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Using ArmA II or Operation Arrowhead?

I don't chime in here often but this was $10 well spent. My highlights: 1. Cool Campaign 2. Good voice acting on some key characters 3. New weapons 4. new vehicles to play with in the toy box :D 5. A bunch of new single player missions I've spent $10 on worse stuff for sure. Hell we just ate at Chilis and I spent $16 on their Fiesta Trio but it was very meh. Anyway, to me its well worth it. I voted with my wallet! Also the only bug I came across this time was during the training sequence getting my medic to heal someone he would't do it. I played the entire campaign (twice) and all the single missions and I did not crash to desktop once! Thanks BI this was a blast! I especially liked the opening!

I've also experienced this. When flaying in a straight line, my plane likes to "turn slightly" left and right. I thought maybe turbulence was to blame but when I switch to 3rd person my rudder was flapping away!

Lower view distance (I had mine at max), also helped with framerate tremendously. It also reduced slow texture pop-in.

Alright so I installed and played ArmA 2. I saw some performance issues so I hit the internet and found out about the EVGA SLI thing. Cool. I then found out about the new Patch for Arma. So i snagged that as well. After installing those, when I play now my performace is almost worse. On top of that some of my textures are black or white and stuff doesnt render until I'm on top of it, sometimes not at all, it stays all blocky. Playing was better for me, before the patch. Anyone having these issues and have some fixes to share? Im running Windows vista 64bit 8800 GTX 756MB in SLI EVGA 680i MoBo 8Gbs of RAM Any help is appreciated. EDIT If you read down I found out that the newer Nvidia Driver seemed to be the culprit. I had a similar texture problem with Empire Total War as well. Rolling back to 182.50 fixed most of my problems.

I completely agree. But Im a texture artist and those 8gbs I have get filled up fast with pallettes and paging files. For modern Games, 4gbs are probably more than enough. I'm not sure who that comment was directed at however, Cpt. Goose. regardless, Ive got my gaming working flawlessly now. I've set everyything to Very High except, Textures. I have that set on Medium. That seems to be the culprit of most peoples major framerate issues. I also play with low aa and af. By keeping the Post Effects on high or higher it hides some jaggies. However Post effects are not for everyone. Not everyone likes the way they look. Also the title of this thread is now very misleading. The patch did not make things worse. I patched at the same time I updated to the new Nivida drivers. Once I rolled back to old nvidia drivers, everything got better. I didn't have to limit my memory or use winxp. The coding in the game could use some work, but then again, so does 99% of the programs I see out there!

It appears I can get way better framrates, if I set my textures to normal. They still look good and in a firefight you don't notice a difference. Some people may want to try lower the textures, that helped with stuttering and "texture pop inlag" not sure if I described that right. Think Unreal engine texture problems. :D

Yeah actually I just installed them and it fixed my graphical problems. I m still getting bad performance genrally, but the game looks good and is playable at least.

Thanks I will let you know of my findings! Also I dunno if this helps anyone, but I am having a very similar issue in Empire Total War. I am using the newest NVidia Drivers. Alright! I did two things, I went back to 182.50 drivers. I also limited my memory as per your guys suggestions. The game runs great! I got everything cranked on Very High and I get a very playable 30 FPS (my game was saved in the middle of a large firefight and it runs great) I'd make a video and show it, but FRAPs ruins framerate and ruins the point of my video. Its also worth noting that after doing both of those my Empire total War problem went away as well!

I noticed today that in the options, I cannot set my texture or my video memory any higher than normal. There are no other available options. Just low and Normal. They both used to go to Very High. Private Plowjoy, Thanks I'll give that a try and post results. Starfire, Im using 168.18. ---------- Post added at 06:14 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:52 PM ---------- Alright same problems using that tagline after my shortcut. No noticable changes. ---------- Post added at 06:49 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:14 PM ---------- I also noticed in my CFG file that these two settings are set extremely low for some reason: localVRAM=128024512; nonlocalVRAM=128024512;

I have 8gbs RAM in my system, how do I limit my system RAM to 4gb to fix the problem? Unless you are talking physically taking the RAM out.

