claus.valca

Most of the weapons have two different magazine types. Those loaded with tracer rounds and those without. The magazines with tracers seem to be loaded entirely with tracers. The magazines without tracers have the last 4 rounds as tracers, so you know when you are running out. From what I've seen it appears the tracers burn out after around 300m or so.

Bullshit. Once a female soldier dons a plate carrier, webbing, and head gear there is virtually no difference in appearance to a male soldier. Even without the plate carrier, given the nature of most combat uniforms, there aren't "boobs" sticking out all over the place. I'm all for including female soldiers in ArmA 3. People want to bring up realism, but this is a game after all. If someone wants to play a female character, let them. It takes place over 20 years into the future. Integration of women into combat roles is starting to happen at an increasing pace. Heck, women get into combat situations in the military without being in a combat arms role anyway. I spent 20 years in the US Army in infantry units. The involvement of the female soldier has been increasing for a long time now. TLDR - Arguments against inclusion of female soldiers in this game seem based more on sexism than realism. This is a huge topic in the games industry right now and I would like to see Bohemia take a progressive approach to this matter. I know the game studio I work for is taking this matter seriously now these days too. ArmA doesn't need to remain some kind of boys club. It can be inclusive.

I have found if I delete the Saved folder in the C:\Users\[username]\Documents\Arma 3 Alpha\ folder, that seems to get me back up and running. I've had to do this a few times now.

It runs great for me. I haven't noticed any issues at all related to the operating system and the alpha.

How much RAM do you have? The main problem with any NVIDIA driver later than 182.50 is that, if the computer has 8GB of RAM on Core 2 and maybe AMD Phenom systems, video memory detection is screwed up. I think there are people with 6GB of RAM with Core i7 systems that get this bug too.

I am on Windows 7. I use the 181.71 from NVIDIA's site. They do fix the 8GB bug, just like the 182.50s do for Vista. I just use those instead of limiting my memory.

If you have a digital download version, like the one from Metaboli or petergames.de, you can revoke the activation before you uninstall Arma 2 or before you reformat and reinstall Windows. All you need to do is open a command prompt and go to the Arma 2 installation directory and run "Arma2.exe /revoke". This will revoke the license and put it back into your license pool.

There is no evidence that it is not a BIS problem. When ArmA had problems with 8GB of RAM the symptoms were similar, updating to more recent NVIDIA drivers caused an issue in ArmA, mainly textures not loading in the game with messed up verts and such. People swore up and down that it had to be NVIDIA's fault because previous drivers worked fine, then Suma (I believe) posted that they had found a bug in their code that caused systems with 8GB of RAM to detect no video memory. It was fixed in the next patch (1.14.or 1.15). So, Bohemia may have a bug in their code that is causing this problem. I'm sure it will be resolved though.

Don't switch off UAC. There is no need to do that. I found when I initially had problems saving settings in ArmA under Vista that the best fix was to run it as an administrator. If you aren't sure how, right-click the shortcut or the actual executable for ArmA, then select Run As Administrator from the menu. You will get a consent prompt, click allow, run the game, change your settings, exit the game, then restart it in normal user mode. Your settings should have been saved.

Actually, in real-life as an infantryman in the US Army you are trained in how to engage targets and reload all while keeping expended magazines with you. We have battle drills at the firing range to make sure we don't drop magazines on the ground.