Jimieus

Hey all - looking for some answers and hoping someone can help. Ever since I installed the steam version of Arma2/OA I have been getting this annoying crash (never got it with boxed verison) - usually happening when I go into the scoped view - the game hangs for a second then the screen goes black, with the game running in the background. I can still hear the game and control the avatar - just cant see anything. In some cases I can screen flush to get it back (reduced performance) in other cases it causes a hard lock and I either have to crtl-alt-del end process or sometimes even reset. I suspect this is a driver stopped responding issue, however I am not currently experiencing this in other games. I have seen older threads describing this problem and am wondering: was a fix ever discovered? are people still dealing with this? PS - if there is anything required to help let me know! (I figure this may be an old problem with some known fixes - couldn't immediately find them in search so posted this thread) Any help greatly appreciated.

So has anyone seen a tangible improvement from the patch? worth downloading? I'm not seeing the reaction to the patch I was hoping for...

Remembers ARMA 3 > Checks forums to see if FPS issue resolved > Forgets about ARMA 3 again. :bye:

Not sure why the other thread got closed. This is a topic of some interest to me and seeing as a rather large new patch has dropped, I am wondering if there has been any progress on this issue? Has anyone noticed any improvement? Cheers [disclaimer - I haven't updated yet and wont be able to for awhile. Curious to hear others experiences]

I'm sorry, but how on earth did you arrive at that conclusion? Poor fps has NOTHING to do with art direction or "design choice" as you put it. That's just a silly, uninformed statement to make. A better statement would be that this is a technical issue, exacerbated by accepted standards in multiplayer performance, that hinders greatly the user experience of the game. Nuff said ;)

Placebo effect at best. I hope you enjoyed your sugar pill :p

Jumped on yesterday hoping this problem would be fixed. But alas, it has not. This is the one thing stopping me, and everyone else I know who bought the game, from playing. It is such a joykill. Fix it-Fix it-Fix it-Fix it.

No. Dumb idea. If you want to play multiplayer now in the alpha you simply fork over the money (like EVERYONE else did) and then you get it. That has been the deal FROM DAY ONE. Get used to it. ARMA 3 isn't f2p. If people don't think it is "worth" the money yet, they can wait, and pay more when it comes to beta/release. The fact that people can play a facet of the game for free is generous enough. No disservice there at all. Just people wanting something for nothing, as usual.

So... any progress on this situation oh masterful employees of Bohemia Interactive Corporation. :pray:

Holy crap you got a full on warning for that!!!! What the heck is wrong with the world these days. The joke was not lost on me. People just need to relax a little and have a good laugh from time to time :)

It sucks, but this issue took a lot of the enthusiasm out of testing the multiplayer. I dare say most I know have put ARMA 3 on the back burner until this issue is resolved. "let's not play a game of slideshow simulator" seems to be the running joke. All we can really do is poke around the edges of this problem on our end, BI are the ones who can rectify it. And in that endeavour, I truly wish them luck and god's speed! (emphasis on the god's speed! :p )

I expected a bit of impartiality. But then again, that would have taken a little maturity...

Your not trying to put your opinion into those poll options. Noooooo surely not...

Pffhahahahha

Lol Rehtus just chillax mate.

Not going to happen. Wrong forum to ask on.

I know the type you are referring to. That type can stay with CoD and Battlefield. The inclusion of stats & leaderboards completely destroyed what was once a friendly battlefield community. No, we don't need any more elitist douchebags in ARMA 3 thankyou very much. :)

From a statistical standpoint, just a little flaw to point out here. Only people voting in this poll are those visiting the forums - Only people who know about DevBuild beta are those that visit the forums. I would have to say, at a guess, that the results here may be a little skewed. I dare say (judging from the steam statistics) that the majority don't even visit these forums, and as such the majority have no idea about the DevBuild beta. Just a thought ;)

Oh Look! Yet another performance thread! inb4lock

Quoted for truth. JakebIngram - you are aware that terrain detail affects more than just "grass" right?

@JakebIngram Obviously did not read Beagles posts. Please come back with valid evidence other than - 2 static screen shots, from different positions, in different games. at different runtimes. with vastly differing video settings (lol) = completely worthless. I did have a laugh though at the attempt ;) ---------- Post added at 05:41 ---------- Previous post was at 05:34 ---------- Lol, dont you feel stupid now :P

I tend to suspect the same thing. I am kinda hoping ARMA 3 nips that in the bud well and truly. Really no excuse for it now. Just learn to play with it and adapt I say. ---------- Post added at 05:13 ---------- Previous post was at 05:11 ---------- Sorry, don't believe that for one second. Video or it didn't happen.

^^^ Thanks Nicholas - Will give it a go then!

maxmem parameter ignores values above 2047. (as someone mentioned 2 posts above) Please read this before advising others: Start Parameters

I would like to echo these questions as I cant find an official response on them. @ Development Build Users - can you join multiplayer with the dev build? or do you have to opt out to do so? No one?