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  4. Posted

    Why dont you all smoke some hash laugh this off.

    THis isnt the first game with issues and it sure wont be the last.

    I've been gaming since I got my atari 2600 in 1986. I've had 3 explode, 6 games simply stop working, and some gave garbage screens. So shitty games first time out are always plagued with issues, since the dawn of gaming.

    You guys dont need to beat the crap out of yourself over it. The games only been out a month, ease up boys.

    Shhhhh, my secret plan... I'm making me ennemies here, so a lot of people will want to kill me online when I could play so I'll never play alone... :D

    "Where are hte demo realase date ?" muahaha :o :yay:

    I think I hurt myself first :)

  5. Posted · Edited by Blueshift

    It's so funny when people with acceptable problems (and the acceptable barrier is really low for me : no bsod, ctd if I can play 1 hour, the very same barrier as in the 90's) say the other part of the world is whinners.

    You're posting in a special place of the forums where people have technical problems you know. You guessed it's full of "whinners", so smart of you.

    Let's whine then : "please, let me see AI bugs"

  6. Posted · Edited by Blueshift

    Honestly, because every time a PC game comes out, every forum is filled with people complaining about how bugged, how broken or simply what a POS such-and-such a game is. We see this year after year after year.

    The rants might have some validity if the same phenomenon didn't occur in every forum for every new PC game. Because it does, you begin to understand that this is how PC games work and expending energy whining and complaining is a complete waste.

    And I've been a programmer/analyst for 22 years. So I'm sure we've both had some access and insight into the code behind Arma and have seen that it's orders of magnitude more complex than most any software developer will ever see in his/her career. And Arma 1/2 being a sim that tries to include so many aspects of military combat is far more complex than most FPSes.

    Once you accept the fact that this is how PC games work, you can be at peace with it. Ranting accomplishes nothing.

    My special insight concludes that I can't do anything to fix the "thing" :) (and now it threathens me lol)

    I told you "2nd most broken game in my gamer experience" and playing v.games since Mario, it's not a joke just for the purpose of it.

    It's the truth in my experience. It includes your config.sys games (such a big deal by the way).

    In the great years of 2009, now you can't reinstall games all the way you want on top of that. You've got 3 lives. Then game over.

    In 90's, had a problem ? Reinstall ! Time wasted ? Don't care i'm a child !

    I'm not sure I lost days of (insert big quotes heres) "work" in the 90's. Arma2 scores, more or less, 15 hours here. Multiply it by the bunch of crybabies like you told, and you have quite a raisonable amount of free man.hour-1.

    Imo, when games were made by technogeeks they would work. If something was broken you could try. Today games are made by artists and "every single forum is filled with whines" like you said.

    Well...

  8. Posted · Edited by Blueshift

    BIS didn't release this thing one month ago.

    You told too much or not enough.

    Anyway, to me, and i'm very sorry to say that because of all the work involved in it, it's still a thing.

    I will call it a game when I could stop to play it by my own, and more than 12 min 53 sec +/- 12 min 02 sec -edit- and stop reading thread here and on 100% of them say "oh I have this bug too !"

    It's sad (for me).

  9. Posted · Edited by Blueshift

    Not the more complex simulations. People had to do things like edit config.sys and stuff like that in the early 90s. All that under dos, with not much in the way of an internet to find support, yet people manged.

    How all you get is the sound of a bunch of crybabies, upset because they have to wait few weeks for a patch.

    I'm not upset because I bought this game a month ago and can't wait. I will wait, but I'm sure I sadly won't fully come back in this game.

    What is your job ? Do you sell broken things ? This is the new trend in technologics.

    What about a restaurant that would sell rotten things or half finished dishes "yeah, french fries comes after the dessert, but it's before the starters so you can't blame us, you had everything" ? Or a truck driver that would make car accidents just to be faster ?

    Video Games is the only market that permit these things ? I want to work fast me too !

    Personally, I'm a software dev for insurance compagny. I should do the same, testing things is boring after all.

    I know, I know, customers would eventually owns millions of euros to some random insurances compagny, or the opposite, but hey, that's life guys. A lot of them would have no problems so "why do you rant crybabies" ?

    Maybe I come from dark ages or i'm some kind of dumb naïve guy or else but quality > quantity imho. I don't understand why BI released this thing one month ago.

    In my gamer experience (from Supermario in the 80's to now) it's the second most buggy game at release I ever played (1st was Soldner Secret Wars and the release was a shame).

    ---------- Post added at 06:57 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:55 PM ----------

    Out of the sixteen people in my group, only two had any issue.

