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Cheap way to play ArmA2: 1. Sell your copy (it is still worth quite much) and your computer (not much) 2. Buy XBOX360 from ebay. Use your money from ArmA2 copy and comp. 3. Wish that you would get ArmA2 for x-mas present WHEN it is released to XBOX360. And btw. 4 gigs of memory isn't even close enough running ArmA2 in any way. Many of us have 8 or so, and they still get 20 FPS sometimes. :bounce3:

I have found everything I need, but the technical help/support forum should be cleaned from useless posts/rants and all the tricks that you might try to get better FPS should be in one post only. Big collection, one part for ATI and one for Nvidia, one for XP users and one for Vista/7 users or something. They are all messed up. Search function is quite useless unless you can use telepathy to quess all the magic words to find the things you are looking for. Usually using just 3 or 5 words still give you hundreds of posts and only 1 percent of these might actually give you some answers.

1.05 isn't far away I think. just wait. :)

Those 3 large "tanks". Look West of that, you'll see low bulding, he is in the corner, lying down. You can see hes barrel. Good way to bring him down: Run from the beginning to the east side of the "tanks". You will see half opened steel gate in the area where the tanks are. Rush in. Tanks should be on your right, and in front of you also low building, hangar of somekind. On your left the wall that closes tanks in this area. Run to the wall of the hangar building on your front and go to the north corner (right again). Zoom to the northeast, you'll see that low building behind the tanks, check out the roof, take him down. Don't go too close. :)

how long have you wait to pop-up the textures?

Is there a way to get enemy units to more than 1.0? This game is way too easy... :) 5.0 would be good.

Apache Longbow was great... :)

are there urban areas in ArmA2? :confused:

Just think of games like GTA4. It is free world, big and even more detailed. It also looks better. They just did things different way in that one. GRAW1 and GRAW2, huge world with thousands of buildings in sight, not just small village with 4 different types of buildings. Fallout3, Oblivion, Farcry2, STALKER... huge worlds, huge detail, done in different way again. Shame that GTA4, GRAW2, Oblivion, Fallout3, STALKER and Farcry2 are bad, bad games. But just because this game doesn't look that good, the AI isn't ground breaking, the cities are actually quite small, the world doesn't have rivers (water usually takes good comp to look nice) and so on... the framerate problems are quite stupid. :)

There are ways, most of them illegal. :rolleyes: Just use your original. :)

True for most part, but that "most buildings" isn't very true. :D

I prefer my own language, but sadly it isn't in ArmA2. :p And to clarify, I want my own language only to menus and in text format, not in voice acting.

I hope you didn't upgrade your comp just because of this game. See my sig. Try 400x300 windowed resolution with all off, you still get 22FPS or something. The problem is in this game, not in your computer, just live with that and wait for fix in the future. My friend has Radeon HD5970 Black Edition with 2GB. Watercooled. i7 975 processor, overclocked to 3.6Ghz and tons of memory (don't remember). She still gets something like 20FPS in ArmA2, no matter what settings. :)

bug, restart from previous location

Well that computer can't run ArmA2, that is for sure. I think that there isn't actually any computer in the world that can. But yes... "running" means huge frames. Huge frames in ArmA2 means 20FPS, some other games... well 600 or something. :bounce3:

true. in war there is best to use simple things that take heat, water and dirt without going down. also they are easy to repair... try to fix AC unit on field... if you have done some repairing on civilian vehicles A/C systems you know what I'm writing here. high pressures, takes right/rare tools, cooling liquid must be pure, lubrication solvents must be injected right amounts, UV water shit and it takes right computer systems and pressurizers to get those things working.

I always shoot my friendlies as soon as I can, so I can go solo. I really don't create any friendships just because that would suck if they die later on. Sadly in this game that isn't always possible, so I just have to order them as far back as I can.

At least in our army, we primed our grenades always. It would be foolish to throw one without it, unless you want that enemies will throw it back. I don't mind about the bad aim in grenades thou.. you should always throw your grenade in same manner to avoid mistakes, as high as possible and as far as possible. :)

Well then... If that makes you feel any better, that "drag" option is useless anyways, and you don't miss a thing. :confused:

They will not send you new one, they will send you the cheaper one. :bounce3::bounce3::bounce3::bounce3:

Crashed somehow, start all over again. When you choose the drag (scroll your mouse, and middle click on drag), you should be able to move slowly, just walk backwards (S key by default). :j:

new nVidia drivers (released 5th day of this month) doesn't give any frames in ArmA2, the promised 12% of performance is given to low end cards or GT, GTS series, not GTX. Also that performance didn't increase even one frame to me, so it must be only for those who use high AA. :(

still having 10 fps... I'll be more happy when this game is actually playable. other than that, nice that you fixed something, I'll check it out after the next patch is out that also gives me 30fps more. :)

when is 1.05 out? is it even coming? are they doing operation arrowhead instead, and forgetting this one? :j:

I have GTS250 myself and the game is totally unplayable in cities, everything OFF (or LOW if there isn't OFF, view distance at 500, 640x480 resolution), I get something like 15FPS. In forested areas it is something like 25FPS. So goodbye to ArmA2 for me, I have buyer already. I will test this game much later on when new patches are around. I have 3 gigs memory on XP 32bit and get decend frames in every other game easily, even topped out graphics. It is ArmA2, not your power.