Video memory

**Pulverizer** · May 26 2012, 11:04

Halp! I can only select Low texture quality and Low video memory. The game looks like a total piece of shit and textures and UI elements flicker annoyingly, performance isn't stellar either. What's wrong?

I tried playing with different -maxmem and -maxvram parameters, -winxp, deleting cfg files, rebooting etc to little avail.

Specs: Win7 64b, Core i7 950 3.07GHz, 12GB ram, GTX580 3GB, Nvidia driver 301.42, no OC. Steam version of game.

**Nephris** · May 26 2012, 11:16

Same here.
The low res textures are so fun spoiling.
Hope they get it amangaed asap.
As it is I just dont want to play it.

**.kju [PvPscene]** · May 27 2012, 07:54

please post your IF.cfg. -maxVRAM should do the trick in your cases I think
please post the command line you tried

**Pulverizer** · May 27 2012, 09:39

I tried values 800, 2000 and 3000. With some settings I would see Normal available but textures still looked super low res in many places.

IF.cfg:
Spoiler:

**Nephris** · May 27 2012, 12:52

Thx for the hint, I also tried each possible and senseful setting with maxmen I knew from firrst ArmA2 times.

Code:

language="German";
adapter=-1;
3D_Performance=93750;
Resolution_Bpp=32;
Resolution_W=1920;
Resolution_H=1080;
refresh=60;
winX=16;
winY=32;
winW=800;
winH=600;
winDefW=800;
winDefH=600;
Render_W=1920;
Render_H=1080;
FSAA=2;
postFX=0;
GPU_MaxFramesAhead=1000;
GPU_DetectedFramesAhead=3;
HDRPrecision=8;
lastDeviceId="";
localVRAM=2131259392;
nonlocalVRAM=2147483647;
vsync=1;
AToC=0;
PPAA=0;
PPAA_Level=0;
Windowed=0;

**MessiahUA** · May 27 2012, 13:01

Originally Posted by Pulverizer

Halp! I can only select Low texture quality and Low video memory. The game looks like a total piece of shit and textures and UI elements flicker annoyingly, performance isn't stellar either. What's wrong?

I have this problem also (with Arma2 too) since upgrading memory. I had 4Gb RAM and everything was perfectly fine, now I have 16Gb and textures/UI started to flicker in arma. I made extensive memory tests (memtest, s&m) and this is not memory related problem. I bought Iron Front and now have same problem. All other games and software works fine. I've tried everything possible to fix, but still no result, apparently it's engine bug. Currently experimenting with different mallocs in arma.

Specs: win7 64, i5 750, radeon 4870

**Pulverizer** · May 27 2012, 13:08

Here's some screenshots of the issue:
http://pulverizer.pp.fi/temp/if/

**.kju [PvPscene]** · May 27 2012, 13:25

Here is a summary of Dwarden about the problem:

There is problem, especially on Vista and Seven 64bit OS with more than 4GB memory
and 1GB or more VRAM where OS will report less video memory than real value is
(32bit OSes might suffer from variant of this too)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2026022/en-us?p=1

On a system with 1GB of video memory, the following values are returned with the associated system memory:

System Memory | Reported Approximate Total Memory
4GB | 3496MB
6GB | 454MB
8GB | 1259MB

Lots of discussion e.g. here including some not nice 3rd party workarounds (patching files etc):
http://forums.bistudio.com/showthrea...r-Video-Memory

Hm it seems the maxVRAM setting does not work (currently/in IF/for some).

Can you try different video memory settings please? Worst case you can try to remove RAM sticks to get below,
or try the patching of files.

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In addition you may want to disable AToC and use PPAA:
http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/a...Generic_config
http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/a...tion_Arrowhead

**MessiahUA** · May 27 2012, 13:38

Here is my iron front video:

I've forced textures to "High" in config. The higher video memory/texture setting, the more severe is this problem.

Pulverizer, do you have the same flickering?

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