Arma stuck at low FPS - RESOLVED

[Cpl Wallace]

I'm returning to Arma and the 15th after several years away. I have a much stronger PC than I did the last time I was in the 15th (and I played at high/ultra with 30+ FPS) yet now I cannot get Arma to break 13 FPS even on low settings in the editor and no addons. I've tried many optimizations including command line params and my PC isn't even breaking a sweat ( 55% RAM used, 30% CPU steady on all cores, GPU doesn't break 40%, all temps are barely above idle.) All google results I can find usually have an obvious culprit (overheating, parked CPUs, etc.) or literally end with "Well that's just Arma, it doesn't run at high FPS."

 

Here are my specs:

16GB DDR4 Ram

i7-4790 @ 4.00 gHz

Geforce GTX 1060 6gb

Arma on an SSD

 

Anybody have any ideas?

Edited July 19, 2021 by Cpl Wallace

[Cpl (Ret) Belgrave]

Well first things first, are your drivers up to date? 

 

[LtCol (Ret) Saarema]

In your launcher parameters make sure the following things are set:

 

Platform: 64bit

CPU Count: 8

Extra Thjreads: All on

Enable Hyper-Threading: On

Memory Allocator: Intel TBB4 (this is the biggest one!)

Enable large-page support: On

System memory limit: Set to 14336 (14gb so your OS can keep the remaining 2)

 

 

Report back if that helped.

[Cpl Wallace]

11 hours ago, LCpl Belgrave said:

Well first things first, are your drivers up to date? 

 

Yes, I just updated my Nvidia drivers this week.

10 hours ago, LtCol Saarema said:

In your launcher parameters make sure the following things are set:

 

Platform: 64bit

CPU Count: 8

Extra Thjreads: All on

Enable Hyper-Threading: On

Memory Allocator: Intel TBB4 (this is the biggest one!)

Enable large-page support: On

System memory limit: Set to 14336 (14gb so your OS can keep the remaining 2)

 

 

Report back if that helped.

Good to see you're still around, Saarema! I've tried those settings and I still get 8 FPS on low settings, even on 1080 and 720 resolutions.

 

EDIT: Disregard. I went and changed a few Nvidia Control Panel settings and I guess one of them fixed the issue. I'm now bizarrely able to run 60fps on Ultra. It may have been Vsync: Adaptive>Off, or MSAA: On>Off. It may also have been shutting down my liquid cooler monitor. 

Edited January 13, 2021 by Cpl Wallace

[Sharon]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1731305438

 

Go through this guide and at least go through step 5 if possible. You should see a performance boost.

Edited January 13, 2021 by GySgt Sharon

[Maj D. Johansen]

On 1/13/2021 at 11:47 AM, LtCol Saarema said:

In your launcher parameters make sure the following things are set:

 

Platform: 64bit

CPU Count: 8

Extra Thjreads: All on

Enable Hyper-Threading: On

Memory Allocator: Intel TBB4 (this is the biggest one!)

Enable large-page support: On

System memory limit: Set to 14336 (14gb so your OS can keep the remaining 2)

 

 

Report back if that helped.

Funny enough. I enabled these settings to cause why not but now my arma is constantly crashing when joining servers. 
Are you sure these settings are correct?

[2ndLt (Ret) Schmidt]

39 minutes ago, Maj D. Johansen said:

Funny enough. I enabled these settings to cause why not but now my arma is constantly crashing when joining servers. 
Are you sure these settings are correct?

They look correct to me, did you adjust the memory limit to something that you actually have the memory to support?

[LtCol (Ret) Saarema]

8 hours ago, Maj D. Johansen said:

Funny enough. I enabled these settings to cause why not but now my arma is constantly crashing when joining servers. 
Are you sure these settings are correct?

 

These settings are also hardware dependant. So if you're running different hardware than him, no wonder you're crashing.

Post your specifications below and I'll post the correct settings for your setup.

[Maj D. Johansen]

6 hours ago, LtCol Saarema said:

 

These settings are also hardware dependant. So if you're running different hardware than him, no wonder you're crashing.

Post your specifications below and I'll post the correct settings for your setup.

Yeah that would explain a lot lol

Specs

16GB DDR4 Ram

i7-7700k, 4.20 gHz

Geforce RTX 2070 Super 8gb

[LtCol (Ret) Saarema]

2 hours ago, Maj D. Johansen said:

Yeah that would explain a lot lol

Specs

16GB DDR4 Ram

i7-7700k, 4.20 gHz

Geforce RTX 2070 Super 8gb

With those specs you should be able to run the same. Everything matches up.

[Maj D. Johansen]

Well when I tried to join a server it crashed 3 time. When I returned to the "default" settings then I got in

I guess I'm cursed to roam the low Arma 3 frames realm for all eternity

[Maj D. Johansen]

1 minute ago, Maj D. Johansen said:

 

 

Edited January 16, 2021 by Maj D. Johansen

[Sgt (Ret) McNeil]

does it happen on all servers equal ? i had an issue a while back where one of the sights caused my game to freak out and i just needed a change in kit  my second thing would be go check your files an update might have messed with something  also a friend of mine has a simillar set up and only get about 45 avg fps  due to the way towns are done in the game  best way to help with this is slightly lower your video quality   i seen this help in the past on a few accounts 

[Cpl Wallace]

I think I've figured out the issue:

I have a Tobii Eyetracker that comes with software to integrate it with games that utilize the Tracker, Arma III being one of them (although I don't use it in Arma.) I'm assuming it was conflicting with TrackIR (which I *do* use in Arma) and causing massive drops. It starts automatically with Windows, so I originally fixed my issue by closing it down along with all other non-essential programs. Tonight at the FTX my issue returned since I'd restarted my computer the night before, causing the software to start up again and it caused me to have severe FPS issues and have to run the whole operation at 6 FPS. Closing the Tobii programs and restarting Arma fixed the issue once again.