Arma 3

Matthew Sheridan · 14 Jun 2018 at 17:41

Hi,

I am thinking about getting Arma III and was wondering how many frames i would get roughly with my hardware. I currently have an AMD Ryzen 5 1600, GTX 1070 (8GB V-ram) and 8gb of DDR4 ram. I do have a 1440p monitor but i have heard that the game is nearly impossible to run at 1080 even at 60FPS so even if there is a 1440p monitor i'm assuming it will run at like 2 FPS.

Doogles · 14 Jun 2018 at 17:44

With Arma it's more server sided performance than anything, I can struggle to get 30 fps with any settings online yet offline I can easily hit 60 fps without the server bottlenecking me, your setup is fine although you might have some issue with the lack of 16GB of RAM if you hit some memory leakages which happens with some mods.

Matthew Sheridan · 14 Jun 2018 at 18:10

Doogles said:
With Arma it's more server sided performance than anything, I can struggle to get 30 fps with any settings online yet offline I can easily hit 60 fps without the server bottlenecking me, your setup is fine although you might have some issue with the lack of 16GB of RAM if you hit some memory leakages which happens with some mods.

Ok cool. What kind of things can you do offline? And what game modes are there in the game without mods?

Matthew Sheridan · 14 Jun 2018 at 18:11

Also how do the add on packs like helicopters and jets work? If someone in the game had it then can everyone use it?

Doogles · 14 Jun 2018 at 18:36

I haven't played Arma 3 for the last 6 months so some of the info I give might be outdated, what I remember is with the DLC some of it you could use, like if you had a rifle that was DLC it'd give you a watermark over the screen for about 15-20 seconds saying about purchasing the DLC, some of it you just can't you which does put you at a disadvantage when getting into a game and wanting transport into action, only for that vehicle to be DLC and making you run for the next 10 minutes. There are game modes without mods or DLC, personally I like some of the mods that allow more realistic weapons like the AKM/M16/G26/L85 etc but it's up to you to try them and see what you like, with the vanilla armor those weapons are way to weak but on some servers they do away with the overpowered vest armor so those weapons become usable.

Matthew Sheridan · 14 Jun 2018 at 20:07

ok awesome. On a different note (I'm sorry for going completely off thread name at this point but i've seen the Thrustmaster T.16000M joystick and throttle combo and was just wondering if you knew if the joystick could twist to eliminate the need for pedals to save me £50 to start with. I just think having a joystick would make flying so much easier and my dad was an airline pilot and now flies helicopters so we have lots of plane sim software i could use them with as well as ARMA. Thanks

Doogles · 14 Jun 2018 at 20:43

Matthew Sheridan said:
ok awesome. On a different note (I'm sorry for going completely off thread name at this point but i've seen the Thrustmaster T.16000M joystick and throttle combo and was just wondering if you knew if the joystick could twist to eliminate the need for pedals to save me £50 to start with. I just think having a joystick would make flying so much easier and my dad was an airline pilot and now flies helicopters so we have lots of plane sim software i could use them with as well as ARMA. Thanks

If the joystick can twist then you could probably bind it under the controls.

Matthew Sheridan · 15 Jun 2018 at 07:37

And one more question (once again sorry for not putting this all in the first post) but I’m thinking of building a second pc for my holiday home out in France. It’s going to have a 1060 3gb and a Ruben 5 1400, will that run arma on the single player as well? And maybe a bit of multiplayer. The Internet isn’t great out there so wouldn’t play as much multiplayer as I would here but would the hardware be sufficient?