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It's been about 4 or 5 months since I've played it I think.

I haven't played Arma 2 in quite some time but I am thinking about getting Arrowhead and giving it another go. Should I expect a more optimized game or more of the same?

I was looking at this game pretty closely but the you tube videos kinda turned me off. You say it's really good though?

This game is tons of fun. I can't wait to start pwn'n noobs.

I love multicam. Use it in airsoft matches all the time. It is by far better than anything else I have seen in the fields where I play. (Southern US woodland) PS: All the jabs at airsoft in this thread are silly. Just because airsofters use it doesn't mean it isn't good. We "airsoft kiddies" (I am in my 30's btw) wear every kind of camo known to man. Even Period stuff from WWI II etc. Does that make all the other camo lame?

The way I see it those guys owe me 39 bucks. They can keep it.

I haven't played Arma 2 since the 1.05 patch came out but tonight I decided to dust it off. Last time I played the game I was getting Arma mark scores between 7000-8000 and now I can't even load the menu hardly. Just on the menu screen I get like 2 fps and it stutters constantly. I ran the new benchmarks and got 25fps on the first and 20 fps on the second which seems way off base compared to arma mark. Then when you go back to the loading screen everything is almost frozen. Anyway, I don't know what's going on and tbh I don't feel like spending months trying to figure it out like I did when arma 2 first came out. If anyone has suggestions let me know. PS: My system is exactly the same as it was last time I played. All I did was install the patch.

I completely uninstalled and re-installed. Then i applied only the patch and hopped in game. I really have no idea what is happening but it has something to do with my graphics cards I think. Before I could run this game with everything on very high 1680 x 1050 with good FPS. Now if I turn everything up I get single digit FPS. If I turn everything to normal, with PP off I only get like 35 fps. Just turning shadows up makes my fps go into the teens. In any case, I'm kinda at a loss now. I wish the game still had arma mark so I could run some tests with that to compare against what I used to get.

The places I play are private land. No worries about law shooing you. And as far as eye protection goes every place I have played requires a special rated goggle that is fully sealed. No eyeglasses or shooting glasses permitted. Just to be safe I test my goggles point blank when I get new pairs. ---------- Post added at 06:57 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:55 PM ---------- I sub a guy on you tube that has tons and tons of airsoft vids. Their Euro's and some of them use dodgy eye protection IMO, but he has a lot of really cool videos.

Beat it already. It was a worthy sucessor. During the ending I lost jack. Then I played again and didn't lose anyone. I played the ending both ways to see what happened as well.

I'm using Nvidia 196.21 drivers and I installed them a couple of weeks ago. The problem only started last night. I played the game some as 1.04 last night and everything ran good. Then I installed the patch and the problems began. I don't know about the W7 Reliability update. I don't remember ever installing that. I have not tried windowed mode. I have not tried any switches. ---------- Post added at 06:49 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:47 PM ---------- I did get an error but not during the patch install. When I tried to install the hotfix for the mission it basically froze up when I tried to install that. I ended the task with task manager and put the file in Arma 2 directory manually.

LOL. I just noticed that pause on trackir is default F9 which is the same key for start/stop record on fraps. facepalm

Here are a few pics of a milsim event that I attended at Ft. Hood Texas recently. It used 2 of the 3 Ft. Hood MOUT sites for play. They are basically mock versions of middle eastern towns. It is a Lions Claws event called Operation Bulldog IV. You can check them out on you tube. Bulldog and Irene are the big ones. Here are a ton of pics if anyone is interested in looking at them: http://www.kapowwe.com/john-lu-bulldog-2009.html

It is a general rule by all respectable airsofters that you DO NOT WEAR insiginias or ranks that you did not earn. If you do and you play at events that I attend there is a good chance that you will get called out on it in front of everyone.

This is an event my team and I attend yearly. If anyone is in the area I highly recommend it. It's a bit expensive but well worth it. Website, rules and all that. http://invasion.milsimevent.com/

No, my point was only that I haven't changed anything hardware wise and I am still running the same OS. Hardware: i7920 @ 3.8, 6 gig ddr3 1600, x58 mobo, dual gtx 280's and W7 64. My arma 2 is a steam app. I found the patch on the thread in the general forums and downloaded the torrents 1&2 extracted and installed. Then there was a hotfix for some mission that I downloaded as well. My guess is that something went wrong and I just need to completely uninstall and start again.

I was wondering if anyone had any idea why when I record with fraps it disables my trackir 5? As soon as I start record trackir stops and my view is straight ahead only. When I stop record trackir works again. I was trying to record some vids tonight and I'm a bit baffled.

I've been playing this game since day one and TBH I really enjoy it. Obviously it's kinda arcadish but it's still fun. I do miss my trackir and the Arma 2 aircraft very bad. Unfortunately my whole squad has pretty much taken to this new title. I tried and tried to get them to play arma 2 but only 1 or 2 really liked it due to performance issues, learning curve etc etc. In my opinion Arma 2 is a far superior game I just wish it had a bigger fanbase.

I cannot get past this issue. I posted about it a couple a days ago but didn't really get any useful feedback. Every game I play I get this error sometimes quickly, sometimes well into the match. It starts counting with a timer and eventually says I lost connection to the server. Thing is I am still connected to teamspeak and xfire. Not only that but I can tab out and connect to the web so its not that I am losing connection to the internet. I am beyond frustrated at this point. I just updated my rig and got the game running kinda decent but this is getting the better of me.

Where I live in the US we have a castle law that basically gives us the right to defend our homes with any means necessary. I also live in a right to carry state. Meaning I can go down to the local gun store, do some concealed carry classes and get a license to carry a firearm on me all the time. There are lots of places where you can't take your gun obviously, but overall it's a good system and deters alot of crime since you never know who is packing heat and who isn't.

Nah, I just think modern society has lost it's mind with all the petty bickering. With no new land to be discovered on Earth and people multiplying like rabbits I expect it to only get worse. I feel like humanity is a powder keg getting ready to explode. I'd love to leave all this nonsense behind and make a fresh start where there aren't as many lunatics.

If we could find one I would be on the first train off this rock.

"No offense" yet you bold the civil society part to imply that the US is not a civil society.:rolleyes: That's cool though, think what you want. Thanks to a little revolution, we can have our laws and you can have yours.

LOL, no worries man!;)

The servers used for you to chastise America on internet forums and play Arma 2 use more energy than my wifes VW Jetta does. So instead of sitting there criticizing the USA why don't you get off the computer if you are so concerned. PS Finland is smaller than the state of Montana.......... "Located between Sweden and Russia, Finland also borders the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and Gulf of Finland. Finland's area, at 337,030 square kilometers (130,127 square miles), is slightly smaller than the state of Montana. Finland shares a long border of 1,313 kilometers (816 miles) with Russia, 729 kilometers (453 miles) of border with Norway, and 586 kilometers (364 miles) of border with Sweden. The remaining 1,126 kilometers (700 miles) of its boundary is coastline, excluding islands and coastal indentations. " I realize the size of the US is hard to fathom for some people in Europe, but before you criticize that we use more resources than you please take the time to research and compare apples to apples. Furthermore why is everyone on the USA's back? China, Inda and Russia are right there with us and China for one is set to surpass our oil use by a long shot in the future.