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  1. Posted

    You're met with everything from:

    "Why don't you enlist when if you want that?"

    "X generic shooter sold X amount of copies, how many did arma sell?"

    then I explain how the depth alienates some but rewards others in a way no game has. Then I get:

    "X space shooter is pretty hardcore too, ever play on legendary?"

    then I say it's not about 'hard' it's about nuance and we go back to:

    "Why don't you enlist if you're so hardcore?"

    and I say I'm not! It's the game that's hardcore.

    Rinse repeate. If they don't wanna learn I can't teach them.

  2. Posted

    I haven't seen the show but it sounds like they maybe compared stats of the weapons and compared training. In a real battle or even war games anything can happen. It would likely come down to the better commander. Not just defending the US here. On paper you'd think the insurgency in Iraq would be a joke against the coalition forces however at times the insurgency was extremly effective.

  4. Posted

    I'd recommend a 5770, I'ts a lot faster then what you have now and will probably run all games for years to come. again make sure your psu can handle it. You should be ok with any psu that has a 6-pin pci-e connector since the 5770 doesn't use much compared to other cards, it's even less than the 4850.

    I can second the 5770. I play on mostly high settings with a view distance of 1200 and it gets pretty good performance. 44 fps in benchmark 1. For 180ish it's probably one of the cheapest cards that can max most details in game.

    Now I have a question. Would crossfiring my 5770 be benificial in arma? Would the game make use of the extra video memory? This is something I want to eventually do but I'm held back because 1) I am not sure arma would even care and 2) despite reviews I find the card to be quite loud and two would probably force me to turn the volume way up or buy nice headphones.

  5. Posted

    I doubt it ;)

    ArmA 2 isn't really GPU reliant beyond a point. 5970CF are heavily limited by CPU horsepower, even a 980x is not enough to drive those effectively.

    Only 10 days until shiny new Nvidia cards :)

    /rubshands

    It's a common thought that pc developers just want to make the most demanding games out there and sell newer hardware. The developers don't make money from hardware, they make it on game sales. They want as many people playing as possible. The day a game comes out that requires a $400+ GPU is the day I stay home playing old games.

  7. Posted

    Hi,

    today, suddenly i was not able to open a door on a user made island that i normally could open with actionmenu "Open Door".

    Then i loaded Chenerus and saw that the doors of nearly all buildings that are accessible are opened from the start and not closed.

    But on Chenerus i was able to open and close these doors.

    Is this normal (ArmA2 1.05) ?

    Opening doors is glitchy as hell. Some you have to stand 10 meters from to open, others I just can't get to open because it's like there is a magical blade of grass you have to be standing on the door open option to pop up. I hate that when you see it flash for a split second and you can't find the sweet spot.

  8. Posted

    You can see my specs in my sig. And the videocard is 4850. The CPU is Phenom II X2 550 BE turned Phenom II X4 "B50". All of that costs some $500 or even less and I run AA2 @ 2.5 km view distance (which is more than enough) with everything maxed out but grass (and only because it's hard to see stuff through it lying down) at 1680x1050 with 2x MSAA and it runs fine. The non-critical, although noticeable framerate drop happens only when looking through forest into a town - two most laggiest BIS things.

    So pump up your budget a little and you will have a good enough PC to run AA2. In fact it is more optimized than AA1 (this system runs Sahrani in AA2 at the same settings with 10km viewdistance at 40 FPS avg now try doing that in AA1)

    Can you post your benchmark results? I'm having trouble believeing you are getting great performance with any kind of AA and view distance at 2500km on that machine. I have a 965 BE @stock 3.4 and HD5770 @ 850 core, 1100 memory(I think) and AA just kills chernarus. Afghani and smaller mod maps are one thing, but running AA on chernarus with that view distance kills my fps.

    Okay, benchmark 1 with everything on high except terrain and no AA or post process with the view distance at 1200 I got 44 fps average.

    Benchmark 1 with everything on high except terrain, AA on normal, no post process and view distance at 2500 I got 20 fps average.

