What computing system do you have for the Arma 3 Beta?

[TEAMKILLER 1]

Intel Core i7 2700K @ 4.5 GHz Watercooled

Nvidia GTX 680 2GB @ 1150 MHz Watercooled

EVGA Z68 FTW E-ATX

8GB Corsair Dominator GT 2331 MHz

Cougar A-760S 760W

Asus Essence ST-X

Corsair Obsidian 800D Modded

60 GB SSD / 3 x 180 GB backup + 500GB for Programs

The part where it starts to be fun :

Phobya Nova 1080 , Magicool 420 (Got one Nova more, but its not needed).

EK Waterblocks Spin Bay reservoir

Aquaero 5 XT

CPU - EK Supreme HF EN

GPU - Aquacomputer AquagraFX Nickel

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My Camera is a CANON EOS 500D with a 50mm EF/S 1/4.

Luckily today is my birthday (I turned 18), so i can get maybe a new GPU after the ARMA 3 Beta. 40 Fps with the rig on high, i know its a alpha :D

[Terminal_Boy 10]

i5 2600K @ 4GHz watercooled by Corsair H60

Asus P8P67 Motherborad

16GB Corsair Dominator DDR2 1866Mhz

Sapphire HD7870 2GB

Coolermaster Silent Pro Gold 700W PSU

Corsair Carbide Series 300R Case

Zalman Fan Controller.

Windows 7 Ultimate - 64 Bit.

Runs 40 FPS in complex terrain with 98-99% GPU utilisation and around 1500MB VRAM being used according to MSI Afterburner.

[TEAMKILLER 1]

Tell me more about your i5 2600k :o

[MDK2k 1]

Forgot to put motherboard and GPU. Line number is 901

Motherboard: X79A-GD65 (8D)

GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX 590

[tremanarch 6]

i5 2500k @ 4.5 GHZ

8 GB RAM 1600

SSD

560TI OC

[TEAMKILLER 1]

Im thinking about getting another 680, somone?

[Octavian 0]

I just installed the alpha on my asus G73JH laptop, running smooth on "medium" 1680x1050 (external display)..

i7-q720

Mobility radeon HD 5800

8gb ddr3

win7 64

[Touch Off 10]

Not one of these posts means a bloody thing!

Don't you realise? None depict a scenario and a true representation of what FPS they get. Pointless thread.

Like the one above. Smooth? What does that mean? Medium? How many AI, or what rock are you staring at?

EDIT: Sorry wrong thread.. But still...

Edited March 13, 2013 by Touch Off

[Halli~SPARTA~ 0]

I use an I7 2600k and when playing all 4 cores run at 80 %

with a GTX 465 card, I can see now that I will need to upgrade my video card.

[TranquilityBlue 10]

i7 3770k at 4.2 Ghz

GTX 480

16 Gb 1866 Mhz RAM

Want to upgrade my GPU this summer; I'm wondering how much of a difference it will make...

[DoGy 1]

My specs:

Windows 8 Pro 64bit

i5-2500K @4,2Ghz

Sapphire HD 7950 OC @950mhz

8GB DDR3-1600-CL9

Infantry Showcase FPS & Usage

2560x1440 (Native is 1920x1080)

4xAA ATOC

no FXAA/SMAA

Post Process: Normal (everything higher are minimal changes in optics, but need a lot of FPS 5-10)

This settings doesn't hurt my FPS.

HDR: Standard

AF: Ultra

PIP: Ultra

Dynamic Lights: Ultra

Sightrange Visual: 1500m (Higher would need more object view, but that will kill my FPS)

Sightrange Objects: 1000m (This one kills your FPS)

Sightrange Shadows:100m (No noticable changes in FPS, find your sweetspot with your shadowdetails higher range=more blur)

Quality

Texture: Ultra (This should be no problem for GPUs with 2-3GB VRAM)

Object: High (This need also much performance)

Terrain: High (Sighrange of gras etc, high is a good balance)

Cloud: Ultra (no FPS change for me)

Shadow: High (Ultra does cost only 2-5 FPS more, but minimal change) !!!But LOW shadows need more than Ultra this is since Arma 1 for me :j:

Particles: High (no visual change on Very High, maybe sighrange, but it need more)

With this setting I get 70-30FPS in the infantry showcase.

GPU Usage 99% with CPU limit it goes down to 50%

VRAM Used 2,5GB

CPU Usage 40-80%

Same settings without Downsampling "only" at 1920x1080

FPS are 80-38

VRAM about 2,2GB

I would bet some 2GB GPUs could get problems...

