Skunk Monkey

I'd like to see the old OFP naming convention carried forward to ArmA - it just makes sense, type first, max players second, name third. This is what the admins need, it just makes it easier.

I had a problem when patching, which forced me to reinstall, however towards the end of the install the data on the DVD must have been currupt, it kept erroring out. Now its a long way back to prague to swap the disk, so I borrowed a DVD installed from that, and luckily the copy protection on my original is fine so it plays fine. I also made an image if I need to re-install again.

I've heard about the hardware acceleration letting you hear choppers in the far corner of the map. The sounds are a little buggy generally, especially in multiplayer. I have faith that BIS will sort it

Fraps works fine for me, XP user.

Over at SES we are pretty sure the server crashes have been down to user-made missions. There seems to be some secret we havent yet worked out. The BIS missions are very stable, try running just the original missions and see if you still have a problem. We have purchased a slimline DVD for our rack-mount backbone sever, should be up in a few days.

Over at SES we are pretty sure the server crashes have been down to user-made missions. There seems to be some secret we havent yet worked out. The BIS missions are very stable, try running just the original missions and see if you still have a problem. We have purchased a slimline DVD for our rack-mount backbone sever, should be up in a few days.

Or maybe make the grass shorter so noone can hide in it... If you wanted this for a player Vs player map then there is a "grass cutter" you can place in the editior which does exactly that. Great for around bases you create on grasslands, adds realism, reduces graphics needs and equalizers players.

P4 2.4Ghz 400FSB - ie old 1Gb PC133 SDram - again old X1600 Pro 512Mb - compartivley new Everything on low, bar shadows which are off, and blood which is on high. 1024*768*32 @ 75Mhz runs mainly ~25FPS and looks great, highest 37FPs lowest 15FPS, all on-line coop missions as thats all I play. Tried it on 800*600 but I gianed maybe 2-3FPS and lost a chunk of quality. Very playable

Well, I changed my mind. The 5700 card ran ArmA at 1FPS, so I ordered a X1600 Pro 512Mb. Now the rest of the computer isnt up to much, still on SDram, although I have a Gb of it, old motherboard with a 2.4Ghz P4. Runs sweet, even with all the setting on low its looks superb, lots better than OFP-Resistance. Player/enemy models are superb, everything is good, runs on average at 25FPS, lowest 15, but also need high 30's. MP wise (I dont play SP) there are some bugs, as reported elsewhere, the most annoying are the sounds bugs, not hearing shooting, just dieing or seeing dust shoot up from the ground near you. JIP seems to work well, although connecting times can be long. Nothing that cant be sorted, and no worse than early versions of OFP-CWC. I'm certainly hoping for a patch for Xmas though Have to say I'm impressed, and glad I bought a new card rather than a new PC. Its a good base to build on, one of guns is absolute shite (Aimpoint I think) and generally there arent enough units but it wont be long before the mods start coming out and we have been spoiled in the latter days of resistance with a vast selection of addons. User missions seem a little unstable, some worse than others, not 100% sure why but the mission makers have been making missions for ages that work aqre coming accross bugs which seem to cause cilent side crashes. That said the BIS made missions seem fine. Crashes are happening, but thats to be expected from a effective beta release Ver.1.00, some "Arma has encountered an error" type, which write the casues to a log file, some crash-2-desktop type, and some full-on system restart which invoke the "Windows has recovered from a serious error" start up procedure with disk scans. I'm sure this will all get sorted, and hasnt stopped me playing. The SES dedicated 100Mbit COOP server is due on-line anyday (we had to order a slim-line DVD for our 1AU rack-mounted server) but everything is more or less sorted now. Sickboy deserves a big for the English conversion work, well done Anyone with any coop maps feel free to mail them to maps@skunkmonkey.net and we'll try them on our dedicated server to pass feedback your way. There is a shortage of maps, but its getting better by the day, I've done 3 but non of them are as yet realeasable

Worked well on the server, although respawn is not to my taste.

That's nonsense, 6thSense.eu, Dragon's Den(or sth similair) and now also SES are up, non stop. And that's next to those 5 minutes on/off servers SES dedicated server is NOT up. We are running one from a home connection for now. The problem that we have is our dedicated server can only use a USB-DVD, no good for starforoce. We have a spare copy of ArmA for the server, we have a server sat in a datacenter ready, we just need a suitable release from BIS Would be a shame to have to buy a German version and non-bis realeased no-DVD.exe but this will require some fast action from BIS. PLEASE give us a release date for a dedicated server, or some other solution to no needing the DVD in a dedicated server

I thought you meant the poster you get with ArmA ...

I wont be buying a new GFx card, no point, rest of the PC isnt up to it. I was thinking of a new machine next spring. I wasnt expecting to be able to get ArmA, but then got offered a copy earlier in the week, so just said yes without proper research - if you skim-read the specs (2Mhz processor, 128mb graphics card 512Mb ram then I'm above min spec - would have done for a few months) I've been offered use of a 5700 which has the shader 2.0 but will be next week before its in the post. New system next year. I know it will be slow but it will run it and I'll manage.

Well, my experiance of ArmA is limited, I knew my PC would be slow, but I thought it would run it ....... no pixel shader 2.0 Â

Odered my copy Arrives weekend - thanks for all the help here 3 years since i logged in here