charliemilk

Is the gun that the default diver class uses not sub sonic? I remember getting to land and being shocked the range was only set to 30 meters so assumed it was sub sonic or something?

Just got it. It's pretty good. Like how you can re-size it.

On a multiplayer server playing the domination map at night with night vision I felt like I was playing ARMA II with a couple of vehicle and gun mods. Except it was more laggy.

ARMA IV will be 64bit. (I would imagine)

Pretty sure vehicle and people in vehicle AI is not finished yet.

Don't know about SLI, but crossfire does not work at all. Only one card will be used the other will be idle.

My understanding is that it will use as much VRAM as it can.

Well, I clicked the 'beta' option in Steam properties and noticed the game would always crash in multiplayer within 10 minutes or so. I switched off the beta option and multiplayer was a lot more stable. I found the Wasteland maps would always cause me to crash but the time would be random and I would get random types of crash like frozen screen, repeat sound loop, CTD etc. I played a Domination map twice once for 40mins until they had to reset server at their end and 2nd time for about an hour and half before I logged out. So with my experience it seems dependent on the beta and the map type and server.

CROSSFIRE? I saw a thread (can't find it now) where there was a parameter you could add to something to force SLI to partially work. But I have seen no such option for crossfire. Is there anyway to get crossfire to work like using some sort of ARMA II trick, or is it going to be a horrifically long wait until final release of game and then wait and see if AMD bother to update a driver? (I use 2 x HD5870)

What is the CPU monitor called that you use. Mine is just a single dial and only shows overall CPU usage not each core.

yep. 14 tabs open now and afterburner showing 273 VRAM used. Switching to windows 7 basic desktop only drops it to 195. Closing all but this tab dropped it to 98. I had no idea that the desktop and browser would have so much VRAM usage. I'm shocked!!!! :butbut: In an age of dual/triple screen. This is pretty important and is sure to be effecting many peoples game play.

I have an idea of what it might be. I believe there was a similar fault in another game. The game engine is rendering the bottom of the sea in. So although you can not see the ocean bottom it is rendered and all the objects, fish AI, lighting of sea bed etc is all being rendered but not seen. ---------- Post added at 12:15 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:14 PM ---------- Hi, interesting info there. Did the shadow option increase make FPS more or less? Also Can you put your PC information in your signature so we can see what you are running ARMA III ALPHA on so we know how relevant it is to us please pal?

Hmmm, I don't know what you mean? Should I have parameters to set as well??

is your Windows up to date and are ALL of your drivers up to date BUT NOT beta drivers? (as they are normally unstable)

I know it seems obvious, but someone will ask anyway... What driver version are you using?

Oh.. I'm more confused now. I will still give what Leon86 said a try cos it will stop the pop up. Another user said that a graphics card with 1GB of VRAM will use 900 for ARMAIII, so I think the desktop might be eating some of this up. For instance I have this window open on my main screen and a 43 minute youtube video (360p) open on the other screen and 372 of my VRAM is being used!!!!

Not happening for me with a 5.1 surround sound speak set up and no one has mentioned sound problems in the MP games I've played. Are your other games ok?

Excellant. Thank you. Also a forum user called @ST explained amount of VRAM use:- "it was mentioned earlier, the game seizes as much Vram it can get: 900mb with 1gb cards, 1.8gb with 2gb cards, 2.7 gb with 3gb cards and so on..."

Ok, thank you. :)

What graphics card are you using? And does the bug happen often or was it one off and how much VRAM did you have left free and what impact did it have on the game at the time? I keep MSI afterburner open on my other screen and notice 800-900 VRAM constanty used, not seen it go higher so have had about 100Vram left free... (Although I dont know how much things like the desktop on the other screen actually use?!?!)

HI, I noticed this too! Also you can shoot like 50 rounds at a window and hear the breaking window sound but when you try throwing a grenade through it just bounces off! It's something I'm sure they will fix for the beta as it was not an issue in ARMA II.

Check your graphics card settings from desktop and make sure it's not trying to do thing like AA and AF and tessellation etc. In some cases the card is set to over ride game setting which can cause problems. Make sure you have everything set to 'Use application settings'.

My system info is in my sig, I also have 2x HD5870 in crossfire mode. At pretty much any setting only about 40% of my CPU and 35% of my system RAM is being used. One graphics cards GPU is maxed out at 100% with about 800-900 of the onboard RAM being used. The other card is idle... So for me CPU is not a problem, it seems to be related to the GPU. Does anyone know if in the BETA or final release they will have x-fire mode? I think CPU usage will go up if i use crossfire but doubt it will ever get close to 100%. ALSO, I've just had a thought, I know on some other games that only used one graphics card I got worse performance then my brother who has an identical system to me but with only one hd5870. I think it may have been the Rage game, but the solution at the time was to disable one of my cards... Not a solution IMO so I never played it. Does anyone know if SLI/Crossfire is causing issues with ARMA III??

Same problem here. Changed version back to previous and found a great Domination server that I was able to play fine for about 40 mins before they had to restart server at their end for unrelated problem.

For me, some glass makes a smashing noise but bullets do not pass through it, think it was the air control tower in the air base. Also IMO grenades should have a high chance of bouncing off a window. I think they will fix the glass problem with the Beta and then you will have to shoot a couple of rounds to break glass and then chuck the nade in. Throwing a grenade through a seconds floor window would be a lot harder then it seems in real life. Also if any windows are double glazed there is virtually no chance of throwing a nade in through it.