Arma 3 expansion just announched and showing on twitch E3 oh and DX12!!

Calin Banc · 24 Jun 2015 at 21:49

adolf hamster said:
this is true, i can understand that getting a faster cpu will help the scenario, but tbh for any other game the option to run it is always 'do without aa' or 'just lower everything from ultra to high'

can't understand why they dont do this, its one of those series i very much want to love [was addicted to joint ops back in the day running it on a pc about 10 years older than the game was just fine]. if it ran well on average hardware with average settings i'd be happy.

Someone on their forums did a couple of tests and analyzed some of the draw calls and some dx profiler. The game spends a lot of time on the "sim" and I think he said that even in MP, that simulation time increases as the number of player increases. It runs mostly on the main thread and in the circumstances he tested, the draw calls were around 1500-2000, which is very low.

Also one of Bohemia's staff said they're working on implementing DX12 at basic level, no advanced features. Sure, you'll get a boost here and there probably, but it's not a universal saver and without proper multithreading of the engine, performance will drop still.

Whoever says is getting 60 fps in some ridiculous scenarios, should try Altis in Kavala or a major city, not an empty space in Stratis.

ianh · 24 Jun 2015 at 22:41

Calin - Ok I tried that, 40v20 in Kavala - still 60fps with everyone firing. CPU usage for core 0 was 85% but 1, 2 & 3 helped out with around 40% each.

Like I said, if I use FSAA my FPS drops to sub 30 even in 1v1 as soon as the shooting starts but with it disabled my FPS is good (45-60 in most places, D/L'd missions, campaigns etc). I don't play MP so I don't know how good it would be then. I use Blastcore, JSRS and a whole bunch of extras (skins/weapons etc).

Calin Banc · 24 Jun 2015 at 22:56

Did you actually saw that FPS while fighting with FRAPS, MSI AB or you are measuring it in menu while paused, because in action I've posted on the last page how the FPS dropped at the same time with the GPU usage. Also, the FPS drops while the GPU is full at 99-100% usage or just random?

I play at 5280x1050, all maxed out (except draw distance and obj. distance and some minor settings like DoF, Blur), with 4xMSSA and the GPU at times is not used fully.

Jonahun · 25 Jun 2015 at 19:41

This map looks very interresting and DX12! Yeah. Will need a Fury or a 980Ti.

Calin Banc · 28 Jun 2015 at 10:09

Why is that? The problem is not the GPU.

Doogles · 28 Jun 2015 at 11:12

sgavan said:
I think Bohemia are one of the best developers at the moment, such great games and innovation to the modding community

I hate them atm. Arma 3 compared to Arma 2 isn't good even though it does run better, the maps arn't anywhere near as good and they keep expecting me to buy those stupid DLC and keep popping **** up everytime I go near a DLC Heli/Gun/Outfit, which should be free imo or at least over half price, way overpriced otherwise I'd consider buying it.

Boycey0211 · 28 Jun 2015 at 11:18

Doogles said:
I hate them atm. Arma 3 compared to Arma 2 isn't good even though it does run better, the maps arn't anywhere near as good and they keep expecting me to buy those stupid DLC and keep popping **** up everytime I go near a DLC Heli/Gun/Outfit, which should be free imo or at least over half price, way overpriced otherwise I'd consider buying it.

This sums up my whole A3 experience, wish they'd do something other than futuristic rubbish too, loved op flashpoint and A2 becuase they were current