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I don't understand the cartoon being related to my post. That being said. I also believe that most problems will be eventually cleared out (after a long series of patches and a lot of patience). My point was actually: BIS has had the opportunity to make 3 games, with all three being the same game basicly. If those were three different sorts of games, I could understand more that every game would have it's flaws. But Operation Flashpoint, Arma1 and Arma2 are the same in structure and gameplay. So they had 3 full blown tries to make THAT game work. But every time, they were flawed in a way that is unacceptable. To quote some people here on the forums: BIS has released 3 beta-games at full price. Only after a year and a half of patches, the games were what I would call: release-ready. That is the reason why I said: if Operation Flashpoint: dragon rising (awfull title) turns out to be the game that tops Arma2, I will buy it and never look back at BIS. BIS has received 4 times the money for a full priced game (I bought Arma2 2 times, on steam and on disc) from me, and I think I have done my part as a consumer. Now was the time they should have done their part as developpers, but they didn't succeed again. To say it harsh: 3 strikes and you're out.

I agree with you and the posts above. I have not been a long time bisforums poster. But since I came here I have followed the various topics more than once every day. Say something negative about the game (about performance, bugs, etc), and you can be sure to be flamed at by fanboys who are just living in denial that Arma2 did not deliver quality. OPF and Arma 1 are games that I see as 'work in progress games' that should have lead to a great third game, but it's the same story as before. The game is unfinished in such a way that even after 3 patches you could already predict this game will never be the game it should have been. I, being a musician, compare it to a song I have written that doesn't seem to work, and I am trying to fix by adding layers and layers, changing arrangements and so on, only to realize it's not the arrangements, but the melody just isn't good enough. If OPF: dragon rising turns out the better of the two, I don't think I will ever return to BIS products.

Our dear moderator will probably close this topic again (every topic about news on patches are being closed for god knows what reason). Last week, there was said that the new patch would arrive in a couple of days. Up until today: no more news about a patch. How far are they in development and what time frame is there?

I thought that was said by you actually. Something in the likes of 'could be in a week, could be less'. The words 'in a couple of days' was definitely used by somebody from the development team here on the forum. Very soon it is. (that could mean anything, you tease :))

Looked at your link. There are 48 pages of many people posting their config files. If you know the answer, can you please just write it here instead of posting a link where you have to go through 48 pages of different set-ups? Thank you. Videomemory=? nonlocalvideomemory=?

I agree with you. The game is too complex (I don't mean difficult) to make it work as well as we would like it to work. I would have settled with a game with less features, but polished in every aspect there is in the game.

It is available already as RC. You probably knew this, but I don't see why you shouldn't try it as it works great, except for Arma 2

Oooooowww, you have found the magical solution!!! How is it possible that nobody tried that before??? Never thought about drivers. And because Bigbear has no problems (so he says), nobody has problems. Great thinking. Man, I love the people defending the broken game, saying there is nothing wrong with it and that we are exceptions and it is due to our hardware. But never did they post a possible solution for any issues. I love these guys. They are a real asset to this TROUBLESHOOTING forum.

I would out of respect for the people who payed for the game. There have been developpers in the past who have released official press statements to apologize for the product they have put on the market (see e.g. Area 51). There is no shame in that, and it would earn the respect of the community much more than not reacting at all. About the patch: some optimisations? What the hell? If the game has a big problem it's the performance. The troubleshooting forum is almost all about performance issues. It should be the number 1 priority. The state this game is in, it should never have been released. Everybody with a sane mind understands that. No excuses about the complexity of the game are valid. You either make a complex game and release it when it's ready (the catch phrase of our moderator about the patch 'when it's done' should have been the catch phrase for the final product) or you make a less complex game if you can't succeed to make it work.

If I were you, I wouldn't invest in a GTX295 today. Wait until october (maybe november), and buy a high-end dx11 card for the same price as you would pay for the GTX295 today. You're going to be sorry when you buy a 295 at 500 dollars when later this year the new graphics cards will be released which will outperform the GTX295 by great lengths.

Yep, CPU is overclocked to 3.4GHz.

