Joseph Merrick
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doesn't seem very likely. and why would you want to wait weeks to get patched?BeeDog said:
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Official ArmA 2 Thread of DOGCHUTES RGR
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Agent Ironside
Member
Update on the demo, looks like it might get delayed til next week because apparently they are releasing a patch this week and that is there first priority.
ZombieSupaStar
Member
Forsete said:Work overtime!
I want to see how this runs before I order it.
E6600
GF8800GTS
2.5GB RAM
Feeling like I need a update.
me too my system is a slight step above yours
E6850 (3ghz)
GF280GTX
2.0 G ram
our cpus limit us T_T
I await demo
Cat in the Hat
Member
So today is judgment day huh? Any word on the demo yet? Supposed to be today last I heard.
Anton Sugar
Member
Darklord said:I really want to order this today but after reading about the shocking performance issues I might hold off for a few patches.
Edit: Which makes me wonder how those 1500 AI and air battles are possible??
Which performance issues? There seems to be the oddball here and there (and that retarded benchmark test above), but for the most part, it seems to run as you would expect, playable on most systems with medium details.
Everyone, glance through the ArmA 2 forums' system specs discussion, some good info there, wide range of systems/opinions: http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=72181&page=170
Come now, there are performance issues with large groups of AI...Mr. Snrub said:
It's a fun but really inefficient game. I'm mostly playing through the Armoury challenges at the moment, but the instant they sort out the Phenom perf issues I'll be all over that multiplayer scene.
Agent Ironside said:
Ugh, screw this. I know patches are important and god knows Arma 2 needs them, but I will still hold off my buy until I know I can run it.
edit: then again, bugs in SP missions which cause you to not be able to progress might actually be worse: http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=73930&page=2
Anton Sugar
Member
bigswords said:
Yeah, the pcgameshardware is not only an older version, but they played with the fill rate, which modifies your resolution based on how you set it. From what I've read, it's partly Bohemia's fault, as they didn't really explain what the fill rate does; the latest patch apparently fixes that and lets you know you are multiplying your frame rate, essentially.
Seriously guys, read through the official thread with spec/system req's info. Lots of good impressions; a few people have said ArmA 2 runs better than ArmA 1 on their machines.
Fillrate renders the game at a higher resolution and then scales it, from what I understand. It's no longer called fillrate either, they changed it to 3D Resolution.
You should pick one of these up, http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-003-OB&tool=3 :lol
You should pick one of these up, http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-003-OB&tool=3 :lol
brain_stew
Member
Another quad optimised game? Seems quad core support is par for the course with modern releases now. I may need to upgrade to a quad sooner than I thought.
Zenith said:
I take it back, the patch adds AA as a separate thing. You also have 8 save slots per mission.
The game is smooth so far. Everything set to High. It definitely feels like OFP and not Arma. Shooting is much easier than what it was in Arma. New sounds are great but old ones still suck. Issues like aircraft cannons being useless have been fixed, better physics, hitting a car with a tank will send it spinning away, Humvees can skid a bit if you fling them into a 180. The single missions cover elements of the Utes campaign which they reference in the main Chernarus one. Guns have moving slides and blowback. You have both the ability to deflate tires from OFP and the option to blow them off like in Arma.
I have encountered one bug. When loading a save to laser designate stuff for cruise missiles in the 2nd mission it didn't trigger and I couldn't call in air support. but I was going to replay it anyway as I wanted to find all the war crime evidence.
it is very polished gameplay and presentation-wise though.
also it didin't require online authentication like they said EU releases would which is a bonus.
Anton Sugar
Member
Truant said:
Yeah, and then just play with it, see what's possible, I guess. I don't know much about fill rate, honestly.
Anyone here that can break it down? Ikuu, what do you mean by "scaling" it after rendering at a higher resolution? Like renders it at a higher resolution, but "resizes" it to the resolution you selected? Basically, it bullshots itself?
brain_stew
Member
Mr. Snrub said:
That's how all forms of AA work, really, except supersampling aa (which is what the fillrate setting applies) is applied to everything whereas msaa only works on polygon edges so it has a much lower performance hit but doesn't give the same IQ benefit.
Cat in the Hat
Member
v-sync maybe?bee said:
Forsete said:Coolio, I'll give it a shot.
Fumbling in the dark though, not sure how it will play on my PC.
How does it play on yours?
I have an Intel Q9450 (not OC'd), a 9800GTX, 4 gigs of RAM, definitely not top-tier stuff. Most of the settings are on High (some are on Normal, and some on Very High), and 1280x1024 as the resolution. I have only finished the first campaign level, and mucked around a bit on the second map and bootcamps/single missions, runs pretty fine (~30 fps). If you have a decent computer, it shouldn't work too badly.
bee
Member
just playing the first scenario, trial by fire? gonna grab the no motion blur mod as its quite annoying and i haven't got vsync enabled but i force disbaled it anyway and it was no better, setting prerender limit to 0 in nhancer made it a little better though, when zooming its ok but when just running its like being a russian high mouse accel quake 3 player, 5cm 360's
game seems good apart from that though with what little i've played, i can never really complain too much with pc games when they only cost £18
game seems good apart from that though with what little i've played, i can never really complain too much with pc games when they only cost £18
Deus Ex Machina
Member
Arma II
I've played the game for like 5-6 hours now and only done one mission, most of the time just been spent in the editor seeing what all the stuff does. Supposedly you can add a few modules and the game will generate missions for you, still need to look it up, but the potential for user created stuff is amazing (the editor could be a little easier to use though, most of the advanced stuff is done through scripting).
