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  6. Posted

    Is it over the net?

    If it is, its not like the peer-to-peer console shite, He'd need to open the ports in the firewall so You can connect to his game. He'd host a server called "myserver" with password "mypass", You then search for it by name in the server browser and as long as the ports are opened and pointing to his pc You will be able to connect.

    If You're both on lan the firewall won't be blocking You

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    Duh... I do have two mechanical drives, but the page file is there for fast file access. So it's only logical to put it on the fastest drive. I don't think my SSD will get broken if I have a 1GB fixed size page file on it. And if it does, within 3 years, I only have to RMA it and they'll send me a new one.

    Having your pagefile on an SSD as opposed to mechanical drive wouldn't make Your pc any faster. How often does it page? Not that often, Windows only uses Your pagefile when it runs out of ram and when minimising applications not being used in a while. Forcing it to use the ram is faster

  12. Posted

    I've set the pagefile to be fixed size to minimize the amount of bad sectors caused by it. The drive's MTBF is over a million hours. SSD's low access time is a huge benefit in page file use. What's the point of getting an SSD if you ain't going to use it? :p

    Why do You want paging at all, disable it and make it use ram, ram is much quicker. There are lots of reports of SSD's dying in less than 3 months when the pagefile is on them, its early days for this tech.

  13. Posted

    The advantage of an SSD is not the speed, its only a little faster than my 4 year old 2x36GB raptors in raid 0 that do ~150MB/s, but its the access time. As there's no moving parts, no disk to spin to position, the seek time is virtually zero compared to a few miliseconds. I've Arma+OA+mods on a 40G SSD and it makes a huge difference to a mechanical drive

    ---------- Post added at 10:05 ---------- Previous post was at 10:02 ----------

    Before I got an SSD, I had quite a lot of stuttering and slow texture loading (resulting in missing textures like totally white faces or buildings and such, then stuttering and finally textures getting rendered in front of my eyesI. I got an Intel X-25M G2 160GB SSD for windows 7, pagefile and games including ArmA 2. Now there's a lot less stuttering, texture pop up has almost disappeared, only in some rare cases does it happen and launching any program installed on SSD is way faster than it was on my Samsung F3. SSD drive is most likely the best upgrade you can get for your computer.

    I hope not the pagefile :eek:, SSD's have limited writes, don't let your OS page on it or it won't last long. Pagefile should be disabled if You've enough ram, or moved to a mechanical drive.

    You shouldn't defrag an SSD either, they don't need it as the seek time is zero but it reduces the lifespan of the SSD

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    Video memory on very high is for a 2GB gpu, try high, thats for upto 1GB. Also try 10.4 cats, I've had nothing but issues with 10.5 and 10.6 (I've crossfire) but my problems dissapeared whan I downgraded

    To properly uninstall the driver the correct way;

    Download the driver and have it on Your desktop. Install driver sweeper (might as well save Your desktop icon positions with it), uninstall the driver in Add/remove programs in control panel, reboot and as booting to Windows keep clicking f8 to select save mode. In safe mode run driver sweeper to remove all traces, then reboot to normal windows and install the driver needing a further reboot after.

    Driver here

  17. Posted · Edited by PogMoThoin

    Hold on, Arma2 got over 40 patches (including all beta's), show me another developer who cares as much as this. BIS are the saving grace for pc gaming these days, makes up for all the poor games and shoddy console ports other devs churn out year after year. Its easy for devs to release a bug free game when they're making it for a defined set of 4 year old hardware (consoles)

    Don't let the door hit You on the way out

  19. Posted

    Finally got Arrowhead to play nice with crossfire by heeding those in this thread, I uninstalled 10.6, ran driver sweeper in safe mode and installed 10.4, then I renamed the beta .exe to Arma2. Now I get serious performance, 70-80% cpu usage and both gpu cores being used. Both 10.5 and 10.6 break Arma2 performance and caused me nothing but grief, couldn't play any game with the second of my two screens enabled, Arma2 wouldn't recover from alt+tab, lots of issues.

  24. Posted

    NTRUDER;1668047']Hey Pog' date=' thx for your feedback!

    I haven't heard this issue reported from any of the other dedicated servers running this mission.

    Have you been able to reproduce it? For example did you try to run it again after 'succesfully' running another mission in between? Just curious, I understand if you couldn't be bothered with reproducing the issue :D Would be good info for me though =)

    Thanks again!

    / ']NTRUDER

    Yes, it happened us 3 times we tried the first released version on wed night and once when we tried last nite. It just locks up both client and server. I'll try again later (or morn), the server is running domi with about 8 playing at the moment

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