LeeJunFan
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To the people who are playing ArmA, how is it?
LeeJunFan replied to evilnate's topic in ARMA - GENERAL
Well, I don't agree with the graphics being horrid, they are just differently focused. Personally I think horrid graphics are when a game doesn't allow you to see beyond 200 meters, but they sure have pretty weeds right in front of your face. ArmedA uses the GPU power for drawing further away, I loved the scenery and the view distance, could see individual trees miles away. What I don't love is the minimum requirements listed for the game, I've got a 2.2GHz AMD64, 1G RAM, 128M ATI 9700, and even with the worst settings 20-24 FPS is the best I can do even with overclocking by 100MHz on the GPU. And that's just on the 8man demo with hardly anything going on on screen. I'm sure if we added 40 players, vehicles and explosions on the playfield I'd be lucky to get 5fps. Don't get me wrong - the game/sim is great in itself, and as I've been waiting for this game for years I'll likely get myself a new PC as soon as it's released in the states. What really stinks is that this is a laptop, so I can't really upgrade the GFX, and turning down the resolution makes everything too blurry on the LCD -
How about pre-ordering online with an option to download YESTERDAY! Of course lame copy protection makes that nearly impossible, and it also likely will alienate any possibility of running this game on Linux under wine. A flyers bundle with trackir4, logitech gaming mouse, saitek X52 and rudder pedals, some nice full size headphones with mic - that's how I'm going to be playing
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I certainly hope there's going to be a download option on release day - as I don't see a USA distributor and I've been waiting for the 2nd flashpoint since the day after the first one came out.
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I have a windows partition solely for playing games, if Armed Assault will run on wine, as I believe flashpoint does I plan on going 100% windows free. Of course what would be even better would be if a native linux version were released. I don't suppose anyone at BI has tried it with wine yet? My OS freedom of choice hinges on this games ability to run under linux .