Annexed_Nova_Space

I am a huge fan of the Arma series, and i've been playing them since Arma: Armed Assault. No other game comes close to the realism and authenticity that the Arma series offers. But never, have I regretted buying a single game as much as I have regretted buying Arma 3. :banghead: The game itself offers a wide variety of improvements, all of which are improvements to gameplay and graphics for the most part. But the game itself runs on the most terribly optimized engine I have ever seen. I have a very high-end rig, running an Intel 4770K OC'd at 4 GHz, 32GB of RAM at 1866 MHz, and a Nvidia GTX 780 with 4GB of VRAM, all running on a single 1920x1080 monitor, and I still barely break high settings on games with multiple AI's engaged. With my setup, I should be running this game on Ultra settings had it been optimized. But I don't think you guys even put any time into optimization, I think you just wanted to release an Arma 2 with some gameplay improvements here and there, and a new graphics engine based upon what I see in Arma 3. :angryfire: I can run the game Ultra settings when no AI's are present in a battle, but when any form of AI's enter a battle, my fps goes from a smooth 80-90 fps to a low 15. After checking my graphics card usage logs, at the same time I launched AI's into the map, the overall graphics card usage went down to about 20%. I even launched Arma 3 in windowed mode with MSI afterburner in a different window, and whenever AI's became present in a map, the usage took a complete dump from about 95% to 100% usage to 20%. I know the AI's in Arma 3 are complex, but they shouldn't be lowering GPU usage. Logically, GPU and CPU usage should be going up or remain the same when more AI's are introduced to a map, not being lowered. :386: Until SPOTREP's, SITREP's, TECHREP's, and OPREP's in the dev blog become focused on fixing the game and optimizing the game engine, i'm not going to recommend that anyone buy this game. Seriously, you guys have had 3 games to optimize a single engine. What are you doing wrong?