Memory Speeds Are Important?

I wanted to get some better performance in ArmA2:OA

So I started upgrading my PC

I created a scene in the editor to benchmark my performance

Zargabad on a rooftop with 27 idle solders in view.

AMD 240 (2.8GHz)

GTX 260 (216 stream processor, 896MB)

4GB DDR2

24fps

I read that ArmA2 is pretty CPU intensive so I upped from the AMD240 to the best thing my mother board could handle. AMD 1090T @ 3.2GHz.

That CPU upgrade gave me only 4 more fps :confused:

New top score

28fps

So I thought it had to be my graphics card seriously holding me back. So I changed the nVidia GTX 260 into a nVidia GTX 460 OC 1GB. That only gave me a 2 FPS increase.

New top score

30fps

Now running at 30fps from the old 24fps made the game more playable, but I was still not too happy with the small FPS gain for the money spent.

That's when I decided to look into better RAM. So I bought 2x2GB OCZ DDR2 1066MHz.

My frame rate jump up a whole 10 frames!

New top score

40fps

The game is now much much more playable!

I have never seen any ATI Product line with 260 and 460 are you sure?

2x SSD in RAID 0 will give you 20 FPS more

VSYNC = 0 gives you FPS over 60 in non-stress conditions

I think he means GTX, not ATI.

2x SSD in RAID 0 will give you 20 FPS more

Don't think so, unless your origonal HDDs were seriously dire anyway.

Even a RAMdisk deosn't give any real FPS benefits, what you get is smoother texture loading and reduced stutter.

I know that obviously, it is a huge mistake to make 260 or 460 as a AMD Product you know?

Don't think so, unless your origonal HDDs were seriously dire anyway.

Even a RAMdisk deosn't give any real FPS benefits, what you get is smoother texture loading and reduced stutter.

Guess so, Defragging the game directory also improves it

No matter what just use exthreads and cpucount for the moment.

I know that obviously, it is a huge mistake to make 260 or 460 as a AMD Product you know?

Typo. No need to act like a dunce about it.

Lol I highly doubt having 2x SSD will give you 20 extra FPS just for having them hooked up. On my test there is hardly any HDD activity after load.

Get 2 Hard Disk and Run at RAID 0 also will do, installing the game on an SSD is not worth

Get 2 Hard Disk and Run at RAID 0 also will do, installing the game on an SSD is not worth

:eek: ???

Installing the game on an SSD can make a huge difference in feeding textures to video cards faster. Net result is increased FPS.