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Thanks for the tips guys, I'll try them out when I get the chance :)

I don't have the game/mod, but as far as I know, the time of day in the game depends on where the server is located- if it's night time in the server's timezone then it'll also be night in the game. So just pick a server that's situated in such a timezone where it's day

There's a new generation of consoles are coming, a lot of developers are recruiting new people and in the job descriptions it often mentions "developing games for next-generation consoles" or something similar. Those next gen consoles are of course less powerful than current average PCs, but BIS can go the same way as DICE- just dumb down the game to a level that the consoles can run (and of course make sure the "lead platform" PC suffers the same limitations as consoles)

Thanks, but which one of those tweaks addresses the CPU usage? If it's the dynamic view distance then that won't help because I get horrible fps even at the lowest view distance settings (500m I think)

Well, I've been looking through some Arma2 tweak guides but they all address the graphical part of the game e.g. how to change certain texture settings etc. That's not what I need because as I said before- my graphics card usage is only 50% on the lowest settings, so there's some room to even turn the graphics quality higher. What I need is something that decreases the CPU usage but I haven't come across something like that and I doubt I'll ever will. I don't have that much time to mess around with the game either, I have an exam session coming up, just wanted to have a good game or a mod to take breaks from studying and just relax a bit

There are a number of ways to do it, I think this is the easiest- http://www.askvg.com/how-to-permanently-set-process-priority-in-windows-task-manager/ There are other ways to do it too if you're not comfortable with installing additional programs, you should find plenty of tutorials with Google.

Alt-TAB out of the game, start Task Manager and under the Processes tab right click on armaII.exe(or something similar, I don't know the exact name) and choose "Set Priority" Anyway, I tried this and it didn't change anything, I'm still getting under 24 fps. Looks like I won't be able to play Arma with this CPU...Damn shame really, the DayZ mod looks insanely fun :( Well, thanks for the help anyways guys

Hah, that won't be a problem because I won't be able to use the HD features anyway :) my PC specs are quite bad: CPU- Intel [email protected] GPU- nVidia 9800GT RAM- 4GB OS- Win7 x64 I played the free version yesterday and on the lowest preset graphics settings and at 800x600 resolution my fps was about 28; on the same low graphics settings and at 1920x1080 resolution my fps was about 23. It's such a small gain so my CPU is being a huge bottleneck for me right now. The GPU usage was at about 50% I tested this in a MP game with about 70 people in the server

Hi I'm thinking about buying ArmA II: CO, mostly to play the DayZ mod but I'm worried that I'm going to have quite a bad performance in the game with my Intel E5200 CPU. I thought I should test the multiplayer performance with the free version, but how much does the free version's performance represent the full game's performance? Does it use the same updated engine? Thanks