FPS help request, please

[cyfeariul 1]

My specs are

Acer laptop, v3-571G

Windows 7 Home

Intel i5-2450M 2.5GHz Intel HD graphics 3000 driver 8.15.10.2669

4 GB RAM

With a 2GB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M driver 8.17.12.9555

I get good fps a lot of the time but near buildings I seem to slow down really badly.

I've been through all these sites more than once and tried all their suggestions.

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma2:_Startup_Parameters

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?101124-Operation-Arrowhead-performance-optimizations-comparisons

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/forums/showthread.php?2565-A-few-simple-notes-on-performance&p=76042&viewfull=1#post76042

http://pastebin.com/F7Q8Ne2i

Even though some of them suggest opposite ideas. I cant seem to get rid of a huge fps drop every so often and I cant seem to pin down what causes it. I've tried almost every combination of settings with the in game video options, everything on low, everything on high, everything inbetween, and I've added startup parameters and adjusted my cfg and profile, I still cant get the game as smooth as a friend of mine running on a laptop with no GPU at all and just an i7/2gb more ram than me and much higher settings.

I dont understand so I came here for help now that I've tried everything I could find in hopes that someone here is using or has used similar gear or has some suggestions anyway.

I know I said I tried a lot but please PLEASE any and all suggestions are welcome, I'll try anything and everything and I really want to thank in advance anyone who takes the time to read this and respond. I'll appreciate it a lot.

[bobstefanio 24]

Can you take a screen shot of your current in game settings and describe more when and where the fps problem happens and I will try and resolve the issue with you ? Also take a screen shot of the System and Display tab of the DxDiag tool you can get this up by holding the windows key and pressing R then in the run box type Dxdiag

[cyfeariul 1]

Yes Sir, here ya go. I also included a 4th pic of my 3d settings under my NVIDIA settings for Arma2OA just incase its useful to you.

[Fauji 8]

Bring up task manager when you run the game go to processes and hit see processed from all users and set the priority of arma to above normal and see I that helps at all. It did for me.

[cyfeariul 1]

Tried upping the priority through the task manager to above normal, doesnt seem to have helped sadly but thanks for the suggestion, havent read that anywhere before so I had high hopes haha.

[cyfeariul 1]

Can you take a screen shot of your current in game settings and describe more when and where the fps problem happens and I will try and resolve the issue with you ? Also take a screen shot of the System and Display tab of the DxDiag tool you can get this up by holding the windows key and pressing R then in the run box type Dxdiag

I cant wait for this guy to reply because he sounds seriously pro in the knowledge department. *crosses fingers* I got a good feeling about it.

[Mankind 8]

Bring up task manager when you run the game go to processes and hit see processed from all users and set the priority of arma to above normal and see I that helps at all. It did for me.

That boosted my FPS abit. Not too much but at least it helped me, thank you.

[bobstefanio 24]

Sorry for the delay I didnt get a chance to log in yesterday.

Firstly go to here and download the latest drivers for your card as you have a dual GPU I cant see if your Nvidia Drivers are up to date and if they are this will help a whole lot there where some performance improvement changes made to certain features on the card.

Next restore the program settings for Arma II in the Nvidia control panel and then disable Threaded Optimization (dont leave it on auto actually disable it)

Set your graphics options as follows in game.

Interface Resolution: 1280 x 1024

3d Resolution: 1280 x 1024

Texture Detail: Normal

Video Memory: Default

Anisotropic Filtering: Low

Antialiasing: Low

ATOC: Disabled

Terrain Detail: Low

Object Detail: Low

Shadow Detail: Disabled

PPAA: Disabled

PostProccess Effects: Disabled

Interface Size: your choice

Aspect Ration: 16:9

Vsync: Enabled

Obviously FullScreen instead of windowed mode that you used for the screen shot. Im guessing that 1280x1024 is your monitors native resolution if not set both options to the native.

Give it a try and see if you still have graphical lag issues. Try not to test it in a heavily populated server near cherno or electro as this will cause graphical lag from the server rather then the card itself. I have on occasion seen a problem where they nvidia GPU dosnt run for certain programs but then you wouldn't even be able to play so hopefully these few suggestions will help improve your performance overall. If you notice a decent effect you should be able to raise a few of the detail setting to normal rather then low. (but between you and me snipers are easier to spot if you set all the terrain details to very low they stand out easier in there ghillie suits)

Let me know how you get on and if the problem is still happening and we can take a look at what else could be cause it.

[cyfeariul 1]

it tells me this when I try to install the driver, sadly.

Any ideas?

I tried the other settings in game and restoring my arma settings out of game and all. Seemed to work fine at first when I was at 7000 blood and in all grayscale but once I got to 12000 again and color came back it seemed to slow down really badly again.

Cant wait to hear back from you, thanks again for your time on this man.

[INickeragua 121]

Wow my laptop can't even attempt to run Arma 2, I had to go and build a pc just so I can play. :)