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Is the E6420 better than the AMD 6000?

I have also seen a 512MB RADEON HD 2600XT PCI-E graphics card for the same price as a 512MB RADEON X1950 PRO PCI-E, witch one is better out of the two?

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I play armed assault on all normal settings then blood on high, i still get some bad loading when in gameplay. All background programs are shut off. Ive also patched arma to 1.08

Specs:

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Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)

CPU: Intel® Pentium® D CPU 3.00GHz

CPU Speed: 3.00 GHz Performance Rated at 5.40 GHz

RAM: 1021.8 MB

HAD: 149GB

Graphic card: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS

DirectX Version: DirectX9

Sound card:Realtek High Definition Audio

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I would love it if someone could tell me exactly what i need to do in order to play it without little freezing in between when playing

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Here are my specs of my 5 year old PC (hoping to get upgrade soon):

Intel P4 2.4ghz running at 2.6

Asus P4PE mobo

ATI 1600 Pro 512mb

1024 Mbs of DDR 333 ram

Since I'm buying a new paintball marker soon, my cash flow is restricted and I cant get a new PC yet. Right now I need to run arma on pretty much the lowest settings (except the objects and texture settings which i do normal and low respectively since any lower = objects dont get rendered till they're in my face) to get decent framerates (25-35 if i'm really lucky) and in forests it all goes to hell.

I'm wondering if upgrading to 2gbs of ram would help or is my computer really beyond help? I just want it to hold me over till I get a new PC but I still want to play arma at a good framerate. (top notch graphics at the moment are not the biggest concern, just playable framerates so like anything 20-25 or more fps is good)

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I cannot belive this but my headset has broken, as soon as I get a new system.... typical.

Anyone recomend a reliable headset that is clear and good quality, I brought my last one three times so I am not keen on Logitec.

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I cannot belive this but my headset has broken, as soon as I get a new system.... typical.

Anyone recomend a reliable headset that is clear and good quality, I brought my last one three times so I am not keen on Logitec.

Although this is kind of off topic:

I can recommend the speedlink medusa 5.1 usb headset. I bought it a few days ago and so far im very happy with it. Cost me 54 €.

Sound is quite nice. But i have to admit, that i didnt test the mic till now, i'll do that this evening.

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SONY has nice Studio Style ones at various price ranges. The Cheapie is 30 dollars (MDR-v250) I also saw some sweet ones in FYE. THink they were called Skull Candy or something like that.

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I cannot belive this but my headset has broken, as soon as I get a new system.... typical.

Anyone recomend a reliable headset that is clear and good quality, I brought my last one three times so I am not keen on Logitec.

I second that, 5.1 Medusa Headset wink_o.gif

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How do you think a 8800 GTS 230 MB, Pentium D 2.8 Ghz, 1 GB @ 400 Mhz RAM machine would run this game?

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How do you think a 8800 GTS 230 MB, Pentium D 2.8 Ghz, 1 GB @ 400 Mhz RAM machine would run this game?

The CPU and RAM speed will be a big bottleneck for that 8800GTS. I have a similiar setup except i got a 6600GT and 2.4 Ghz CPU and i cannot play on high settings with good frame rates at all.

I intend to get a Q6600 when its price drops and 2 GB RAM along with a 8800GTS or GTX depending upon the price when i go out to buy in a month or so.

Btw can anyone tell me does ARMA make ANY use of the multi cores? Will the Quad enjoy any benefits over the dual cores? Also i've heard and seen people with 8800 getting random CTD's consistently in arma , whats the deal there? Its the high end card and its having troubles? How the hell do you play this game on HIGH then? Hows the 2900XT's response to arma aswell.

If anyone can answer these queries they will greatly help me in my buying decisions. Those who already have similiar setups please give us a peformance run down of your experience in ArmA atm.

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There seems to be alot of ppl in here that have soo much probs with the 8800!

But everyone i know who's bought one- cannot speak highly enough of it for ArmA! wink_o.gif

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How do you think a 8800 GTS 230 MB, Pentium D 2.8 Ghz, 1 GB @ 400 Mhz RAM machine would run this game?