If you have read my previous posts, where my specs are written down, you can see that it is not a hardware problem. It's a software problem. I have run the dx10 benchmark demo of Resident Evil 5 with everything maxed out in 1080p, and I have an average framerate of 114 fps. If there was something wrong with my hardware, it would show in other games as well. Overheating is absolutely no issue. The highest temperature I had on my GTX295 while playing Arma2 is 65°C. My quad core q9550 is only used for 40% of my capacity. It is so clear that Arma 2 does not use the resources a high-end PC has. There is a bottleneck in the game itself preventing it to use the resources. It's like it was optimised to play on the Xbox360. In that way I believe that the game does not recognise other hardware as it should. About faulty file systems, viruses and so on: I have the game installed on a new hard drive with a freshly installed OS. The only thing that will help the performance issues are patches, more specifically resource patches.

He is a poster like everyone else here. You are doubting his experience issues with blur? Why would he lie about that? I don't understand why a moderator has to make fun of people who experience troubles with a game they bought. Is that the new politics at BIS? Ban me if you want if you don't like my answer. That will tell a lot more about you than about me.

First of all: I'm talking about the single player campaign. The online part runs smooth. About the hardware: Intel quad core q9550 @ 3.4GHz, 4 Gb DDR2, GTX295 graphics card. I can play every game (except Crysis) at + 60 fps, all maxed out at 1080p resolution. So I have enough hardware power. I tried to run the game on 3 OS: XP, Vista 32 bit, Win 7 64 bit. Only with XP and a lot of config tweaks and driver adjustment settings, I can play the game on normal settings with +30 fps. Tried many drivers. If anyone says it's my hardware that causes the troubles, it's just ignorance on his part. To make a comparison: when Vista was released, about everyone was having troubles with it. It had nothing to do with hardware, but software issues. Everyone knew this, and Vista was burnt to the ground by PC-gamers. Nobody said then: stop whining, this is normal. But for some strange reason, some people at the BIS forums are saying that this is normal for PC-games (and in this case for Arma 2). Vista needed about a year of updates to run pretty much stable. Now Win 7 is coming ((which is just an updated Vista), and the release candidate is running very well. Microsoft learned from their mistakes, but Vista is a blemish on their part. The first Arma was as bug ridden as Arma 2. As it's an update engine in Arma 2, so we as consumers should expect that the game runs stable if BIS learned from their mistakes. But again, they didn't. Arma 1 needed up until patch 1.14 to be stable (18 months). Will this be the same for Arma 2? Let's hope not. Call it rubbish what I'm saying, I don't care. But I believe I'm not blinded because of being a fan of Arma.

What is wrong with your perception? Arma 2 is the least optimised game I have ever played on PC (10 years of PC-gaming, always up-to-date with the latest hardware and software). You mentioning this is with every other PC-game is just plain stupidity. Most PC-games have bugs, because complex software can't be bug-free, but no other game has as many bugs as Arma 2. The framerate issues people are having are not normal and not only for people posting their issues on this forum, but for about everyone who has played this game. BIS is lucky that in Europe there are no warranty laws for software (although, some European politicians want to create warranty laws for software, so maybe one day...). If there were warranty laws, BIS would have been bankrupt because of all the refunds people would ask for Arma 2.

There is nothing wrong with your pc, it's the game that doesn't use your hardware as it should. There is NO solution at this moment. Some config tweaks can enhance your frame rate. Try: 3Dperformance: 100000 in cfg file to start. Make sure that after you have changed your config, you make the cfg file read-only, otherwise it will be overwritten. Turn off headbobbing in you profile (again: read-only). In your nVidia control panel: Force Vsync off set anisotropic filtering to 8 Ingame settings: videomemory: high AF: disabled AA: disabled shadows: high post processing: disabled everything else: normal And play it under windows XP 32 bit with the latest driver from nvidia. Vista 64 bit doesn't work well with this game. Good luck.

