Low Performance especially in Multiplayer - Phenom II X4 955/HD 6850

[desfocado 1]

This is a repost from the low performance thread. I know it's a boring read but I'd appreciate if you could help me so here's my situation:

When playing Arma II/OA (Steam version) my FPS is lower than what my rig is capable of (I've seen gameplay from other people so I know for a fact it is).

Beforehand, I have:

-AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.8 GHz (C2 Stepping)

-XFX OC HD 6850 + extra OC @ 875/1100

-4GB DDR2 RAM (OCZ Reaper HPC)

-Gigabyte GA-MA780G-UD3H

-Seagate 500GB 16MB (ST3500418AS)

-Windows 7 x64 Ultimate

and I've tried with all of my 3 soundcards:

-ASUS Xonar DS

-TASCAM US144 MKii

-Onboard.

When playing single player my FPS is higher than it is multiplayer, even though there's AI involved, and it's playable at a minimum of 30+ FPS in almost every occasion with all on

very high and 2.5km view distance I believe.

However, in multiplayer, be it regular missions, wasteland or DayZ, my fps is always between 20 and 30 FPS (sometimes a bit higher in DayZ) and lowers to 15-20 in any big base/city (wasteland/dayz). And I mean ALWAYS.

Changing the settings will only add/subtract give or take 3 to 5 fps (if it does) and looking at the sky/ground gets me up to a whopping 30-35 fps(!!!).

And I have tried:

-every different config, from low to very high, to sceneComplexity "x,y,z", to "x,y,z" rendered frames and whatnot;

-every startup parameters including but not limited to -winxp, -cpuCount 4, -cpuCount 2, -exThread 7;

-Razer Game Booster (little side note, if you want to use it download it from Razer's website, not IOBit!);

-RAMDisk in the case of DayZ and setting affinity to 1, 2, 3 and 4 cores;

-running from Steam with extra params, without params;

-running from .exe shortcut with extra params, without params;

-cleaning registry with reliable software (fragmentation is at 1% so haven't done that);

-uninstalling games which translates to going from 20 GB of HDD space to 60+ out of 430GB usable;

-redownloading and reinstalling the game and quite possibly many other things I can't recall (haven't tried formatting... YET).

Also note that I've monitored many things:

-RAM usage is normal;

-GPU usage in SP is higher, 80%+ in scenario 1 (Trial by Fire) from Arma II, it's typically at 50%, sometimes 40% (just varies) for example in wasteland MP;

-CPU usage in both MP and SP is around 40-55% IIRC, (recently played and noticed Core 2 was at 60-80%, Core 1 was probably 50's and the other 2 probably running mostly background/OS, at 10 to 20%).

-Temps. My ATX case sucks and the temps are usually high but surely not in Arma. These values are relative so you don't need to know them (that'll just confuse you), just know they're lower than usual.

Please refrain from posting "your CPU sucks and is old, get sandy bridge cpu version X/your GPU sucks, get nvidia" because the rig should play the game fine...

and because I'm broke so I can't buy anything.

I can't think of anything to add right now. If you want to know something else I forgot or know some tweak I should try just reply anytime.

[W0lle 1050]

Why reposting it when it's already in the - correct - low performance thread?

Trying to get even more attention cause you think you're problem is more important than others? Might be (for you) but that's not how it works here. :)

Closed.