Reezo

SR5 Tactical Roadblock Duty by Reezo v1.0 - March 11th, 2011 Visit us at: www.sr5tactical.net Description: Your unit is called to perform some roadblock duty after infantry and armored divisions have cleared some towns in Southern Takistan. The civilian population from that area is likely to flee using the road you are guarding. Insurgent forces might try and escape by blending with the locals. This is why you are going to stop and inspect every vehicle coming your way. Features: - Enjoy the boring and adventurous task of performing some roadblock duty - Play at dusk, dawn, evening or night - ACE Wounding - Random cars and random civilians driving them or riding along with the driver - Possible insurgents trying to use the civilians as cover for their escape - Different reactions: some may stop, some may get scared, some insurgents can see you and start a fight, others can try and break through the roadblock to escape - Possible IEDs and car-bombs - IED Detection and Disposal script v1.5RC6 - Keep your gun on the suspect to avoid him triggering bombs, while the engineer checks for IEDs. Triggermen will freeze if you keep your weapon pointed at them. DO NOT take your crosshairs off the suspect at any time! (script-based reactions and calculations) - Realistic gear and equipment - Completely randomized for maximum re-playability - Many other small, nice and hidden features Requirements: - Advanced Combat Environment 2 (Core) (tested on V1.9RC2) - Advanced Combat Environment 2 (Extras) Credits: SR5 Tactical, my men ;) Downloads: please do not mirror these files so I can continue to provide a one-way destination for future updates For feedback, email me at info(at)sr5tactical.net or shout your thoughts here. Enjoy and have fun, see you on the battlefield, - Reezo

You are building the best gaming PC money can buy at the moment - from my modest amount of expertise on the matter, don't worry about it, it will be awesome!

I am going to be live on Twitch this weekend, talking about the three mods that I am about to release through VTO: Improved Grenades Urban View Distance TacVis I'll be showcasing, playing, testing, coding! Follow me and don't miss out: http://twitch.tv/OperatorReezo thanks to JAS Black Ops Helmets for the amazing base in-game shot!

Hello everyone! It's been quite some time. I guess most people here won't recognize me nor should they. I'll go straight to the point: I am going to stream the whole ArmA 3 campaign and scenarios from all DLCs, to raise funds for charities and causes you and I believe in. I work with a bunch of very talented people here in Berlin. This startup I am in features some incredibly selfless and resourceful people that are willing to make some change happen in the world. A couple of months ago we brainstormed a new project that - on the side - involves video games and streaming. We are all gamers in the team but our work does not directly relate to games, although some of the people in the team (myself included) do work to develop content that ends up being used for companies, outside of said startup. It took my friends more than one Moscow Mule, a trip to Praha for some good beers and maybe some Bratwurst (you can't just drink, right?) to involve me in the project. Each one of us has a game that got picked by others.. and they picked ArmA 3 for me. Now, it took them time to persuade me because after my long-term and passionate involvement with ArmA 2 and Operation Arrowhead, I took a massive break from gaming and ArmA in general. I've never - don't laugh - even watched a video about ArmA 3.. maybe 20-30 screenshots to this date, in general. Even if I had ArmA 3 gifted to me as soon as it came out. I guess I needed some time off, in addition to my life taking some pretty big turns. Anyway now, driven by some not-so-happy happenings in the life of a dear couple friend of mine, we decided to act and so.. I said yes. I've spent the last couple weeks building my new rig and - with the help of @Groove_C @oldbear @Tankbuster @HaseDesTodes in here and many other people who wrote me on Reddit and privately... I am *almost* done. I must thank my colleagues and the people "from the upper floor" as they provided me with hardware that, honestly, would have not been so quick to acquire. You can take a look at the rig and my battle station, here or below.. https://imgur.com/gallery/FQB3T4x What are the specs of your rig? I started with this rig: And then I had the opportunity to change the motherboard and CPU, not because I had to but because a friend/colleague who was streaming a different game asked me if we could do the swap.. his game would benefit from the multi-core AMD and he told me ArmA 3 would be equal if not better on the Intel.. so my rig was updated to: (I highlighted the components that changed) If you are interested, I did benchmark the two rigs to compare how they did on ArmA 3: How to watch/follow the stream: Get on Twitch and follow me on Twitch.tv/OperatorReezo (Replays will be available in the future) What to do, when to do it: You don't have to do anything but it will be great if you join and actively participate. I'll be playing the campaign and I have NEVER seen it, even launched it once. So that's gotta be pretty funny indeed. We'll talk about tactical decisions, lore, context, back-story, role-playing, AI, glitches, bugs, things I will do really wrong and so on and so forth. It should be fun and also ArmA is so unpredictable that it won't be like many other streaming sessions around. How I would like to expand this, in the future: If this project takes off, I'd be happy to stream bigger scenarios with people online, recording everything from multiple "helmet cams" and then doing a post de-briefing analyzing what happened and how. We can join forces with fellow map makers to prepare missions that allow one "eye in the sky" to gather data that can be used for the de-briefing, plus all the recordings from players (their "helmet cams"). The way I see it in my head.. it's gonna be pretty cool! Why today? It's been exactly 10 years since I joined this forum. That's why. Do you have a Twitch account as well? Let's follow each other! I am totally new there.. I can use friends! Are you going to talk about your rig and discuss PC builds as well? As a geek, you bet I'll do it. We might swap some parts together and see how things explode.. I mean, work for the better! You play war games and then raise money against war? I do. I am a very peaceful person and believe that this world could be much better, without much effort. Unfortunately the simplest things are the hardest to achieve and even if I am very lazy, I gotta admit the past few years made me get out and do more. I am not a hero in this world nor am I a role-model for anyone, I don't pretend to be one but I know I am going just a bit further out to make this world a better place than it is now. I am a Star Trek fan, that also probably plays a part in how I've always seen things. Where to find more info on this initiative and gifts for supporters: Patreon Twitch Twitter How to donate: Using this PayPal link Through the patreon.com/vto Using this QR Code

