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    Arma II... and I can't play

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by poliuy, Jul 2, 2009.

  1. poliuy

    poliuy Notebook Evangelist

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    because of low spec i assume.

    Im running an M17 with xfire 3870's, and a p8600, but even on low settings there is still some sort of either graphical lag or built in lag because the response times for movement are very low.

    Anyway, i was wondering if anyone with a better config can tell me if its the game meaning its just buggy at this point, or if its my comp. thank you
     
    poliuy, Jul 2, 2009
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  2. ArabellaUK

    ArabellaUK Notebook Consultant

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    I read the minimum specs on the box and just laughed. My 3 month old laptop would crawl with it im sure.
     
    ArabellaUK, Jul 2, 2009
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    Your M17 should run great. The "lag" is there for me too. I haven't tried yet, but disable vsync and see if that fixes it. It was the way to correct it in Dead Space.

    Although I think some of this "lag" is due to the "realistic" movement of the soldiers. There is a way to adjust this in the game options or turn it off completely.

    I haven't had a chance to try it out myself though.
     
    HTWingNut, Jul 2, 2009
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  4. neilnat

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    No problems on the demo with my single 4850... I get performance similar to crysis
     
    neilnat, Jul 2, 2009
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  5. poliuy

    poliuy Notebook Evangelist

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    Weird, looks like a good game, too bad I can't really run it =/
     
    poliuy, Jul 2, 2009
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    I get 19FPS with Normal on everything. Resolution at 1440x900. Not playable at that rate. Drop to low and get 35+, but drops during big battles. The game does not look/feel the same if you play with low settings and low draw distance. Xeon X3660 with 9800M GT and 8GB Ram here.
     
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  7. poliuy

    poliuy Notebook Evangelist

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    Yea the game looks pretty crappy at low settings, and even then the game is laggy =/. Wonder why they pushed the gfx so hard for a multiplayer game, with your computer trying to render that much its going to be hard for any system.
     
    poliuy, Jul 2, 2009
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    Cheeseman Eats alot of Cheese

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    I'm getting 20-30 FPS at these settings:

    [​IMG]

    ArmA II is a very demanding game in terms of graphics.
     
    Cheeseman, Jul 2, 2009
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    I was able to get around 20-25 on my M1530.
     
    MJPByron, Sep 23, 2009
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    Magnus72, Sep 23, 2009
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    Poliuy, I have a M17 with 3870s w/xfire. I get over 30 fps on pretty high settings. Make sure you have renamed the armaII.exe file to crysis.exe or crysis64.exe. Also add a -winxp after the executables. This should enable crossfire. There are loads of websites out there that talk about optimizing the config files for better performance. Please understand the game is more a military simulation rather than a (COD) style FPS. So you will have some lag, this is on purpose... Good luck, hope you enjoy the game. I noticed there is NOBODY out there on the servers in multiplayer...
     
    stevenxowens792, Sep 24, 2009
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  12. zijin_cheng

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    i got around 30 on lowest everything....
     
    zijin_cheng, Sep 26, 2009
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  13. Pommie

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    Brother told me this game has some hefty requirements, sounds like that is the case! Still going to look into buying this one soon, loved the first one.
     
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    Well I can say that Operation Flashpoint 2 runs beatifully. I have a review copy that I am taking screenshots for a friend and his magazine. Now I can´t sadly put up any screens here yet. But I made an SLI profile for the game using the Grid SLI profile. Running the game maxed out, i.e all options on High and I didn´t run with any AA but with 8xAF which is the max. Average 40 fps at 1920x1200 but it is more around the 40-55+ fps even in firefights.

    It doesn´t look as good as Arma 2 but is a hell lot more optimized and actually more fun too than Arma 2. Running on my XPS M1730.
     
    Magnus72, Sep 27, 2009
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