Quote from Boris Lozac :

Yes but i said a couple of times, my stupid country isn't on PayPal, there are some ways to trick them thinking that i'm from one of the supported countries, but I can't be bothered with that.

Why you can't buy with your credit card? I never use PayPal.

Your choice, mate Arma III is military simulation, so yeah.. You need to be prepared and have a right hardware to experience all the excitement that the game provide.

By the way, there are some tutorials that guide the audience and help to understand how big is the difference between which runs calculations more on CPU or GPU:

1) Metro 2033 - PhysX CPU vs. GPU
2) Nvidia PhysX CPU vs GPU

Unfortunately Arma III is using PhysX calculations on CPU, instead of GPU. Dunno if the developers will optimize it for GPU's and maybe even make PhysX run on GPU.

Quote from DevilDare :

Cant believe Silverstone 08 was only 5 years ago... How times change. Pathetic.

+1. F-1 is becoming more pathetic and pathetic. Those safety precautions are really silly at the stages like this.

Quote from Ball Bearing Turbo :

Zero issues after the patch.

After this update I have absolutely zero (perceptible) input lag, and a constant 110FPS (in 3D).

Now that I can play it properly...

This. Good stuff.

As guys above me already stated, too dark The video itself what I like is cinematic. But when you do cinematic type of video, you need to have a good plot and development of it. Good luck

1. Who will win drivers' world championship: Vettel
2. Which team will win constructors' world championship: Ferrari
3. Who will score more points in 2013. Bottas or Maldonado: Bottas
4. What is the best race finishing result for Adrian Sutil in 2013: 5th
5. Do you think Sergio Perez will win at least one race in 2013: No.
6. Who will score more points in 2013. Hamilton or Rosberg: Hamilton.
7. First driver you think will lose his drive during 2013 (miss at least one race): Maldonado.
8. Will Caterham or Marussia score points in 2013: Caterham should score more.
9. Do you think Massa will win at least one race in 2013? Yes.
10. Does Kubica drive F1 car before the last race? Of course, not.
11: Winner of Australian gp: Webber.
12. Winner of Monaco gp: Hamilton.
13. How many points will the dwc winning driver have at the end of the season: 300

New build 0.9.9!

The new build addresses the framerate spikes problems, corrects some issues with control devices and has several other fixes and improvements.

CHANGELOG 0.9.9

Ingame
Fixed high spike % due to incorrect thread synchronization
Fixed car remaining on gas when returning to pits
New system to avoid redundant calls to DirectInput (thanks Fredric!)

User Interface
Potential fix for the laggy launcher UI after returning from a session
More debbuging output during the controller configuration screen
Further .ini validation and formatting on launch
Fix for kmh/mph unit selection

Quote from Töki (HUN) :

What do you expect from someone who calls himself Zeus?

Anyway, good luck to Franky and the others, just create a new team and keep on rolling.

+1. Roland pointed out very nicely. What can you expect from someone who calls himself Zeus. You can't change the human being who is in love with himself and what is the most important to him - is just himself. NIKI, sorry, man, but just look at yourself. You've gone too far away.

Quote from Boris Lozac :

I forgot what cpu you have mate, if it's dual-core then i don't know what you've expected With terain on standard i rarely get bellow 40fps, in forests and stuff it goes to 80.

I have AMD Phenom II X4 920 at stock 2,8Ghz, I even boosted as I said to 3,3Ghz. No advance. Something is wrong. I don't know... Meh I am not going to overclock anything again :| Yesterday I put wrong value on PCIe Bus speed and my PC just crashed, no display appeared. I took an hour to remove wires from buses, remove GPU to reach jumpers on the motherboard and reset the BIOS, then everything again placing everything into its places and boot the machine. I was so mad on myself torturing the hardware just because of the damn non optimized game.. I am done with this At least Assetto Corsa runs nicely and smoothly. That's the key. That was the main goal why I bought this GPU. Thankfully I did not burn my GPU because of that PCIe speed change.

Nice, but I can't stand playin' this game since it's not optimized yet. I even set settings on standart, set visibility to 800 and still no fps gain, gpu load maybe 50-60... CPU load pretty same. It uses half of my pc capability. That's wrong. Thankfully I got a chance to test it before buyin', cos in other case I would have regret

Quote from Boris Lozac :

Here's my settings, I average from 30 to 50 in that city with lots of buildings. Still not as smooth as i would like to, it has something to do with that motion blur when turning fast, i saw on Armaholics there's a mod to disable that.

Motion blur stands for Postprocesses, disable it and your motion blur is gone. Well that's weird. You are having more fps than I do with a more powerful GPU. Well, then I really starting to believe that for this stage, Alpha is really much CPU demanding, instead of GPU. It makes basic calculations on CPU. And GPU is gettin loaded not up to the limit. It's something like 70-80 maybe at max.. In my case even lover, much lower. around 60+ maybe. That's the problem.

