Richatu

Okay so I tried out the heli mission again, this time with an fps counter. Turns out I'd gotten a bit too used to the mission being unplayable, and in fact I'm not getting these 30+ fps that I stated. At the location you took your picture i get about 25 - 30 fps at the same settings you have. At high/ultra settings i get around 20- 28 fps there. ( I also made sure to have around the same view distance as you have). Have you tried out multiplayer (wasteland, etc.) with these commands on?

Would you consider a 660 Ti a low spec GPU? Im telling you the difference is incredible for me. You know the helicopter showcase? At the beginning where all the soldiers are running around near the choppers i had around 10 to 15 fps, and now i'm playing at 30+ at that scene. Also when playing wasteland i used to have an fps at around 25 with low rendering distance and no action. Now it's around 40 fps or more and i can have rendering distance at far. (Sorry if i sound hostile, not my intention)

Oh, That explains why it had turned back to zero when i opened the cfg again.

I used to run ArmA 3 at very crap framerates, but now I can play Wasteland with great fps and far rendering distances. This might not work for everyone but it's definitely worth a shot: 1. Go to C:/Users/''yourusername''/My Documents/Arma 3 Alpha and then open the Arma3Alpha.cfg file as a text document. 2. Find GPU_MaxFramesAhead and change it's values to 1; instead of 1000; or whatever it's at. 3. Now change the value of GPU_DetectedFramesAhead to 1; instead of 0;. 4. Launch ArmA 3 and drool at the framerates. Hope this helped you! (My specs: GTX 660 Ti 2GB, AMD FX 8350 8core 4.0 GHz, 16 GB RAM)

I have the exact same issue, it's really frustrating.. It barely matters what settings i play at, Reducing the view distance helps only slightly and sometimes doesn't help at all. These are my specs: Win 8 AMD FX 8350 8x cores @ 4.0 GHz 2GB GTX 660 Ti (EVGA). I had the same problem with ArmA 2, except back then i was playing with a quad core 3.6 GHz processor. I'm just wondering if the problems i'm experiencing now are because of the alpha or if it is related to my system.