The game is a steal at its current price, that gets you alpha beta and the full game when it comes out and so far it is lightyears ahead of ARMA2 (in my eyes). It controls MUCH better (to me) so far, and there are already a lot of mods for it, including wasteland (which is a lot like dayz) and other ARMA2 mods. The mods came over very quickly since the engine didn't change, almost everything compatible with arma2 will run on the alpha, or will be ported shortly.
I'm running it on an Athlon 64 x2 3800+ with 2GB ram and a radeon 5770 1024 card. It runs smooth, the only time it lagged was on a friends MP server that he spawned 60+ units and had the weather at dusk changing from raining to thunderstorming. I didn't feel too bad because everyone elses frames dropped as well including the host.
Right now the game isn't GPU optimized and it shows but I can still run it smooth. It helps a lot to turn off post processing stuff, also i saw that the shadow detail doesn't change much between low and high. I have not went through and min-maxed the game yet but when I did an auto-detect it threw everything on standard out of the gate. Which ran decent but not good enough me. I lowered everything and it runs great now. Considering this build is 6-7 year old mid-range build at the time, (except the video card) I'm just happy to be playing. To give you an idea of the age, the MOBO supports a max of 2GB DDR2.
Hopefully I'll be able to build a new rig soon, until then I'm running all my games just fine, not necessarily maxed out on 3 screens but I get by, and for as often as I play..it's no big deal to me. I've never been a huge "i need max latest graphics" type of person so it doesn't bother me. I've got too many other hobbies that I'd rather sink money into.
The game is definitely able to be scaled back for older/lesser machines though. If you've got anything built in the last 5 years or that takes ddr3 you should be good.
Forgot to mention I've gotta alpha lite invite as well.
I'm running it on an Athlon 64 x2 3800+ with 2GB ram and a radeon 5770 1024 card. It runs smooth, the only time it lagged was on a friends MP server that he spawned 60+ units and had the weather at dusk changing from raining to thunderstorming. I didn't feel too bad because everyone elses frames dropped as well including the host.
Right now the game isn't GPU optimized and it shows but I can still run it smooth. It helps a lot to turn off post processing stuff, also i saw that the shadow detail doesn't change much between low and high. I have not went through and min-maxed the game yet but when I did an auto-detect it threw everything on standard out of the gate. Which ran decent but not good enough me. I lowered everything and it runs great now. Considering this build is 6-7 year old mid-range build at the time, (except the video card) I'm just happy to be playing. To give you an idea of the age, the MOBO supports a max of 2GB DDR2.
Hopefully I'll be able to build a new rig soon, until then I'm running all my games just fine, not necessarily maxed out on 3 screens but I get by, and for as often as I play..it's no big deal to me. I've never been a huge "i need max latest graphics" type of person so it doesn't bother me. I've got too many other hobbies that I'd rather sink money into.
The game is definitely able to be scaled back for older/lesser machines though. If you've got anything built in the last 5 years or that takes ddr3 you should be good.
Forgot to mention I've gotta alpha lite invite as well.
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