Arma 3 System Requirements

The Arma 3 system requirements ask for a minimum CPU equivalent to an Intel Core 2 Duo E8400, with 4GB of RAM, and either an Nvidia GeForce 9800GT, AMD Radeon HD 5670, Intel HD Graphics 4000 with 512MB VRAM. That isn't much by today's standards, meaning it'll run on most devices.

Ideally, though, you'll want the recommended Arma 3 PC requirements to bump up your settings and frame rate, keeping you on the competitive edge. This requires Intel Core i5-4460, AMD FX 4300, or better CPU, paired with either an Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 or AMD Radeon HD 7800 series graphics card, and 8GB of RAM.

In terms of game file size, you will need at least 32 GB of free disk space available.

Arma 3 release date

Arma 3 originally released on September 12, 2013. It has since been followed by several paid and free expansion packs, including Karts, Helicopters, Jets, Tanks, and many more.

Arma 3 Steam

Alongside buying all the expansions individually, there are four different Arma 3 Steam bundles. You can buy the base game, the Apex edition (four bits of DLC), the Ultimate Edition (nine bits of DLC, including the divisive sci-fi expansion), and the Veteran's Pack. While the Veteran's Pack includes almost everything in the previous editions, plus the previous games, soundtrack, and Arma Reforger, it's actually missing the Laws of War and Tac-Ops Mission Pack for some reason.

Arma 4

We're keeping a close eye on the Arma 4 release date as the developers at Bohemia Interactive are hard at work building the next-generation military simulator. For now, we have a taster with Arma Reforged, which is a stripped-back, smaller-scale version of the upcoming game designed to get players and modders used to the new engine, that's currently in Steam Early Access.

Arma 3 will run on PC system with Windows 7 SP1 (64bit) and upwards. Additionally it has a Mac version.

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Arma 3 FPS - what frame rate can you expect?

How many FPS will I get on Arma 3? We reference thousands of reports from PCGameBenchmark users running our FPS tracking app to tell you exactly how Arma 3 performs across a range of different settings and resolutions on the most popular PC gaming setups.

What frame rate does Arma 3 run at?

Avg FPS	CPU	GPU	RAM
86	Intel Core i5-10500H	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU	16 GB
72	Intel Core i7-10700F	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050	64 GB
31	Intel Core i5-1035G1	Intel UHD	12 GB
31	Intel Core i7-8850H	NVIDIA Quadro P1000	16 GB
29	Intel Core i7-6820HQ	AMD Firepro W5170M	32 GB

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