Arma 2 Multiplayer performance, need your input :(

[Arma 2 Multiplayer performance, need your input :(]

I found that coop multiplayer strikes fps hard if there are many AI groups existing.. I wish to know whats YOUR fps when playing some kind of.. typical domination map in situation like this : 15 human players cleaning some kind of big town full of AI.

Since as i see my video card totaly have no effect on this, and cpu keeps fps 20-25 (my spec e6600@2.7ghz , 4 gigs ram and 8800 gts 320 meg).

Does having quad core would solve stuff like this? Oh common post your point of view if you own one

Thanks

[i juts bought a new computer and ARMA2 ive downloaded the new patch but still am havi]

Its very mission depending , Arma 2 will be CPU or GPU bottlenecked. You can have 2x5870 , but 200 AI soldiers just make your fps like 20-30 if you got average cpu. Few soldier groups will make your fps over 100 , and no mater in what place of island they are

[Immersion Mod (Sound)]

Damn Arma 2 game is getting better and better.. So many cool mods made and upcoming

[“liberation 1941-1945�]

Very nice , waiting for this. Gonna thinking how tank battles would look like, since as I know T-34 cant do anything to Tiger's front armor

[The need for Afghan mountains]

I'm sick of those boring orange bushes and easter europe autumn landscape , give us desert and mountains !!

[Bad things about Arma2]

This guy got right point.. Most maps people play in Arma 2 on is arcadish gayness with teleports and respawns. But its community choice, you can't blame mirror for ugly face

[ArmA 2 I/O analysis results]

Cool find. Now it explains why some people playing with 8800 cards owns ones with 4870's in arma mark

[Thanks to BIS]

My suggestion would be one.. damn do something to remove that jerkiness of units in multiplayer, because I am start to think about OFP 2

[XM8 automatic rifle]

damn nobody would like ak's and m4's then :/

[ArmA 2 worth buying?]

CPU speed (doesn't matter if dual or quad core), GPU performance and Graphic Memory are important (ArmA 2 is very intensive here).

Cpu is important in big battles, just make few hundred of units in editor fighting each other, and try change details and screen resulution from 640x480 to 1900 or whatever, fps will be same 20-30 , this means cpu bottleneck

[bad graphics performance - BiS confirm?]

wtf.. i have e6600 , and 8800 gts (320 mb version) , and i can play it well (even multiplayer in city battles gives 25-30 fps which is good enough)

just tune down your insane settings filrate and other crap to reasonable level and enjoy the damn game ffs

[Attack Helicopter Question]

Hey yo , thats funny discussion, but i have a question related to this stuff

I am new player of Arma, but locking target from long distance (like 1.5 km) with helicopter is hard for me , target is such little point, and this means I have to aim at it directly? (Making tank for example directly in middle of my view screen while keep pressing "lock target") ?

I think i seen youtube videos where pilots lock targets flying in high speeds , dont aiming em with noses directly.. Or i miss some kind of key bind?

[What ever happened to simple missions?]

Same to me, I expected some nice ofp-style missions where you wander around with team doing objectives , and without respawn, to make your "life" even more valuable. And what I get? 98% servers filled with those stupid cti evo domination maps , with teleports included, mass respawns and some kind of buildings and buyable vehicles

[Pasty Ground and low FPS]

go to nvidia controll panel, force AA off, max prerendered frames 1-3.. About grass..probably there is no setting and not gonna be , to render grass 500 meters around you, that would make to kneel even most powerfull pc's i guess

[ArmAII-Mark]

I think problem with this test, is that ir flyby very long distances, causing hdd drop your frames (i think arma2 cashes objects and stuff from hard disk on fly).. its better would be make many static objects around some kind of town and make camera look around them, without changing much of the distance

[ArmAII-Mark]

e6600 @ 3200 Mhz

4 GB ram DDR2

8800 GTS 320 MB

postprocess = low , resolution 1280x1024

score is like ~3200

[Will my PC Run this? What CPU/GPU to get? What settings? System Specifications.]

Im guessing my bottlenecks are the CPU and the cheap Hdd.

No, your bottleneck is exactly crappy GPU

[Performance woes - 1920x1200 with 9600GT]

I had same problem as topic author, (had limit of 30 fps , with a drops to 20 between more objects), i solved that by changing nvidia driver settings , like canceling overriding AA or something like that.. I hope that will give you clue..I own 8800 gts, and fps improved abit , also removing that stupid fps cap

[Will my PC Run this? What CPU/GPU to get? What settings? System Specifications.]

can you guys please answer my question ^ :)

No , I think more FPS actualy increase CPU usage.. Because GPU and CPU do calculations paralely (CPU usualy works with shitload of loops, checks, physics and other stuff)

so if you have more FPS, CPU has to do those tasks more frequent too , and at some kind of point it start to bottleneck.. Still I have no idea how much CPU requiring ARMA 2 is , i guess alot :)

[Will my PC Run this? What CPU/GPU to get? What settings? System Specifications.]

Heya,

I currently have this setup , e6600 oc'ed @3000mhz , 4GB DDR2 ram and 8800 GTS 320 MB..

what kind of best hardware improve i could do for ARMA 2? Maybe exchange video card with Radeon 4890 , would CPU bottleneck too much then?

Thanks