Stierlitz

Twenty games running just fine out of the box and two totally going haywire? . Yeah, I basically tried all more or less sensible combinations of options. Also tried some of the extensions. Aside from the graphics starting to resemble Operation Flashpoint, not much happened. :D Sure, the games are a blast. I had tons of fun with Flashpoint, back in the days. Yet, they've never been decent software and always caused truckloads of problems. Oh, well, since I can't give it back, I'm kinda stuck with it anyway. ;) It outsells other games because it's unique, not because it's such a fine example of coding craftsmanship. :D It's the same situation as with the Test Drive Unlimited series. The games are one of their kind, but they're bitches to run.

If other titles ran crappy too, I wouldn't say a word. Yet, it's only ArmA that's causing problems. Did that, but it didn't help much. Got FPS as low as 10 in some places. I would never expect that from a Bohemia Interactive game, would I? ;) As for now, I uninstalled both games since their instability made them totally unplayable. I'll try to reinstall them sometime and see if there is any progress. Too bad I bought them through Steam since I can't even get a refund...

I got it off the Armaholic forums. Well, it definitely did help with the CTDs which were making the game even more unplayable than it is now. Yeah, I always do that. Nope, haven't tried this one yet. Will the beta patches run with the Steam version? All my other games (and I have a lot, most of them on Steam) run just fine. It's only ArmA I have so many problems with. Nope, I still have a couple hundreds of GB left. Also, before you ask, the disk is defragmented and the Windows installation is relatively fresh (one moth old). I get at least 60 FPS in the main menu. Come on, I won't lower my resolution past my native one. My system should pull this game in 1680x1050 on its low settings without much of a problem, which it doesn't. I blame a crappy optimization, not a crappy system. I had both Operation Flashpoint and ArmA, both of which were neither stable nor well optimized games... So, even though my system specs are exceeding the recommended ones, I should make the game look like crap just in order to get more than 30 FPS? There's something pretty wrong here...

Hey, thanks for answering my post. Well, it runs reeeaaaallly choppy on my system. I'm quite surprised, I mean, my hardware isn't that bad. I found this tweak on some ArmA related forum. It definitely helped to reduce the crashes. Yet, it only "reduced" them, the game is still unstable as hell and usually crashes after a maximum of 10-15 minutes of gameplay. I already gave them a go, but they didn't do much. As I said, the performance is bad, like, ultra-bad. I also experience a lot of hard drive accessing which seems to cause FPS drops (or the FPS drops are causing it).

Hello there, I bought the game via Steam a couple of days ago, of course expecting bad performance and bugs galore. Yet, Bohemia Interactive managed to surprise me. This is my system: Intel E8400 @ 3.6 Ghz 4 Gb RAM Radeon HD6850 Win XP Pro 32 bit All drivers/software is up to date. So, the performance of ArmA 2 and OA is simply abysmal. Setting the graphics to low/medium (1680x1050) produces 10-35 FPS (usually in the low twenties), which is "slightly below my expectations"... That's not all. Both games are systematically crashing, offering all sorts of CTDs at random intervals. One thing that helped was to delete the .dll files from OA's "dll" folder. Yet, the game is still unplayable. This is the point when I have to utter the usual "all other games run just fine". Yeah, they do. So, folks, can you advise? I can provide the necessary log files. I really want to give BI a chance here, but I'm at the end of my patience with this piece of... software.