Best windows for Arma 2: XP / Vista / Seven ?

[Private Plowjoy]

I went form Seven to XP, and there was a noticeable increase in performance.

Yeah but for how long?

When I fire the Arma2 client up, after a fresh reboot it runs beautifully with almost all in-game settings set to Very High.

After about 30 mins of MP gaming, it's slowed down so that its about half the performance and then it will CTD.

I think there's a lot more to statements of performance in Arma2 than just "Its faster". What we should do is start to collate all this information with a standard set of criteria such as...

PC Spec
OS
Resolution
In-game settings
Out-game settings
Performance in MP - First 30 mins
Performance in MP - Subsequent 30 mins
Performance in SP - One Mission - First 30 mins
Performance in SP - One Mission - Subsequent 30 mins

Or something along those lines. That way we can start to analyse the results and start to put a picture together of where the common break points are. Otherwise all we'll continue to see are statements like this one, that without any context are meaningless.

[dynamic.zman]

Yeah but for how long?

When I fire the Arma2 client up, after a fresh reboot it runs beautifully with almost all in-game settings set to Very High.

After about 30 mins of MP gaming, it's slowed down so that its about half the performance and then it will CTD.

I think there's a lot more to statements of performance in Arma2 than just "Its faster". What we should do is start to collate all this information with a standard set of criteria such as...

PC Spec
OS
Resolution
In-game settings
Out-game settings
Performance in MP - First 30 mins
Performance in MP - Subsequent 30 mins
Performance in SP - One Mission - First 30 mins
Performance in SP - One Mission - Subsequent 30 mins

Or something along those lines. That way we can start to analyse the results and start to put a picture together of where the common break points are. Otherwise all we'll continue to see are statements like this one, that without any context are meaningless.

I'm sure this has been said before but, the game probably has a serious memory leak that's why performance drops over time.

[Private Plowjoy]

I'm sure this has been said before but, the game probably has a serious memory leak that's why performance drops over time.

Yeah, it's a sure-fire thing.

[wills]

just updated from dual core, to quad core and also new motherboard and 1333 mz ram??? same gpu (nvidia 295 GTX) and machine 40% slower

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i`m using windows xp

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gutted

[Bulldogs]

Yup, there's a memory leak that people are experiencing.

Lower the video memory setting in video options which will slow it from occuring so often, then when it starts slowing down, hold shift then hit the keypad minus key (-) then blind type "flush" without the quotes (pretty sure it wad flush, someone correct me if I'm wrong)

that should clear the memory cache an improve performance for a while. It's a temporary solution but something til a patch is released.

[Albert]

Yup, there's a memory leak that people are experiencing.

Lower the video memory setting in video options which will slow it from occuring so often, then when it starts slowing down, hold shift then hit the keypad minus key (-) then blind type "flush" without the quotes (pretty sure it wad flush, someone correct me if I'm wrong)

that should clear the memory cache an improve performance for a while. It's a temporary solution but something til a patch is released.

Does that explain why I need to set texture details and video memory to their lowest settings otherwise I experience incredibly slow performance? Sorry, I'm not very technical.

HIS 3870 X2 1GB
Intel Quad Q6600 2.4GHz
Crucial Ballistix PC2-6400 4GB RAM
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB hard drive
Vista 64-bit

[FireStormXS]

Yeah, it's a sure-fire thing.

There is. Over time the game's performance will drop, and eventually CTD. Hell, I've even had errors pop up saying that my system has run out of memory (I'm running 2GB) and the game crashes--though, that was only in SP.

My performance in MP is always much higher than in SP.

Yup, there's a memory leak that people are experiencing.

Lower the video memory setting in video options which will slow it from occuring so often, then when it starts slowing down, hold shift then hit the keypad minus key (-) then blind type "flush" without the quotes (pretty sure it wad flush, someone correct me if I'm wrong)

that should clear the memory cache an improve performance for a while. It's a temporary solution but something til a patch is released.

I did not know that about the 'flush' command. Thanks! I was wondering if there was something like that. Very helpful.

[Jackdaniels]

I do not think Vista is to blame. I am using Vista x64 on my primary development computer and it is running great for me. You should definitely get better performance with the setup you have, as it is even superior to what I have. For comparison, my current setup is:

Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4 GHz
nVidia 8800 GT
8 GB RAM
Vista x64

It might be some incompatibility between some of your drivers or system components - this is really hard to tell.

I have Vista and better specs then Suma, yet I only get 16-25 Fps? looks like he Suma sees no problem with vista and even states his the game is "running great." So what exactly is going on here?

I would also like to mention that I have never had any problems with any other game.

[flake]

tried Win7-64 instead of Vista-32. pretty much same fps, then it crashed

[Bulldogs]

In a lot of cases, switching to Windows XP (or starting Arma 2 with -winxp) has fixed it, but switching from Vista to 7 may not help since it's the same directx 10 core behind each build. (I say "may not" because it depends if it's direct x or something else that's causing the problem)

On a side note to that, the game runs a lot better under Windows XP, but then again, what doesn't (being that windows xp runs DX 9, so it looks worse)

I'd like to know the settings everyone is running on (most important being the resolution)

If you're running a 2.4GHz CPU and an 8800GT then you should expect about 20-26 fps average at 1280x1024, if you're running a higher resolution then expect lower (18-22 maybe) This being because the CPU and 8800gt are older and have trouble keeping up now days (mainly the speed of the CPU)

Here's a good link of some results while running under 1280x1024 that may help

http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,6...CPUs/Practice/

I should mention that I've had some complaints saying that an 8800gt and q6600 (it's a common setup) should be able to run the game fine, but keep in mind that they are both older examples of hardware and I'd be very surprised if they didn't struggle with Arma 2.