i can not play arma

[cenkcnk 0]

hi , i was playing ofp and many mods of ofp.but i have installed demo of arma and took terrible performance . i tired everything : detail very low, distance 500 ,resolution 640*480 ... but i can play like slowmotion and enemies kick my back everytime.what the hell is gonig on .they say system req. min. p4 2,0, 128 mb video card, 512 mb ram and i have:

same things and 786 mb ram .

[Monkwarrior 0]

Be more specific please.

Which OS are you running, XP or Vista ?

Which videocard do you use ?

Monk.

[SeppSchrot 0]

Hi,

but what did you expect? This is how ArmA is meant to run. Look at the many other postings here. Even players with biggest DualCores and a GF8800 complain about performance.

[Frans 0]

It runs fine on my P4 3.2 GHz, 1GB, Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB. Try setting everything to very low, view distance to 1200, and resolution to 1024x768. On my rig this runs way better then 640x480 or 800x600.

For anyone who's interested, I will gladly trade my rig for one of your dualcore 8800GTS systems that are giving you so many headaches. Just give me a call  

[SeppSchrot 0]

For anyone who's interested, I will gladly trade my rig for one of your dualcore 8800GTS systems that are giving you so many headaches. Just give me a call

No thx.

Luckily, Arma is the exception and not the rule.

[troop 0]

Hi,

but what did you expect? This is how ArmA is meant to run. Look at the many other postings here. Even players with biggest DualCores and a GF8800 complain about performance.

Because many with this kind of setup assume, it

*must* be possible to run ArmA with the maximum settings,

the program provides?

Opteron 165/1800MHz @2.88GHz

Coming from DualCore nforce3/2GB RAM/7800GS+ 512MB AGP

I'm running it now on

DualCore nforce4/2 GB RAM/8800GTS 640MB

Guess what happens, if I choose my settings too high?

(I dont have, but also with SLi setup?)

Arma runs like crap! (Perfectly normal)

If however I lower my settings to slightly different tunes

on above said setups, ArmA runs like 'it was meant to run'

in your words on both machines. (fluid, no hickups, no studder,

no texture failure, no 800700e AND good-looking)

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I *assume* there is no 'normal user' desktop setup, which is capable

of running ArmA with maximum settings..today.

Just look back at OFP at the time. Same story almost.

So, is anyone forcing to run ArmA with settings, his machine is simply not capable of?

('My setup MUST run ArmA with max settings, because every other game does?' )

Of course, there are an sh**load of other problems currently,

aside performance/settings

Edit: Hmm..reading again, this could be come across wrong.

I do not want to sound aggressiv and its not meant to be.

I am sorry.

Also, I'm nothing special. ArmA (after a lot of tweaking)

just runs really satisfactory on my different machines.

Edit 2: Plus, *never* assume the *minimum* requirements

printed on the box could run games and at the same time be fun.

Everyone sees the fine screenshots 'n all and could be tricked

into thinking it would look like that on his machine with min. specs and run stellar at the same time.

Reality proves time and time again, that not even recommended

specs, and sometimes (OFP/ArmA) even specs *far* beyond that,

cant run maximum settings...currently.