What should I upgrade on my computer to play Arma 3 Multiplayer

[FineVisionz]

Hello,  I am wonder what should I upgrade of my current system to play Arma 3 multiplayer and dayz.

 

What should I upgrade, and what should I upgrade to?  I want to see how much it will cost me to play arma 3 multiplier on high - maxed out settings

 

 

Current PC Specs:  
 

 

• CPU
  AMD FX 6300
• Motherboard
  Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0
• RAM
  16GB Corsair Vengeance (2x8) 1600 Mhz
• GPU
  Powercolor Radeon 7850
• PSU
  Antec 650w 80+ Bronze
• Cooling
  (Stock)

 

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[Tagiau]

Graphics card. For sure the graphics card. Not sure how optimized arma 3 is for amd cpu's. But it shouldn't be horrible.

[Notree]

CPU. You'd prob see a nice lil increase from that alone.

[HmmR]

cpu and gpu 

 

cause if u buy a good gpu the fx6300 will bottleneck it 

 

possible an i3 or i5

[FineVisionz]

Graphics card. For sure the graphics card. Not sure how optimized arma 3 is for amd cpu's. But it shouldn't be horrible.

when I play arma 3 single player I can run on high settings with 50-60fps.  But when I play muliplayer I can only get 25fps on high.  And even when I lower the settings ALL the way down,  I might get 27fps.

[Bittenfleax]

Yep CPU, my friends FX-8350 can push 30/40 frames with a R9 280x. (this is on Panthera which is a bare map with not much on it)

 

aka, upgrade CPU and GPU.

[DimasRMDO]

I think it's your internet connection, but I'm not sure yet. I also think it's your CPU and GPU.

[FineVisionz]

I think it's your internet connection, but I'm not sure yet. I also think it's your CPU.

I doubt it would be my internet connection.  I like to play on low ping servers and I have a 130mb/s dl speed.

[Bittenfleax]

A CPU upgrade won't do anything in ARMA 3 multiplayer.  Custom missions will run like arse across the board no matter what hardware you have.

 

A GPU upgrade would enable you to push for higher quality settings, but won't do much for your framerate. 

Well how come I have a better CPU + GPU then my friend and get better frames... (about 20frames better)

[FineVisionz]

A CPU upgrade won't do anything in ARMA 3 multiplayer.  Custom missions will run like arse across the board no matter what hardware you have.

 

A GPU upgrade would enable you to push for higher quality settings, but won't do much for your framerate. 

But if I upgrade my GPU,  My cpu will bottleneck and just make by buy a cpu anyway.  

[DimasRMDO]

I doubt it would be my internet connection.  I like to play on low ping servers and I have a 130mb/s dl speed.

How about upload speed? I think that's important as well in online gaming.

[FineVisionz]

How about upload speed? I think that's important as well in online gaming.

I just took a speed test and got 12mb/s upload speed

[DimasRMDO]

I just took a speed test and got 12mb/s upload speed

Oh, how about other games? Can you run it well or just Arma III that has the problem?

[StainlessSR]

Have you checked to see if your cpu or gpu is maxed out while playing?

What speed is your processor running at? If your cpu is maxed you may get an improvment by upping the speed.

Is the game running out of memory on your gpu?

Information like these will help determine if there is an actual bottleneck on your part or not.

 

when I play arma 3 single player I can run on high settings with 50-60fps.  But when I play muliplayer I can only get 25fps on high.  And even when I lower the settings ALL the way down,  I might get 27fps.

This is supposedly normal as the actual game server in Arma3 multi can/will limit your fps. Most advice points to shopping around for a server that has less fps loss for you.

[FineVisionz]

Oh, how about other games? Can you run it well or just Arma III that has the problem?

I run other multiplayer games such as BF4,  H1Z1,  CS:GO and more perfectly fine.

[FineVisionz]

Have you checked to see if your cpu or gpu is maxed out while playing?

What speed is your processor running at? If your cpu is maxed you may get an improvment by upping the speed.

Is the game running out of memory on your gpu?

Information like these will help determine if there is an actual bottleneck on your part or not.

 

This is supposedly normal as the actual game server in Arma3 multi can/will limit your fps. Most advice points to shopping around for a server that has less fps loss for you.

I will check this later today.

[FineVisionz]

Have you checked to see if your cpu or gpu is maxed out while playing?

What speed is your processor running at? If your cpu is maxed you may get an improvment by upping the speed.

Is the game running out of memory on your gpu?

Information like these will help determine if there is an actual bottleneck on your part or not.

 

This is supposedly normal as the actual game server in Arma3 multi can/will limit your fps. Most advice points to shopping around for a server that has less fps loss for you.

Is there a program you would recommend I could run wile seeing if my gpu or cpu is maxed out,  and if the game is running out of memory on my gpu.

[StainlessSR]

Is there a program you would recommend I could run wile seeing if my gpu or cpu is maxed out,  and if the game is running out of memory on my gpu.

Personally I have a second monitor that I keep monitoring gadgets running on to I can just glance over to see, however most reports are that HWiNFO is great.

 

This post has a very nice tutorial on setting up an ingame reporting of cpu/gpu usage statitics for most any game.

 

Edit: Here is the same setup from the dayz forum

[bmspendley]

Get the new gtx 960, evga is about to come out with the 4gb version if you want to run games at higher resolution

[Notree]

A CPU upgrade won't do anything in ARMA 3 multiplayer.  Custom missions will run like arse across the board no matter what hardware you have.

 

A GPU upgrade would enable you to push for higher quality settings, but won't do much for your framerate. 

Well considering I've seen 3 people upgrade from AMD cpu's to  intel i5's and get 10-20 frames will agree to disagree.

[FineVisionz]

Have you checked to see if your cpu or gpu is maxed out while playing?

What speed is your processor running at? If your cpu is maxed you may get an improvment by upping the speed.

Is the game running out of memory on your gpu?

Information like these will help determine if there is an actual bottleneck on your part or not.

 

This is supposedly normal as the actual game server in Arma3 multi can/will limit your fps. Most advice points to shopping around for a server that has less fps loss for you.

I got in game set in game settings maxed out,  got on a quad and drove around as fast as I could to try to stress my cpu and gpu with everything rendering in quickly and here is what I got 

As you can see my GPU and CPU Got up in the 80's.  But what is weird is that it didn't get that high when I was in game and driving around.