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9/1/2007 6:24:37 PM EDT

Shot at 2007-09-01
9/1/2007 6:25:51 PM EDT
[#1]
Dicey interweb connections FTL!
9/1/2007 6:27:26 PM EDT
[#2]

Quoted:
Dicey interweb connections FTL!


I was actually the guy about to be shot.

First off my Winamp fucked up and wouldn't shut down. Then the game framerate suddenly went from 40FPS into a PowerPoint Presentation and then just gave up. Ventrilo wasn't responding either, so I had to cut the power.

Something is running unstable on my computer. I can't isolate the problem. At least it isn't was bad as it was a week ago.
9/1/2007 6:27:33 PM EDT
[#3]
Dude, turn your viewdistance up!
9/1/2007 6:27:44 PM EDT
[#4]
what game is that?
9/1/2007 6:28:30 PM EDT
[#5]
Control Panel and shut down all unnecessary processes.  Then launch the game.
9/1/2007 6:28:36 PM EDT
[#6]
9/1/2007 6:29:00 PM EDT
[#7]
ArmA
9/1/2007 6:29:07 PM EDT
[#8]
9/1/2007 6:30:01 PM EDT
[#9]

Quoted:
what game is that?
9/1/2007 6:31:02 PM EDT
[#10]

Quoted:
i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb227/Gilenusx207/fail.jpg


9/1/2007 6:31:33 PM EDT
[#11]

Quoted:

Quoted:
what game is that?


Armed Assault
9/1/2007 6:31:54 PM EDT
[#12]

Quoted:

Quoted:
what game is that?


ArmA: Combat Operations.
9/1/2007 6:32:27 PM EDT
[#13]

Quoted:
Dude, turn your viewdistance up!


Uhh...Fog?
9/1/2007 6:33:16 PM EDT
[#14]
How does it compare to BF2?
9/1/2007 6:33:56 PM EDT
[#15]
I thought you had your viewdistance set at some insanely low rate.

I run mine at 4K
9/1/2007 6:34:28 PM EDT
[#16]

Quoted:
How does it compare to BF2?


More real and less arcade.
9/1/2007 6:35:58 PM EDT
[#17]

Quoted:

Quoted:
How does it compare to BF2?


More real and less arcade.


My machine runs BF2 fairly well...it does bog down in dense urban combat with 64 players.  Could I run ArmA?
9/1/2007 6:39:45 PM EDT
[#18]
Proabally, what are your specs?
9/1/2007 6:42:11 PM EDT
[#19]

Quoted:
Proabally, what are your specs?


Pentium 4, 3.2 Ghz, 2GB RAM, GeForce...something, I forget.  It's an AGP (not PCI-E) card.

I'm downloading the demo now.  I'll report back.
9/1/2007 6:46:34 PM EDT
[#20]
I hope it is a least a geforce 6600.

Make sure your vcard drivers are up to speed.

Unless they fixed the demo BTW, it sucks.  Game is much better.

You are ok on processor and memory.
9/1/2007 6:50:50 PM EDT
[#21]
Oops, my mistake, it's an ATI Radeon X700.
9/1/2007 6:56:20 PM EDT
[#22]
I do not know how Raedons are rated.

You can go to www.flashpoint1985.com and go to the ArmA forum and look at the specs.  Check the ArmA general and troubleshooting forums.

www.flashpoint1985.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard311/ikonboard.cgi?s=3d6f4567b4b160ecb04243ca236ded17;act=SC;c=14
9/1/2007 6:57:05 PM EDT
[#23]

Quoted:
I do not know how Raedons are rated.

You can go to www.flashpoint1985.com and go to the ArmA forum and look at the specs.  Check the ArmA general and troubleshooting forums.


I skimmed those forums looking for specs...I'll go look again.

Thanks for the help.  
9/1/2007 6:58:09 PM EDT
[#24]

Quoted:
I thought you had your viewdistance set at some insanely low rate.

