Little help?

[Valen]

I just bought a new computer recently for around $550 specs are

CPU - AMD Athlon II X4 640 3.00GHZ

Graphics Card - GeFore GTX 750 TI 

Memory - 4.00GB of RAM

1TB HDD
64GB SDD

and i been having some problems running ARMA3 on Around Medium settings and i wanted to know if My CPU is causing the FPS lag issue or is being caused by my Memory RAM since it is very low. also i am getting around 15-20 fps on arma3 and on dayz 

Thank you.


 

[Oshino Shinobu]

Best way it to check your CPU and RAM usage when playing. Both DayZ and Arma are CPU heavy, so there's a fair chance it's that. If your CPU is at 100% or close when playing, it's probably that, if your RAM is at 100% then it's that. 

[Valen]

Best way it to check your CPU and RAM usage when playing. Both DayZ and Arma are CPU heavy, so there's a fair chance it's that. If your CPU is at 100% or close when playing, it's probably that, if your RAM is at 100% then it's that. 

So would ram really decrease FPS performance? my cpu only reaches around 40-50% and ram does reach to around 80-95%

[Jetster]

Its your CPU and ram. What speed is your ram? What resolution? what board? Cooler?  maybe you can overclock it

 

And what are your FPS on med

[Valen]

Its your CPU and ram. What speed is your ram? What resolution? what board? Cooler?  maybe you can overclock it

 

And what are your FPS on med

Memory RAM -DRAM Frequency 803.2MHz 

NB Frequency 2008.8MHz

Motherboard -  Gigabyte GA-78LMT-S2P

and not sure about PSU but i think it is around 420W-450W by coolmaster

and all on 1366X786

[Jetster]

So good news. You have a nice AM3+ board. is there two sticks of ram? So its running at 1600 in  Dual Channel. Or is it one stick.

 

With the AM3+ board it supports the Phenom II so you could upgrade the CPU. But first step would be to run some benchmarks to see where its preforming

 

Use Unigine Heaven 4.0 benchmark and set it to Ultra quality, 8X Anti- Aliasing 1920x1080 +Extreme tessellation .

 

And post tour score. It should be around 600

[Valen]

So good news. You have a nice AM3+ board. is there two sticks of ram? So its running at 1600 in  Dual Channel. Or is it one stick.

 

With the AM3+ board it supports the Phenom II so you could upgrade the CPU. But first step would be to run some benchmarks to see where its preforming

 

Use Unigine Heaven 4.0 benchmark and set it to Ultra quality, 8X Anti- Aliasing 1920x1080 +Extreme tessellation .

 

And post tour score. It should be around 600

Hi, sorry for the late reply i scored 

28.5 FPS

Score 718

Max fps 66.8

and i'm using 2 ram sticks.

[Jetster]

Well if you have the settings as I said then your good. Its working as it should. The CPU is a fair match so I don't see any bottleneck with that score

[Jetster]

Hey I have a question for you. Do you play WOW. I have a customer that wants a PC for wow. I was going to go with the G3258 and a GTX 750. Can you play on Ultra? Okay?

[SuperPug]

Sounds like its the ram causing the issue. 4GB just isnt enough anymore for current-ish games.

[Valen]

Hey I have a question for you. Do you play WOW. I have a customer that wants a PC for wow. I was going to go with the G3258 and a GTX 750. Can you play on Ultra? Okay?

I can play ultra on most games just not the Arma Engine i guess, and i never played wow before 

[Valen]

Sounds like its the ram causing the issue. 4GB just isnt enough anymore for current-ish games.

Ill probably be upgrading my RAM in the next day or so any suggestions on a cheapest set of 8GB of Ram? 

[SuperPug]

Ill probably be upgrading my RAM in the next day or so any suggestions on a cheapest set of 8GB of Ram?

8gb kits are usually around 80$ like this one for example http://pcpartpicker.com/part/corsair-memory-cmz8gx3m2a1600c9b

but why not just add 4gb to the ones you already have.

[Valen]

8gb kits are usually around 80$ like this one for example http://pcpartpicker.com/part/corsair-memory-cmz8gx3m2a1600c9b

but why not just add 4gb to the ones you already have.

Only got a 2 slot for ram and both sticks are 2GB each,  Also thanks ill probably be buying that from NCIX  tomorrow 

[Jetster]

Ram is all about the same price. Personally I don't think it will fix the issue. I might though. I may help other things though

[Krzyimprt]

Only got a 2 slot for ram and both sticks are 2GB each,  Also thanks ill probably be buying that from NCIX  tomorrow 

Arma is a poorly optimized game and doesn't even run well on high end rigs. Your CPU is pretty dated too..