Thanks for the response and valuable insight, Do you think 3000mhz ram could really bottleneck the cpu from running at peak performance thereby limiting the gpus ability to work its magic? I'm curious if maybe I could increase the ram's frequency to 3600Mhz if that is the case I'd do that and then buy a new set of ram when it wears out?
As for my parameters, at low-quality versus highest quality, the fps was literally the same. Visibility I have it set between 2000-2500 (including objects).
Motion blur though I believe it is a curse on the internet that should be purged (I don't use it 🙂 ).
I would use vsync if I had a monitor with 120+hz but as I have an Acer S275HL 60hz monitor that I still love and works many years later so I don't use vsync that often. I tried it switched on though, and I lost 5 frames, which if I weren't already under 20fps I'd actually have it enabled, but I don't have the frames to spare with it off nevermind on.
I am completely baffled by this situation, to be honest. But here is something else I learnt just today... Contact was my first gameplay impressions of Arma 3 which is where my problems are, I booted up Arma 3 without that DLC and my fps is pushing between 70 - 100+ fps (50-60 with vsync) It would seem the problem rests with Contact. I'd like to know if anyone else has played the contact DLC with higher than 20 fps and what their settings are.
This guy explains the contact DLC better than me: 😄