Why is Arma 3 and DayZ running like complete shit on my computer?

[WolfDeville]

No matter what I do these games run like complete shit. I've tried lowering settings and editing config files but nothing works... I am always getting low GPU usage and the FPS is always 30 or below.

[Nexxus]

Welcome to Arma

[TheMcSame]

ARMA only uses 2 cores iirc and it's just not enough, it'll run like ass on any rig. It's just poorly optimized.

[minibois]

Because Arma and DAYZ run on the same engine and the engine is terrible for a lot, if not all, hardware.

 

It's very CPU bound and I don't think it uses many cores as well.

Can you check your CPU usag? Both overall and the specific cores usages?

[Praesi]

ARMA only uses 2 cores iirc and it's just not enough, it'll run like ass on any rig. It's just poorly optimized.

I have zero issues with Arma 3.

[WolfDeville]

Minibois, on 02 Oct 2015 - 6:34 PM, said:

Because Arma and DAYZ run on the same engine and the engine is terrible for a lot, if not all, hardware.

 

It's very CPU bound and I don't think it uses many cores as well.

Can you check your CPU usag? Both overall and the specific cores usages?

I'll check after i finish dinner.

[Humbug]

Lots people say these are some of the worst optimized games around.

Personally have not tried them.

[WolfDeville]

Minibois, on 02 Oct 2015 - 6:34 PM, said:

Because Arma and DAYZ run on the same engine and the engine is terrible for a lot, if not all, hardware.

 

It's very CPU bound and I don't think it uses many cores as well.

Can you check your CPU usag? Both overall and the specific cores usages?

I just checked.

 

5 cores are ranging between 12% and 20%, very inconsistent and one of them is always between 30% and 44%

[freexavier]

No matter what I do these games run like complete shit. I've tried lowering settings and editing config files but nothing works... I am always getting low GPU usage and the FPS is always 30 or below.

 

It depends on the server performance, mission design, and map. I did my best on choosing the best quality and performance settings.

Try setting your settings to these and go to the Editor and go around and test:

VIDEO OPTIONS:

GENERAL:

 SAMPLEING: 100%

 TEXTURE: Ultra

 OBJECTS: Very High

 TERRAIN: High

 SHADOW: Ultra

 PARTICLES: High

 CLOAD: Ultra

 PIP: Low

 HDR: Standard

 DYNAMIC LIGHTS: Ultra

 OVERALL: 4000

 OBJECT: 1600

 SHADOW: 100

DISPLAY:

    DISPLAY      MODE  : Fullsc reen

RESOLUTION: Native Res

  ASPECT    RATIO : Nativ e Ratio

VSYNC: Disable

 INTERFACE  SIZE: Preferen ce

BRIGHTNESS: 1.0

GAMMA: 1.0

AA & PP:

BLOOM: 100

RADIAL BLUR: 100 (Preference)

ROTATION BLUR: 100 (Preference)

 DEPTH  OF FIELD:  100 (Preference)

SHARPEN FILER: 0 (Personally I leave this off to remove the annoying haze effect)

AO: HDAO High

CAUSTICS: Enabled

FSAA: 8x

ATOC: All trees & grass

PPAA: CMAA

ANISO. FILTERING: Ultra

AUDIO OPTIONS:

SOUND SOURCES: 32

(Keep in note that these settings won't help in Multiplayer or Unoptimized Singeplayer Missions. And will be usefully for Singleplayer. Try going to the editor and placing yourself as a unit and test these settings. I get around 45 to 75 FPS on Stratis and 38 to 55 FPS. Multiplayer and Singeplayer with a lot of AI and objects are a different story.)

 

Also there is other advance trick to improve FPS for Arma 3 and DayZ around 1 to 5 FPS. Here is a forums about it:

https://forums.bistudio.com/topic/154302-arma3-and-the-largeaddressaware-flag-memory-allocation-2gb/

 

 

ARMA only uses 2 cores iirc and it's just not enough, it'll run like ass on any rig. It's just poorly optimized.

