Will Arma 3 be better optimized

[NeMeSiS]

When people whine about "make ArmA3 optimized" they expect better FPS in ArmA3 than in ArmA2. I can't wait for their reaction to the truth.

Remember we had the same bullshit when we went from A1 to A2? People never learn.

[PuFu]

ArmA2 uses whopping 1.5 GBs with everything it offers. Effective enough for you?

No, on the contrary. Arma should stream things through RAM, not off the hard. Check the huge HDD IO. If you really think it is better to run things off HDD, instead of pushing things towards (at least) the LAA max usage, you know nothing about computers...

On a side note, you keep saying that people asking (truth be told, without much software or hardware background) are all playing on their mom's office PCs....that couldn't been far from the truth generalizing things this way. What's your hardware btw?

[metalcraze]

Pretty dated atm. Phenom II X4, GTX260

[-=Grunt=-]

Yeah, it'd be great if terrain and infantry textures were loaded onto the RAM since it seems to be the ones that are loaded the most in cities and such.

[ruhtraeel]

Maybe arma 3 will implement that so you don't need to use ramdisk at all. As in upon startup, load the most used files into ram and keep it there, while upon closing, move them back to the hdd.

[MadDogX]

Maybe arma 3 will implement that so you don't need to use ramdisk at all. As in upon startup, load the most used files into ram and keep it there, while upon closing, move them back to the hdd.

Move them back to the HDD? Seriously?

[ruhtraeel]

Move them back to the HDD? Seriously?

OK well fine startup and shutdown would be slow but the smooth gameplay would be worth it

And at least you would still be able to use your ram when you aren't playing arma

[Steakslim]

OK well fine startup and shutdown would be slow but the smooth gameplay would be worth it

And at least you would still be able to use your ram when you aren't playing arma

Now I'm not the most knowledgeable person in regards to computer technology, but the action of caching files onto ram when running a game, to then "move them back to the harddrive" is a needless action. When the game is closed the files can just be purged from the ram as they already exist on the harddrive.

[PuFu]

OK well fine startup and shutdown would be slow but the smooth gameplay would be worth it

And at least you would still be able to use your ram when you aren't playing arma

please read up on how a computer works before making the next post

[ruhtraeel]

Now I'm not the most knowledgeable person in regards to computer technology, but the action of caching files onto ram when running a game, to then "move them back to the harddrive" is a needless action. When the game is closed the files can just be purged from the ram as they already exist on the harddrive.

OK from what I read ramdisk literally puts the files into a virtual drive in your ram. Like apparently it also says they also make the allocated ram pretty much turn into secondary memory, which means it's stored even after you power off, at least that's what it says on the site.

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So like you have a ram partition