 165 and 170 and both are Dual Core. The 165 is maxing out (here) @2x2.8GHz; the 170 @2x2.6GHz (core failure above that) Thats right 165 is the "smallest"of the Dual's. I was thinking of the 148's THATS the Single Core model

I just havent had any time to test it, but if you D/L it it has some decent pictures that pretty much show it just the way I explained it. you can basically assign as many controllers as you have onto to "one" device

Good point but it does run across both my cores and always has. But yeah dont thing it matters much in the big scheme of things But heres an old pic for reference that it does indeed run across both cores with no effort from me http://img502.imageshack.us/my.php?image=corearmavq5.jpg

Well basically that program allows you to create as many axis/buttons as you want, but they are all seen as one device.

Im sorry mate you are obviously REALLY wrong on that one. Why dont you go visit AMD and clear yourself up The 148 is a single core the 170 is a DUAL CORE.(heck you could see that pretty clearly in the benchmark pics I posted...) But just to set you straight,heres a little link for ya Opteron 170 Dual Core.... As for having NV card nope, ATI guy(I am aware that this is also an ATI driver issue as they have YET to make any sort of fix with the handle leak issue or provide any kind of working Crossfire profile) Edit: Wrong Opty model number

1: yes always, never run V-synch 2: yes it is in fact at 1200 as per default 3: Nope not touching Vista for at least another 6 months(I'll let others "guinea pig" it out before I even consider it a viable OS upgrade) 4:I use a Kapersky based AV that I can completely shut down and I do(basically I let it run a startup scan and thats it) I dont run any kind of filesharing nor would I be foolish enough to run it while gaming) Good tips, I appreciate the effort but already covered. I was just running Battlefields mission and well was seeing 13-23 fps on Low/Normal settings, no shadows of course( have very little interest in shadows in any game as they usually suck anyway visually and performance wise). basically it useable until I put my scope up, tho its pretty much ticking along at 17fps most of the time which it already slideshow territory for me. I will continue to meddle with settings combos and may find something useable eventually as Im getting tired of NOT being able to play this game as I have had it since it was available here(German Morphicon version here)

You guys dont get it. Im not EXPECTING to run it on VERY HIGH here folks I am barely getting playable FPS on LOW as in Im getting mid 20s and if I put my scope up its running down to 10-12 FPS THAT is not playable. I am totally used to playing games running 30s to 40s which is completely usable but having a "high" fps so 25 is on the verge of "slide show" territory(basically anything over 20fps is completely useable) @dirtylarry: this rig under the latest Everest Benchmarks(4.0) still comes in in the top 5 in ANY of the benches being beaten ONLY be Quad Xeons and the the E6700 and I even beat them somtimes so plz dont try to give the guff about whats hot Im completely aware but as you can see there isnt alot of gains to be had http://img244.imageshack.us/img244....MG] Have a look at those larry and you may wanna reconsider your benching sources as I JUST did those with FF open on this forum so I wasnt even attempting to get clean benches I can gladly post 3Dmark benches as well if you really wanna call my rig slow.... As for DX10 and Crysis I am in no rush to jump on the DX10 bandwagon just yet as there is only one choice at the moment isnt there? I never built this rig for that it was my interim UNTIL I decide to make that leap(again no reason to yet now is there?) Im afraid your just missing the point here Im not after 60+fps with a 5000m Draw Distance I want USEABLE FPS on NORMAL....not 17s on tree maps and 20s on desert....Do you REALLY think Im that naive??? Im not some whiney kid whos thinks his PC isnt fast enough I KNOW its fast enough and Im not under any illusions as to this games power.....My issue is I CANNOT get anything close to useable on reasonable settings THIS is my problem. I should be able to run this on NORMAL with Low AA and AF is that not an unreasonable expectation? Are you trying to tell me I need to go out and waste a wack of cash on a Quad and an 8800 just to get that?? I think not....

Yeah it looks like it may finally be time to give Virtual Joysticks a go I found a link for the Software Im talking about over at the Saitek Forums I dont have any real info on it but I will of course test it a bit and post my results. Basically it allow multliple axis when only one controller is supported LINK

See now this is the bit I dont understand. It seems no matter what settings I attempt to run this game at Im getting barely playable FPS and when I say raise my sights Im dropping WELL into the low teens which is well unplayable. As I said ATI are somewhat to blame and I have pursued them in the past on this issue and am pursuing them again on it. I understand running a set of drivers from last year has some advantages but then any other game I will try to play may not function at all or run worse. I suppose all I can hope for is that EVENTUALLY both sides will get it together and I can finally enjoy this game rather than fight with it. Just for kicks I will turn off Crossfire and see if it makes any difference(Last time I tried it it made no difference and with it on I can clearly see by my Temp monitoring on my G15 it is infact running both cards) I am not the least bit naive about how to run my rig and this isnt some Dell that I call Tech Support for when it has a problem. I am the guy people come to with their tech issues so its not like I dont know how to workaround performance issue. It just seems that this game has ALWAYS been a fight with me and refuses to let me enjoy it Edit: So I disabled CF and tried it as a single card running the game in Normal, Shadows Disabled, AA and AF on Low @1600x1200(monitors Native Res)and as I suspected no difference whatsoever. I suppose at this point I really cant blame anyone but ATI as I am testing this with the Beta patch and most have said there is better performance with it.But sadly I suppose I will have to blow the dust off this one again after 1.07 or maybe give it another shot when the 7.4s come out in hopes one day I may be able to enjoy it...

Perhaps you cant read. My system is "just" under what would be considered "Cutting Edge" as in there isnt much faster I could upgrade too. But thanks for the vote of confidence.... I am running an Opteron Dual core and 2 X1900s in Crossfire and your telling me my rig isnt up to standard??? You may have been justified in your post had I had an old P4 and a 9800 but this is not the case...