ATTN NOOBIES! - New to ArmA II or OA - Here's the place for your questions

[Myshaak]

Also, what are sidewinders for?

For shooting stuff down from thy sky (fast anti-aircraft missiles).

[Old_Painless]

What are some scenarios for a person really new to this?
Also, does ACE work with OA?
And is ACE good?

If you have Arma2 or Combined Operations (A2+OA), then the original campaign that came with Arma2 is quite good training on a relatively simple level. ACE will probably complicate things for you, if you are really new. I would advice you to get to learn the basics first

-OP

[PoorOldSpike]

Help! I'm Arrowhead 1.55 and am wondering why it goes into jerky "slideshow mode" after a few minutes play?
It happens on 'High' AND 'Normal' global video settings.
My PC is quite good spec-wise,and i've updated my vid drivers, so I can't understand why this should be happening?
Is there a video setting in the 'Advanced' category that I could try tweaking to fine-tune things?
I'm-
Intel Core2 Duo E8500@3.16GHz
RAM 4.0GB Dual-channel DDR2@400Mhz
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 1024Mb
WinXP Home SP3
HannsG 28" widescreen

[NoRailgunner]

you can:
- try to use the latest betapatch
- try to switch AA and shadows off and put all other settings to normal
- try to reduce the viewdistance
- lower screen res or play in window mode
- cross fingers or pray that BIS will find a magic spell "run A2OA without problems, bugs and other issues"
Edit
- you can try it with -exThreads startup parameters
http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/A...tup_Parameters

[Flubadoo]

How do you run this game in windowed mode? I want to run it in windowed mode @ 1280x720 to get a performance gain.

[Old_Painless]

I think you use -window in the shortcut command

[MadMuppet006]

can anyone suggest some good single player missions? I have gone through the scenarios in arma 2 and would like to try some other missions .. Im not used to using the editor at all so would love to play some ready made missions ..

thanks in advance

[pipscouse]

Get Sander's co-op pack. Loads of good missions in there.

[McKie]

How do you run this game in windowed mode? I want to run it in windowed mode @ 1280x720 to get a performance gain.

alt + Enter

[Concurssi]

I've got a bit of an older computer. My computer has are:

AMD Phenom II X3 720 2.80GHz
ATI Radeon HD 4650

I was looking to upgrade my GPU because at fairly low settings in ArmA 2 I get around 25 FPS, but which do you think should be the priority here?