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I also see a lot of warping in multiplay coop . Basically it's no use to shoot at any moving target . You just have to wait untill the target stops moving. Is this avoidable ? I mean i see it on EVERY server .

texture detail is not that big of a killer. Object detail IS. Very much so .

A lot of people have changed the names of the exe. As did i . Just change it back to original "Arma2" and all should be well.

Haven't had any ctd's really . Not just because i haven't any mean i to say you can't get em or something, but maybe your overclock isn't as stable as you think .

Hmm that sounds quite impossible. However i did read somethign that grass is turned off if arma 2 detects that visibility is set too high ?

Anybody have an idea of how hard drive affects the horrible texture loading in arma 2 ? In the big city my hard drive is going beserk constantly. When i zoom in it takes 5 seconds for the hd to stop loading, with big stutters as a side effect. It's a pretty generic wd800jd sata2 disk. I did some hd benchmark thingy and results are as follows : Is this perhaps extremely low ? Could someone with a fast hard disk setup run this bench for me and post the results here ? As i have no idea how to interpret the numbers i have no idea how slow my hd performance is. http://www.passmark.com/products/pt.htm I am not making commercial here, if there are better ways of testing hd performance and anybody has numbers i will run that to compare. I just want to compare a little

You'll be back splatterdk :D . The game itself (gameplay and features) is god like, but performance and other issues are extremely frustrating. But think about it like this, everybody has these issues so that should lighten the pain a bit :D Just found this song on youtube, the lyrics are pretty hilarious, but accurate sadly :-)

hmm there may be no reason to flame this dude. I'm sure he's just frustrated as hell and only needs to vent a little. There is no denying that performance is totally ^ss-crap . I spent another 2 hours today browsing forums and f^cking with settings to see how on earth i could tone down the hard drive trashing a little bit. It gets frustrating. On this subject, this maxmem command is nice and all, but have any of you actually seen arma 2 use more than 1 GB of RAM actually ? I'm on windows XP, and i cannot for the life of me get ram usage over 1.3 total . WTF :mad: . Whenever i zoom into some buildings, it takes about 5 to 10 seconds to load some f^cking roof tiles. My computer is not lame. It's an i7 at over 4 ghz, and 2 GTX285's XFX OC editions in SLI . God i'm beginning to get seriously ILL of this f&cking sh^t myself to be honest. aahhhh .... I feel much better now . :)

Yes i can explain it :d . (i think) You basically set your render resolution lower, then stretched it out over a bigger number of pixels (interface res or displayed res, what you see on screen) So your computer actually renders less, and then smears it out over more pixels. I THINK that is how it works. I play the other way around, 3d res at 2000 and displayed res at 1600. Makes for 125% 'filtrate' setting. Looks very nice and does not impact performance that much. (5 frames of 75 fps) . I think what you did is some sort of pixel doubling, though not exactly doubling it. But i am not sure if what i say is correct though.

Also try defragging. Watch your harddrive while playing as it gets it's ass kicked :butbut: Defragging can seriously help with loading textures. Also sli scaling is VERY good with this game. Have you checked the sli indicator in the nvidia control panel to see if you are actually getting SLI in the game ? What driver are you using ?

hmm ... I like Coop in this game WAY better then PvP . (PvP is person vs person like deathmatch and crap like that no?) If i want to play against others i'd much rather play BF2 . Coop however is awesome though, but it depends an awful lot on the people you play it with. Well, it depends ALL of it actually. It's all about the teamwork.

man i thought i had it bad :o For all those on Vista, stop complaining about the game, but blame those ^ssholes at microsoft for making that POS OS (from a gamer's perspective at least) and advertising it as the new super awesome gaming platform. This ^ is what pisses me off to no end. EVERY game runs like total ^ss compared to XP, dx10 or not still at least 15 to 25 % performance decrease. Nevermind when super awesome dx10 is enabled. You may then just take a huge diaherrea (*may not be an actual word) dump into your computer case as your performance is cut in half, while you have to squint your eyes to see an extra glistening in some puddle on screen. f^ck vista, and f^ck microsoft. On XP , arma 2 performance is , as said many times before, more then 30% increased over that pile of shite vista . That's one. About Arma 2 . I have spent many hours tweaking settings, and performance isn't all that great indeed. This is true. (yes captain obvious :p ) When i hear people say it runs allright for them, and i see fraps pointing at 30 frames per second i almost get a heartattack. 30 frames per second is not even playable. I mean seriously, below 70 fps it's choppy as hell and annoys the sh^t out of me. Nevermind 30 :eek: If you think that is decent you are deluding yourself, is my honest opinion. Like i said i also spent hours trying settings, it almost never drops below 60 fps. It is 85 (vsynced) almost constantly in the woods, but there is something seriously f^cked up with the buildings, as it occasionally drops into the 50's range, and even 40's when zooming in with the scope. And i just can't figure out what it is. Object detail is a big hog for some reason. It barely makes an impact on the screen, but for some weird reason it eats frames like a pig. But wtf is up with the buildings ? They make me :cry: And why does arma 2 not use more RAM ? Anyway, first blame vista for your performance problems. Then BI for f^cking up the buildings and RAM usage.

Hello all . Anybody have an idea of how tri-sli is scaling with arma 2 ??