The CPU and RAM speed will be a big bottleneck for that 8800GTS. I have a similiar setup except i got a 6600GT and 2.4 Ghz CPU and i cannot play on high settings with good frame rates at all.

I intend to get a Q6600 when its price drops and 2 GB RAM along with a 8800GTS or GTX depending upon the price when i go out to buy in a month or so.

Btw can anyone tell me does ARMA make ANY use of the multi cores? Will the Quad enjoy any benefits over the dual cores? Also i've heard and seen people with 8800 getting random CTD's consistently in arma , whats the deal there? Its the high end card and its having troubles? How the hell do you play this game on HIGH then? Hows the 2900XT's response to arma aswell.

If anyone can answer these queries they will greatly help me in my buying decisions. Those who already have similiar setups please give us a peformance run down of your experience in ArmA atm.

Well there's a big difference between a 6600 GT and a 8800 GTS. wink_o.gif BTW I know that the CPU will limit the VGA but it will still be a LOT better.

To answer your question: no, not even dual-core processors enjoy any benefit over single-core processors in ArmA.

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Hmm no multi core support sucks. I assume a patch wont help remedy the problem either? Since it would require the whole of the game programming/engine to be overhauled and rewritten in a fashion to take advantage of the many cores .. right?

Hope BIS is taking notes for this on the Nextgen game.

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at acecombat crazy_o.gif Your alive! crazy_o.gifwink_o.gifrofl.gif

and on topic

P4 3ghz

Dual Core

1024mbDDRII

X1950PRO

10:6 widescr

but I usually have poor performance with turning arround so it has to load a new bunch of objects. The object needs time to load, and therefor it gives low FPS which is annoying since my pc

should be able to play atleast at high settings. It runs like a dream in any other game.

Does anybody know a good explanation of what all the features represent and do. Not in high tech langauge but for the noobs among us. And not only what the settings in arma does. But also the usual settings for a 3d graphics card. Like AA and all the harder things. I want to know what improves arma performance and what doenst. So I can tweak it, Ive tried allready offcourse but didnt manage to get any good effect.

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Was i supposed to be dead? confused_o.gif

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So Manhunt you got a E6850 and a X1950 and still get LOD issues? Anyone know how to fix these LOD issues, they werent so bad in OFP atleast we had the option to tweak it aswell. Dont see so in ArmA.

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My Specs:

AMD Athlon64 x2 dual core

Core Processor 5000+ 2,66 ghz

ABit KN9

2GB DDR2 Kingston

Ati Radeon x1950 PRO Sapphire 256/256

Monitor SyncMaster 550b

Arma Version: 1.8 drive 7.6Catalyst

All Specs: Very High

Visibility:3000-4000

FPS:32-75

Postprocess Effects:

Low-> Forest+ boots 30 fps

Very High> Forest+ boots 23 fps

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http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/1214/arma2007062722442742oe7.jpg

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I have a question about the video options. For AA, what's better: low, normal, very high, or 6, 7, and 8?

A64 3000+

8800GTS 640mb

1 gig of ram

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Quote[/b] ]I have a question about the video options. For AA, what's better: low, normal, very high, or 6, 7, and 8?

Very High.

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My Specs:

AMD Athlon64 x2 dual core

Core Processor 5000+ 2,66 ghz

ABit KN9

2GB DDR2 Kingston

Ati Radeon x1950 PRO Sapphire 256/256

Monitor SyncMaster 550b

Arma Version: 1.8 drive 7.6Catalyst

All Specs: Very High

Visibility:3000-4000

FPS:32-75

Postprocess Effects:

Low-> Forest+ boots 30 fps

Very High> Forest+ boots 23 fps

Man you play it at 800*600??

I rather have some lower settings but at least 1024*800

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My Specs:

AMD Athlon64 x2 dual core

Core Processor 5000+ 2,66 ghz

ABit KN9

2GB DDR2 Kingston

Ati Radeon x1950 PRO Sapphire 256/256

Monitor SyncMaster 550b

Arma Version: 1.8 drive 7.6Catalyst

All Specs: Very High

Visibility:3000-4000

FPS:32-75

Postprocess Effects:

Low-> Forest+ boots 30 fps

Very High> Forest+ boots 23 fps

Man you play it at 800*600??

