Your ideal PC to play ARMA?

[craigsa 0]

I must say the graphics are really amazing just really angry about flying.

[ck-claw 1]

i have:-

P4 3.0Gh

1.0 gig ram

ati x300se pro 128mb card! lol

but i can get my hands on a ati x1900 xtx 512 mb card!!

will that upgrade card sort it?

from the ppl that have the game??

[Lepardi 0]

With that card, your processor will be a huge bottleneck, as X850 card require a 3500+ processor to get everything out. Do you even have PCI-E mobo? If not, you can't install that card.

[ck-claw 1]

lol yes it has 2x pci-express slots

but i'm thinking minimum specs for the game? cpu + ram is ok-it's just me card!

[Lepardi 0]

You could order a cooling fan to your processor, then overclock it and u would be fine with ArmA.

[ck-claw 1]

thanks for info lepardi!!

let me re-phase!!

other componants aside!

would you/others be more than happy with that card for ArmA???

[R3MF 0]

i would love to get an 8800 series card, but they are all too long to fit in my Silverstone case.

C2D 6600

2x 1GB PC6400

XFX 7950GT

[evilnate 0]

AMD 64 4000

ATI x1900xtx 512

2GB DDR PC3200

2X 72G WD Raptors (10k rpm)

Audigy 2

Win XP SP2

Settings:

View Distance = 1200

Terrain Detail = High

Object Detail = High

Texture Detail = High

Shade Detail = Very High

Post Process Effects = Low

AF = Very High

Shadow Detail = Disabled

AA = High

Resolution = 1680X1050 (a little less now)

Average FPS in dense forest = 37-45

Average FPS in dense city with combat = 19 - 35

Well, I think I have a pretty beefy system and arma runs o.k. if I have shadows diabled and post-proc set to low. All the other settings don't seem to have too much on my frame rate.

The only times that the FPS gets down to the 19 range is when i'm with a squad in a city during combat (when I need all the frames I can get).

My point is that I think arma will run on anything above the min req's becasue you can turn down alot of the eye candy. I don't think there is a system that will do what the OP wants it to do, yet.

[guerilla -MCY- 0]

Intel Duo E6700 - gonna upgrade to quad in mars

Nvidia 8800 GTX - gonna buy a second in mars SLI

4 Giga Ram 800mHz

800 Giga HD

OS XP soon Vista

[binkster 0]

I have just built a computer when ArmA was released, I got

Core 2 Duo 6600 Oc to 3.2ghz

Evga Nvidia 680i sli Mobo

8800gtx x1 at the moment

Ocz 1g pc6400 800mhz x2 ram

600w powersupply (since the 8800gtx requires 2 4 pin connectors and alot of power)

I have everything set on high and a few on very high with vd 3k and it runs very smooth. Im not sure what fps im getting but maybe in the 40s.

[Heatseeker 0]

I have just built a computer when ArmA was released, I got

Core 2 Duo 6600 Oc to 3.2ghz

Evga Nvidia 680i sli Mobo

8800gtx x1 at the moment

Ocz 1g pc6400 800mhz x2 ram

600w powersupply (since the 8800gtx requires 2 4 pin connectors and alot of power)

I have everything set on high and a few on very high with vd 3k and it runs very smooth. Im not sure what fps im getting but maybe in the 40s.

At what resolution may i ask? Im surprised you dont run it all on very high .

[uberkayser 0]

A64 3700SD clocked to 3.0;2GB G-Skill RAM;Ati X1800XT 512mb:all settings on high,VD at 4000m and runs great...cant fault it yet('cept the helo flyin of course ).

[Hauk 0]

My system specs are in my sig. I'm confident it will run the game just fine. Although I'm upgrading the processor to an AMD A64 X2 4200+ to keep it up to speed.

Hauk

[DaRat 0]

Just bought my ideal PC for ArmA and other games:

INTEL® Core 2 Duo E6700 (2 X 2.66GHz) 1066MHz

2048 MB CORSAIR DDR2 667MHz

512MB GEFORCE 7950GT (x2 in SLI)

600W PSU

[binkster 0]

Heatseaker I believe I set it on 1024 768. I dont know why but I havent even messed with it that much. It looks fine to me now but i may mess with it later and try higher settings. And also I have tried everything on very high and vd 3k and it does get jumpy at times inside a town. It wasnt bad enough to play but the graphics didnt seem to look different from my previous settings so I changed it back. To me from high to very high I cant really notice a difference. Now I did have an amd 3800 2.0 with my 8800gtx and it was fine as it was with core 2 duo 6600 but I couldnt get everything on very high.

