Recommended Settings + my PC

[Whippet79 10]

Hi,

Can anyone give me an idea of what graphics settings I should be looking at for this game, just waiting for the complete collection to download.

I have an i5 769 @ 3.8 ghz, GTX 560 ti, 4GB mem

Also where is my bottleneck likely to be? Is it worth looking at getting a better graphics card for this and the sequel + BF4? Im a bit clueless when it comes to hardware.

Thanks

[tortuosit 486]

I'm running a GTX-570, your one should be close. I have an i7/3.4 and play on 16:10 screen @ 1920x1200 so some extra pixels need to be served here... Bottleneck will always be the CPU when it comes to battling with many units. This is done by the CPU. Arma brings any CPU down with many AI calculations.

It's all a matter of personal preference a bit. If I were you, I'd play with just a bit AA (2x) and fxaa, maybe view somewhere at 3000 meters. I don't care that much about ANISO. I don't like the PP in A2. In A3, i only have motion blur on. No Vsync.

It will run fine with your rig. This also applies for Arma III. Keep in mind you should turn off AA etc. in NVidia Control panel. And NO Vsync in Nvidia control panel, as it may bring you lag problems. So in NVidia CP, all off.

Arma is a 32 bit application, it cannot address more than 2Gb.

No need to worry IMO!

Upgrading the GPU is not worth it/expensive. Lifecycle of GPU is much higher nowadays compared with the past. Which is good IMO.

My Arma usually runs fluent, but the GTX570 fan is working always and hard, probably also because of european summer. Room is at 25°... Probably there can something be done with Afterburner but I do not care.

Edited August 9, 2013 by tortuosit

[Whippet79 10]

Thanks for your pointers, really helpful stuff there and stopped me wasting money : )

Best be checking just how hot things are getting CPU wise then...

[tortuosit 486]

Learn how to use mods (I'd recommend Armarize for installing them and keeping up to date), learn how to use mod lines (start ArmA with mods) and just play the stuff you like. No need to have an eye on CPU. Enjoying gaming is better :D There is looooooots of fantastic user made missions and campaigns out there.

[orcinus 121]

Actually A2 can address more than 2GB, there's a dev blog about it somewhere.

Whether it's worth upgrading the RAM partly depends on what OS you are using. With XP 32 there's not much point, but 8GB in Win 7 64 / Win 8 64 will leave more RAM free (a 64 bit OS takes up more RAM) and hence reduce swapping data between RAM & pagefile.

Probably the best upgrade would be an SSD with just the OS (leave programs like Office & other non-essentials on the HDD) and install the game plus mods on the SSD in a logical partition. Leave 10-20% of the SSD empty (the SSD maker's drive tools use that when testing and optimising - "trimming" - the drive). It will fly!

BF4 I don't play so have no comment.