Ready for Arma!! Need help with Set up!

Four of a kind

Hey guys,

Finally got my new rig up and running. Here's my set up:

CPU - Intel Core i5 750 2.66GHz Socket LGA1156 8MB L3 Cache

Mobo -ASUS P7P55D PRO iP55 Socket LGA 1156 8 channel audio ATX Motherboard

SPU - Corsair 650W HX modular

RAM - Kingston 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1333MHz i5 Memory Kit CL9 1.5V

Hard drive - Samsung spinpoint F3 1TB HD SATA 2 7200rpm 32mb CACHE - OEM

Optical Drive - LG GH22N50 22 x DVD RW DL +SAM SATA BLACK retail kit

Case - Coolermaster HAP 922

Graphics Card - Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 1GB GDDR5

CPU Cooler - NH-U12P SE2 Dual Fan Quiet CPU Cooler, Intel and AMD

Fans -Kaze Jyuni 1200RPM Slip Stream 120mm Fan (three of these)

Windows 7 - 64-bit Home Premium

Wireless card - Edimax EW-7727In nMax 300Mbps Wireless Desktop PCI Network Adapter


I have Arma sitting beside me but as Pog suggested its best I put up a thread here and ye can tell me what to do so that I can get the best settings from the game. I'm a relative noob when it comes to really technical stuff so please bear with me !

So whats first thing to do?

dreamers75

install game and patch it.

put everything on to super very high and turn off post processing. then work backwards from there till you get acceptable framerates.

PogMoThoin

What size monitor? What resolution will You be playing at?

Try these and report back. Remember ArmA II is very hard on the hard drive, I'm running a ramdisk, expect choppyness. Have a go at the single player and run around in the armoury, do the training missions. Let us know how it goes.
Use Fraps to tell Your ingame fps

Four of a kind

22 inch monitor. 1680x1050 is native settings on it. Looks really smooth and very detailed. Had the settings at v.high.

Havn't a clue how to go about installing the 1.04 patch guys? Can ye give me a walk through it...don't want to put any files where they aren't suppose to go etc...

PogMoThoin

Four of a kind wrote: »

22 inch monitor. 1680x1050 is native settings on it. Looks really smooth and very detailed. Had the settings at v.high.

Havn't a clue how to go about installing the 1.04 patch guys? Can ye give me a walk through it...don't want to put any files where they aren't suppose to go etc...

Just double click it, it will extract itself

What kinda framerates u gettin? If its running so smoothly You can prob enable some low antialiasing or post processing, I've them disabled as it gives blur which isn't nice with a TrackIR, its Your own preference really

Four of a kind

framerate say 60 in top left using fraps?

Honestly don't know what i'm doing regarding the patch....just new to win 7 as well so dont have a clue where anything is going??????

PogMoThoin

Download here, pick the Kellysheros.eu mirror (fast), save the file to Your desktop. It will be a rar file which is a sealed package which must be opened. Download and install Winrar to be able to extract the rar file. Double click it and You'll see the contents of the rar file, it will contain the 1.04 patch .exe, double click the .exe and the patch will work away and install itself once You agree and jump through the hoops.

Four of a kind

Cheers pog. Got the patch installed now. Anything else I should do? What about mumble?

PogMoThoin

Have a play around with the single player game, try the training and play around in the armoury till You get the hang of the controls.

kenon

Anybody up for a game tonight?

We could chuck Four of a kind in at the deep end...

dreamers75

yup be on in a while

PogMoThoin

I've been on, had a game of evo started but had to quit as my pc needs a reboot. Back on in a bit

Four of a kind

just got set up with mumble. my name is chicoelnino on it. Could one of ye check and see if i'm added to your server??
:rolleyes:

PogMoThoin

You have problems, You just dissappeared tonight?

Four of a kind

yeah sorry fellas, for some reason eircom just disconnected itself for over 3 hours. Was enjoying the virgin experience and all that . Raging so I was when I got disconnected..

Will have to play through abit of the single player campaign to get a feel for things as I was completely lost. Very complicated to start out with, but can see how much scope there is in the game esp on MP.

One thing that confused me, was when we were driving in the truck up the mountain...how did one of ye know which directions to take?? One of ye was saying "go this way" etc....or was all that info available on the map?

PogMoThoin

Yeah, using the map and reading gps co-ordinates. You bring up Your map with "m" and gps by pressing "right ctrl + m".

This game has a serious learning curve. Some missions disable gps and then it gets much harder with just map and compass (k), double click "k" to keep it visible. Other missions can have a timed objective, ie rendezvous at a certain map co-ordinate at certain time (even in real time sometimes), You bring up watch with "O", double click to keep visible

dreamers75

I had 300 ping with eircom and the server is less than 3km from my house

Four of a kind

PogMoThoin wrote: »

Yeah, using the map and reading gps co-ordinates. You bring up Your map with "m" and gps by pressing "right ctrl + m".

This game has a serious learning curve. Some missions disable gps and then it gets much harder with just map and compass (k), double click "k" to keep it visible. Other missions can have a timed objective, ie rendezvous at a certain map co-ordinate at certain time (even in real time sometimes), You bring up watch with "O", double click to keep visible

I'll just plod away on the single player for a while until I get familiar with the controls etc. The MP seems very complex...in a good way.

Anyone getting MW2? Might pick it up on ps3 and give it a spin.

cashville

Might get it eventually, Arma 2 MP FTW though, always will prefer it over COD MP.

PogMoThoin

I'm pirating it, no way they're getting my money, MP doesn't interest me now they've killed the community