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Arma: Armed Assault

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Arma: Armed Assault
Arma: Armed Assault cover
Developers
Bohemia Interactive
Queen's Gambit Black Element Software
Publishers
505 Games
Atari
Russia Akella
Engines
Real Virtuality 2
Release dates
Windows November 10, 2006
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, FPS, Shooter, Tactical shooter
Art styles Realistic
Themes Contemporary
Series Arma
Arma: Armed Assault guide on StrategyWiki
Arma: Armed Assault on MobyGames
Arma: Armed Assault on Wikipedia
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Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).

Arma: Armed Assault is a singleplayer and multiplayer first-person action, FPS, shooter and tactical shooter game in the Arma series.

General information

Originally titled ARMA: Combat Operations in North America.
Bohemia Interactive Wiki
Official forum
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions
Steam Community Discussions (Gold Edition)
Armed Assault Info Fansite

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
CD key
SecuROM 7 DRM in most releases, StarForce 4.5 DRM in Eastern European versions.[1]
Custom DRM code known as FADE may sabotage the game in several ways.
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Gold edition.
Windows
Steam
DRM-free after installation through Steam client (notes may include more details)
[2] Gold edition. Base game is also sold separately
Windows

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Queen's Gambit
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

Latest game version is 1.18. You must have at least version 1.08 to apply the newest patch, which in turn requires you have already installed 1.05 (International, European).

Skip intro videos

Launch the game with -nosplash parameter[3]

Game data

Difficulty settings.
Difficulty settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\ArmA
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\ArmA Other Profiles
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/2780/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\ArmA\Saved\
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\ArmA Other Profiles\<user-id>\Saved
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/2780/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video

Video settings
Video settings

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Some menu elements are in 4:3.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Use ArmA FOV Changer.
Windowed
Start the game with -window parameter
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Rather ineffective due to aggressive texture LOD.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
FSAA, unknown samples.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Controls settings
Controls settings

Audio

Audio settings
Audio settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Effects, radio, music
Surround sound
Older audio drivers could be problematic.[4]
Subtitles
Can be toggled under Difficulty options
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
EAX 2. OpenAL is used by default.[5]
DirectSound3D can be forced with -dsound parameter[3]

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
Brazilian Portuguese
Retail only.
Russian
Local retail only. Download this for digital versions.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Online play
The official GameSpy service has been shut down; use the official replacement.

Connection types

VR support

Devices State Notes
TrackIR

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Shader Model support 2.0
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Multiplayer GameSpy Use the Master Server Browser to replace GameSpy.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2000/XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium IV 2 GHz
AMD Athlon XP 2000+
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 6 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 6600
ATI Radeon 9500
128 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9 compatible
Shader model 2.0 support
Other 4X DVD-ROM


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>/2780/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (2780) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References