*******Official Armed Assault 2 thread of official officialness*******

[MoRT489]

My Q6600 at 3.5GHz and 8800GTS 512 beats my brother on E2160 at 3.1GHz and GTX 260 for avergae frames.

Also, i get between 40-70% load on all cores and he said he's seeing up to 95% on both, so CPUs are definitely a limiting factor on FPS in this game.

 

[VaderDSL]

Still awaiting the Steam launch, should have waited and bought it from BIS themselves.

 

[MoNkEyMiKeY]

****it I'm gonna cancel trackir 5 order and get 4890. I can always sell my 8800 and get a few quid too.

 

[MoRT489]

Not you as well

I can see the sales of top end hardware going up this month. I am now on the look out for a decent overclockable quad for my motherboard, any suggestions?

Q6600 GO or Q9550 in members market or if u fancy splashing some cash upgrade everything to i7 but that's a bit extreme...

 

[Spetznaz]

My Q6600 at 3.5GHz and 8800GTS 512 beats my brother on E2160 at 3.1GHz and GTX 260 for avergae frames.

Also, i get between 40-70% load on all cores and he said he's seeing up to 95% on both, so CPUs are definitely a limiting factor on FPS in this game.

Yes I guess this is probably the first game to 'need' a quad-core cpu?, unless you want 15fps.

 

[MoNkEyMiKeY]

Yay free shipping for members too

 

[NeoReloaded]

This one?
God I am loving this game. Closest thing to photorealism I have played and one of the first I think, where I actualy love the third person view. Using the "Look" while moving is so cool; hmm, can I wangle a Trackir somehow.

Nice one, cheers dude!

 

[spiki]

Need a bit of advice re nvidia drivers - Arma II was playing pretty well for me at high settings after installing the patch with fps between 20-30. I then decided to install the latest whql drivers - 186.18 - in the hope of getting another few frames & since installing them earlier I get major stuttering, flickering textures etc. I can't do a system restore since I deleted them all recently to clean up my system & I can't quite remember the drivers I was using before - deleted all those old files earlier today as well. I know they were from around Feb/Mar this year and were 182. something. Can anyone please recommend me some stable drivers as I feel like a right idiot. Much appreciated.

 

[craptakular]

Need a bit of advice re nvidia drivers - Arma II was playing pretty well for me at high settings after installing the patch with fps between 20-30. I then decided to install the latest whql drivers - 186.18 - in the hope of getting another few frames & since installing them earlier I get major stuttering, flickering textures etc. I can't do a system restore since I deleted them all recently to clean up my system & I can't quite remember the drivers I was using before - deleted all those old files earlier today as well. I know they were from around Feb/Mar this year and were 182. something. Can anyone please recommend me some stable drivers as I feel like a right idiot. Much appreciated.

i need the same info lol.

On a seperate note.

I have a Q6600 @ 3.4ghz, 4 gb ram and a 1000w psu & 260GTX inbound from OCUK - due date Tuesday

What fps can I expect on 1920 x 1200?

 

[Defiance_co]

Edited:

Well i'm gonna grab me a pair of 4890's next mth

Thinking this will surely help me

But not really suffering too badly with my 4870 with a few options knocked down a notch

 

[NeoN Pulse]

lol my pc will wither up and die if I put this game on it think ill avoid it :S

 

[craptakular]

Edited:

Well i'm gonna grab me a pair of 4890's next mth

Thinking this will surely help me

But not really suffering too badly with my 4870 with a few options knocked down a notch

just buy a second 4870?

 

[setter]

Edited:

Well i'm gonna grab me a pair of 4890's next mth)

Im considering a pair of 4890's in xfire as well, but ill see how it runs on my gtx 280 first, may also look at clocking my cpu a bit higher too.

 

[wombraider]

i need the same info lol.

On a seperate note.

I have a Q6600 @ 3.4ghz, 4 gb ram and a 1000w psu & 260GTX inbound from OCUK - due date Tuesday

What fps can I expect on 1920 x 1200?

MY sig gives me 40 - 50 fps on average

 

[Nodiggidy123]

dunno what it is with this game but when lowering the settings i get very minimal performance gains. i can lower rez and all details and the most i gain is about 5 fps. weird!

ive actually decided to run terrain and objects at very low as i think it looks better for some reason but even then im only averaging between 20-30fps

 

[Buckster]

probably because you may have reached the point where you are CPU limited ...

dunno what it is with this game but when lowering the settings i get very minimal performance gains. i can lower rez and all details and the most i gain is about 5 fps. weird!

ive actually decided to run terrain and objects at very low as i think it looks better for some reason but even then im only averaging between 20-30fps

 

[Nodiggidy123]

probably because you may have reached the point where you are CPU limited ...

really? with a q6600 ocd? tbh i dont think this game looks any better than bf2 so why such a system whoare.

i mean my cpu with the clock on it must have comparable perfomance to the top end intel/amd card so why make a game that runs like a dog on the latest hardware/

 

[Robbo]

tbh i dont think this game looks any better than bf2 so why such a system whoare.

Sorry but if you think that, get your eyes testing.

 

[Nodiggidy123]

its not that much better. just take the bf2 engine add a bit of foliage on the ground and some bloom effects ands youve got arma 2

 

[Clairvoyant]

I seem to get better FPS with Cats 9.5 (was 9.6)