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Looks like my thread was closed. I want to thank everyone for giving me feedback on this. I would not really call myself tech savvy. I did build this PC about 4 years ago. I'm a graphic designer and just use the equipment. A computer to me is just a tool, but I still enjoy pulling them apart. I would consider myself a gamer, since my x2 has not really let me down so far. That is why I have not upgraded it. 1 1/2 years for every cpu upgrade is a bit extreme. What are credentials for gaming anyway? Surely not having to upgrade your cpu every 1 1/2 years. Surely gaming is about enjoying games and NOT how good your equipment is or how fat your wallet. However, if I need to upgrade the CPU I will. I was just curious about what other people's reactions have been. Yet, I still cannot shake the feeling that this game alone is not worth the hassle of upgrading my mobo and cpu. It does have a lot of promise, and so I think I will wait and see.

Well thanks again ethne. I will wait a bit and see what happens. It's not that I don't have the money to get this stuff, it just means if I upgrade my CPU I'm gonna have to do what you said and get another mobo and more ram. The game runs fine/ok in Armoury and editor mode. It's just the campaign that really kills it.

First, please forgive me, first post and I have problem I have never encountered before, in any other game. My frames in single player mode are shot. First, my specs: AMD 4400 x2 2 gig ram 9800gtx+ (Using a 42 inch LCD Samsung) 72gig Raptor 10K XFI - Platinum TrackIR 1920 x 1080: Armoury and I get great frames. 45 - 60 fps. FRAPS. Single Player with Squad. 10 - 25 fps. FRAPS. Campaign in the third mission with the city. 7 - 15 fps. FRAPS. WTF? So I set everything in graphics to very low to test. No change in FPS. I try resolution at something really crappy and still. NO CHANGE AT ALL.I have played with the config file and tried turning some settings up. No change. Turn them all down. No change. This has to be a CPU bottleneck right? Man, never before happened to me. All other games run fine. I guess it is the intense AI and the massive landscapes. This is so friggin irritating. I play COD4 at 1920 x 1080 everything maxed. Empire total war, similar. Crisis ran well for me. This shits me. Sorry Bohemia, but really for christ's sake. I payed up front in advance for this and I cannot play the campaign for the life of me. So just some advice please people. Do I shelve this game and wait for them to fix it, or is my computer really just an old piece of %^*#? Let me just tell all you guys that using TrackIr at these frames is like a living hell. It makes me physically sick I swear. Vomit and keyboards do not go well together. So unless you get good fps, ditch the TrackIr. When the frames go up above 35, TrackIR is actually really good. Especially in the aircraft. But I'm not getting better frames. In the end, after reading other posts, I am starting to think buying a better CPU is not going to do Jack. Any suggestions? Bohemia? Specs do say I need a faster CPU.

Hey, that's good news for me Shady. Thanks for your feedback. I may hold off on that CPU upgrade for a bit. ---------- Post added at 03:13 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:07 PM ---------- Hey Eth. I am saying that resolution is not affecting my fps at all. Neither are any of the graphic options. Up high or down low. 7-15 fps in the third mission with the city. But I can see your point that maybe my CPU is a bit old now. I want to validate this by getting feedback. Shady just said his Intel Quad Core has the same issues. I don't want to upgrade unless I am sure the x2 is the problem. I can see that having an old cpu is going to kill the game regardless of resolution, but 7 - 15 fps on the lowest wide screen resolution I could find in the game? I'm getting 45 + fps in the armoury mode with most things on high.

Now if only someone could help me get better FPS. Lol. Cheers mate.

Thanxs for the validation on my points. Does anyone know any other ways to improve this CPU bottleneck. Is it going to help me by turning all my shite like AVG etc off? Checking the affinity, it says core 0 and core 1, so I assume it is using both cores. Anyone else with a x2 4400 who's game is actually running ok in campaign?

As a suggestion, try deleting those two config files and relaunching. Arma 2 should create new ones.