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Hi I have the same issue. Never had it before till the last update with +500 hours of online play. All of a sudden when heavy AA /Jets or Chopper start shooting frame rates drop almost instantly to a crawl (like 1 or 2 fps) Its unplayable. i7 3770K 16Gb Corsair Dominator Platinum EVGA GTX Titan SC Coolermaster Pro Gold 1000W Xonar STX sound HD650 Sennies No hardware changes on my side. After the update it just went south completely. Wish I knew how to fix it.

Hi, a relative noob here after switching my flight suits of dcs for rather drab combat gear so please do not see this as a whinge, more a question or a cry for help. I really enjoy the online game of Arma3 but the impunity of the airpower seems to be making my 'blip' fly of the fun radar sometimes. A few pawnee's in the air with blackfoots and jets and it becomes a battlefield4 ésk type multiplayer environment that largely negates the good infantry environment the game provides. Don't crucify me please, there just seems to be a disconnect between the ability to buy and get airpower up versus the ability to buy/get and sustain AA to counter. I have tried working with mates on foot as rocket teams. Getting decent AA vehicles in to cover more often than not results in them being hammered before they get anywhere close. The crux is, in reality airpower would have to tiptoe very carefully around some of the AA that is available in the game if it is active, but to me it seems they have the ovewhelming advantage and fly around just popping ' the missile will miss' flares with little worry. Perhaps I am missing the plot completely, but when I login to play these days and see a whole lot of airpower just murdering one side in an infantry game I go and do something else. If there are any good tutorials or threads on how to effectively counter this threat with the AA hardware available I would be most grateful for a point in the right direction. Thanks

I must just say, I am delighted that i logged in this evening and the server in question (the same one with all the air bs) was in fact, all infantry :). Still tkoh but only heli's ferrying troops into the fight, 95% of the battle was on the ground. Bloody marvelous!

Hi Slatts Noted and point taken. Not much variety online down here on the local front but let me at least try and explore what else is out there. Cheers

Hi and thanks for the response. Locally we have a tkoh server which is populated and I play on mostly. I suppose this is probably the quick and nasty version of the game, but I did like it in games like ghost recon and such. I have nothing against the aircraft/choppers being included at all, it just feels like the AA units do not have anything close to the punch {or rather effectiveness) they should have and as such are certainly not afforded the necessary respect they would be in reality. I enjoy the game a lot, and am just curious as to if this is the case or am i doing it completely wrong, which is also quite possible. :)