America's Army 3

Just thought I'd mention America's Army 3 (Totally FREE GAME) is now available to pre-load on STEAM, goes live on 17th....




Category

AA3 Requirement

Operating System (OS)

• Microsoft Windows XP (with Service Pack 2)
• Microsoft Windows Vista

Processor (CPU)

• 3.0+ GHz Single Core CPU (Minimum)
• 2.4+ GHz Dual/Quad Core CPU (Recommended)

Memory (RAM)

• 1GB RAM (Minimum)
• 2GB RAM (Recommended)

Video Card

• Direct X 9.0c compliant, Shader 3.0 enabled video card with 256MB RAM (NVIDIA 6600 or better/ATI X1300 or better) (Minimum)
• Direct X 9.0c compliant, Shader 3.0 enabled video card with 512MB RAM (NVIDIA 7950 or better/ATI X1950 or better) (Recommended)

Sound Card

• Direct X 9.0c compliant sound card (Minimum)
• Creative EAX 4.0 compliant sound card (Audigy 2, X-Fi series) (Recommended)

Hard Drive Space

• 5GB free hard drive space

Network

• Broadband Internet Connection

DVD-ROM

• 4x DVD-ROM (Disc Copies Only)

mines just finnished pre-loading and it's tad over 4gig on the HD

It's going to be an amazing game. I can't wait to play it. Pre-loaded via Steam.

Goes live tomorrow and I can't wait to get started.

Originally Posted by Highwayman

Goes live tomorrow and I can't wait to get started.

I wish it would go live at midnight...

Judging by what STEAMS telling me it goes live around 6-7pm UK time today

America's Army 3 is now live (as of 3:00PM EST).

Update: The America's Army authorization servers are overloaded due to the unexpected amount of players. If you download the game tonight or tomorrow (Tuesday and Wednesday), don't be surprised if you have trouble completing the training missions, regardless of your proficiency. The game isn't submitting scores quickly or correctly.

Tell me about it, too many idiots not preloading till day of release caused all the issues....I cant even get account logins setup due to the severe traffic jams on the server. It's Warhammer Dawn of War II all over again...grrrrr

Originally Posted by Highwayman

Tell me about it, too many idiots not preloading till day of release caused all the issues....I cant even get account logins setup due to the severe traffic jams on the server. It's Warhammer Dawn of War II all over again...grrrrr

The Steam lag was caused by so many people pre-loading and downloading at the last minute. When you pre-loaded the game, it downloaded 50% of the files. Once the game was unlocked, everyone began downloading the other half. It's slowed down the Steam servers greatly. As for the actual America's Army login -- that would be caused by the overwhelming amount of registered AA users logging in and beginning training. Due to the high player volume, the America's Army authentication servers became overloaded. They are now down for maintenance.

To make it short, the Army was not prepared for this launch. Nor the servers or the network could handle all the requests. So much for Army Strong.