NVIDIA video card(s) owners read here!

[pipscouse]

Do a search on AtoC if you haven't already mate. It may be related to that. I turned it off due to weird graphics since 1.59

[420Marine]

Hello,

I'm having problems with a LAZY GTX 580 SC in ARMA II: Operation Arrowhead.

I have the game on HIGH Settings just so I can play smoothly without the game dipping so wildly. I have a Logitech G15 so with a combination of Core Temp + EVGA Precision, i've come to learn that my CPU power is well within its bounds and my video card is only utilizing around 60% of its power when playing at the most intensive scenes of ARMA II. The problem is during these busy scenes, I drop down to about 20 FPS. I could really use the extra 40%~ of power of my card to boost up those frames. What's going on?

Thanks!

[Tankbuster]

What about your HDD, 420? Brief slowdowns like you describe are sometimes due to the HDD not being able to serve up model data to the game quick enough.

PS. Your posted images are oversize. Forum rules say that the max size is 100Kb, because most of us are still on 33kbps modems here in 1994.

[420Marine]

What about your HDD, 420? Brief slowdowns like you describe are sometimes due to the HDD not being able to serve up model data to the game quick enough.

PS. Your posted images are oversize. Forum rules say that the max size is 100Kb, because most of us are still on 33kbps modems here in 1994.

Ah, forgive me while I rehost


Edit: My HDD is a Western Digital Caviar Black 7200 RPM

language="English";
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=4;
GPU_MaxFramesAhead=1000;
GPU_DetectedFramesAhead=2;
HDRPrecision=16;
lastDeviceId="";
localVRAM=1576468480;
nonlocalVRAM=2147483647;
Windowed=0;
vsync=0;
AToC=7;

Is my current config. As I understand it, AToC=7 should be change to AToC=0 and perhaps something might be amiss with "GPU_MaxFramesAhead=1000"...?

[Pauliesss]

New NViDiA BETA drivers 275.27 released on 17.5.2011

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us

This driver package supports GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, 400, and 500-series desktop GPUs as well as ION desktop GPUs. This driver package also includes the 3D Vision Controller driver.

[gambla]

@420Marine:

At first, please give us your full system specs. How did you measure the 60% ? You can check your GPU-usage and other things with MSI Afterburner.

[Liquidpinky]

@420Marine:

At first, please give us your full system specs. How did you measure the 60% ? You can check your GPU-usage and other things with MSI Afterburner.

He is using EVGA precision to check the usage, pretty much the same as using MSI for it.

What is the GFX card memory usage percentage?
Probably choked full as 1GB is not enough for the candy settings.

[C0NSE-0N3R]

From NVIDIA 275.27 Drivers NVIDIA.com:

• Increases gaming performance by up to 12% for dual-core CPUs in CPU-limited cases.

Interesting line.
I was reading that older multi-core CPUs get good benefit from this driver optimization, especially when game is hard on CPU.. which ARMA can definitely be.

New beta drivers are working great for me!
So I suggest every nvidia owner update their drivers, especially w/ older CPU

[Nikiforos]

Strange thing is that in the latest release GTX 560 and GTX 580 mentioned but I cant see any improvments for GTX 570. This is strange that they skip GTX 570 for the card below and above .

[inco9nito]

From NVIDIA 275.27 Drivers NVIDIA.com:

• Increases gaming performance by up to 12% for dual-core CPUs in CPU-limited cases.

Interesting line.
I was reading that older multi-core CPUs get good benefit from this driver optimization, especially when game is hard on CPU.. which ARMA can definitely be.

New beta drivers are working great for me!
So I suggest every nvidia owner update their drivers, especially w/ older CPU

oh, I'll try this