TingTank 10 Posted May 7, 2013 (edited) Overview ---------- The ArmA Engine is famous for FPS Drops and stuttering, I've found a temporarily solution, for the MP. Maybe it helps for someone, I cant guaranteed it. It helped me alot with my GTX 560 TI and my i7 870. Programs ----------- MSI Afterburner (GPU Usage) NVIDIA Control Panel (Graphic settings) Notepad++ (edit .cfg) Unpark Cores (can improve performance) First ------ Start with these Parameters: -cpuCount=8 -exThreads=7 -malloc=system -maxmem=6144 -maxvram=1024 -nosplash -skipintro -nobenchmark cpuCount: 8 for HTT, maybe it helps, exThreads: 7, for quadcores, malloc=system, maybe fps improvements, maxmem and vram depends on graphic card. You can add -high for high priority. I did it in the task manager. Graphics Settings: Distance: 1600m Object: 650m (needs actually some fine tuning) AA: 4x (very important GPU usage improvement) PPAA: FXAA Ultra (you're decision) ATOC: Disabled (can help) Post Process: Disabled HDR: Low (helped me) Anistropic: Ultra (has no influence) PIP: Low (Ifrit GMG Gunner..) Dynamic Lights: Low (I get FPS drops due high settings) Texture: Very High (GPU Usage improvement, when Ultra available use it) Objects Details: Ultra (GPU Usage improvement) Terrain: Standard Clouds: Disabled (You can enable this option if you really like the ArmA 3 clouds... I'm lying don't do it :rolleyes:) Shadow: Disabled (for MP) Particles: Standard (Smoke on very high, fps drops) Other ------------ Now, go to you're ArmA 3 Other Profiles path. Edit with Notepad++ and change the Object Distance to 650m, and View to 1600m. Actually the Object Distance is up to you. Now to ArmA 3 and edit the cfg file. Change to GPU_MaxFramesAhead=1; GPU_DetectedFramesAhead=1; (reduces input lag) Unpark Cores can improve the performance (look at youtube or google) Steam: Dwarden wrote 1. STEM friend-list (even while online, just closing friend-list saves most CPU usage) 2. STEAM chats (the more of them active the worse the overall load) 3. STEAM updating (as uses checksums it needs some CPU and I/O, so make sure nothing is updating) 4. STEAM overlay 5. STEAM IM (switch yourself to OFFLINE for lowest CPU usage) 6. STEAM website (if you keep website open and minimize, it still keeps playing the flash animations for example, so ideally you visit e.g. your profile page as last) + set priority of steam to low Nvidia Settings: Manage 3d settings, select ArmA 3 Power management mode: Performance Multi-display/mixed-GPU acceleration: Single Display Maybe it can help (not tested) when you change the PhysX setting from Auto to the GPU. Wasteland: 30-40 fps (depends on server) ARMA 3 Invade & Annex: 40 fps (depends on server) Showcases: 60-80 fps Scenario whole lotta stratis: 50-60 fps Guides: http://www.day0.com.au/forum/arma/70-arma-3-alpha-performance-tweaks-and-settings-guide I hope it helps someone. EDIT: O&O Defrag can help too. I defragged my D: Partition to access (faster reading). Edited May 7, 2013 by TingTank Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
afp 1 Posted May 7, 2013 I have pretty much the same configuration but I think I get somehow slightly better FPS. The multiplayer is not optimized anyway so better consider performances only in single player. Here my comments: Distance: 1600m Object: 650m (needs actually some fine tuning) I went with 2500 / 1200, the 650 for objects is way too low, you may miss vehicles shooting at you at that distance. Unless you're in a city, the performance impact is less that it seems to be. Objects Details: Ultra (GPU Usage improvement) Big impact on performance, low visual difference. I ussually keep it "disabled", I change it to "high" if the LOD flickering is too bad. Clouds: Disabled I keep it at middle, the sky is really beautifull and performance penalty not that bad. Looks like the higher the level, the more clouds you see, too. Shadow: Disabled (for MP) Indeed, this add lot of performance drop but the visuals makes the difference. I have it at "high" or whatever minimum level I can see shapes on the ground. Particles: Standard (Smoke on very high, fps drops) Indeed, for better bullets impact effects you need it higher. I think there is not much difference in terms of performance once you go above "standard". A SSD drive also seems to count. