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They're pretty blatant, killing players as soon as a new round starts on bridge and they reach their tower. They don't even try to hide it.

How about going for some respect everyone? Insulting/offending isn't smart at all, replying places yourself at his same low level. If you find someone to be offending other players and making for a negative atmosphere just temporary ban him. In the past misbehaving was something that server admins used to punish in an adequate manner. You probably don't even risk having players to workaround if the ban timelapse is limited (e.g. 24/36h or so).

what Koden said is True, sound can affect game performace (or FPS if u prefer), a "external"/good sound card may off load cpu task as a "external"/good video card does

? i didn't say that, lol. The so-called audio "load" is negligible even for most Pentium 4 era systems, so no need to offload it to a discrete card.

Well it requires both. For example if you have a very slow processor and a fast graphics card then it will run much slower than a mid range processor and a mid range graphics card. This is because more often than not one of them is "bottlenecking" the other (this means that one piece of hardware is slowing down another). To avoid this get matching parts.

This applies also to sound cards.

America's Army relies mostly on the cpu, you can run the game smoothly even with a 2009 onboard integrated video chipset as the AMD Radeon HD4200 (785g chipset) if it's backed by a modern processor (let's say 4 to 5 years old), no matter it being single or dual/quad core (all of this has been said over and over).

- oh, and before you take the time to do any test, look for reviews over Google

http://www.anandtech.com/show/1606/10

Here the game happens to be Unreal 2004.

The difference when using a default 3D software audio setting is of 1.3 fps at 800x600, when switching to hardware 3D audio it turns to 4.6 . At a 800x600 wide resolution (the difference would drop dramatically when switching to higher resolutions). At 1280x800 you would probably be measuring differences around a single frame fashion. I can hardly believe there's someone that plays the game at a rez lower than 1024x768 (unless you play on a very small notebook, but that would be a quite different story, or if you're playing on a really old 14/15 inch display...something from 14-15 years ago).

Disappointment

Yes i played with sound, no tweaks needed, but a different OS changed the game as i knew it before.

Now getting to the point.
A few guys that were working on 2.5 for a long time finally had the chance to step up when authentication went down, and so it was. I heard about the project but was really busy at work and only had the chance to try the game again around March. Got addicted again, will always be my favorite game, the one...
What we have today should be like 85% old players and really enjoyed this game, being the remaining new players. So if 85% are old players, that were the kids on servers a few years ago, some of them should be grow up now right?
WRONG!!!
I never seen the game like this... And that's why i'm truly disappointed...
Everyone calling names, and i'm not talking noob names, offensive ones.
People don't understand the team meaning, they only wanna frag, even if they need to kill the teammate next to him.
People using cheats because it's so cool to own people on a free outdated game...
Players that no one ever heard about playing for one week already calling them selfs top players.
People don't understand what a mistake is or line of fire. Sometimes we can misplace a flash, why everyone now had to just teamkill you because of that?
And so on, really, i'm tired of this crap, it's a game, ffs, wanna offend people? Dial a random number on your mobile and talk with that person, don't come to a server insulting people that are there to relax.
This was during a war:

Are this our best players? Always bragging, no modesty, no respect for others...

Ok, i had to say this, most of you won't even read this or will be like WTH is wrong with him or even who is that guy...
*sigh* AA won't ever be the same, not because of the game, but people of the players, of those kids now are grew up but are even worst, at least while they are connected to a server... Just remember, you could complain before, there was a whole team working for you guys, to conquer you into the game, but not anymore, there are only people doing this for free, still waiting to please you guys but everything you do is come here and still complain like you are the boss of anyone in here.

Change yourselfs if you don't want this game to die all over again...
 

I used to play AA2 on windows XP and later i switched to win7, sound wasn't a huge issue for me. I still play the game, but it gets harder to have fun when people show really no respect to each other. Honor level and higher fragrate seems to be the everyday goal, almost everyone plays on his own. Sometimes I still take certain slots only to be a medic and do my job, helping teammates.

What kills the game also happens to be the amount of glitch and exploits being used. The well known "C" slot for B, crouching to standing position "tweaks", maps glitches (or particular areas you're not supposed to reach), sound tweaking and even brightness/contrast tweaking...

summing up the overall behavior of the average player of this "community" and since there's no decent feedback nor a wide enough supporting in every kind of form (even partecipating to the forums that now honestly look awful, i don't want to come back every evening just to read another "possible cheater thread", "ban appeal",  "sound tweaks" thread and so on) i don't really think the game will live on its own for many months ahead, unless a lot of things improves (including players behavior and partecipating, which i hardly believe).

Happy Independence day. I'm not american (i'm italian) but i still think the 4th of July has some good meaning to it.

2. Most of dev team is american, the game is called america's army btw.

Let's for a sec remember how the United States of America were born. Back then it was a group of europeans colonies, so it was made of people which originally were of different nationalities. French, Spanish, English, and so on.

I remember trying to work this stuff out back on the DRAAT tourney, euros were dicks about playing at times that made sense for everyone "no we won't play at 10pm on Saturday we busy getting drunk can't delay that."

Fact: some of us also have a life  . Friday evening might be a good compromise.

Oops! Google Chrome could not find history.anticheatinc.com

that normal?
anyone ELSE having these problems?

It's down.

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/http://history.anticheatinc.com/

yeah you true even the weels are bugged in the ground in AA3 as tou can see on the ss...

That would have been the last issue for me but it's just another sign of how badly things are done on this specific mission (or were done, depending on when it was really created).

ur the cookies guy on AA forum?

? i'm DocKoden78 or Koden78 on the AAforums, i don't recall which because i haven't posted there in ages, maybe months.