I am an owner of an FX 8320 and I love KOTH and other mp games, now originally I played for years at a 3.5 ghz not even turboed lmao. I was stressing all the mf time about how crappy my cpu ran. Now this is the scoop. I love my 8320... yes I do, Overclock that sucker to 4.4 ghz higher if you can, mine is overclocked to 4.4 ghz at 1.2875 volts(your rig will most likely oc at a different voltage, do research its pretty hard to mess up unless you add way to much voltage), be carefull it gets temppins to around 62 degrees, dont sweat it AMD is known to be an endurer. Had this chip now five years. get a good 60$+ water cooler and put that sucker on full blast for when it hits around 48 degrees celcius, around 50 the chip will automatically lower ghz to 1.3 or so. you dont want that. Hey go into your bios as well and disable all the power consumption crap, you want this chip to fly dont you? why set limits on what it can do? turn the turbo off too its dumb unless you are underclocked and know what you are doing to turbo only when you need it. To me its a waste of time just get your cpu to a 24/7 clock rate and keep tabs on temps. also put automatic notices on faulty equipment if it happens or just too high of temps, honestly you will know if it is overheating.. shut off randomly etc. BTW if you overclock to 4.2 you are bascially running an amd 8350 processor...cha ching free upgrade right.
Now arma isnt as simple as just oc'ing, yes thats the main bit. Arma cfg file in your documents under your profile, change refresh to the amount of refresh hertz your monitor is capapble of. Also change frames ahead to 4 and detected frames ahead to 1. 2ndly make arma a permanent high profile priority in the task manager, download system explorer to do it permanently as windows doesnt offer a permanent profiler. Heres where it gets good, crank up them graphics boy around very high to ultra should do it, check other peoples recommendations. I have ultra textures, very high or ultra everything else 1300 render distance should do it but you can go up to 2k. Also Im running 1440 just so you know. Oh I run an AMD 580 GPU so you probs may want to check for your specific gpu. one last thing and this is where the most potential of your cpu comes into play. Get overdrive from AMD (process affinity can also be set permanently here as well), and set a profile for arma 3 exc. under smart profile and enable all cpu core affinty 0-7 check boost state and core multiplier for core 0 only to +3 or +4 (Processor affinity. Processor affinity, or CPU pinning, enables the binding and unbinding of a process or a thread to a central processing unit (CPU) or a range of CPUs, so that the process or thread will execute only on the designated CPU or CPUs rather than any CPU.) threading is huge deal in arma basically we are making a 4 core 4 logical processor read like any good 8 core processor would. These step should dramatically change how arma and all other games runn like a beast. Dont go out and spend money on grubbers like intel, just be smart and if you have questions DM me. I love computers and I wouldnt be suggesting this in all honesty if I knew it wouldnt work. Yes the potential for damaging your cpu is there but sshoot dawg whats it worth nowadays like less than a hundred bucks? If you arent ready to move to AM4 just yet take these steps, Ive done the research and stressed the OC for capability and for errors.
Again dm me for any tips, I know great sites and tools to help on any AMD endeavor. AMD is my ♥♥♥♥♥♥ now.
low FPS on high end PC
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I am an owner of an FX 8320 and I love KOTH and other mp games, now originally I played for years at a 3.5 ghz not even turboed lmao. I was stressing all the mf time about how crappy my cpu ran. Now this is the scoop. I love my 8320... yes I do, Overclock that sucker to 4.4 ghz higher if you can, mine is overclocked to 4.4 ghz at 1.2875 volts(your rig will most likely oc at a different voltage, do research its pretty hard to mess up unless you add way to much voltage), be carefull it gets temppins to around 62 degrees, dont sweat it AMD is known to be an endurer. Had this chip now five years. get a good 60$+ water cooler and put that sucker on full blast for when it hits around 48 degrees celcius, around 50 the chip will automatically lower ghz to 1.3 or so. you dont want that. Hey go into your bios as well and disable all the power consumption crap, you want this chip to fly dont you? why set limits on what it can do? turn the turbo off too its dumb unless you are underclocked and know what you are doing to turbo only when you need it. To me its a waste of time just get your cpu to a 24/7 clock rate and keep tabs on temps. also put automatic notices on faulty equipment if it happens or just too high of temps, honestly you will know if it is overheating.. shut off randomly etc. BTW if you overclock to 4.2 you are bascially running an amd 8350 processor...cha ching free upgrade right.
Now arma isnt as simple as just oc'ing, yes thats the main bit. Arma cfg file in your documents under your profile, change refresh to the amount of refresh hertz your monitor is capapble of. Also change frames ahead to 4 and detected frames ahead to 1. 2ndly make arma a permanent high profile priority in the task manager, download system explorer to do it permanently as windows doesnt offer a permanent profiler. Heres where it gets good, crank up them graphics boy around very high to ultra should do it, check other peoples recommendations. I have ultra textures, very high or ultra everything else 1300 render distance should do it but you can go up to 2k. Also Im running 1440 just so you know. Oh I run an AMD 580 GPU so you probs may want to check for your specific gpu. one last thing and this is where the most potential of your cpu comes into play. Get overdrive from AMD (process affinity can also be set permanently here as well), and set a profile for arma 3 exc. under smart profile and enable all cpu core affinty 0-7 check boost state and core multiplier for core 0 only to +3 or +4 (Processor affinity. Processor affinity, or CPU pinning, enables the binding and unbinding of a process or a thread to a central processing unit (CPU) or a range of CPUs, so that the process or thread will execute only on the designated CPU or CPUs rather than any CPU.) threading is huge deal in arma basically we are making a 4 core 4 logical processor read like any good 8 core processor would. These step should dramatically change how arma and all other games runn like a beast. Dont go out and spend money on grubbers like intel, just be smart and if you have questions DM me. I love computers and I wouldnt be suggesting this in all honesty if I knew it wouldnt work. Yes the potential for damaging your cpu is there but sshoot dawg whats it worth nowadays like less than a hundred bucks? If you arent ready to move to AM4 just yet take these steps, Ive done the research and stressed the OC for capability and for errors.
Again dm me for any tips, I know great sites and tools to help on any AMD endeavor. AMD is my ♥♥♥♥♥♥ now.
HOPE THIS HELPS. Also get arma on your ssd