However you may see some validity in this topic.
Alright so I'm sure many of you are aware that the optimization in Arma is, to be blunt, s**t.
However I noticed something when I was monitoring the performance of the PC under different circumstances (using MSI Afterburner (GPU) and Task Manager (CPU)) and I noticed that at no time did Arma actually utilize my GPU or CPU to 100% even thought the FPS was struggling horrendously.
I'm not too aware of how games really work but I would imagine that surely if your frame rate is low, the game should always try and achieve if not the highest, a good stable 60 FPS, this is not the case. Arma barely utilized my CPU (maximum probably 20%) and GPU spiked to around 60% usage but never reached 100%.
I spawned about 50 Infantry units to be annihilated by a platoon of tanks, FPS dropped to a mere 5 FPS, however CPU/GPU just never reached something like 80%.
Okay so I've asked regarding this about a few other games and various people have given me responses like "This game is very math orientated which mean it will use the CPU a lot, your CPU is really bad so you should change it out". To me that's actually pretty helpful but yeah could've explained a bit more.
Okay so this could go either way -
1. Arma is optimized poorly for AMD/Nvidia hardware and fails to utilize them enough
2. My components are too under powered to actually run Arma at get a stable FPS
3. There's something else I should consider doing, which may be my issue
I would appreciate any answer, even if you're telling me this is the wrong section and you're shutting down my thread.
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I should probably put my PC specs here -
Processor - AMD FX8350 8 Core Processor @4GHz
Graphics Card - MSI GTX 960 2G GDDR5
RAM - 12GB Hyper Fury X
HDD - Some random HDD
My launch settings (via Arma launcher) -
No intro
No splash
CPU Count = 8
Enabled Hyper Threading
malloc = -malloc=system
maxmem = 12033
maxvram = 2049