Best location to benchmark graphic settings?

[galzohar 31]

In Arma 2 it was pretty obvious that Zargabad was the place to test your FPS. If you handled Zargabad, you could handle practically everything. Outside of Zargabad there were only a select few places at which you need to look at from a specific direction to get an FPS drop (which is why people would play in Takistan in the middle of the desert, bump up their settings, and then wonder why mid-combat they have a sudden FPS drop when they look at one of those areas).

In Arma 3, I'm still not sure what location would have the biggest FPS hit. Let's have this thread for suggested locations that people can test, and say in which location out of all suggestions they had the lowest FPS, so that we know where to go when adjusting our graphic settings. Attaching a mission.sqm that already has the player in the correct position and direction would be optimal.

[k3lt 3]

Probably Agia Marina, though it really depends on amount of AI / Players..

[galzohar 31]

Graphic settings increase load on GPU. Players don't (unless you have a lot of players on your screen at once, which is unlikely). If you have low FPS due to stuff that load your CPU up, you will have low FPS regardless of graphic settings, so might as well enjoy good graphics. If you have low FPS due to high GPU load, you will always have FPS drops when you look at a graphically-intensive scene, regardless of CPU load.

Best location I could find so far (aka lowest FPS):

http://www.mediafire.com/?d5375apkg34hmcs

[Maio 293]

My suggestion would be just outside Agia Marina approaching it from the N-W That way you get a nice mix of vegetation and urban.