Very bad FPS on Arma 3 with i7-4790k @ 4.5GHz

[Shingen]

Hello,
Basically.. I ordered my new CPU around 2 months ago and didn't really notice any difference in gaming. I later found out that I had my MSconfig on 4 cores, when it's supposed to be 8 logical cores. Thus, it ran 2 cores and 4 threads for a long time.
After I solved that I picked up a Dark Rock Pro and installed it successfully.

However, I'm still receiving the bad FPS that I had before I changed the 2 to 4 cores. Firstly, when I just restarted my pc after enabling all cores, Arma ran great.. I had a 20fps boost in Kavala, but now it's back to 20fps on low settings in a full server.

In singleplayer, the fps is also really terrible. I'm getting around 70fps with a lot of dips whilst in a hummingbird just flying around the countryside.

Apart from my textures, the rest is on low and my view distance is 3100.

Now I've heard from a friend with the very same CPU that he ran the game at 60 in big cities on the same server, without a GPU, so my question is... Is it possible to reach the same framerates as him, with a GPU?

 

[tsnor]

Maybe post your system specs.

Maybe REFRESH your copy of windows if you like to play with setting like max cores to get rid of other accidently mis-set values.

Maybe reset your BIOS to defaults. Load the latest BIOS too, but you trying to fix problems caused by unusual BIOS settings.

Maybe compare your system performance at the same settings to youtube videos. Note that the diff between a 1080p monitor and a 4K monitor on framerate is huge, make sure you are comparing apples to apples.

 

[Shingen]

Maybe post your system specs.

Maybe REFRESH your copy of windows if you like to play with setting like max cores to get rid of other accidently mis-set values.

Maybe reset your BIOS to defaults. Load the latest BIOS too, but you trying to fix problems caused by unusual BIOS settings.

Maybe compare your system performance at the same settings to youtube videos. Note that the diff between a 1080p monitor and a 4K monitor on framerate is huge, make sure you are comparing apples to apples.

PC Specs:

CPU: Intel i7-4790K
GPU: Sappire R9 290
Motherboard: MSI Gaming 5
RAM: 8GB Corsair Vengeance

I flashed the latest BIOS already and reset them. I also downloaded CPU-z and did the reference test. Came out around average score of other 4790k's.

 

[tsnor]

good, so your CPU and memory are working well. Your CPU would not have benched OK if the memory was slow.

Disk doesn't normally effect frame rates. You have plenty of memory, so no paging.

"20fps on low settings in a full server. " Double check your video frame rates vs. what's expected with an R9 290. Youtube videos are a great place to do that. Make sure your video setting are as expected.. some of the gaming tools that download with driver updates "help" you by adjusting those settings.