Your Graphic Card and Arma Settingsx

[miggie 0]

i was wondering what graph card you have and on what settings you play.. if you have fps you can also post

cause im getting new 3d card and wondering about some of your results

[Op4 BuhBye 0]

I have a GeForce 7800GS OC AGP. Im running about 30-50 Fps.

Quality Preferance: Very High

Turrain Detail: Vrey Low

Object Detail: Normal

Texture Detail: Normal

Shading Detail: Very Low

PostProsses: Low

Antisotropic Filtering: Very High

Shadow Detail: Low

Antialiasing: Very High

Visibility: 4000

Blood: High

Running a XP 3000+

1.5 gig of RAM

SB Audigy gamer

For the most part the game runs great for me. I get some lag but it doesn't last long.

[jtec 0]

Im running a 7900gs but id recommend a 7950 as they are cheap and run armed assault very well with most settings on max. Just make sure you have a decent processor and also 2+ gig of ram (depending on your operating system)

[killerwhale 1]

X1950XT 512mb PCI-e

1 gb RAM

Core 2 duo 2.4

XP Media Center

my fps is in between 30-50 everything set high

[Richieb0y 0]

Quality Preferance: High

Turrain Detail: Normal

Object Detail: Normal

Texture Detail: Normal

Shading Detail: Normal

PostProsses: Low

Antisotropic Filtering: Normal

Shadow Detail: Low

Antialiasing: Low

Visibility: 2500

Blood: High

Res: 1024x768 32bit

i get 25 fps too 45 in the desert in the city it dips 18-25 it hangs off how many bushis and trees there are but on the Souther Sharani Map i get better fps    Specs below

[4 IN 1 0]

E6600 non O/C

8800GTS non O/C

2 GB DDRII-800 ram

Asus P5B Deluxe

Turrain Detail: High

Object Detail: High

Texture Detail: High

Shading Detail: High

PostProsses: High

Antisotropic Filtering: Very High

Shadow Detail: High

Antialiasing: High

Visibility: 3600~4000

Blood: High

not totally maxed out, 1024x768 32bit but tested on 32" TV with different res setting all works fairly well

~stable 40 at 1024x768, drop to 20 in HD(AA on, pp on)

some time use nHancer with a bit lower AA and prerender limit 0 to fix texture loading bug, setting as such

http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/1460/nhancesettingph1.jpg

quick edit: i just run a stress test, seems perforemce would drop quite a bit when time pass, and texture bugs will be back, but not to unplayable level, no freeze

[BLSmith2112 0]

ArmA Mark... Huge

http://paladin.madtrax.cc/armamark/generator.php?doc=index〈=en

[max power 21]

Terrain Detail: Low

Object Detail: Low

Texture Detail: Low

Shading Detail: High

Post Processing: High

Antisotropic Filtration: Normal

Shadow Detail: Low

Antialiasing: Off

Visibility: 4200

Blood: High

resolution: 1360 x 768

Average fps ~35

AMD 4400+ O/C to 2.5 ghz

A8R32 MVP Deluxe

2 gigs ocx DDR ram

ATI x850 CE (256) O/C to 629 mhz / 615 mhz

[hedcrusha 0]

New rig i bought other day

All maxed and 40+ fps

xfx 8800 gtx xxx edition

xfx 680i mobo

corsair 6400 dominator 800 mhz 2gb

400gb sata II

700w psu

Duo core 2 e6600

Runs absalutly fantastic compared to running it on a gf 6800 1 gb ram and 2.8+ amd!

[OFPDude 0]

Nvidia 7600GT 256MB.....cheap but gets the job done.

Intel P930D 3.0Ghz

1GB DDR400

Resolution: 1280 x 1024

Terrain Detail: Low

Object Detail: Normal

Texture Detail: Normal

Shading Detail: Low

Post Processing: Low

Antisotropic Filtration: High

Shadow Detail: Disabled

Antialiasing: Off (I use SSAA instead)

Visibility: 2000

Low FPS: 20

Average FPS: 30

High FPS: 50

If I were you I would hold on until the 8600 and 8300 DX10's cards are released in a few weeks.....prices will on the fall.

[hedcrusha 0]

I know its expensive but ide save up for ( like i did ) the beast 8800 gtx itll eat any game alive trust me!!

[dirtylarrygb 0]

i was wondering what graph card you have and on what settings you play.. if you have fps you can also post

cause im getting new 3d card and wondering about some of your results

IF your system is PCIE then both the top 7 series from Nvidia and 1950's from ATI are very good cards. Both these cards need a decent PSU, at least 500W or over.

If your have PCI E and a good CPU already then a 8800 GTS/GTX delivers the most power but many need a new PSu to run them as a 600w-700W dual 12v rail PSU is required.

An E4300 and a 8800 GTS is faster than even the most expensive machines from last year and not that expensive. I would always advise if into PC gaming to try and get an 8800 GTS over any other card, i.e. 8600, 8300 etc. As they only cost a little more and generally deliver enough power to run most games with all eye candy. Soon as you skimp on the cost of a GPU you limit your options in games on that PC.

I would certainly now recommend the 8800 series now most of the driver bugs have gone. And as they are Dx10 ready, you would be ready for all the new DX10 games coming on Vista.

For ARMA a 7600 and above is good. The more you spend on a GPU the more eye candy you can enable at higher resolutions. Right now i would only really recommend an 8800 or r600 as there Dx10 compatability will become important soon and the older Dx9 cards will crash in price.

