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  2. Posted · Edited by Old_Painless

    NordKindchen, this is traditionally a good place to look: www.ofpec.com. It has tools that you can use to unpack other pbo's to see how addons are built. I think it's called Eliteness the tool to do so.

    Also check out this thread and its forum:

    http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?152072-How-to-De-PBO-Files

    Oh, and this looks useful too: http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?148373-The-newbie-modders-request-immediate-assistance

    -OP

  6. Posted

    Hi El_MUERkO,

    The engine only supports one mid-range texture, so the texture is applied to everything: mountains, beaches, underwater, etc. You must decide if the improvement to the areas the mid-range is designed to improve off-sets the impact to the other areas (like beaches).

    I think this is what NordKindchens suggestion will fix - so that we can have Bad Benson quality all over the island. Everyone should vote it up: http://feedback.arma3.com/view.php?id=4635

    :)

    OP

  7. Posted

    HD Scuba Showcase playthrough - I was mesmerised by the boat. @_@

    Great stuff, IP! Good find about the boat and good work creating havoc at the base, always wondered if it was possible to fool the AI with distractions. At first I was WTF is that music but isn't it the old Rambo theme from the Commodore / Amiga ?

  13. Posted

    You will receive updates to the default branch normally. The only way you can "prevent" that is by setting the game to not update explicitly in its "Properties", but you need to do that yourself, so by default you should be getting the updates for the stable branch and only those.

    OK, thanks. I have "Always keep this game up to date" set under the UPDATES tab. Sorry for being dense, but that would mean that my game has been patched in between March 5th to now ? How do I see what updates have taken place, because with the link under that same tab that says "View arma 3 Alpha update history" I get sent to a news page with no kind of information on what updates took place.

    Still struggling with this Steam thingy I guess ....

  15. Posted

    Just a few things that come to mind:

    Try with -winxp switch first.

    How far do you get, to the UI or does it crash before that ?

    Have you tried starting other demanding games or applications. If you have problems with BSOD you may have a bad RAM stick - try Memtest

    another thing is to reinstall, if nothing else, it may move the application data to another place on your harddrive and there could be a bad sector somewhere

  21. Posted

    By no means a complete set of first impressions.

    I am very impressed on how solid it feels (for an alpha version). And it looks and runs quite well. I do not have the most powerful rig, but I did put in an SSD which probably has helped.

    However, my take on accessibility:

    1)

    Seems Alt-Tab does not work ?! Can not switch out of A3A? I dumped a group with me as group leader down in the Editor and experienced that problem. Surely there must be something wrong

    2)

    The quick command from Arma2 (Space key) to select your entire group so that you can issue a group command? It's not there, the controls say it's on the ~ key, but which key is that on an international keyboard. Jeez ....

    I was unable to select my entire group, and to go here to give my feedback for that, I was not able to Alt-tab out. Come on, please fix this.

    Impression is generally very good, however the accessibility could use a bit of TLC

  22. Posted · Edited by Old_Painless

    OnyxPanda, no worries, we've all been new to this.

    Now, I am not familiar with Windows 8, but one thing that strikes me as odd with your setup is DirectX9, perhaps upgrade that to Directx11 and ensure that you have new drivers for your graphics card. That could have some effects on your fps

    The way to check your DirectX version is to run dxdiag.exe and see what it says. Mine says DirectX 11 at the bottom of the first screen (System tab)

    -OP

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