Low FPS, CPU temp low

[Ville]

So, something amazing happened

Playing Arma 3 (everything maxed out as usual, heavily modded)

FX-9590 not heating, stable at 30-40 celsius. Used external thermometer and few softwares that read chip temp.

Played Ark the other day, CPU warming up nicely.

Tried Arma 3 today, seems like its not even trying to run the game.

Smooth 35-70 fps for an hour or two, then sudden drop to 6-12fps.

[Recon]

Cool

[Ville]

Originally posted by Fog Car:

Cool

Not cool, means there is either something wrong with the game, or my CPU.

Brain dead people like you should stay out of topics.

[Rhodes]

Originally posted by Ville:

Originally posted by Fog Car:

Cool

Not cool, means there is either something wrong with the game, or my CPU.

Brain dead people like you should stay out of topics.

First of all. No. You sir should leave as no one in these forums will allow the disrespect you have twoards others. Second this does not seem to be a problem for you. That means your computer is running Arma nicely. So yeah it is cool

[Ville]

Originally posted by Jackson R 1B-160:

First of all. No. You sir should leave as no one in these forums will allow the disrespect you have twoards others. Second this does not seem to be a problem for you. That means your computer is running Arma nicely. So yeah it is cool

First of all, i wouldnt make this topic unless i knew there is something wrong.

FX series is known to get high temps on running games, and the sudden fps drops in arma with along the temperature indicates something is not working as it should.

And, if kids like you two keep replying to this topic with useless opinions and irrelevant garbage doubt anyone with experience or knowledge of how to work with the issue (Arma not using CPU as it should) wouldnt feel compelling to reply to the topic.

[Rhodes]

Originally posted by Ville:

Originally posted by Jackson R 1B-160:

First of all. No. You sir should leave as no one in these forums will allow the disrespect you have twoards others. Second this does not seem to be a problem for you. That means your computer is running Arma nicely. So yeah it is cool

First of all, i wouldnt make this topic unless i knew there is something wrong.

FX series is known to get high temps on running games, and the sudden fps drops in arma with along the temperature indicates something is not working as it should.

And, if kids like you two keep
replying to this topic with
useless opinions and irrelevant garbage doubt anyone with experience or knowledge of how to work with the issue (Arma not using CPU as it should) wouldnt feel compelling to reply to the topic.

I dont know if you have experience with computers at all. But unless your having stability issues or issues with your CPU running at all this is not a bad thing. Your best off ignoring it. You may in fact just have a faulty sensor. Which in my opinion is not worth sending out a computer to get fixed. But unless your having issues there is no issue. How is that for irrelevant

[NathaN]

If your playing online then your cpu probably isnt getting very taxed because your a bit limited by the server. Its cant go any faster so its just chilling so yeah as fog car said "cool".

[Ville]

Originally posted by Jackson R 1B-160:

I dont know if you have experience with computers at all. But unless your having stability issues or issues with your CPU running at all this is not a bad thing. Your best off ignoring it. You may in fact just have a faulty sensor. Which in my opinion is not worth sending out a computer to get fixed. But unless your having issues there is no issue. How is that for irrelevant

If you'd take a time reading my first post, you might notice that i mentioned that CPU warms up nicely in other games. Original problem was dropping FPS and CPU performance issues IN THIS GAME. I know theres probably nothing wrong with my CPU or its components. I also stated that i used external temp to confirm that the sink-chip connection was low temp also, this alone should tell educated person that chip temp is reading fine.

Originally posted by NathaN:

If your playing online then your cpu probably isnt getting very taxed because your a bit limited by the server. Its cant go any faster so its just chilling so yeah as fog car said "cool".

Yes, i was playing online. Asked in chat if anyone else had sudden performance issues but the reply was no. So it seem not have been server related. But thanks for your reply anyway.

[Rhodes]

Are you having stuttering or skipping frames?

[¬G.P¬ мเиเ קµяקℓэ ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)]

use msi afterburner and set it to monitor per-core usage and temp, arma3 doesnt use all ur threads so u might be measuring the temps the wrong way... 1 thread at 50ºC =/= all threads at 50ºC

[Ville]

Originally posted by Jackson R 1B-160:

Are you having stuttering or skipping frames?

No, everything runs normally for few hours, after that FPS suddenly drops to 8-11FPS.
I also found out after the FPS drop, if i still keep playing without restarting my game the frames eventually go back up after hour or so.

Originally posted by ¬G.P¬ мเиเ קµяקℓэ ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°):

use msi afterburner and set it to monitor per-core usage and temp, arma3 doesnt use all ur threads so u might be measuring the temps the wrong way... 1 thread at 50ºC =/= all threads at 50ºC

Thank you for your contribution into resolving the issue, i've already confirmed that Arma 3 atleast tries to use all of my cores, i've validated this using AMD System monitor.

I can confirm that theres nothing wrong with my computer, or its components.
Arma 3 is the only game where my problem occurs.

Somehow, for some reason Arma 3 runs smoothly for about 3 hours and then suddenly turns into picture slideshow with 11 frames per second.

[¬G.P¬ мเиเ קµяקℓэ ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)]

Originally posted by Ville:

Originally posted by Jackson R 1B-160:

Are you having stuttering or skipping frames?

No, everything runs normally for few hours, after that FPS suddenly drops to 8-11FPS.
I also found out after the FPS drop, if i still keep playing without restarting my game the frames eventually go back up after hour or so.

