kamaradski

Ola George, I agree with you that ISR is cool and quick, and if you already happen to own a z77 also very cheap to implement with great speed increase even in a existing setup without re-installing your windows. All very good plusses ! However there are a few dis-advantages and reasons why i wouldn't use it in this situation: 1 - First time you run your application\OS it still loads from a normal HDD, and thus the first time not any quicker. Second time you use this same data is is very quick. (maybe even quicker then normal SSD, as it works a little similar to RAM-disk i think) 2 - ARMA streams the data live, unless pre-cached your game will still be slower when loading some terrain or other content for the first time. Most other games pre-cache their content when loading the level, however ARMA is just too huge to do this and therefore streams what should be on your screen, and forget about it when out of view distance again. So again it's also depending on budget again, (hey for 50 quid you might have a very good upgrade on a existing PC...). And i would recommend this technology for every office PC in the world, and even for most home PC's this is very useful. However for a dedicated ARMA machine i would go with proper HD, or lots of memory (16GB or more) and RAMDISK (be aware of a slight CPU impact), What i personally have: A single 256GB Samsung SDD, due to budget (i didnt even have money ávailable to get the PRO edition..) However i can also easly buy a second one later and put them in RAID.

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As a optimization for ARMA i would do the following (depending on budget): 2x 128GB SSD in RAID-0 (the 2 drives will show-up as one C:\ on your pc) 1x normal HDD for your documents etc.. (d:\) Since ARMA is streaming it's content live from the HDD, it will help you to be able to use almost twice the speed of SSD, specially on higher view distance. And put a normal harddrive for storage of your documents etc. In case budget or connectifity is a issue: 1x 256gb is also lots quicker then any normal HDD and more then big enough for windows + ARMA + a whole bunch of other crap. RAID-0 background: + speed, lots and lots and lots of speed - any error in the filesystem will result in raid loss, and you will in most cases not be able to rebuild without loosing data. It writes half your file to both drives simultaneously, and is thus almost twice as fast as a normal SSD (and normal SSD is already very fast !) Keep your documents save on a normal hardrive (and backup) Keep a basic image of whatever is stored on the SSD's handy so in case stuff goes sideways you quickly up and running again. Don't bother with RAID-1 2x 128gb would only give you normal speed (normal SSD speed that is) but only 128gb storage, the second drive is all redundancy Read REDUNDANCY, NOT backup. since the "backup" is live if you would you accidentally delete a file, it's also gone in the "backup". RAID 5 \ 6 \ 10 are also not interesting for you as they would need more then 2 drives and are normally only used for bigger storage like NAS or other File storage, and only make things slower instead of quicker. Example: with RAID-5 and 4 drives you loose the 4th drive from your effective storage capacity, however in return there is 1 disk redundancy so one disk can fully fail without loosing data (after a slow and painstaking rebuild process) PS: If money is no issue to for the PRO-line from the Samsung SSD, they are very quick Without PRO they are cheaper but also a lot slower (specially writing)

https://www.asus.com/Monitors_Projectors/VG248QE/ hmm yeah i see 280 pound times 3 is a bit too crazy indeed... nice toys though I would have gotten 3, however my desk is not big enough for that.

Why not 144Hz ?

Next time i need a good location for a picknick i will ask our in-house Stratis expert: Danne !! Proud to be fighting with you !!

That was shot inside the KA-60 'black' at night. The special lighting was done with a blue chemlight placed on the ground under the chopper (yes we are not about to land as per fancy exciting description, but in reality we are actually waiting for take-off srry for breaking that bubble now)

