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Nothing except switching my power settings to High Performance, which made it playable for me. The game might not run the best on mid range hardware, but its an impressively immense game and that should be expected. I would rather BIS release a game that its demanding on current hardware and last 2-3 years, then release a new game every Christmas. I think they did a great job with Arma, there is not another game like it IMO. Im happy to play in Standard settings until hardware gets a little cheaper.

No kidding, I guess my Power management was limiting my CPU to save juice. I thought most games override this on boot up but I guess Arma wasn't. Stupidly simple fix

Got it! Installed Beta drivers from the AMD website for the graphics card and CPU, also changed my computers power settings to Performance, which I hope wasn't it cause that seems way too simple haha. Anyways the difference is night and day. I'm not getting good performance on anything above 'high', but on Standard it now plays great!! Thanks for the help guys! Edit: Did another test, it turns out it was my power settings, talk about checking the tank before rebuilding the engine, I can't believe that took me 3 months to figure out haha. I've never had that affect other games before Arma

Yeah, I realized after posting that the options fps isn't the best way to check. I'm definitely getting constant frame drops, I know my system can't play Ultra settings, but I think it should be able to play on low-medium. I just want to be able to play through the Campaign, I don't need the game to be on Ultra. I tried rolling back my graphics card drivers again, and also just uninstalled Nvidea software that was left over from a previous card. This didn't seem to work, but now Steam is downloading missing files, so hopefully it has something to do with my issue. I will let you know what happens. I know my system isn't top notch, but I do think I should be able to get Arma at least playable with it.

The game is barely playable with my current rig, driving is an absolute nightmare. I've played other games on Ultra settings (the newest Assasins creed and MOH games) with no problems, so that is why I posted here. It just seemed funny that the Alpha and Beta played so smooth on Higher settings, but the Full version is not playable even on all low settings. It says im getting 35-40fps (on LOW) but it feels nowhere near that. I will likely wait until newer CPU's come out to upgrade, it just seems too bad to shelf Arma until then.

Thanks guys, sorry about posting a thread I've just looked through mulitple performance tweak threads, and the fact my system past the requirements verification had me confused. It must have been something wrong with the website then I guess. I don't need to have everything on ultra, (I was in love with OFP1 so anything better then that is a treat haha) I just want the gameplay to run smooth. So I think I will just upgrade my CPU/MOBO. I appreciate the help and recommendations thanks again!!

Okay, could you recommend a CPU for me? My GPU is fine for ARMA3 then I take it? And I take it overclocking the CPU won't help much?

Hello all, sorry if this has been posted a million times, but I've tried every tweak I can find. I've been playing BIS games since Operation flashpoint 1, I had the Alpha running on Ultra on my system, but as soon as I downloaded the full game, the only way the game is playable is in an empty editor world. I've tried adjust all my settings from low to Ultra individually but the game remained unplayable. I had given up on it for months, but with the recent update it appeared slightly playable (I managed to get through the Stratis campaign) but Altis is SP is still basically unplayable. I've tried most of the tweak guides to no avail, I've also run my system specs against this website game-debate.com/games/index.php?g_id=1855&game=ArmA%20III and it says I should have more then enought power there. Any help or advice on hardware would be much appreciated as I love the BIS games and don't want to give up on ARMA 3 My Specs; Radeon HD 7770 1 GB OC AMD Athlon 2 X4 640 8GB Ram BIOSTAR A780L3B 760G Motherboard WD Blue WD10EALX 1TB Desktop Hard Drive - 3.5", SATA, 7200RPM, 32MB Cache Should I be able to run Arma 3 with this setup?