Stuart.G

** brushes off the dust settled on his Forum account *** Hi there guys, It's been a long while. My name is Stuart and Ahoyworld was my life for 2 straight years before my uni. I remember the great times this community gave me almost every day playing EU3 and later AWE. It was amazing. Being known as a horrible shot I almost always flew transport and to this day it remains one of my fondest memories, shuttling troops to and from as Vortex 1 or 2 and later Angel 1 and 2. I remember that flying formation as two aircraft was the most rewarding and fun thing to do at the time. Well, with my uni starting I had to sadly take a step back from Arma as a whole and while I still played games, I never had the time to dedicate and come back. Until now. While the community seems to have evolved and had many ups and downs (atleast from what I could see by every so often stalking the forums) I am so happy to still see it around 6 years after I joined. (Atleast thats what my TS account is claiming, (22/01/2015) baby!). Eventhough I do not expect to experience the same gameplay I had back then, I am happy to be able to dedicate atleast some time back to Arma and there is no other community I feel I could be happier joining again. So hello everyone, new and old. I hope I can come chat with you on TS and maybe even see you around on the battlefield. The constant missions running currently seem totally cool! Until then! Stuart A pic I uploaded to the forum in 2017. I remember this! I just graduated highschool at the time. Totally crazy to still see it on the website in the gallery.

hm.. you mean your joining in on this weekends Zeus missions? Well, I am not quite sure how you want to be capturing footage outside of your gameplay. During these missions you will be of course playing in a team and wont really have time to be running around playing War Photographer. If you are recording (which is great. You can often capture unique moments during playing) stick to first person as much as possible, it just looks better in 90% of the time. The back of a virtual mans head isn't to interesting and ruins any cinematic shot. Graphics wise you need to just test it out. In my opinion you can't rely on good hardware for having great graphics and FPS on AWE. Just try AWE out during normal hours and see how far you can push your machine. I am not too sure about TS. I believe NVIDIA Shadowplay -should- record the TS with it but better you test it out! While in TS I believe you can set yourself a "Recording" Status but I would have to check. If so, its good to let everyone in your channel know they are being recorded Tips during the gamenight? hm... I'd say do anything that dosen't harm the mission. Don't go taking pics during a gunfight while your teammates are engaging 6 Infantry Squads and a BTR all while being down to their last mags. I think a good time to go picture hunting is probably during Infantry downtimes. Helorides, FOB time, anything where you are ordered to lower your guard or are waiting around. Then you can go looking for nice snapshots of scenery or let your Teammates pose! Hope this is the answer you were looking for. Cheers, Stuart EDIT: No sadly there is only a Streaming Server Group you can set yourself too. So maybe just put [RECORDING] or similar behind your name while in TS

I thought the FOB yesterday was great. It just cut down time. It was also more fun, managing supplies. I had to watch out not to fire away a million bullets each mission because I knew I wasn't returning to base. We drove about a minute to FOB, rearmed and patched up for 5min and then were off again. That was just great! Only issue I had and it might have been only me was the lag. I had real bad FPS at times. Might have just been the amount of players on one spot engaging targets all at once though.

Super excited! Town Clearing sounds awesome! Cant wait to fresh up my Infantry 101.

Mission Setting is.....AWESOME! I really like running the Archilles team. Just the Light at the beginning of the mission made it impossible to engage our targets. Would love to keep going in the Campaign!

Well it's not like you die instantly. You can easily just be unconscious from pain. It's just the period of you having heart failure which is disabled for reasons stated above. Just yesterday a shell struck about 2m next to me and I got blown away. I was lying there unconscious for about 4 or 5 min. Honestly, I don't think a human being should be able to survive anything more then that. If a medic would have revived me and patched me up (which he could completely, you can do a good two dozen wounds in 2 min if you know what to do) I would be fully combat effective again which is unrealistic and that's using our current system. In RL (and I am guessing here), I might have survived being blown to shreds, but I would have had to been stretchered out and medevaced ASAP. Being up and gunning again within 10min of treatment is a little silly. This would be possible with the "insta-death" disabled.

Nope didnt, I did though experience 0 lag playing Takistan yesterday.

Sadly neither worked. Nor did reinstalling everything or switchting to Wifi. Any other ideas?