Im running the Direct2Drive version of ArmA which downloads at 1.06. I've shoehorned 1.08 unto it (im not supposed it says) and have a good time playing. I have everything maxed out and have no performance issues whatsoever (will post my specs further down). However the one issue I am having is random crashes. I cant pinpoint when or how often as it just seems very random. I think once during an Alt-Tab, but I've Alt-Tabbed plenty of times. It just seems to randomly do it. Once every hour, every 5 minutes, not for a day. Its getting frustrating. I've seen that people have had succes trying the Beta, but that won't work with my version at all, I tried. Does anyone have a work around for this? Any ideas or solutions? Thanks for taking the time to read this. Intel Core 2 Duo 6600 2.40GHz EVGA 780i Motherboard (just did upgrade promotion for it) 2 SLI 8800 GTX 768 4GBs DDR2 Ram (However this drops thanks to my video cards and Vista) Windows Vista Ultimate 32bit 2 500GB Hard Drives in a Raid 0 Array That is what I am runningthat affects performance My system is hooked up to a Mitsubishi 65inch DLP Television, so my max resolution for any PC game is 1920x1080 but I dont see any performance loss from the old Sumsung LCD 22inch I was using the resolution was 1680 by 1050 on that. I also use the Nvidia Control Panel to make it fit the screen. Its the "Resize HDTV desktop" task. I also set it to 1080p using the "change the signal or HD format" task. The only other performance change I could think of is I have my sound card disabled, Creative Soundblaster X-Fi XtremeGamer. The reason for this, unless i get a converter for the wires, there is no way me for to get the sound from the card to my surround sound system (Samsung 5.1 1200W HT-WX70). However my onboard sound rocks a digital audio (firber optic) output and my receiver has a digital audio input. So I lose my EAX function but I gain true Dobly Digital DTS 5.1 surround. Performance wise I don't notice any loss due to the fact that I am using onboard sound. Someone said that onboard can slow your system down, but I've never seen it. This wasnt alwasy the case months ago using almost teh same exact harware configuration I had multiple display issues and crashing with this game, but recent patching and Driver Updates (I am running teh newest Nvidia BETA) have fixed teh performance. So if anyone has any ideas how I can get 1.09 up and running that would be great! The message I get when trying to install 1.09 is this: Gamer version 1.08 required. Your current version is 1.07. I installed 1.08 so Im not sure whats up. Again, Direct2drive version doesnt officially support above 1.06 yet.

Thanks for your thoughts guys. I now know how that works better! Im not sure if 64bit is worth it however. Im sorry, I was very tried last night. To explain it further it just wont install. It claims I have 1.07 installed, which I dont. I have 1.08. It then say I have to have 1.08 to install 1.09. Anyway thanks for your tips and thoughts. Its people like you who fuel communities.

Thanks for the tips Ill check when I get home. And yes I noticed if you add up the video ram of my two video cards and subtract from the 4gbs of ram, I get the same number that windows reports me as having. I read that microsoft paper months ago, but I still dont understand why it doesnt do that in the 64 bit version? EDIT Also when I said it wont work at all I meant that the Beta patch wouldnt work with my direct2drive version. EDIT AGAIN Off topic. But if I physically put in 6GB worth of ram in, will that allow me to have more available ram in windows? VIsta 32 Ultimate only supports up to 4 gbs but after my video cards take their 1.5gb share that puts me close to 4gb. Right now I physically have 4gbs of ram but windows only reports 2.3 due to the 1.5 my video cards eat.

Hello, Im pretty much having every problem in the book. I have lod and texture problems, I have polygon spikes around vehicles at certain distances.I also crash randomly between 2 minutes and 10. I also sometimes crash when loading. I am running the new 1.07b and teh hotfix. My video drivers are 158.43. I hope this helps the team. Im just going to shelf this for a while. I do not have enough time to beta test a game for a developer. I have other things to do and other games to play that play prefectly fine on my system. However I hope my system specs and what not help. Please let me know other info is required (like direct X info). Windows Vista Ultimate Intel Core 2 Duo 6600 2.40 Ghz 4MB L2 Cache 1066 MHz FSB EVGA nForce 680i Motherboard Patriot 4GB DDR2 6400 800Mhz (4x 1GB Modules) EVGA e-GeForce 8800GTX 768MB (SLI) EVGA e-GeForce 8800GTX 768MB (SLI) Maxtor 500GB Serial ATA 7200 16MB Buffer (RAID ARRAY 0) Maxtor 500GB Serial ATA 7200 16MB Buffer (RAID ARRAY 0) Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Thermaltake Armor Cooler Master 850W Real Power Pro 22" Samsung SyncMaster 226BW Creative Inspire T5400 Ideazon MERC Gaming Keyboard Ideazon Reaper Gaming Mouse

This varies from motherboard to motherboard, do you know the brand and model of what you currently have?

Well here is the kick in the balls, if you read the eula and decide to exercise that choice and not accept it, then it doesnt install. Fine. However you are still stuck with a game that you cannot install or play or choose not to install or play, because when you buy it there is not eula and nowhere on the box does it say: "Requires process explorer not to be running" Im not picking on this game, just the general scenario and in response to the guy who says not at accept the EULA.

