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Don't bother man. Not for this game. No matter what system you throw at it, this game is unable to use even 50% of your cpu and 50% of your GPU no matter what settings . You'll always have bad performance. Just look at the "troubleshooter" section . It's been like this for 10 years now. So please, if you want to upgrade because you want to upgrade, by all means do it. But for this game, you will be very disappointed and throwing away lots of money for no performance gain.

hmm, 37 fps is NOT smooth even if it's 100% stable 37 all the time. Crappy frames is the fastest way to kill and burry the little immersion that is left after watching the enemy A.I and animations of the soldiers. The rest of your post isn't even that bad, but keep in mind most people are on 120 hz or even 144 hz monitors . So, because arma hasn't been able to actually use hardware (50% cpu load, 50% gpu load) since the last, oh what.. 10 years? , while still somehow only putting out a miserable 30 fps, i know have to cripple my hardware so i can somehow get my refresh rate to abysmal levels for "smooth gameplay" at 37 fps . NO. just ... NO . FIX THIS GAME ALREADY

The secret to any good clan, is a core of players that have been playing together for a long time already. Players that have been put together by the universe (with that i mean by chance and LIKE playing with eachother so they kept doing it) , players that don't need a "clan" to play together. It sounds fruity as hell i know lol, but the point is, you can't force anything . Like tons of dumb rules, "you MUST be active at least 3 hours a week", and "You MUST socialize on TS" Force it and it will go to crap REAL fast.

It wouldn't be such a problem even if this game could actually stress the cpu . I mean if frame rate is falling with every little event, you could argue that it's because the cpu is in over it's head so to speak . But that is never the case ! CPU doesn't even get stressed, there's SO MUCH more power available in most computers. So there are 2 BIG problems : 1) Frame rate drops with events, and does NOT come back when event is over. 2) Game is unable to use the resources that are available. WHERE is the bottleneck ? I'm honestly beginning to think that these problems will never get fixed and that these problems are just in the programming . This is NOT a "flamebait" by the way .

Nope, i agree with the above statement. Anything below 40 fps is unbarable. 40 to 50 is bleh , + 50 is what i would consider "playable without too much immersion going down the drain" . I mean, you simply NEED smoothish gameplay if you don't want to be reminded constantly that you're playing a very badly optimized VIDEO GAME.

Definately Empire Total War. (set in 18th century, the "golden age" , with "ship of the line warships" and other cool stuff) Gets a little complicated though as your empire expands. Super fun though.

I've played BF3 for many hours, (+1000, i believe 1200 or so) , but i just can't get into BF4 . I played infantry mostly, on infantry only servers , and i really loved the infantry feel of the weapons . In BF4, infantry gameplay feels plastic and dampened. Too bad.

Yeah i know, but somehow it just isn't the same now that BF4 is out .

So i was running "process explorer" , to try and find out why arma craps out on me the longer i play multiplayer. I saw the "page fault" number increasing with an insane rate, now gonna test other programs but what does it mean ?

Read : http://feedback.arma3.com/view.php?id=13693 This game engine is too ancient to take proper use of MODERN hardware ---------- Post added at 10:08 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:12 PM ---------- Over 70% of steam users are on 64 bit OS , and have more than 4 Gig of memory . Why is arma STILL 32 bit ?!?!??!

Also, not to mention ... a 4 core processor and 64 bit OS is NOT "exotic" hardware. It's perfectly STANDARD. Same for SLI / Crossfire. These are not some "uber systems" or "exotic" hardware issues. The issue is that this game can not run decently on NORMAL hardware anymore.

Your 60 GB harddrive is full ? You don't say . That's not even enough space for ONE game like BF3 + map packs. :D So everybody should suffer horrible performance just because there seem to be some people that have hard drives the size of usb sticks ? Yeah let's hold off ALL technology for the three stragglers In fact, SAY NO TO everything ! I wantDOS back ! :j: I'm just kidding somewhat . -_- Anyway, back on topic, arma 3 SHOULD have been 64 bit already. 70% of people NOW is already on 64 bit, and the game is barely out. Imagine how many that will be in + 1 year, or + 2 years.

Arma has memory issues it seems . Going for 7 years now .

haha :D I'm guessing (sarcasm) that's NOT the reason that arma 3 is still on ancient 32 bit :D

2 level 100 accounts, 1200 hours played. EPIC stats, 4.2 k/d on my 2nd account, infantry only ! No vehicle crutches used. CHeck out my mad skills, and mostly, check out how epicly SMOOTH this game runs (120 fps, 120 hz and "lightboost" = NO motion blur) 7w5rhKd_CCU _YQmO6GK4P8 BF3, you will be missed :_(((

We're too late now to do anything. Should have done so right in the beginning, then MAYBE it would have been beneficial, but now ... That country is now a terrorist pit.

What can you say ? Well, i can tell you what you apparently can NOT say : "Solid arguments ". "Go back to CoD" ? LoL, really ? I mean SERIOUSLY ? :D:D:D: Besides, if you click my youtube link you can see i'm not CoD.

Uhm, those are the page faults of ARMA 3 only . Needless to say it seems a bit excessive, as other programs seem to have about 10% of that number.

Epic man. This game is still best fit for SINGLE CORE processors. Pretty shocking .

Game engine was crap to begin with, and now it's not only crap, but also way too ancient. No 64 bit support, how LOL is that , i mean come on , 2013 anyone ? 2 gig of RAM used max... Normal systems today have 6 to 12 gigs of ram available . Again, rofl

Already have 8 gigs . And arma can only use 2 GB of it . ROFL , that's just sad.

oh, well never mind then i was going off replies of others.

Same problems. - Low cpu and graphic usage, terribly inefficient at using resources and terrible performance - Texture popping and loading , hard drive trashing. - Basically unplayable in MP coop. - Exactly same physics : Tank bounces 20 feet in the air after hitting a chicken fence , stuff like that. It sure FEELS like the exact same physics of Arma 2 to me ? - Enemy A.I . Feels EXACTLY the same. Roll in with a tank, and they just stand there staring at you untill you blow them away . Or maybe walk 3 feet and start staring at you again, instead of running away like they should. - Interface . Is it just me or is it also EXACTLY the same ? I mean what has changed ? Still the scroll wheel thing, same commands, same everythying. - Clunky movement. Getting into vehicles for instance still looks EXACTLY the same . In fact, every movement you make is still exactly the same. I am not really sure how this is not an exact copy of Arma 2, but with different skins ? What has changed ?

2 km rofl You shouldn't be able to hit anything at that range. Have you ever looked through a scope at all ? At 2 km you would need a 50x or even 100x magnification. Good luck holding that crosshair steady . Not with a bipod, and not even with a front and back sandbag. No . Just no.

Yes, every coop mission with A.I involved will turn into a slideshow after 10 to 20 minutes. Epic coding . Also @ Minoza I'm pretty sure that this game has the exact same problems as Arma 2 , because it IS the exact same game . They've just changed the skins of the vehicles and weapons and that's it. This game IS arma 2 .