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thank god they don't, lol. I brought this point up. I said there are children younger than 10 playing cod, gta, halo, bf, etc. It doesn't make them bad games but I've never seen a prepubescent plying arma. Nope, they still say halo is more hardcore because everyone plays it.... As if hardcore and mass appeal go hand in hand in their dillusional minds. Edit: I just saw the pic. Is that who was owning me last night?

I haven't seen the show but it sounds like they maybe compared stats of the weapons and compared training. In a real battle or even war games anything can happen. It would likely come down to the better commander. Not just defending the US here. On paper you'd think the insurgency in Iraq would be a joke against the coalition forces however at times the insurgency was extremly effective.

It's simple. Find a gimmick(destruction) and build an abortion of an action game around it. And then let us use knives to open doors and BOOM! Million dollar budget.

I can second the 5770. I play on mostly high settings with a view distance of 1200 and it gets pretty good performance. 44 fps in benchmark 1. For 180ish it's probably one of the cheapest cards that can max most details in game. Now I have a question. Would crossfiring my 5770 be benificial in arma? Would the game make use of the extra video memory? This is something I want to eventually do but I'm held back because 1) I am not sure arma would even care and 2) despite reviews I find the card to be quite loud and two would probably force me to turn the volume way up or buy nice headphones.

It's a common thought that pc developers just want to make the most demanding games out there and sell newer hardware. The developers don't make money from hardware, they make it on game sales. They want as many people playing as possible. The day a game comes out that requires a $400+ GPU is the day I stay home playing old games.

The worst part is the AI can just walk through them and youre sitting like a duck trying to escape to no avail.

Opening doors is glitchy as hell. Some you have to stand 10 meters from to open, others I just can't get to open because it's like there is a magical blade of grass you have to be standing on the door open option to pop up. I hate that when you see it flash for a split second and you can't find the sweet spot.

Can you post your benchmark results? I'm having trouble believeing you are getting great performance with any kind of AA and view distance at 2500km on that machine. I have a 965 BE @stock 3.4 and HD5770 @ 850 core, 1100 memory(I think) and AA just kills chernarus. Afghani and smaller mod maps are one thing, but running AA on chernarus with that view distance kills my fps. Okay, benchmark 1 with everything on high except terrain and no AA or post process with the view distance at 1200 I got 44 fps average. Benchmark 1 with everything on high except terrain, AA on normal, no post process and view distance at 2500 I got 20 fps average. 1920x1080 btw.

I have had arma for almost 8 months and not one CTD on the two systems I play on. I've had DR for 5 days and I have had 6 CTDs. It's different for everyone and could actually be your own fault in some cases.

The meat and bones of this game is the editor. You can create any kind of battle you want with hundreds of units fighting. You have everyting from ground troops to tanks to jets to place where you want. For example here I created a mission where about 50 marines, 8 apaches, 2 M1A1'a and 2 A-10's attack an insurgent hotbed town with about 90 terrorist who have trucks with machine guns and rockets. I play a spotter who laser tags targets to support the air and ground troops(from a safe distance). Sry, almost no sound. With a little experience I created this in about an hour. You can also create more realistic scenarios but I think more boom is better.

lol!!

GTA4 isn't the most deep game ever it just has incredible replayability in that you can have gun fights and total war in a semi living urban enviornment with everything from pistols to rockets to attack helicopters and apcs. It's the closest thing to total urban war on console in my opinion. But that's only online. Single player is snoozy and repetitive. If rockstar produced arma there would be 8 minute custscenes, on rails shooting segments, gay jokes, wangs, and too much over the topness. Maybe it would be best if rockstar made their own way into the wargames.

Just my 2 cents, you can get an AMD phenom 965 processor for the same price and it's a quad 3.4 stock. Honestly I think you can get the performance you want for half that price, otherwise it looks like you'll end up with 8 gigs of ram and/or $500 GPU if you wanted to spend your whole budget.

I have pretty much this system allthough I got it for $600 because I went with a cheaper 600watt psu, a $20 case, got a Cpu MoBo combo deal for $230 and a $99 seagate 1TB which is a little slow but workable. I've had some issues with the 5770 but it's performance is great. I would crossfire it but given that it still crashes on me at least twice a week I just can't bring myself to buy another one.

Similar to my system, I think you will be very pleased. Right now I think my bigges inhibitor is my hard disk. It scores only a 5.9 in my windows performance monitor dealy. But anyway, just keep your view distance reasonable(1800-mid2000) and don't go crazy with AA or the post process effects. And you should see mostly 50-60 frames outside the campaign.

People keep praising ACE for letting you disable the voices.... Is this any different than turning the speech volume down in the options? Did I miss something?

I didn't mean to say it's guaranteed to lock up. Mine unfortunately does during extended play periods. It has crashed during Oblivion, Arma 2, and Sims 3(my girlfriends, I swear!). I'll admit I didn't do much research but a quick check of google and I found a few people in my boat. Windows 7 AMD Phenom X4 965 Black @ Stock 3.4 M4785TD-V EVO Mushkin 2GB x 2 DDR3 1333 HD5770 1GB @ 850MHz core 1200MHz memory More than enough cooling equipment I had the card at about 900MHz and it tested fine but crashed constantly. At default clocks the card is by far more stable but coming from console land ANY crashing is very frustrating.

The only problem with MY 5770 is it crashes.... Often..... Like almost daily. During arma and other games. I either get a white screen or gray and purple lines and from what I read it's fairly common.

Frankly, I think their time would be better spent on an actual funtioning AI driving model. This is a milsim however I'm pretty sure no military requires you to be drunk before driving.

this is something I found surprising and true. I reentered the pc gaming market 6 months ago after a decade long hiatus(my purchase history on pc goes half life, arma 2, bioshock 2) yes an 11 year gap. My $600 machine runs these games on high. Bioshock only looks marginally better than the 360 version. I'm a little let down.

I'm not questioning you because I haven't tested any ssd at all but it does seem odd that loading screens would speed up however there would be no difference in loading in game assets. It would only make sense to me that loading would be faster all around. But then again this is a BIS game we are talking about and sense went out the window a long time ago.

Ssd = solid state drive = no mechanical movement = very fast hard drive.

Should be fine. It's only a little stutter here and there and maybe the trees gain another level of detail as you get within 100 meters and they look like they morph a bit. You'd only need 4 gigs of ram as well however the rest of that pc is a tank so you can maybe go for 6.

Most people agree a lot of the problem is hard disc speed. Arma streams through 8 gigs of data as you move around chernarus. That said a 9800gt might be a tad slow. ---------- Post added at 08:58 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:49 PM ---------- Good to see you take my advice. Arma 2 won't even touch 10 of those gigs of ram you have. And other than that you are spending way too much all around for a game that can only run so well anyway. $700 is the absolute most you should have to spend to get high settings. You can only go up to a certain point until you are limited by your HD.

Double this!!!:D I have the Phenom 965 black and 5770 and I get 40-50fps on the benchmarks with everything on HIGH except terrain, AA, and PP effects. This is like $500 in parts for a pc that plays this game on HIGH settings people! Occasional stuttering and pop in cant be avoided until further streaming optimization on BIS's end.:rolleyes: