ARMA Review on Dell 1520 with 8600gt

I downloaded and played ARMA demo. It is a freakin resource hog. I wasn't able to get 30 fps (w/fraps) until I downgraded the screen to 1024 and utilized the NORMAL graphic settings. Nothing on high settings. The other higher settings are playable in the middle teens (11-15) but it gets annoying fast. The bots are pretty good. Just a word to the wise that a 1520 with t7300, gt8600 and 2 gigs of ram is put to the test with this game...

Anyone know if the game will run faster than the DEMO.

Thanks for all your responses,

SXO792

 

First of all: What's ARMA?

Second of all: After the game is released and it's patched I'm pretty sure it'll be more friendly.

And have you upgraded you Vid card driver? Also remember the best drivers arn't out for the 8600M GT yet, that I know of. If the game is DX10 if you wait for better drivers I'm sure it'll do better. If not then I don't know what I'm talking about which happens alot.

-Taylor

 

ARMA demo was pretty bad. On my desktop it lagged like crazy, But if you check out there site they have some performance patches but that game is a huge resource hog.

 

Even if the game plays badly don't get discouraged with your notebook. Some game's are just programmed bad. Look at Morrowind. Great game, old game but horribly programmed. You just can't get high frame rates in that game. Someone on this forum has already explained how bad it was he said something to the sort of even if you had 24 quad core processors, 2 8800's sli and 64gb of RAM you couldn't play that game and get over 100fps.

-Taylor

 

Yea but notebook graphics drivers aren't highly supported anyway...and I think we could agree desktop drivers could be better too.

I would like an Inspiron, sure. But I might wait for an 8800GT card to get put inside of a 1720.