Jerky/Laggy Enemies in Arma 2

Kosmiche

Kosmiche

Kosmiche

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I was wondering if there was a fix for this issue I have always had with arma, or if there is nothing I can do.

All enemy movement is laggy/jerky, troops running on screen are skipping lots of frames, enemy aerial vehicles move back and forth which really looks stupid and kills the immersion.

Anything I can do? I thought it might be to do with my connection but I have 6mb adsl which I think is fine? Never had a problem in other online games.

If theres a simple fix I'd love to know or if I need to spend money on the issue then I'd like to know aswell.

Thanks.
 
cpu u have ?

also what gpu / settings u have and use.

laggy servers or poorly run servers can also be the cause.
 
As Oxy said, make sure you are running the beta patch. I've not seen the jerky animations for years.

Can you post your video settings as well?
 
Err mix of high/medium settings

I have a Q6600 @ 3GHz and a stock clocked 6870 1gb.

Will get the exact settings in here in a bit.

As for patches, I have combined ops on steam so I assume it is automatically updated to the latest patch?

Arma 2 (not arrowhead) says I have version 1.11.86734.

Arma 2 settings,

Visibility - 1600
Quality Preference - High
Interface resolution - 1920x1080
3D Resolution - 2192x1232

Texture Detail - High
Video Memory - Very High
Anisotropic - Low
Antialiasing - Disabled
Terrain - Normal
Objects - Normal
Shadows - High
Postprocess - Disabled
Interface - Very small
Aspect Ratio - 16:9
 
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tbh cpu isnt the quickest for arma arma wants a very fast cpu.

q6600 at 3 gig is okay but tbh it is gunna drop low sometimes even my old phenom quad at 3.6 would drop down to low 20 fps sometimes at lowest min. so time to upgrade tbh.

arma loves intel cpus so if you going to stay arma or dayz i would go intel.
 
Eames said:
Err mix of high/medium settings

I have a Q6600 @ 3GHz and a stock clocked 6870 1gb.

Will get the exact settings in here in a bit.

As for patches, I have combined ops on steam so I assume it is automatically updated to the latest patch?

Arma 2 (not arrowhead) says I have version 1.11.86734.

Arma 2 settings,

Visibility - 1600
Quality Preference - High
Interface resolution - 1920x1080
3D Resolution - 2192x1232

Texture Detail - High
Video Memory - Very High
Anisotropic - Low
Antialiasing - Disabled
Terrain - Normal
Objects - Normal
Shadows - High
Postprocess - Disabled
Interface - Very small
Aspect Ratio - 16:9
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3D and interface resolutions should ideally be set the same. I.e. your native resolution. Also a big factor with the Arma 2 settings is to have video memory set to default all the time.

Apart from that your Q6600 will be getting pretty hammered by Arma. My old Q6600 @ 3GHz was also. So i upgraded to a i7 which over doubled my fps and removed any lag/stutters completely.

Edit: do a search on youtube as well about optimal video settings. There are plenty of good ones on there with detailed advice on which setting does what. Good luck ;)
 
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'3D Resolution - 2192x1232' Set this the same as your monitor. Don't know why you have it at that strange resolution. I would also put video memory to default, let the game decide how much it needs.

My pal plays this also on a Q6600@ 3.6 @ 1200p and tbh you will be struggling to get decent frames.
 
I have it at that strange resolution because imo resolutions higher than native look better.

My native is 1920x1080 but it looks much nicer with the strange res, and not much of a performance hit.
 
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I have it at that strange resolution because imo resolutions higher than native look better.

My native is 1920x1080 but it looks much nicer with the strange res, and not much of a performance hit.
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There's your problem. Of course it looks nicer, but what it's basically doing is super sampling the picture once you go above your native, super sampling is a killer even on top end multi gpu configurations.
 
Well looks like I'll have to wave bye bye to socket 775 if I want to get much better performance, amazing how much I've wrangled out of it and upgrading the gpu helped a lot...but its time for my asus p5q to retire I think, and my god its worked hard.
 
well from my phenom 955 @3.7 to my i5 3570k @4.4 double minium fps.

so if you play arma a lot its worth it. seeing as the next arma (arma 3) is similar aswell and runs better on intel cpus thats basically what made me upgrade.
 
I also think at 3ghz you have a bottleneck on your GPU, I would want that Q6600 running at least 3.2+ghz imo. My old q6600 did the same with my 6950 until I overclocked the beast to 3.2ghz, then I noticed a huge difference in frames.
 
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