NeferiusX

Now today, for some reason, the performance has gone way down, like to 25fps. Time to buy a better video card.

Hey guys, not really sure if this is the correct place for this. But I've been tweaking with setting for days in arma2: combined Ops, And found out a stunning bit. So I've been playing around 15-20 fps on the maps Chernarus and Utes, my settings were pretty low, with 800 by 600 res. Then I decided to test just how slow it would run on higher settings, but to my suprise I got an increase of about 20 fps! Just by setting "Shadow Detail" to High, from normal! Then I turned texture detail and memory detail to Very High, and got another 5 fps! I thought I had a low end video card, it's an ATI 6540 or something like that, but it runs better on higher settings... I have a 3.2 dual core, with 4gb of ram. The game would run grand on the :OA maps, with a good 40-70-fps at all times, but on the Utes and Chernarus maps I was always getting 15-20 fps until I upped the detail level. Lol, that's kinda confusing as seeing my card is a lower end card, yet runs better on higher settings. I've turned off/on anti-alasting, and turned off post processing, and vsync, as the game runs much better without them. Right now, the game's running great on very high textures, low ground texture, normal object texture, 1045 view distance and high shadow detail. I put the ground to textures to low so I can see better while laying down, lol. Anyone else see an increase in fps by increasing thier settings?