I run mine at 4K


wtf I run at only 1.3K because from previous OFP experience too much view distance decreases framerate for me.

My Specs are:

Athlon 64 X2 5600+
2GB DDR2-800
2x Geforce 7600GT in SLI
9/1/2007 6:59:24 PM EDT
[#25]
I got a 30% overclocked Core two duo E6600 along with a Geforce 8800GTX.

4GB Ram.
9/1/2007 7:02:44 PM EDT
[#26]
I'm DL'g the demo now.
9/1/2007 11:18:38 PM EDT
[#27]

Quoted:
I downloaded it, installed it, ran through the first mission a couple of times and decided I can't stand it.

Thanks anyway.  



+111111

its a POS IMHO

I would be PO'd if I payed $$$ for this thing.

DF2 had better game play
9/2/2007 6:03:26 AM EDT
[#28]
I hate the sniping aspect...

No elevation knobs.. no windage knobs... sigh.
9/2/2007 10:07:25 AM EDT
[#29]

Quoted:

Quoted:
I downloaded it, installed it, ran through the first mission a couple of times and decided I can't stand it.

Thanks anyway.  



+111111

its a POS IMHO

I would be PO'd if I payed $$$ for this thing.

DF2 had better game play


Anyone who purchased ArmA would agree that the Demo sucks ass compared to the actual game.

Look at some of the ArmA youtube videos.


Quoted:
I got a 30% overclocked Core two duo E6600 along with a Geforce 8800GTX.

4GB Ram.


Are you running a 64-bit OS? Because otherwise only 3.5 Gigs of your RAM would actually be used.
9/2/2007 10:24:17 AM EDT
[#30]
the whole purpose of a demo is to get exposure.  hook a new customer.  get them wanting more... didn't happen here.

what I seen in that demo was a POS, so it's easy to carry that over into the OTS version.
9/2/2007 10:40:07 AM EDT
[#31]
Yes, I am running Vista 64.

And the new beta drivers+MShotfix make ArmA run wicked fast. I was going to set up an XP partition but that is no longer necessary.  My stability is now OFP like.


Guys, last page, before you downloaded it, I TOLD YOU THE DEMO SUCKED!!!!!!

PAY ATTENTION!!!!


Like he said, look at the YouTube videos.

ArmA is as close as you can get to buying a .mil sim.
9/2/2007 10:57:30 AM EDT
[#32]
I found some info online that said the demo was fixed BEFORE I down loaded it.

the videos I saw on youtube didn't impress me either.

lots of them were 3rd person video, very little first person engagement.. lots of flying around...

anyway, I'm not going to drag this out any longer, it also seems there is a 'argument' of sorts on-line with BF2 vs Arma.. much akin the the .45 vs 9mm crap here.   I won't waste any more of my time with it.

it's just a video game, you win.

9/2/2007 11:09:58 AM EDT
[#33]
dslyecxi.com/videos/aug25_mousetrap.wmv

60 person Player vs. Player


www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4nfY62uASQ



You guys are just doing it wrong

I played no joke 8 hours straight last night followed up by simply talking about the games for at least 3 hours.

It all about who you play with and how.
9/2/2007 11:15:29 AM EDT
[#34]
You are red X city.
9/2/2007 11:16:04 AM EDT
[#35]

Quoted:
I hate the sniping aspect...

No elevation knobs.. no windage knobs... sigh.


thats easly fixed
9/2/2007 11:18:27 AM EDT
[#36]
www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=481030

Lots of pictures.

9/2/2007 11:19:18 AM EDT
[#37]
Cool looking game. I'm still stuck in Joint Operations and Delta Force:Blackhawk Down though. I'm a Novalogic whore.
9/2/2007 11:52:51 AM EDT
[#38]
I thought novalogic was bad. Then i found out K2 interactive is worse. Wish nova would release a new delta title.
9/2/2007 11:56:57 AM EDT
[#39]

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Wish nova would release a new delta title.



Indeed. DF:X sucked.