Anton Sugar
Member
Looks great.
I'm hoping for the next release that they revamp the animation system. It looks good, but isn't very smooth, and it doesn't look like they even have ragdolls implemented. Wonder if that's moddable?
Just tried to register at the official forums and found I had registered a while ago with the username "mcbane" :lol
Bee,
Some ideas here?
http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=74085&highlight=mouse+lag
http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=75404 - this one guy messed with what looks like his resolution and fill rate and that did it?
I'm hoping for the next release that they revamp the animation system. It looks good, but isn't very smooth, and it doesn't look like they even have ragdolls implemented. Wonder if that's moddable?
Just tried to register at the official forums and found I had registered a while ago with the username "mcbane" :lol
Bee,
Some ideas here?
http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=74085&highlight=mouse+lag
http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=75404 - this one guy messed with what looks like his resolution and fill rate and that did it?
MrPing1000
Member
Razor Two the 3rd mission is now officially driving me loopy.
I have found 3/4 evidence, no idea where the last 1 is. Found the following.
Dog Tags in Quarry
Map in the Castle in the west.
Photos in the most north red X camp.
I have found nobody of consequence, neither leb or his mate.
I can manage to visit all the mentioned places by 12pm which gives me a few mins before the 20minute warning, Leb seems to not exactly exist.
I have found 3/4 evidence, no idea where the last 1 is. Found the following.
Dog Tags in Quarry
Map in the Castle in the west.
Photos in the most north red X camp.
I have found nobody of consequence, neither leb or his mate.
I can manage to visit all the mentioned places by 12pm which gives me a few mins before the 20minute warning, Leb seems to not exactly exist.
MrPing1000 said:
Yeah, this mission is buggy as hell. The very first thing I did after getting the three markers was go to the very furthest one. After messing around a bit there, I got a call that my target was leaving a certain town (I forget the name) by car and was going to cross the border in 20 mins and would then be unreachable. I did that twice and was never able to find that bastard on the road.
How does Arma 1 run? Can it be maxed out @ 60fps with high end hardware?
I want to get Arma 2, but I'm scared:
E6600 @ 3.0GHz
GTX 275
4GB RAM
My video card should be alright, but I think my CPU will be holding me back a lot. I want to manage 30-40fps if possible, even if it means lowering the settings. I don't know if I'll be able to achieve that with a CPU bottlenecked game though.
I want to get Arma 2, but I'm scared:
E6600 @ 3.0GHz
GTX 275
4GB RAM
My video card should be alright, but I think my CPU will be holding me back a lot. I want to manage 30-40fps if possible, even if it means lowering the settings. I don't know if I'll be able to achieve that with a CPU bottlenecked game though.
Joseph Merrick
Member
wait until you play through razor2 and manhattan for :O impressions. the more open missions are superbbee said:
yeah. arma1 performance is great now. max it out easily on my machine, even on 10000 view distance or whatever the slider max is. they both scale quite far up and down though, you shouldn't have any problems getting arma2 to run ok and not look like total dogshit with those specs. seems soTheExodu5 said:
Joseph Merrick
Member
yeah ragdolls and better physics/collisions overall would be nice. physics buildings and deformable geometry on a game of this scale would be.. amazingMr. Snrub said:
I'm on mission 3, and it pisses me off that ONE of the squad members get stuck in some random geometry or whatever the fuck is blocking his progress, and thus I can't gatecrash the party at the first real objective. Fucking hell, maybe 4th time's the charm?
On the plus side, this game is the best running simulation ever.
On the plus side, this game is the best running simulation ever.
Baloonatic
Member
Just downloaded the demo for the first ArmA and it won't work at all D: Better wait for the demo on this one as well.
Joseph Merrick
Member
yeah, you're better off not trying that demo. it's the same as the broken first release of the game. hehe.Baloonatic said:
Baloonatic
Member
Joseph Merrick said:
Ah right, that's a shame. I really liked Operation Flashpoint but haven't played ArmA. Guess I might as well skip the first one if the second works ok on my computer though.
Joseph Merrick
Member
if you want a good campaign the difference between arma1 and arma2 is night and day. but arma1 multiplayer is still great.Baloonatic said:
bee said:
I didn't have a chance to install the game last night, but I've read on the BHI forums that mouse lag and aim inaccuracies occur when you pirate the game and trigger FADE protection.
If you bought the game and are still getting mouse lag, then that's F'ed up.