What does it take to run this game on max settings?

[shadowlid 11]

Would knowing the system requirements give you a base idea of what to work around?

Arma 2: System Requirements

Minimal PC Requirements

* CPU: Dual Core Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz / Intel Core 2.0 GHz / AMD Athlon 3200+ or faster

* RAM: 1 GB

* Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 7800 / ATI Radeon 1800 with Shader Model 3 and 256 MB VRAM or faster

* OS: Windows XP

Optimal PC Requirements

* CPU: Intel Core 2.8 GHz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ or faster

* RAM: 2 GB

* Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT / ATI Radeon 4850 with Shader Model 3 and 512 MB VRAM or faster

* OS: Windows XP or Vista

these are both for Arma 2 and OA.

Thanks all for the info. I already seen the system requirements. I wanted personal experience like i got here!!! Now i know about what i need to build to get decent game play. Wow i really didnt know how bad ass arma 2 was.

Well at the end of September i should have my build done and i will post some fps and stuff.

But keep it coming i want to see some more rigs and how many fps you are getting!!!!!

[ben_s 11]

If anyone can run ArmA II on full max settings, inside a industrial town place, and still get 40+ FPS.

I will just faint.

[Jonn 10]

You can spend $5000 on a rig and you still won't Max ArmA2 out and get 60fps, This game needs Optimizing bad.

[Zipper5 74]

ArmA didn't get as much performance optimizing as Arma 2 has so far, yet when I got my new right 3 years after the game was released, I easily broke the 100 FPS mark on full graphics settings (3500m view distance).

I think BIS' slogan should be: Give technology a few years. :p

[jblackrupert 14]

Games being ahead of the hardware was nothing new in the early days of PC games before consoles came along.

[Gunter Severloh 4051]

This game needs Optimizing bad.

I agree, its like back in the OFP days when I upgraded my graphics card and many other things,

I went and maxed out the visual quality and other stuff, lol that didn't work, dam game crashed on

me and says out of reserved memory, i still cant max out OFP, or Arma, and let alone Arma 2, I think

that should be thier next focus, optimized game.

maybe a new engine altogether would do the trick with the same functionality as what we got now,

thats what Arma 2 is running on, and I dont see any differene but a worse performing game tbh, arma for me runs smoother then arma 2.

Even though the complaints for the game are what they are we still love it,

you cant beat what you can do in the BIS series games.

[Beagle 684]

There are PC games out there that still do not run well on nowadays PCs...Star Trek Birth of the federation (1999) comes to my mind.

You can start a new session in a big gallaxy and it will run fine...but after a few hundrwed rounds it will get slower and slower and slower...and it does not matter much if you play it on a K6-2 350Mhz or a Athlon64 X2 3.1Ghz.

Other popular games like LockOn, Falcon4.0, Microsoft FS9 or other titles needed the hardware from the near future to run on full detail....they do now, not at release. FSX for example is still not manageble at full detail by most PCs..and its from 2006

[polar bear 10]

The problem is that by the time hardware comes out that will run ArmA smoothly with high settings we will all be getting 15fps playing ArmA3 on technology we haven't even heard of yet.

[Beagle 684]

Well, according to Roddenberry, at least "isolinear chips" wont be invented before the mid of the 23. century, so we have to wait for ArmA on Holosuite for quite a while

[shadowlid 11]

Ok seeing on how i cant build a computer that will run this game on max settings. Unless we all team up and do a oceans 13 thing at NASA. To jack some major hardware. :alien:

What would you suggest for a video card in the $150 range i can go higher if needed. But i think im just gonna wait til AMD releases the new line of cpus, and vga's. Before i drop any major amount of money into a rig.

Im running a $50.00 video card right now(Asus 9500gt) and can get 20-25fps average non overclocked.

1920x1080x32

1280x720 (3D)

Normal settings

Visibility 1600

So with a $150 card i should be ok to run the game on at least high.

And the new MOBO im gonna get will support SLI and cross fire. So i can do that if im not to happy with the results.

Im on the boarder on which to buy nvidia or ati. I have had a nvidia for ever never have use a ati card. But im willing to try one out just to see what all the hype is about.

Yall tell me what you would get?

[Beagle 684]

As you can see in my Sig I still use a quite old 4870 Adapter with a manufacture side optimized cooling, and im sure the GPU is not my bottleneck. With a midprized ATI 58xx 1gig Vram you should be fine.

I have no actual experience with newer NVidia card...but my last Nvidia cards made by MSI: 5700, 7800GS AGP, 7800GT PCIe never lasted long...all of them died within the frst two years. I stick to sapphire since this, and they build ATI cards.

Edited August 12, 2010 by Beagle

[Jonn 10]

The 4870 & 4890 cards can run the settings you want, Or you can go with the HD 5XXX series.

[zaira 10]

I guess, if u used phase coolingl on i7 980, and get 6GHz, and watercool pair of 480gtx it could maxed it up.

Well, supercomputers couldnt run the arma2 maxed, cos they work on higly optimized parralel threads, and that is where VR is weak, parallelism.

Gulftowns and x6 phenoms have enough cpu power for everything arma 2 has to offer, but it just isnt coded to use all cores efficiently.

I think BIS should try to go to console market (not with arma), just to learn how to properly code for multicore cpus, and use better the video cards....

I love every game they made, but i hate the fact that when i have pc to run it, like after 2-3 years, game visuals look obsolete.:mad:

[S-M 10]

I agree, toooo many fan boys who like to say "ohh the game is sooo far in front of the hardware" instead of the correct "ohh the game does not run properly on decent hardware"

Big difference.

It is lazy development to claim "you need a better system to run this" and have a bigger powerhouse run the badly optimized code.

[Väinämöinen 0]

ATI HD 4xxx series have serious issues conserning antialiasing and high postprocessing. On my 4870x2 rising the PP setting fps drop by 10 with each step. Rising the AA setting to high seems to slow the system less but when you look through bushes/smoke the impact is higher.

[liquidpinky 11]

Maybe a quad-SLI of the Nvidia flagship cards and and Intel Extreme (the one around $1000) 4 gigs of RAM and the best HDD.,

@Rexehuk Wow you have stuters with that CPU? I thought it would easily hadnle the AI. : \

I would say this but with 24GB of RAM so you can run the whole game from RAM for an extra performance boost.

With my specs I run all texture setting on high, aa on low(don't really need higher on 1900x1200), scenery on low and models on normal. Post process is on low,I hate bloom and DOF blur so it isn't going any higher.

I have the render resolution set at 125% as well, this further adds to the AA for improving the visuals.

I can keep my draw distance at between 3.5 to 4k with the above but still have FPS dropping into the low to mid twenties during particularly hectic MP games.

How the game looks with the above settings:

You will see people say they can run ARMA 2 with everything maxed out, they must be playing on 640x480 resolution then. :rolleyes:

Edited August 12, 2010 by Liquidpinky

[BigJonnyC 10]

Dell XPS420, as it came from dell with no upgrades.

Quad core 2.33GHz

Ati HD4850 512mb

3gb ram

Runs Arrowhead with every setting at its highest including AA, with 5km viewdistance @1600x900 (Screen and 3D res). At 30-40fps. Its a massive performance step from Arma2 vannila, they did some awesome work on arrowhead thats for sure.

[shadowlid 11]

Cool so my new rig should run this game fine.

[ziiip 1]

What are all these monster resoltutions? I only have 1280*1240 and I still have utterly shit performance as soon as there is a non-dwarf amount of AI on map (40+ fps or alt+tab for me though).

[W0lle 1050]

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=72181

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=87256