Patch 69645 - changes under the hood

[Krieger]

After installing ARMA2_Build_69645:
White / invisible Ground-Texture in certain view angels.

Nvidia System-Information:
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NVIDIA Systeminformationen-Bericht erstellt am: 04/25/2010 13:12:13

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Prozessor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4400 @ 2.00GHz (2009 MHz)
Betriebssystem: Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-bit
DirectX-Version: 11.0
GPU-Prozessor: GeForce 9600 GT
Treiberversion: 197.45
CUDA-Kerne: 64
Kerntakt: 600 MHz
Shadertakt: 1500 MHz
Speichertaktfrequenz: 700 MHz (1400 MHz Datenrate)
Speicherschnittstelle: 256-Bit
Gesamter verfügbarer Grafikspeicher: 2303 MB
Dedizierter Videospeicher: 1024 MB
System-Videospeicher: 0 MB
Freigegebener Systemspeicher: 1279 MB
Video-BIOS-Version: 62.94.8D.00.05
IRQ: 16
Bus: PCI Express x16

[Komponenten]

nvCplUIR.dll 2.8.313.10 NVIDIA Control Panel
nvCplUI.exe 2.8.313.10 NVIDIA Control Panel
nvWSSR.dll 6.14.11.9745 NVIDIA Workstation Server
nvWSS.dll 6.14.11.9745 NVIDIA Workstation Server
nvViTvSR.dll 6.14.11.9745 NVIDIA Video Server
nvViTvS.dll 6.14.11.9745 NVIDIA Video Server
nvMoblSR.dll 6.14.11.9745 NVIDIA Mobile Server
nvMoblS.dll 6.14.11.9745 NVIDIA Mobile Server
NVSTVIEW.EXE 7.17.11.9745 NVIDIA GeForce 3D Vision
NVSTTEST.EXE 7.17.11.9745 NVIDIA 3D Vision Test Application
NVSTRES.DLL 7.17.11.9745 NVIDIA 3D Vision Module (0)
nvDispSR.dll 6.14.11.9745 NVIDIA Display Server
NVMCTRAY.DLL 8.17.11.9745 NVIDIA Media Center Library
nvDispS.dll 6.14.11.9745 NVIDIA Display Server
NVCPL.DLL 8.17.11.9745 NVIDIA Compatible Windows7 Display driver, Version 197.45
PhysX 09.10.0129 NVIDIA PhysX
NVCUDA.DLL 8.17.11.9745 NVIDIA CUDA 3.0.1 driver
nvGameSR.dll 6.14.11.9745 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server
nvGameS.dll 6.14.11.9745 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server

Arma2.cfg:
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language="German";
adapter=-1;
3D_Performance=48387;
Resolution_Bpp=32;
Resolution_W=1600;
Resolution_H=1024;
winX=15;
winY=32;
winW=1652;
winH=1007;
winDefW=1657;
winDefH=1010;
Render_W=1280;
Render_H=800;
FSAA=1;
postFX=1;
GPU_MaxFramesAhead=1000;
GPU_DetectedFramesAhead=3;
HDRPrecision=8;
lastDeviceId="";
localVRAM=1056505856;
nonlocalVRAM=1341943808;
refresh=60;
Windowed=0;

