rory_pamphilon

Best results can be achieved with windows 7 64bit but don't make the mistake of putting arma 2 on the same physical drive as your windows installation. Making a new partion won't do any good at all, your still relying on one physical disc doing two jobs (arma 2 & windows swapfile / background services) which will make it stutter slot as the hard disc heads jumps back n forth between two jobs. Best way is to hav two hard drives.. One for windows and one for games. This means once ur game is running the drive arma is installed on is doing nothing but streaming arma textures, the other disk takes care of windows requests. Sorry for long winded reply but people commonly think partitioning can boost performance because it looks like in windows like two different drives. Best possible performance would be using an SSD for your games drive.

Iv found a reasonably good setup now that Is good for controlling all vehicles. Now I'm no console noob but you should try giving a pc joypad a whirl. I'm using mouse + keyboard for running and gunning and then use joypad for flying. Infact the way arma 2 let's u configure ur buttons/axis's is so versatile that I can use my (analogue logitech) joypad to fly choppers & planes v accuratley. The benefit of this over a joystick is that I can then jump in a jeep/car/apc/tank/boat and still use the same joypad to control all the vehicles. Driving with a joystick is pretty tricky but with a joypad u can master all vehicles with just one simple controller.