Marc15yo

do you have ati? If you do then the red box around the edges of the screen is because of forced AA. make sure anti-aliasing in CCC is set to use application settings. :) worked for me hope this helps.

idk if this is the right place to say this, but i just wanted to say thank you guys for this wonderful mod. I played through the campaign so far right up to the part where armstrong joins the militia, no bugs and thanks to the new beta patch runs smooth. And it just brings back so many memories. It's incredible. I haven't had this much fun since, I've never had this much fun lol. But thanks guys. Long live CWC

Thankyou for the input friend. I guess my best bet is to start saving for another CPU although this may take a very long time :/ but is the cpu rly causing the low fps drop on the empty map near that town? http://www.picdrop.net/uploads/arma2...3-21-50-54.jpg How much does the cpu effect performance when simply rendering the towns because even when paused the fps is still the same. And how would a phenom II x6 do in arma 2? I haven't seen any phenom II x6 users on the forum share their experience. As you can see i have an AM3 motherboard so my options are limited to an amd cpu. If i was rich however i would invest in some super cpu like an I7 :p but of course im not lol

I see you own an ATI card, have you tried accessing CCC and looking at the 3d Mimmap settings? Make sure it's set to quality not performance as lowering the bar forces the card to load low resolution textures. If it didn't help im beat bruh :butbut: I guess you should try the "default" graphics settings and see if that helps. Good luck to you

Are you playing this game at 20-30 fps ? Of course not, if you were you'd want to find out what the culprit was. So this is your conclusion? that i'm too compulsive to stop looking at my fps or that Sapphire just sucks? (which btw is a fairly biased statement) Okay then, i guess according to you it's wrong to not accept to play this game at low 20's after considerable upgrades. And of course since you are "handling arma 2/OA without any problems" you must understand (sarcasm) the struggle and frustration for other people that are trying to get better frame rates? The reason you don't look at your FPS is because your fps is probably not something that would need investigating into. Your not the one getting mediocre gameplay is all i'm saying my friend. All i'm asking is for help on increasing enjoyment for the game giving me 5-10fps will make me very happy is all. I still can't play the campaign. It's not a crime is it to ask for help? If there is absolutely nothing that can be done i understand perfectly and i'll desist any additions to this thread so it may die and be done with. However it's really hard for me to accept 22 frames per second is the best i can push out of my system when looking at a town. I just want some people to help me look further into this.

going from normal PP to disabled has no impact on fps what so ever. I usually have it disabled anyways i can't stand the blur :/ usually the settings i play at are as follows: textures: very high (very high to high has almost no impact on performance) video memeory: default AA: low (disabling it barely helps 1-2fps) AF: high - literally, this is the only option in that game that has absolutely no impact on performance no matter what i do ;0 terrain: low objects: normal - i prefer high usually but normal gains me 3fps and i need all i can get shadows: high pp: normal or disabled - has no impact on performance but looks better disabled imo VD: 1600 on ground 3000 in heli 4000 in aircraft even with these medium low settings that i normally play on i still get low 20's in that same scene it's very frustrating. I would be perfectly okay if the game was always stuck at 30fps but i mean it's not. It goes from 20's to 50's to 70's back to 20's. I get really low fps just looking at towns on those settings. It's very frustrating. How can it be my cpu? @ojejku yeah it's true i've been hearing the same excuse, i mean try explaining that with no ai, paused 500m vd etc medium low graphics settings. with one player on the map. Looking away at the town i get 40-50fps looking at the town i get 20's. looking at the ground i get 120fps How can my cpu be bottlenecking it? :j: tbh it's sort of naive and ignorant to say that this game relies only on the cpu especially when simply rendering a town with nothing else going on. It's a 5870 people not trying to be arrogant but it's sort of ridiculous. i should be able to play this game on normal at least with minimum of 30fps or 25fps but im not :/ not even on low. I'm getting 20's 21's sometimes even 18's and those are not just drops those are sustained fps looking at a town tbh the campaign is still impossible to play especially the mission when we attack that big town i believe it's chernagorsk. And in OA the airfield mission im getting medium 20's. Arrowhead was playable at least i managed to beat it. I also beat arma 2 although i had to use a few cheat codes and tricks to skip some missions :rolleyes: Anyways i really do appreciate people helping me on this and im glad to see im not alone either. I just want this game to run reasonably smooth, im tired of playing at the 20's. I want to enjoy this game its the only game i can play. Any tweaks i can do to the game or my pc. ;0 and btw RAmdisks do work, i had 4gigs of the game on a 4gb ram disk once :p it was all my OA and Arma 2 buildings, rocks vegetation, roads and misc inside the ramdisk and this greatly improved lod switching and smoother movement when loading lods. But of course performance was still miserable :eek: @Nikiforos The 5870 is a very good card i'll admit it handles pretty well in all other games. :p of course not arma 2 lol which is the only game i rly play. Although im not sure how the GTX 275 compares to the 5870 so im not sure if it's worth the upgrade. probably nor for arma 2 at least

