MadMorgan

Hello, I am having a lot of trouble with the Arma 2 CO and Iron Front games. I am running the games on my Samsung RF711 laptop with Ä°ntel i7-2630QM quadcore processor that scales from 2.00 to 2.90 GHz with Turbo Boost. I have a GeForce GT 540M GPU with 1gig of memory and 6 gigs of ram. The game is installed on a partition of a 5600rpm HDD... I use gamebooster and have tried to run the game with and without multithreading. I have tried adjusting stuff in Nvidia control panel like rendered frames ahead and prettymuch every setting available. I have tried to set PhysX on and off and fiddled with the cfg files to no avail. At this point I am getting 14 fps on avarage. Loading screens are consistantly running at 3 - 10 fps and while in the animated menu, I get 40 - 60 FPS if showing sky which drops down to 10 - 20 fps if there is anything else on the screen. Ingame I tend to get 1 - 21 fps which tends to avarage at 13 fps. My settings are ranging from all on Normal - High, with antialiasing , anisotrophic filtering and postprocessing always off and HDR on normal. Nothing I change seems to affect FPS at all except lowering 3d resolution to the lowest which looks horrible and still does not give steady FPS. Native resolution is 1600x900. Now, I am considering the option of overclocking the CPU which is not such a great thing on a laptop that tends not to keep cool as well as I'd like. I am also considering getting an SSD external HDD and installing the game on that. But I will not get one unless I get concrete evidence that I will improve things. I have read a whole pile of stuff about optimization and am getting really confused... All I want is a playable level of FPS. I would be happy with even steady 20 - 25fps... I KNOW some people can run the game with an identical rig. There is even a video of a guy playing the game on a laptop with the same specs on youtube. (waiting for a reply from him). So if anyone has any tips for me I would love to hear them!