Recent content by O. Thomas

Until Bohemia decides XP/Win7 isn't needed for the US Army sim you're looking at single core performance for ARMA3 (try the tricks you can with servers, it only gets you so far). Overall if you look at the way Intel is handling Spectre and Meltdown (the security flaws), AMD i.e. Threadripper is...

With one stick does it recognize the frequency for the RAM as 3200MHz (it might be shown as 1600 since it's Double Data Rate)? 3200 freq is 'supported' as an O.C. option.

The popup error is bc of code within mods, nothing on your end ignore that one. The other part, just find me sometime on TS and I can help if Im not bogged down.

Which country and ISP are you in/using? Strange that you would need a VPN to play Arma.

IIRC the 970 is still better, but still much more expensive. Also do 2x 8Gb sticks instead of tons of 4 gig sticks, leave yourself room. If you want it sooner rather than later, take the parts your buddy is giving you and roll with a mATX mobo and the same RAM+CPU.

tl;dr nah man your situation is FUBAR You're in the boat I'm in right now which is basically, you're fucked and the Intel route = minimum 300 for just the mobo and CPU, and that's using ebay to find some unicorn special for the CPU. Nothing that performs at our above your current CPU on the...

CPU is still fine, but if it's too old thermal wear might be causing some issues. For that budget if he's giving you an SSD and GPU, list which ones they are and how much use the SSD went thru. Also check to see how many RAM slots you have on your mobo, if you did 2x4GB sticks it's still ok, but...

Come find me sometime, download teamviewer, don't install it (just use the run once option, but wait till you've found me) and I'll run through and see if we can't find the issue.

RAM will run at the highest speed the Mobo automatically handles no matter what the RAM is advertised for, that's where O/C comes in, but tbqh there's 0 reason to be pushing the DDR4 speeds you see now without running Hypervisors/LotsaHardcoreVMs. So, just get what the Mobo is rated for and use...

Run task manager on a second screen, sort process tab by name so arma3.exe will be at/near the top and have it selected. When its memory is close to 3,050,000 bytes the FPS drop will occur, you can't do anything to prevent/fix the issue afaik (large page file + a better memalloc can help bypass...

The official forum for this stuff will get updated soonTM so y'all won't need to struggle with outdated stuff.

You're going to want a M.2 SSD if possible, your mobo supports it and it's 5~ times faster than SATAIII. Also if you're not actually handling Blu-Ray there's no need to spend 3-4x the amount for a disk drive, let alone a writer. Aaaaaand unless your WAP can push nearly 900 meg you can trim...

Try removing everything except the .txt file in your Arma3\Dll folder and running without a malloc in your startup parameters. Frankly the only one I've seen still being updated (3rd party on BI forums) is the xtbbmalloc where you have multiple options depending on your CPU architecture.

Also, make sure you upgrade the TS3 files, not just the Arma3 files, when you're doing a reinstall/upgrade of TFAR.

Send me a day and time (Eastern time) that works for you and I can take a look at your issues with something like teamviewer since this is obviously something that has persisted through a full wipe/image of your machine.