Should I upgrade?

[TrapDoggo]

I spend most of my time gaming, usually Arma 3 or other CPU heavy games. I currently have an i7 4790 (Not K) and even on medium populated servers I get around 20 FPS, I'm wondering, should I upgrade to an i7 7700k?

 

[superninja12]

No, its not you its their servers , and a very poor optimalized game.

what gpu do you have got?

what ram?

what psu? brand and model.

 

[KadenS]

More specs would be very helpful. May not be your CPU causing the issue. I also agree with what superninja12 said, as ARMA 3 is indeed very badly optimized.

 

[nvincent_08]

no need for upgrade, 4790 is still strong enough to handle nowadays games, can you please list the full specs of your pc?

 

[TrapDoggo]

i7 4790
GTX 970 ITX
Corsair 750 CX
16 GB DDR3
Gigabyte GA‑Z97X‑Gaming 3 ATX Motherboard

 

[superninja12]

No its the game, Just suck it up.

 

[TrapDoggo]

Yeah but I see people on YouTube running this game fine with a better CPU. On 120 player servers may I add

 

[spdragoo]

It's YouTube. This is the place where you'll see a guy appear to pull an orange out of a book, or pour milk into a TV screen. That's the magic of video editing, you can't always trust what your eyes can see.

That being said, 20 FPS is very low for that system.

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

It may not be well-optimized, but when Techspot tested with the 700 series-based Titan (roughly comparable to your GTX 970, http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html), they had no trouble getting more than twice your FPS with even 1st-gen Core i7 CPUs & AMD FX-series CPUs -- & most of the Core i5/i7 & FX CPUs were well within a few FPS of each other.

Have you checked your CPU & GPU temps when running the game to make sure they're not spiking? Did you also make sure you have the latest drivers for your GPU? And did you check to make sure nothing else is running, & that you're running in fullscreen vs. windowed mode? Finally, what are you using to measure your FPS?