=-A*C-=NicO

Hi everyone, This is my first post on this forum, although I'm playing Arma 2 since it has been released. I'm a member of the French team Air Commando =[A*C]=. So let's talk about performance : since the release of the 1.55 patch, we've been really angry towards Bohemia since our client side part of the game has became quite unplayable, with many FPS drops and a real loss in reactivity (hum well the server part is a problem too, we're running a Debian box - multithreading is awful on Linux). We've tried many tweaks provided on this thread, we lowered our graphic specs, deleted the CFG, but we couldn't get the smoothness of the 1.54 patch. Until yesterday. I own a core2duo 6400 and an ATI 4890 (not bleeding edge I admit, but powerfull enough for many things) as a lot of my teammates, and totally lost, I tried the -exThreads=7 option, as a last try before giving up. Although it is not recommanded on a dual core, that was my only remaining option. And guess what ? I was running the 1.55 on a 15 FPS basis with many drops, and know after a few tests, I can say that it is now twice the previous value : 25-30 FPS (with even 60 sometimes !!! and for the lowest 15-20 in a few zones). It is WAY MORE ACCEPTABLE THAN BEFORE. My game is now playable again! What I understood after a few readings is that -exThreads=7 cannot be handled by some low end dual core, but the 6400 is powerfull enough to cope with that. Other people who tried it with me told me the same, huge gain in smoothness, and in some cases in FPS too. So here is my advice : delete the CFGs as stated before, use the -exThreads=7, and enjoy! I'll go on with some tests tonight to see if it does not bring some side problems, but what I can tell you now is that the only drawback are some textures or LODS popping a bit too late. But hell, SMOOTHNESS AGAIN !!!! =[A*C]= NicO