Arma 2 15-20 fps

Hi,

I have recently bought an Alienware m14x specs below:

8192MB (2x4GB) 1600MHz DDR3 Dual Channel
2GB GDDR5 NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 650M
500GB 7,200rpm SATA 6Gb/s HDD
Intel® Core™ i7-3610QM (6MB Cache, up to 3.3GHz w/ Turbo Boost 2.0)

I have been trying to play Arma 2, but when I look at the fps in fraps it is showing 15-20 on high settings?

surely this laptop can play the game faster than that, I am not great on Laptop/PC Jargon and have seen something about bottlenecking and was wondering if that could be a problem, if so could someone please explain what it is and what I can do?

Any other thoughts welcome

Thanks

Ian

 

Welcome to Arma 2 - where your powerful pc is reduced to a weeping pile on the floor...
And playing the DayZ mod is even more demanding than standard Arma 2

Seriously, check out my thread here : http://forum.notebookreview.com/gam...od-arma2-post-your-graphics-settings-fps.html

I have a 680m and still struggle to max all the settings at 1080p (AA & HDR are the worst)

 

Hi Paul, just used your setup exactly and still pushing out 20fps

Also forgot to mention im on a 1600x900

Just tried to play DayZ and its running at 15 fps? Totally confused and would really appreciate some advice

Thanks

Ian

 

It would help if you told us what settings you are running ArmA 2 at.

 

Ok I apologise, for the 20fps this is how it is set at the moment:

Texture Detail: Normal
Video Memory: Default
Anisotropic Filtering: Low
AntiAliasing: Low
Terrain Detail: Normal
Object Detail: Normal
Shadow Detail: High
HDR Quality: Normal
PostProcess Effects: Low
Vsync: Disabled
Visbility: 1600

Running both Interface and 3D at 1600x900

Thanks in advance

Ian

 

Anyone please? Really stuck here...

 

Turn down the shadows and turn down the visibility? You could also turn off the AA and use a post-process AA injector, like FXAA or SMAA.

 

Like Red hinted at, turn down settings and see if that helps. If so, then you know the problem.

 

Turn AA off, turn HDR and postprocessing to low or off.

Leave shadows at high or very high - it can actually help because the lower shadow settings use your CPU instead of GPU.

Also switch to 3rd person view (if you don't mind it) it can actually improve your frame rate.

try to run at a lower resolution, but make sure you set both interface and 3D to the same to avoid it looking blurry.

go to the NVIDIA control panel and set maximum pre-rendered frames to 0 or 1

You could also try running Throttlestop to ensure your CPU is maxed out

 

just start by turning off post processing and antialiasing. those both kill frame rates.

 

The game even struggles on fully fledged gaming desktops. I can't see any reason why it is such a resource hog when you have plenty of other games with huge environments, lots of AI and even sandbox / open world that run much better. Maybe the game is just poorly optimized.

So to summarize, it isn't your laptop, the game is the problem.

 

ARMA 2 is incredibly demanding on both CPU and GPU. That being said, though, at mostly low settings and 720p, I was able to maintain greater than 30 fps on all missions except the last on a 720qm and 5730m, so the OP shouldn't be seeing a slideshow as he currently is. I'd first try lowering some graphics settings, as your 3610qm should be fine from a CPU standpoint.