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  1. Posted

    Just hang in there chaps, while it may be very frustrating to have a superduper pc that cannot seem to run the game very well, I am well aware BIS are working very hard to iron out the issues.

    Please do continue to feedback but keep it constructive and informative.

    Thanks

    ok thanks for sharing! I saw the ArmA II 'Basic Controls' Dev Diary, and the guy who was presenting that seemed like somone who cared :satisfied:

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    That's a very nice computer you have there Eth.

    What does it run like in the main cities in campaign missions?

    What is it's performance when everything is cranked up? (I would have thought you would be running it with max everything)

  3. Posted

    i've cured the fault, i went to trading standards with printouts of the forums and explained that the game store will not refund, they stepped in and told the store under the 1974 sale of good act, any product bought in the uk must be fit for the purpose it is sold for, that is law and the game store had no choice but to refund it, i am happy now and i hope many others follow suit, as this is the only way to show theses companys we will not tollerate crap, unfinished products.

    Nicely done! However, mine is from Steam. I suppose you had to return the product aswell.

  6. Posted · Edited by Kenjineering

    I installed 182.5 and disabled HT. Re-installed the EVGA Sli Enhancement patch. Then worked my way through the other tricks I did before.

    And there was no change in performance.

    And those series of pictures I took are only localised to that 100m2 of land so forget them.

    I am at the realisation that my PC mustn't be good enough for ARMA2 in those certain areas meantioned in the first post of this thread. In those same areas I get pretty similar performance with SLI enable and disabled. But at the menu screen with the air craft carrier I have seen it spike to 180FPS with Sli enabled and only maybe 100 with Sli disabled (so sli is definately working).

    This makes me beleive that my problems are either:

    1) Micro Stutter. (sli phenomenon of limiting frames)

    2) Or something to do with that VM -> SM.. SM->VM stuff which I do not understand.

    3) Some bad programming in ARMA2 (but I doubt it).

    4) Crap computer.

    I'm going to stop doing the campaign, too depressing. Thanks for the help!

  7. Posted

    You havent read much quite obviously or used the search function.

    Eth

    LOL! Break me down and insult my intelligence before lending a hand. (Reminds me of bad engineering lecturers at uni!!!):rolleyes:.. but it's help none the less.

    I never read anything explicitly linking or stating those facts in such a compact form. One of the first things I did was turn off HT and it didn't make any difference. I saw 182.5 as a solution but did not try it because some of these later drivers gave me slightly better performance in other games.

    However now after reading your post I will give it a go.

  8. Posted · Edited by Kenjineering

    Hey Fellas!

    I was told that this thread could answer why I am getting such bad performance no matter what in ARMA2.

    System Specs

    Core i7 920 @3.5Ghz (Hyperthreading + Turbo Enabled)

    6GB RAM (1333Mhz) Kingston

    Intel DX58SO "Smack Over" Motherboard

    Bios Version: 4158

    2x GTX280 1G Sli

    Nvidia Drivers: 186.18 + EVGA Sli Enhancer

    PhysX: 909.04.28

    Windows Vista Home Premium SP2 64bit

    1000W PSU

    DPC Result

    120μs ±20μs.

    D3D Bandwidth Test Results

    Idle:

    VM to SM = 1409.7 Mb/s

    SM to VM = 1658.46 Mb/s

    After I minimized ARMA2 I got something like thi: (I forgot to record them down)

    VM to SM = 1804.6 Mb/s

    SM to VM = 1658.46 Mb/s

    Questions

    What the f?

    How does this help?

  9. Posted

    choppy loading can be *eased*. check out the dpc stuff.

    Thanks for the link.

    That forum was information overload! I read all 10 pages of that forum. And yes I should have just done as you said (check the DPC Stuff). I do not know how to interpret that forum. I feel it is more aimed at the black arts of ATI

    I downloaded the DPC software and my idle latency is around 120μs ±20μs.

    I also downloaded the D3Dbandwidth test and got:

    VM to SM = 1409.7 Mb/s

    SM to VM = 1658.46 Mb/s

    Now, what that means... who knows.

    I noticed you found a driver that caused a spike. Was this in idle mode or did you play a game and then minimise it to see what was going on with the DPC?

  10. Posted · Edited by Kenjineering

    I feel your pain.. I have the same issue and in the same areas and I have tried the exact same things. And I don't think we are experiencing the dreaded Micro-Stutter phenomenon.

    I tried overclocking my CPU from 2.8Ghz (Stock + Turbo) to 3.5Ghz and got maybe a 2 FPS increase haha.

    System Specs

    Core i7 920 @3.5Ghz (Hyperthreading + Turbo Enabled)

    6GB RAM (1333Mhz) Kingston

    Intel DX58SO "Smack Over" Motherboard

    2x GTX280 1G Sli

    Nvidia Drivers: 186.18 + EVGA Sli Enhancer

    PhysX: 909.04.28

    Windows Vista Home Premium SP2 64bit

    1000W PSU

    Video Settings

    All on Very High (but no AA)

    Draw Distance I put down to 2.1 km.

    1900x1200

    Other Anomolies

    The following has only occurred in the mission where you have to locate the escaped terrorists and only in the camp where there is the intelligence guy. Everything initially loads fine and looks as it should on Very High settings, as soon as I run a short distance they all turn to low settings. But if I zoom or go prone into the grass then it changes to a higher setting. If I just stand there and look at an area and wait for a bit more than a minute it will change to very high quality. Also the trees in the distance become blocks.

    ARMA2Issue01.jpg

    Trees in the distance and trees in the foregound are bad quality:

    ARMA2Issue02.jpg

    All the while chugging at <22 FPS with spikes of 13FPS

    I changed all settings to their lowest settings and got a constant 29FPS. (Which is baaadd)

    It is as if my computer is unable to handle the loadings required.

    Honestly, I have spent more time fiddling with settings than actually playing the simulation/game. On the positive side, I have learnt a lot.

  11. Posted

    I play in expert mode.

    3rd Person view is disabled.

    Command view must also be disabled. (It worked on Regular)

    What a silly mistake.:eek:

    I guess when I said, "90% of the time it doesn't work" was a real throw off for everyone.

    I apologise. Sorry.

    I must have changed the difficulty down to regular during one of the testing sessions.:confused:

    QUESTION:

    How are you meant to finish the training in Expert MODE?! If you can't access the Command View?!

  12. Posted · Edited by Kenjineering

    Hello Guys!

    SET UP:

    Steam's Release of Arma 2

    Intel Core i7 920 @ 3.2Ghz

    Intel Deluxe DX58SO Smackover Motherboard

    Kingston 6gig DDR3 RAM (1333Mhz)

    Gigabyte 2x GTX 280 Sli

    1000W PSU

    Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit

    Logitech G15 Keyboard

    Drivers: Nvidia 186.18 + EVGA Sli Enhancement Patch

    Running Everything on Very high. No AA.

    1900x1200

    PROBLEM:

    90% of the time pressing '[NUM] Enter' to get into third person view and '[NUM].' to get into command view does not work. This was true for both the demo and for the full release.

    I checked if I had NumLock Off/On, but it made no difference. I also rebinded the keys to see if it would work for other bindings, but that did not work either.

    QUESTIONS:

    1) How do I fix this?

    2) What does the command view look like anyway? (I have never seen it before)

    If this problem can not be fixed then at least the positive side is that it adds to the realism HAHAHA! :cool:

    EDIT: I was in control of my squad when I tried to access the command view.

    EDIT (2): RESOLVED - I WAS PLAYING IN EXPERT MODE THUS IT DIDN'T WORK.

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