The big question is are you AGP or PCIE on your mobo, how good is your PSU and do you want Dx10 now or just buy a Dx9 card now then upgrade?

I have cards by EVGA XFX and BFG, I recommend all three companies for service build quality and drivers.

8800 GTS 320 VRAM

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=545050

Less than 200 pounds

8800 GTS 640 VRAM

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=548374

260 pounds and lots of vram, pretty future proof this one.

8800 GTX 768 budget

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=506623

360 pounds

8800 GTX 768 OC with great cooling system

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=534219

440, bit overpriced but i recommend the EVGA cooler really helps keep a 8800 cool. EVGA also have a rebate system to trade in their cards for new ones.

700 W 12v dual rail 8800 PSU

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=468732

40 pounds!!!! runs a single 8800 like a dream.

[Infam0us 10]

7900GS PCI - Everything Very High 30FPS Ftw

[overkill 0]

Intel Pentium 4 3.0 ghz

ddr2 pc5300 ram 1 gig

XFX 7900gt 256 meg graphics card

I run all settings on "VERY HIGH" including AA.

AF, PP and Blood are Normal, Low,Low.

BTW I recently added another gig of ram ( for a total of 2 gigs)and the game run much better. It's smoother and I do not get those blocky graphics 20 minutes into the game anymore.

I do not know my FPS though.

[CameronMcDonald 146]

ASUS EN8800GTX @ 675/1050 (2100)

Very high for everything, 8X AA, 16S AF.

Viewdistance 10,000.

I love ASUS.

[TheVoodoo 0]

ASUS EN8800GTX @ 675/1050 (2100)

Very high for everything, 8X AA, 16S AF.

Viewdistance 10,000.

And? You're having fun playing ArmA with 16-25fps?

Don't forget that the set Viewdistance doesn't affect the Multiplayer viewdistance. It's set by the mission or the server.

[4 IN 1 0]

ASUS EN8800GTX @ 675/1050 (2100)

Very high for everything, 8X AA, 16S AF.

Viewdistance 10,000.

And? You're having fun playing ArmA with 16-25fps?

Don't forget that the set Viewdistance doesn't affect the Multiplayer viewdistance. It's set by the mission or the server.

not all 8800 user experence low FPS

[TheVoodoo 0]

ähm, however...

i cannot believe that some ppl with 8xFSAA, 10000m Viewdistance and all settings at Veryhigh are having a lot more then 20fps. maybe in the desert or above the ocean.

i will believe if someone hosts a HD Video with all that settings mentioned.

best ingame position for test: on the highest mountain in south sharani, looking around. If you go with AA enabled to a bush/tree the FPS will drop to 10 for sure!

[CameronMcDonald 146]

OK then, just allow me to reinstall FRAPs. I'll be a little while. How much are you willing to download?

[TheVoodoo 0]

300-400MB compressed with a good codec should be sufficient

[mattxr 9]

GF 8800 GTX

Turrain Detail: High

Object Detail: High

Texture Detail: High

Shading Detail: High

PostProsses: High

Antisotropic Filtering: Very High

Shadow Detail: High

Antialiasing: High

Visibility: 2500~5000

Blood: High

30 - 35 FPS

1440-900 Resolution

[Kirby 2]

Some cheap ass intel card

512MB RAM

ect.

2FPS. (Demo)  

[VictorTroska 0]

Some cheap ass intel card

512MB RAM

ect.

2FPS. (Demo)  

Hehe..we have a winner

[CameronMcDonald 146]

Blazin - damn.

Voodoo - alas, I must concede defeat, since running Frap's video recording function on full reso drops my FPS into ~15 zone, which is unacceptable (both for viewing and for brag rights).

Although I cannot show you video evidence, I will give you some pics, if you will believe that I am not so much of a master Photoshopper that I faked them or dropped my settings. It's my word of honour that I did no such thing. OK, here we are.

Session settings (note that 10km viewdistance prevents selecting terrain detail as high or very high).

Paraiso from the highest mountain on south Sahrani.

Continued next post.

[CameronMcDonald 146]

Imageshack is being crap, so I'll post URLs from here on in.

Optics via bush.

Optics through a bush from the same spot (look hard enough and you'll spot one of Paraiso's buildings).

Optics via grass.

Optics through the grass from the same spot.

Downtown Paraiso.

Paraiso's streets (I assume it's the most densely urbanised area on Sahrani).

Desert (inland).

Looking towards south Sahrani's biggest mountain from the beach.

Desert (seaward).

Looking out to sea from the same spot.

Northern forest.

The gamebreaker - smack bang in the forests of the north drop the FPS below 25, but it looks bloody nice, and is still quite playable, mind you.

Pics done with:

Intel E6600 C2D @ 3.6GHz (went up another 100MHz just for this).

ASUS EN8800GTX @ 630/1050 (2100) MHz

ASUS P5W DH Deluxe

2GB Corsair @ 633MHz.

So yeah, it runs just above your deadline in most areas, excepting the deep forests of the north. Like I said in another thread, in more open areas, such as Bagango, average FPS is 35-40.

What I've also noticed is that the 8X AA is quite a killer, and gives the biggest performance drop when being used. If one drops back to 4X things get noticeably smoother (~5-10 FPS gain).