Will my PC Run this? What CPU/GPU to get? What settings? System Specifications.

[Colt45_GTO 10]

ok my cpu is strangling my pc and so is my mainboard i think.

what would you recommend? bearing in mind i'm pretty skint. looking for am2+ without video. and am2+ cpu to match or am3.

or i could go AMD athlon X2 64 6000+ 3ghz, cheap as chips now . would this be fine for the game?

Edited November 14, 2009 by Colt45_GTO

[thedudeabides 40]

dude go with the AMD 955 Black Edition

[Colt45_GTO 10]

this one should do it. works out at 70 quid from aria AMD Athlon II X4 620 Retail

[echo1 0]

The 620 is a pretty decent CPU alright, should serve you well.

[fish44 0]

Wonder how this monster is gonna work with ArmaII

ATI Monster

:coop:

[-=seany=- 5]

Wonder how this monster is gonna work with ArmaII

ATI Monster

:coop:

Probably like crap, because its a dual card /xfire on one pcb. Sure crossfire and SLI work for Arma, I'd even say very well. But the game just cripples the cpu so badly that it's never any use in "real world" play.

[Blah72 10]

Hey all,

I started playing the series with flashpoint on my pIII 733mhz with some nvidia TNT card.. the series hit armaII and my pc also improved, but i'm struggling with performance a bit.

In editor everything goes fine, but the campaign just goes wrong on fps, i get 15-25 fps.. no matter what settings. i had a 8800gtx and upgraded it to a 4890 1GB, but it didn't help.

my current specs

Intel c2Duo e6850 @ 3.6 ghz (dual core)

ATI HD 4890 1GB

4GB ram DDR2 800mhz

2 x Spinpoint f1 Raid0

windows 7 64bit

1920x1200 LCD

so editor goes well, but other stuff like campaign and heavy mp missions are running way to slow to enjoy it. I'm not someone who want's to run everything on very high, but hence, it's not the problem because i can nearly run it on very high, but in missions there is no difference in fps (or nearly no) with everhting on high or everything on low.

So will i benifit from upgrading to a core i7 860 (4x2.8ghz) compared to my 2x3.6 ghz atm. if it realy would help me off the hook i may consider it, but i didnt plan to ugprade my pc this soon, so i don't want to spend money if it won't help me out, my gfx uggrade didnt help much.

I actually have this exact same problem, word for word.

I just upgraded from an 8800gts 512mb to an ati4890 factory overclocked, and i get absolutely pathetic performance in all missions regardless of settings, yet the game runs great in the editor. All very high settings or all low settings makes practically no difference to performance. My 8800gts was performing as well as this new card...

My system is :

Intel Q6600 @3.2ghz

Ati 4890 factory overclocked

6gb ddr2 800mhz ram

win7 64bit

1920x1200 lcd.

[txalin 2]

Wonder how this monster is gonna work with ArmaII

ATI Monster

:coop:

My 5850 allows me to play on max settings on everything at 1680x1050, so imagine what you can do with 5970 :)

[Totala 0]

There is an extensive CPU benchmark available here : http://forum.hardware.fr/hfr/JeuxVideo/PC/arma-armed-assault-sujet_59233_1.htm#t1290433

Obtained at 800x600, with GTX280.

Edited November 20, 2009 by Totala
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[Colt45_GTO 10]

There is an extensive CPU benchmark available here : http://forum.hardware.fr/hfr/JeuxVideo/PC/arma-armed-assault-sujet_59233_1.htm#t1290433

Obtained at 800x600, with GTX280.

lol that tells me nothing about my setup or my future setup.

currently i have a GTX 260 card and will be buying an AMD Athlon II 64 X4 620 ....

man my systems never hit the ratings lmao

[DrSnow 0]

During last 24 hours i have been searching through Arma 2 forums and found out tons of threads and problems with Arma 2 and ATI. My question might have been aswered already but i don't have time to read through all this so any help is highly appreciated.

My new rig is now coming up and is following:

X4 phenom 955 BE

MSI 790GX-G65 Motherboard

6 GB 1333 ddr3 mem.

1 TB HD

Sapphire radeon 4890 1 GB vapor-X GPU

Win 7 64-bit

Is this totally useless or non playable combination in Arma 2?

Why i ask, is that i might still have few seconds to change my mind about the rig... Can anyone help on this?

txh,

Snow

[Colt45_GTO 10]

why not opt for a GTX vid card?

[echo1 0]

Last I checked, the 4890 was better than the equivalent nVidia card in ArmA2. Also, supplies of the high end nVidia cards are supposedly drying up as they prepare to ship their latest model sometime next year.

[DrSnow 0]

why not opt for a GTX vid card?

