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i think that was a well known issue that has been fixed in later patches/beta... what vers. are you running?

I dont seem to have a lot of sound issues, that said... I would not rate A2 3d sound as that great but then I only use stereo headphones. check this thread for more info re sound issues in A2 http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=85413

@EDcase those fusions @ 80gig retail at about $4000 in AU so I wont be getting one no matter how fast :)

dont know if it can be done but it makes no sense for BI to produce such a comprehensive free demo and then keep patching it... BTW the mouse os very tweakable in the latest versions and feels fine for me.

I have never seen tracks etc but then I dont run max settings so maybe it is optional??? I guess they would hog more resources tho...

Very good work qwertz... keep it up!! sadly those that had to have this explained to them are not very PC smart... and you will always find it difficult to keep your pc running well... It has been posted/explained a number of times how much hard disk activity affects this game and surely we can all see the HD LED on our supreme gaming rigs????

@emjaiz I dont know of another game that does anything like the gameworld calcs that A2 does so to compare to other games is silly. you would need to put a simple flight sim a strategy a fps and a tank battle together to do what this game does...... you also need to have your OS and hardware setup well. The game runs well for me 1680 x 1050 on a mid spec rig (see below)and for many others. I suggest you dump Vista...(who uses that pos?) and do some reading. XP pro 32 Q6600 3Ghz 2 Gig DDR2 9800GT 1Gig 2 x WD 750AAKS raid 0

Just a heads up for those that dont already know about Lucid http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3646 from the article that tested a working setup on Windows 7: Also unlike last year, we actually got real seat time with the Hydra 200 and MSI's Big Bang. Even better: we got to play on a GeForce GTX 260 + ATI Radeon HD 4890 running in multi-GPU mode. The technology sounds flawless. You don't need to worry about game profiles or driver support, you just add more GPUs and they should be perfectly load balanced. Even more impressive is Lucid's claim that you can mix and match GPUs of different performance levels. For example you could put a GeForce GTX 285 and a GeForce 9800 GTX in parallel and the two would be perfectly load balanced by Lucid's hardware; you'd get a real speedup. Eventually, Lucid will also enable multi-GPU configurations from different vendors (e.g. one NVIDIA GPU + one AMD GPU).

one thing peeps should keep in mind when considering various ways to test HD v SSD is that often the files being accessed when loading games/data have to be unpacked or extracted. this then becomes cpu intensive, I am not sure how much this applies to A2 tho... @Grunt... thats seems like a very long time even for the SSD array, I am not at my pc but I dont think it takes that long on my rig I will not be able to test for a week but will have a look when I can. @1longtime... can you test startup on your rig?

as asked already what is your mouse smoothing set to??? less smoothing means less delay/float in the on screen feel of the game. Try it with no smoothing and work your way up....

very true I have been on these forums for a while now and I still see ppl posting their mega rigs without listing their HD configs... I think it is possibly the most important component for A2..and of course we all know it is the slowest component in the PC... my game has constant HD activity... I have a very low spec rig but have two WD750 AAKS in raid 0 with all the swap file tweaks etc and I get a pretty good game... I will up to SSD before I up my 9800GT

As a noob I played on AU public servers regularly and apart from the numerous TK dips and Hax, I found if I asked a few Qs about how to play on the particular server, I was always given lots of help. I learnt about MHQs and stuff by waiting and watching and listening to VON or just following others for a while.

since some of the latest betas my game always gives a 1 - 2 sec greyscreen on exit but does not hang and shuts down normally. nvidia 186.18 XP pro 32 sp3

So MadDog that would make you a female... ?

I am in AU heres a link to complete global distribution. http://arma2.swec.se/server/country

If you are using beta exec then ur are not using 1.4.0.59026 exec... does that not mean ur are still playing beta the file size is 16404K v 10808K are u saying that the 6 megs diff is cd check??? I have installed 1.04 patch and I must now use cd.... PS... BTW dunno why windows reports 1.4 and 1.04 at the same time for the same file????

Yes I feel the pain but I do not condone insults etc ...but I still laugh when I reread that post...:) I would love to see the video;)

man thats a mess as stated elswhere my sound does not have these issues... location/directional/distance delay etc all seem as they should, I do have the heli startup bug I can track unseen vehicles, shooters, MG positions while navigating/changing direction moving through a village or town. I use soundmax driver software with stereo headphones.

Alex I dont know what else to tell you but that does not happen when I play (online only) I only have the heli startup issue I have played an SP mission to test this and if I have an explosion, MG, or rifleman to my front and I turn to the right the sounds stay where they should. I can turn full circle and the sounds moves around relative to my heading. I hear the sonic crack then the shot and there is a reasonable delay to sounds and visuals when distance is greater. I am using soundmax driver software and I have stereo headphones. guess I am saying the issues are there for a lot of players but not all...

no not really but sort of... :) its only new if you have not been paying attention M8...;)

you connect to the internet with a pc running XP sp2?? your pc is very vulnerable update to sp3 then do a windows update then update DX to March 09 then use Nvidia 186.18 drop settings to normal no AA run 1.04 or B.025 I have almost same spec as you and mine works pretty well

ROFL one of the funniest posts I have seen... I do feel your pain tho...

I dont have any issues with explosions or gunfire all work as they should. I do get a 360 degree sound when a heli starts up but that is it. v025 XP

this may be why I have had very few issues

I have never ever had that!!! and I have had helos drop on down and kill me. Very strange what version and what locations?