[tk471138]

Originally Posted by Al Capwn

Hi tk471138, I'm glad to hear you made the switch to AMD.

Catalyst Application Proflies (CAPs) are generally only needed for CrossFire (multi gpu) users and you don't generally need them with a single GPU. However, sometimes there are fixes/tweaks for even single GPUs in AMD CAPs; you can read the notes for these, but all CAP fixes/tweaks are integrated into the next driver release so if you don't see anything for single GPUs in a CAP then don't bother and don't worry about older CAPs.

If you do end up installing one of the CAPs I would recommend removing the old CAP first (named Application Profiles in add/remove). If you don't you'll have multiple Application Profiles in your add/remove and it may even cause issues, so I would say it's safe practice to remove the old copy before proceeding.

With your 7850 you'll see some very respectable gains with the 12.11 beta drivers, although I do not know if they will help in ClOD (it would be good to get feedback if they do). I would suggest you give them a shot although keep in mind they are beta, and may have some issues, but I haven't run into any yet; they seem to be one of the best drivers from AMD to date.

I hope this helps

thanks guy for your explanation, yea i got amd processor too, they seem to have their price points set pretty well and is not over priced...
yea i had to change one of the settings already for arma 2 some AI or something i generally leave these alone and put them at game setting unless otherwise instructed

i will report back with the performance when i get a chance to play but honestly from what i recall from the old drivers 12.9 the game was able to max out (grass was off and maybe building options were at high instead of like highest or unlimited) at 1920x1080 and the game really ran well even in london...cept when i have like mad groups of bombers and stuff goin on



played some it was a larger mission over the ocean that i made with alot of planes on the map in one spot at the same time, maybe 40, during this fite the fps goes down but so does the %usage of the GPU which indicates some kinda of bottle neck, and it seems that one core on my processor is on 100% usage, will test more maybe over london with out so many planes

all settings are on higest they can be on cept ssao is unchecked vsync is off (thought i remember hearing that it was broken) forest is on medium buildings amount is on high damage decals tex quality on original (highest i think right) AA is also off dont remember if this feature was working....