Originally posted by ¬G.P¬ мเиเ קµяקℓэ ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°):

use msi afterburner and set it to monitor per-core usage and temp, arma3 doesnt use all ur threads so u might be measuring the temps the wrong way... 1 thread at 50ºC =/= all threads at 50ºC

Thank you for your contribution into resolving the issue, i've already confirmed that Arma 3 atleast tries to use all of my cores, i've validated this using AMD System monitor.

I can confirm that theres nothing wrong with my computer, or its components.
Arma 3 is the only game where my problem occurs.

Somehow, for some reason Arma 3 runs smoothly for about 3 hours and then suddenly turns into picture slideshow with 11 frames per second.

does any of ur cores goes to 99-100% all the time? usually these games 1 core is always maxed out and the other ones are like, 10-20%, so the only core that will get hot is the one that is at 99-100%, another thing that could be happening is ur windows lowering the clock speeds and voltage, its similar to Intel's Speed Step, but if u set ur windows energy options to Max Performance it should lock ur cpu at its full clock speed and voltage, imho the best monitoring combo is MSI AF + HWInfo, ram usage is also very important as i've seen this game using a lot of ram and vram (dev branch), so get both of these programs i listed and play the game, and pay very close attention to ur gpu usage and clock speeds, cpu usage and clock speeds and ram usage.

[Ville]

Originally posted by ¬G.P¬ мเиเ קµяקℓэ ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°):

Originally posted by Ville:

No, everything runs normally for few hours, after that FPS suddenly drops to 8-11FPS.
I also found out after the FPS drop, if i still keep playing without restarting my game the frames eventually go back up after hour or so.







Thank you for your contribution into resolving the issue, i've already confirmed that Arma 3 atleast tries to use all of my cores, i've validated this using AMD System monitor.

I can confirm that theres nothing wrong with my computer, or its components.
Arma 3 is the only game where my problem occurs.

Somehow, for some reason Arma 3 runs smoothly for about 3 hours and then suddenly turns into picture slideshow with 11 frames per second.

does any of ur cores goes to 99-100% all the time? usually these games 1 core is always maxed out and the other ones are like, 10-20%, so the only core that will get hot is the one that is at 99-100%, another thing that could be happening is ur windows lowering the clock speeds and voltage, its similar to Intel's Speed Step, but if u set ur windows energy options to Max Performance it should lock ur cpu at its full clock speed and voltage, imho the best monitoring combo is MSI AF + HWInfo, ram usage is also very important as i've seen this game using a lot of ram and vram (dev branch), so get both of these programs i listed and play the game, and pay very close attention to ur gpu usage and clock speeds, cpu usage and clock speeds and ram usage.

I get around 4.7-5.1ghz clocks, CPU Voltage is around 1.500v depending on load on the cpu.

Cores split the load nicely when playing arma, 40%-80% on all cores
Arma doesnt use much GPU, 32bit grabs 3gb ram almost instantly when i start playing.

Got RX480 so vram wont be an issue

I'll repeat this once more, Arma is the only game causing issues.

[NathaN]

Originally posted by Ville:

Originally posted by ¬G.P¬ мเиเ קµяקℓэ ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°):

does any of ur cores goes to 99-100% all the time? usually these games 1 core is always maxed out and the other ones are like, 10-20%, so the only core that will get hot is the one that is at 99-100%, another thing that could be happening is ur windows lowering the clock speeds and voltage, its similar to Intel's Speed Step, but if u set ur windows energy options to Max Performance it should lock ur cpu at its full clock speed and voltage, imho the best monitoring combo is MSI AF + HWInfo, ram usage is also very important as i've seen this game using a lot of ram and vram (dev branch), so get both of these programs i listed and play the game, and pay very close attention to ur gpu usage and clock speeds, cpu usage and clock speeds and ram usage.

I get around 4.7-5.1ghz clocks, CPU Voltage is around 1.500v depending on load on the cpu.

Cores split the load nicely when playing arma, 40%-80% on all cores
Arma doesnt use much GPU, 32bit grabs 3gb ram almost instantly when i start playing.

Got RX480 so vram wont be an issue

I'll repeat this once more, Arma is the only game causing issues.

Arma is 64 bit.

[Rhodes]

My best guess is that your CPU reaches a stress level where it starts to limit itself. Also what graphics card do you have

[¬G.P¬ мเиเ קµяקℓэ ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)]

Originally posted by Ville:

I get around 4.7-5.1ghz clocks, CPU Voltage is around 1.500v depending on load on the cpu.

Cores split the load nicely when playing arma, 40%-80% on all cores
Arma doesnt use much GPU, 32bit grabs 3gb ram almost instantly when i start playing.

Got RX480 so vram wont be an issue

I'll repeat this once more, Arma is the only game causing issues.

then maybe its because the calculations ur cpu is doing for arma doesnt make it hot enough, same thing with gpu's, gpu-z render test, GTAV and Furmark uses my gpu at 100%, but it doesnt get very hot on gpu-z render test, on gtav it starts getting kinda warm and furmark... i dont have to tell what happens do i? XD
unfortunately at the moment i cant think of anything else, but 1 thing is weird, u said that ur arma3 is using all of ur cores evenly... and u have an octa core... did u do something to make the game utilize ur cpu better?