game freezing

[ClumsyGamer]

i set the terrain detail to max and the game won't let me move the mouse and runs at 1 frame per minute. how can I revert this?

[Przemek_kondor]

You have ColdWarAssaultPreferences.exe in Arma folder or you can go to ARMA Cold War Assault/Users/UserInfo.cfg or YourUserName/UserInfo.cfg and manually edit value.

My config:

frameRate=15.000000;
visualQuality=0.007813;
objectShadows=0;
vehicleShadows=1;
cloudlets=1;
viewDistance=1291.371704;
terrainGrid=12.500000;
volumeCD=5.000000;
volumeFX=5.000000;
volumeSpeech=5.000000;
singleVoice=0;
enableEAX=0;
enableHW=0;
gamma=1.200000;
brightness=1.600000;
multitexturing=1;
useWBuffer=0;
fovTop=0.750000;
fovLeft=1.000000;
uiTopLeftX=0.000000;
uiTopLeftY=0.000000;
uiBottomRightX=1.000000;
uiBottomRightY=1.000000;
version=1;
useSockets=1;
browsingSource="Internet";
class Filter
{
serverName="";
missionName="";
maxPing=0;
minPlayers=0;
maxPlayers=0;
fullServers=1;
passwordedServers=1;
};
class MainMap
{
class Compass
{
inBack=1;
position[]={0.026000,0.047000,0.200000};
positionBack[]={0.178000,0.145000,0.500000};
};
class Watch
{
inBack=1;
position[]={0.079000,0.044000,0.210000};
positionBack[]={0.238000,0.158000,0.525000};
};
class WalkieTalkie
{
inBack=1;
position[]={0.094000,-0.043000,0.250000};
positionBack[]={0.280000,-0.155000,0.625000};
};
class Notepad
{
inBack=1;
position[]={-0.114000,-0.010300,0.320000};
positionBack[]={-0.279188,-0.046636,0.800000};
};
class Warrant
{
inBack=1;
position[]={0.073000,-0.025000,0.400000};
positionBack[]={0.368000,0.193000,1.000000};
};
class GPS
{
inBack=0;
position[]={0.000000,0.000000,0.450000};
positionBack[]={0.000000,0.000000,1.125000};
};
};
blood=1;

[krzychuzokecia]

Go to the main folder of A:CWA (usually Steam\steamapps\common\ARMA Cold War Assault\), and look for the "Users" folder. There go to your user profile folder, where you'll find UserInfo.cfg file. Open it up with regular Notepad, and look for line "terrainGrid". Either delete that line, or type the following value: "terrainGrid=12.500000;" (that's my setting, and it works OK).

Also: don't never ever set the terrain detail to max.

EDIT: ninja'd by Przemek, once again!

[Captain n00by]

One does not simply put terrain detail on max in CWA ;p

That setting would really need a fixing of the memory subsystem in the game to be of any use because it will either stutter like mad or give you the "out of memory" error.

Plus, the missions that come with the game weren't actually designed with anything more than "normal" terrain setting in mind - tanks, cars and other vehicles will *not* move normally with high or very high terrain setting, they will just jump around like crazy and it's also harder to spot enemies.

It's more of a "future tech demo" option if you ask me. It does look good from a distance, mind, a form or early software tessellation.