Performance killers are smoke (2 smokegrandes cost me 10 FPS), AI, many vehicles (physics)

[R4IDER 10]

My Specs

Intel Core i7 2700K 4.5GHz

MSI GTX 680 Lightning

16384 MB DDR3 Dual Channel

Settings

Resolution 1920x1080

Visibility 3800, 3900, 50

Antialiasing: 8x

PPAA: FXAA

Ultra ATOC: All trees + grass

Postprocesses: Very high

HDR: Standard

AF: Ultra

PIP: Low

Dynamic Lights: Ultra

I get around 50-60fps when I am running around on the ground but that helicopter mission kills me once smoke starts appearing I am at 15-25fps.

[Elutheral 10]

Specs:

AMD FX 6100 3.3 Ghz

Gigabyte AMD Radeon HD 7750 1GB

1866 DDR3 2x 2gb

Settings:

Res. 16:9

everything very high

I run great on SP but on MP my fps takes a hit. I know that MP is hitting pretty much everyones fps but, what i was wondering if I upgrade my ram to another 4gb would it help at all? I know windows 7 takes 2gb and arma 3 2 also. So would increasing to 8 help any performance?

Ver

[andressergio 1]

ASUS M5F BIOS 0095

I3770K@5Ghz HT@ 1.472 on Water

2x4Gb Gskill TridentX 2800CL11-13-13-35 1T @ 1.65v

2x4Gb Gskill TridentX 2666CL10-12-12-25 1T @ 1.690 tight

2x ADATA SSD SX900 256GB Sata III

1x SEAGATE ST3000DM001 3TB Sata III

SLI GALAXY GTX680 SOC 1300/7600

CORSAIR AX1200

SAMSUNG 32EH5300 LCD TV

Coolermaster HAF X

W7x64 SP1

Game is really NOT optimized as i get low frame rate never a 60 rock solid and see my specs

[10t 12]

Not one of these posts means a bloody thing!

Don't you realise? None depict a scenario and a true representation of what FPS they get. Pointless thread.

Like the one above. Smooth? What does that mean? Medium? How many AI, or what rock are you staring at?

EDIT: Sorry wrong thread.. But still...

I don't agree. Frankly, I don't care what my FPS is if the game feels smooth and playable. If the game running at 1 FPS somehow did the job, was fun and not distracting, and my machine could get 2 FPS, then hooray!

I checked my playability against video settings and settled on those which maximised the quality but felt smooth and playable. Only then, and only out of curiosity, did I bother turning on FRAPS to get some numbers. Turns out that 20 FPS is all I care about. I can just get it (this pc) with everything on Ultra, PP Disabled, AA Disabled (I see little benefit on 2560x1440) and HDR on Normal, view distances 3500/1800.

With PP set up to Low, I managed to get it down to 10 FPS with ~20 AI in combat, plus me firing from Little Bird into water with island and trees in background. I shouldn't have done it, because it looked gorgeous and now I know what I'm missing :p

[gliptal 25]

Done, hope this will help the devs!

Yay!

[Jale666 10]

1. Might be helpfull to ask whether 32 or 64 bit system.

2. Ask whether running Crossfire or SLI 2, 3, or 4 way

[DoGy 1]

Specs:

AMD FX 6100 3.3 Ghz

Gigabyte AMD Radeon HD 7750 1GB

1866 DDR3 2x 2gb

Settings:

Res. 16:9

everything very high

I run great on SP but on MP my fps takes a hit. I know that MP is hitting pretty much everyones fps but, what i was wondering if I upgrade my ram to another 4gb would it help at all? I know windows 7 takes 2gb and arma 3 2 also. So would increasing to 8 help any performance?

Ver

I would upgrade the RAM to 8GB, because 4GB is in my eyes not enough. When I work with programms on my PC, sometimes I have only about 2GB free from 8. There are also many games that benefit from it too...

[EvilPraetorian 1]

AMD A8-3870 Black Edition APU @3.0Ghz Quad

Sapphire HD 7950 OC edition 3GB

16GB Corsair Low Profile memory @1600mhz

Windows 7 Ultimate X64

[Elutheral 10]

I would upgrade the RAM to 8GB, because 4GB is in my eyes not enough. When I work with programms on my PC, sometimes I have only about 2GB free from 8. There are also many games that benefit from it too...

Ight, thanks ordering 4gb right now!

[andressergio 1]

I don't agree. Frankly, I don't care what my FPS is if the game feels smooth and playable. If the game running at 1 FPS somehow did the job, was fun and not distracting, and my machine could get 2 FPS, then hooray!

I checked my playability against video settings and settled on those which maximised the quality but felt smooth and playable. Only then, and only out of curiosity, did I bother turning on FRAPS to get some numbers. Turns out that 20 FPS is all I care about. I can just get it (this pc) with everything on Ultra, PP Disabled, AA Disabled (I see little benefit on 2560x1440) and HDR on Normal, view distances 3500/1800.