Btw, previously you mentioned that you are dealing with a problem gettin' more than 30 fps. Now you say you get 30 AT LEAST and up to 55. What have you done over that period? I would like to know and, by the way, what is your CPU clock speed at the moment? I basically OC basically nearby 3,1GHz

Well, I noticed if you set terrain detail to standart or low, you gain some good fps. On what settings do you play?

Well I've tried Alpha III today and I my mood was well set up when I was dropped on Stratis island in the very first campaign and I noticed how well my GPU handles it. Meanwhile when I got to the town: I got maybe 30 avg fps I think, which was a bit surprising, I dropped down visibility, some details.. basically nothing helped, so I even OC my GPU and CPU, but still no better result, even worse - then I had to deal with freezes, visual artefacts and other shit.. Well, dunno. I won't be buying this stuff soon, up to this date the optimization is poor and I am not even talkin' about MP where you get an instant 10-15 fps drop down. So, yeah... Pitty.

Amazing setup there, Matrixi. A pure awesomeness

Quote from Boris Lozac :

Yeah i saw that video a few days ago, cleared a lot of things up but i'm still not 100% clear as to what to expect.

Then just watch Arma II stuff, basically. You will find out the answer.

It's warfare, military simulation. It is a unique product which has not any rivals. There is a plenty of warfare games: COD, MOH, BF (except the case when you run Project Reality mod on BF2 base) and many more, but there is no simulation, simply. Correct me if I am wrong, but it's the way it's. Also none warfare game can boast itself havin' a bloody hell huge maps, a variety of guns, vehicles.

Warfare games are actually developed to have SP, a story line... It was always. Nowadays the developers are more prone to create them to be good at MP, but it's just another CS, run and kill... No art in it. I would recommend them to get back on makin strong SP that for what those warfare were always awesome in the past. A long storyline was a key for previous MOH, COD titles, like MOH Frontline, COD the first titles. Nowadays they make useless SP orientating on MP which is even more useless.

Meanwhile Bohemia Interactive with its Arma title are orientated on MP stuff and providing a full warfare simulation experience. That has no any match at the moment. That what makes them the very special ones.

Hey, mate

well the review seems to be done nicely. A good commentary on the action and I do like the conception of the event. I would strongly recommend you to make a thread about something the same in the future in Movies section, instead of puttin' this here, in General LFS Discussion section, IMO. Anyways, good luck

This has already gone too far offtopic.

What a great race!!! So much fighting

Yeah, of course we all've heard, but I didn't know that pirate companies would be so fast to do a cracked version so instantly AND WORKING ON MP So I wasn't in a hurry to search for it. You did it for us. Thanks.

Quote from FireMike15 :

Well, Tomb Raider 2&3 on PS1 was "way" better than this one.

Too overdone and too intense violence imo, this doesn't have anything to do with the real "Tomb Raider" - Less puzzles, too easy gameplay (I played on hard), too short story...
Games are getting so bad in contrast with the real and first parts of those games, you are just paying for graphics, that's it.
It isn't that satisfying as I thought.

+1. I've played Tomb Raider on PS1 and I liked a lot because of its elements when you had to use your brain to make a step forward. Nowadays, developers go on the easiest, commercial way. It's pretty awkward to hear that mate, knowing the fact this product is released by one of the biggest and greatest developing group Square Enix, known as Final Fantasy developers, as well. Well, touching Final Fantasy, I should say PS1 FFVIII, then PS2 FF and FF X-2 was total awesomeness meanwhile a bit more commercial FF XII was ok, but really not the same as FF and X-2 and completely different, I should say, meanwhile former two ones were identical. Well, yeah... X-2 was a continuation of X, but still I am talkin' not about the game itself. I know a lot of examples when the first releases just pwn the ass to the newer (newest) ones. Take Medal of Honor Frontline for PS2 and take Medal of Honor Rising Sun as the next one - a total contrast and later game titles just did not exceed Frontline.

Quote from The Very End :

Oh my god I envy you!
Next time they have a consert in your vicinity, please let me know so I can join and crash on ypur coach / sofa :hyper:

Sure!

Quote from The Very End :

That band is awesome, also check out following bands:
Nevermind The Name
Leech

Post Rock is so damn good!
One of my favorite songs is "God Is An Astronaut - Forever Lost"

Yeah - GIAA is the best post rock band for me. That's for sure. I am the biggest fan of this band. And I do adore post rock music a lot. Actually, I was in GIAA concert here, in Lithuania, in my study town - Vilnius in late November, last year. What a concert! I was jumping like a mad man!!! So much fun!

My the most favorite song of GIAA - Radau. It's absolutely mind blowing.
And yeah.. Forever Lost is a great, great tune!

I do like other post rock bands, such as: Caspian, Saxon Shore, Explosions in the Sky - great bands.

Quote from Sobis :

For Arma III?

Basically for high-end Assetto Corsa gaming, but yeah... it gonna fit well to Arma III, as well

MSi HD 7850 OC 1GB GDDR5 256 bit

Core/Memory

900MHz Core
1024MB GDDR5 4800MHz Memory