    1920x1080 btw.

  10. Posted

    I've heard a lot about this game, no actual features or anything. What can you tell me about this game?

    The meat and bones of this game is the editor. You can create any kind of battle you want with hundreds of units fighting. You have everyting from ground troops to tanks to jets to place where you want. For example here I created a mission where about 50 marines, 8 apaches, 2 M1A1'a and 2 A-10's attack an insurgent hotbed town with about 90 terrorist who have trucks with machine guns and rockets. I play a spotter who laser tags targets to support the air and ground troops(from a safe distance). Sry, almost no sound.

    With a little experience I created this in about an hour. You can also create more realistic scenarios but I think more boom is better.

  12. Posted

    GTA4 isn't the most deep game ever it just has incredible replayability in that you can have gun fights and total war in a semi living urban enviornment with everything from pistols to rockets to attack helicopters and apcs. It's the closest thing to total urban war on console in my opinion. But that's only online. Single player is snoozy and repetitive.

    If rockstar produced arma there would be 8 minute custscenes, on rails shooting segments, gay jokes, wangs, and too much over the topness. Maybe it would be best if rockstar made their own way into the wargames.

  13. Posted

    Ok guys, due to an investment from a family member, my budget is now $1500 (or 1,100 euros). Any additions/modifications to this list:

    i5-750

    asus p7h57d-v evo motherboard

    http://tinyurl.com/yj89jx5 for hardrive

    looking for a good case

    don't know about memory, but DDR3 obviously

    I also need help picking a cooling system, because i intend to overclock.

    Other components yet to be decided.

    Any recommendations appreciated, thanks

    Just my 2 cents, you can get an AMD phenom 965 processor for the same price and it's a quad 3.4 stock. Honestly I think you can get the performance you want for half that price, otherwise it looks like you'll end up with 8 gigs of ram and/or $500 GPU if you wanted to spend your whole budget.

  14. Posted

    Hi Beastxxwar!

    with your budget(<$1000) you can build an excellent gaming pc.

    only no complete system! choose singular best buy hardware components

    and find a good experienced installer.

    I'm on Intel core I7 but in my opinion AMD platforms are clearly

    superior in high performance budget system

    some examples (prices from Newegg.com):

    -Asus M4A79XTD Evo - $109.99 (best buy AM3 motherboard)

    -AMD Phenom IIx4 965 BE 3.4Ghz - $179.99 (great for simple overclocking)

    -G.Skill 2x2Gb DDR3 1600

    Thermaltake W0319RU 850W - $204.99 (combo special price)

    -Sapphire 5770 VaporX 1Gb - $164.99 (cool temperatures/very quiet)

    -WD Digital Caviar Black 750Gb -$159.99 (2xraid0)

    -Antec Nine Hundred 2BS - $109.99 (case)

    total $930 + cost of building labor (maybe $100?)

    just an example obviously!

    bye all

    ps:sorry for my english.

    I have pretty much this system allthough I got it for $600 because I went with a cheaper 600watt psu, a $20 case, got a Cpu MoBo combo deal for $230 and a $99 seagate 1TB which is a little slow but workable. I've had some issues with the 5770 but it's performance is great. I would crossfire it but given that it still crashes on me at least twice a week I just can't bring myself to buy another one.

  15. Posted

    Anybody know how well these specs will handle this game?

    AMD Phenom II X4 965 (3.40GHz)

    8GB DDR3 RAM

    x2 Ati Radeon 5850 in Crossfire

    Windows 7

    Will it handle it amazingly, great or just okay?

    Similar to my system, I think you will be very pleased. Right now I think my bigges inhibitor is my hard disk. It scores only a 5.9 in my windows performance monitor dealy. But anyway, just keep your view distance reasonable(1800-mid2000) and don't go crazy with AA or the post process effects. And you should see mostly 50-60 frames outside the campaign.

  17. Posted

    Surely thats going to be a software issue, there are too many variables to be able to categorically state that all 5770 cards crash. What OS you using?

