Was thinking of finally giving it a go, but had a dream about it last night and was playing with my mates but they wouldn't let me get a gun and every time we found one in a house they stole it and laughed at me. They also made me check rooms first because I had a torch and compass that I brought in from real life, and it was extra cruel because if I died then I'd lose them in real life too. In the end we got chased for miles, running round towns and stuff to try and break line of sight from this gang of bastards, but they caught us and butchered us all. I woke up and couldn't find my compass, which means I have to go camping tomorrow without my compass which is not something I'm looking forward too. Curse you Day Z.
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CrispyLog 84 posts
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WoodenSpoon 12,053 posts
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Registered 10 years agorichardiox wrote:
It's normal, the big towns always hammer your framerate.
Is it normal in terms of the Arma2 engine to be getting decent FPS in the countryside (50-60fps) only to have it crashing down in built up areas. Even if there's buildings in the near distance, just looking at them gives me about a 15fps drop and any trek through a built up area sees me sub 30. Don't really want to start dropping my settings to lower than normal.
Currently playing on a mix of normal/high settings with a 6870, i3 2100 and 4gig ram.
The thing with Arma is that the weird (apparently intentional) mouse lag means the game feels really sluggish even if your framerate never drops below 40... I don't think there's any solution really.
Also the graphics options often feel like they make fuck all difference to your performance, with the possible exception of the shadow detail. You may as well try whacking everything up full - see if it makes any difference.
I think the game is pretty CPU and RAM intensive as well, I dunno how well the i3's handle other games but that's probably your bottleneck in Arma.
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richardiox 4,957 posts
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Registered 9 years agoCheers WS, I had heard the Arma2 engine doesn't have the best rep for being well optimised. The mouse lag and slight sluggish feeling I can live with and I'll just have to get used to 25fps in towns.
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MikeP 1,235 posts
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Registered 10 years agorichardiox wrote:
There are some funny problems with individual servers affecting frame rates too. I was on a couple and the whole thing became a slideshow.
Cheers WS, I had heard the Arma2 engine doesn't have the best rep for being well optimised. The mouse lag and slight sluggish feeling I can live with and I'll just have to get used to 25fps in towns.
The i3 is pretty capable - sure an i5 or 7 would give me better performance but the little pecker has done wonders in every other game I've got - benchmarks similar to first gen i5's and top end quad core phenoms.
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MikeP 1,235 posts
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Registered 10 years agoCrispyLog wrote:
Are you sure you haven't actually bought the game already? That sounds like a fairly standard session of DayZ
Was thinking of finally giving it a go, but had a dream about it last night and was playing with my mates but they wouldn't let me get a gun and every time we found one in a house they stole it and laughed at me. They also made me check rooms first because I had a torch and compass that I brought in from real life, and it was extra cruel because if I died then I'd lose them in real life too. In the end we got chased for miles, running round towns and stuff to try and break line of sight from this gang of bastards, but they caught us and butchered us all. I woke up and couldn't find my compass, which means I have to go camping tomorrow without my compass which is not something I'm looking forward too. Curse you Day Z..gif)
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Apollo 508 posts
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Registered 9 years agoHere is a fix for mouse lag.
Mouse smoothing in game options > controls > right side
slider to the left.
Then in the .cfg file which is in C: My Documents, arma2oa.cfg, change this line
GPU_MaxFramesAhead=1000;
or any other value if you altered it already
to value
GPU_MaxFramesAhead=1;
Works quite nicely.gif)
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Cosquae 851 posts
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Registered 3 years agoMikeP wrote:
Worse still is whilst driving along (I live in a reasonably rural part of the country) I drive past open fields and small forests and I have before now seen a barn and thought, 'Hmm, I wonder if there's any good loot inside there.'
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Mr-Brett 11,483 posts
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Registered 7 years agoThere's probably only 3 empty tin cans, 1 empty whisky bottle and a heatpack.Please don't use the delete button, think of the children.