Arma2Profile:
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version=2;
blood=1;
singleVoice=0;
anisoFilter=1;
TexQuality=1;
TexMemory=2;
useWBuffer=0;
tripleHead=0;
class Difficulties
{
class recruit
{
class Flags
{
Armor=1;
FriendlyTag=1;
EnemyTag=0;
HUD=1;
HUDPerm=1;
HUDWp=1;
HUDWpPerm=1;
HUDGroupInfo=1;
AutoSpot=1;
Map=1;
WeaponCursor=1;
AutoGuideAT=1;
ClockIndicator=1;
3rdPersonView=1;
UltraAI=0;
AutoAim=0;
UnlimitedSaves=1;
DeathMessages=1;
NetStats=1;
VonID=1;
};
skillFriendly=1;
skillEnemy=0.55000001;
precisionFriendly=1;
precisionEnemy=0.55000001;
};
class regular
{
class Flags
{
Armor=1;
FriendlyTag=1;
EnemyTag=0;
HUD=1;
HUDPerm=1;
HUDWp=1;
HUDWpPerm=1;
HUDGroupInfo=1;
AutoSpot=1;
Map=1;
WeaponCursor=1;
AutoGuideAT=1;
ClockIndicator=1;
3rdPersonView=1;
UltraAI=0;
AutoAim=0;
UnlimitedSaves=1;
DeathMessages=1;
NetStats=1;
VonID=1;
};
skillFriendly=1;
skillEnemy=0.69999999;
precisionFriendly=1;
precisionEnemy=0.69999999;
};
class veteran
{
class Flags
{
HUD=1;
HUDGroupInfo=0;
WeaponCursor=1;
3rdPersonView=1;
UltraAI=0;
DeathMessages=1;
NetStats=1;
VonID=0;
};
skillFriendly=1;
skillEnemy=0.89999998;
precisionFriendly=1;
precisionEnemy=0.89999998;
};
class mercenary
{
class Flags
{
UltraAI=0;
DeathMessages=0;
NetStats=0;
VonID=0;
};
skillFriendly=1;
skillEnemy=1;
precisionFriendly=1;
precisionEnemy=1;
};
};
showTitles=1;
showRadio=1;
customScheme=1;
trackIR=1;
freeTrack=1;
controller="Default";
sensitivity="Medium";
vibrations=1;
class ControllerSchemes
{
****removed key bindings****
class MainMap
{
class Compass
{
inBack=0;
position[]={-0.068000004,-0.063750006,0.2};
positionBack[]={0.010000003,0,0.1};
};
class Watch
{
inBack=0;
position[]={0.0055052373,-0.056549165,0.20999999};
positionBack[]={-0.010999999,0,0.11};
};
class WalkieTalkie
{
inBack=1;
position[]={0.093999997,-0.043000001,0.25};
positionBack[]={0.28,-0.155,0.625};
};
class GPS2
{
inBack=0;
position[]={-0.030799989,-0.070125014,0.22};
positionBack[]={0.023999998,0,0.12};
};
};
shadingQuality=7;
shadowQuality=2;
mouseSensitivityX=1;
mouseSensitivityY=1;
floatingZoneArea=0;
difficulty="regular";
lastSPMission="04: Hubschrauber";
activeKeys[]=
{
"BIS_T01",
"BIS_T02",
"BIS_T03",
"BIS_T04",
"BIS_SOM_INFO_HINT_1",
"BIS_SOM_INFO_HINT_2"
};
currentCampaign="ca\missions\campaign";
lastCampaignMission="Den Bären aufhalten";
browsingSource="Internet";
class Filter
{
serverName="angry";
missionType="";
missionName="";
maxPing=0;
minPlayers=0;
maxPlayers=0;
fullServers=1;
passwordedServers=1;
battleyeRequired=0;
};
difficultyMP="regular";
lastMPMission="CRCTI Proman v3 17 Sixteen";
teamSwitchOffsetX=0;
teamSwitchOffsetY=0;
headBob=1;
sceneComplexity=300000;
viewDistance=1600;
terrainGrid=10;
volumeCD=3.0640075;
volumeFX=5;
volumeSpeech=5;
gamma=1;
brightness=1;
fovTop=0.75;
fovLeft=1.2;
uiTopLeftX=0.20833334;
uiTopLeftY=0.15000001;
uiBottomRightX=0.79166663;
uiBottomRightY=0.85000002;
IGUIScale=0.69999999;

[dontknowhow]

I´ve been playing only without that -winxp and slow scripts are there.

Yeah, I was just looking at it. I guess yesterday it was a coincidence.
I don't know what triggers it. Sometimes they are fast.

[Bouben]

Edit:

Some white texture glitches sometimes. But nothing serious.

[S-M]

Also managed to get the missing ground textures from some angles this morning.

[jznomoney]

how do you run a benchmark in arma2?

[Alex72]

Single Player - Scenarios - Benchmark1 & Benchmark2.

[jznomoney]

I am getting missing textures and random crashes. They do not happen in the 1.05 released arma2. I am using the nvidia display driver 197.45. My specs are in my signature.

[Protegimus]

In addition to the points mentioned about AI by twisted, SASrecon, CarlGustaffa, etc. it is nice to see the AI back on track to improved combat behaviour, features such as:
[60220] Improved: AI covering units tend to stay close to each other

are immediately obvious, AI is religiously using pairs with bounding overwatch - much better than the `line up, ready to be shot' that was 63826!
I'd still generally prefer to see the AI use a more realistic approach and it would be great if the AI would move behind their buddy rather than crossing anothers arc, but one step at a time...

AI also appears less likely to fire when moving/changing position, resulting in less friendly fire - another welcome improvement.

Alex72 - are you using
-maxmem=
command line parameter and what do you have your in game video settings at - I don't see any stutter when moving.
Also, setting GPU rendering frames ahead to 1 makes for horrible performance on my system (all a hangover from that nightmare mouse lag scenario last year), though of course everyone's mileage will vary.

Protegimus

[Alex72]

@Protegimus. No i dont use maxmem. And setting GPU rendering to 1 has been amazing for me since i found out about it. But i will test changing that now and see what happens since there are moments when its very good. For example going 10000VD wich is very smooth compared to before.

But the constant stuttering when moving (slow and fast) is a killer. Will test changing the GPU rendering values around a bit. Thanks mate.

EDIT: Also tomorrow i'll gut my PC for new parts (signature) so well see what happens then. Maybe everything will be back to normal even with this new beta.

[BangTail]

Before this patch, the 980x did not suffer from the stuttering that was caused by hyperthreading on other 4 core i7 9xx model CPUs.

After this patch, I have had to re enable -cpucount=6 otherwise it is a stutter festival. It may make it easier for BIS to figure out what is causing this on i7s in general as it definitely did not affect the 980x until I installed this patch.