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    What GPU for Arma 2

    Hi guys,

    Gonna purchase a GPU for Arma 2 and was wondering what one you would recommend outta the 3.

    EVGA GTX 275 scc
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    BFG GTX 275 ocx
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    XFX GTX 275
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    Thanks all

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    Re: What GPU for Arma 2

    Having played Arma 2 (or tried) I wouldn't recommend purchasing a graphics card solely for the game. It looks ghastly and runs like crap. If it's the only game you need a new GPU for, wait it out and buy a new card when you have another game you can't run.
    Of those cards I would pick the BFG as it has the best warranty, but that's an astonishing amount of money to pay when an HD4890 is only £143.73.

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    Re: What GPU for Arma 2

    Quote Originally Posted by sammorris View Post
    Having played Arma 2 (or tried) I wouldn't recommend purchasing a graphics card solely for the game. It looks ghastly and runs like crap. If it's the only game you need a new GPU for, wait it out and buy a new card when you have another game you can't run.
    Of those cards I would pick the BFG as it has the best warranty, but that's an astonishing amount of money to pay when an HD4890 is only £143.73.
    I have to agree about ARMA II but from what others have said it is a better multiplayer game.

    I would also look at getting an HD4890 too unless ARMA II runs much better on Nvidia hardware. Of course what graphics card you choose does depend on the resolution you are playing at too.

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    Re: What GPU for Arma 2

    My system really struggled with the menu screen at 2560x1600. I got better performance by renaming the exe to Crysis to get the CF profile active, but most people report bizarre graphics issues, and I certainly experienced one of them (screen flashing white), and even after the profile change, it was still laggy. Haven't actually played the game yet, haven't got round to single player and couldn't get LAN play to work. Then again, partly my fault as on hearing so many bad reviews I decided to try a pirate copy. After about 15 mins the online CD key checker banned me from even playing LAN games!

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    Re: What GPU for Arma 2

    Quote Originally Posted by sammorris View Post
    Having played Arma 2 (or tried) I wouldn't recommend purchasing a graphics card solely for the game. It looks ghastly and runs like crap. If it's the only game you need a new GPU for, wait it out and buy a new card when you have another game you can't run.
    Of those cards I would pick the BFG as it has the best warranty, but that's an astonishing amount of money to pay when an HD4890 is only £143.73.
    Actually you'll find EVGA and BFG are pritty much the same for Warranties
    ie life time, or 10years under EU rules, still 10years is well over the normal life of a graphics card.

    EVGA is also highly flexable over overclocking and replacement of coolers, namely EVGA acknowledge that people will overclock there cards and/or replace the stock coolers and will not use admition of such as an invalidation of the warranty.

    What they ask is that you reset the card to it's default speeds, replace the original cooler and testing it before asking for an RMA
    It's the only company I know of that does not invalidate the warranty by replaceing the stock cooler as long as you didn't physically damage or mod the card in the process. (like the old case of the idiot who cut the connector of a pci-e card down with a hacksaw to make it fit in his agp slot)

    Of course you could still overclock any card and replace the stock cooler and don't admit to doing that, but as I say EVGA is the only company that I know of that openly allows it.

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    Re: What GPU for Arma 2

    I've seen a hell of a lot less faulty BFGs than EVGAs though, I'm not sure what they did, but for me BFG is a safer bet.
    Haha i think i remember the hacksaw AGP slot guy.

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    Re: What GPU for Arma 2

    Yeah the pirated copy of the games are faulty on purpose and tbh thats all you deserve.

    Seen as your playing it at extreme resolutions your going to have to go with a 2GB+ card or Sli/CrossFire two 1/2GB cards, but i'd say take the 4890 due to current prices and ive seen it eat this game at 1440*900 with everything on so 2 should do you justice.

    Edit: Or just drop the resolution your playing at the 1920*1200, for example.

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    Re: What GPU for Arma 2

    No, they aren't. You're being extremely naive if you think that's the case. All the problems I encountered were also all over the forums full of legitimate users, and it's for this reason I chose not to buy the game. Trust me, I don't endorse piracy but I can clearly tell when games are faulty because they weren't ripped properly.
    Crossfire is very buggy in the game so far as it does not have a CF profile. One may well be added in catalyst 9.7, but considering how well it seems to perform with older profiles, I wouldn't expect great scaling. The 4890, being the fastest singular GPU ATI offers, would probably be the best bet.

