ArmA 3 Large Terrain Limits

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See ArmA 2 Large Terrain Limits as reference from ArmA 2 era.

Kilometer	Grid Size	Cell Size	Satellite Resolution	Satellite Tile Size	Texture Layer Size	Object Count	Result
20.4	1024	20	2048	512	80	6,204,000	Works great
40.9	2048	20	4096	512	80	6,697,000	Works great
40.9	2048	20	4096	512	80	7,535,000	32bit binarize crashed :(
81.9	4096	20	4096	512	80	6,033,000	Works great
81.9	4096	20	4096	512	80	6,704,000	32bit binarize crashed :(
20.4	1024	20	20,480	1024	80	6,204,000	Works great
40.9	2048	20	20,480	512	80	6,697,000	Works great
81.9	4096	20	20,480	512	80	6,033,000	Works great
81.9	4096	20	40,960	512	80	6,033,000	Works great
57.3	8192	7	8192	512	28	0	Works great
57.3	8192	7	20,480	512	28	0	Works great
57.3	8192	7	40,960	512	28	328,673	CTD: LandGrid reference exceeded the range [1023, 1023]
57.3	8192	7	40,960	512	56	328,673	Works great
81.9	8192	10	40,960	1024	80	6,644,079	Works great
81.9	8192	10	81,920	1024	40	0	Works great
81.9	8192	10	81,920	1024	40	411,000	CTD: LandGrid reference exceeded the range [1023, 1023]
81.9	8192	10	81,920	1024	80	411,000	Works great!
102.4	4096	25	102,400	1024	100	275,000	Works great
143.3	4096	35	143,360	2048	140	406,883	Works great (PMC Libya Benghazi)
143.3	4096	35	71,680	1024	140	6,246,282	Works great
143.3	4096	35	71,680	1024	140	6,546,203	32bit binarize crashed :(
143.4	8192	17.5	143,360	1024	70m	roads.shp	CTD: LandGrid reference exceeded the range [1023, 1023]
204.8	8192	25	204,800	2048	100	roads.shp	CTD: LandGrid reference exceeded the range [1023, 1023]
163.8	8192	20	163,840	1024	80	roads.shp	CTD: LandGrid reference exceeded the range [1023, 1023]
163.8	8192	20	163,840	2048	80	roads.shp	CTD: LandGrid reference exceeded the range [1023, 1023]
163.8	4096	40	163,840	2048	160	675,995	Works great (PMC Iran Jahrom)
40.9	8192	5	65,536	512	20	1692	CTD: LandGrid reference exceeded the range [1023, 1023]
40.9	8192	5	65,536	1024	20	1692	CTD: LandGrid reference exceeded the range [1023, 1023]
40.9	8192	5	65,536	2048	40	1692	Works great
40.9	4096	10	40,960	1024	40	16,339,874	Works great (requires 64bit binarize.exe)
143.4	4096	35	71,680	1024	140	20,764,846	Works great (requires 64bit binarize.exe)
409.6	4096	100	204,800	2048	400	19,354	Works great (PMC Mongolia, unreleased)

2019-01-25 You can find 64bit binarize from the arma3 steam tools, it is required for binarizing terrains with roughly over 6 - 6.5 million objects.