Jacky60
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I also have the strange low pitched slow weird monster from hell AI voices AND frequent texture popping stuttering loading issues regardless of view distance. Trees and buildings pop into existence and sometimes disappear when only a few tens or hundreds of metres away. Textures on some trees are blocky and very poorly rendered with insufficient detail even quite close to player. Also noticed AI repeatedly flying helicopters into the ground and freezing and frequent system hangs where I have to restart whole machine.
Windows 7 64 bit
i7 920 at 4ghz
6gb ram
5970/5870 trifire
Catalyst 10.8-10.10
Image quality also seems to have steadily deteriorated over the last year with vanilla arma 2.
In game setting all very high except post processing disabled aa high, AF very hign HDR normal
patch 1.55
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"the video card and ram should be fine"
Well it depends what you mean by 'fine'. You need a quad core the faster the better and the video card is OK but don't expect an enjoyable gaming experience. I had my I7 at 4ghz and 4890 crossfire which (while a big improvement on E8400 and 4890) was still only capable of 40fps with moderate settings.
Arma 2 is THE most demanding PC game I know of and if you're replacing your cpu and mobo (which you really should) then I would get a SLI/crossfire capable motherboard and at least pair your current card with another.
9800 GTX is no quicker than a radeon 4850 which was released more than two years ago-You're trying to play the World's most demanding video game on low-to mid range hardware from two/three years ago it doesn't take a brain surgeon to appreciate you're going to get abyssmal performance.
http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,687620/ArmA-2-tested-Benchmarks-with-18-CPUs/Practice/
Follow the link for an idea where your system stands
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Bear in mind they're using a 4890-much faster than a 9800GTX and a cpu Athlon 64 4000 rather than 3800x2 and THEY get average 9 frames per second-none of dual core athlons can break 20fps so if you're happy with under 20fps good luck!
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I think you are really going to struggle to get good performance even with low settings with that rig. The CPU is really going to struggle (mostly responsible for fill rate and draw distance) is very borderline and I'm surprised you can play at all. I found my E8400 at 4ghz and radeon 4890 really struggled to give playable frame rates and you're using a cpu that I last used in 2007. Even if you upgrade cpu with the rest of that system you will not get good frame rate.
I spent £2000 on my rig and still not entirely happy with games performance
Two nvidia 460's overclocked in SLI plus a new motherboard plus a 4ghz i750
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-299-IN&tool=3
will get it running nicely for the cheapest price but frankly trying to do anything in this game with your current rig is pretty pointless. The minimum specs of this game are a joke as even with i7 920 at 4ghz plus 5970/5870 trifire I sometimes drop to 30fps with most settings at very high and v low post processing.
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Increased virtual memory size from 10 to 20GB as per hardware spec on box. 10gb on vertex 2, 10gb on WD 500 7200 rpm. Now all is good.
Suggest increase virtual memory (remember this game can often only address 1.5 gb system memory therefore virtual memory on 2 or 3 drives helps or appears to). Only 2 fps between 10.3's and 10.7. All very high apart from shadows =high -view distance 3000-54fps. 1500- 58fps. Increasing page file
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Please send AMD driver team messgae to fix crossfire for Arma 2 OA
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So far there is NO solution to operation arrowhead NOT using crossfire. I'm using afterburner and can safely say that renaming does NOT work, all the other mipmap tweaks or patches DO NOT enable crossfire (I check GPU utilisation with afterburner).
Everything I've read as a possible solution simply doesn't work -ie. people saying crossfire works but no performance increase-clearly xfire wasn't working then.
If anyone can suggest Anything that does enable crossfire please post it.
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These are the people to annoy until they support one of the few games that really needs top end hardware-please follow the link below and we'll get crossfire support sooner
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about the i7. lots have suggested to turn off hyper threading. i would, except windows7 crashes when i do that. i want a confirmation from people that say their i7 was running poorly with hyper threading turned on.
the game's still downloading for me right now. i uninstalled it twice after two failed attempts to get it running past 10fps.
