is Arma 3 poorly optimized?

[imperialplanet]

is Arma 3 poorly optimized? im playing it and i get poor fps. 

[Tagiau]

Yes, which is why dayz is also poorly optimized(may be a standalone title, but it uses arma 3's engine).

[H4X3R]

Yes.

[Guest Kloaked]

Their engine is awful in terms of optimization, so yes.

[imperialplanet]

Yes, which is why dayz is also poorly optimized(may be a standalone title, but it uses arma 3's engine).

oh, ok, thanks

[ThyFeared]

Even worst than Ubisoft.

[kichilron]

Yes, which is why dayz is also poorly optimized(may be a standalone title, but it uses arma 3's engine).

 

Is that the case? That is new to me..

 

But then again - what do I know?

[kuzimins]

Is that the case? That is new to me..

 

But then again - what do I know?

"DayZ Developer"

You know nothing..  Jon Snow

But it doesnt use Arma 3 engine, does it? Its modified Arma 2 engine i think

[ofr057]

if you use fast ram it helps and a good over clock

[ColdYoda]

I'd assume so, I usually end up getting horrible framerates.

[Humbug]

Yes; it's terrible.

 

What resolution are you playing at on your 780?

[imperialplanet]

Yes; it's terrible.

 

What resolution are you playing at on your 780?

1080p

[RuecanOnRails]

Arma is an interesting title. Where high fidelity military sim meets mainstream gaming.

 

It's not so much that the game is poorly optimized, it's about how many things it's simulating and the order certain calculations must be made prior to a frame being drawn. From the large explosion infront of you, to individual rounds fired from yours and every other player/ai weapon, to a rabbit wandering on the other side of the map. Everything is calculated and simulated in a seamless instance across the entire map.

 

Configuring a good setup requires a lot of manual tweaks through configuation files, launch parameters, and ingame settings to find a balance that you're happy to play with. The common low, medium, high, ultra presets don't apply to arma the same way as other games.

 

You can follow some guides on performance such as this one http://forums.whatthefrag.net/topic/81-arma-3virtuality%E2%84%A2-4-engine-performance-tweaks-and-settings-guide-by-terminus/

Outside of settings, overclock your cpu, install the game on an ssd, close all background programs (clean restart if possible), have lots of available ram, and a large pagefile (also on ssd). There is a lot of content streaming from the game files along with heavy use of memory allocates which eat through ram and pagefile if you allow them.

 

 

Here's a visual example of what happens every time you fire your gun. A script is being used to visually track terminal ballistics, path, and penetration.

 

[kichilron]

But it doesnt use Arma 3 engine, does it? Its modified Arma 2 engine i think

 

It uses the Arma 3 engine. Or it uses the modified Arma 2 engine with the models and houses as Arma 3. im not sure

 

DayZ Standalone doesn't use the ARMA 3 Engine, it uses a different branch of the A2 version of RV.

 

Either way - ARMA 3 itself isn't really poorly optimised, as you will notice in SInge Player - however:

 

Most Multiplayer-Missions are. As someone mentioned above things like "Battle Royale" or "King of the Hill" or "Invade & Annex" will leave you with FPS being around a third of what your PC would do, simply because the missions are poorly optimised / written.

 

This is what you get when you give people the opportunity to easily mod and change a lot with their own code. Great things will happen, but most of them will not be though-through as much.

[lovingGamer]

yes, it is!

[Tiby]

ARMA is meant to be played on beefy servers that can sustain full gigabit vlans. I highly doubt that there are many out there and if you combine this with running the client on an AMD cpu, there you have it.

[TheMidnightNarwhal]

No. Youjust neeed a beefy CPU. You can set also change your view distwnce it helps alot on frames, you can set it from 1 to 12km.

[TheMidnightNarwhal]

Yes, which is why dayz is also poorly optimized(may be a standalone title, but it uses arma 3's engine).

What are you talking about? DayZ doesen't use arma 3 engine.