I agree that in Arma 3 (as with any other game, in my modest opinion) pushing for higher and higher FPS is pretty much useless if you don't maintain a high average and/or suffer from dips/stutters/slowdowns. Being efficient and effective with the latter especially is a nightmare and can hinder your game experience, making you look somewhere else than Arma 3. Once it happens a couple times that you start a nice op only to find yourself in a town or busier area and "feel" the sluggishness, all your pulse is kinda ruined. It's also true that if you optimize, tweak and OC for better performance, you will get pretty much all three: higher fps, higher average, less dips. But it's not always like this.. as some tweaks are more effective at lower dips than others, for example, without granting you too much in higher fps peaks. All in all, the faster you can get everything, the better.. but that's pretty much old news. Lucky for us all the new systems work pretty well for Arma 3 if you can take your head away from the fps battle and enjoy gaming (I know being a geek myself sometimes both things can be fun ;)).

That's great, thanks @Gunter Severloh! Glad you liked what I did. Again, I did try and be the least invasive to the system, only adding a bit more damage to the Vanilla system. Yes it could be taken further with animations and a more elaborate injury system but I don't know what the Arma 3 system already does to calculate what has been hit and how so I didn't want to throw in more data. I've got to say (as you noticed by the guy prone who only got injured but didn't die) that so far it works and it's the least amount of code I could put in to bend the Vanilla system just enough for things not to be unrealistic. The bunny still cracks me up, it's a gem given the sped up audio/video of that example eheh It happened for real, it's in one of my recent streams.. even with all the possible coincidences, that marksman hiding on the first floor took 2/3 grenades and still did not die.. it was my AI that killed him. Facepalm!

I realize this is mostly for me as I am playing through the Vanilla campaign but I noticed that both hand grenades and 40mm rounds that I explode at less than 5m from targets are not as effective as I would like them to be. Other grenades (the ones thrown to my face) are actually very good at killing me. So I developed this script, currently under development and which I shall post soon.. stay tuned.

