People have spent many hours tweaking settings in config files (beyond ingame settings) to find the perfect balance for their system. Here's a recent thread about ramdisk also contains links to older ramdisk info from arma 2.
Ramdisk is another option which can be used in conjunction with an SSD, although you may want to upgrade your ram or only use a small ramdisk.
An SSD may not add FPS, but it will run a lot smoother with quicker LOD switching. So instead Arma relies more on streaming data from the HDD as it's needed. The Arma series is very demanding of CPU's.Īn SSD would be a big improvement, due to the size of the game assets, it's somewhat impractical to cache them. A lot of the lower than expected fps issues are due to the cpu being the bottleneck. Unlike the current gen of console ports, there are no predefined settings for low, medium, high, ultra that work on any PC.ĭefinitely overclock your CPU as high as it can possibly go. You need to find the balance that you like.
JBR summed it up very well, you are given full control over your experience with the game.
Go to the Bohemia forums, there are several years worth of information on how to maximize your performance and visuals. low FPS.Īrma NEEDS a dedicated box that has the required power and bandwidth to run. So Arma is being forced to share resources with them.result. If they server hardware is not up to snuff you will get very bad FPS.Ĭheap server hosts also like to throw several games on a single box to save money It's also been ported over from Arma 2 and that is also causing problems, a lot of mods and missions have problems when they are not ported over properly. Wasteland is a poorly coded mission that runs a ton of scripts and really suffers when players and Hackers are dumping tons of objects all over the map There's also an issue with WASTELAND which a majority of the complainers bought Arma 3 for. My monitor can do 1920x1200 but I run Arma 3 at 1680x1050 and have a lot of extra leeway to crank up the visuals and AA because of thatĪnd it looks just the same as running at 1920x1200 on HIGH and ULTRA but without the performance hit.
You do not need to run at your monitors maximum res to get the best visuals. You can also lower the resolution and then crank a few things up and still get the great visuals and great FPS. There are several settings that need to be HIGH or ULTRA to switch to the GPU, the more load you offload onto the GPU the better. There is an FPS counter in the Video settings, tweak the settings and you'll see the results in real time in that counter.Īn important thing to know is that lowering settings is not always what you're supposed to do.Įxample: Shadows are rendered by the CPU when you have them on MEDIUM or LOW and rendered by the GPU when set to HIGH or ULTRA. You have to go into the settings and tweak things to get a balance between performance and visuals that you are happy with. The Real Virtuality engine is not something you simply throw hardware at and expect to get awesome performance and visuals.