Actually it does use more than 2 cores, but not effectively.

[Nena Trinity]

They should give it DX12 or Vulkan...

[danomicar]

Is there a way of seeing if it is detecting your dedicated GPU, not onboard? If you don't have onboard graphics then disregard, but i've had alot of games not detecting my 670 for some reason. Had to enable it in the settings and run as administrator in most cases and the games ran fine

[hk29]

this is a feature not a glitch

[Th3 Mans1ay3r]

Because they are horribly optimized.

[SteveGrabowski0]

The only thing that works for me on Arma 3 is turning draw distance way down, using a 3.6 GHz Xeon E3-1231v3 and a GTX 970 @ 1430 MHz. I can't imagine what this game must be like for AMD users.

[WolfDeville]

mcfly, on 03 Oct 2015 - 07:26 AM, said:mcfly, on 03 Oct 2015 - 07:26 AM, said:

Is there a way of seeing if it is detecting your dedicated GPU, not onboard? If you don't have onboard graphics then disregard, but i've had alot of games not detecting my 670 for some reason. Had to enable it in the settings and run as administrator in most cases and the games ran fine

Nah that won't be a problem for me, Sandy-Bridge E chips don't have onboard GPU's.

 

Edit: "If you don't have onboard graphics then disregard" lol sorry I didn't see that, went to bed at 5AM and woke up at 9 so I am pretty tired 

[Humbug]

They should give it DX12 or Vulkan...

Both Valve and Chris Roberts (Star Citizen) have talked about this re Source2 and Cryengine. They said that it's no good just porting the games to Vulkan/DX12. You have to relook at the core of your game engine and may sure stuff is very well parallelised and then on top of that you use DX12/Vulkan to interface with the GPU and that's when you get the real benefits!

[ofr057]

Both Valve and Chris Roberts (Star Citizen) have talked about this re Source2 and Cryengine. They said that it's no good just porting the games to Vulkan/DX12. You have to relook at the core of your game engine and may sure stuff is very well parallelised and then on top of that you use DX12/Vulkan to interface with the GPU and that's when you get the real benefits!

 

Quite sure the CEO of Bohemia has talked about bringing it in, I think jay crowe has also talked about it.

theres a Big update with the new island etc due sometime next year - that will most likly move towards those objectives

[Nena Trinity]

Both Valve and Chris Roberts (Star Citizen) have talked about this re Source2 and Cryengine. They said that it's no good just porting the games to Vulkan/DX12. You have to relook at the core of your game engine and may sure stuff is very well parallelised and then on top of that you use DX12/Vulkan to interface with the GPU and that's when you get the real benefits!

Yeah who said "just" port?  (valve does not need to their stuff run on ANYTHING!)

[Humbug]

Yeah who said "just" port?  (valve does not need to their stuff run on ANYTHING!)

Ya I was just making the point that they have a lot of work to do and they can't just use the new gen APIs as a magic bullet.

 

Valve has already got Dota2 running on Vulkan on Source2 which they will release within the next couple of months when the Vulkan drivers come out

https://youtu.be/quNsdYfWXfM?t=1h41m22s

They have a massive player many of which use crappy laptops so they absolutely would love to make things more efficient even though their games are already quite well optimized. And they have Source2 which will be used for their future more demanding games and licensed out to other devs.

[Nena Trinity]

Ya I was just making the point that they have a lot of work to do and they can't just use the new gen APIs as a magic bullet.

 

Valve has already got Dota2 running on Vulkan on Source2 which they will release within the next couple of months when the Vulkan drivers come out

https://youtu.be/quNsdYfWXfM?t=1h41m22s

They have a massive player many of which use crappy laptops so they absolutely would love to make things more efficient even though their games are already quite well optimized. And they have Source2 which will be used for their future more demanding games and licensed out to other devs.

Oh right and many of those laptops are weaker than consoles... And people blames consoles because?