This addon is a small config designed to increase the visual performance of ArmA II. It does so by removing and reducing the quality of various aspects of the game. The addon is designed for those who have troubles running the game with good performance or so that other settings my be pushed higher. It only works on Utes and Chernarus. Note that this is still in a beta phase, future version is impending.

Features:

RC1b
- Lower (smaller) grass
- Less dust produced from vehicles on land
- "removed" animations from grass
- Wildlife removed from Chenarus and Utes
- Grass rendering altered
- Grass clusters are less dense

v1.0b
- Lowered density of grass clusters
- Changed grass rendering details

v1.0:
- Glossiness removed from water and other surfaces.

v1.1:
- Removed some blurs
- Removed some UV sources

v1.2
- Ground textures lower, removed mid range texture (modification seems effective)

Plans/untested:

- Adjusting irradience (glossiness) of water and glass
- Removing the animations from trees and bushes
- Look at shaders
- Look at texture loading priorities
- Spread grass out to avoid odd patches
- User options to change settings
- Binarize and sign

Issues:

- More visible to AI (untested)
- Does not work properly with SAP clutter, unless in this order -mod=@FPShelper;@SAP (not recommended to run both)

FPS Helper

Appreciate any help, suggestions and feedback.

i want my cows :(

HOW ARE WE GOING TO MAKE STEAK


Please put back wildlife, i like slaughtering dogs that run across the road >:D

:O_o Only ambient rabbits, birds, insects, wind clutter are disabled. Dogs and cows are not wildlife.

Updated.
ArmAII - FPS Helper v1.0b
Tested with Exe version: 1.02.58134

Changes:

- Grass rendering altered
- Grass clusters are less dense

Readme:

Description:
This addon is a small config designed to increase the visual performance of ArmA II. It does so 
by removing and reducing the quality of various aspects of the game. The addon is designed for 
those who have troubles running the game with good performance or so that other settings my be 
pushed higher. It only works on Utes and Chernarus. Note that this is still in a beta phase, 
future version is impending.



Features:

- Lower (smaller) grass
- Grass rendering altered
- Grass clusters are less dense
- Less dust produced from vehicles on land
- "removed" animations from grass
- Wildlife removed from Chenarus and Utes



Features to be implemented:

- Adjusting irradience (glossiness) of water and glass
- Removing the animations from trees and bushes
- Look at shaders
- Look at texture loading priorities
- Spread grass out to avoid odd patches
- Options to change settings
- Binarize and sign



Issues:

- More visible to AI (untested)
- Does not work properly with some addons, unless executed in this order 
  E.g -mod=@FPShelper;@mod2;@mod3
- Sometimes patchy grass gives bad appearence



Included files:

Cher_low.pbo
Misc_low.pbo
Utes_low.pbo

FPS Helper

This looks nice, I will try this myself to see if it helps performance on my system (if I have time tonight offcourse :p )

Updated.

v1.0:
- Glossiness removed from water and other surfaces.

The newer version mainly increases the performance around water, to do this it has removed the glowing/reflecting water effects. I was in a rush to release this final version, as I am away from ArmA II this weekend. I didn't have time to test it properly or make any more improvements. So let me know if there are any bgs found.

More updates:

v1.1:
- Removed some blurs
- Removed some UV sources
v1.2
- Ground textures lower, removed mid range texture (modification seems effective)


without and with

Some bushes make the FPS really drop down while you look at them through a scope, just like the good old Arma when it was first released.
Do you think you can add the fix which was applied for that with Arma (it was lowplants right) to this ArmA2 FPS helper as well?

Wow I notice such a difference with 1.2, thanx for modifying this for us; it helps my computer out so much.

Foxhound : Some bushes make the FPS really drop down while you look at them through a scope, just like the good old Arma when it was first released.
Do you think you can add the fix which was applied for that with Arma (it was lowplants right) to this ArmA2 FPS helper as well?

I'm not sure about this. I have to look into this, the work is extensive and I'm not sure how this works. I think this is something to think about more once BI decide to release the Mlods. At the moment I think I've done everything that I know about.

If anyone is interested, I can confirm that plants are still affecting how the AI reacts. I was crouched in an alley and an enemy about 120m down the alley saw me and shot 6 rounds at me; hitting me 1 time, once I went into prone position it stopped for a few seconds which gave me enough time to acquire the target, aim and fire. Killed that one enemy and another comes around the corner about 80m in front of me and while still in prone position he didn’t see me and started running towards me 1 shot killed him and another enemy did the same thing, this repeated about 3 more times.

Needless to say this still has been a fantastic mod recommendation with my computer specs, thank you again Deadeyez.