BattlEye makes ArmA 3 completely unplayable

[Tulkor 10]

Ever since one of the recent updates my framerate has been very low. I used to play on mostly very high settings with my FPS at around 30-60. With the same settings, I logged in today and my framerate was listed as around 3-10 FPS on the menu alone.

I decided to auto detect my settings again assuming the patch did something and it helped a little. Now it runs at around 10-20 FPS at EXTREMELY LOW settings.

I have an i5 3570K with an Nvidia 560 TI, 8 GB RAM

This seems to be related to my processor since even on insanely low settings the game still is not pumping out a good frame rate. Other games like Planetside 2 I run comfortably on ultra settings with 35-60 FPS. Anyone else notice this?

[Epicurus 1]

I had this issue but only in Multiplayer servers with BattlEye enabled. Completely uninstalling my antivirus fixed that issue and is the one possible solution I can offer. Additionally try out the dev build using the -nologs startup parameter.

[Epicurus 1]

Could you temporarily uninstall it completely just to see if the problem goes away?

I uninstalled it and the problem did go away. Unfortunately I didn't record the version number of the software before uninstalling. It was ESET NOD32 Antivirus. Let me know if you need any help testing conflicts with it in the future, for now I'll just keep it uninstalled.

[Tulkor 10]

Yeah the servers I was in had BattleEye enabled. I will try that parameter and joining the other servers for now. Thanks for the response.

[Dwarden 1125]

now for fun install Avast! 8 Free Antivirus ... everything shall work fine and you protected ;)

[rakowozz 14]

Start with completely uninstalling ZoneAlarm for testing. It has caused problems for others before.

Yes, that did solve the problem. Just to illustrate what was happening before:

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Screen would "freeze" for a second at least every 5 seconds. Seems very subtle on video, but ruins the gameplay.

It was ZoneAlarm here.