Petko

Im kinda new with the game, but i already have some experience since i bought it the day it was relased. There are some topics in the game, which are really a pain in the ass for me, and they can easly ruin my game statisfaction. I need some advices and tips how can these problems and issues be avoided. First of all let me say that i mostly play the crCTI Warefare mod in multiplayer, because thats the most enjoyable for me. I have a really hard time getting used to the ai control interface. It seems almost impossible for me to get used to it, and use it effectivly. Its so slow for me to use those f1-f12, 1-9, backspace menus. I cant memorise those menu items, and i always need to go through 1-9 to find something. If i want to achive something pretty obvious and easy task for my ais, it can take ages, until the whole command idea is obsolate because the situation already changed. For example i want to make two snipers from my ai squad to take a position on the lamp towers on the two sides of the airfield. I needed to go through all the positions to get them up there, give them the prone, hide, stop command. And after that i had no feedback if they are really watching for enemies, even if they have a good sight on the airfield from up there. I also tried to use the color grouping but it seems it doesnt get anything easier because it seems i need to press even more buttons to get there if i just press some Function keys. I also have problems with vehicles manned by an ai pilot and an ai shooter. If i take the commander position (for example in a tank) i dont feel that i can control the vehicle. If i use the wasd buttons i cant get the pilot aling in the right direction i want him to go. I also have enormous problems targeting things. The right mouse click lock thing works sometimes, but mostly not. The AI shooter seems completly unpredictable for me. I dont know what will he shoot, or where will he turn the gun, or even if he is looking for enemies. If i manage to right click something he immedietly messes up my commander view by turning it away from the target. And i have the most problems with enemy infantry, i just cant find them with the commander view, and i have no feedback when the ais spot something. And we just reached the other topic which is also giving me hell of a hard time: situation awareness. Both in vehicle or on foot, with ai squad or other players i just cant see how to be aware of the close surrounding. I never know where exactly friendlies are around me (in close proximity: radius of 0-50m), which direction are they looking, where should i look where they have spotted something. And the best part is when the ai is reporting that he has seem something at xxxyyy cordinates. By the time i check and find that grid on the map a whole enemy army could have gone over us. And of course the worst thing is that i have almost zero change spotting something, especiall infantry. Its true that i dont have a 5.1 surround system, but i dont think that would help much. I can never "feel" from which direction is some enemy shooting, i never see any gun flashes. If the ai spots something it doesnt give any usable hint where should i look. Maybe is this related to the fact that im playing in 1024x768 res. with low graphic settings? The gps is pretty useless, its too big cant be zoomed or replaced on the screen, and doesnt give enough information about friendlies and spotted enemies. I just dont see how can i be aware of the surrounding without a conventional minimap with firendlies and spotted enemies or spot directions. Also tried to use the big map somethimes, but i cant zoom in enough on it to assess highly dense areas, with mixed friendly and enemy units. I cant identify my squad units on the map, and its also hard as hell to select them or give them orders from the map. What are the sollution for these problems? What type of interface mods are there to fix these issues, or how to avoid these problems? Because i dont see that i can play this game in long term this way. I just cant control it or feel it.

Thats really helpful, i would be eager to look at the manual, but unfortunatly me and a few ten thousand players didnt buy it on steam, but in a retail store. And my boxed copy has a short, crappy, usless mini leaflet which doesnt explain anything behind the default keymapping.

Im not absolutely sure, but i think that those icons only represent if you have a type of building built. For example if you have a vehicle repair station, the wrench will be green. If im saying bullshit, please correct me.

Well, other people are complaining about preformance issues in the campaing, that even a quad core isnt enough to to bear with the phisics and ai calculations. Some say that this game is cpu limited.

Yes, it would be fun to see hundreds of ai-s roaming around, but that wont happen. Its already giving a hard time for servers and player pcs to handle this many ai, it would be a lagfest if there would be 640 ai per side or more. Im much more intrested in new features, like the commander to be able to give orders to players with wayponts etc., also im waiting for the artillery system to be implemented, and able to do indirect firing missions by ai controlled or player controlled batteries.

