Arma 2 settings question

mike.grayizzle · 10 Apr 2012 at 17:42

I used to game a lot on PC when I was in my late teens early twenties, mostly Desert Combat and Joint OPS.

Bought myself a nice computer some years later although this was around 2010. The specs are as follows:

Intel Quad Core Q8200 @2.33GHZ
4 GB
Radeon HD4850 with 1 gig.

I'm not too hot on specifics and thought I would be smart adn bought a £60 card from OCUK thinking it would give me a boost as something made 2 years after the intial build would probably be a step up. :confused:

Turns out I was wrong.

I got the ARMA set of steam which includes all the expansion packs. However I am struggling to get any settings that seem playable. Is it wishful thinking that I could run ARMA 2 / OA on the above settings without a system upgrade?

mike.grayizzle · 10 Apr 2012 at 17:49

lurkio said:
the 1.60 patch (released a few months ago) pretty much DOUBLED frames rates in this game

Presumbly if I play through Steam I will automatically have the latest edition?

mike.grayizzle · 11 Apr 2012 at 19:16

jakspyder said:
AA to low or off, Post process to low or off (Post process is ugly, the motionblur is a hinderance and a performance slayer, AA looks great but murders frames)

Video memory to Default (very high = 512mb, default = whatever you have)

Rest of settings to high/very high

Bump that CPU clock up. ArmA2 loves it.

very high shadows gives better performance than high. High are CPU rendered, Very high are GPU rendered.

Went with these settings on on a lowish Rez and got 30 fps with the in game benchmark which is guess is the best I can hope for. Am now going though the boot camp to try and work things out before I start on the campaign. Will have a look at view distance and check what it's set at.

Many thanks :cool:

mike.grayizzle · 12 Apr 2012 at 23:34

Again many thanks to those who helped initially have started to play through the OA campaign and is running to a standard which is enjoyable.

The first major mission has you knocking out an airfield and then moving on two small hamlets. My team leader kept telling me to jump in the jeep presumably to make moving the rest of the team quicker.
However they just sat with their asses in the grass and did not move. I zipped over to both areas got on a roof and killed anything that moved whilst they remained in the middle of no where lying on their bellies. Is this a bug or was I meant to go it alone?

Was also curious if there are user generated campaigns and are they a similar standard. Not really fussed on MP at the moment so would like the idea of more campaigns to work through.