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ArmA 3 goes to ~5 FPS after maybe 10 minutes

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Hey,

I have this problem.

Everytime I play, every type of mission (I tried it with just a car and me in editor, Altis Life, a custom mission and King of the Hill), i can play maybe for 10 to 20 minutes, and then suddenly I get an huge FPS drop and suddenly my FPS, who before were at ~25 are now at 2 to 5.

For me, that screams that something overheats. But it doesn't. I cleaned my PC, checked that all coolers are working and with a third party programm I checked if my CPU or GPU overheats, but no. They are both stable at ~40°C when I get this type of thing. The funny thign is, as soon as I restart ArmA it goes away and I can play again.

Yes I disabled VSync. My drivers are the newest version. I tried that stuff with -cpuCount -maxvram etc. already, but that just improves the FPS in general, doesn't fix the problem though.

I should mention that this is Altis only. On Stratis I can play hours.

Any help with this? It is really annoying, because I basicly can't play anything expect for Stratis stuff... which is basicly not much out there.

Please :|

Lg

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-Did you check your used RAM while playing?

-Heard that Arma writes/uses a lot of temp stuff on the harddrive. If yours is nearly full it could mby slow down the whole process.

Just suggestions, i have no clue.

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-Did you check your used RAM while playing?

-Heard that Arma writes/uses a lot of temp stuff on the harddrive. If yours is nearly full it could mby slow down the whole process.

Just suggestions, i have no clue.

Yeah, bad ram will crash you..., run memtest.

10min. in..., hardware for sure.

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Yeah, bad ram will crash you..., run memtest.

10min. in..., hardware for sure.

Mby i said that wrong. I was talking about the used RAM limit if he has enough for the game requirements.

I dont think the problem is based on a broken RAM stick because i had this problem before (broken RAM hardware, not your prob^^). The result from 1 pair incompatible RAM and one pair compatible with a broken one were blue/black-screens and random freezes.

If you really want to check if your RAM is broken i would suggest to unplug all RAM sticks except one and max out your RAM limit. Until every single stick was plugged in once. If you want to be 100% sure run memtest while you do that.

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I just ran memtest, no problems :/

I should mention every other game runs fine and Stratis too.

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Could be the game running out of available ram and falling back to paged memory, it could also be hardware overheating but you've discounted that.

add -maxmem=2047 to your startup parameters

You mention playing King of the hill, perhaps its the server you're playing on, try a few other places.

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@Furret I already did that. My startup line is like this(increased the length it need to happen, but still doesnt prevent it):

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Also that happens EVERYTIME I play Altis. For example when I play a custom mission or just drive around in empty Altis with a car, that happens after 10-20 minutes.

@Nunu Basto

Yeah I'll try that and install a 64 bit system (according to this http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?169012-Sudden-FPS-Drop-after-30-60-Minutes-Issue-Solution)

But I wanted to try if its something else before. Gonna do that in a week, when I have time. :/

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Wow. That really solved it.

The FPS drop is vanished AND (fantatisc shit) I have constant 40 FPS, even on high settings. Before I had like 15 FPS on low settings.

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@Furret I already did that. My startup line is like this(increased the length it need to happen, but still doesnt prevent it):

8hCS6.png

Also that happens EVERYTIME I play Altis. For example when I play a custom mission or just drive around in empty Altis with a car, that happens after 10-20 minutes.

@Nunu Basto

Yeah I'll try that and install a 64 bit system (according to this http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?169012-Sudden-FPS-Drop-after-30-60-Minutes-Issue-Solution)

But I wanted to try if its something else before. Gonna do that in a week, when I have time. 

so sorry for necro.

 

i have 64bit and this STILL happens to me.

 

I guess I am out of luck... sigh

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