These organized desks remind me of the good old times i also had more time to spend sitting there. 'ell i practicly used to live only behind my desk, so everything i would ever need would need to be in arms lenght Now however i might be lucky to spend 2 or 3 nights a week... as a result, my desk is as clean as a museum (not a good thing). PS: good to see that most of you atleast a dual monitor setup PSS: Bambi, your desk is not messy, i suspect you just put that there for the picture, hahahaha I love the can of beans tho !! LOL

kee i finaly had time to make some pics, and so here is my 'lil baby: Case: Coolermaster CM690 Advanced Mainbord: MSI Z77A-G45 CPU: I5-3570k IVY PSU: Seasonic G-450 GPU: Sapphire Radeon HD-7950 Boost 3GB MEM: 2x4GB Corsair Vengeance LP (1600-9-9-9) CPU Cooler: Scythe Mugen 3 PCGH-Edition HDD1: Samsung 840 SSD 256GB HDD2: WD 1TB SATA2 Monitor: 2x Dell U2312HM Headset: Razor Carcharias NAS: Synology DS412+ HDD: 4x WD 3TB red (NAS-edition) My desk: My network in action: 12TB NAS + 4TB External backup attached: BONUS PIC's (tested my GSM camera with some close-ups from inside the PC):

Servus I did notice you around both in arma3 and on the teamspeak, good to now also have you on the forums. PS: i live just around the corner from you in Munchen

Hallo Jason, goed jy hier te sien !

The helo"s are awesome !! Sidenote: in the DEV version yesterday they patched the flightmodel so it will be harder or impossible to fly upside down

Hey Raz, Good to see you active on the forum too. Anduuuh since we all seam to work in the IT branch: here +1 However i have to work a lot with Windows, you can better put me on the Linux side of things. PS: see yourself posted in the screenshot thread over in the ARMA sub-forum here.

Here are some i took while playing on the AW server: Littlebird waiting to be loaded: http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/577859230005160010/B2A8415071B662F1461F87D8408ABD2E7E6AF2C9/ Raz and his fancy chopper: http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/577859230005137113/85F0CAA480617F7387E48BA892606E154318DEA6/ Driving my hunter under water: http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/577859230005122147/1D908949CEA1ABC02ACD5F3E733ABE5CBAA85B7C/ Who left the BBQ on in town ? http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/577859229975875376/287944E4A5B83047387407E89CB169FD9FAC1DD5/ Someone left the lights on inside, i wonder if anyone is home: http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/577859229975850269/C5A4A6FEEB15F19F40F5FEAAF9D2E09D108993B6/ Full scale attack on Camp Maxwell, including Mortars: http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/577859229975824569/070D9A67F6BCF929B8AF8F41C7780FEEFA2F2B16/ Convoy at night: http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/577859229975780695/2FB937ED36B999B435D7E5F87A21958061B7BF3A/ Airlift in the moonlight: http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/577859229975768678/625387877C7CFCF03598A74EBE99E08D492CD53C/ Raz coming in hot to unload on hot LZ in the Marina: http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/577859229975741054/3183B5FB6818F29270E64EC997A44B448E61539C/ Sending tracers into town: http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/577859229975725273/B2D99D2C5756070850603AD3C46DB89201B7AE78/ Awsome lightshow while taking the town by night: http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/577859229975704853/041916D2779135B2A99060488842C7BED250626F/ Maintaining overwatch while Raz is keeping the airbridge open in the background: http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/577859229975677147/841A3C9E46BEEB5F45472EC50EC422D9B3C38D37/ Sunset over Stratis airfield: http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/577859229975653722/2F58F13F584695A0750C95A117E9761F263FFCD7/ Danne and me waiting to headout for a sunset convoy across Stratis: http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/577859229975634011/6E5758697F8D13D5C3CE80E7C577820E70177F8F/ Some serious sniping: http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/577859229975610807/A3EC44C127AF5C86D7521988CCE3A221E5D1EB15/ Captured 4 Ifrits from the enemy: http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/577859229975579868/5636EE7BE789F3CCA9099F49A9A49DE8BFBC7D8A/ Blackhawk UPsideDOWN: http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/577859229975563576/3963F3EF29A1DCB6749FA76A76D2754779EDF6C9/ Tension is high when Raz mentioned that our LZ is going to be hot 'n heavy: http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/577859229975546280/1B2025755794A98229DC1D13C6769634005473B6/ Enjoy

Thanks all for the cool warm welcome ! And uuuh, @CARL: screenie

Hi all, Just popping in to say thanks for letting me play on your excellent arms-3 server. I had a lot of fun so far, and for sure more to come ! Special thanks for Rarek and the time spend on creating the custom mission Steam: kamaradski1 Website: kamaradski.com Cheers, Kamaradski