Punisher5555

All the LOD switching//popping/stuttering in the large cities has completely stopped for me now. I can drive real fast through the towns/cities now and not see the LODs/textures pop/switch/stutter. Even when looking around quickly with the trackir. THANK YOU !!!!!!! But I still have one issue: Red/orange trees. These trees are the biggest stutter/FPS problem in the game. I tried this beta standalone, then with the @Proper mod, and then with the Summer vegetation mod. beta/no mod = stutter/low fps beta/Proper mod = way less stutter/low fps beta/summer mod = waaaaaaaaay less stutter/low fps Please BIS let's change the seasons.

I would expect to see an announcement for VBS2 to switch over to 64bit. You know military clients are always hungry for more computing power.

3 and 4 are both redundant. Windows 7 is the last 32bit Microsoft OS. The next OS which hits in early 2012 is 64bit only. You have no choice.

Other than the ramdisk, the biggest thing to help is the Proper vegetation mod. I highly recommend this mod. It kills those damn red/orange trees. Those trees are the #1 killer of FPS.

Ramdisk is the easiest method. Click,click, start playing and there is nothing faster than RAM. No SSD, no USB can ever compare. It takes me literally takes me 2 minutes to get my Ramdisk with the ArmA2 files up and running. If you are not using the new Superspeed ramdisk program ($99) that lets you save/use your ramdisk like a vhd just make yourself a "copy" directory. The copy directory is a copy of the ArmA2 files that you will copy over to the ramdisk. Process: 1. Create ramdisk using your favorite ramdisk program. Takes me 1 minute. 2. Follow the instructions in this thread to copy over as much of the addons directory as you can to the ramdisk. 3. Make a directory on your hard drive to copy back the contents of your ramdisk. Mine is called ArmA2 files for RamDisk. 4. Create a shortcut with the appropriate -mod line. My ramdisk is always R: so I have a -mod of -mod=beta;R:\AddOns 4. Now when you want to play ArmA2 with your ramdisk you just have to copy the contents of that directory and not keep drilling down into the ArmA2 directories. Simple. If you have the RAM don't waste any more of your money on SSD's/USB's. Save it for a better video card!!!

Can you make the window size for mp servers section adjustable?

Minor issue, but I noticed the cows just walk thru each other.

I tried the official mission where Petrya is supposed to come in his car to get you for the finish of the mission this morning with the last beta and he never showed up. Ran around like a chicken waiting. Hope this fixes that.

Nice. Thank you BIS. I am re-energized in playing ArmA2 now that you have implemented the -exthreads and other improvements. World of difference on my system.

Can you clarify Suma? For dual-core/dual-cpu this beta is "default" set for -exthreads=3?

There is still a memory leak somewhere like the last beta. After playing for 20 min I crashed out again. Win7 x64 Pro 8Gb ram 285gtx 1Gb BIS I will say one great thing about the beta's is the -exthreads. This has made the game so much more enjoyable now that the texture popping is exterminated with =3. To me with setup this is the greatest thing yet. The game may stutter here and there as it loads stuff from my HD, but game killing texture popping from standard 1.05 is dead. Thanks.

Sent you a PM Dariusz1989. I can help you.

I am getting Windows memory low errors now. I had no issues with 313. I think there is a memory leak somewhere. Wiin7 x64 Pro 8Gb RAM.

Maverick96. You can see where the nonlocalvram number comes from. You are running Win7 Pro x64 so do a start->run->dxdiag. Click the Display tab. You will see the number under the Approx. Total Memory.

Do we still need to use the -exthreads ?