Well most of the people (my estimation from the reports from this and other forums), about 9 from 10 with this issue did manage to mostly fix it with setting the pre-rendered frames to 1.

Great Job Squ33z3! Im kinda new to ARMA, and tried all the mods which go on the public servers but only CRCTI Warefare seems to be fun and playable for me.

I updated my OS from Win XP 32bit to Win 7 64 bit, and its exactly the same situation. It had the same mouslag until i forced the nvidia driver to use a pre-render frame of 1. So its not OS related for sure. Now i think this problem is just a performance issue for middle end vga cards. (Mine is a 8600GT). The same problem existed for an other friend of mine with a 8600. The strange thing is, that my fps is ok, my card can bear the load. Its just what the NVida control panel states about the pre-rendering option: Next week i will get an ATI 4870, and see if that makes a difference. Im sure it will, but i will still report here if it fixes the problem.

man your awsome. thank you! my hungarian version gives me lot of problems, because there are lots of mistranslations, but now thanks to you i can understand the game better

My hungarian manual is really short and there are not much guides on the game control itself. Its really hard for me to figure out these radio menus, and its hard to get used to it. And the whole ai or player commanding system is also pretty hard to handle with these key combinations. And the chaotic radio messages can also overload me sometimes. For example i havent able to figure out how to do a position report. When someone uses the radio menu to say "Where are you?", how can i give a "Im at grid xxxyyy" answer?

Thank you for your answer. But what if the "Where are you?" comes in a mulitplayer game, with a human squad and the squad leader asks me? I saw other players make the posrep somehow.

The only sollution that worked for me, and everyone else said, is to force the nvidia driver to use a pre render frames setting of 1 instead of the default 3 This has worked for me, its not perfect but the lag is much shorter.

NO, its NOT game feature and NOT an fps drop because of low end pc thats for sure! its a bug that comes out for some people, and it causes a 400-500ms latency ingame for the mouse input and anyone who ever played an fps game will feel it being instantly unplayable (if you dont feel it beeing unplayable, than you dont have this bug, and you dont know what we are talking about, this CANT be a game feature! - its just pure human anatomy and cognitive reflex functions that cause this to feel inconvinent, and if it would happen to everyone im sure only blind or handicapped players would stay with the game) all we know that it may be a win xp only problem i also made some testing with reconfiguring the controls if i change the targeting and view controls to a keyboard button, it seems that i also have some latency... its really hard to determine, but for example if i tap a button as fast as i can and i try to keep it pressed as short as i can, then the view should just barley move a bit, but it feels like its moving for a brief period of time after the key was tapped i also changed the fire control to a mouse movement, and it felt that it instantly fires, so maybe only the targeting and the view control options cause this problem but its really hard to determine whether what i felt was real

You can be absolutly sure that this has nothing to do with the input device. I use by default a microsoft wireless mouse, but i just tested it with a wired one. And whether it has balls (lol) or a normal or laser led is completely irrelevant. I think that this may be a win xp error only. Anyone has this problem on vista?

Thanks i just tried the noblur mod but it does not fix it. I dont use floating zone at all, so its not the problem. I have the exact same shitty mouse lag that someBoy recorded on youtube: My conf in more detail: Asus P5KC mb.; Intel E8200; Asus 8600GT; 2g ram; os: win xp sp3 .. latest nvidia 185.85 driver; latest directx

i have the same problem and im not amused i just bought the game 2 hours ago (hungarian version) and got the same mouse lagging problem, which is just a part of a second, but its just enough to make in completly unplayable, i cant view around or target anything, because it feels that bad i have a 8600gt, but it doesnt seem to be a graphic problem, it can handle it, its no fps problem or anything like that... its also not an input problem, because the cursor on the map or menu is ok i was also thinking about somehow to stop that damn motion blur because that may be causing it, but there is no option for it:( im so mad at this, that i wont buy any game for a period of 20 years again