http://www.cjs-cdkeys.com/products/Arma-3-Steam-CD-Key.html this is where i got my arma 3 from.
The £7 version requires a vpn everytime you use the game. (I wouldn't recommend this)
The £27 version is region free and will work normally. This is what i bought and where i bought it from. I have used this site twice and their support is fast and helpful.
Could you bring something to the table to support that conclusion ? I'm playing on a GE60 laptop from MSI
CPU: I5 3210M
GPU: Nvidia GT660M (with ~5% overclock )
Ram: 6gb
HDD: M4 240gig SSD
I get between 20 to 40 fps https://imgur.com/a/lbsZa for settings
I don't want to go shaming my host publicly. Aside from their lucrative pricing scheme, they have been "very" accommodating and ultra responsive. It's simply just too expensive over the long term. And even at 20$ a month, with a title like Arma and its likely 10 year life cycle, it's not hard to justify an investment in hardware.
My problem lies in that when I go to a website that does CPU performance benchmark comparisons, the numbers don't look promising on the Xeon front. They seem to perform an astoundingly low number of calculations in relation to their modern counterparts. Even a dual quad server would be significantly slower performance wise than a single modern dual core. Perhaps I don't really understand what I'm reading in terms of how it relates to everyday performance. They are after all just arbitrary numbers! So I still really don't know if a modern desktop style PC would indeed be the wisest decision performance and consolidation wise. Its just that those old Xeon servers are just so damn cheap now! Much cheaper than what parting a completely new box out is going to cost.
The Art of Warfare has an ArmA III Division. The European battalion plays on Tuesdays and Sundays with optional trainings/mission testing etc. on Thursdays. We're currently 50 guys, with our own game and TS servers. Being part of the TAW community brings along all the ranks, organisation and such if you're interested, but that's definitely no requirement. (TAW is currently 2500 members from across the globe spread over 25ish games so the organisation overhad is rather significant). If all you want to do is play then that's literally all you have to do.
Requirements are 15y old minimum, a mic, able to make yourself understood in english, and generally not being an idiot.
Feel free to check us out if you want at our website www.taw.net.
We also run public servers that you can find by filtering for TAW in the server browser.
Best of luck finding a home, and see you on the battlefield!