ARMA Free's MP performance compared to the full version's?

[Orpheus]

Hi

I'm thinking about buying ArmA II: CO, mostly to play the DayZ mod but I'm worried that I'm going to have quite a bad performance in the game with my Intel E5200 CPU. I thought I should test the multiplayer performance with the free version, but how much does the free version's performance represent the full game's performance? Does it use the same updated engine?

Thanks

[Special_Air_Service]

The Free version doesn't have HD and High Resolution Texture, so Iam not sure if that will represent the same performance with Paid Full Version , although I think the engine are same

May I acknowledge your specification ?

[Orpheus]

The Free version doesn't have HD and High Resolution Texture, so Iam not sure if that will represent the same performance with Paid Full Version , although I think the engine are same

May I acknowledge your specification ?

Hah, that won't be a problem because I won't be able to use the HD features anyway my PC specs are quite bad:

CPU- Intel E5200@3.33GHz
GPU- nVidia 9800GT
RAM- 4GB
OS- Win7 x64

I played the free version yesterday and on the lowest preset graphics settings and at 800x600 resolution my fps was about 28; on the same low graphics settings and at 1920x1080 resolution my fps was about 23. It's such a small gain so my CPU is being a huge bottleneck for me right now. The GPU usage was at about 50%

I tested this in a MP game with about 70 people in the server

[Special_Air_Service]

Hah, that won't be a problem because I won't be able to use the HD features anyway my PC specs are quite bad:

CPU- Intel E5200@3.33GHz
GPU- nVidia 9800GT
RAM- 4GB
OS- Win7 x64

I played the free version yesterday and on the lowest preset graphics settings and at 800x600 resolution my fps was about 28; on the same low graphics settings and at 1920x1080 resolution my fps was about 23. It's such a small gain so my CPU is being a huge bottleneck for me right now. The GPU usage was at about 50%

I tested this in a MP game with about 70 people in the server

no, not quite bad
Mine are even worse , My GPU are only 9600 GT , my RAM only 3 Gb , and only my processor that actually better than yours, Core2Duo E7200 @ 2.53 Ghz
But with that spec I can have playable performance on paid version ArmA II with HD and high resolution texture of course, so yes specification PC are affecting most on gaming performance but doesn't mean absolute factor. Iam even using vista SP2 which even worse in gaming especially on ArmA II than your Windows7

Your spec should be enough and your CPU are enough because it's already Dual Core with high speed, my solution will be defragging your drive where ArmA belongs to.
Have you using gamebooster ? try it too, as for me it's worked
How long your View Distance ? that's really FPS killer.

[B00tsy]

Giving ArmA.exe a higher priority in your taskmanager can help too, at least for me it is a lot smoother and more stable fps.

[Special_Air_Service]

Giving ArmA.exe a higher priority in your taskmanager can help too, at least for me it is a lot smoother and more stable fps.

How to do that ? I heard this method is working , but I don't know how to do it.

[Orpheus]

How to do that ? I heard this method is working , but I don't know how to do it.

Alt-TAB out of the game, start Task Manager and under the Processes tab right click on armaII.exe(or something similar, I don't know the exact name) and choose "Set Priority"

Anyway, I tried this and it didn't change anything, I'm still getting under 24 fps. Looks like I won't be able to play Arma with this CPU...Damn shame really, the DayZ mod looks insanely fun

Well, thanks for the help anyways guys

[Special_Air_Service]

Alt-TAB out of the game, start Task Manager and under the Processes tab right click on armaII.exe(or something similar, I don't know the exact name) and choose "Set Priority"

Anyway, I tried this and it didn't change anything, I'm still getting under 24 fps. Looks like I won't be able to play Arma with this CPU...Damn shame really, the DayZ mod looks insanely fun

Well, thanks for the help anyways guys

But your CPU is even above recommended requirement for ArmA II which is 2.8 Ghz . Don't give up so fast, should be something wrong outside the spec thing. Eh thank you for the explanation, so everytime I plays ArmA II I need to Alt-Tab and do that ? Is it can be set automatically only once in the first time so I don't need to set it over and over everytime gonna play ?

[Orpheus]

There are a number of ways to do it, I think this is the easiest- http://www.askvg.com/how-to-permanen...-task-manager/

There are other ways to do it too if you're not comfortable with installing additional programs, you should find plenty of tutorials with Google.

[Special_Air_Service]

Thank you
So back to this main topic thread, how is it going on your game so far ? any progress ?