metagonzo wrote:

Yeah; it's giving my rig a bit of a hard time. Auto detect is rather unrealistic.  However; even significant reductions in settings are still leaving it a bit clunky. The one thing I haven't reduced (in fact I increased it) is draw distance as that's essential in my book. I hope that's not the (only) solution to the problems; I shall investigate next time. It's still very pretty at medium-ish settings and I'd be rid of motion blur even if I'd just spent 5k on a silly-rig. On a more game related note.... it's kicking my arse! I was never any good at the series (despite my love for it) but I can't complete any of the scenarios; first and second times around. To the editor! That's always what it was all about for me.

I completed the infantry mission, stick close to your guys and stay behind cover as much as possible. It's actually not too difficult, think I done it on my third attempt and it only took 13 minutes. Only briefly started the diving mission but actually, it looks like it's going to be quite cool. BI have been raving about the diving and I didn't think it would be all that interesting.

Having a big draw distance is cool but really, unless you're flying you don't need it over 1500m (and that's assuming there even is a sniper rifle in this alpha). I figured out how to set the resolution properly and it's running smooth enough for now. I am hoping for improvements in the final game (especially since this is only the small island) but I think at least a graphics card upgrade will be necessary as my card is a few years old now and it would be a shame to play this game with the lower settings.

edit: And yeah, the editor is where it's at. Will be especially great to see the stuff people come up with in the next couple of weeks.

OK, I have an Intel core i  5
An ATI Radon HD5470 (1gb)
And 4gb ram.

Do I stand a chance of getting this to run?

@Goober

Why not wait until the lite is out; you're welcome to one of mine. You'd still be in plenty of time to get the alpha price I'm sure.

With regards to those specs, I have no idea. I can't even remember what mine are; lazy having it built for me person that I am. (thnx again @Rossi  )

GooberTheHat wrote:

OK, I have an Intel core i  5 An ATI Radon HD5470 (1gb) And 4gb ram. Do I stand a chance of getting this to run?

Is that a laptop?

You would probably have great difficulty running it if so, my desktop is certainly struggling and old as it is it would still play most games better than most laptops unless they were super high spec gaming ones.

It runs sky rim at half decent quality if that helps.

Hmm, cheers. How can I convince the wife? Photoshop works much better with a 4gb graphics card right guys?

I wouldn't mind knowing if my new laptop would run this, I'm not expecting anything mindblowing but just at a 360 sort of level.

It's supported. Might be handy for driving land stuff, maybe air. 
I'll be dusting off my stick tomorrow and giving the helo another crack. 

You're welcome to one of my lite codes when they're released if you fancy testing it out, Perm.

Mod74 wrote:

It was supported in Arma II. Didn't mean it actually worked.

Not sure exactly what you're expecting, Arma has way more controls than you could ever fit on a controller.

vicinity_of_pie wrote:

Mod74 wrote:

It was supported in Arma II. Didn't mean it actually worked.

Not sure exactly what you're expecting, Arma has way more controls than you could ever fit on a controller.

Well, they can be smart with it. Modifiers and the such like.

Arma II has way more controls than I have fingers on my left hand, but they still keep adding them. I know it's the antithesis of CoD etc, but the trillion stance options in that video just seem ott to me. I'm sure some people will love it.

Mod74 wrote:

but the trillion stance options in that video just seem ott to me. I'm sure some people will love it.

I love it. It seems complicated but in practice it's very easy, just a matter of getting used to it. It wouldn't matter in a game like COD but firing from cover and showing as little as possible of yourself is very important in Arma.

They do actually give you a lot of control over how you want to set up your controls, but even with modifiers you'd have a tough time setting up all the main controls. The keyboard & mouse control setup (despite being so numerous) is not as complicated as it seems  - just stick with it!

I'm not going to get into the k&m is better argument but even if you could set up the all the controls on a controller it still wouldn't be as good/easy to remember the control with, in Arma.

Mod74 wrote:

metagonzo wrote:

Mod74 wrote:

It was supported in Arma II. Didn't mean it actually worked.

You're welcome to one of my lite codes when they're released if you fancy testing it out,

awesome

Perm.

You barstard!

I'm pretty sure I only have them promised to goober and perm; you can have my 3rd one and everyone's a winner.

Only if you're sure and there's not someone more desperate for one.

First come first served is fair enough I think. I don't know anyone else in need of one at the mo anyway so it's all yours.

Just hooked up my stick and went for a cruise in an AH-9 and it's a total joy. Just love the flight model this time even though it's not too different, just refined. It's so delicate and does exactly what you want. How the larger ones will pan out I don't know but I'm a pretty happy chappy with the H-9s.

metagonzo wrote:

Just hooked up my stick and went for a cruise in an AH-9 and it's a total joy. Just love the flight model this time even though it's not too different, just refined. It's so delicate and does exactly what you want. How the larger ones will pan out I don't know but I'm a pretty happy chappy with the H-9s.

What stick you using? I got the x52 pro but not tried with A3 yet, it was actually a lot easier to use k&m with Arma II than using the joystick but I did notice the improved flight model yesterday so must try the stick and see how it goes.

The thing I like is the controls seem to be more responsive, you can get to greater speeds and the rudder actually does something when you're travelling over 10mph! Not played it but they've obviously took a few lessons on board from take on helicopters.

Ahahaha...drive the Ifrit and feel like a 5 year old. Seriously, wtf?

Also, the (ground) vehicle physics seems pretty nice, though i've literally just tried it out for a minute there now.

My god, this is so good, i'll never be able to go back to Arma II.