TERRIBLE Performance, all low - 960, FX-8350@4.1GHz

[VeXan]

Sorry if wrong sub forum!

As you can see from the title, I am getting absolute garbage performance at all lowest settings with a GTX 960 and an AMD FX-8350 (8 cores clockes at 4.1GHz.) Anybody have similar issues with a setup like this? How can I get better performance?

[Speedbump]

Probably the CPU. It's quite under powered and obviously it's AMD, which doesn't help. ArmA 3 isn't too good at utilising lots of cores either.

[VeXan]

Really? Wow, I figured the amount of cores would really help it out. So much for a modern game, I guess.

[terra-formers]

Change all your settings to medium or high as then the CPU isn't trying to do the graphics work as well as everything else. Arma only really uses three cores and almost all the important stuff is loaded onto a single thread.

[Speedbump]

Originally posted by VeXan:

Really? Wow, I figured the amount of cores would really help it out. So much for a modern game, I guess.

It's a modern game, but the engine is old and not very good at optimising hardware. i think there was talk of switching to Enfusion, but not for a while yet.

[White8shadow]

Originally posted by VeXan:

Really? Wow, I figured the amount of cores would really help it out. So much for a modern game, I guess.

Its not modern games just arma 3, arma 3 is all about single thread performance,
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html
your cpu sits at 1505 in the list, best cpus for arma are up in the 2000+

[Haiden]

Try different servers also. I have an 8350, and many I get very good frames. Dont listen to people who tell you the CPU is not good, its fine. It has to do with BOTH your equipent and servers. Some servers are just ♥♥♥♥.

But yea, A3 is not optimized very well as some mentioned. And your 8 cores means nothing, really.

[Gubernaut]

What game mode are you playing if it's something with 100 players or 200 AI on the map then there's gonna be crappy FPS so one thing you can do is play more optimized content, smaller map, less players...

[Speedbump]

Originally posted by Haiden:

Try different servers also. I have an 8350, and many I get very good frames. Dont listen to people who tell you the CPU is not good, its fine. It has to do with BOTH your equipent and servers. Some servers are just ♥♥♥♥.

But yea, A3 is not optimized very well as some mentioned. And your 8 cores means nothing, really.

You're right, it is down to servers a lot. But the simple truth is his CPU is NOT well suited for ARMA 3 and that is an undeniable fact of life, making it very worthy to listen too. If you need proof ask him to jump into single player and show you his results.

[ShadowPhoen1x]

Arma 3 is an Intel CPU optimized game, not AMD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PVlORur1cw

[ShadowPhoen1x]

Might want to read this too: http://steamcommunity.com/app/107410/discussions/0/828935672397053055/?l=french

[Haiden]

No CPU is, really. Its a piss-poor game. But I have the same CPU, and my performance is rather good. So I suppose its just me. Even on single, I get good performance. Not amazing, just good.

What is a fact is, is that some server owners are dumb asses and put in 15 mods.

[Haiden]

What I see is ♥♥♥♥ performance all around.

[Haiden]

The OP is a little confused on what A3 actually uses, its certainly not 8 cores.

[Lodiz]

I have good fps, 1080p on ultra. 50-60fps.

Fx-8350@4.2 with a GTX1060 3GB

[Haiden]

Also , the above benchmark means nothing. This is a single test being done.It says nothing about settings. Are they all the same settings? Of course youd not know that from the video itself, is it meant to be implied? As for the performance? I get higher frames, better overall performance on my FX, on a modded server. The video above is just A3 I am guessing. So, basically, the results above prove my point for me.