Bad performance in arma 2

Coopson · 3 May 2012 at 16:18

After seeing the DayZ mod thread i reinstalled arma 2 but i'm getting low fps in cities and i don't know why.

I loaded up mission 4 harvest red because it starts in chernogorsk

Setting Mostly on Max no aa

FPS at 24 but GPU usage is 28%

CPU usage is also low.

only getting 31 FPS here too on high preset with no aa and no post.

Is this just me are is this game just like this could any of you with specs close to mine try loading up mission 4 harvest red to see how mine compares.

Coopson · 3 May 2012 at 16:40

i remember this happening ages ago when i first got the game on older drivers so i doubt thats it.

Coopson · 3 May 2012 at 20:40

lurkio said:
your setting are too high

set some to high or normal , very high is too much

Too high for what tho whats bottle necking me both GPU and CPU usage is low.

If you tell me thats just how the game runs than i'll just have to deal with lame ass 30fps in towns on med/high but my computer has GPU and CPU power going unused.

i tried the high preset that is mostly normal and high with no aa and i get 31fps.

you have a 580 and a 2500k what settings do you play on and what fps do you get on that mission?

Coopson · 3 May 2012 at 21:10

lurkio said:
we dont call that town chernolag for nothing mate

as long as i know my systems running it the best it can hope arma 3 is more optimized

Coopson · 3 May 2012 at 21:45

pooley said:
Not sure this will work for you pal but a couple of things to try as I have and my gpu usage is 90%+ is add -maxMem=2047 -cpuCount=4 to the target line in your game shortcut and set video memory to default in the settings menu as this lets the game determine how much memory to use and not limit it.

whats your GPU?

Coopson · 4 May 2012 at 02:58

HR4 said:
By looking at your in-game menu it looks like the old Arma 2 type, do you have Operation Arrowhead?

Make sure that Arma 2 is upto date 1.11 patch for just Arma 2 or 1.60 for Arma 2 Operation Arrowhead combined.

All the best tweaks and fixes have gone the arrowhead route so you would be best running that.

If you get your A2 upto date but don't have OA, then get ‘Landtex’, ‘Sap Clutter’ & ‘IVD’ mods, Landtex and Sap clutter reduce the Chenarus foliage down and IVD is ‘instant view distance’ you can change simply in-game and reduce your view distance in towns or cities to improve fps..

If on the other hand you have Arma 2 Operation Arrowhead, there is a lot more you can do…

Fxaa & smaa is now built into A2 so you could use the game config to help, need to know what you have ?

This thread may help as well..

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i do have Arma 2 Operation Arrowhead i was just using that for the map

Coopson · 4 May 2012 at 14:07

breadturbo said:
I run it all on very high 10,000 view distance at 1920x1200 and it holds 55-60fps fine
I do find turning antialiasing down to 4x helps a lot and lowering particle effects.

Im also using a z68 gigabyte mobo, but a 2500k @4.8 and sli 470's so similar speed wise

You getting that kind of fps in Chernogorsk?

In the open my fps is fine and my GPU usage is maxed out.

I get the same fps in OA Fully updated too.

In OA on the e08 Benchmark i get average 61fps vsync was off on these settings

breadturbo could you try running the benchmark and tell me what you get?

Also overclocking graphics card doesn't show any improvement but over clocking cpu shows slight improvement