Imonars

I made sure during the post to NOT include the word "All" or "everyone". I made sure to say MOST or the MAJORITY of them. Some of them understand the situation and other just refuse to even listen. When Arma 2 was first released it had performence issues, and "those" issues were fixed. I don't remember anyone having FPS issues last year when I was playing arma, that's because BI did they had to do and fixed it! But what I meant in my original post is that Arma 2 had different kinds of issues, not specifically related to this one, and THOSE issues in arma 2 DIDN'T make the game unplayable or boring! As for your last point, I know that plenty of people have FPS issues and I'm NOT denying it in anyway, I'm just directing them towards different objectives that this game has to offer until the MP is fixed!

It's called Bipod tremanarch, and I doubt it's gonna arrive in a "DLC". More like a free patch, or a mod just like Arma 2.

First of all, I would like to introduce a friendly thread, where people make constructive and valid points. The performance issue. First of all. The only place where people are having FPS issues is in the MP games, specifically in public MP games. When I first joined a clan and got into their server, I had no FPS issues at all. But, the moment I went into a Public MP game. My fps dropped to 15-20. This made me wonder and eventually convinced me that the issue was server side. Some servers work perfectly, other servers don't. Which is partially true because just today I tried Arma's Public MP for the first time after the release (I was in the beta btw) and when I was talking to my teammates in the chopper I mentioned if they had encountered any fps issue,one of them replied "Nah, FPS drops to 20-30 in MP which is completely playable for me". When somebody wants to buy a game, they read the reviews; the discussion forums on Steam and the game's official forum (Ofcourse 90% of player don't do that and they head straight to youtube for the gameplay then they buy it). In this case with arma, people who like to play with clans, SP and play with the editor and stuff will be like "oh, the game is totally unplayable then! better not buy it". Just looking at the forum posts and the discussions on steam makes the game sounds like it's not fun, unplayable, and a waste of money. Which is completely wrong. My friends keep telling me they are having a blast playing with the editor, scripting, creating and publishing missions, doing the showcases and competing with the new challenges. Even though 90% of the servers in the public MP have FPS issues, this doesn't mean the SP is unplayable, this doesn't mean that ALL of the MP is unplayable, this also doesn't mean the editor and the Workshop are not fun or unplayable. Reading through the forum here on bistudio, the developers clearly state that the problem is there. They aren't ignoring it or trying to hide it under the carpet. But the problem is that they are dealing with a tough crowd, full of non-mature people. Trying to ruin the game for us loyal fans because they want games that work on release date. Like this guy I was arguing with who said: "Why not delay the release date?". Ofcourse after arguing with him for 2 pages trying to convince him that delaying a release isn't that easy, since there are tons of stuff that happens before a couple of months from the release date that cannot be delayed for any reason. Plus, that's how Bohemia works. Or this another guy who kept arguing with me that only 30% of his core is being utilized or whatever. Clearly he had no idea what he was talking about like the rest of the 90%, and when I tried to explain to him that even if the game could work on more cores, the problem would still be there because there are problems that need to be fixed and spreading the game on multiple cores isn't the magical solution to all of it. Instead, like the rest of the people from the post. They kept spamming their PC's spec all over the place and saying: "I can handle BF3 at ultra" or "I used to have 100 fps on CoD". Clearly, they are used to MP and skipping campaigns and ANYTHING that relates to SP, which is bad in this case since a LOT of people bought arma for it's Editor and Showcases, and maybe a couple of COOP missions with a clan every one week or so. The Majority of the people that popped out right after the release date are really immature and impatient. Some of them call you a "Fan boy" for presenting a valuable point that they cannot reply to other than sticking their spec right into your face! Can't handle the MP? GIVE SP A TRY! Try to learn how SQF works, and try to make your own mission. A lot of you are missing a lot just because the multiplayer has bad FPS. About the content, I agree that Arma 3 has less content than any previous arma game, that's because they went for quality over quantity. As a 3D designer my self. I can completely relate to the pain of creating 3D models, adding textures, doing the animation. Ofcourse that DOESN'T means we should have less content. But I wasn't mad about it, why? Well because of two reasons: 1- They are giving us the entire library of Arma 2. http://www.arma3.com/news/report-in-marek-spanel-ceo#.UjM2yCk9LmG 2- They will give out content for FREE as the time passes. I just made this post because I can relate to what the developers are dealing with, and as an ARMA fan and player, I trust that BI will make this game better overtime. Another reason is that I want people to look at the issues we are having from a different perspectives and at least try to understand what's going. It's not like the game is going to be left out there unoptimized!

