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how big is the arma2 install? if its under 8 gigs maybe ill try creating a ramdisk and installing it into a ramdisk to remove HD speed from the entire picture LOL

thanks will try that when i get home tonight, might also try the -winxp flag and if all that doesnt help will try a jump back to 182.50

how is this "not a BIS issue" if you add a limit of 4gb of ram on an 8gb ram system it fixes problems, some people get block boxes instead of trees, these are real bugs that arent fixed... some people run a game at 800x600 and get 20fp sthen switch to 1650x1080 and still get 20fps how is that not a bug?

Yep, and considering most users from the tech-beta that i was in for 7 all saw that Win7 shows about the same as XP performance if not slightly higher, and much higher than vista yet we seeing weird low framerates in win7 with arma??? I notice we're all using 64bit, so is it just Windows 7 64 or is it 32 also?

I love how everyone ignored his complaint, he has 4 gigs and 3 gigs virtual and arma when loading the same RAN OUT OF MEMORY, thats 7 gigs of aggregate memory used up, I mean wow what 7 responses and not 1 person actually responded to the issue but got on a tangent about the fact he said he couldnt up his virtual memory over 4gb? he doesnt want to up it he wants the game not to eat 4gigs of dedicated ram and 3 gigs of virtual!

I just got my Core i7 920, 9gb of ram, and BFG GTX275 considering on the tomshardware top charts this card and the 920 are just ranked awesome. Anyway, Yes im running Windows 7, why? Cause its an awesome OS, Vista's face with XP's performance. And no its not that windows 7 cuts framerates by 50%, its that arma on windows 7 has this issue it seems i dont know what it is drivers etc or what as im running latest drivers currently... I'm open to any suggestions (besides downgrading to xp) but the microstuttering is truely annoying even with post processing antialiasing and anitropic all off i still have stuttering when i try to fly around or i look at the blades of the chopper etc. Crysis and other big games run smooth at 1650x1080, i was running with 1gb of ram while i waited for my new ram to get delivered and couldnt even play at 1280x1024, but now that i'm at the full 9gb of ram the stuttering is here again... Is it a nvidia issue? is it a windows 7 compat issue? is it a 64 bit issue? someone give me some help here, or BI give me some tips to fix the stuttering.

im sure i will, i dont know why its just for some reason it bothered me, i think the explosions is more a matter of seeing a single small explosion doesnt really share the impact of being in a big battle and having explosions goingoff around you etc... ill check that out when i get the game... destruction though really makes me bummed... the game just feels so much more polished from videos that dont show buildings or demolition... its like as soon as i see a town in a video they dont look right they dont live up to the same level as the non-building areas... or thats just what it looks like to me, i dont know if its the textures or what, but with that and the poor demo models it just makes the towns feel rushed/incomplete to me :( maybe im just spoiled by bad company and bf1943's demolition :(

i understand that but what i meant was i understand its their first attempt, i was wondering if theirs any word on if they will improve this first attempt in future patches to maybe make it transition better or not look so static. as for the explosions i understand that, but its not just the force etc that i mean... i mean the "thickness" the smoke that i've seen just doesnt look right, it disappates too quickly and doesnt kick up the sand enough from what i've seen... i mean unless i've been watching LQ explosions, maybe someone has a nice demo HQ video of an arma 2 explosion to reverse my views?

I'm seriously considering getting this game, I'm actually just waiting on my new PC parts to arrive (core i7 920, 6gb ddr3, bfg gtx275oc) And i swear some of the videos i've seen are truely astonishing at how awesome it all looks and feels. Especially the night time battles, but i was wondering 2 things... Is their any chance someones going to release a mod, or if BI will patch ... the destruction and the explosion particle systems? I mean some of the youtube videos i've seen even in HD, the explosions lack a powerful feeling, like the particle system just isnt running full out, i know its a horrible thing to compare it against but crysis because really this game is much more than crysis, but is their any chance that they or someone could patch the explosions to more like (and yes i know even that video isnt really crysis but i was just showing it as something possible via mods, so maybe via a Arma2 mod) ?? and the other thing i find really depressing is the destruction now i understand due to scope of the game etc, and the way cover is etc that things have to be a certain way hence the different "states" of destruction... but why is their no transition really between states, i saw several videos of a hanger getting blown up and it was horrible its like it almost flips from one state to the next to the next with no transition and little effects, am i missing something? will this be improved ? As this is my first time arma game, i dont know how far their patching will go to improve the game but being a graphics whore, destruction and explosions really have me with mixed feelings right now on getting the game it just ruins the emotional feeling the game gives me really... is this something that will be improved in patches to come? or is it something i'll just have to deal with forever once i get the game?

+10000000000000 on that game was looking great in so many videos until i saw them open fire and the flash of identical lowres muzzle flashes that look extremely cheap... really feels like it immediately crashes the reaslistic feel of the environmeny

one thing i dislike from the videos, is the particle system, i mean the follage the environment are great the aircraft fly and its just wicked sounds are solid, the gun models are pretty good... but the particle system sooo needs tweaking the smoke just doesn't feel... "thick" and the fire especially leaves a good bit to be desired i mean i don't "feel" the explosions from the look of them the sound is their but it just doesn't look awesome when something blows up ... but thats just my 2 cents <--- has watched the crysis tweaked nuke videos too often ( / ) i know this is Arma and it's about scope and scale and well sim... but still considering arma took such a big step forward in graphics i kinda was expecting more from the particle system

any chance that someone can upload some sniping videos i cant find any on youtube from the release.... im a die hard sniper from just about every game i play so would love to see how insane sniping and if its varied... anyone????