Official Operation Flashpoint 2: Dragon Rising Thread

[lee63]

Originally Posted by mailman2

The game is out...

http://www.gogamer.com/Operation-Fla...VVviewprod.htm
http://www.ebgames.com/Catalog/Produ...oduct_id=72873

I meant the demo

[mailman2]

Originally Posted by newparad1gm

ArmA 2 has better graphics than OFP2, but it runs like a pig and the campaign is buggy to all hell. Everytime I tried to play the main story, I would half the time crash out at a checkpoint or after saving due to a savegame bug. So I gave up on that and stuck with the Mission Editor, Single Missions, and awesome online multi.

OFP2 however, has been much more stable, and I can actually enjoy the single player campaign now without worrying about random crashes and glitches. Multi hasn't been great so far, and I'm just waiting for all the cheaters and hackers to swarm multi en masse due to lack of anti-cheat and CD key authorization.

The Mission Editor is also a beef for me, as its not in-game, so I can't just plomp down units and jump right in to the mission, see something I don't like, go right back into the editor, and continue editing like I could in ArmA 2 or the original OFP.

My experience with ArmA II was that it was crap. Missing textures, slow performance. At least OFP is fun, looks good and runs well.

[mailman2]

Originally Posted by lee63

I meant the demo

ah, not that I know of.

[doom3ed_player]

i tested. this game is a piece of **** .

back to arma2

[doom3ed_player]

Originally Posted by mailman2

My experience with ArmA II was that it was crap. Missing textures, slow performance. At least OFP is fun, looks good and runs well.

arma2 is fine now. and its features goes far beyond anything codies can do

[lee63]

Originally Posted by mailman2

ah, not that I know of.

Hey can you do a test and see if you can force AA through the drivers....maybe SSAA might help this game out a little.

[doom3ed_player]

futur of video game (Adventure game apart) , is sandbox kind.
anyway...

[mailman2]

Originally Posted by doom3ed_player

arma2 is fine now. and its features goes far beyond anything codies can do

really? Cause I pulled it out today, installed it, patched to 1.04 and there are missing textures with my HD5870 just like my GTX had. There is missing textures everywhere, some people have "clay model" heads with no definition, the game is one of the biggest wastes of money I have ever spent.

back to the shelf. Maybe in another year they will get it working... but OFP works outta the box. So I guess I will play this in the meantime.

[doom3ed_player]

Originally Posted by mailman2

really? Cause I pulled it out today, installed it, patched to 1.04 and there are missing textures with my HD5870 just like my GTX had. There is missing textures everywhere, some people have "clay model" heads with no definition, the game is one of the biggest wastes of money I have ever spent.

back to the shelf. Maybe in another year they will get it working... but OFP works outta the box. So I guess I will play this in the meantime.

1.04, as many of other version doesn't support 4GB++ gaming rig. you can't run the game with 6 Gig ram , even on 64bit OS.
a little run on the FAQ should gave you this answer. it's a well - known bug. anyway , who has 4GB++ config for gaming & multimedia? it's absolutly USELESS.

ps: i would add if 30$ is the biggest wast of money you ever done, i think something is wrong .

[newparad1gm]

Originally Posted by doom3ed_player

1.04, as many of other version doesn't support 4GB++ gaming rig. you can't run the game with 6 Gig ram , even on 64bit OS.
a little run on the FAQ should gave you this answer. it's a well - known bug. anyway , who has 4GB++ config for gaming & multimedia? it's absolutly USELESS.

ps: i would add if 30$ is the biggest wast of money you ever done, i think something is wrong .

I paid $50 for it when it first came out on Steam.

And if the 4GB bug is well-known, they should be working to fix it. Anyone with a LGA1366 Core i7 rig built for gaming will have 6 (3x2GB) GB of RAM for the triple channel capability, because 3x1GB is just skirting the limits of enough memory for high end gaming (especially on a 64-bit OS, where the OS itself can sit on over 1 GB of memory), and using 2x2GB removes triple channel.

And not everybody uses their rig purely for gaming. CAD and 3D modeling use up as much memory as you can throw at it. You can't tell these people to go into their computer and pop out a couple memory sticks, or make a change in their system config and restart to limit the OS to see only 4GB every time they want to play ArmA2.

The point is that the ArmA 2 is buggy as all hell. If Bohemia still had the Codemasters budget and QA team during development, maybe it would have been better, but they don't. I still enjoy the game immensely, but I'm waiting for a few more patches before I continue the campaign.

[mailman2]

Originally Posted by doom3ed_player

1.04, as many of other version doesn't support 4GB++ gaming rig. you can't run the game with 6 Gig ram , even on 64bit OS.
a little run on the FAQ should gave you this answer. it's a well - known bug. anyway , who has 4GB++ config for gaming & multimedia? it's absolutly USELESS.

ps: i would add if 30$ is the biggest wast of money you ever done, i think something is wrong .

LMFAO you've gotta be kidding me?? So you can't run the game with more than 4GB ram on 64 bit OS??? Well that confirms it thats IS the worst money I've ever spent!!!

I have Win7 x64 and 8GB ram, I guess I'm screwed from this crappy game. Way to go Bohemian Interactive!! We'll I'd imagine most people with a x64 OS would have more than 4GB ram thats the whole friggin' point of a 64 bit OS. That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

This is why there should be demos. Maybe this is one of those games people should pirate first. See, I got screwed, no ones refunding me my $50 though. But they all bitch and whine about piracy. Funny how they wont give you your money back when the product is just garbage.

[agentkay]

Is it so hard to look for the issue on the official forums? It took me 10 seconds to find it through google. Simply add -winxp parameter to the arma2.exe and it won't use more than 4GB in an x64 OS and this way you can avoid the texture/LOD bug on systems with more than 4GB system memory.