QUOTE(mastodon @ May 20 2009, 00:48)
Hello all! Ijust downloaded ARMA from steam and have a question. Will this video card run arma any good?
EVGA Geforce9400GT 1GB PCIe w/Dual link DVI. I played the game a little with my current radeon x600 but it looks like sh*t. I know this isn't the best card either but surely it should be better than my x600? Thanx for any help.
I also have P4 3.20ghz 1GB ram
Doh!
Your gonna suffer with those specs.
You should have at least 2GB of Ram (in order to get a decent drawing distance and performance)
Your video card (even though it has 1gb of ram) still has a rather weak GPU, so the extra ram is practically just a gimmick.
And to top it off, a single core P4 just won't cut it these days.
You could probably play it at medium settings, but what's really going to affect your gameplay is the draw distance.
If you can't enable a far distance view, you're gonna get shot up really fast from the "expert sniping grunts" this game has. And you won't even see them.
I had to enable a drawing distance of almost 4000 to see some of the guys who shot at me from far away.
Even with a GTX 260 and 2GB DDR3 system Ram, I feel that if I enable more, the framerate is gonna suffer.