Patch 69645 - changes under the hood

[Suma]

New beta patch 69645 may appear not huge based on the change list, but it contains very significant changes under the hood.

As the changes were made to the engine core, including the core memory allocator, extensive testing is badly needed.

Download at http://www.arma2.com/beta-patch.php or directly from ARMA2_Build_69645.zip, feedback welcome.

[Suma]

Please, post only real feedback here, not general oohs and wows (off course with the exception of oohs and wows based on your testing). While it can be pleasing to read them for a while, it is hard to find the real information between them.

I have delete a few initials oohs and wows, I hope those who have posted them will not be offended.

Enjoy.

[KeyCat]

[68694] Reduced parallax map artifacts on sloped terrain.

Haven't had time to try it yet but THANK YOU for looking into this little annoyance!

Now lets see if we can do some AI testing this weekend

/KC

[Alex72]

Initial test: Me alone with a hummer driving fast and me just walking/turning around. Testing initial stutter level on loading textures and models.

Result: More initial stutter than previous beta build. Feels like it "tries" to load textures/models but fails and thus tries and tries and tries until i go further and really load them up closer. Before it felt like it loads everything and when done - stutter is gone. Now i get the feeling it has a hard time loading far away textures and keep them.

This is just my first experience. Will test more ofcourse but nice to see if anyone else noticed this or if im alone. Please test to sit in a car and drive it forward and stop - back up stop etc. To me the stutter never stops like previous versions. It should load textures etc to start smothen the gameplay, but it doesnt happen kind of. Keeps stuttering.

Tested all on HIGH, and also all on NORMAL. Nvidia GTX275 (197.45).

UPDATE: Initially i had a lot of stutter but after playing for almost an hour now it feels better. Cant say what this is other than the game has had time to load a lot of things into my memory. Going through a village feels pretty good now. More testing...

[SaOk]

Everything seemed to work great first, but after a cutscene in my sp mission the ground suddently disapeared when I turned on NVGoggles. I havent had that bug never before.

http://img156.imageshack.us/i/arma22...317292652.jpg/
http://img263.imageshack.us/i/arma22...317291918.jpg/
http://img401.imageshack.us/i/arma22...317285384.jpg/
http://img263.imageshack.us/i/arma22...317282794.jpg/
http://img340.imageshack.us/i/arma22...317281595.jpg/

My comp: Q6600, 4Gb memory, HD4890, Vista 64bit, Ati drivers 10.2.
The game was played without any custom addons and mods. Only this beta was enabled.

Btw. Also the nation flag markers seems to be gone.

Update: The bug is there even in the editor. Its not related to NVGoggles, time or my mission. And I only get it on Chernarus - Utes works fine.

http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/525...2317580928.jpg

[CarlGustaffa]

Hmmm. Immediately, the patch does seem to be a lot smoother, with less stuttering. Especially when turning your head. But after a chopper flight from airport to Rog area, I started to get some nasty blueish/whiteish ground textures. I figured it was just my GT8800 gfx card not being able to cope or something. I had 3000m visibility, but about only 350m actual visibility due to fog. But when I arrived, the problem persisted. It will go on and off depending on where I look. Sideways affect. Up or down (by 1 pixel) affect. Zooming in and out affect. Standing/proning, it is good during the change, bad again when the transition has ended. It appears that I'm able to look right through the polygon underneath me.

Note that this was while running ACE and an addon to exchange the clutter with lower grass. Will test further later.

Edit: Yeah, saoks images describes it well. Including that weird vertical texture stretch in his second image.

[Thr0tt]

Can I suggest just running vanilla and the benchmarks included in the last official patch. Running it with other mods / clutter removal / loads of tweaks is just not the best test as it could be anything.

[Rellikki]

I also got the disappearing ground glitch. Happened during the official benchmark test mission. No other addOns used.

[Mosh]

disappearing ground glitch
no addon used
overall much more stutter

just playing default singleplayer mission (the first one)

[Capt_Caveman]

just run the beta and get 3-5 fps increase on ingame benchmarks..seems more stable but will give it thrashing tonite!!