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They are identical, just download it once.

Okay, opted for Sprocket Idea instead - Actually downloading at almost 2mb/s, sweet.

Dwarden, you may want to free up some bandwidth - So far it has taken me like 20 minutes to access the site, create my account and go through checkout, still haven't reached the stage where I put in my payment details :p

People and developers need to embrace steam, no matter how much they hate it - It's becoming or rather, has become a centric mantel piece through the PC-scene and is slowly bring the PC back up to snuff as a viable platform, instead of getting brushed aside constantly in such a console favoured generation. Hate it, love it, it's here to stay.

So annoying, the biggest Danish online store for games is claiming July 2nd is the official date etc etc. I pressured him a bit and told him about 29th being global release, he said he'd look into it =/ Hope I don't have to wait.

Have you considered the speeds are due to the massive sales currently on Steam and the thousands and thousands of people buying cheap games and hogging up so much bandwidth, not a general degradation of Steam's servers?

Yeah, pre-1.07 you had to turn off Hyper-threading with i7s usually but 1.07 seems to have fixed that :)

Like with every other game ever released.

Is the international release date 29th or just the US? Because a few local shops in Denmark are reporting 2nd of July, is that right?

So I did a lot of testing, trying out various graphical options and changing the launch parameters of Arma II, to see whether the issue was purely driver related or could be traced to a specific graphical option or setting. I tried to play some DIRT 2 which was also suffering from low performance, then I knew the drivers were just botched, especially for my card. So I rolled back to 10.5 started up Dirt, ran perfectly. Started up ArmA II and it was smooth as ever with no problems. So bottom line, there's something wrong with the 10.6 drivers, hopefully they'll have it sorted by 10.7

Hey there, I recently re-installed Windows 7, just to get a clean slate going and that was right after the Catalyst 10.6 drivers were released. I had some initial problems with these drivers, like they crashed and recovered during Flash playback ( These drivers added GPU-accelerated flash support ) and a few people on various forums reported similar problems. Luckily it only happened once and I had no issues with these drivers elsewhere. Now, yesterday I installed and updated ArmA II in time for Operation Arrowhead and to be frank, never had this many problems getting the game going. It feels completely unstable, I can barely start the game at this point as it will remain sort of 'frozen' in the taskbar, in some minimized state. If I do happen to get past that point, the game might freeze or minimize yet again when browsing the menus, the in-game framerate has dipped below the unbearable and my game has always been running smooth ( especially after turning of HT ). Now, I was unsure whether the drivers were the issue until Windows 7 threw up a BSOD, yes, a BSOD in Windows 7 - That's like the second time in my entire Windows 7 usage period its done that and the error was part of the ATI(kmag or something ).sys ... So it's definitely a driver issue. So anyone else experiencing these issues with the 10.6s, especially 4xxxx users, myself I'm on a 4870X2. I could downgrade but I'd rather troubleshoot and pinpoint the issue because it may be a bug in the drivers, may also be a permanent issue tied to the recent development of the drivers, so would be nice to pinpoint the issue. Thanks

What a complete farce :/

They should have a "Men of War" type of penetration system.

1 fps :p

Who's Dwarden :P ? A guy named Dwarden always made ArmA II related threads, posted tons of information on the games as well on another forum I visit(ed) - I just never knew what his position was.

Any word on increased audio channels? It's starting to annoy me that audio gets cut out in heavy firefights, because it uses too many channels.

No, you suck :)

Yup, there's a lot of artifact issues - I believe there's a problem with the video itself, not our browsers :)

JHfzsOADlfM @ 3:12 - So it's in the engine, just a matter of BIS opening up for it in OA.

It's possible under the VBS2 engine, seen it in one of their videos - Whether they will be including it in OA or not, is still uncertain.

There's two major factors I'd like to see get a complete overhaul; Physics & Animations. Physics are all about objects in the world, the physics of ground and air vehicles, when you hit someone and some ragdoll systems. It's not fun to drive in this game because it's such a static and boring feeling, there are no bumps, no feel to the vehicle. Crashes are just weird collisions etc. So on the whole; redo the system. Animations shouldn't need much explaining, we all know how extremely static animations are - I just want to see proper animations for entering / exiting vehicles, using mounted weapons, reloading and all that.

Any resemblance to; 3-VJMpIcIRc :P ?

I'm also using Half-size but at 45FPS, really helps in slow-motion scenes I feel. As for compression, I just load up raw FRAPS footage in Sony Vegas 9 and when rendering, I use some custom settings under the Sony AVC codec - Gives an awesome Size / Quality ratio.

I'd really like to use the 360 controller and I even made a thread back in the days concerning inversion, yet nothing's happened so far.

Hey Funkman, Thank you :) I was using a basic warm vignette filter, I gave it a red tint although I was using NIM's weather addon, a sandstorm ( To get some background 'noise' ) and that caused a blend which made everything orange. Could probably just change it to a orange tint. Look forward to seeing what you come up with!