The developer was CLEARLY talking about audience like you sir. Yet you come to this thread, read NONE of its post then post nonsense ---------- Post added at 20:55 ---------- Previous post was at 20:52 ---------- You want CryEngine 3 or the latest FB to run a huge game such as arma? As a programmer I can clearly say that's possible but you would need some of the best hardware out there.. Plus, when making a game with an engine that most of the engineers and programmers are not used to can be clearly an obstacle. Arma's engine is what "makes it" an arma game.

Man, your work is pretty impressive. I'm fairly new to weapon designing and using blueprints, you've inspired me to do this actually :) Pretty basic materials, and it requires from fixes over here and there.

I play on GT630m (yes on a laptop) with 4gb or ram and intel i5. I can play on high settings on SP with 25-30 fps in the open. With visibility set to 50% and object visibility set to 100%. As for the multiplayer I play on standard, and with no AA, but with same visiblity settings, and on a good server and I get around 20-25. Other servers I get 15-25. Because MP also depends on the servers, also good pings help too.

I don't know if anybody is facing this problem too. I can't get a lock on using the Titan AA and AT on vehicles or choppers. Plus; look at the screenshot below please, there seems to be a visual bug that creates two lines at the top and a black area at the bottom So two things: I can't get a lock on, and there's the visual problem. Is this a known bug or is it just me? I tried restarting and change the PIP to Ultra. No Luck. :confused: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=169057628

Hey, I'm Shawn. 19, mature guy who is looking for real ARMA III experience. I fell in love with ARMA the moment I first played it. I can use voice communication in English without any problems. I take it very seriously when on a mission but when I'm not on an official mission I can then share a good laugh or two. My time schedule is very flexible. I have only 5 hours in choppers. But over 10 hours as a sniper. I prefer sniping from a very long distances, I worked with a spotter once and it was great. I can work by myself too but I'm 100% efficient with a spotter, I'm also good as a chopper gunner. I'm also looking for friendships with a few guys within the squad who are also mature and like to do sandbox and simple COOP when not on official missions. Contact me via steam: http://steamcommunity.com/id/Imonar Looking forward to work with new people! Later!

Hello, while I was playing Wasteland with around 13 fps. Although I tried before to tweak and play with my video settings I had no luck, so I decided to try it again. I found this possible fix and I kind of had no lag in multiplayer since, just go to video settings and and tweak everything as you like, but if you have shadows on LOW, try to raise them a bit to high or standard, although this might seems like a bad idea to increase FPS, but it actually worked and I went from 13 fps to 40 on medium settings and shadows on standard (up from low). Some players on the same server reported that it worked, so I thought I might just post it here. Also I heard that you should try to put the settings on ULTRA first then tweak them down until you get the desired FPS. Later

Hey, thanks for the quick reply. I'm on ARMA III BETA 0.74.108135 After I purchased it on steam, I clicked install game. It downloaded around 5 gigs and I launched it. ---------- Post added at 22:27 ---------- Previous post was at 22:19 ---------- Hello again, I might have solved the issue on my own (took me couple of hours, should've tried before posting :) ) Just for future help I will include the solution in here: Went to multiplayer, clicked on filter, clicked on default, then set min. players to say 5 or 10, then click OK. Now click refreash and wait a couple of seconds, then click again and just a couple more times and it showed me around 40 servers (almost full too!) Enjoy! :D

The problem is that I've tried ARMA 3 alpha on my friend's PC a while ago and got hooked, when I actually bought the game 2 days ago, I thought the multiplayer and the COOP experience is going to be a lot more populated than the alpha, just to find out that there are actually few servers with cool COOP. Wasteland is like Dayz which I never liked. I'm really more into COOP and following orders. Tactical play too. Here's an image of what I'm seeing: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=168160629 as you can see these are the top 10 most populated servers. So only a total of 150-200 are actually playing arma? I don't get it, something must be wrong right? BTW: I live in EU if this has to do with anything