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Samsung 840 Evo will be replacing Samsung 840 as the ideal consumer SSD next month apparently. Should run smoothly indeed.

No reason to be shy with a 3770k. It will max out everything except for visibility. The 560 Ti is average though. I would love to hear if you experience any bottlenecking. Apparently MSI Afterburner can display graphics usage and if it’s nearly full then it’s upgrade time.

Yes... "hunting"... "animals"... :rolleyes:

Humm, I think I lost some text here but the third out of the last 4 you've posted looked the best, geordiegaz. (£480 shipped) Anyways are you in a hurry or something? The more patient you are the more likely you're to run into something really nice. Basically what you want is: Nice CPU Decent GPU 4GB 1333 MHz RAM or better yet 8GB 1600 MHz 64GB or bigger SSD is a big bonus 500GB+ HDD (You can do with a lot less but more is better) Motherboard and PSU doesn’t matter too much as long as the computer works And then there’s Windows, DVD… mouse, keyboard are nice bonuses. What do you own already? What size is your monitor? Compared to 1920x1080: 1920x1200: 90% performance 1680x1050: 133% performance So screen size matters. TN = worse image, IPS = better image. 60 Hz = normal, 120 Hz = super smooth. The things above are not too difficult to look after. What’s tricky is CPU and GPU, use these easy-as-possible sites: http://cpuboss.com/ http://gpuboss.com/ Compare to my specs: CPU: Q9550 GPU: 560 Ti That’ll run medium-high settings at 60 fps. And compare to some of the best affordable things the market has to offer today: CPU: 4670k or 4770k GPU: 770 or Titan CPU is more important than GPU in ARMA. I’m not sure exactly what the balance should be but you probably won’t need more than a 7-something rated GPU according to that site. An 8-something CPU would be great I guess. By the way a 2GB GPU is a lot better than 1GB too. If a card is called GTX 770 2GB or something such the graphics card has 2GB memory itself and more memory helps when playing higher resolutions and 2GB has full HD covered. By the way I noticed my current graphics card only has 1GB memory so that should work too. Anyways try to see if you can find something where both parts are better than 7.7. If you buy new parts for £550 you can get a computer with about 7.7 CPU, GPU, 8GB RAM, 1TB (1000GB) HDD and a motherboard and power supply to hold it all together. So really I guess it’s something like that you should be looking for but preferably with an SSD and some bonuses too. I still don’t know if you should be looking for something even better though. Used parts are used after all then again not being able to build a computer yourself means you’re going to have to settle somewhere. So anyways, try using those sites and compare to see if you can see a CPU 8.0 or higher and GPU around 7.0 as well as the other things.

You'll do nice. About high settings straight away.

"Little to no bugs" :| Overall level is very nice assuming they’re going to continue developing it at a steady rate however there are about ten critical bugs that really bring it down to a 7/10 level. Including AI bugs, control awkwardness, some of the worst graphical bugs like detail flickering and tessellation crawling if they haven’t repaired that one already as well as not ideal performance. If you just start the game up and play it normally chances are at least that you will be distracted by the controls acting up more than sometimes and the weak AI. Hopefully content additions are not the only thing we’re going to see in the last couple of months of beta though. Edit: Oh and the damage and injuries system. That's something people are going to notice like a thorn in their eyeballs.

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The Cyberpower one could be great depending on what graphics card it uses. Not a very elegant build but the CPU is great, about £160 new today and it comes with everything you could need except for an SSD disk. Second one is weak. And naturally I don’t know where you’re seeing these ads so stay safe and pay through eBay, PayPal or something… I wouldn’t just transfer more than £100 randomly with all the scammers you read about nowadays.

I live in Sweden. Looking outside right now the night sky is dark purple sort of and clearly distinguishable from the pitch black trees etc... Really don’t know what OP is complaining about but I would say it should be darker… but the color seems about right.

What are you complaining about? It should be less blue?

Update to Dev branch... right click game in steam and select properties then updates or something.

It costs £320? I was expecting double new. Since ARMA is CPU-dependent you’ll probably be able to run the game smoothly on high or very high settings right away and then it’s all about how much you want to spend on a graphics card after that, if anything. An AMD card that matches the 770 (third most powerful card around) costs about £400 but I don’t know much about AMD cards and can’t say what an AMD card matching the NVidia 600-series would cost. But I really don’t know if you will experience any bottlenecking. Maybe you’ll do great even without buying anything extra even. However some graphics card intensive games will likely do worse. Anyways difficult to tell exactly how it will run because I don’t know how CPU-dependent ARMA really is but for £320 it would be a steal as long as it isn’t broken etc. And the graphics card nearly matches the one I'm currently using. Edit: A really quick check says the graphics card shouldn't hinder the CPU too much so it should run nicely.

Restart. Some sort of bug.

What cost? The CPU isn't amazingly great... the SSD could be bigger... three HDDs instead of one really big one sounds complicated… 7770 isn't great at all... the case is really big so I hope size doesn't matter... More memory than needed though, generous hard drive space still, actually redundant power supply unit, a near ton of fans, advanced keyboard, great mouse and nice 360 control. It all depends on the cost I guess. CPU is only about 20% slower than the best ones however the graphics card is weak. It’s 70% slower than what I would expect. I would really recommend buying it and then changing the graphics card really. So what does it cost?

