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  1. Posted

    Thinking also of buying ARMA 2 and was wondering if there are any dedicated Aussie servers for the game.

    After playing games like BF2, COD4 and such were your stuck in a small map, is ARMA 2 similiar to OFP as i prefer something more realaistic were u dont go running around spraying bullets .

    oh yeah! you can circle as many klicks as you like to a target. patience and positioning pays off.

  3. Posted

    Hard-discs are 1000's of times slower than RAM at random access. I've got 4GB of DDR3 running at 1.6Ghz and space for a lot more.

    Pagefiles archive pages under two circumstances: either Windows thinks you don't need them anytime soon or your task's requirements exceed the physically available RAM.

    There are two problems then with using a pagefile (especially a "System Managed" one). First, if you've got more RAM than you need, then there's no point. Second (assuming the first applies to you), the time and resource overhead in managing this function slows your computer down. There's a third issue in that most people have one hard-disc and their pagefile(s) are therefore on the same drive as both Windows _and_ their hog application. This is not clever.

    In my work, I deal with people who need more RAM than is physically possible on their hardware and sometimes I make pagefiles on one or more discs up to the maximum of 8GB supported by XP. It's a sad place to be and, whilst their software _runs_ (and produces the data they need), it takes forever.

  5. Posted · Edited by Mr Fenix

    You *may* have a performance hit with pagefile disabled, depending on your setup and useage. I didn't turn off my pagefile until I'd done the math. It worked fine for two years on Arma1 with 2GB RAM. My Arma1 setup had XP 32bit which had just 16 processes running including Arma.

    Now with A2 and 4GB RAM, pagefile is suddenly required. The 2GB A2 limit and BIS' own memory management have changed things. Whilst I was sad to re-instate my pagefile, my A2 runs well with it.

    I'd like to know what kind of 8GB/12GB setup and usage pattern leads to poorer performance. Maybe you need 16GB for your rendering or number crunching.

  6. Posted

    If you can run without a pagefile then do so. If you have sufficient RAM for your requirements, pagefile is a performance killer.

    Like the OP, I can do anything on my PC without a pagefile - except playing Arma2. Since A2 came out, I've grudgingly enabled a pagefile. I have Win7 64-bit.

    It's definitely something to do with A2's video options. By adjusting the size of the pagefile to a minimum stable, I can then cause memory exceptions by increasing view distance or increasing texture quality.

    ---------- Post added at 11:13 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:10 AM ----------

    The day Microsoft have an opinion on memory management that's worth listening to, I'll eat my hat.

  7. Posted

    I've been in Windows technical support for a long time. Messing with process priority does nothing at best, and can lead to strange behaviour and freezes. Sometimes I am fighting malware and I resort to lowering the priority of certain processes out of sheer frustration but it never helps.

    Empty your temp folders, defrag and optimise your files, delete everything in Windows\Prefetch (and ideally disable it in the registry). Run lean with minimum background apps. Pause your antivirus, play with processor affinity. Leave priority alone. For a cheap upgrade, get another hard disc and run performance RAID. you can also improve things if you get more RAM than you need and disable the pagefile.

  19. Posted

    I have an X-Fi gaming(?) PCI-E card which I just use for microphone. For audio, I have USB 5.1 Speedtouch Medusa headphones (with broken mic). 5.1 works fine everywhere except Arma2 where, for example, an enemy at 11 o'clock sounds like he's at 9 o'clock. It's literally doing my head in.

  22. Posted

    I started a thread on joystick setup a while ago. You might want to try the setup I describe there. It's not for saitek but it solves a general oddness I experience with default axis assignments.

    PS I learned a couple of days ago that a whopper with cheese contains over 1000 calories... I' never eating one again!

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