ARMA2

This is part of a longer thread in a quest to get some more FPS out of ARMA2.

I played ARMA 2 demo (http://www.arma2.com/arma-2-demo_en.html) on my old system (AMD 6400 + 2GB of ram + Nvidia 8800GTS + 3 Drives in RAID 0) but it felt a little big sluggish, the guys at Bohemia suggest a "fast" dual core for the recommended settings (http://www.arma2.com/support/support-2_en.html), I figured I should be fine, to be honest the results weren't that bad, but I felt that the mouse just felt a bit sluggish.

I upgraded to an AMD Phenom 9950 (Black Edition) and 8GB of ram, but to take advantage of the RAM, I needed to upgrade to Windows Vista (After my bout with Windows 7, I was somewhat impressed) Fast forward to the future, only 6GB of RAM works, and ARMA 2 is running at a 200% fillrate at about 25 FPS. Not bad... I think (for me) the RAID 0 helps out HUGE with stuttering (There isn't really much of it, one day, I'll get 4 matched drives and then the fun really starts)

More in another update.

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