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froggyluv , Arma3goodCPUlowFPS , St. Jimmy Thank you mates ! Your info was really helpful ! froggyluv - with 760 card you can play with maximum settings ? or the are still some settings lowered ? and witch screen resolution you use ? Arma3goodCPUlowFPS - Dwarden - is this somebody that work in Bohemia Studio or he is mod maker ? St. Jimmy - You sure about Physix that calculated over CPU for nvidia ? i remember that this is one of nvidia features that calculated over GPU.... Maybe there is an option for developers to chose were to perform calculation - over CPU or GPU - so you possibly right ....

Hi to all, I'm interested to upgrade my PC to run ARMA 3 at higher FPS and have some conclusions, but still need help from the community or even ARMA developers to understand few things... My questions addressed more to people that have good knowledge of PC hardware and ARMA 3 dependencies in hardware I currently have: 2600K CPU running at 4.4 GHz (OverClocked) 8GB RAM (4x2 1600MHz) 6950 ATI video card (1GB) ARMA 3 installed on Intel SSD Let's start from CPU, I did few testings and noticed that ARMA3 cannot utilize at maximum speed all cpu cores, even not two of them, at cpu intensive usage ARMA3 use only one!!! core at maximum speed and all other physical and logical cores load only at 20-50% ... (i think it happens because main arma game engine was wrote long time ago and still don't have good multi-core optimizations) The other thing that I also noticed that is in most cases frame rate drop happens because of CPU and not because of GPU. I did simple testing - in any mission that have pretty high number of units, i just lowered all graphic settings to minimum values and even turn my playable unit "face" toward the ground, to prevent from video card "drawing" all those units on the screen - but game still have very low FPS number, and if i delete all units from the map without to change graphic settings - frame rate raised significantly... All this make me think that the main "bottleneck" in ARMA3 performance is CPU... But in this case - currently there are no cpu on the market, that can make any significant difference in performance compared to my current CPU - any new cpu that will run same 4.4GHz or about so (like mine now) will give me only slight performance improvement... 1. So first question - am i right that ARMA3 will not have any significant improvements from new CPU and more cores (compared to my current CPU)? About video card - I know that ARMA3 use Physix technology for units, vehicles e.t.c but this technology supported only in NVIDIA cards. I'm not sure, but i think that ARMA3 with AMD cards will make Physix calculations on CPU and not on GPU... 2. So the question is - Is it true about usage of CPU instead of GPU for Physix calculations ? And does it mean that if i will change my Video card to Nvidia instead of AMD i will free some CPU load and get little bit more FPS ? 3. Does NVIDIA cards have any other benefits over ATI - I mean does Physix technology looks better on it, or maybe it have better driver optimization, or less/more bugs in ARMA3 ? 4. ARMA 3 cpecification over the internet says that game will not use more than 2GB of video memory, so buying video card with more than 2GB will useless for ARMA3 ? About memory - I also found somewhere information that ARMA3 will not use more then 4GB of RAM... 5. Is this information right and will not have any benefits from extending memory amount ? 6. I've noticed that in some performance benchmarks that memory with higher frequency will give few additional FPS is it right ? About SSD - I currently have single SSD with arma3 installed... 7. Is it worth to upgrade to double SSD configuration in RAID0 or install a new PCI Express SSD to make ARMA3 load faster ? B.t.w. I was tried to run arma with and without all those parameters (-maxMem,-cpuCount,-exThreads e.t.c.) - didn't noticed any difference. Please share your thoughts and thank all for reply!

Hi all, I need help - I'm trying to disable "Flee" and "Surrender" behavior, but have no success :( I have 0.17 version of Bcombat mode. I try to edit config.sqf file and change "true" to "false" values. I have: bcombat_allow_fleeing = false; bcombat_allow_surrender = false; But it still does not affect the game - AI still surrender a lot. I don't have any special editors to edit .sqf files, I use windows notepad or wordpad is it OK ? Maybe somebody can send me edited .sqf file ? Thanks to all.