I think you guys misread me on the COD part :rolleyes: I was in no way comparing call of duty to Arma 2. That's just impossible considering arma 2's intense cpu claculations that are running 24/7. i've known this since the game came out. I've know this since Arma 1 and OFP. I was pointing out that the fps on lowest possible settting and 500m VD was 50fps while standing near that spot with no AI nothing going on in the map: http://www.picdrop.net/uploads/arma2...3-23-38-33.jpg And i used COD as a reference because the fps i get not doing anything in arma 2 in that scene at lowest setting is lower or the equivalent of what i would get on blackops under full load. That' all i was saying. I was simply trying to figure out if it was a GPU issue. When i set the graphics to all normal AA off PP disabled in that spot i still get 22 fps it gets a little better when i actually walk into town (around 28-29fps) but this is jut me, with nothing else. minimal cpu influence because im the only one on the map and im not moving. I just want to know if this is normal. True on that, but that still does not explain the empty desert 70's fps going to 40's/50's if it was always at 40's 50's i would be perfectly fine i wouldnt question it, but why does it drop from 70's to 40's for no apparent reason? Also a good way to see how the cpu calculations are affecting your fps in game is to pause and look at the fps. Usually when you pause in most missions you should gain 10-20 or sometimes 30fps depending on the mission scale. This lets you know that the cpu was setting you back and not the gpu. But in that specific spot: http://www.picdrop.net/uploads/arma2OA%202011-01-20%2003-21-24-54.jpg why am i just getting 22 fps? http://www.picdrop.net/uploads/arma2OA%202011-01-20%2003-21-50-54.jpg My phenom II x4 945 3.0ghz can be a hiccup but i mean oc it to 3.3 ghz made no difference. And that's the max overclock i can get without tweaking the voltages which btw i don't touch because in the past i've had bad experiences in doing so. Why would my cpu be a bottleneck with no AI on the map :j:

your right the 39's - 45's is great fps but it's just in an empty desert ;) that's my main problem. When on chernarus however it's a differnet story of course im talking high low 20's -30's sometimes 40's which i guess is good. i come from the days when my pc couldn't handle ofp ;p so my acceptable framerate threshold is very high. I just want to make sure im getting what i payed for you know? I mean the part where i was getting 20's near elektrovodsk i mean was the exact same low fps i had with my 4870 except it was in the 18's and changing the gfx settings to medium just didn't help my case ;0 i bougght all these upgrades for a reason. i wouldn't have bought them if the game would run the same If the game would run at all times 30fps i would be the happiest man but it doesn't. nearing towns especially on the outskirts of towns the fps will drop to 20's .Ik this is the game nearly maxed out but c'mon :0 i mean 20's? 18's sometimes? I just want to make sure it's not defective btw i don't play the game at those settings, i play usually very high textures, high objects, normal terrain, low aa, pp disabled, shadows high, anisoptric high, vd 2600. And still my fps will be somewhat low not gonna lie :j: i really was expecting more out of a 5870 otherwise i wouldn't have bought it.

