MavericK96

I just tried adding arma2oa.exe to the ArmA2 profile instead of creating a whole new one and the results seem better. Haven't gotten a video driver kill yet, but we'll see.

Completely off-topic, but I just thought I would mention this to save you (potentially) a costly mistake, but the Accelero Cooler for the 5970 can easily destroy your card from a standard installation. There is a huge thread about it here outlining the problem and potentially how to avoid it. http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1515486 The main problem is that if you tighten the screws down completely, it can put strain on the card and possibly short it out, causing you to lose functionality of one of the DVI ports, or worse.

I will advise a word of caution, however. Since I've used this profile OA has killed the video driver twice now while playing. It recovered in Win7, but I had to manually close the game. Not sure if this is game-related or SLI-related, but I'm guessing maybe the copied-over ArmA2 profile is not exactly right for OA. In any case, YMMV and maybe it's not related to this at all. Never had that problem with ArmA2, though. ---------- Post added at 12:01 AM ---------- Previous post was Yesterday at 11:48 PM ---------- Yeah, I just noticed that after the video driver dies, SLI stops working in OA. I have to disable/reenable SLI to get it working again. I'm guessing this is due to the copied profile, though it seems like it should work just fine. If anyone has any ideas, let me know. :cool:

Steam for me. Sprocket was going to be at LEAST $7 more for me here in the U.S.

I get the same thing people are talking about in the benchmark with the stuttering. But in a normal mission the game seems smooth. Very strange, indeed.

With as close to apples-to-apples settings as I can get, so far OA seems to run at least as well as ArmA2, maybe better.

I think this is because 1.07 fixes are not yet in OA. I expect a patch to be forthcoming to address this issue.

One interesting thing about this file is that running it will indeed merge the two games, but even though it is running ArmA2OA.exe, my SLI profile for that .exe won't work. It works with normal ArmA2OA.exe, but not through the batch file. EDIT: Nope, sorry, I was mistaken. Something else was up with my SLI profile. Works just fine.

Also if you are not using it, try setting Video Memory at Default. That helped with texture LOD issues for me a bit.

Oh boy, this super-fun issue is back, lol. It was all but fixed in 1.07, I thought.

Can't you set Steam to never update the game?

It's a different version than the 1.52 patch on the website. Any idea when the latest version will be up on Steam? EDIT: For clarity, Steam version is 1.52 build 71612 and the latest patch is 1.52 build 71816.

The 1.52 patch is posted on the site. Also, yeah, Gamestop has never been the best for PC games.

Honestly your system should be more than sufficient for running the game at pretty much max settings. There's always going to be some texture popping, I think, to some degree. You could try a RAMdisk if you want, but an SSD (or two in RAID 0) should be sufficiently fast such that you're not limited on the disk I/O front.

I think that's a Steam-related issue rather than a developer one. I imagine Valve does not want a bunch of people to buy games from someplace other than Steam and then use their bandwidth to download it.

Amazon's site has been really messed up today, for many people. I'd just give it some time for them to fix the issues with the site.

AFAIK ArmA2 doesn't use PhysX, though, so that shouldn't make any difference.

Yeah, thanks, I got it now. Also, Newegg shows it as in-stock again and I can't cancel my order with them anyway because of some site error. Oh well, if I get it from someone in the next few days I'll be happy.

Not for me, I only see ArmA II and Operation Arrowhead stand-alone. :confused: EDIT: Never mind, I see it. You have to go to Operation Arrowhead to see it, as it doesn't have its own search entry. Kind of confusing, really. Thanks for the help guys. :cool:

My pre-order from Newegg still hasn't shipped and now the game is showing as out-of-stock. Awesome. :j: I would get it from Amazon but the page isn't working, and Steam doesn't have Combined Operations (which is what I pre-ordered). GAH!

I turned off the page file and got an Out of Memory crash after a fairly short time. Probably not a good idea to turn it off.

I duplicated niverin's location/screenshots and found similar results. It makes sense that more trees on the screen at once would drop framerate, but almost a 10 FPS drop is pretty substantial. Settings are in my sig.

Interesting that 3x GTX 260s aren't as fast as a 470 GTX. My guess is that the game is not utilizing 3-Way SLI very well.

I would get at least a decent one that can do 640x480 or higher at 30 FPS. You don't have to spend a lot, but I wouldn't get some random no-brand one. I've got the Microsoft VX-6000 and it seems to work fine. One thing I wonder is, would getting an HD webcam improve performance?

Pretty much the same conclusion here. Greater than 100% 3D res often makes the game unplayable whereas I can have AA on Very High and it's still plenty playable.