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Anyone else find it weird that there's blood packs lying around with rubbish in random sheds around the countryside? They're not even kept refrigerated, it would kill you to have a transfusion from them!Follow me on Twitter: @MrTom
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Cosquae 851 posts
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Registered 3 years agoDon't think blood packs spawn in sheds or rubbish. Only in hospitals.
Chances are someone dumped that there when they found something they didn't have room for less than a few minutes ago (stuff despawns quick when dropped these days).
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Dirtbox 73,642 posts
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Registered 11 years agoSomeone probably dropped them while picking up something more important. I know I've done that a few times.
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These days I carry too many blood packs, just in case. Whenever I need space for something else, I generally end up leaving a bloodpack behind these days. Still have 4 or so at the mo, just in case someone needs rescuing!
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Cosquae 851 posts
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Registered 3 years ago@psychokitten Still got that FN FAL with no ammo?
Found 3 clips by a helicopter (thanks to jag for the heads up).
Got them in my backpack.
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Nice one! Good timing, I was going to dump (ish) it soon. Froobs found a tent kit so once he sets that up somewhere I was going to throw it in there to make space. Still have it for now
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Apollo 508 posts
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Registered 9 years agoThe Whitelist Medics Service over at the DayZ forums is a great idea. Just tell 'em where you are and they will try and get to you.
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Registered 3 years ago@psychokitten I'm up by Prud atm along with Jag and MikeP so if you're around at some point, shout and you can once more be armed and dangerous. -
Awesome, will grab it off you soon. Cheers!
Apollo, pfff, you don't trust me? I'm totally peaceful
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MikeP 1,235 posts
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Registered 10 years agoI've not moved from Prud yet, was busy watching 'lympics last night. I was going to take a look down at Stary Sobor and the military camp, as I've not been there yet.
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Cosquae 851 posts
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Registered 3 years ago@MikeP Jag and I went down there last night after checking the supermarket for a new backpack (none). Didn't find much in the camp and tents but a little more SD ammo.
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Registered 9 years ago@psychokitten Of course I trust ya : ) Just letting everyone know that in the event of your absence there is an alternative. -
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I know of a place in Cherno on a particular server that has ALICE backpacks in a tent
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Rusty_M 3,590 posts
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you were totally unconfrontational in your bandit skin the last time I was on a server with you.
Awesome, will grab it off you soon. Cheers!
Apollo, pfff, you don't trust me? I'm totally peaceful <img src="http://images.eurogamer.net/forum/smilies/1/:wank:.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />The world is going mad. Me? I'm doing fine.
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Rusty_M wrote:
Wish I still had thatpsychokitten wrote:
you were totally unconfrontational in your bandit skin the last time I was on a server with you.
Awesome, will grab it off you soon. Cheers!
Apollo, pfff, you don't trust me? I'm totally peaceful />
@Apollo if only few M1014s though if you need a shotty
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Leolian 1,022 posts
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Registered 9 years agorichardiox wrote:
The Server you're on can make a big difference I've found. Some some reaso, SP2 runs at 50% higher frame rates than any of the others. Some are terrible.
Is it normal in terms of the Arma2 engine to be getting decent FPS in the countryside (50-60fps) only to have it crashing down in built up areas. Even if there's buildings in the near distance, just looking at them gives me about a 15fps drop and any trek through a built up area sees me sub 30. Don't really want to start dropping my settings to lower than normal.
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Mr-Brett 11,483 posts
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Registered 7 years agoTalking of frame rates I joined a server that's normally fine yesterday and the fps had dropped to below 10, it was night though and I've heard that can make a difference for some reason.Please don't use the delete button, think of the children.
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psychokitten wrote:
I still have it. I believe I'm north of either Berezino or potentially moved down south a bit. Can't quite remember, been a bit too busy to play recently.
Nice one! Good timing, I was going to dump (ish) it soon. Froobs found a tent kit so once he sets that up somewhere I was going to throw it in there to make space. Still have it for now
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