JohnM81

The point of min specs and cpu not being fast enough is just incorrect. The choke point is the GPU. In fact I did an experiment. I got Afterburner on and when into Arma3:BP and lowered all settings. AB showed the GPU still maxed out and my FPS was 7. I put the game into window mode and then step by step started to turn down my resolution. Eventually I hit a point where AB showed the gpu wasn't being maxed out and low and behold as I had been saying my FPS shot up to 25-30. This proves its the GPU. I am now running in window mode with consistant FPS of 25. So I at least can play the game now. This doesn't solve the issue. I am still running this game on half of my GPU's. But at least at these settings one of my GTX 280M's can handle the load.

I sure did. SLI activated and Physx on vid cards deactivated. FPS 7-8 tonight :( ---------- Post added at 06:32 ---------- Previous post was at 06:31 ---------- How do I know if they are and how do I change that if need be? ---------- Post added at 06:57 ---------- Previous post was at 06:32 ---------- I used this site: http://bitsum.com/about_cpu_core_parking.php Disabled core parking for both ac and bat, went back into Breaking point Arma3 and FPS still sitting around 7-10. Also I checked CPU usage and it was at 70% while GPU1 at 99% and GPU2 0%. Should I just give upon this game? ...

Well as for me, I am struggling to get over 10FPS. Id be estatic with a consistant 25 FPS! I use Afterburner to evaluate the load on my graphics cards. And on one, 99% load and my FPS drops to 7. Temps aren't even going up. Second video card sitting there at 0% usage fat, happy, and lazy ;P. CPU never climes over 70% usage. I'm pretty sure its choking the on using just one GPU.

So I have been having cronic issues with BP's FPS on my M17x R1 gaming laptop. So I was running Afterburner and played some. When I finished I looked at the usage graphs of my two descrete GTX 280m video cards and noticed something. Only one of them had any record of usage! I then loaded Arma 3 game and played some. Afterwards I look at the graphs and once again, only one video card was being used! I then started up some other games, WoW, LoL, PZ, ect... Analyzed the graphs and then I saw both cards being used. So now I know both cards are working properly, its just Arma 3 game isn't using both cards causing a HUGE loss in FPS. My first thought was maybe I was using an old driver but after a quick visit to NVIDIA's website I have confirmed I am using the most up to date one. I will be posting this on the ARMA III forums, but they have rules that you have to be a 'regular' member before you can post even in their trouble shooting forum. And I have yet to achieve this status. Get Afterburner and see if this is your issue as well? So I was wondering if anyone might know how to fix this?

I believe in some of the Mods the majority of faces look like different races.