Hi there! Thanks for the hint, that could be a way but I don't want to head in that direction: I wanted the least obtrusive way to just add a little oomph (= killing power) to the grenades I throw, so the mod I wrote just basically follow the thrown grenade, verifies visibility and cover from all potential targets in the kill radius + shrapnel zones and adds a very small coefficient to the damaged unit, based on that. I believe this to be be the least obtrusive way and it obviously is something that I developed for Vanilla Single Player as - if you use other mods in multiplayer - my guess is this has been already more than addressed by bigger mod packs that everybody uses out there (especially given the amount of Coop vs AI that is played in ArmA 3). Grenades that were thrown AT ME by the AI were perfectly fine, .. even their aim is remarkable eheh so nothing to adjust on that (aka I got killed nicely more than once by thinking "they're never gonna get me in here.. OOPS THEY TOSSED A NADE :))

It's kind of working out!

Some sweet updates during testing. This is a fun clip!

I just finished some hours of testing (and lots of recovering BIOS for wrong values) and I can confirm that RAM overclocking did help on Intel as well: On my i7 rig I was able to boot my 3200 CL14 2x8GB sticks to 4000 15-15-15-36 Anyway, the average improvement is +6% average fps on five tests I performed, for LOW settings. At ULTRA settings the benefit reaches +5%. The important value to consider is, however, the "lowest FPS" which got an average of +7% higher than before. Anyway, all good finds! 100.3fps in YAAB @ LOW was fun to watch, even if useless 🙂

Some of you who followed my stream know that I was able to put my hands on two great rigs, thanks to the good colleagues and friends I have (kudos to them). I did spend a bit of time to benchmark both rigs - that differ only in the CPU and Motherboard - to get an idea on which one was "best" for ArmA 3 in 2020. Some details on the testing: the benchmark scenario is YAAB v1.0 created by Greenfist each setting (low/ultra) was tested 5 times and I picked the best of 5 the delta was consistently ~2 fps for each run, in both rigs this means that the difference in % between the worst AMD run and the worst Intel run is the same difference between the average AMD and the average Intel.. and the same between the best AMD and the best Intel I did run the same background tasks and killed unnecessary things, trying to keep things as consistent as possible I did keep the NVIDIA Drivers the same (the latest released at the time of the test) Things I want to make clear: I am not bashing any brand or taking a side, I do not own any of the two rigs I compared so I am not even attached to them on financial grounds I'd be happy to answer your questions in case you are about to spend money and want to have more info before committing I am not an expert at overclocking but I did document myself at the best of my possibilities before committing (especially in order to avoid breaking stuff that is not mine) I did get a lot of help from people in here, namely Oldbear, Groove_C and Tankbuster, plus on other channels by other people I am opening this thread so it's easier to find for future reference I had fun making this comparison and I hope this is as much fun to you when watching it I noticed AMD vs Intel topics can get pretty toxic (as if other threads wouldn't) but I know the ArmA 3 community knows better See you on the field

Makes sense but trust me, I did ..and - if it was crashing in one of the five tests - I proceeded to trash all tests and find a BIOS setting that was stable. The 5 runs I had all benched within 2 fps delta. The worst bench from AMD and the worst bench from Intel at the same settings are still the same % apart. Even if I had taken the best of AMD and the worst of Intel, the Intel would still be over +10% better average fps. Again, I can't stress enough that this is what happened here in my beloved room 🙂

Hi @Groove_C I am sorry to hear I did not give you anything back after all the help you gave me. I thought somehow this could be added to the pool of tests all people out there did, with the same degree of real-world bench. I thought actually benching two identical builds that differ only in motherboard and CPU ("only" being still a lot, obviously) was something else. 1) I did test 5x each setting and took the best result of 5. I have to say anyway that all results were equally far off of no more than 2FPS so the delta is maintained whether I use the best, the worst or the average of 5. I had no anomalies in the results in AMD or Intel. Just a normal 2 fps delta at most. When I say Intel was % better better than AMD I could pretty much keep that difference in all five tests (worst of, best of, average) 2) As I said I did not manage to OC the RAM on Intel but that was not the point of the video, I did overclock the two systems at the best that I could using their strong points. I guess if I had overclocked the memory on Intel I would have even had better results, thus making the Intel build even more ahead of the AMD (that's a natural guess) 3) I did close all unnecessary tasks and tests were done in the most equal conditions I could. Is there any video out there that you could point out that could give a clearer picture than mine? I am sorry I haven't found one before making my own, it could have been a good inspiration. I believe saying "it cannot be considered at all" is a bit of a stretch.. I mean I find it hard to believe I did something completely useless? To me (and I am just entitled as much as anybody else in here) it was a great hard proof to see that in both conditions (even my own two hands building the rigs) I was able to see the numbers of how things felt. I already said that both rigs were perfectly playable and enjoyable, I don't think I am even bashing any of the two? I've read that you are cable of unbiased thought and also added you to the credits in the video because of all the help you gave me, I cannot possibly fathom that I made something totally unacceptable 🙂 And then again, it's just some guy (me) making some test, come on, cheer up brother, come over here and gimme a hug 🙂