With PP set up to Low, I managed to get it down to 10 FPS with ~20 AI in combat, plus me firing from Little Bird into water with island and trees in background. I shouldn't have done it, because it looked gorgeous and now I know what I'm missing :p

if you run a CRT monitor you wont notice any tearing...but on a LCD YES...if its 60hz all things under that or over that will make tearing appear, and game aint smooth not near it

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Im thinking about getting another 680, somone?

SLI of 680 is killer but this game will run either way crappy as its not yet optimized mate, buy it if you play Crysis 3 or other heavy games but in this case wont see the dif at all

[qbert 10]

Running A3 on the Amiga 1200. I know guys, it's a bit overpowered for something like Arma, but I'm an enthusiast, what can I say.

SPECS:

Motorola 68EC020

2 MB of RAM

Commodore AGA graphics.

In all seriousness though,

Phenom II x4 955 OC'd to 3.6ghz

HD 7850 2GB, OC'd a little bit

4gb RAM

banana

My system runs the game about as well as I expect it to in the Alpha version. exploded an hour ago

Edited March 15, 2013 by Qbert

[Andy230 10]

Running A3 alpha on:

core i5 750 @ 3,8GHz

8 GB DDR3 A-DATA

120 GB SSD Corsair

AMD HD 5870 1 GB

Win 7 x64

[Mc1v3r 1]

Done, Hope the info helps :)

[chrisb 196]

This post is only a guide for anyone using a similar system.

OS = Win7

OS set to ‘High performance’ & visual to ‘Adjust for best performance’

Gaming pc, i.e. nothing on it much other than the game, usually Arma 2. But, there is also Iron Front, Carrier Command & now Arma 3 on this pc.

But no unnecessary programs or processes..

This system specs (my older A2 pc):

500gb Quad Core (without additional/external)

AMD Athlon II X4 640, 4gb (physical)

Propus

Socket AM3 (938)

45nm

MB; GA-880GM-D2H (Socket M2)

Chipset; 880G

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I use msi_afterburner, runs all the time I am playing or testing to record gpu/fps usage.

Graphics Card = HD5850 2gb Toxic (Radeon/Sapphire), this card is over-clocked usually to 7850 stock speeds for playing A2 (very good performance & fps results). This however, produced a few problems with A3 so I reduced it back, not fully, but to:

Core = 800

Mem = 1195

Using ‘user defined’ fan.

GPU usage in ‘test 2’ below, average 80-99% (never shows 100% for some reason).

Temp = in ‘test 2’ 70-74c

GPU Mem = ’test 2’ 1400ish average

_____

I use PlayClaw4 for cpu monitoring.

I haven’t monitored cpu, if I do I will add the results to this post..

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Arma 3

In-game menu:

Audio Options:

Sound source = 128 (only one needed for info)

Video Options:

Basic tab:

1920x1080 res

Interface = Normal

Visibility;

Overall = 1200vd (hoping that 'ivd' gets ported to A3 from A2, would be very handy, I use it in A2)

Object = 650

Shadow = 50

Rendering tab:

Rendering res 1920x1080x32

V-sync = disabled (never have it on)

AA = 2x

PPAA = FXAA Ultra

Atoc = All Trees (all I ever use now for atoc, even A2)

HDR = Standard

AF = Ultra

PIP = Disabled (waiting and hoping for blakes mirrors to get ported from A2. I use it in A2 all the time, far better than PIP)

Dynamic lights = Standard

Quality tab;

Texture qual = Ultra

Object qual = Ultra

Terrain qual = Standard

Cloud qual = Disabled (seems to give you back A2 clouds, which are fine for me when testing/playing. For sightseeing I may enable them)

Shadow qual = Standard (shadows seem fine with this and the other shadow setting above, equiv to high in A2, I should think, looks wise)

Particles qual = Standard

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Editor Test:

I don’t play BIS campaigns only make missions for the group I play in for our ongoing campaign.

However tests:

Test 1 = 1 unit on the map ‘me’, anywhere from 60-100fps. Certain parts of the main town will drop to 40-50fps, but rarely. Lots of pics in album (sig) with msi fps counter.

Test 2 = 80ai engaged at the same time, i.e. 40 v 40 set to move straight towards each other out in the countryside. I am an observer up on a radio/radar tower, so total 81 units on the map inc me.

Steady fps = 35/40 practically all ai engaged.

The above pc is a gaming pc, i.e. no unnecessary programs or utilities/processes running in the background.

Its not my A3 pc, yet to put a hard copy of Arma 3 onto that, later when the game is released ‘proper’ few months, seeing that this system is performing very well, as is.

Not sure if any of that will be of help to anyone, but it’s a guide for this type of set-up (provided its a gaming pc)..