Running ArmA on a low end system

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I'm posting this if someone should need ideas how to tweak his settings, or just wants to know if he should buy a new rig for ArmA.

AMD Athlon XP 2700 (2154MHz)

ATI Radeon 9600 Pro 128MB

640MB 166MHz DDR RAM

1408MB Virtual Memory

Windows XP Home

German ArmA Version 1.01

Startup Parameter -maxmem=640

View Distance 912m

Display 640x480 / 4:3 / 75Hz

Terrain Detail very low

Object Detail very low

Texture Detail very low

Shader Detail very low

Postprocessing low

Anisotropic Filtering deactivated

Shadow Detail low

Antialiasing Deactivated

Blood Detail high

It's hard to read any text on screen but still possible.

However it's playable. I've got stable 11FPS in busy situations, 35-40FPS at best and drops to 6FPS sometimes.

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As useful as I'm sure such a post is, it's not a troubleshooting issue, it's a To the people who are playing ArmA, how is it? issue