I was able to finish the conclusions video before I get attacked on my brand new, unfixed i7! Less than 10 minutes, people, here it is, the final answer for me:

teasing ;))

Couldn't agree more. Stay tuned, tomorrow I'll add a chapter related to pushing the RAM in ArmA 3 from my 5GHz profile I have. I played a simple mission today 100% in urban area in Altis and I was like "uuuuuuh babeeeee" <--yes.

Definitely worth talking about it tomorrow in an addendum episode, I was clearly able to get +5fps from 80 to 85 at low settings, just by randomly going from 3200 CL14 to 3733 CL16 without even being serious at it. At ULTRA settings I did not get any improvement but I guess because the CPU/GPU are more under stress (I kept the stock CPU values..) the faster RAM does not make that much of a difference. Once I bring it back to 5GHz I am sure it will be able to squeeze some more FPS out of the system, or possibly even raise the lowest minimum because of the lower latency (I'd rather have lower 1% minimum than higher FPS as I am a G-Sync player at 75Hz lol :)) I had not noticed that the motherboard was doing what it wanted after unsuccessful training.. in my Asus x470 I would either die not posting or post successfully (and maybe crash in Windows.. but still..) here the motherboard is assessing and lowering values in case of initial inability to post.. that was deceiving 😉

Can't install that because I have a Gigabyte otherboard.. -- Anyway, thanks! Here's what I found out: I had not noticed that during training the BIOS was lowering my OC settings for RAM when not working.. and I though it was training fine as on the AMD I either got to POST or to not POST.. interesting! I just got 85fps instead of 80fps at low settings by going from 3200 14-14-14-34 to 3733 16-16-16-36 Command Rate: 1 .. and I did not even try a serious RAM overclock.. All secondary and tertiary are still on auto.. wow! This worth a second episode! Thanks,

Thanks @Groove_C - very useful. So far I am benching exactly the same, no benefit: (CPU ON STOCK) RAM 3200 CL14 1.35v = LOW: 53.5 // HIGH: 80.5 RAM 3600 CL14 (same primary timings but all auto on the others) = LOW: 79.9 // HIGH: 52.4 I am clearly not getting anything out of this so far and that's because the timings might be adapting themselves (given the many "Auto" I have). Experimenting more, now! Live! Hot! Amazing 🙂 UPDATE: Finding out lots of things about this! So good! Thanks, I am doing this live in the stream and there's a lot to be learnt!

Sorry if I seemed to be arguing, I actually wanted to know more about this. I am actually live streaming this: I set my i7 9700K at stock CPU + XMP Profile and run YAAB. Then I am going to overclock the memory and see what kind results this yields. You are welcome to join (as is everybody else) on my channel, I am live, there!

@Groove_C Intel CPUs don't benefit as much as AMD CPUs from RAM overclocking, while AMD CPUs don't benefit as much as Intel CPUs from CPU overclocking. This at least, we know 🙂

Here is today's episode about "AMD vs Intel for ArmA 3: Which is Best?!" for those who missed it.

Got it! Thanks! Stay tuned later tonight for my live stream in which I'll reveal the results. Looking forward to have a healthy geek talk with myself and possibly fellow ArmA 3 veterans 🙂 UPDATE: Found the setting.. it is now called Uncore Ratio on Gigabyte boards, or Ring Ratio.. they are the same. I am now at 47 before the 43 it was before. So 4.7GHz which should scale correctly against the 5GHz core. Perfectly stable so far!

Ah! I haven't ventured into overclocking the cache, yet.. do you have a guide for it, maybe? Thanks @Groove_C <--bottomless pit of knowledge 😉