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Hi guys I am one of the Senior admin over at Battlegroup-XTRA and have a got a member who is having a number of problems trying to log onto one of our combined ops servers. Hes has got both Arma 2 and OA from steam (not combined OPs version), when he tries to log onto the server he gets told invalid key and wrong patch version. In the process of diagnosing the problem i notice that the steam version is different to the server version. We have tried to combine the arma 2 and OA together and have change the registry with no luck. He is able to log onto our dedicated OA only server (but that is only a small test server). If he uses the beta patch will that allow him to come onto our servers without needing to have the same OA patch as the server. If this is not a solutions any help would be greatly appreaciated. Thanks Mads ---Battlegroup-XTRA Senior Admins "we are here to help"

Hey guys I am one of the senior admin and technical expert from the BAttlegroup XTRA clan (host of the most popular ACE-warfare server). I have been tweaking the OA game to get maximum fps (as got horrible stuttering with the game at first). There are two factors which need to be looked at; 1) If you have crossfire you will need to enable it as it OA does not have native support for Crossfire (at the moment). - the two methods are, change the arma2OA.exe to Arma2.exe (but can mean that Arma2OA will startup as Arma2 instead sometimes) or use a program called ATI XFIRE XTENSION (http://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?id=121774) also found on the bohemia forum. 2) To reduce the stuttering you need to add -cpucount=2/4/6 -exThreads=7 to the start parameters (depending on number of processors as it states on the front page), this has noticable effects due to the OA not being optimised for dual/quad/hexcore processors. 3) The latest 10.6 drivers reduces performance and causes more LOD delays (i am currently using 10.4 drivers which help the LOD) 4) To increase the performance remove post processing (disable) and set memory to medium. 5) Depending on your setup i would recommend to use medium setting with high terrain for a GTX 460 or 5770, up the levels to high for 5850 or GTX 470 and very high for GTX 480 5870 or 5970. 6) for older cards you should still get good performance just make sure you set levels to medium or high not very high, AA has no major effect on the FPS, but allows for crisper graphics. These are the setting that have been reported by other XTRA members and settings that i have tested. I have also tested on a old PC e8400, 2gb ram, 8800 GTX and with all setting at medium or high i get between 35-45 fps in towns. My current spec is as follows Core i7 920 4.4 GHz 6 GB ram (2000 MHz) 2*5870 (900/1250 XFX new bios) 1000w PSU Custom Water cooling (dual and triple in a cosmos case:) - XTRA-PCs are for sale come october if you interested email me at [email protected] for a custom quote ---THe BATTLEGROUP-XTRA COMMUNITY ARE ALWAYS INTERESTED IN HELPING-- visit us www.Battlegroup-XTRA.eu