If you're like most people I've met with ArmA, your first impression was unsatisfactory. You were met with either incredible lag when playing all but the most simple missions, your mouse felt like it was attached to your gun via rubber band, and overall you found the game unplayable.
Let's fix that.
FPS lag fix:
Step 1: Go into your "My Documents" folder.
Step 2: Open "ArmA 2" folder.
Step 3: Look for the following lines in ArmA2.cfg, ArmA2OA.cfg, and any other ArmA versions you have.
GPU_MaxFramesAhead=1000;
GPU_DetectedFramesAhead=3;
Step 4: Change them to:
GPU_MaxFramesAhead=1;
GPU_DetectedFramesAhead=1;
Step 5: ? ? ?
Step 6: Profit. This should dramatically help your FPS lag. Now for the mouse lag.
Mouse lag fix:
Step 1: Open ArmA 2.
Step 2: Open your control settings for whatever profile you use.
Step 3: Drag mouse smoothing to zero.
Step 4: ? ? ?
Step 5: Profit
Oh, and one more thing. This will further help FPS and especially help if you're hosting a game which is CPU intensive. Got more than one CPU on your computer? Probably. Most computers do today.
CPU resource increase:
Step 1: Go into the Steam library (or the shortcut you use to launch ArmA 2 if you use any mods like Invasion 44).
Step 2: Open properties, then launch options (or just properties if it's a shortcut to a mod).
Step 3: Add the following line to the launch options (or shortcut path):
-CpuCount=# (with # corresponding to the number of CPUs you have or want to use for ArmA. I have a quad-core, so I put 4.)
Step 4: ? ? ?
Step 6: Big profit.
Hope this all helps you all improve your ArmA 2 experience. :3
"Thank you, this is a awesome post"
Quote from: Madcombat on 09-04-2012
"Thank you, this is a awesome shit post"
You give yourself too much credit.
Yes he does, yes he does.
Quote from: Steven :D on 09-04-2012
Quote from: Madcombat on 09-04-2012
"Thank you, this is a awesome shit post"
You give yourself too much credit.
I see what you did there.
(People chill. He's not flaming.)
Yeah, this fixed the crappy GPU usage.
Sadly it doesn't fix the overheating at 99% usage.
I can't find launch options in the properties of arma 2 please help!