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TingTank 10 Posted May 7, 2013 I have pretty much the same configuration but I think I get somehow slightly better FPS. The multiplayer is not optimized anyway so better consider performances only in single player. Here my comments:Distance: 1600m Object: 650m (needs actually some fine tuning) I went with 2500 / 1200, the 650 for objects is way too low, you may miss vehicles shooting at you at that distance. Unless you're in a city, the performance impact is less that it seems to be. Objects Details: Ultra (GPU Usage improvement) Big impact on performance, low visual difference. I ussually keep it "disabled", I change it to "high" if the LOD flickering is too bad. Clouds: Disabled I keep it at middle, the sky is really beautifull and performance penalty not that bad. Looks like the higher the level, the more clouds you see, too. Shadow: Disabled (for MP) Indeed, this add lot of performance drop but the visuals makes the difference. I have it at "high" or whatever minimum level I can see shapes on the ground. Particles: Standard (Smoke on very high, fps drops) Indeed, for better bullets impact effects you need it higher. I think there is not much difference in terms of performance once you go above "standard". A SSD drive also seems to count. Thanks for your Graphic Settings, yea right a SSD makes much sense for ArmA but not everyone have one. Like I said, O&O Defrag is with 5 various defrag Options somehow useful. I've to find the best experience for Object Details. 600m is really way too low but gaves me much fps. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakers O'Toole 2 Posted May 7, 2013 so many people have strange values for this: -maxmem=6144 anything more than 2048 is ignored, the setting itself is needless entropy. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Leon86 13 Posted May 7, 2013 I'd advise not to mess with core parking, if you really want to test this just go to bios and disable all the powersaving, that should do the same. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
xXxatrush1987 10 Posted May 8, 2013 set object details to low or normal, as it only affects on which distance things like glas of houses is visualy present, on i7 920 of one of my clan mates 2,5km viewdistance and 1,3k object distance was no prob in multiplayer and i7920 should be slightly slower then your i7 870. also try to get pagefile on different disk as arma3(not partition, physical hard drive if there) so many of the data transport is separated on 2 channels. cpucount 8 uses 4 cores, for utilizing ht you must set to cpucount 12, this benefits the most with threadparking of, but only 1-2fps. if no ssd is in the rig, try to make arma 3 partition at the beginning of the harddrive, where it´s the most fast. my clanmate can play big evo mission with around 30-45fps in agia marina, with ssd it should gain fps alot but he also has none, he uses gtx 560 ti 448 cores which offer maybe slightly more power then normal 560 ti. me hosting the mission local getting 75-90fps on i7 2700k@4.6ghz and samsung 830 ssd, and of cause the hd7970 helps alot with 3gb, minimizing streaming as many can held in the graphics ram. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nikiforos 450 Posted May 8, 2013 Low or standard objects detail can result in LOD issues and flickering. Especially in Agia Marina check out the basket court from distance while moving. If you put object detail to high the lod and flickering stops. I hope BIS will do something about it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ast65 10 Posted May 8, 2013 so many people have strange values for this:anything more than 2048 is ignored, the setting itself is needless entropy. lol, nice 1 :) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
teejayd 1 Posted May 9, 2013 lol, nice 1 :) He's right Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ast65 10 Posted May 9, 2013 He's right of course, just liked the expression 'needless entropy' ;) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NeMeSiS 11 Posted May 12, 2013 so many people have strange values for this:anything more than 2048 is ignored, the setting itself is needless entropy. 2047 actually, but the placebo effect seems awesome. :p Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
teejayd 1 Posted May 12, 2013 2047 actually, but the placebo effect seems awesome. :p I swear, all those parameters that have no effect... reminds me of this http://funroll-loops.info/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pawelkpl 29 Posted May 12, 2013 so many people have strange values for this:anything more than 2048 is ignored, the setting itself is needless entropy. Actually it is funny thing, I do host persistent domination server , after 5 days - task manager shows 2 520 000 KB of RAM usage. So it is more than 2047MB... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
babydoc 1 Posted May 12, 2013 actually it is funny thing, i do host persistent domination server , after 5 days - task manager shows 2 520 000 kb of ram usage. So it is more than 2047mb... 2460.9375 mb Share this post Link to post Share on other sites