Hi about 1 week or 1 week and half ago i received my new ATI HD 5870 1gb graphics card. I bought this card in the hopes to mainly improve my fps in Arma 2 and other games. I previously had a 4870 512mb. It's not the first upgrade that this game has persuaded me in getting. I bought this card because it was supposed to be be twice and half times faster than my 4870. When i installed it the first thing i did was boot up fraps and arma 2. I was hoping to see some huge fps change if not reasonable especially in places where my fps was terrible. I gained little to no FPS gain at all playing this game. The only thing that has changed is the texture clarity of course now that i can set them higher thanks to my 1gb of vid ram. For all fellow 5870 users how much fps are you getting in the main menu of OA usually on avg. You know the scene in the empty desert and the huey flies overhead. well What fps are you getting? I max out everything except for pp on normal, and HDR to normal view distance 1600-2000m and resolution 1920x1080P and during that cutscene i get very low (relatively) fps i mean im getting 39's-45's but something i noticed happens. It seems at always always the exact certain time my fps will suddenly drop to about 25 fps although its the same scene and nothing has changed other than slow camera movements. This has frustrated me for some time. It would go from 70's 80's and then suddenly drop to 50's 40's for no apparent reason. Same scene same graphics setting and exactly the same point the camera reaches.it happens in a few camera angles in the cutscene and i can point it out using fraps below: Normal/reasonable FPS - http://www.picdrop.net/uploads/arma2OA%202011-01-20%2003-19-09-60.jpg Crap/wtf FPS - http://www.picdrop.net/uploads/arma2OA%202011-01-20%2003-19-12-03.jpg another example: Normal/reasonable FPS - http://www.picdrop.net/uploads/arma2OA%202011-01-20%2003-18-24-67.jpg Crap/wtf FPS - http://www.picdrop.net/uploads/arma2OA%202011-01-20%2003-18-30-18.jpg As you can see it's the same exact scene. But that exact turn of the camera somehow at that time the fps will drop spontaneously its almost instant and then it will get stuck there until the camera changes shots. (blacks out etc). Sometimes the fps is even in the high 30's. Another thing that really really bugs me is the following scene. It has bugged me since my 4870 days. The scene is when you are nearing Elektrozvodsk no matter what it is it's always that spot that i've used for reference. You can try it when you play the "counter-attack" mission in single player. (Arma 2 or combined ops). To make sure that there was no AI/CPU influencing the test i loaded myself alone standing there in the editor. Here is the spot i'm taling about- http://www.picdrop.net/uploads/arma2OA%202011-01-20%2003-21-24-54.jpg Now here is the FPS i get on the outskirts of town- http://www.picdrop.net/uploads/arma2OA%202011-01-20%2003-21-50-54.jpg As you can see this is absolutely miserable fps. Turning off AA does not help, turning off PP either. Lowering the vegetation to normal gains 1fps, to very low 3-4 fps. The only thing that has dramatically gained fps was to set objects to low and it wasn't even dramatic it was more like "playable". It went from 20 to 29-31 at best. It drives me insane. Why am i dealing with such low fps? lowering everything to the lowest possible graphic settings and view distance to 500 made it run @ 50fps during that scene - http://www.picdrop.net/uploads/arma2OA%202011-01-20%2003-23-38-33.jpg This is what i get playing COD blackops maxed out at 1080P 4x AA not even in fact i get around 80's 90's 100's in blackops usually. I feel as though i am not getting the performance i should be getting from my card. could it be defective? Or is this game just truly hating me? I can't afford any more upgrades ive spent too much money on these high end parts when really the only game i play or enjoy is arma 2. I've been playing BI games since the old OFP days :eek: Also here is a detailed look at my PC spec: ATI HD 5870 sapphire vaporx 1gb (upgraded from an old 4870 512mb) latest 10.12 drivers (tried earlier drivers no difference) clean install windows 7 64 bit 8 gigs G-Skill Ripjaws DDR3 1333mhz (originally had 2 gigs g-skill upgrade did nothing) Samsung spinpoint f3 500gb hard drive (7200rpm) Asrock mobo (too lazy to go back and check the box lol) AMD Phenom II x4 945 deneb 3.0ghz,6mb etc 700watt cougar psu (originally had 650 watt ocz thought it could be the culprit so i upgraded to higher brand) As you can see this has caused me a lot of frustration and ive almost lost my cool. If you need any more info i'll be glad to give it to you. Also this can be used as a comparison test in performance for other 5870 users just to see if im getting the framerates i should be or not. Thanks for your help

Yeah we fixed that, it was very sloppy. ;)

:rolleyes: @jayeasy Yeah we did a complete overhaul overnight on monday or tuesday. So yeah the site looks much much better and "proffessional" along with the album page. Were also going to improve on that soon with a friend of ours who's gonna teach us new tricks like creating your own albums and more management of photos @Hans Ludwig Taken into account :rolleyes:

