plaz help

[oranu]

my specs:

i3-7100

MSI 911-7A74-002 PRO motherboard

HyperX FURY 8 GB DDR4 2400 MHz

R9 280 3gb

 

basically when i play a game like arma 3 on all low settings my ram usage rockets to about 90% and my cpu sits at 43% meanwhile my gpu sits at 100% all of the time and i get 30 fps even in the map curator is this normal? and if so what should i do to get my cpu to perform better?  

[Janner558]

Probably a better graphics card, because at the moment it's pegged at a 100% thus bottle necking the cpu. You could try dropping the resolution to reduce the gpu work load.

 

might also be work looking at the cpu core usage because I heard somewhere that arma is not very well optimised for multi cores 

Edited July 12, 2017 by Janner558
Additional info

[PeachyUwUSenpai]

your gpu is quite old also thats how gpus tend to act 

2 minutes ago, Janner558 said:

Probably a better graphics card, because at the moment it's pegged at a 100% thus bottle necking the cpu. You could try dropping the resolution to reduce the gpu work load. 

in pretty much all computers the gpu is always the bottleneck no point in bringing that up. the issue is he's running an old gpu it's just a bad gpu for games like arma .

[PeachyUwUSenpai]

you probably want to save up and buy a 1050ti at least and you should be able to get above 60 at med settings

[Septimus]

Consider picking up maybe another 4 GB of RAM as well to give you a little more room to work. 

[PeachyUwUSenpai]

2 minutes ago, Septimus said:

Consider picking up maybe another 4 GB of RAM as well to give you a little more room to work. 

 if hes single screen 90% ram is fine the only issue is if he goes over 100%

[oranu]

thanks very much guys