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Misc:

How to optimise your game (arma 2 and dayz):

If you see something stupid, send some feedback!

 

Esc\Options\Video:

Graphics intensive options (change depending on your graphics card quality):

  • Texture Detail

  • HDR

  • Shadow (off, high or higher to prevent shadows at all, or to stop them looking like basic pixelated shapes)

 

CPU intensive options (change depending on your CPU quality):

  • Object detail (this makes buildings and vehicles draw further away at better quality. If you have a good CPU, set this high)

 

Optimisations (these are options to both improve FPS and make your game look nicer, so set them exactly like this):

  • Video memory: Very High

  • Anistrophic filtering: Very High - if you still get lag, turn this down, but it really has little to no fps hit and looks great

  • Antialiasing: Disabled

  • ATOC: Disabled

  • Terrain Detail: Very Low

  • HDR: Pick lowest option availiable

  • PPAA: FXAA (Sharp Filter) - Low - if you still get lag, turn this down, but it really has little to no fps hit and helps show players and moving stuff

  • Postprocess Effects: Disabled

  • Interface Size: I prefer this on normal - no lag, just looks nicer and clearer chat text[*]Vsync: Disabled

  • Resolution: The same as your monitor

  • 3D Resolution: The same as your monitor

  • Visibility: 1600 - set by all servers as 1600 default anyway, you could try turning it down if you get lag and hope the server you use lets you

  • Gamma: 1 - turn up at night for night vision

  • Brightness: 1

 

Other tips:

  • If using DayZ commander, change launch parameters to this for Epoch: noSplash -noPause -mod=@DayZEpoch

  • If playing Takistan Life, right click your Arma 2 shortcut or edit it in your steam library if running with steam and change launch parameters to: noSplash -noPause

  • These paramaters do as follows: -noPause helps to keep parts of the game running when alt+tabbed so you see "receiving for less time". -noSplash stops all the bohemia adds showing on game launch, deducting a 20 second wait while nothing even god damn loads ;(

  • In addition to this, if you still get lag try adding -winXP to launch options, since that parameter runs the game in compatibility mode for xp, which is what the game was made for, and some people claim to get a small fps boost[*]Goto your documents\Arma 2 and open ArmA2OA.cfg with notepad, then change: GPU_MaxFramesAhead and GPU_DetectedFramesAhead to this:GPU_MaxFramesAhead=1;GPU_DetectedFramesAhead=1;

 

Esc\Options\Controls:

  • Turn smoothing down to nothing - Stops input lag and aim smoothing to make the game look smoother, which entirely throws off your aim

 

Esc\Options\Game Options:

  • Turn headbobing to nothing - Stops camera shake when moving

  • Set blood quality to the maximum - Little to no lag, helps to see if someone is injured

Enjoy your new game! - Freddie

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