Arma 3 is now downloadable and playable on Linux, but be warned it's early days for the port, and the port may not graduate to official status.
You can find more information on their official port page here. This page will detail limitations and such, and is an important read.
Early reports are encouraging though, with one user noting they are getting a solid 60FPS at 1440p resolution on a 970.
I ordered a copy to play around with, as I was too impatient to wait to see if we could get a key. During my livestream of it I played over an hour, and everything pretty much worked as expected. I was able to get a good solid framerate, and most importantly smooth gameplay on Very High settings on my Nvidia 970.
The game is very CPU heavy, so it's really not for lower-end users, please remember that. It's a hog even on Windows.
Find Arma 3 on Steam, but only buy it if you're prepare to lose access to it on Linux if it doesn't get promoted to stable in future. I hope it works out for both VP and the Arma developers, as it would be a great game to have officially on Linux.
Specifications
MINIMUM
OS - Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS 64-bit or Mint 17.1 64-bit or similar Linux distribution
PROCESSOR - Intel Core i5 2.8 GHz or AMD FX 8350 4 GHz
GRAPHICS - OpenGL 4.1 compliant graphics card (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 or AMD HD 7850)
GPU MEMORY - 1 GB
RAM - 4 GB
HARD DRIVE - 15 GB free space
Thanks to a regular Arma 3 player, I was linked to this benchmark mission pack. It gives you two levels to run, and gives you an average at the end. You need to extract them into the Missions folder inside the Arma 3 install directory. From there you can select from from the Scenarios section.
Benchmark #1 Very High preset
Intel i5 4670K, Nvidia 970 (352.41), 16GB DDR3
Resolution: 1920x1080
Sampling: 100 per cent
View Distance: 2000
Object view distance: 1286
Shadow: 100
Bloom: 0
Radial blur: 0
Rotation blur: 0
Depth of field & Sharpen filter set to 100 (default)
Vsync disabled.
FSAA 4X.
Stratis: Average: 67FPS
Altis: Average: 68FPS
Benchmark #2 Very High preset
Intel i5 4670K, Nvidia 970 (352.41), 16GB DDR3
Resolution: 1920x1080
Sampling: 100 per cent
View Distance: 2579
Object view distance: 1547
Shadow: 100
Bloom: 0
Radial blur: 0
Rotation blur: 0
Depth of field & Sharpen filter set to 100 (default)
Vsync disabled.
FSAA 6X.
Stratis: Average: 58FPS
Altis: Average: 59FPS
I will be very interested to see your results. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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I hope the port is good and it becomes a permanent thing. As for the game itself, I've always been very intimidated by the ARMA games, which will probably keep me from ever playing it.
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Quoting: SamsaiQuoting: pete910Your friendly neighbourhood idiot with a big wallet is here to save you.Quoting: aristoriasDoes it run with AMD at all? I own an A10-7850k...
Would like to know too, 290x user here. Anyone?
I await you report.... :D
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linux_gamer Aug 31, 2015
Quoting: edoIf the game is bought now, is it counted as a linux purchase? since the game is windows-only on the store. If I had to bet I would say than it will count as a windows key.AFAIK the symbol has nothing to do with it. The OS with the longest playtime in the first two weeks gets the credit. If not played then it should be the OS used to purchase.
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I bought it back in alfa and played it for over 100 hours. Downloading....
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Well, the default graphical setting was a bit silly.
I used the dropdown to Very High and it's much nicer performance, seems smooth so far. It does dip, but that's to be expected. In a firefight it dropped down to around 45FPS, but it was still smooth and playable.
Mouse doesn't work for interacting with the UI, very annoying, but should be easy for them to fix.
So far, I'm quite impressed.
Edit: You can turn bloom & blur down to zero, that makes me rather happy. Both are icky. Performance went up a bit doing that too I'm sure, and oh I died :(
Last edited by Liam Dawe on 31 August 2015 at 6:04 pm UTC
I used the dropdown to Very High and it's much nicer performance, seems smooth so far. It does dip, but that's to be expected. In a firefight it dropped down to around 45FPS, but it was still smooth and playable.