I am trying that 313 Beta right now so: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\arma 2\beta\arma2.exe" -cpucount=2 -mod=beta;R:\AddOns;@Proper;@Summer -nosplash -exthreads=3 R: is my ramdrive. @Proper is the Proper vegetation mod that loses some of the tree LOD's for faster FPS. @Summer is the summer vegetation mod because it gets rid of the ugly orange/red trees. My rig: HP xw8200 with: 2x 3.4Ghz Xeon 8Gb RAM DDR2 800Mhz ECC 1TB SATA HD with 32meg cache EVGA 285 GTX 1Gb Windows 7 x64 Pro TrackIR 4 ZBoard Merc keyboard Saitek X-52 Joy/Thrott/Pedals 23" Samsung Widescreen 1920x1080

You can load/unload the ramdisk vhd anytime you like. Free up the ram you need load up your Superspeed ramdisk vhd. Double click your Arma2 icon which points to it being installed on the ramdisk and bam! I only have 8Gb ram so I have only a 4Gb ramdisk created with SuperSpeed (x64 version). So I am just restoring my ramdisk vhd that contains as much of the addons folder I could squeeze in there. I want to thank qwertz for showing everyone how to do this. Win7x64 = roughly 1-1.7 GB ram (depends on what you have loaded) ArmA2 play = 2Gb ram (I make sure there is 2.5GB ram free to play game.) ramdrive = as big as you can get it. (20GB you could install the base vanilla) When you start adding mods and such it could get tricky if you have it installed to the ramdrive. ACE takes a bunch more. Now Superspeed is a commercial product. But if you can afford it, it is worth every penny. There are freeware/shareware ramdrive programs, but I don't think they do what Superspeed does with vhd's. I could be wrong. This setup is the ultimate rig for ArmA2 until they switch to 64bit engine and it no longer constantly streams for your hard drives. Win7x64 Gobs and Gobs of RAM ArmA2 installed to ramdrive. kick booty video card. and throw in nice internet connection.

I am running Xeons with Win7 x64. With the 1.05 patch you do not need the -winxp or the -maxmem switches. The -cpucount you do need. With the 24+Gb of RAM you can run the whole game (vanilla/no mods) in a ramdrive. With a ramdisk program like SuperSpeed Ramdisk 11. You can use it to create a ramdrive virtual hard drive. Superspeed lets you save/reload it like a vhd. You install the game into the ramdrive. Set the ramdrive to start whenever you start up your computer or whenever you want to. Fastest ArmA2 on the planet!

And as stated by Microsoft: Windows 7 is the last 32 bit OS. The next OS is scheduled to hit 2012. Microsoft is telling OEMs/vendors to load Win7 x64 as the default OS unless there is a really good reason not to. (I work for a OEM). All the Microsoft server products are now 64bit only. 2008 R2, etc, etc... It is time BIS. Make the move. Reap the benefits!!!

Plain and simple. Come into the 21st Century. 64bit.

The 197.45 drivers give me way better performance KeyCat. I use to have stuttering too, but not with the newest WHQL ones. 191.07 are really old. I can now set the video memory setting to very high too. When I was on those old ones I could not.

Why not just have the next engine be 64bit and use all the RAM you have instead of "do this, do that, copy here, move there, read post from this or that forum, somebody said try this"? I hope BIS will come out after Arma2:OA and tell use they are moving to a 64bit engine and will kick butt with it.

I hope it comes on Steam.

Whatever. 32bit is 32bit. 2GB max. Get a fast SSD or do the ramdrive trick.

You need more RAM. You should never have a ramdrive with just 4GB. Win7x64 takes roughly 1.7GB at idle. Then Arma2 takes 2GB. Which leaves you 0 for a ramdrive. That is why you blue screened. Read the other threads on using a ramdrive with Arma2. You should have 12GB to make it stable. 8GB you can just get away with it. YOU DO NOT NEED A PAGE FILE WITH VISTA/WIN7 X64 WITH 6GB OR MORE RAM. Turn it off. It is useless for 64bit. If you think you are going to use more than the 4GB free (1.7 taken by OS) then buy more RAM. Google search it pagefile = useless for 64bit with ram. Remember that Arma2 is a 32bit program. It will never, never, ever, ever use more than 2GB. It can't. Even with all the mods added in. BIS has done a good job with getting all that data streaming in from the hard drive to constantly fill that 2GB. With the new beta it is getting better. The SSD helps BIS with this as they are one of the fastest ways to contantly fill that 2GB. The ramdrive trick with 12GB+ is another. Until BIS comes with a new 64 engine in which they can fill all that beautiful ram to their hearts content, then the SSD/ramdrive are your two options.