Ragnar_Darude 2 Posted August 9, 2007 I have 2.8Ghz Pentium D with 1Gb RAM and a Radeon X600 graphic card. For me Arma is only playable on the lowest graphic setting, but i would like to change that. Just wondering if any one has a tip on what i should upgrade - RAM or graphic card? And if graphic card, what card should i purchase, cause i dont have a lot of money to spend. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Beagle 684 Posted August 9, 2007 I just upgraded to a NVidia 7900GS 512MB for 139€ but one with 256MB for 117€ will also do it, since there was no noticeable performance gain with the additional 256MB. RAM would be of lower priority and I didn't notice so much of a difference since I installed a second 1024MB...system rarely needs more than 800MB while runnign ArmA in normal to high default setting. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nemesis_wales 0 Posted August 9, 2007 indows vista uses nearly 800 mb of ram alone on my machine :| i got a 7800 GT an my game looks crap Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
telejunky 0 Posted August 9, 2007 I habe upgraded my system from a X600Pro 256 to a X1950Pro which was a greatly improvment but the card could do much more without the my limitation, the cpu: P 4 530 3Ghz...I think a better cpu could make ArmA running like hell Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Q1184 0 Posted August 9, 2007 I habe upgraded my system from a X600Pro 256 to a X1950Pro which was a greatly improvment but the card could do much more without the my limitation, the cpu: P 4 530 3Ghz...I think a better cpu could make ArmA running like hell  Indeed, I had Athlon64 4000+ and x1950pro, and upgraded to Core 2 Duo 6750 and got like 1.5-2 times the fps i had before @Ragnar_Darude Upgrade your GFX card, additional RAM will not give you any noticeable boost. I also can recommend x1950pro, it costs around 200$. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mr_Tea 0 Posted August 9, 2007 indows vista uses nearly 800 mb of ram alone on my machine :| i got a 7800 GT an my game looks crap But no longer once you start a game. I tested Oblivion with Vista, after shutting down Oblivion Vista used only ~200 MB. I`ll do more testing with Vista when SP1 is out this fall. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GAU-8 0 Posted August 10, 2007 i dont know about the X600, but i also have the 7800GT... i found out that the game plays better with antialiasing set to MAX on the card..than without! also your resolution plays a big part as well. you can play 1024x728, at medium, with one or two things at max..OR play at its highest res, and tone down the graphics.. RAM wise, it also depends on what you are doing alongside the game as well. TEAMSPEAK, track-IR, and non priority "services" will also acquire some kind of memory footprint. it might not be much, but it could be enough to get in the upper limits of what one has left to play with. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Key Dutch 0 Posted August 10, 2007 hmmm, intresting. i just order Athlon 64 X2 6000+, should come tomorrow. wonder if its give visible  incrise in preformance, in ArmA. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
r2101 0 Posted August 10, 2007 to the initial poster... the x600 is killing your performance with armed assault... i would be quite surprised if you get more than a slideshow with that card and armed assault... armed assault likes video ram & texture and shader units get a ati 19xx with 512 mb or similar 79xx setup... those should be quite cheap nowerdays... but keep in mind that these don´t support dx10 techniques... just to compare... i got an pentium D 3ghz, ati 1900gt 256mb (yuck) and 2gb ram.... and there are several options to get the game "up to speed".... the bare bones opf lookalike approach: disable postprocessing, disable shaders (very low), object & terrain detail very low...texture low.... shadows on normal...antialiasing normal, af normal to high.... runs faster as opf ... but then quite a lot of armed assaults visual magic get lost *sigh*... it never occured to me that shadows..no matter what quality setting they were on literaly ate my fps for breakfast... for now i disabled shadows, set object detail and terrain detail to high, shaders to normal, texture to normal ...postprocesing is low, antialiasing = normal and af=normal... view distance around 900ish... works pretty good on my good old pentium d so my advice would be... 1st) new grafx card 2nd) one more gigabyte 3nd) maybe check the upgrade options for cpus but option 1 should give you an immediate boost in your armed assault expirience hope that helps....greetings - r2101 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ti0n3r Posted August 10, 2007 Yeah, the GFX card is the bottle neck. That card is close to a geforce 6600 spec wise, right? If so you could always try to overclock it. That helped me a lot. (6600) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Beagle 684 Posted August 10, 2007 hmmm, intresting. i just order Athlon 64 X2 6000+, should come tomorrow. wonder if its give visible  incrise in preformance, in ArmA. No... My 5000+ never shows over 60% on a single core with ArmA. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Key Dutch 0 Posted August 10, 2007 hmmm, intresting. i just order Athlon 64 X2 6000+, should come tomorrow. wonder if its give visible  incrise in preformance, in ArmA. No... My 5000+ never shows over 60% on a single core with ArmA. ill tell u tomorrow. but if look at 3DMark05 with AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ my system scrore only 13455 points. hope new CPU (6000+) will incrise preformance considerably. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BraTTy 0 Posted August 10, 2007 Wow nice system. I don't believe you may see much more performance coming from a 4600+ to a 6000+. I wish I could upgrade my video card.I am stuck with ATI x600 in my laptop.Luckily it does have 256meg ram as that helps. It plays everything but barely Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Key Dutch 0 Posted August 10, 2007 Wow nice system. I don't believe you may see much more performance coming from a 4600+ to a 6000+.I wish I could upgrade my video card.I am stuck with ATI x600 in my laptop.Luckily it does have 256meg ram as that helps. It plays everything but barely well, when i OC my CPU for only 5%, i had 800 points incrise in 3DMark05. and its from 2.4 to 2.5 MHz, by all calculation its must give 3000+ points Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Major Fubar 0 Posted August 10, 2007 Hardware and settings for ArmA Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
