Arma 2 OA Bad FPS on Good PC. Why?

[StrikeZ]

Hi there, I recently got my new PC
Specs
CPU: AMD FX 8350 Black Edition
CPU Cooler: Zalman CNPS10X Optima
Operating System: Windows 8.1 (64-bit)
Motherboard: Gigabyte 970A-DS3P
RAM: 8GB Corsair 1600mhz Vengeance (2x4GB)
Hard Drive: Kingston 120GB SSD
Optical Drive: 22x DVD±RW DL S-ATA
Graphics card: AMD Radeon R9 280X 3GB
Internet: Wireless 802.11N 300Mbps MIMO PCI-E card
PSU: 650W Corsair VS

I had Arma 2 Operation Arrowhead on my old pc which was not very good at all managing 20-25 fps. Now with this new PC, I am still only getting 20-25 fps on very high or very low settings and I do not know why. Is there anyone that could help me with this? Much appreciated!

 

[ingtar33]

arma2 is a game coded like junk, it's a single threaded title so it plays like junk on AMD cpus. you said your old system was junk... if it was a phenomII or core2duo then you won't see any improvement on that piledriver. Not without a massive overclock on that cpu... which that motherboard and cooler won't support.

you would have had to upgrade to an intel i5, and probably overclocked it in order to get it to play well.

 

[StrikeZ]

So theres no possible way of fixing it?

 

[ingtar33]

well, you didn't say what you were playing on before.

but i know the source of the problem with Arma is the rendering distance. It renders everything out to the edge of the "area" wether you can see it or not. i don't think there is any setting that will tell it to stop doing that. it's a 100% cpu bound title that runs like junk on most computers. so you're not alone.

there are some things for you to check though. i would check the cpu temps and clock speeds. make sure your cpu isn't overheating and throttling.

the easiest way to do this is to pop the side of your case off and stick a room fan in the opening blasting on full. see if the FPS come up. that or download MSI Afterburner, turn on the logging, monitor everything, and check out how hot the cpu gets when playing. Still since piledrivers are known for bad temp sensors, i would suggest the fan method to be sure.

you can also uninstall your graphic drivers, reboot and install the latest amd drivers (Omega drivers)

probably worth a shot anyway.

not sure there is much else you can do. that cpu cooler and motherboard won't suport the type of extreme overclocking you probably would have to do to get ARMA2 working smoothly.

I just looked up expected FPS for ARMA2 on a stock piledriver with a gtx680 (arma2 works better with nvidia gpus); expected fps on the first mission is 33fps at stock settings

 

[StrikeZ]

Alright mate, i'll try that and everything everyone else says hshs, its such a bummer with all of this. thanks anyway mate

 

[Ben Willz]

its not amd because i have the same problem on my i5 4690k