After far too many years it looks like ArmA III is working on Linux. While you still have to use Steam’s Proton Expermental branch performance matches, for me at least, Windows 10.
My desktop PC is an old i7-4790K, Asus B85M-D Plus, Nvidia GTX 1070, 2 x 8GB DDR3 RAM, and a Samsung EVO 850 for Windows and and an EVO 870 for Ubuntu. The framerates are the same under both Windows 10 and Ubuntu 22.04 – 60 FPS. I think this limit is due to my monitors.
The only issue is that is I had two – two! – Kingston A400 480GB drives that were D.O.A. They would not show up in the BIOS as Kingston drives but as Phison PS3111-S11 with 21MB (yes, MB) of space (which I think is the cache). I tried them on two different motherboards with the same results. I bought the first one back to the store (they only had two in stock) and had no problems exchanging it for another A400. However, when I got back home I had the same issue. Given there were only two in stock, I suspect that they are from the same batch. It has been some time since I had problems with drives from the same batch being wanky – the last time was with two Seagate IronWolf 4TB drives. So, it happens.
When I returned the second A400 I went with a Samsung EVO – all the rest of my SSDs (SATA III and M.2 PCIe) are Samsung so the extra $40 seems worth it. (The only exception is there are the 4 Hitachi Ultrastar SSD400M Enterprise SSD in my DL380 Gen9 – but they are enterprise drives :-)). Anyway, put in the Samsung and the install went more or less flawlessly.
I say more or less flawlessly because I always have at least two paritions – one for / and another for /home and I forgot to assign /home during the install. No big deal, just a pain in the butt to move /home to its own partition. Oh, and I had installed ArmA so there was about 140GB of ArmA, Steam and mods to move…
Once my partner is back from vacation, we’ll do some missions to see if this works as well as I think it will.
It is so nice to ditch Windows!