At least start off by setting everything to all maximum settings except Visibility 1600/1300/100, Objects & Terrain Standard, Shadow High, SSAO Disabled, FSAA & ATOC Disabled and all post processing at 100. Now start increasing Objects & Terrain, Shadows, SSAO, FSAA, ATOC and Visibility one step at a time until your average framerate drops to about 50-60. These 7 settings are the most important. Start with Objects & Terrain to High, then SSAO to Standard. Then either start increasing your Visibility or turn on anti-aliasing or whatever until you’re happy. Visibility and anti-aliasing are the most demanding settings obviously. Both your graphics card and processor are one big step above mine so you will probably be able to run some very nice settings. I'm playing 1920x1200. 1920x1080 means up to 10% better framerate, 1680x1050 up to 30% better probably. Use Fraps to monitor your framerate and start up either Showcase: Infantry to see your framerate in small battles and the showcase where you start off in a helicopter and attack a base with lots of ai allies to test big battles. Use Fraps "MinMaxAvg" to record your average framerate while you play an entire mission for a more accurate reading than just looking at the framerate counter yourself.

I love that sound. You hear gunfire you don't care. You hear cracking you get down.

I wasn’t saying you’ll have to spend 10k. I have no idea really. If you’re willing to spend 10k right away then you’ll definitely make it though but you may also make it with only £750 or something if you want to run high settings. I’d rather recommend standard-high settings for a laptop though in which case you may be able to get away even cheaper, what do I know. Quickly googling gives for example the Scan 3XS Graphite with an i5 and 650M that does 55 fps average in Just Cause 2 playing in 1,366x768, 4xAA, 16xAF, High Detail... sounds small (only 11â€) but powerful. At £590 according to the site but not for sale in Sweden at all so I don't know how that price looks currently.

A £10k laptop should run it really nicely but if you're unsure just Google for benchmarks. £450 is tight... save another £50 and check: Corsair Carbide 200R, solid chassis. Corsair CX500M, solid power supply. Corsair Vengeance 2x2GB 1600 Mhz, great memories but not a lot of gigabytes. Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB, big quality hard drive. And the tricky part: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (many recommendations) Intel Core i3 3220 (almost guessing) Asus GeForce GTX650-E-2GD5 2GB (guessing) That's the cheapest Intel way. The graphics card should be a GTX650-660 Ti/not Ti or something such probably... However you can go lower with AMD. I’m no AMD guy though so someone else would have to recommend a motherboard, cpu and gpu in that case. All of that comes down to £500 in Sweden. Current gen components is out of the question under £700 and this is the cheapest I can easily recommend however at your price point I would definitely search for used computers selling in your area on ad or auction sites. If you're willing to build. If you're not willing to build or have someone else do it and only want to buy one of those three I'd say you're going to waste money… building is always cheaper. Out of the three I’m not sure. Third one has a decent processor really and so does the first and both 4 or 8GB RAM and 500GB or 1TB HDD is nice but the third one has a crappy graphics card and it doesn’t say what graphics card the first one has if I’m not mistaken… only that it’s a “H61†graphics card which doesn’t say anything to me really lol… The 5450 card can play year 2010 games in 1024x768 at like 30 fps ew… what monitor size do you have anyways? It’s difficult for me to compare such old parts but I think buying my recommendation and having someone build it would probably let you play decent settings in most new games at 1920x1080… So anyways: if you can't buy separate components and put together definitely look for someone selling an used computer and for £500 you should get something even better than all of this.

Bottlenecking is very relevant to SLI, duh. If your CPU is bottlenecking your graphics card in the first place then you will have 0% improvement with SLI just like VanZant mentioned.

Ooooh, stripping? I doubt it makes ANY worthwhile difference but it’s worth a shot maybe. If you think we’re running quick then it may be a framerate difference? Or maybe you’re not sprinting? Anyways I haven’t tested but what happens when you restart? Your stamina seems to reset somewhat but sometimes when starting over quickly I’ve still been hyperventilating. Also your weapon reloads but does ammo restock? Personally I would prefer if future courses were designed in a more circular way so you end up where you start so you would do less restarting and that restarting should only reset your stamina so you have to restock manually. More choices so it takes some knowing to stock the right amounts and magazines would also be nice. I sort of liked restocking as long as you do it properly and a lot at a time and not one mag every run which takes a lot more effort. Anyways I haven’t done anything special in my runs other than not using the rifle in red and grabbing the 16 round mags instead of 8 or whatever amounts they are again. Someone should at least try dropping the rifle and rifle ammo in red which I think makes a pretty big weight difference and time running 100 meters or something such. As for aiming down the sights or not I think not doing it is marginally quicker but I still usually aim down the sights because it makes aiming easier. I don’t zoom though. Anyways I’m probably going to take it easy and not do a lot of more runs until I have my new computer so I can build up some hype. Edit: I watched your blue run video by the way. Nice shortcut between the first crouching targets and the no-shoot target and just the right speed with the second crouching targets. I guess the prone could be smoother though and maybe some improvement on the final targets? Wasn’t slow there though. I don’t see a lot of improvement other than the prone and then just doing everything a little bit better.

Weak CPU... what graphics card? You may be looking at standard settings though unless your graphics card is even worse.

That's exactly what Vsync is supposed to do! :p

No, you're misleading. Stronger GPU = the more the CPU bottlenecks the GPUs.

Nice! Now I'm only in the Blue lead. Wasn't expecting Orange to be beaten so soon. About 5 days until I upgrade my computer and probably another for parts to arrive.

Actually arcade has nothing to do with it. I don't know a single arcade machine to ever have exact mouse controls. It is simply unrestricted rotational speed in an inverted world transform matrix and has been around since the mid-90s. And it is greatly preferred not because of standards but because negative acceleration typically means you will have to lift and reposition your mouse a lot more which is annoying. Yeah, I thought that too. Anyways it seems no negative mouse acceleration was a really bad choice for a simulatorlike game even if it makes for awkwardness with mice.