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My average fps dropped from the 260 series drivers (sorry do not remember which one) in the OA benchmark from 81 to 69 with these latest drivers. Not a big deal because gameplay does feel smooth even in cpu limited sp missions. My 3dmark vantage score is still within parameters for my hardware, so im sure its not a bad driver install. As far as the Atoc issue, i do not notice any of that

Are you serious? Well if i am only using 2 cores that might be my problem. . . I got rid of my AMD system due to bad performance in this game, pretty much had it for a week and returned all the parts and built an i7 system. As for your graphics seems fine if thats your fps. The reason mine is at 83 is because I have all the eye candy turned on haha. Drops like that in fps happen due to AI and other things (maybe poor optimization in some levels) it sounds like. I dont tweak my .exe file like others though so that might be an issue for me. My vantage score is 39000

I have not tried that yet. How much of a potential performance hit are we talking about with HT on?

Let us know how the new drivers are! Any gtx 480 owners try them yet?

Ok so i took some previous advice and actually ran around in zargabad without much ai through a multiplayer map (i could not find a single player) and ranged from 47fps to 80+ in the city. So i take it I am fine? . . . andi think the AI is to blame as well as optimization for the mission i am on (running off of a OCZ vertex SSD now), and not texture loading or things like that (but did improve a little with SSD). TO SEVENZ - I have HT enabled, is it suposed to increase performance? The other two things I am not familiar with sorry, but if you could let me know I would appreciate it. TO GEORGE- if benchmarks are good with the game and 3dmark11 i think you are good. The issue may lie in driver support or the game itself

I am not sure about 3dmark11, I use vantage. For metro I would go online and compare it to review benchmarks as I do not own that game....yet

I am not sure, but i would reinstall the game if i were you to see if that helps. I think I am going to get an OCZ Vertex 2 SSD and see if that helps, either way it will finalize my current build and stuff

I am not sure, maybe someone with ati cards can chime in as I have never owned one. That 980x probably screams though. I just wonder if arma is not recognizing both gpu's.

The 5970 is technically sli, and arma doesn't get along with it like other games. So think of it using 1.25 cards instead of 2. At least I think that's how the 5970 works.

Other games run great on my comp and my vantage scores for gpu and cpu are right where they are supposed to be (evga forums have a post for vantage scores with a lot og scores listed). Other maps are great for me in arma, but zargabad must not like an ingame setting or something else

I'm sure it will drop to where you would expect it to, sli is not that great in arma. I got it for other reasons and its just a perk that I can use it in arma. The performance in zargabad is just lower than I thought it would be, although from reading the forums I knew it would be. Just not sure what to blame

So are those getting good framerates have solid state drives and the texture loading off the hard drive for things you can't see (like loading entire buildings in and out) the issue?

Krixxus, thanks for he detailed reply. I only hit low framerates at the begining of the mission 8 (zargabad) when the air support is rolling through. My frames go to 32 frames to 80 something after i get into the middle of the mission, also depending where i am at. I also defrag like crazy, but I just got a WD 1tb caviar black that always comes back as 1% fragmented after installing arma. I am not sure if it is arma, because it was the first game i installed and still have more to go. But the 1% bugs me, but it may not be a big deal. I did E08 and got 81 fps, and that is will 1920x1080, viewdistance at 2400, HDR on High, Post processing on High, video memory at default, and all other settings (including AA and anistropic filtering) on very high.

What settings do you use and what kind of hard drive do you use? If you are getting 60 inside the city I am curious how you have things set up, and is that in single player missions or multiplayer?

2500 I believe. I just left it where it was set by default