ArmA 2

[MurderousToaster]

I was wondering if anyone here played this game and could give me some advice on fixing performance problems. The game is, for one, running on a terribly badly-coded engine, and I was well aware that performance wasn't going to be good at all, but this is unplayable, and I must be missing something.

My specs are:

AMD Phenom II X4 840 at 3.2GHz
8GB RAM
GTX 550 Ti

So, while not exactly, highest of the high end, it's still a decent machine and is more than capable of tackling modern releases on high settings, if not quite maxed out.

Obviously, this is ArmA 2 and not some ordinary game, so it is still going to run like shite, but I would sort of like it to be able to at least run at 30FPS. In the middle of nowhere, with nothing going on, I get what seems to be around 15FPS at the best of times if I'm not looking straight up at the sky.

So, do any ArmA 2 enthusiasts want to share their secrets on getting the game to run acceptably?

 

[Muspelheim]

In my case, it was resolution. I sacrificed a -lot- of it on my old PC to get decent framerate, to the point that I just shrugged and pretended that my character needed glasses, but refused to admit it (and somehow whined his way into the army).

It helped alot for me, actually. Try that, and see if it helps. It's a shame, but I got used to it.

Also, make sure the game is patched alright and look around the ArmA-community for a bit more in-depth help if you haven't already. :3