Where do I get the 1.07 beta patch for this? Also I get texture problems and CTDs at random points. Also my jets from that one mission where you fly are an explosion of polygons with a pilot sitting in the middle. Here is my system: Windows Vista Ultimate Intel Core 2 Duo 6600 2.40 Ghz 4MB L2 Cache 1066 MHz FSB EVGA nForce 680i Motherboard Patriot 4GB DDR2 6400 800Mhz (4x 1GB Modules) EVGA e-GeForce 8800GTX 768MB (SLI) EVGA e-GeForce 8800GTX 768MB (SLI) Maxtor 500GB Serial ATA 7200 16MB Buffer (RAID ARRAY 0) Maxtor 500GB Serial ATA 7200 16MB Buffer (RAID ARRAY 0) Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Thermaltake Armor Cooler Master 850W Real Power Pro 22" Samsung SyncMaster 226BW Creative Inspire T5400 Ideazon MERC Gaming Keyboard Ideazon Reaper Gaming Mouse This is pretty much the only game Ive had major issues with.

Hey I just got this game the other day and I have not been able to play it since. The install went fine, the patch went fine, but playing it hasnt. First of all I can turn almost everything on its highest and play the game smoothly. Thats not an issue. What I do have a problem with is actually playing. I cannot load the first mission in campaign I watch the mission, then the ingame enigine shows a town, with someone walking, then the rock music cues and it says something about a convoy moving troops and thats it, it will sit like that forever, rock music playing and the black screen about a convoy.' Sometimes the textures dont fill in right, like when I walk up to someone, they use a mesh and texture that they might use if they were far away, but when I get close sometimes it stays like that, all blocky. Also, sometimes the screen blinks and flickers. Sometimes it goes all bright and then calms back down to normal brightness, like an explosion went off nearby. Also when doing a mission, the one where you fly that plane in a major offensive, the planes render fine from far away. However when up close the meshes go crazy and the pilot looks like he is sitting in a jumble. With crazy angles, popping out all over the place. It does not resemble a jet at all. There are a few other little things, but those just stop me from playing. I understand there is not much you can do about it right now, but I hope that by voicing my issues that can help with fixing it in future patches. Please if you need any info contact me, also if anyone else has similar problems they should post here. Here are my system specs I am running: Windows Vista Ultimate Intel Core 2 Duo 6600 2.40 Ghz EVGA nForce 680i Motherboard Patriot 4GB DDR2 6400 800Mhz (4 1GB Modules) EVGA e-GeForce 8800GTX 768MB (SLI) EVGA e-GeForce 8800GTX 768MB (SLI) Maxtor 500GB Serial ATA 7200 16MB Buffer (RAID ARRAY 0) Maxtor 500GB Serial ATA 7200 16MB Buffer (RAID ARRAY 0) Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Cooler Master 850W Real Power Pro Thanks for reading my post, please let me know if you have any advice or fixes!

Ill try the new drivers and post my fidnings here. I am running the previous version I guess. where can I find the ones you have? Nvidias site doesnt have them up.

I just tried running the game again. Here is an update of what I got running and what settings I am using: Windows Vista Ultimate Intel Core 2 Duo 6600 2.40 Ghz 4MB L2 Cache 1066 MHz FSB EVGA nForce 680i Motherboard Patriot 4GB DDR2 6400 800Mhz (4x 1GB Modules) EVGA e-GeForce 8800GTX 768MB (SLI) EVGA e-GeForce 8800GTX 768MB (SLI) Maxtor 500GB Serial ATA 7200 16MB Buffer (RAID ARRAY 0) Maxtor 500GB Serial ATA 7200 16MB Buffer (RAID ARRAY 0) Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Thermaltake Armor Cooler Master 850W Real Power Pro 22" Samsung SyncMaster 226BW Creative Inspire T5400 Ideazon MERC Gaming Keyboard Ideazon Reaper Gaming Mouse Now here are my settings in game: Visibility: 7052 Resolution: 1680 x 1050 Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Refresh Rate: 60 Mhz Terrain Detail: High Objects Detail: High Texture Detail: High Shading Detail: High Postprocess Effects: High Anisoptropic Filtering: Low Shadow Detail: High Antialiasing: Low Blood: High The Mission is Devils Cross This attempt I picked resume and the game was loading and it got to the second loading screen, Recieving and it crashed to desktop where windows stated that it had stopped working.

Okay I ll try to disable my SLI and see what happens. As far as game version I believe its 1.06. I will try to find info on the LOD bug. I will also tweak around my system see what pops up. I havent had the framrate issue other people have. Everything is on high or highest except view distance thats at about 8000 and anti aa is on low. I just tried to load the game and started the mission again where you fly that plane and when it started to load cutscene it crashed to desktop with this error: Cannot create system memory surface DXT5,2048x2048 (size 5592416 B) Error code 8007000e Hopefully a Dev can see this and make use of it.