9.6 with the -winxp parameter to make Crossfire work properly on this OS made a great difference in terms of performance, 9.7 made it possible to run without the -winxp parameter which improved mouse responce in certain menus and parts of the game amongst others and 9.8 seems to have made some minor improvements over that, outside of heavily scripted areas and cities the performance difference between Crossfire and non-Crossfire is a pretty amazing 100% so I can't complain. (I posted a few screens showing this earlier in the thread, can redo them if needed as the latest patch - and beta update - further helps performance a bit so it runs great outside of the above situations or when using heavy AA sampling or the upscale filtering both of which are disabled albeit low AA quality is still playable.) EDIT: Not the best comparison but it'll work, first image has Crossfire enabled, second one shows the settings used and the third image is with Crossfire disabled (Catalyst AI turned off.) ArmA2.cfg UserName/ProfileName.cfg
JonasBeckman I know these thing is just wanted to know if the new hotfix driver gives better performance then the 9.8?
I find the actual performance differences between 9.8 and the hotfix very minor (It's already scaling close to 100% so it can't do much better.) but it seems a bit more technically improved such as less HDR flashing as frames are swapped between GPU1 to GPU2 and so on plus the beta patch improves mouse based response which further helps to smoothen out the gameplay experience. Game is still very CPU bound during heavily scripted missions like the actual campaign and city environments are also somewhat more demanding than any other area in the game, especially with AA but performance manages pretty well despite this. Not much else that can be done aside from getting a better/faster GPU once available (5890 X2 for example if ATI goes that far, GT300 GX2 for NVIDIA just to use example names, bit overkill perhaps, don't know how fast those cards will turn out to be.) in order to utilize larger amounts of AA (That resolution scaler isn't that useful albeit it depends on how you scale it I guess though it takes a lot of GPU power at higher resolutions and using it alongside even low amounts of AA is a bit much for current cards although it looks great.) (Getting a fast GPU might make the CPU the limiting component though as it needs to keep up, same goes for RAM and other components as well albeit to a lesser degree.)
Operation Arrowhead screens: http://www.armaholic.com/index.php?m=single&id=6933 And some questions and answers about it: http://www.armaholic.com/index.php?m=single&id=6934
http://www.arma2.com/beta-patch.php Updated beta build, fixes a few issues since the last one like driving over enemies with their own vehicles counting as friendly fire plus the ability to enable and disable moust smoothing.
you guys should check out this mod you can download arma 1 islands for arma 2 http://dev-heaven.net/wiki/cbp-caa1/Yoma_Addon_Sync_Server
No it needs the 1.03 update installed (Adds the updated files to a separate folder and then uses 1.03 as the base with these files and the new EXE as a sort of modification over it.) and that in turn requires the retail version.
this game is even better with no mousesmoothing, thanks for pointing me towards that beta patch JonasBeckman
they're in the process of releasing a new beta build ARMA2_Build_58879.zip http://www.arma2.com/beta-patch.php btw beta version are compatible online with the latest official releases edit links aren't working atm.....
http://dev-heaven.net/projects/cbp-caa1/news Sort of a port over, early version, makes part of Arma 1 playable in Arma 2. EDIT: Hmm it might have been posted already albeit as a different name, seems there's quite a few things involved with some of the ArmA 2 projects.
no problem here are the Arma 1 scenarios ported you need the mod I posted ofcourse http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=85159 soon the arma 1 campaign and Queens Gambit will be ported.