    I didn't mean to say it's guaranteed to lock up. Mine unfortunately does during extended play periods. It has crashed during Oblivion, Arma 2, and Sims 3(my girlfriends, I swear!). I'll admit I didn't do much research but a quick check of google and I found a few people in my boat.

    Windows 7

    AMD Phenom X4 965 Black @ Stock 3.4

    M4785TD-V EVO

    Mushkin 2GB x 2 DDR3 1333

    HD5770 1GB @ 850MHz core 1200MHz memory

    More than enough cooling equipment

    I had the card at about 900MHz and it tested fine but crashed constantly. At default clocks the card is by far more stable but coming from console land ANY crashing is very frustrating.

  20. Posted

    PC Gaming simply isn't pushing the limits of technology at present.

    this is something I found surprising and true. I reentered the pc gaming market 6 months ago after a decade long hiatus(my purchase history on pc goes half life, arma 2, bioshock 2) yes an 11 year gap.

    My $600 machine runs these games on high. Bioshock only looks marginally better than the 360 version. I'm a little let down.

  21. Posted

    It's all good bud. I've done a lot of testing with a lot of units and believe me when I tell you I wish they did more for ArmA 2 than simply speeding up the load times :(

    I'm not questioning you because I haven't tested any ssd at all but it does seem odd that loading screens would speed up however there would be no difference in loading in game assets. It would only make sense to me that loading would be faster all around. But then again this is a BIS game we are talking about and sense went out the window a long time ago.

  22. Posted

    ssd's what is this? I was going to get an 275 gtx to help out the load textures so im not seeing most objects popping in and out like trees ect... But i would like to know what this ssd's is, if it will make it much better for the loads, so that when getting next to an vehicle it just dont pop into fourm.

    Ssd = solid state drive = no mechanical movement = very fast hard drive.

  23. Posted

    Question: Is 7200 RPMs fast enough to stream this 8Gb of of Chernarus? If not what is

    Thank You

    Should be fine. It's only a little stutter here and there and maybe the trees gain another level of detail as you get within 100 meters and they look like they morph a bit. You'd only need 4 gigs of ram as well however the rest of that pc is a tank so you can maybe go for 6.

  24. Posted

    Gots an question about vid card. We all know that ArmA 2 LOD is not the best, but would just getting an new vid card make it to where the trees are not popping in and out when you get close to them? Or how the vehicles wheels at an distance look square? Its like when you get close to vehicles they finlay pop into forum of what there post to be looking like. Gots an nice 9800 GT runs very good but im having them issues with trees, vehicles just popping into view with the square tires and all.

    Most people agree a lot of the problem is hard disc speed. Arma streams through 8 gigs of data as you move around chernarus. That said a 9800gt might be a tad slow.

    ---------- Post added at 08:58 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:49 PM ----------

    Hey guys, I was looking at purchasing this in hopes that I can run Arma II in high settings. I would appreciate knowing if this will be possible and/or I need to change or upgrade some things.

    Dell Studio XPS 9000:

    Intel® Core™ i7-960 processor(8MB L3 Cache, 3.2GHz)

    Windows® 7 Professional, 64bit,

    12GB Tri-Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1066MHz - 6 DIMMs

    1TB 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drive

    ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB GDDR5

    Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio

    Good to see you take my advice. Arma 2 won't even touch 10 of those gigs of ram you have. And other than that you are spending way too much all around for a game that can only run so well anyway. $700 is the absolute most you should have to spend to get high settings. You can only go up to a certain point until you are limited by your HD.

  25. Posted

    If you're going to buy a system get a phenom II or core i5-750, a proper psu and an ati 5770 or another recent $140-ish videocard

    Double this!!!:D

    I have the Phenom 965 black and 5770 and I get 40-50fps on the benchmarks with everything on HIGH except terrain, AA, and PP effects. This is like $500 in parts for a pc that plays this game on HIGH settings people!:yay: Occasional stuttering and pop in cant be avoided until further streaming optimization on BIS's end.:rolleyes:

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