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    Re: What GPU for Arma 2

    Quote Originally Posted by sammorris View Post
    No, they aren't. You're being extremely naive if you think that's the case.
    Seen as i played the game days before its original (german?) release i can confirm there are numurous bugs which you get if you do play a pirated copy, dont get me wrong though there are bugs in the game but i dont think you playing a pirated copy which does 'break' on purpose along with the known bugs (only encountered 1 myself) in the game and saying its crap/corrupt or whatever is valid.

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    Re: What GPU for Arma 2

    Thanks guys, lets try and get back on topic. It's about the GPU not the game.

    I was taking a look through Custom PC and they say the XFX version is a good OC'er. I've never OC'd a GPU before, is it as straight forward as a cpu?

    Might it be worth getting the cheaper XFX and OC'ing her?

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    Re: What GPU for Arma 2

    I've had very good experience of the customer service from BFG when dealing with an RMA (swift, no quibbles), so my vote would go for the BFG card although I've heard lots of good things about EVGA too.

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    Re: What GPU for Arma 2

    Quote Originally Posted by darrensen View Post
    Thanks guys, lets try and get back on topic. It's about the GPU not the game.
    hi darrensen.

    I am in love with ARMA2, so first thing out of the way... it's a resource hogging monster. And awesome.

    Second thing: I have a 4870 Toxic 512 Mb card and I am convinced that my frame rate issues and slow down ingame are a split between card and cpu. I have a quad core at 2.67mghz and my Toxic card runs are 780 core and 4000 ram, so it's not a slouch.

    It DOES need more ram though. My mate who owns it too, and who's machine I tried ARMA2 on on Monday, has a 260 GTX 192 core (the older one) and it played ARMA2 as well as mine did. But it's ability to draw distance was improved, no doubt because of it's extra ram (898mb)

    The resolution issue is maddening, because you'll need a total monster to fill a big monitor.

    I'd chose between the EVGA SSC, and a 4890 with 1gb. But the EVGA will be muich quieter than the default ATI card though (which is why I got a toxic, as it's very quiet and faster)

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    Re: What GPU for Arma 2

    4890 2GB card now with vapor-x cooler and so on according to the front page, you could try this if your playing at uber hi-res.

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    Re: What GPU for Arma 2

    Okay I have ArmA 2 and I've just upgraded from a 4870 512mb to Crossfire with an 4870 1Gb (so CF with 2x 4870 512mb cards in effect). I used this guide here to get CF working (until official Catalyst 9.7 drivers are released which WILL support ArmA 2):

    http://www.overclock.net/pc-games/53...how-force.html

    I had a quick 20 minute game with Cf enabled and can confirm it makes a big difference to performance. Probably a good 20fps increase. Say from 30fps (single card) to 50fps (CF setup), as a rough guide. I was flying about in a jet with full detail, AA @ 1600x1200, looked very nice all of a sudden. With lower details the game can look a bit of a dog. Especially all the tree and grass trextures wth no AA implemented looks particualrly poor (see my thread in the Wargames section of the forums).

    However I played the single player and was still suffering motion blur lag, so I'd installed the no motion blur mod to try and sort this - I've yet to test it (will do tonight).

    Basically, you need to just have a very powerful PC all round to play this game. Luckily I now have Crossfire 4870s, 4Gb RAM and Q6600 at 3.3Ghz, and I feel you do really need this to play the game at high settings.

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    Re: What GPU for Arma 2

    It's my hope that the next generation of graphics cards allow 2GB per GPU on a dual card, for a 4GB product (rather like the Asus MARS, only reasonably priced). As a 2560x1600 with AA user, it's kind of necessary.
    All I did to get CF working in Arma 2 was rename the exe to Crysis. Seems to work. I will have another go today and see what I can achieve - I'd ideally like a proper CF profile to get 4 GPUs working...

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    Re: What GPU for Arma 2

    Wow! Looks like Crysis has met its match......in hardware specifications!!

    Poor Crysis must feel sad now that another game has come out with even more bloated hardware requirements!!

    ARMA II looks interesting but I found the controls a bit unwieldy at least in the demo. Perhaps the OP should go for an HD4870X2,a superclocked HD4890 or a GTX285 as it seems a very demanding game!

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