    1) one is running a sub-spec rig (and knew it wasn't going to run well)

    2) the other ran into problems with a SP3 update that hosed A1 from being able to launch, and A2 suffers the same fate (so he just plays on his laptop)

    *I'm certain that #2 could resolve everything with a fresh install, but he lacks the time to address it

    I wish I could apply in a group, lol.

  11. Posted

    And they have every right to, because the average gaming consumer these days is a PS3/360 owner.

    PC games for PC owners on the other hand operate in very different circles, PC games = greater possibilities, greater complexities, greater modding ability but that all comes at a price, and that price is a lack of simplicity and some basic PC understanding required.

    Not in the 90's. Games worked out of the box in the 90's. And in the early 00's.

  14. Posted · Edited by Blueshift

    Cool study...

    Could you open a ticket in http://dev-heaven.net

    As an i7 user I will test this.

    Arma2 seems to be quite exigeant on permanant settings, like VSync off / Physics off and here, Hyperthreading off. I don't know if BI can fix this :/

    I would be very very interested by your .cfg file, I've got a setup that is close (i7920 / 3Gb DDR-3 PC 12800 / P6T (not deluxe) / GFX260 / WinXP 32). I'm currently annoyed by lots of ctds and bsod that I hadn't at the begining of my install (I think I tweaked too much the game, especially in C:\Documents and Settings\XXXXXX\My documents\ArmA 2 Other Profiles\BlueShift).

  15. Posted

    CA made this thread because a lot of ppl like me whined about no PR.

    I was the whiner who proposed them to look what acheived CCP (Eve Online) with their community.

    CCP made a great job with their fans, +/- 10 devs speaks to the community a few time per week.

    I think BI are better than CA anyway. CA is too much consensual and politically correct with themselves imo.

    They don't speak to us, but in the community tracker here http://dev-heaven.net/home .

  16. Posted · Edited by Blueshift

    Got artifacts ? Mine are almost gone :)

    ==> http://dev-heaven.net/issues/show/2607#note-6

    ---------- Post added at 09:49 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:44 AM ----------

    Hi.

    THe following might help you with the random video driver crash of arma2

    try the following

    "D:\ArmA 2\arma2.exe" -winxp -openal -noCB -nosplash

    You can view my problem here if you are interested.

    http://dev-heaven.net/issues/show/2607

    that's what i said in the above post

    -openal changed my life man :)

    So much thanks :)

  17. Posted · Edited by Blueshift

    My hero... Will try this asap

    Well, putting 182.5 worked just better but, I still can't play the game :(

    ctd, ctd, ctd and gray textures, receiving, ctd, ctd , ctd, and gray textures :(

    I'm sad, I though I could play at least one hour, it's more like 5 minutes and crash. :(

    (If you wondering, i7920, 3Gb DDR3 12k8, mobo is an Asus P6T, WinXP 32 bit on a raptor, Arma2 on another one, gpu is a ENGTX260, the PSU is a Corsair 650W).

  22. Posted · Edited by Blueshift

    It help the plane to fly, seriously :)

    I think it's a mathematical problem. The function BI used to automatize the comeback of the "flaps" is bugged. This function is clearly divergent, they need to re-calculate. There's math on it, BI should put one of their ingeneers on it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_engineering)

    -edit- oh and it's my #1 bug on my "wish it would work" list.

  24. Posted

    I'd guess that's a badly configured system, I play for hours on end under XP and I've never had a single issue. Having said that I've never seen it crash under 7 or Vista either, it's just that XP performs better.

    Eth

    I had got same problems with an i7 920, GTX260, 3Gigs of ram, XP 32, nothing overclocked. I managed to get a little more stability with :

    * .cfg

    language="French";

    adapter=-1;

    3D_Performance=-4194304;

    Resolution_Bpp=32;

    Resolution_W=1280;

    Resolution_H=1024;

    refresh=75;

    Render_W=1280;

    Render_H=1024;

    FSAA=0;

    postFX=2;

    HDRPrecision=32;

    lastDeviceId="";

    localVRAM=918552577;

    nonlocalVRAM=527433727;

    sceneComplexity=160000;

    * "D:\ArmA 2\arma2.exe" -cpuCount=8 -noCB -maxmem=1900 <--- maxmem 1900 helped me a lot.

    * 146 Megas in Paging Memory to store WinXP's usage (100 Meg on my rig), 2 extra Megas for security (146+2+1900 = max XP memory's usage)

    * PhysicsX Off and what is said about NVidia optimisations.

    My game CTD or BSOD really very few times since I did all the above.

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