Will my PC Run this? What CPU/GPU to get? What settings? System Specifications.

[echo1]

Intel (R) Core (TM)2 Quad CPU Q8200 @ 2.33 GHZ 2.34 GHZ
RAM: 4GB
32-bit operating system
Windows Vista
Nvidia G-Force 9800 GT
Samsung SyncMaster P2250 monitor think it's 22/24 inch

How should this run it? Just got it for my 21st birthday.

If you have a 2 quad 2.33 ghz and 2.34 does that mean your computer is 4.67ghz?

Where does my graphic card lie with all the others?

Anything else you need to know? ta

It will run it fine. Happy Birthday by the way, it's mine too today

@waffen:It should run reasonably well. I have a slower PC and it runs fine. That said, some people have much fancier PCs and they dont run as well...

[Bono_LV]

I was experimenting with different settings to find the best looks with acceptable performance and found something weird.

Let's start with my system specification:
Q9550 @ 2.83GHz
3 GB RAM 1066MHz
ATI HD4870x2
Rest is not so important...

My monitor's native resolution is 1920x1200, but playing at that resolution gives quite bad performance if some settings are turned to "high" or more. It's playable, but my eyes hurts after 30 minutes of gameplay.

So i tried to set smaller resolution. At first i set 1680x1050. (In ATI ccc panel i set that image scales to center of monitor, so i get smaller screen, but at least resolution is correct.) Perfomance got better. It was trully playable on all settings on normal, only Post process was disabled (it fixes mouse lag for me.) and object detail to very high.

After that i tried something different. I set resolution to 1600x1200 and aspect ratio to oldschool 4:3. Guess what... I got very good performance increase. Now i set all settings to very high (Post process disabled) and i have better performance than all to normal on 1680x1050 resolution.

I don't see logic here...
1600x1200=1920000 pixels
1680x1050=1764000 pixels
Difference is 156000 pixels...

So how resolution with more pixels gives better performance than resolution with less pixels? And with better settings...

My guess is that Arma 2 engine is based on Operation Flashpoint engine. At that time widescreen was not so common and game's engine natively supports 4:3 aspect ratio resolutions. Resolutions with aspect ratio 16:9 or 16:10, I think, was added later with some weird implementation. Just my guess...

What do you think about it? Try yourself and please tell about your results. Just curious is that "bug" only on my system or not.

P.S. I didn't check actual FPS increase, but I can see the performance improvement for sure.

[Placebo]

This is just people comparing what settings they can get their systems running at, and at what framerate.

Which is also what the pinned thread is for......

[ubascouser]

thx for the reply booga couldnt find anything though.I just wondering how all these people with I7 920s are getting over 5000 in arma mark and i can only manage 3000 could it be my HDD.

[Rista]

Doesn't happen in my game. My monitor's native resolution is 1280x1024 and since my machine is not powerful enough for constant 30fps i run the game at 1280x800 16:10 aspect ratio with black bars top and bottom and it drastically improves the FPS for me. Maybe not the best comparison as you're running higher resolutions but the principle is the same.

[Nowyoudie]

Just upgrade my pc all installed and working fine i uprgaded my mobo ram and cpu to a core i7 920 just ran arma mark and didnt see much improvement from my dual core athlon 6000+ i got just over 3000 where my athlon would get around 2400 anyone no what could be wrong i would excpect it to be higher than this.

You should probably try overclocking the i7 chip you have if you have proper cooling. That's where it shines at 3+ Ghz.

[Cobra Pilot]

If I had a 1GB ATI Radeon HD 4850 what specs could I run AmeA2 on?
High? Medium-high? And what view distance?

[mrbiggles]

Just did the test and have confirmed my suspicion and that is crossfire makes no difference in this game....

Did the Arma2 bench with stated settings and got:

2736 with crossfire enabled

2732 with crossfire disabled

CPU - I7 920
RAM - 6GB generic
HDD - Velociraptor x2 in raid 0
GPU - 4850x2
OS - Vista 64 bit
RES - 1680x1050

I am now depressed, I paid several hundred dollars for an extra graphics card that is now as useful as a house brick....Specifically for this game.

[=Spetsnaz=]

If I had a 1GB ATI Radeon HD 4850 what specs could I run AmeA2 on?
High? Medium-high? And what view distance?

medium-very high depending on settings

[cartier90]

biggles - I got an I7 - 4 gb and a GTS250 - runs great - you should have no issue.