News - Tactical military shooter Arma 3 to be released on 12th September

[HEXUS]

Initially multi-player only, single player missions will be released as three free DLC packs.

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[ik9000]

any info regarding required system specs?

[Tpyo]

http://www.arma3.com/buy#requirements

Having heard so many people saying they were upgrading for this, the specs seem (relatively) low. Am I missing something?

[eatonm62]

Recommended:
OS:Windows Vista SP2 or Windows 7 SP1
Processor:Intel Core i5-2300 or AMD Phenom II X4 940 or better
Memory:4 GB RAM
Graphics:NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 or AMD Radeon HD 7750 with 1 GB VRAM or better
DirectX®:11
Hard Drive:20 GB HD space
SoundirectX®-compatible

specs taken from Steam

[Tpyo]

http://www.arma3.com/buy#requirements

Having heard so many people saying they were upgrading for this, the specs seem (relatively) low. Am I missing something?

Linky issues with my original post. eaton has posted the recommended spec above. minimum is also here:

MINIMUM

OS: Windows Vista SP2 / Windows 7 SP1
PROCESSOR: Intel Dual-Core 2.4 GHz / AMD Dual-Core Athlon 2.5 GHz
GRAPHICS: NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT / ATI Radeon HD 3830 / Intel HD Graphics 4000
GPU MEMORY: 512 MB
DirectX® 10
RAM: 2 GB
HARD DRIVE: 15 GB free space
HARD DRIVE (ALPHA): 10 GB free space
AUDIO: DirectX® compatible on-board
OTHER: Internet connection and free Steam account to activate

RECOMMENDED

OS: Windows Vista SP2 / Windows 7 SP1
PROCESSOR: Intel Core i5-2300 / AMD Phenom II X4 940
GRAPHICS: Nvidia GeForce GTS 560 / AMD Radeon HD 7750
GPU MEMORY: 1 GB
DirectX® 11
RAM: 4 GB
HARD DRIVE: 25 GB free space
HARD DRIVE (ALPHA): 20 GB free space
AUDIO: DirectX® compatible soundcard
OTHER: Internet connection and free Steam account to activate

[eatonm62]

I play Arma 3 with 570 SLI and it works very well much better than Arma 2 which does not seem to like SLI which is a bugger.

[Roobubba]

Arma II was the most buggy, hopeless excuse for a game I've seen in a long time. Missions that wouldn't run because some NPC had run off somewhere, sound and graphics glitches, I could go on but I won't. Needless to say the bad taste that Arma II left in my mouth means I won't be rushing out to buy this one...

[brasco]

This game has got me back into gaming, it's beautiful and nothing comes close to the immersion. Occulus Rift and this would be insanely cool.

Where it's not so good is netcode and optimisation for the massive environments, 3 is much better than 2 but it grinds my system to below 50fps frequently on multiplayer servers, SP seems to be fine. This is on quite a powerful GPU and CPU rig, it's somewhat of a given that ARMA grinds any machine down.

Still, love the game, just wish I had more time to get into it.

[tekgun]

This game should be used by all websites for benchmarking gaming hardware.

[MrNeil]

lovely eye candy

[tribaljet]

Arma 3? Fingers crossed for DayZ 2 then

[darrensen]

Love this game, have played the series right back to the days of Operation Flashpoint! Will be bringing lots of tactical gameplay to the channel!

[trojanshadow]

looks cool