Where did you get the information about OF2 being arcade? I've read a lot of good things on the game. It wil be a war simulation with no comprimises on difficulty. Leaning is very much possible in OF2 (where did you hear the opposite???). The only thing Codemasters compromised on is the menu interface, making it easier to use on console. And I think that is even a good thing as you can't claim that Arma2 has a logical and easy to use interface (too many buttons and clicks to do some simple actions). It's pretty sure that OF2 will be polished and will run optimised (quality control at Microsoft before release), and you can't say that from Arma2. I strongly believe that the release of Arma2 on Xbox360 was cancelled just a couple of weeks before release date, because it didn't pass the quality control at Microsoft. If it will be a good game, I don't know, but at least it will be playable. I'm putting Arma2 away until there will be patches released and I read good things about them. And I will buy OF2 to keep me busy in the mean time.

If you have an nVidia card from 8000, 9000 or 200 series, then all you have to do is download the latest GRAPHICS driver from nVidia. The physX drivers are included in the video-driver, so you don't have to do anything. In the control panel from nVidia you will see a tab where you can enable or disable physX. But it is enabled by default, so no worries there.

First: that is double :) I have a GTX295 graphics card. The battleship menu screen gives me 130 fps. Ingame during campaign, it varries between 25-60 fps. I'm pretty sure my 2 gpu's are not used as in single gpu-mode I have the exact same frame rates. Hearing your story makes me believe that the game doesn't support sli for recent graphic cards (gtx200 series), but maybe for older cards it does. Or that there is a limitation in the game engine that limits the usage of all hardware resources. My grapics card only reaches 60°C during intense gameplay. That proves something. The 190 driver does not change anything for me (not in xp, vista or win7). I'm pretty sure that there is still a lot of optimisation to be done by BIS. The question is: will people be patient enough, knowing that Operation Flashpoint 2 is coming in september and will run well on PC and consoles as it uses an engine that has been optimised since it was used in Dirt (the race game)?

Not for me. q9550 @ 3.4Ghz 4Gb DDR2 800 GTX295 But with adjustments in de config, player profile and control panel, I manage to play the game (campaign that is) between 25 (city levels)-50 fps. And that is playable without frustration. But again, the beta driver does not increase performance on my PC. The beta-driver is mainly focussed on bug fixes and Cuda platform 2.3.

I have the exact same rig as you. And at first I was having the same fps. But go and have a look at the sticky thread for nVidia card owners. Someone posted a nice config at one of the last pages that may help a lot (it did for me). Disable multi-gpu in your control panel (makes the game more smooth as sli is not yet fully optimised). Make sure you force Vsync of in your control panel: the game has automatic Vsync built in and caps the framerate to 30 fps in the campaign and scenarios. Just don't expect to be able to run this game on max settings, as it is virtualy impossible at the current state the game is in. Also expect frame drops from time to time, especially with a lot of AI units and in city environments. There is no magical solution for now. We can only hope that patches will improve performance and that new drivers from nVidia respond accordingly so we can use sli to the fullest.

That actually works for me. In Chernogorsk city it's still a bit laggy sometimes, but a huge performance boost. And most of all: it looks great! If you play in first person view: set headbobbing in your arma 2 profile to 0, which makes it even smoother. Thanks a lot. PS: it's not perfect, but this is the best performance config I have tried. Now just a performance patch (or two) and it might become very playable.

There have been posted so many suggestions, but there is not 1 that will help you increase the framerate like you want it. Believe me, I've tried them all (even on 3 OS: XP, Vista, Win7). There is only 1 suggestion: wait for decent patches in the next months or so. And those who are posting things like: 'On my system, it runs great'. I don't believe it until you prove it with a screenshot with Fraps enabled in a city level and AI units visible. Otherwise: stop posting this crap in a troubleshooting forum.

As this is a sticky thread, I suppose a community leader is following this topic (Dwarden?). I have read a lot on this troubleshooting forum, and many people ask just 1 thing: some sort of answer from BIS of a community leader. Not a solution for the many problems, but an answer that BIS acknowledges the problems and is working on it. I don't understand that until this day, nobody from BIS has posted anything. This does not show any respect to all the consumers who have bought this game and we are the ones that make it possible that people at BIS still have a job and a company to work for. So in behalf of everybody: Please, post something, just to show BIS has respect for it's consumers. Thank you.

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