Hostilian 11 Posted February 9, 2007 Yep, Vista has been engineered from the ground up to extort money from you... How much more (maybe apart from DX10) do you actually need. Operating systems should not take up so much space on your hard drive or cause everything to run sooo slooooooowly. Stickin with XP for the forseeable future. #C Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shataan 1 Posted February 11, 2007 From what I have heard, the X1950 is prolly the best agp card you can get atm. Not sure how it will run AA final release tho. I know my buddy has 1, and it chugged a bit in the demo. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
funkster 0 Posted February 13, 2007 BigSouth: As others have said, that videocard wont do the job. You probably have a motherboard that uses AGP port for videocards. The newer and faster cards all use PCI express format, meaning you and I with AGP motherboards cant use the newer cards. However, some fast new cards have been released still using the AGP format, and some are quite cheap. I recently bought a Radeon X800 XL, which will get the job done on low/ medium settings and still look good from what I can gather, thought I havent played AA yet, being in Australia. I got this card for $A 240 = 90 pounds. There are also some really solid cards you could get such as the AGP version of the X1950 pro - this would kick ar*e. Also, it may be worth getting some extra RAM. I have a very similar system to you, and when I got my new card, I also ordered an extra gig (1000 MB) of RAM for A$80 = 30 pounds or so i think, damn cheap. Have a look on ebay for 1GB DD400 Ram, you wil find a good deal. With 2GB RAM, and a X1950 Pro (if you get one), the game would look damn good! ------- Which brings me to a lil question of my own I have. My system is p 3.2, not sure of the specifics, but dont think its dual core (bought around march 2005). 2GB DDR 400 RAM and Radeon X800XL I know that I will be able to play the game ok, but my question is, will I be able to have all of those beautiful post-processing effects and HDR and still maintain above 30 FPS? It looks so damn good, dont know if I could live without them. If not I might have to buy a new X1950 Pro, but I only bought my current card around3 months ago... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
knlux2005 0 Posted February 13, 2007 What sort of settings would you say i could play ArmA on? Here are my system specs: AMD Athlon FX-57 2GB RAM 2x Geforce 6800 Ultra Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CG Man 0 Posted February 13, 2007 I got  mine running the demo at fps I can aim with. Its smooth but below 30fps and a bit choppy when turning all the way around. My next upgrade is ATI 9050pro 512MB as im on agp and thats the by far best AGP card. I think I will water cool it or if I find out ArmedA is coded for two processors IL put the card in my dual socket dual opteron 246 workstation. Each processor has a gig of ram each. Everything on low View distance at 800 Landscape on lowest shader on normal Blood high AA on low Res  at 1280 x 1024 32bit AMD  64fx 51  2.332 Ghz 2 GB 3200 400Mhz dual channel ram Nvidia 6800 GT  GPU 435Mhz  RAM 1115Mhz Creative Audigy 2 ZS sound card 500 watt PSU Zaleman Resorator Water cooling on GPU and CPU Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tom.gregory 0 Posted February 13, 2007 *edited out* Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tom.gregory 0 Posted February 14, 2007 Arma looks awesome but i am unsure wether my comp will handle the gfx. my rig: amd 4200+ am2 (2.2ghz dual core) 1gb ddr2 ram xfx 7600gt xxx edition (590 core clock, 1600mhz memory) isit worth me getting another 7600gt for sli? any comments apprecieted Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
-CS-SOBR-1st-I-R- 0 Posted February 14, 2007 Hi there! instead of opening a new thread for such a tiny question, you may search for similar threads like this one: http://www.flashpoint1985.com/cgi-bin....t=57757 But to answer your question... you should have no problem running Armed Assault. Your settings would be probably all in medium. I would not buy a second 7600 if I were you... at least not until Ive tested how the game runs. But I persume you will have around 30-40 fps in a "standard" mission. (which is good) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hoz 0 Posted February 15, 2007 I merged the topics. tom.gregory try searching before opening a new topic plz. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
thaFunkster 0 Posted February 15, 2007 SOBR - Are you aware that the thread you have linked is this one, ie - the one that you also posted in...? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tom.gregory 0 Posted February 15, 2007 i tried to delete the earlier post as i started another topic, altough its identical to tis topic thanks [CS]SOBR[1st-I-R] for that info interms of gfx wat is the average view distance setting (is 2000m ok?) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
