Help! Arma 3 optimal settings!?

[JScott03]

Hey all!

 

Arma 3 has frustrated the hell out of me... Any advice would be appreciated... I've been playing the campaign. All settings on ultra and visibility overall set to 4000 and have been able to stay 50-70 fps which is great. But I recently have reached a new level (Adapt : Signal Lost) which begins on a beach and then you walk up a hill to get a large view of a huge city and the fps drops to down in the 20's! Is this game just poorly optimized or is there a fix? I don't want to start playing on large multiplayer maps and then have this fps drop happen.Thanks in advance.

 

Current PC Specs

 

• CPU
  i7 2600k @ 4.3GHz
• Motherboard
  ASUS P67 Sabertooth
• RAM
  16gb Corsair Vengeance 1600mhz
• GPU
  ASUS STRIX GTX 980 OC (factory settings)
• Case
  Fractal Design Define R4
• Storage
  256GB Samsung 840 Pro SSD / 600GB 10,000rpm WD Raptor
• PSU
  Corsair AX1200
• Display(s)
  ASUS VG278H 120hz
• Cooling
  Noctua Air
• Keyboard
  Corsair K65 Mechanical
• Mouse
  Logitech G400s
• Sound
  AKG K712 Pro Studio Reference Headphones / Mayflower Electronics O2 Amp Dac Combo
• Operating System
  Windows 8.1

[niofalpha]

Why not just user GeForce experience?

[nessigs]

 

Hey all!

 

Arma 3 has frustrated the hell out of me... Any advice would be appreciated... I've been playing the campaign. All settings on ultra and visibility overall set to 4000 and have been able to stay 50-70 fps which is great. But I recently have reached a new level (Adapt : Signal Lost) which begins on a beach and then you walk up a hill to get a large view of a huge city and the fps drops to down in the 20's! Is this game just poorly optimized or is there a fix? I don't want to start playing on large multiplayer maps and then have this fps drop happen.Thanks in advance.

 

Current PC Specs

 

• CPU
  i7 2600k @ 4.3GHz
• Motherboard
  ASUS P67 Sabertooth
• RAM
  16gb Corsair Vengeance 1600mhz
• GPU
  ASUS STRIX GTX 980 OC (factory settings)
• Case
  Fractal Design Define R4
• Storage
  256GB Samsung 840 Pro SSD / 600GB 10,000rpm WD Raptor
• PSU
  Corsair AX1200
• Display(s)
  ASUS VG278H 120hz
• Cooling
  Noctua Air
• Keyboard
  Corsair K65 Mechanical
• Mouse
  Logitech G400s
• Sound
  AKG K712 Pro Studio Reference Headphones / Mayflower Electronics O2 Amp Dac Combo
• Operating System
  Windows 8.1

 

There is no optimal setting in ARMA 3 lol, actually turning down shadows can make a difference. 

[DarkRift5]

Welcome to Arma 3. Sometimes, it just decides to tank its framerate because it feels like it. I've had weird stuff like that where it was at a stable 60fps and then as soon as I moved I got a solid 8 fps.

It's a great game but it really needs to be worked on. Reduce your draw distances, my 5820k/980 will maintain 50+ with about 2800 distance.

[JScott03]

Thank all of you for the ideas... I'll play with it and see what I can do

[Zerosource]

I have almost same specs;

 

980 strix, i7 2600k, Sabertooth p67.

 

Exactly the same issues!!

[zappian]

Everything in low 320x200

 

Maybe you can get decent FPS with those settings.

 

/S

[Clarkey]

Arma3 is just a joke optimisation wise. Your Cpu might be bottlenecking a bit. But you just got keep fiddling with the settings.