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Well its not really a campaign more of an extended mission, it worked for me, completed in about an hour all the way to the end.

Don't try and run it with the mods ?

Maybe benchmark was the wrong thing to call them but maybe stress test ? People looking at these shockingly low figures on moderately high end systems are going to be so put off. Not sure why the 2nd bend was that much worse in performance for all, should I be getting 15fps on my low end system ? What did BIS get when they ran it and what settings as a 'goal' ?

All very well eveyone getting updated...would be better to wait for the server to be updated as we will have nowhere to play lol.

Not really played Warfare, not sure this is a major bonus for those who do not. The new Heli is a nice addition.

Turn your AF to max in game see if it changes then. I only get that effect if there is smoke behind the trees. BTW this is ArmA2 and its a feature not bug ;@)

BIS boys are getting inspiration from a pr0n hub and the terrabytes of d/l's are hampering progress. Latest beta installed.

899 on there now, comical patch releases, thank god its only beta stuff.

No mention of the stuffing performance in patches but at least you get your AI thing sorted whatever that was. I just hope they don't release an official patch dropping performance just for some minor AI tweaks that please a few folk.

We shall see if this new one still suffers the same problem. Issue is if they accept these performance drops then add it to the official patch then we will be stuffed. Some textures in cities have a lod issue with the last 2/3 beta's. Will check later on this one.

Works fine on my XP Pro system. 5.1 surround, all positions work. Also works fine in Windows 7.

Tried to arma.cfg with GPU_ bits to 1 or 0 and makes no difference - the last patches have made the game perform poorly on my dated system. Will wait for next beta, rolling back.

Maybe, as I am not changing anything this is what my config looks like, If its randomly changing items that will be fun: language="English"; adapter=-1; 3D_Performance=93750; Resolution_Bpp=32; Resolution_W=1680; Resolution_H=1050; refresh=60; Render_W=1680; Render_H=1050; FSAA=2; postFX=2; GPU_MaxFramesAhead=1000; GPU_DetectedFramesAhead=3; HDRPrecision=8; lastDeviceId=""; localVRAM=1065852928; nonlocalVRAM=1475604480; Windowed=0; winX=16; winY=32; winW=1680; winH=1050; winDefW=1680; winDefH=1050;

Weird isnt it, if they fix the issue in this beta then it may be better for me and work worse for you... this is the world of ArmA.

Performance well down again, laggy mess for me now.

W7 works better than XP on my rig for some reason. No major issues since having both OS installed. On ArmA Mark II I always get a 10-12 score, if that somehow got 'fixed' the game would run perfectly.

If the problem has happened then there is a very high possibility it will come again. Memory allocation will only delay the effect.

Performance is better than the dip in the last beta.

588 is up, testing now.

Last beta effected performance for me in a poor way.

Which game would you compare it to so we can do some direct comparisons, which other game has a single island with AI spread all over it, real-time night/day cycles, pp effects etc. I agree the game is erratic in nature. My rig it is playable, I would say that if I had the cash then the 5970 or 5870 would have sorted it I think but alas just the 5850...

I bought the German downloaded version and the UK retail - If you install the German, uninstall then install the UK retail it keeps hold of the starforce or whatever it uses and as such you have the UK version installed and the German (no dvd) copy protection. Works a treat, also as mentioned, the beta's do not have the disk check copy protection in the .exe.

4890's are going cheap now due to the 5xxx series that are now out, 5850 works nicely here, maybe thats the issue ?

Try my settings above. Some of the options in very high screw the game up completely so my settings I think I have a good compromise. You may need to disable AA but see how it goes. Other than that then hope for a magical fps fix from BI although each patch appears to help...saying that, have you tried the latest beta patch ?

View Distance: 3500 Interface and 3D: 1650x1080 Texture Detail: Normal Video Memory: Normal AF: Very High AA: High Terrain Detail: Normal Objects Detail: High Shadow Detail: High Postprocess Effects: High FPS: 30 - 60 mainly in between in most situations. Tried last night with VD at 10k which was ok but noticed a little stuttering so left it at 3500 which works best for my rig.