bromine

None its nothing to do with over clocking, you aint going to blow up your pc by changing the aperature size this is a quote from another site: agp aperature is a chunk of system ram allocated to the video card to use to store textures. it is considered slower, due to the fact it has to cross the agp and system bus in order to get to processing in the video card for display. it once was really handy. but now not so much. the setting in the bios is basically a max value. old style recomendations for settings were half of your total sytem ram. now i say more appropriate would be a quarter of your video card ram.

Ok so here is the result. It is definatly better now I'm pleased to say! Here is what I did, 1:Made sure all drivers were of course upto date 2:I changed the virtual memory settings and agp aperature size as Heatseeker suggested. 3:I defragged my disk and did a fresh install of game and patch. 4:I got System booster and keep it running on the ArmA folder only. 5:I turned off Vsync (forced off) in gfx settings. Now I can run the game in the same settings as before. High settings at 1280 res with post processing off. I still get lag when there is alot of loading going on for example in the beggining of the 'commander' sp mission but that is to be expected. In large town areas too it isnt so great but that is more to do with my rig rather than game code. The textures dont seem to get bogged down and I played for 1 hour solidly with my regular 1.4 settings. It isnt super smooth but again that is due to my rig but the main point is 1.5 runs like 1.4 after those changes. I do however seem to be getting the shadow glitch with trees going a bit triangle near grass line but its no big deal. I ran ArmA mark too and got the same score on normal settings 1357 and 900 in high. Nothing on my rig is overclocked by the way and Im on XP sp1 in case anyone wants to know. I recommend trying this out to everyone having trouble, its worth a shot. A big thanks to Heatseeker too for the tips! Best of luck guys.

Hi all. Well its the same here. 1.4 ran nicely on my pc which isnt a high end rig. I have; 1gb RAM Athlon XP 3000+ Asus Nforce 2 mobo Gainward Geforce 7800gs. I used to play ofp alot so I'm aware of lag and the game running slow especially when lots of units etc to load. On average I would get around 15 / 20 fps with gfx settings all on normal in 1280 res but post processing off and shading detail high. I was quite surprised actually at how well it run. After 1.5 it went a bit pear shaped though. After a while the game would just degrade badly at around 10 to 20 minutes of play in single player. The texture went all weird and blocky and the lag was very bad. I'm going to test out now what Heatseeker posted on my rig and I'm also running system booster which was mentioned on another thread. I will try to turn down view distance and see what kind of score I get on ArmA mark. My previous score was 1300 something on normal so I will keep you informed and see if any of these tips helped me out. P.S for those angry with BIS try to calm down. I know its annoying but they only just released the 1.5 patch I'm sure they will work on fixing the issue. You know its a great game juist give it time to iron out the problems it wil be worth it. All the best!

tried it but unfortunatly didnt seem to work for me. wish it did looks great

which mod did you try?Lockes or lupus's one?Remember the highlighting isnt madly in your face, as I pointed out in a previous post.Try loading mission editor and just put a helicopter in and a bike or somthing, then shine light onto the heli.You will see like a sheen over the raised areas and when close a change in colour giving a more realistic look happens with lupus's version.Lockes has more of the vibrant yellow colour when firing a gun from the heli which will light up the door panels and inside like in the screenies he posted.First though I would look at how the light works without the addon then load the same test mission again with the light mod on to notice those subtle but effective changes!I hope this can help you in some way.Any other ideas guys?

lol in a nutshell that is better put than me

no You still get the muzzle flash but it also lights up more inside, it does this moreso with locke's addon.I think your overlooking what the mod does, it works as a highlighter and that is where the quality of the mod can be seen.The way light hits vehicles etc.:)

Did you try alt+tab? I found this problem on both of the addons.To check if its working what I did was go into mission editor loaded up a helicopter and a motorbike and just shined the lights on the bike towards the helicopter nose you can see a difference at the way the light hits the nose.Hope this helps.

Guys if you liked that mod, don't forget to check out the version Lupus made too.His is also excellent and I believe covers a wider range of things.(I could be wrong)Get it off his site, link at bottom, and click on the custom material bit at bottom also alot of screenies to show u.One question to you though Lupus, any plans on updating the ALT+TAB bug as that would be excellent!Hmm it seems the only problem now is which light one to use! Link for Lupus light addon.

Well this is simply wonderful.It is subtle but not so much you cant see what your missing without it!It has made the game have a lot more depth in my eyes.Because the changes are not smack bang in your face at first like water reflections, I feel this has been sadly overlooked, I hope more people will get this great mod.I cant wait to see what any updates will bring!Great job.

Hi guys.I managed to fix my problem of the reflections not working in a mulitplayer game.I had exact same problem as [APS]Gnat posted on page 18.Just ALT TAB then it worked.Thought might be worth mentioning as my gfx card is a GeforceFX 5900 and not an ATI like Gnat so it happens to us Geforce guys too.It also worked for my friend who had same problem on GeforceFX 5700.Thanks Gnat

Finally... lol, after lots of tinkering and frustration, I figured out how to get object reflections working in multiplayer.Its a bit long but it works... go into graphic options and select mulitexturing to turn it off then select it again to turn it on.Go into game and into a mission, then quit the game until your back to title screen and do the same again.When you go back in it should work!Its a weird little bug and I hope this will help someone out there.I havent tried re-installing ofp because it is already a fresh install but it could be that and this might just be happening to me, you never know though :P All the best, bromine

Sort of fixed the problem, hope this will help others. I installed the latest VIA chipset drivers, then went into game and it worked in multiplayer.I then checked my prefrences for textures and noticed they were all set high.I changed them back to normal all at 512x512 then went back into mulitplayer...Disaster as the dll didnt work properly again.I auto detected changed res to 1280 and set everything to 512 apart from effects which I left default at 64.It then worked again in mp game.Strange huh!My conclusion is if your getting this problem. Get latest drivers for everything as mentioned alot elsewhere including your mobo drivers.Check mp game make sure it works, set prefrences then check again.I find that if I change prefrences it seems to mess it up so Iam not going to touch again lol and leave it as it is working for the time being.Another note is I use kegety's launcher too for game just if that helps anything.Good luck and I hope this might help someone.

weird problem...I got the excellent dll and it works a real treat in single player and in mission editor, no problems at all.However, when I go into a mulitplayer game it gets weird, it doesnt reflect things properly.For example the island will be reflecting but objects wont ie a bridge.I have to be at a weird angle to see the water reflecting the island too if Iam close to it it kinda reflects underneath if you get what I mean Its so strange because it works fine elsewhere.I have all the latest drivers for my gfx card and direct 9c I put on too to test if that might be the problem but alas to no avail. Any help of this very odd matter would be much appreciated! PC SPEC: AMD Athlon xp 2000 512 pc133 geforce fx 5900