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Hardrock.. let me know how you get on. My advice to you is dont spend too much time trying to get it sorted, its an exercise in "how to seriously piss yourself off" Oh and basejumper i've not tried out the multiplayer yet... The recommended specs are a joke... they really dont work. Plain and simple. I'll be keeping an eye out for patches and i hope that 1.03 does some serious work on the performance. Good luck.

@basejumper Yes a quad core would improve my performance... unfortunately i'll have to get a new motherboard, new chip etc... i'm not going down that route just to get a little bit more performance in one game. Just not worth it, i'm enjoying my older games at max resolutions and framerates now...crysis is stunning looking, the witcher, Empire total war can all be maxed out at 1900x1080 In my opinion, upgrading my chip isn't the answer, its the poor optomisation that the devs done with the game...very disapointed as i loved the first 3 missions that i played in the game, but as it stands no way i'm going to shell out more money for a small jump in performance.

@Hardrock My rig is was pretty much the same as yours. I had a 8800GT 512 and an Athlon64 X2 6000+ till i upgraded to a HD 4890 GB last week..and from 2-4gb of ram. ArmA2 runs at 14-22 fps on the first mission of the campaign with the 8800GT and at 20-27 with the HD 8490, playable, but once you get to the fourth mission in the game in one of the cities.. the fps drop down to unplayable levels so much that i have to drop the settings down to low/normal. In the editor i get about 40-60fps depending on whats going on, i suspect that the videos on utube showing similar rig specs were actually using the editor not the main campaign. I have tried everything, updated all drivers to the latest versions, tried win xp, vista and windows 7...waste of time. The Athlon64 is the problem, its just too slow...no point over clocking it too as its already near its max. Arma2 as it stands is just very very poorly optomized game, same as ArmA 1 was at the start, how devs get away with this kind of shit is beyond me... dont even waste your time... wait for the patches and hope that it improves performance. You could wait for Operation Flashpoint 2, hopefully that will run better...

rspent E6850 and athlon 64 x2 6000+ are pretty close are they? same for HD 4890 and GTX 260?

I feel the same styxar, nothing i do seems to improve the performance one little bit...its really strange, i can max out most games easily... has to be the my CPU, if someone just told me "Yes its your CPU" i'd be satisfied that i've done everything i can and i'd just put the game away and look forward to Operation Flashpoint...

Hey guys Great game so far, except for the really bad drop in frame rates i'm getting... i have a athlon 64 x2 6000+ with a HD 4890 1GB, Vista 64 and at 1360x768 res.. Is it normal to have a frame rate of around 15-25? I had a 8800GT that i replaced yesterday and still getting the same frame rate. Also, no matter what settings, high, low, normal etc.. i still get the same frame rates! Thats kinda strange! My CPU is the problem isnt it? any suggestions? Any help at all would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!