Hardware and settings for ArmA

[hamis]

Games do not use 4 cores yet,maybe not next few years.Get fastes dual (E8600 is fastest) core you can afford.

[kklownboy]

Games do not use 4 cores yet,maybe not next few years.Get fastes dual (E8600 is fastest) core you can afford.

A quote from the dev,AKA :Suma
"Currently I can provide only an estimation, for final words you still have to wait for later:

Our intention is to scale at least to some extent to quad cores (this means with quad cores you should have either better performance in some scenes than in dual cores). Therefore the game should run better on Quad Core compared to Dual Core assuming they both run at the same frequency.

That said, you can get higher frequency Dual Core for the same money as you could get Quad Core. My prediction is 3.3 GHz Dual Core will most likely run the game better than 2.5 GHz Quad Core, while both will cost you approximately the same.

One thing to note: different scenarios / workloads may show different performance patterns - e.g. it is possible missions with huge numbers of units will runner better on 2.5 GHz Quad Core than 3.3 GHz Dual Core.

Disclaimer: this is only a prediction and things can still change before the game is released. " Do your self a favorer buy the biggest fastest CPU you can afford, skimp on RAM, Vidcards ect, you can upgrade them later.

[sniper dude]

Could someone tell me a good control config for (Extreme™ 3D Pro) in arma iv tried mapping myself but keep messing it up .
tyvm

[Crazyfox]

Ok so now i bought a HD4870 1 GB.
I tryed it out on Arma and everything looks real good.
But after playing a while the screen get totally messed up, textures disappering, then a freeze and then my computer restarts.

Then i started to search for the problem, took me but then i used ATI tray tools to set up so i could see how much free video memory that was availible.
When the game starts its up to 1 GB, but as you play, load up the map and get ingame it decreases. That feels normal, when you load textures the free availible memory goes down. But it never goes up again!.
When the game starts I got around 700-800MB of free memory, then i fly around alot so the game need to load a lot of textures, but as i fly around it never stabilises, it just drops and when i get to around 500MB of free video memory the game and my computer crashes. If i fly it down to about 600 and then go back to the main menu, there is still only 600MB free. If I load a new map and fly around it starts to go down from there.
And the funny part is, that it resets back to 1GB-800MB whenever i Alt+Tab out and in of the game. I can play for as long as i want as long as i reset it like this.
It's not like this in other games i tried, usually it goes back up again when loading another another map or such. Or when you'r not making the game load anything.

I thought it was my CPU that was clogging up at first, but since I can play as long as i Alt+Tab out and in, it doesnt seem to be the problem.

Can someone please tell me what the problem is, is it the GFX card, the game, or the driver? I don't want it to be like this in Arma2 as well.
Im using the Arma 1.16 patch.

[Twisted1]

Hi there is / was (Not sure if it was fixed completely) a memory leak and memory handing issues with ARMA. version 1.16 was to help ATI users but mine were fixed previouly seen I have nvidia graphics. Try lowering some setting and see if it helps the more textures you load the quicker it will crash but below a certian point it will run with out crashing. Sorry it not much of a help, seen you have the card you want to use it to it's full capacity. Also a lower View distance can help some times also. I have read that ARMA 2 souldn't have these issues (Can't remember where but) so just hold out for a month or so and you should be sweet.

[amadieus]

Ok so now i bought a HD4870 1 GB.
I tryed it out on Arma and everything looks real good.
But after playing a while the screen get totally messed up, textures disappering, then a freeze and then my computer restarts.

Then i started to search for the problem, took me but then i used ATI tray tools to set up so i could see how much free video memory that was availible.
When the game starts its up to 1 GB, but as you play, load up the map and get ingame it decreases. That feels normal, when you load textures the free availible memory goes down. But it never goes up again!.
When the game starts I got around 700-800MB of free memory, then i fly around alot so the game need to load a lot of textures, but as i fly around it never stabilises, it just drops and when i get to around 500MB of free video memory the game and my computer crashes. If i fly it down to about 600 and then go back to the main menu, there is still only 600MB free. If I load a new map and fly around it starts to go down from there.
And the funny part is, that it resets back to 1GB-800MB whenever i Alt+Tab out and in of the game. I can play for as long as i want as long as i reset it like this.
It's not like this in other games i tried, usually it goes back up again when loading another another map or such. Or when you'r not making the game load anything.

I thought it was my CPU that was clogging up at first, but since I can play as long as i Alt+Tab out and in, it doesnt seem to be the problem.

Can someone please tell me what the problem is, is it the GFX card, the game, or the driver? I don't want it to be like this in Arma2 as well.
Im using the Arma 1.16 patch.

oooh i have buyed that card to!
To bad myn was broken when i received it so now im waiting for them to send a new one.

[Soulfly]

I'm running dual 275gtx, i7 920 @ 3.20, corsair ram 1600mhz 6g, vista ultimate x64, How do I access the FPS module?

I trying to see what my FPS is. Also, should I be ok to run everything at max? and what's a good Draw Distance?

I also running 15. not 16.beta.

Should I be running 16?

[hamis]

Why not to use 1.16?You can download fraps or use ECS-mod to see your fps.

[Soulfly]

I'll try fraps,

Thanks!!

Does 16 really applay to me? I thhought it was more for ATI users.

I'll dl today.

[GLeek]

i notice that ATI 9.5 drivers support arma antialiasing aside HDRprecision=16.
it's new for me . all ATI player might try that settings.