How important is Ram to Arma 3 performance

[stealth2668 12]

That's adorable. you have 32gb of ram. You've taken overkill and smashed it in the face. I stand firm on 8gb for a solid experience, 16 for overkill, and 32 should only be used by professionals. Your solution is only available to people who have at least 16gb of ram, which the op doesn't need. He NEEDS to oc his machine and get 8gb of ram.

Exactly. 8 GB is optimal for gamers, anymore is a waste unless you do other things. IDK why people are recommending an SSD before 8 GB RAM, makes no sense.

[KingScuba 1]

With regards to RAM.. I have Win 7 32bit with 4GB, i7 920 stock, and an SSD drive. Average FPS? 30-40

I average 40 to 60, however I'm also using 5760x1080p (triplescreen) over ultra.

I tried uc'ing my computer from 4.4 to 4.0, and I lost about 10 fps.

[jiltedjock 10]

32-bit applications can't use more than 3GB of RAM.

Wrong. A 32 Bit app running on 64 Bit Windows can use up to 4GB of RAM.

Additionally, Arma uses a bespoke filemapping API to get over the limitations of the 32 Bit address space [see Fred's Post #29 which is about the only informed post in this thread, which everyone has chosen to ignore. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose on these forums]. So potentially Arma can use over 5GB if you have it.

Edited January 24, 2014 by jiltedjock

[MotoDK 0]

can this computer drive arma 3 good??

 

AMD Athlon II X4 860K / 3.7 GHz FM2+

ASUS A88X Chipset - Micro-ATX FM2+

16GB DDR3 1600MHz RAM (2x8GB)

Nvidia GTX1050 (2GB)

240GB SSD Harddisk - 2.5″ SATA-600

1TB 7200rpm harddisk - 3.5 SATA

Cooler Master Elite 430 - ATX Sort

550W poweruse - 120 mm

24x DVD/RW DL Sort SATA

 

[rekrul 7]

This is a 3 year old thread that is not relevant to what you're asking. There's a pinned thread for checking HW specs so try that instead: 

 

[dnk 13]

On 1/29/2017 at 9:58 AM, MotoDK said:

can this computer drive arma 3 good??

 

AMD Athlon II X4 860K / 3.7 GHz FM2+

ASUS A88X Chipset - Micro-ATX FM2+

16GB DDR3 1600MHz RAM (2x8GB)

Nvidia GTX1050 (2GB)

240GB SSD Harddisk - 2.5″ SATA-600

1TB 7200rpm harddisk - 3.5 SATA

Cooler Master Elite 430 - ATX Sort

550W poweruse - 120 mm

24x DVD/RW DL Sort SATA

 

 

No, your CPU is crap, which is probably the most important component for Arma.

 

Everything else is fine if not overkill.

 

Also, nothing can run A3 well if you're playing with over 60 people on a server. Just a heads up, you'll get a slideshow on a big/cheap server.

 

Also stop bumping years-old threads because you want attention.