I have radeon 9600 series card now and it has worked always reliably, even with much criticized CCC, so 4890 seemed a natural choice...

Basicly it's a matter of overall budget, allthough GTX is still an option if facts prove otherwise.... In that case i have to change the mobo also :/

What i don't want is a rig that is not comfortable to play with Ofp, Arma or Arma 2 (last mentioned i don't have yet).

Last I checked, the 4890 was better than the equivalent nVidia card in ArmA2. Also, supplies of the high end nVidia cards are supposedly drying up as they prepare to ship their latest model sometime next year.

So youre happy with 48** series? Or is the highly praised Win 7 the key here?

[Colt45_GTO 10]

it all depends completely on your budget. what you can afford or willing to go to on pc parts.

[FieldMarshallZhukov 10]

does anybody have this system:

i7 920 3.3ghz'

EVGA GTX 295

DDr3 6Gigs

If so, how does it work at max settings with a large number of combatants?

frma rate?

it appears now that with windows 7 we can get a more playable game

[echo1 0]

The GTX295 has some issues with this game, you might want to read some of the guides first.

[Kristian 47]

I currently have

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

2Gb RAM

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3Ghz (dual)

I have been thinking of changing to Ati Radeon HD 4890, how much would it boost my ArmA2 performance?

[FieldMarshallZhukov 10]

Is anyone on this forum running Arma2 close to max settings and getting good frame rates?

If so, what is your processor, card and ram?

It just seems getting to run game well is very hard, unless recent patches hav corrected things

[Azza FHI 50]

@kristian

my brother has a 9800gt with a duo 2.8

i have a q6600 at 2.4 with a HD4870 1gb, my system absolutly shits on his with arma, long story short yes u will notice considerable difference if u got the 4890. on the other hand i keep having this wonderful dream of playing arma maxed out without dropping under 60 frames very often. i am going to wait till about easter time and upgrade to a i5 and crossfire 2 5970's (dual gpu 5870 each card) and put the processor and gpus on water to overclock it all, i say easter because the price of all that will have dropped heaps and also hopfully by then arma will be fixed with the release of operation arrowhead. oo i almost forgot to mension the SSD drive, sposed to make arma run heaps faster

EDIT:@fieldmarshalzhukov

q6600 (stock 2.4)

hd48701gb

corsair xms 3x2gb 1600mhz ram

gigabyte EP4T-UD3LR mobo

normal hard drive

i used to run my processor at 3.6 and also overclocked my 4870 a lil and the performance was very satisfactory, i can pretty much run the game maxed out except for Antialiasing needs to be normal and view distance not very high (around 3k), and still get around 30 fps when there is shit going on. im running stock at the moment because i am about to format and put on win7

have a look into SSD drives, its another form of harddrive that is alot faster, its pretty new so might be abit expensive still.

Edited November 24, 2009 by Azer1234

[fish44 0]

Probably like crap, because its a dual card /xfire on one pcb. Sure crossfire and SLI work for Arma, I'd even say very well. But the game just cripples the cpu so badly that it's never any use in "real world" play.

Then maybe the ATI 5870 will be top of the pile for some time with ArmaII, appears to be the quickest single GPU card at present.Has anyone run one of these with ARMAII?

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[bigcheese 10]

what would be the best power supply and graphics card for around £150 that would play arma2 at the best possible

[Bushwaakka 10]

I'm wanting to buy a new PC and I would like it to run Arma2 on the highest settings (or at least most of the settings at their highest), there is no point buying a new PC when you can only run arma2 on the low settings after all.

Will this run most of arma2's settings on very high?

ACER DEFENDER GAMING - REFURBISHED DEFENDER

AMD Phenom X4 9750 Quad-Core processor

(2.40GHz, 2MB Cache)

Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium

4GB DDR2 800MHz memory

512MB ATI Radeon HD4850 graphics

640GB SATA hard drive (7200rpm)

Dual Layer DVD Rewriter

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/store/pcw_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@1486464364.1259100541@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccegadeimdgejfdcflgceggdhhmdgmk.0&category_oid=-37526&sku=874431&page=Product&fm=null&sm=null&tm=null

[skep155 10]

Would a GeForce 8400 GS run this game?

I think my system meets the minimum specs but i'm thinking of upgrading my RAM from 2GB to 3GB just to be safe. Im not bothered if i can't play it on high settings or whatever, i lose interest in the campaigns + the games editor is of much greater interest to me. Im thinking performance could be improved further if i downloaded the mod that lets you play maps like Razani and Avgani on ArmA2.

Thanks

[Colt45_GTO 10]

skep, download the demo and find out for your self.

the demo is 1.02 and it gave me a good idea of how my comp handles it. probably the best advice or answer you will get ;)