980Ti low FPS in ARMA III

[Raeks]

Just got a Asus 980Ti and im not getting the best frames in Arma. I know that game is pretty CPU intense. I have an AMD FX 8350 But I don't think it should make the FPS as low as it is. I'm getting about 30-35 frames. I have read it could be mobo throttling cpu.

GPU- Asus Strix 980Ti
Mobo- Asus M5A97 r2.0
CPU- AMD FX8350 (stock)

 

[GameFreak01048]

Now....the mobo throttling the CPU...that doesn't sound quite right...

Judging from my understanding of a motherboard, it is basically a plate that you stuff your components on, some have SLI/CrossFire capabilities and blah blah blah but more to the point, this doesn't sound right at all, so what I would do is the following;

1. Clean your system out - this can effect performance and cooling, you'd be surprised by how much

2. Check for viruses - always good to check for nasties that could make things run a bit slow

3. check your temps - could even be thermal throttling at this stage

4. list all of your PC components - gives us all a better understanding of whats going on, for all we know (I doubt this a lot) you could be running an 980ti on a 500W PSU (Not the best of ideas)

5. Monitor your hardware load on Task Manager - any irregularities can cause massive performance drops in games (Corsair Link sucked up about 40% of my systems RAM at one point...ouch)

Other than that, the 980ti is a VERY powerful card, one under the Titan (Correct me if i'm wrong (shouldn't be wrong though! 😀)) so it shouldn't struggle with Arma at all....or anything for that matter 😀

 

[RobCrezz]

The problem is your CPU.

ARMA III is a very CPU heavy program and not very multi threaded. Its probably maxing out 1 or 2 of your cpu cores.

 

[migronesien]

ARMA pretty much can't be run properly on any AMD CPU. Single core performance > more cores. And there AMD is miles behind.
You could manage to get some extra fps with some overclock.

 

[DustinV]

Arma 3 is a poorly optimized game, you need a good Intel i5 or i7 to even get close to 60 fps

 

[Raeks]

The problem is your CPU.

ARMA III is a very CPU heavy program and not very multi threaded. Its probably maxing out 1 or 2 of your cpu cores.

Thought this might of been the issue, I read that turning off Cool N Quiet can help so I'll give that ago. If not, looks like i might just have to get new mobo and give the skylake a shot

 

[spdragoo]

http://www.techspot.com/review/712-arma-3-benchmarks/page5.html

I would imagine that Skylake would perform better, but when you have a Haswell i7 & an FX-8350 almost neck-and-neck at the same core speeds (53 vs. 48 @ 4GHz, 55 vs. 52 @ 4.5 GHz) with a GTX Titan@1920x1200 Ultra (which isn't as powerful as your 980Ti -- http://anandtech.com/bench/product/1496?vs=1446), that tells me 2 things:

1. ARMA 3 is not a CPU-intensive game (especially when an A10 APU can stay within range of a Haswell i3, & even match 80% of an i7's performance), but rather a GPU intensive game.

2. Your 980Ti is at or right below the top of the heap, so it should have no trouble with getting near-60FPS performance, if not more, at Ultra settings...provided you haven't turned up the resolution too much (http://www.techspot.com/review/712-arma-3-benchmarks/page4.html -- the Titan X drops down to your 30-35FPS range if you crank it up to 2560x1600, & they pretty much recommend a CrossFire or SLI solution in order to get consistent 60+ FPS at the higher resolutions). You need to turn down the resolution down to 1920x1200 or 1680x1050, drop the Quality level from Ultra to Very High, or do both in order to get 60FPS or better performance...or spend a ton of cash on a 2nd 980Ti to run in SLI mode.