Turn off Hypethreading and you'll get 5-10% better performance probs more. With everything on very high apart from post processing (disabled) and video memory default I get 60 fps pretty consistently (5970+5870 tri-fire).
I'm running windows 7 64 bit and it runs everything fine -very stable.
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Using cat 10.4 and my trifire setup artifacts -triangles flashing textures if I go above 850 core (1.162 volts). The 5970 is overclocked the 5870 at stock but it won't do 900 mhz without lots artifacts in a fgew seconds. GPU temps (especially GPU 2 on 5970) above 60c seem to be the cause yet 5970 supposed to be good til 75-80c.
Have BIS not implemented trifire fully in drivers yet?
PS fans at 100%
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I've gone from a E8400 and a 4890 to (4GHZ 920/1200) to i7 920 (4ghz) 4890 xfire-massive improvement and for first time playable in medium settings to i7 920 (4ghz) and 5970. At 1900/1200 Its gone from headache inducing stutter to playable to beautiful. Draw distance is a real killer and even with i7 4ghz 5970 (oc 920/1200) I keep it on 1200 visibility. But it does look fking fantastic and I just need to get another 5970 or possibly 5870 and it might keep me happy another year.
You HAVE to have a 4 core CPU and at least 4890 x fire setup to enjoy this game (i7 920 and 4890 was still 20 fps stuttering cr-p.
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PS Thats really for multiplayer and I do play with 64 or 128 players but understand that you want loads of RAM, an I7 CPU or quad core 775 /Phenom 2 all overclocked to the max and really a 5870 (4890 xfire is quicker)at least as GPU. You'll get better value buying 2 top of range last gen cards and sli /xfire imho. With a limited budget I'd buy 2 4890's from ebay, a 920 i7 or 860 i7 and UD3/5 mobo and 1600 mhz ram. (mines a 920)
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i7 920 at 4ghz
6gb PC1600 DDR3 RAM
Sapphire 5970 at 920/1250
HAF 932 case
Everything except post processing (which is set to low)set to maximum i.e very high all except AA which is high and shadows on high.
1920x 1200
Benchmark 1 53fps
Benchmark 2 23fps
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Arma 2 does support multi gpu i'm running xfire 4890 and they work fine! Try 10.1 drivers but xfire worked since Sept. My 5970 arrives tmrw will post asap.
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You are clearly CPU limited-increase in quality but not in fps means CPU limitation. Graphics card is upping quality but cannot increase the volume of info from cpu!
I'm at 4.0ghz with i7 and xfire 4890 tmrw i get 5970 and suspect from this that fps will stay the same but need quality to go much higher-4/8 aa (medium or high not low AA)
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4890 crossfire DOES NOT WORK ANY MORE!!!
I have been using win7 home 64 bit on UD5 and i7 920 at 4.0ghz 4890 xfire at 900/1000 haf 932. Crossfire was working fine in arma 2 and no problems until today when i did clean install of arma 2 patched from original disc 1.01 to 1.05 and fresh windows 7 instal (had to get rid of pointless full WD Raptor 36gb drive).
Now xfire does not work??
It did before and I was really having good gameplay-checked it works for 3D mark and other games (3d 06 =24500) but has just stopped working -HELP
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Did a clean re-install of drivers 9.12- all is good with the world!
Afghan Vet Needs Help!
in ARMA 2 & OA - TROUBLESHOOTING
Posted · Edited by Jacky60
Unfortunately you're trying to play Arma 2 on a turd of a system. The only thing worth keeping on your current PC is the operating system. The solution without spending a lot more than you seem to be prepared to is to set all the settings to an absolute minimum with 500 metre draw distance. However this game will look and play awfully even at those settings on your PC. Its like entering a Formula 1 Grand Prix riding a lawnmower. There is nowhere near enough power to get you anywhere near where you want to be.