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Seems youre doing something quite wrong anyway, based on your system specs. In addition, if you expected a FPS boost from this, you had your hopes in the wrong place. Its about reducing stuttering and texture/LOD popping.

Dunno :) However I just tested ingame, when i set mouse smoothing to "0", i still have pretty fluid motion on the x axis, however it gets a bit jerky on the y axis. Go figure. Or go test and see if it works.

I dont experience anything like this. Try a little mouse smoothing.

I'd say the opposite. Flying with stick/throttle is a million times more natural and precise for me. But then i've spent a lot of time in flight sim style games so....

Wrong thread.

I only experience noticeably lower FPS when water is around (compared to non-beta). All other times it feels smoother. Been playing all evening with some buddies. Three thumbs up. The analogue throttle on helicopters feels a lot better now, to me at least, it feels like i have a LOT more control. However, as said already by someone else, the 0-50% section of the throttle is useless, giving us the full range of the throttle - 0-100% - to actually use for throttle control would allow for even more precision, and be more towards how it should be according to RL.

I definatley notice an improvement with both flyby and actually walking around, with and without combat in cherno. Core i5, Radeon 4850 512mb, 4gb DDR3, Win7

so.. anyone got any figures on how the latest beta patch has affected HDD IO? :D

Wow. arma2 is being sorted during the development of OA. Hence patches are still coming out..... Wow...

its due to the fact that all the hardware is cutdown and castrated and made to run at lower power requirements and in a smaller form than standard desktop hardware

You realise that OFP DR and ArmA2 were both supposed to be released around may/june this year right? the difference is ArmA2 got released, OFPDR didnt (and apparently at this stage it was very very broken) so they had 6 months extra to work on it. And its still a piece of shit. A polished piece of shit, admittedly.

You should do what makes you happy ;) Personally, I wouldnt buy the C2Q system, its previous generation now. Additionally the graphics cards are almost 18 months old too (and while theyre fairly decent for performance, in both the C2Q and Core i5 system they will be your bottleneck - i have one too), if youre going to keep the system for 3 years and just buy a whole new one when its upgrade time, you probably would want something new and upto date now.... If you dare to try, you can save a heap by building yourself. Edit: Just an example of how much itd cost to get something quite "future proof" for a decent price if you build yourself... No need to spend £1k, i just added a core i7 860, radeon 5850, asus motherboard, 4gb DDR3 ram, 750gb WD caviar black HDD, corsair PSU, coolermaster case into an ebuyer shopping cart, comes to £800. I dont think i missed anything "neccesary" for a system. Maybe you want more ram, or a SSD.. or something.

The fact its DDR2 on the Thor isnt a big deal. What i WOULD say is a big deal is that you would be buying "last generation" tech, and a motherboard with a CPU socket that will only support future "budget" processors, so if you plan to upgrade in the next few years then youd be severely limited.

you COULD get a i5 750 system, 4gb ram, WITH a new radeon 5850 for under £550. assuming you recycle case, harddisk and psu. But eh... i wouldnt advice buying a premade system from the pcworld chain at least.. If you know someone capable, you might be best asking them to build it for you.

ah, right. its a new socket for the cpu, so youll need to swap out your motherboard. DDR3 == a type of memory, i cant say (of course) what type you have now, you might already have DDR3 but if your system is quite old then chances are its only DDR2 so you might need to get new memory too. Also you probably have a Socket 775 CPU now - core2duo/quad? that socket is only going to be for the "budget" line of upcoming intel processors, i5 uses socket 1156 and this will be the "mainstream" line, probably more 'future safe' than buying something for socket 775 now. In summary http://www.ebuyer.com/product/174674 Motherboard £100 http://www.ebuyer.com/product/158711 Memory £77 http://www.ebuyer.com/product/172755 CPU £150 Hope it helps.

£150 for the cpu from ebuyer.com Its a new socket though, so youll also need to get that (new motherboard) and ddr3... but the performance of it beats (i believe) even the most expensive c2quad... Edit: http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3634 article to read if youre interested and maybe want to be convinced :P

looks pretty good... what happened with the screenshot quality though? :O

why not grab one of the new core i5 750s?

Very nice. and its my brothers birthday this weekend. Convenient. :D

I'm not sure how i can "benchmark" the performance with regards to stuttering though. I tried making a video, but eh, fraps basically takes a crap on performance anyway.

I only have 4gb of RAM so I cant really afford to have so much in a RAM drive, with too large a RAM Drive i get huge performance slowdown ofcourse, however, I tried two tihngs... putting almost all the game pbo's on a 8gb USB flash drive - this actually reduced game load time quite a lot, and went a long way to reduce stuttering, a lot smoother than just using a HDD and then using 1.5gb RAMDisk for structures, plants2_tree and buildings2 pbo's, and the rest of the pbos on the USB flash drive. Very very smooth gameplay...

ntfs file system?

hey, windows 7 is just a continuation of windows 95. and so on. But yes, they do actually fix things with patches. The difference in performance alone between 1.04 and 1.01 is quite markable, not to mention the amount of bugfixes. You should try http://dev-heaven.net/wiki/proper-projects/Vegetation_Tweak_Visuals this, specifically this addon: http://proper.arma-creations.com/download/Vegetation_Low_Visuals_R_PROPER.7z should give you a reasonable FPS boost by tweaking the vegetation somewhat, with minimum loss of quality. I personally find the "terrain detail" slider to be the one that kills fps most, outside of antialiasing. I keep it at normal. Generally what we want to do is not just increase our top fps, but make the lowest fps as high as possible, to give a smooth experience, for me theres problems when theres lots of IO on the HDD. if you do encounter "stuttering", is that what you mean by "straining all the time" i.e. spikes of low, really low fps.. consider that the game has a HELL of a lot of HDD read activity a lot of the time.. what do you have for a HDD in your system?

System specs? and what is your FPS that you are unhappy with? Are you experiencing "stuttering" in game, texture poppinig, LOD model popping, etc? r.e. AI, maybe try one of the various AI adjusting addons, SLX for instance, the AI does behave distinctly different in my experience with this addon. Patches and fixes to ArmA2 are still going on and are unaffected by the development of OA. Engine fixes done for OA are to be patched into ArmA2 as and when theyre ready. Oh, and there are certain divisions in a game studio, i.e. the graphics department, who have very little role in bugfixing an engine, are free to work on other projects, expansions etc..... Your post is very demeaning and downright rude in parts, not very appropriate if you really do want to get help... If this thread gets closed, then its probably because of the way you expressed yourself. As to why I bought the game, it works fine for me and my group of friends who play regularily together, and we enjoy it. And plan to for several years to come. I'd happily pay quadruple the price.

Well... unfortunately I get the impression that its more about survival for small studios the likes of BIS, than pure profit.... But what do i know...