 

[gokitty199]

if you want to improve with arma, you need to get a haswell or skylake i5 or i7 and overclock it to near its limits at a decent voltage, that will do the most. your cpu makes the most out of arma. also it depends on the server that your playing on, as an example between the tpg wasteland server im usually running around 50-70fps(depends on when server restarted) and another wasteland server you can drop down to 20fps as an example. crappy scripts that are running on the servers dont help. pretty much if your running good in singleplayer, then hop into multiplayer and your fps drops quite a bit, then change to a different server

 

[Raeks]

http://www.techspot.com/review/712-arma-3-benchmarks/page5.html

I would imagine that Skylake would perform better, but when you have a Haswell i7 & an FX-8350 almost neck-and-neck at the same core speeds (53 vs. 48 @ 4GHz, 55 vs. 52 @ 4.5 GHz) with a GTX Titan@1920x1200 Ultra (which isn't as powerful as your 980Ti -- http://anandtech.com/bench/product/1496?vs=1446), that tells me 2 things:

1. ARMA 3 is not a CPU-intensive game (especially when an A10 APU can stay within range of a Haswell i3, & even match 80% of an i7's performance), but rather a GPU intensive game.

2. Your 980Ti is at or right below the top of the heap, so it should have no trouble with getting near-60FPS performance, if not more, at Ultra settings...provided you haven't turned up the resolution too much (http://www.techspot.com/review/712-arma-3-benchmarks/page4.html -- the Titan X drops down to your 30-35FPS range if you crank it up to 2560x1600, & they pretty much recommend a CrossFire or SLI solution in order to get consistent 60+ FPS at the higher resolutions). You need to turn down the resolution down to 1920x1200 or 1680x1050, drop the Quality level from Ultra to Very High, or do both in order to get 60FPS or better performance...or spend a ton of cash on a 2nd 980Ti to run in SLI mode.

I only get around 30FPS on 1920x1080 I have read other posts of people with FX 8350 and a 780Ti getting 50-60. I'll list my parts incase it has something to do with that, mb PSU I dunno. I'ts only Arma it plays shit on.

Mobo- Asus M5A97 R2.0
GPU- Asus Strix 980Ti
CPU- AMD FX 8350
RAM - 8GB Corsair 1600
PSU- Thermaltake TR2 700W
HDD WD Black 1tb
SSD Samsung 120gb

Screenshot of GPUZ if it helps with anythign

 

[gokitty199]

http://www.techspot.com/review/712-arma-3-benchmarks/page5.html

I would imagine that Skylake would perform better, but when you have a Haswell i7 & an FX-8350 almost neck-and-neck at the same core speeds (53 vs. 48 @ 4GHz, 55 vs. 52 @ 4.5 GHz) with a GTX Titan@1920x1200 Ultra (which isn't as powerful as your 980Ti -- http://anandtech.com/bench/product/1496?vs=1446), that tells me 2 things:

1. ARMA 3 is not a CPU-intensive game (especially when an A10 APU can stay within range of a Haswell i3, & even match 80% of an i7's performance), but rather a GPU intensive game.

2. Your 980Ti is at or right below the top of the heap, so it should have no trouble with getting near-60FPS performance, if not more, at Ultra settings...provided you haven't turned up the resolution too much (http://www.techspot.com/review/712-arma-3-benchmarks/page4.html -- the Titan X drops down to your 30-35FPS range if you crank it up to 2560x1600, & they pretty much recommend a CrossFire or SLI solution in order to get consistent 60+ FPS at the higher resolutions). You need to turn down the resolution down to 1920x1200 or 1680x1050, drop the Quality level from Ultra to Very High, or do both in order to get 60FPS or better performance...or spend a ton of cash on a 2nd 980Ti to run in SLI mode.

I only get around 30FPS on 1920x1080 I have read other posts of people with FX 8350 and a 780Ti getting 50-60. I'll list my parts incase it has something to do with that, mb PSU I dunno. I'ts only Arma it plays shit on.

Mobo- Asus M5A97 R2.0
GPU- Asus Strix 980Ti
CPU- AMD FX 8350
RAM - 8GB Corsair 1600
PSU- Thermaltake TR2 700W
HDD WD Black 1tb
SSD Samsung 120gb

Screenshot of GPUZ if it helps with anythign

ive already given a general explination above. overclock your cpu for example and you will see an improvement. also make sure to not run the graphics on low, that will only make it worse by offloading some of the load off of the gpu and onto the cpu which is already part of the problem. the game will not be able to make close to 100% use of your gpu. dont be worried about it, its like this for everybody, the only way to improve would be a good intel processor and overclock it and game config tweaks