lag spikes every 4 seconds

[theoeey 10]

I'm having some extremely irritating lag on most Arma 3 servers. this happens usually immediately as I spawn into the game My game starts to run at about 20-50 frames per second but in intervals of about 4-8 seconds it frezzes then keeps playing and so on and so on. I have tried re installing drivers, re installing arma, turning off firewall and a few other things but so far nothing has worked. some servers run smooth and without lag spikes mostly but most times when i join some realism op with i get these lag spikes. my single player runs smooth and self hosted servers.

PLLLZZZZ help it game breaking

my system specs are

AMD FX 8350 8 core @ 3.6ghz

GTX660 SC

16 GB GDDR3 ram

500 GB WD hard drive

700W power supply

[RuecanOnRails 10]

it may be from your HDD unable to keep up with the demands of I/O.

If possible try to get an SSD (worth every penny)

You can try to use ramdisk and symbolic links to move some of the larger and heavily accessed files to it. Or move the entire game to a ramdisk.

Make sure you HDD is not past 75% full, as you will begin to see slower and slower performance based on where the data is physically written to the disk.

Defragment your HDD. It might be that your files are so fragmented in order to load a texture, your drive has to search hundreds of different locations.

When it comes to performance in multiplayer. It is heavily reliant on the SERVER, and not your specs. If the server is hosting many people with a poorly optimized mission then you will likely have more problems versus only a few people with a well written mission.

As you said, your single player works fine. which leads me to believe it's likely your choice in servers. Try to find one or two that work well for you and stick to playing on those for a more stable playing experience.

Also if you're playing on a wasteland server, that would be the cause of your lag spikes. Wasteland is not greatly optimized and the servers hosting it are usually under-powered for the amount of player slots they offer.