Thanks yeah we are constantly working on the album page. Just a little update guys: me and my friend finally finished the new version of the album page. It took longer than anticipated but now it's up and running. You can now delete and just have a better "view" of your photos. Next up is the modify feature. This will take even longer but in the end it should be superb. Where gonna add image resize, basic image editing functions like cropping, effects, text... But this will take some time since this is completely new to us. But that's our next objective for this week and the next. Facebook login is still on hold as there are some problems (privacy related) with the facebook login API when integrated with our database. It leaves it to vulnerable for attacks and for people to access other people's photos. So until we can get around that the facebook API won't be included. Another thing were working on is making the user registration much more simple. Once we get the modify page up and running registration would be, more user friendly. In the mean time those that don't want to register can still not register if they want to. But we will be putting more strict limits on guest users because we don't want them to take advantage of our bandwidth too much. (Spam) :j: And thank you for your continued support everyone, every suggestion you make we take into account.

Whoa guys thanks for the supportive comments :p Well so far nothing. We are applying for google adsense but really our own money has gone into it. We see it as an investment. If picdrop can get big we can have ads on our page but not the annoying kind with popups and those that play videos and stuff. Just like 1-3 ads really. Right now were just trying to get traffic and waiting for people to "switch over" lol Good idea, we had a site in the works called ratethispic.net (as you can see still in the works) we managed to integrate facebook login into the site so people dont have to register. Now that we know how we might just add it to picdrop Taken note. We are working on making it look 'sexy' but so far its been hard. So right now were working first hand to make the site "simpler" as you guys have said. :rolleyes: suggestions on how would be much appreciated Thanks the logo was made by our friend kurt he's the genius behind it. We found it appealing at the moment but if you guys strongly believe it needs improvement will work on it, but for now its gonna be low priority. EDIT: About the 100kb image size, yeah were gonna see if we can get an image resize function available in the "my album" page for those who are logged in. Maybe similar to photobucket where you can decrease the image size via percentage or something. And yes about the delete function, the my album page is still very much in the works so yeah the delete button and option hasnt been added yet. It should be by tomorrow if not in a few days

Hey guys. First off i hope this doesn't sound like spam or ads because my biggest fear is to get banned from the bi forums. So mods, if you think this goes against the off topic rules please just close my thread or something. Okay basically my friend and I created this website called www.picdrop.net its the first ever (that we know of) drag and drop image hosting site The cool part is you don't even need to register to upload. You just come by drag and drop your pictures (addons, mods, idk) into the box and it uploads them. And it basically remembers who you are (via cookies) so next time you come in your images are there. Except your images will get lost (not deleted) if you delete your cookies. But this only applies if your a guest if you register (free) it stores the images in your album. Also it automatically makes the html url and forum codes when you click on the image Were still working on it so there are probably some bugs, no viruses or ads, no captcha because if you can upload an image through drag and drop your probably human lol. So yeah i thought i'd bring it up because a lot of the people in the community (including me) upload images to the internet daily this would just make it a hell of a lot easier on everyone. Basically as long as its not pornographic or obscene or w.e. you can upload it and its easy to remember too: www.picdrop.net http://www.picdrop.net/FAQ/how_to_upload.html there's alot of features that we'll add too so stay tuned. (things like image editing, resizing. more managing of images and albums...) I know resizing is a huge thing for the bi forums cuz of the 100kb limit. So this feature should be appearing soon. And if its not too much it would be great to get your feedback. This is our/my first site btw. oh and one more thing it only works with firefox and chrome at the moment. IE explorer is being stubborn. Oh and you need javascript enabled in your browser :cool:

Yeah i know, but everytime the game would load certain a lods, or textures, my fps would go from 40's all the way down to 8-10 fps and then backup. Without these drops, the avg (mean) fps went up a few in the benchmark. But the most important effect is that the stutters had ceased, no more hiccups or drops whenever a lods or textures were loaded. We all know arma 2 is hard drive hungry, but when the game seems to access the page file the overall performance stutters and then goes back to normal. I'm not suggesting that fps is related at all to the HD i'm saying the hiccups are. When the hiccups occur FPS goes down to 0-10 as it loads w.e. its looking for in the page file. So switching the page file to another hard drive seemed to do the trick ;) for me at least, unless everybody else problem is related to gfx card and cpu rendering low frame rates.... but it doesn't appear to be so from what most of the guys have been describing on this thread.