Hardware and settings for ArmA

[Kamikaze666]

dunno if it has been asked before, but how does a 8800 gts 320 mb perform compared to a 640 mb version?

[jfri]

Also, I have issues where, somewhat rarely, my game will freeze for a minute to five minutes, and then suddenly resume like normal. It's unfortunate, but not too big of a deal, (until it happens again, then I'm angry *** ).

I have experienced something like this with a game called Oblivion which btw I can run with fairly high settings without a problem except with multiple enemies.

[BLUEmako]

Can someone please recommend some settings for me? I've messed around with the card and in game settings and can't seem to find a sweet spot. I can get around 20-30fps reasonably steady at 1280x1024 with 1200m view distance but the texture load times are long and inconsistent.

My rig:

P4 3.2GHz oc'd to 3.8GHz
2GB DDR RAM
ATi X800XL 256 MB AGP vid card with ATi Tray Tools, running about 5% o'c with cat 6.7 drivers only.
WinXP SP2 DX9c

TYIA

[majoris23]

Turn off Anti-Aliasing, it's the best thing you can do. Use coolbits to disable "render frames ahead." Also make sure your aspect ratio is set to normal, not widescreen or anything else.

The vegetation and shadows eat up performance with AA turned on. It doesn't look as great, but hell, it's worth the 20+ FPS boost that you get.

That's the best thing I can recommend. I struggled with 15-20 FPS performance on a brand new Alienware laptop. Turned off AA and now my FPS is through the roof.

[BLUEmako]

Tried with and without AA and I get virtually no difference in performance with either setting. AA on high, fps max 50, min 30. AA off, fps max 50, min 30.

Seems that the anisotropic filtering and object detail make the biggest hits to the frames...

[locherbread]

well my system is now as follows..

Cpu = Athlon 4200 64x2
GFX = Inno3d 8800GTS 320 mb
Memory = 2.5gig Kingston PC3200
Sound = Audigy 2 ZS
Monitor = Fujitsu/seimens 22" widescreen

Visibility 3500
Reso 1024x768
Terrain detail = High
Objects Detail = High
Shading = Normal
Postprocess = Low
Antistropic Filtering = Normal
Shadow Detail = Normal
Antialiasing = Low
Blood = High

that gets me a steady 35-45 FPS in all areas

Pretty disappointed at the reso I need to choice, to have the game run decently & look good visually - maybe I have something wrong with my system that I need to play this way, but games like GRAW2 (which I beta test) I can crank everything to max & it plays & looks beautiful...

[Mr_Centipede]

this is mine

Cpu = Intel p4 3.0ghz
GFX = Saphire ati X1600 256mb AGP
Memory = 1gig Kingston PC3200
Sound = SB XFI xtreme music

VD 1200m
Reso 1024x768
Terrain detail = very low (cant have grass, or i'll lag when view scope, prone)
Objects Detail = v High
Shading = v High
Postprocess = v High
Antistropic Filtering = v High
Shadow Detail = v High
Antialiasing = disabled (also FPS killer)
Blood = High
Texture Detail = Normal, Low when entering cities, because i will have texture artifacts (smashed gfx)

i love the grass, but i find a compromise to disable it and still play with pretty gfx. AA seems does nothing for me, except in forest, i will lag so much even i set AA to low. so i just disable it. still wondering why i cant set texture detail higher than normal. maybe because of my RAM or Gfx memory

[Zarkan]

i have:
AMD athlon 2500 barton (overlock)
1 giga rama
N7600GS


Resolution:1152x864x32
Visibility:1010
Terrain detail:Normal
Objects detail:Normal
Texture detail:Low
Shaiding detail:Normal
Postprocess effects:Low
Anisotropic filteringisabled
Shadow detail:Normal
Antialiasingisabled
blood:High

In huge towns i have 15 fps boot in open place to 25 fps"if i have
luck"

[R3MF]

1920x1200 16:10

All performance settings maxed except AA which is on normal.

Armamark score = 1330.53
Game = always playable - i guess over 20 FPS average.

System -
C2D 6600
2x 1GB PC6400
XFX 7950GT
Gigabyte 965P DS4 motherboard

[c_hathcock]

Hi all, Im thinking of getting this game but I want to know If itll be worth it with the rig I have at the moment.
Specs:
Intel Core Duo E6400, full 64Bit support Dual Core. (2 x 2.13Ghz)
Graphics Card ***Nvidia Geforce 256Mb 7600GT
Memory ***2 GB Corsair DDR2 RAM
Motherboard ***ASUS P5VD2-MX ***
Hard Drive(s) ***1 X Western Digital 320 GB SATA II ***
DVDRW ***1 X LG 16XDVDRW dual layer
PSU ***550 Watt Switching PSU
Sound Card ***Onboard 6 Channel Surround Sound
Windows XP

Anyone in the know let me know asap please, will I be able to run the game with the graphics looking pretty good, Dont want to bother if they are going to look poor
Thanks!
Dan