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Arma 3

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Arma 3
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Developers
Bohemia Interactive
Engines
Real Virtuality
Release dates
Windows September 12, 2013
Linux Early access
Arma 3 on Wikipedia
Arma
Arma: Cold War Assault 2001
Arma: Armed Assault 2006
Arma 2 2009
Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead 2010
Arma Tactics 2013
Arma 3 2013
Arma Reforger 2022

Key points

Game engine suffers from a critical issue, see Engine not utilizing CPU correctly.

General information

Port Report: Arma 3 Alpha
Bohemia Interactive Forums
Startup Parameters
Armaholic Community Forums
Feedback Tracker
Steam Community Discussions
Performance Guide

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Developer website
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Steam
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All versions require Steam.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Instructions

Skip launcher

Instructions

Game data

Game options
Game options

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/107410/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/107410/pfx/[Note 1]
Steam Workshop mission files are also stored in %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Arma 3 - Other Profiles\<user-id>\Saved\steam

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

General video settings
General video settings
Display settings
Display settings
Antialising and Postprocesses settings
Antialising and Postprocesses settings

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Field of view (FOV)

Instructions

Some suggested FOV values in radians[1] for typical setups are:

Setup Type fovTop fovLeft
1920×1080 at 90 FOV 1.03 1.83
1680×1050 at 90 FOV 1.13 1.80
2560×1600 at 90 FOV 1.13 1.76

Notes

Range finding by using certain scopes like the PSO scope might not be accurate anymore when playing on a non-default FOV.

Input settings

Mouse settings
Mouse settings

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Audio settings

Audio settings
Audio settings

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Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Online play

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Issues fixed

Forcing game to use all RAM

Instructions

Issues unresolved

Engine not utilizing CPU correctly

The Real Virtuality 4 engine suffers from a massive issue in utilizing multi-core CPUs.[2][3]
And due to the CPU not being utilizing correctly then nor will the GPU be utilized correctly.
Real Virtuality 3 has the same issue

This issue is critical and all users with multi-core processors are suffering from it. The developers have yet to comment on this issue on the official bug tracking site.

This critical engine issue gives users a ~40% performance loss at all times, the reason is that the engine has what is called a Engine Limitation, in this case it means that only a few processing cores are being utilized and take big hits that might be the reason for game stutter as the CPU can't handle all the requests on high-end settings.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Vista SP2, 7 SP1
Processor (CPU) AMD Dual-Core Athlon 2.5 GHz
Intel Dual-Core 2.4 GHz
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 10 GB
Video card (GPU) AMD Radeon HD 3830
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
Intel HD Graphics 4000
512 MB of VRAM
DirectX 10 compatible

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/107410/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (107410) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References