Hardware Issues: Tips/Tricks/Solutions

[Jack-UK]

Updated with a few more Troubleshooting issues

Any suggestions to add to the list, post and i'll add them

(And thanks for your addition Shadow, any other mods who have some issues/solutions feel free )

[Max Power]

I wouldn't recommend using the software to tell you how to overclock. edit: I would recommend using a program that detects artifacts to help you find where you want to be manually. For ATI guys, ATItools works quite well.

Also, I'm seeing a lot more benefit in the vram overclocking than the gpu overclocking (probably because I have a 256 meg board). That said, vram overclocking is DANGEROUS (well, not in a personal injury sort of way) and I destroyed a pretty sweet board not too long ago because I didn't heed the very minor bit of artifacting I was seeing.

[Desertfox]

For all the people who have at least two harddrives - I recommend you create a 1GB partition for the windows pagefile on a drive other than C: ( Or wherever Windows is located on your PC )

HERE is a Microsoft Knowledgebase article.

[Jack-UK]

I wouldn't recommend using the software to tell you how to overclock. ***edit: ***I would recommend using a program that detects artifacts to help you find where you want to be manually. ***For ATI guys, ATItools works quite well.

Also, I'm seeing a lot more benefit in the vram overclocking than the gpu overclocking (probably because I have a 256 meg board). ***That said, vram overclocking is DANGEROUS (well, not in a personal injury sort of way) and I destroyed a pretty sweet board not too long ago because I didn't heed the very minor bit of artifacting I was seeing.

Yes ATI tools is very good, tests the max you can go, scans for artifacts and has a heating up process.

As i said i had not used the Nvidia program which i posted, but i was told it was one of the 'best and most popular' overclocking programs for Nvidia.

I also tried overclocking my VRAM, but even a slight raise in freq. caused me to get artifacting so i was quick to keep it default

I could massively overclock my GPU stabley (thats not even a word lol) and it gave me a nice 10-15 FPS boost which is keeping me going until i can get my new x1950 PRO 512mb card in (i need a new case..)

And cheers Foxie i'll add your suggestion in

[Max Power]

Yes ATI tools is very good, tests the max you can go, scans for artifacts and has a heating up process.

Just to clarify, what I'm saying is don't autodetect the settings. Use it to find the settings you want manually. Autodetection is terrible.

[walker]

Hi Jack-UK

Thanks for this. I will add my voice to make this a sticky.

Do everyone a great favour and copy any ones solutions to your first post so people wont have to go trawling through this.

Any way to the point this seemed to help me.

For ATI cards (may be with NVIDIA too)
Under the OpenGL tab
Select: Compatability Settings
Under Force Z buffering:
Select : Force 24 Bit
Under tripple Buffering:
Select : Enabled

Kind Regards Walker

[Max Power]

Hi Jack-UK

Thanks for this. I will add my voice to make this a sticky.

Do everyone a great favour and copy any ones solutions to your first post so people wont have to go trawling through this.

Any way to the point this seemed to help me.

For ATI cards (may be with NVIDIA too)
Under the OpenGL tab
Select: Compatability Settings
Under Force Z buffering:
Select : Force 24 Bit
Under tripple Buffering:
Select : Enabled

Kind Regards Walker

This does nothing because arma is d3d, not opengl.

[Jack-UK]

Hi Jack-UK

Thanks for this. I will add my voice to make this a sticky.

Do everyone a great favour and copy any ones solutions to your first post so people wont have to go trawling through this. ***

Any way to the point this seemed to help me.

For ATI cards (may be with NVIDIA too)
Under the OpenGL tab
Select: Compatability Settings
Under Force Z buffering:
Select : Force 24 Bit
Under tripple Buffering:
Select : Enabled

Kind Regards Walker

Cheers for the reponse,

Though plaintiff is right.. ArmA is a D3D program... Please could you tell me what this acheived by choosing these settings? FPS/Stability increase?

I'm trying to keep the thread post up to date as much as possible, im trawling through the massive threads to find working solutions to some of the problems and FAQs

I'll add yours if i know what the solution is for

[Dwarden]

you can force Triple buffering for D3D too (e.g. by Ati Tray Tools or Riva Tuner) ...

but definitely that OpenGL setting (for both NVIDIA and ATI cards) is bogus

ArmA is D3D

[Espectro]

To fix the annoying map flickerring in Vista, download the new nvidia driver (released here in january) for Vista.

Download the international one, though - since the US one doesn't work (Even if you are in the US or have a US copy).