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I got mine for £15 Cod4 is still more expensive and its being out for over a year!

forgive my noobness, but how do u check the fps on A2?

I hate steam, I would never download any game from them, just another thing to go wrong... .... Have you tried resetting your router and doing a reconfigure? another thought! did you download the new patch and manually install it? if so you shouldnt have as the new patch is not compatible with the steam version, try a re install.

lol :)

I didnt mean to sound cheeky, I simply wanted to point out that before we start blaming others we should be certain that the problem isnt at our end. And I did experience the crashes lagging black screens etc, thats what drew me to this forum, I now have tried to remedy it.

the 7100 card really does suck, its only for an office environment and defo not for gaming, im actually surprised you are quoting 512mb on that card. when choosing a new card dont just think because it has lots off memory that its going to be any good! there are other factors too: ie nvidia cards, usually 4 numbers, your card 7100 first number, 7 being the series of the chip and the next is 1, think of that number as a ranking of 1-9, one being crap and 9 being out of this world, the two zeros at the end can be disregarded. you should be able to pick up a good card for less than £100 now, I would recommend a 8800gt or 9600 or 9800, if you are on a budget.

Just got this game the other day, and despite the bad press I thoroughly enjoy the Game. Anyhow, I had the usual graphics issues, occasional crashes, lag etc etc, and after joining these forums I found I was not the only one with probs, and after playing with the settings for hours and getting nowhere I decided to explore another avenue.... the crap building up on my pc... First off my system spec: Processor: Intel® Core2 Duo CPU E6550 @ 2.33GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.3GHz Memory: 3326MB RAM (4gb) Hard Drive: 250 GB Total Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Operating System: Windows Vistaâ„¢ Business (6.0, Build 6002) Service Pack 2 (6002.lh_sp2rtm.090410-1830) Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2H What I did first: Update my graphics card drivers from nvidia .com this first kinda highlighted my probs with my pc, as the new drivers would not install as it didnt recognize my OS as windows Vista and thus the driver would not install. Next up I needed to repair the registry, and clean out the crap in it: I down loaded Ccleaner from http://Ccleaner.com this allowed me to repair and remove old entries on the Reg with a few clicks I was done. this allowed me to install the latest nvidia graphic drivers, then i defraged my hard drive... and then booted up Arma 2, Ive been playing it now for over 6 hours today with no crashes, no lagging and has been running smooth with no hiccups! I have turned shadows off, both res set to 1024x768, antistropic and antiat set to low, general graphics set to high, every thing else set to normal. I usualy play COd4 and a few of my cod mates have also got ArmA2 with the same probs and they have had good results after using the Ccleaner. so instead of slagging of BI, try ridding your pc of all the crap on it first.