I rather have some lower settings but at least 1024*800

Ok new test.

Resolution:1024x768x32

Visibility:2127

All Specs: Very High

FPS:23-56

Desert: FPS Good

Aiport: FPS 26-31

City+ Bots:23-30

http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/8205/arma2007072611221751am3.jpg

http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/2293/arma2007072611225509ug6.jpg

http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/1230/arma2007072611421359en7.jpg

http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/3782/arma2007072611420201yg2.jpg

http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/2742/arma2007072611433975ve0.jpg

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I know, this is a lame question, but how in the hell do I turn off my Macfee program?? If I open task manager to close, it will not let me. Arma runs very very poorly on my system and trying to do whatever possible to help the performance.

thanks.

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My Specs:

AMD Athlon64 x2 dual core

Core Processor 5000+ 2,66 ghz

ABit KN9

2GB DDR2 Kingston

Ati Radeon x1950 PRO Sapphire 256/256

Monitor SyncMaster 550b

Arma Version: 1.8 drive 7.6Catalyst

All Specs: Very High

Visibility:3000-4000

FPS:32-75

Postprocess Effects:

Low-> Forest+ boots 30 fps

Very High> Forest+ boots 23 fps

Man you play it at 800*600??

I rather have some lower settings but at least 1024*800

Ok new test.

Resolution:1024x768x32

Visibility:2127

All Specs: Very High

FPS:23-56

Desert: FPS Good

Aiport: FPS 26-31

City+ Bots:23-30

http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/8205/arma2007072611221751am3.jpg

http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/2293/arma2007072611225509ug6.jpg

http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/1230/arma2007072611421359en7.jpg

http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/3782/arma2007072611420201yg2.jpg

http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/2742/arma2007072611433975ve0.jpg

why u take screenshots and tests in the airport. i get over 30 fps with all settings very high in the airport with 1440x900 resoultion. go to the cities and forrests then test ur pc.

my spects r below

amd x2 4600+ 2.4ghz

2gb 667 ddr2 ram

250gb hard drive

7900gs gainward 512mb pci-e

570Watt PSU

and i run the game on all settings normal with+

post process = high

grass = low

blood = low

and i get around 30fps in urban areas. will be getting 8800 ultra soon which shud give me a better fps (I hope).

fps is anything between 20-35 with current settings.

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I know, this is a lame question, but how in the hell do I turn off my Macfee program?? If I open task manager to close, it will not let me. Arma runs very very poorly on my system and trying to do whatever possible to help the performance.

thanks.

I guess it's for your systems security, that no virus can turn it off either. And you can't kill the service in the taskmanager ? Anyway you then have to disable it's autostart and turn it on manually.

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What is the best[/u] graphicscard for ArmA?:

RADEON X1650PRO VIPER 512MB

RADEON X1950GT 512MB

Radeon HD 2600XT Super 512MB

Radeon X1950Pro 256MB DDR3

RADEON X1950GT 512MB DDR3

EN8600GT/2DHT/256M

GF 7900GS 512MB DDR3 256BIT

GF 8600GTS 256MB DDR3 128BIT

nVidia 8600 GTS 512MB

ATI 2900 XT 512 MB DX10

+ other ones y'all know whistle.gif

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What is the best graphicscard for ArmA?:

RADEON X1650PRO VIPER 512MB

RADEON X1950GT 512MB

Radeon HD 2600XT Super 512MB

Radeon X1950Pro 256MB DDR3

RADEON X1950GT 512MB DDR3

EN8600GT/2DHT/256M

GF 7900GS 512MB DDR3 256BIT

GF 8600GTS 256MB DDR3 128BIT

nVidia 8600 GTS 512MB

ATI 2900 XT 512 MB DX10

+ other ones y'all know whistle.gif

Marek Spanel - CEO www.bistudio.com recommends 7950 thread

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