xorioz

So... I bought Arm 3 back when it was beta. it ran pretty bad with a max fps at about 15 - 20 even at lowest settings. I thought to myself that it was a beta and it would be fixed by the time the game was finished. Well the game came out and i tried it again same result. I checked the minimum requirements and confirmed i should be able to run the game. I then searched and searched the internet and found a multitude of fixes like disabling cpu parking and so on. no visible change. "perhaps plus 5 fps at lowest settings" funny thing is this problem only seams to persist in multiplayer. "with or without mods" Among other things i have tried reinstalling both the game and windows itself. Have tried a multitude of gpu drivers, flashed my bios and the list goes on. the more players on any given server the more the fps drops. this is my setup. 16gb ram at 2214 MHz amd FX-8120 at 3422 MHz Nvidia 490. 4x ocz vertex 3 (raid) gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5 (rev. 1.x) motherboard. I have before thought that my gpu might be the bottleneck but when testing arma only uses about 50% of the gpu speed/power. I have gone through all the guides for optimization i could find here on this forum. So does anyone have any idea if i can fix this problem or do i realy have to get a new pc to run this game at playable frames?

Well if it's the servers i have tried to play on then damn. Is no one hosting proper servers then? Tho i did some searching and it seams the problem is the bandwidth the servers require. an insanely ludicrous 16Mbps out for 64 players. That's 31,25 KB a sec per player. if we convert this to vectors "3d position". 3 floats per vector. one float = 4 byte. giving 12 byte per vector. That's about 2666 vectors a second. 2666!!!!!!!!!!! Let me stress how wrong this is. It's a given that some of this bandwidth will be used for other stuff but it's still way way to much data. at any given time the server should only send you the positional information for stuff within reasonable distance from your current position and again this should only be the stuff that moved or changed orientation since the last tick. i'm not far enough in my game programming lessons to know about synchronization and cheat prevention but i seriously doubt this should take up that kind of bandwidth.

Ill try some of the overclocking again. But i don't think it will help. tried before. Guess ill have to go out and get an I7 and a better gpu. Really sucks tho. I hoped the Arma 3 engine would be step up from the Arma 2 engine. Sorry to see a good game concept be ruined by bad programming. Well i expect it's bad programming.