Mouse doesn't work for interacting with the UI, very annoying, but should be easy for them to fix.
So far, I'm quite impressed.
Edit: You can turn bloom & blur down to zero, that makes me rather happy. Both are icky. Performance went up a bit doing that too I'm sure, and oh I died :(
Last edited by Liam Dawe on 31 August 2015 at 6:04 pm UTC
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BabaoWhisky Aug 31, 2015
So, do you think that i can spend 60€ to buy this game ? (I have a laptop with a 970MX)
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The more Windows benchmarks I'm seeing, the more reasonable my figures are looking. Looks like it's a very CPU heavy game, and seeing people on my CPU with a GPU that's close having worse/around the same figures is encouraging.
Video for thought: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otlwZbOTkDg
That guy has the same CPU+GPU as me, and he is seeing about the same+bit lower performance.
So, do we consider that a win?
Video for thought: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otlwZbOTkDg
That guy has the same CPU+GPU as me, and he is seeing about the same+bit lower performance.
So, do we consider that a win?
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For me is unplayable atm.......
It launches on my second monitor and I cannot click on anything.
I can browse with keyboard though and enjoy the........ Menu........ :(
Last edited by wolfyrion on 31 August 2015 at 6:45 pm UTC
It launches on my second monitor and I cannot click on anything.
I can browse with keyboard though and enjoy the........ Menu........ :(
Last edited by wolfyrion on 31 August 2015 at 6:45 pm UTC
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Quote--eon_force_display=0Use that in Steam's launch options, fixes both issues for me.
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Quoting: earthmoverI bought it back in alfa and played it for over 100 hours. Downloading....
Downloaded it. I'm getting 5 seconds of black screen and bugtrap :(
[thread 00000004][W][17943]: Game wants to disable DXGI reacting to window changes (monitoring app message queue) for window 0xf1d707a8. Ignoring.
[thread 00000004][W][17943]: Game wants to disable DXGI reacting to Alt-Enter fullscreen toggle.
[thread 00000011][I][18245]: Precompiled shader cache loaded: binary shaders: 8, GLSL shaders: 291, GLSL pipelines: 23
[thread 00000004][W][19030]: REGISTRY OPERATION: RegOpenKeyExW() returns ERROR_NOT_FOUND (subkey not found) key = HKEY_CURRENT_USER, subkey = Software\Microsoft\Direct3D
[thread 00000004][W][19630]: eON_LoadLibraryExA() for 'PhysX3Common_x86.dll' has non-zero flags ( 0x1 ), probably unhandled functionality!
[thread 00000004][W][19630]: Refreshing folder '/tmp/arma3sTZsjo/', temp folder is 'C:\tmp\arma3sTZsjo\'.
[thread 00000004][W][19630]: eON_LoadLibraryExA() for 'PhysX3Common_x86.dll' has non-zero flags ( 0x1 ), probably unhandled functionality!
[thread 00000004][I][24191]: eON_WindowEvent: SetFullscreenState true 0xf1d68e90
[thread 00000004][I][24192]: Game stdout/err: SkyKeyframer::ChangedTbb - Can't use Threading Building Blocks with Static Runtimes (MT, MTd)
[thread 00000004][I][24192]: Game stdout/err:
[thread 00000004][I][24197]: Game stdout/err: CellularCloudGrid::ChangedTbb - Can't use Threading Building Blocks with Static Runtimes (MT, MTd)
[thread 00000004][I][24197]: Game stdout/err:
[thread 00000004][I][24197]: Game stdout/err: CellularCloudGrid::ChangedTbb - Can't use Threading Building Blocks with Static Runtimes (MT, MTd)
[thread 00000004][I][24197]: Game stdout/err:
[thread 00000011][I][25950]: No OpenGL commands for full second. Flushing GL to make sure it hasn't deadlocked.
[thread 00000004][I][30515]: ===enforcing log flush===
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