HHD lag when zooming

[Angelus (DayZ) 0]

hey guys.

my computer is

CPU : q6600 3 ghz

ram : 4 gig of ram

gpu : ati hd 4850x2

basiclly when i first and run around the map i get alot of hdd lag as it loads in the textures, and also visiting new area's and even when zooming in in areas i thought were pretty much loaded, making cities unbearable, my seemlying quite good fps in areas which had loaded justs drop to 1 or 2 (tho i only had the game 2 days and unable to check which command shows fps)

now before you say its my comp, i did for a most of a day, fix this issue compleltly, i don't know if it was a cfg command or lauch setting, but i had it runing Smooth, from start up barely any hdd lag and none while running into cities or zooming in, but basicly i got the hanger glitch, so when i attepted to fix that, it reset my cfg and now i am back to hdd lag hell, and moving in cities became impossiable again.

so my question is, which is the cause of the hdd issue, so i can fix it permanty, i just forget how i did it in the first place, because i tried so many things, and when i was fixed, i was enjoying running around dying to much to write protect my cfg!

any help would be excellent!

[nik21 287]

play with the settings in singleplayer and test it out, otherwise get better hardware (especially an SSD makes Arma 2 a lot smoother).

[-=seany=- 65]

Hi Angelus, Welcome to DayZ/Arma.

I think it was just a coincidence that you got it working ok for a while. It may have just been a good server either (server performance does have a effect on how the client's PC performs)

The issue you are describing is a known issue though. It can be helped by turning down object detail and perhpas texture detail too.

Some of us Arma players have noticed since the latest Arma patch that we are getting worse performance and visual delay in "LOD(level of detail) Swapping". Eg how the objects change from low quality in the distance to high quaility as you get near them. And also when you "Zoom" view. They (BIS) had made changes to this LOD system leading up to the patch and it seemed ok, but once the patch was out it's like some thing else has changed and it is giving problems you describe.

In the next beta patch (probably) that BIS release they are going to revert the changes to the LOD system back to how they where in a previous version so we can test it out and see if it resolves the problem.

You can follow the progress here:

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?137726-LOD-switching-issue-since-1-62

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it may be also possible your GFX settings are too ambitious. So again, make sure your object detail is not too high and try lowering texture quality setting. Make sure your antivirus is off in the background too. I use Avast and I find Arma runs better when it's disabled. if you want to post your GFX settings and your Arma2oa.cfg, we can look and see if anything is amiss.

Edited August 26, 2012 by SeanOfTheDead