[divriest 0]

Hi Guys

I have an Intel 4 processor @ 3 Ghz, 1,5 Gig, Radeon 9600.

Do you think I can cope?

Much obliged,

Rob

[BoA 0]

Quote[/b] ]My system specs are,

Intel core 2 duo extreme X6800 (2.933Hghz,4MB)

Asus P5N32-Sli SE deluxe mobo

4GB DDR2 900Mhz ram

2X 1GB nvidia geforce 7950 GX2 Sli configs (yes thats 4 GPUs)

SB X-Fi fatality FPS

20" widescreen TFT

Are you crazy or something???

Quote[/b] ]Could you say what resolution you are running at ?

1024*768 may be enough.

Quote[/b] ]I only had change the x1959XTX to a 8800GTS , and thats a very nice config.

CPU might be a problem. Anyway, I don't believe in Dual Core CPU or GPU.

In deed, I don't think there can be a machine which can run OK when you play a mission with the maxmum number of units of OFP.

[Heatseeker 0]

Heatseaker I believe I set it on 1024 768. I dont know why but I havent even messed with it that much. It looks fine to me now but i may mess with it later and try higher settings. And also I have tried everything on very high and vd 3k and it does get jumpy at times inside a town. It wasnt bad enough to play but the graphics didnt seem to look different from my previous settings so I changed it back. To me from high to very high I cant really notice a difference. Now I did have an amd 3800 2.0 with my 8800gtx and it was fine as it was with core 2 duo 6600 but I couldnt get everything on very high.

TY, i think 1200 vd, high settings and 1280x1024 would be perfect to me .

[Dwarden 1124]

Ideal system to play ARMA ?

AMD camp

3+GHZ dualcore AMD, either some insane FX

or Socket F Opteron 2x2

INTEL camp

Core 2 Duo 6600-6800

Core 2 Quad Q6600, QX6700

4 GB DDR2, 800 or 1066MHz, double channel config (2x2)

as Audio both Creative X-fi and CMedia 8878 (Razer use it too)

as GPU ... NVIDIA 8000GTX or upcoming ATI R600 ...

if You cheap 16MB 320+GB drives in RAID5 or combined strips/mirror w/e for perf

if You rich some NAND drives

qualite GBit NIC with offload procesor and ideally optic connection to home

qualite 600+W PSU

some fine keyboard, mouse (eg Logitech)

for people who got enough money to waste :

Razer keyboard, Razer mouse , Razer headphones

Saitek joystick and Track-Ir

[bitkari 0]

My ideal pc for AA?

The one i already have.

I'll just turn down the settings until it runs fast enough. I can't be bothered with hardware fetishism these days - maybe I'm just getting too old.

Just bring me the carnage @ low detail

[chipper 0]

Intel Core 2 Quad QX6700 CPU

4 8800GTX's in Quad SLI

4GB DDR2 RAM

24 inch widescreen monitor

4 terrabytes of HD space

lol this is a dream machine

[Lt.Knut 0]

Let me just tell you people, having more then 2Gigs of RAM is useless, becouse windows dont support more then 2gigs of RAM at this moment.

I have no source to direct you to, I just know it.

[Frans 0]

Not exactly. There is a workaround to use up to 4 GB with XP, but a single running application is still limited to 2 GB.

[maddogx 13]

Quote[/b] ]Let me just tell you people, having more then 2Gigs of RAM is useless, becouse windows dont support more then 2gigs of RAM at this moment.

I have no source to direct you to, I just know it.

I think that's 4 not 2. Though 2 is definitely enough.

[Dwarden 1124]

Quote[/b] ]Let me just tell you people, having more then 2Gigs of RAM is useless, becouse windows dont support more then 2gigs of RAM at this moment.

I have no source to direct you to, I just know it.

I think that's 4 not 2. Though 2 is definitely enough.

depends on what software and games You mess with

but i bet beer if someone1 donate You 16GB memory You will not protest

even You will need 64bit CPU with 64bit system to utilize it