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It's not just MP... I just thought I'd do a bit of testing and jumped into the editor and set all my video options to MAX (including 10000 view distance) and I've gotta say the draw distance is crap... grass completely dissapears at less than 100m. As we all know this make sniping a little more challenging. Is this a game engine limitation? :confused:

I too have been having crashes to desktop (since I've installed 1.03) every 30min or so... however I just restart the game and persevere because what choice do we have... it will be weeks/months before a fix comes out - assuming 1.04 fixes the CTD problem at all. :mad: Talk about a buggy piece of shit, I can't believe BIS release a game that is sooo untested... I have nearly uninstalled this game numerous times... the only reason I don't is because there isn't a better Military Sim game out there... YET!

I currently have vista (32) installed but previously tried Windows 7 (64) and found absolutely no difference in performance... :confused:

Thanks for the tip - what i did to fix this problem was, restart my PC and delete everything in the following (Vista32) folders: C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\ArmA2\MPMissionsCache C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\ArmA2\players C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\ArmA2\squads A simple restart might fix the problem without deleting files - but I thought I'd clean up some crap as well... So i'm working again... but I'm still not impressed with all the 'maintenance' this game requires to keep it stable. BIS have a lot to deliver in the next patch. :mad:

I have just had this problem start happenig as well - I have had enough of all the fixes and tweaks we have to go through to get this game to work... I brought the game from a retail store here is AUS only a week and a half ago. I think I'll be putting the game up for sale on eBay in the next few days. :mad:

Happy to say I got mine from EB today! Now i've just gotta optimise my system so it plays OK :)

The leaked cat 9.7 driver has made absolutely no difference to my game performance - I still cannot get crossfire to work. I have tried Windows7 64bit and have now re-installed Vista 32bit... no improvement, both still give identical FPS, regardless of whether I have crossfire turned on or not. I guess I will try WinXP next. :rolleyes:

The leaked cat 9.7 driver has made absolutely no difference to my game performance - I still cannot get crossfire to work. I have tried Windows7 64bit and have now re-installed Vista 32bit... no improvement, both still give identical FPS, regardless of whether I have crossfire turned on or not. I guess I will try WinXP next. :rolleyes: How many months do we have to wait before we can fully utilise our graphics cards? This is now beginning to piss me off! :mad:

Thanks for the tip - but I have tried this along with renaming the exe, and i get no performance difference at all (still ~27FPS). I also get this same FPS if I have only one card in the system. Guess i'll just have to wait patiently for patches. :(

I have 2 x 4890 (although Crossfire is not working... yet) and I get OK performance. My in game settings: Quality Preference: Very High Visibility: 3600 Resolution: 1920x1200 3D Resolution: 100% Texture: Very High Video Memory: Very High An. Filtering: Normal An. Aliasing: Normal Terrain: Very High Object: Very High Shadow: Very High Post processing: Disabled Ratio: 16:10 Results: averaging 27 FPS (demo benchmark) The rest of my hardware is mentioned in my sig. Although I am now testing Windows7 (64bit) but have found absolutely no difference in gaming performance over Vista (32bit). Naturally turning some settings down a bit means more frames per second - but I like it to look pretty... I'm still searching for that 'happy medium'. I'm really hoping ATI get some 'optimised' drivers out for this game soon so I can use my second GPU.

EB Games in Australia have just changed their website to show the new release date (16th July): http://www.ebgames.com.au/pc/product.cfm?id=14822&refer=productsearch Lets hope they have ordered enough copies so those of us who have pre-ordered will actually get a copy. :)

Well EB are supposed to be getting the game on their shelves on the 16th July... although their website still states the 20th August - dunno Gameplanet have a release date of 16th July: http://www.gpstore.com.au/Games/1565884.html JB Hi Fi have a release date of 16th July: http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/Product/443387/ARMA_II So I'm hoping this is fact. Guess we won't know for sure for another 10 days.

Thanks Frederf - you have just explained what i have been experiencing - I have been playing the ARMA2 demo version (with no real instruction manual to speak of) so I had no idea that the Right Turn / Left Turn controls are actually combining turning and banking (once over a certain speed)! Can't wait to get home and give it a try. Cheers

Hi ceeeb, After hearing about the release date being brought forward, I enquired with EB Games whether they had heard about release date changes and this is the reply I got this morning: "...Thank you for your email. We received the information on Monday that the release for Arma 2 has been brought forward which is excellent news! We are in the process of changing this on the website. Thanks, Abie Hosking EB Games - Trade 'n' Save! " Also, Gameplanet Store (www.gpstore.com.au) have now changed the release date to 16th July... Hope this makes the next two weeks bearable :)

More Crashes to Desktop in DEMO multiplayer... this time I was trying to use Ventrilo and I couldn't stay in a server for more than 2 minutes. As soon as I closed Ventrilo, the CTD stopped. http://www.easy-share.com/1906513837/ArmA 2 Demo300609.rar Cheers :)