I have been interested in getting this game and downloaded the demo to try the game out. I went through the training in the OA demo and the game played flawlessly. I then began the first mission and enjoyed the scenery and the helicopter fly in to the LZ with again not a single hiccup in the fps. Landed and started heading towards the mission objective and was doing fine with again, no fps drop. However, randomly my FPS dropped to like 4 and would not change no matter how low or high I set the graphics. While I am fairly certain my computer hardware is on par with the what is needed, I am not sure what I can do to actually get the game to run smoothly. I want to purchase the game so that I can play the DayZ mod, but I do not want to purchase a game that I cannot enjoy on its own.
Specs:
GPU: Radeon HD 6950 flashed to same specs as HD 6970 CCC Version 12.3 (yes I know 12.4 is the newest but it does not overwrite the version number so I am not going to update until 12.5)
CPU: Intel core i5 @ 2.67GHz
PSU: 850 Watt
Ram: 8 gigs
OS: Windows 7 64bit
By the way, I am on a fresh install of Windows, and the power supply is less than a week old. I can run every game on high everything without even the smallest of problems. While I do realize Arma II is a resource hog, my system should not be having this much problems running the game. And one would think there would be at least some change in the FPS when settings are changed.
Please help! From what I saw in the training, the game seems awesome!