Just thought of that too! But I decreased my audio format. I will deff. give yours a try tho!

played Altis just a minute ago on AWE. Everything was relatively fine until I hit contact. As soon as bullets start flying I drop to 1 FPS.

Also, you can try adding more power. Although it worked before aye? I once had an issue and fixed it by adding a second power cable to the GPU. In case you are only running one cable, try two if your GPU has ports for it. (Dunno what the Jetstream looks like) EDIT: Just looked it up, you should have two 6pin power connectors on your Graphics Card. If you have the cash to try things out, buy a separate cable for each. Just need to have enough ports on your power brick too. But again, no idea if this is the issue. I am neither an IT guy nor have had this particular issue. I am just throwing ideas out there.

You say it worked on and off for a while before completely blowing. To me it sounds like something cooked through. Is it the power cable to the GPU maybe?

So what could it be? My only hope at the moment is that it is Altis. Thank you for your help though!

Not quite sure if I did this right. Its telling me I have am receving 112.6 mbit. This number isn't changing though, so I don't think its a measurement but a fixed value. Also, I don't have a DSL button under DSL-Information. .

Yes I have a Fritzbox. I run over a DSL cable

And for your enjoyment: A picture of me playing MBW. Because it snuck itself into the attached files and I cant find the mechanic to delete it :S

Thanks for the Editor advice. My system seems to dislike Altis for some reason. Spawning an infantry squad almost crashed my game. I then switched to Cherno and spawned a lot of crap with out issue. I could even load the scenario and walk through the masses with minimal FPS drop. I was walking between 75 Infantry Squads, 4 Tank Platoons and 2 Choppers. FPS on AWE IS there a way to test if my Internet speed is up to scratch? But again, my provider hasn't changed. They did put down glass-fibre down last month but that shouldn't impeed my speed should it? I have also not experienced any drops in other internet related services since they upgraded the cables.

hi guys, thanks for the fast responses. I have been running the Task Manager for a while. As said, CPU seems to be at a normal 10-35% usage while playing. Sometimes it spikes a little but it has done that in the past and it doesn't seem to match with the lag spikes. 1. Specs: - Windows 10 Home (64bit) Version 1703 - Intel Core i7-6700HQ CPU 2.60Ghz, 2.59GHz (8 virtual processors, I think 4 physical ones) - RAM: 24GB - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M Anything else viable? Also, I have been running EU3 for the last two years on this machine just fine. 2. Yes, there have been NO issues with Singleplayer. 3. EU1 works fine. 4. See above Hope someone has an idea, cause my usual tricks haven't worked. Cheers, Stuart

Hey all, managed to get enough space to reinstall the AWE rep. Now, I haven't played for about 2 months but now when I log onto EU3 I have massive issues with lag to an extent that it becomes unplayable. I haven't had this issue to this extent in the last years on EU3. Have I missed something? Anyone know any relief? The lag happens at random in spikes every minute or so. It also freezes the game for a couple of seconds when interacting with anything. Gunfights freeze me up almost completely. It isn't my machine, my CPU/GPU are running fine and Singleplayer works superb even on max settings. All I can think of is it being my internet connection maybe? But it hasn't changed since the last time I played. I have also only been online during Altis (dunno if maps still rotate?) and I remember Altis being laggy for me but it never to this extent. Thanks in advance, Stuart

Blackfish is a great asset. Yes, it doesn't expand the pilots capabilities in any revolutionary way, but it is, as said, great fun to fly and airdrop resupplies are also handy. For a Huron-hater like me, I feel the blackfish is a great alternative. But yes, littering in general is still a problem & it is quite annoying when pilots start raining random vehicles onto the AO, just because "they can". But that is also just a part of life on a open server and nothing that breaks the game for other players.... mostly

Tbh, anyone with a tag should be sufficient to help you if they want. Sure, you probably get a more all-round treatment from the Mods/admins/etc, that specialize in that and I would always go to them with technical issues, but for these kind of IG questions you should find loads of people to help out. As said above, just poke them in TS and see who responds. For AWE especially, there are people with a "dog tag" tag in TS, which marks them as AWE Veterans. They should be able to answer 99% of your AWE questions. If you manage to get in a squad, talked to your Team Leader and maybe tell him you're new, at least for your first 3-4 Ops. According to my experience, we have quite a few newbie-friendly Team Leads online on a daily basis. It's just important they KNOW so they can look out for you. If they don't know, they will just assume you know what you're doing.