NVIDIA video card(s) owners read here!

[Rudi Pourri]

I am getting around 25 fps with the latest Nvidia driver (190.38) and the latest EVGA SLI patch (Version 14). I have the resolution set @ 1920x1200 with everything set to very high except for Anisotropic filtering @ normal, Anti-aliasing @ normal, post process effects @ low and vertical sync is forced off. Also disabling Physx made no difference.

Lowering the resolution makes no real difference and the game starts to look blurry. The hard drive is always going mad as well. I run it on my raid 0 configuration. A defrag made no effect on loading times in the game.

I also used to have 25fps with a single 9600GT card. Now with a second 9600GT in SLI mode, i get the exact same 25fps! i'm so pissed off...
I tried everything mentionned in this thread. Still stuck around 25fps. SLI is working great on Crysis demo for instance. That SLI issue should be the priority of bugfixes imho.

I'm using Windows XP pro x64 too. Is there a known x64 issue for SLI with ArmaII ??

[s_loeb]

I got 10-20 fps up by v-sync force off and putting max pre-rendered frames up to 8.
Now i get 30-50fps.
Settings aa off, anist filter off, postpros off. All the rest are normal

[dualhammers]

There is a video on Youtube of a guy playing a 1500 AI battle in the dark and it looks like he is getting 60+ FPS. The weird part is here are his specs:

"Windows xp 32 bit/Windows 7 64 bit (Dual boot)
ATI Radeon 4870 512mb
4GB DDR2 RAM (2x 2GB sticks)
Intel Dual Core E8500 @ 3.7ghz
And a crap sound card :P"


What is wrong with this game??

[David1054]

It doesnt like some of us and
I believe those are
Richie Speed's setup lol cus i checked it the other day also.

[nuggetz]

There is a video on Youtube of a guy playing a 1500 AI battle in the dark and it looks like he is getting 60+ FPS. The weird part is here are his specs:

"Windows xp 32 bit/Windows 7 64 bit (Dual boot)
ATI Radeon 4870 512mb
4GB DDR2 RAM (2x 2GB sticks)
Intel Dual Core E8500 @ 3.7ghz
And a crap sound card :P"


What is wrong with this game??

That dude on youtube was probably running the game at a low resolution. Youtube's not exactly known for HD video. But yea, I saw the video and it was amazing. My game doesn't look like that.

[Wastelander]

Hmm. i don't have any problems with my new GTX 285 and ArmA2. Got more FPS and more stable FPS than my old 8800GTX. And i'm using the newest nvidia drivers.

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Hi.

Try to set all the NVIDIA Control Panel t default in the Basic and do the same for your arma2 profile in NV CP.

Set Antialiasing - Gamma Correction - OFF

That's the only thing i have edit in my NV CP.
I don't use nHancer ether only for some other games.
All my ArmA2 settings are in game.
Try all that and see if you still have texture problems.
- Maybe use 4 GB RAM in your computer instead, no SLI only one GPU

Cheers

All seems to be good for 260/285 Nvidia just not the 295?

Maybe then next patch of ARMA will fix things up?

[nicolasroger]

i have:
gtx 280
phenom x4 940

cant get over 30 FPS on village sweep starup. whatever i do

except one thing:
I changed the value "sceneComplexity=1000000;" in the file "Name.ArmA2Profile" in my documents/profile folder

when i put it to 50000 insteed, my FPS raised to 50 FPS. (but the game looks aweful lol)

[niQ®]

sceneComplexity=?;
anisoFilter=?;
FSAA=?;
postFX=?;

these values are the most heavy
not necessarily must play at most of the graphics. is a simulator and is still beautiful even played average retail

(sry for my english) bye

[franklin]

Ive tryed almost every combination of every suggestion made here in this forum, and nothing seems to do much more than improve by a few FPS or more. I dont believe that there is some magic combination that everybody is looking for that will make the game run smooth and fast.

I have spent the past 2 days properly testing all the Nvidia drivers from 169.25 all the way up to the newest beta drivers, and even tested the SLI patches from EVGA and Nvidia with the proper drivers they match. I have found that version 180.48 works best for my computer, the graphics are crisp, and the textures load the fastest. All other drivers make the game look very blurry, and LOD load times are very slow. im getting around 30FPS flying around the map, but it drops down to around 12FPS flying over chernogorsk.

here is my ArmA.cfg for those whom it may help... and for those who are actually "in the know" about what this stuff means... i sure as hell dont, and have been playing with this file like mad over the past two days. If anybody that knows better spots something wrong as i suspect i have input wrong numbers for the local and non local VRAM anyway...

ARMA.CFG
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language="English";
adapter=-1;
3D_Performance=100000;
Resolution_W=1680;
Resolution_H=1050;
Resolution_Bpp=32;
refresh=60;
Render_W=1680;
Render_H=1050;
FSAA=2;
postFX=0;
HDRPrecision=8;
lastDeviceId="";
localVRAM=2791728742;
nonlocalVRAM=2491728742;
sceneComplexity=400000;
soundEnableHW=1;

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Basic system specs

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Vista x64
X9650 quad core extreme 3Ghz
Nvidia i790 FTW mobo
8 Gigs of RAM @ 1333mhz
3x GTX260 OCE2 Video cards

running physx disabled because the game doesnt use it anyway, and with SLI enabled.

[Rudi Pourri]

Ive tryed almost every combination of every suggestion made here in this forum, and nothing seems to do much more than improve by a few FPS or more. I dont believe that there is some magic combination that everybody is looking for that will make the game run smooth and fast.

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Basic system specs

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Vista x64
X9650 quad core extreme 3Ghz
Nvidia i790 FTW mobo
8 Gigs of RAM @ 1333mhz
3x GTX260 OCE2 Video cards

running physx disabled because the game doesnt use it anyway, and with SLI enabled.

I'm sure there is an issue with SLI and x64 systems. Adding a second card didn't do anything on my XP 64 system.