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Is my Core i7-950 bottlenecking Arma2: DayZ mod? Or is it my GTX 470?

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5/9/12 at 5:59am
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Just got it yesterday since I've been getting hyped on Day-Z which is an incredible mod.

However, my Framerate is not as great as it could be, and I'm wondering which I need to upgrade first?

Can anyone tell me from experience what the actual problem with my computer is?

Running at 1920x1080p, Very High.

I also have 12 gb of corsair vengeance ram.

Thanks guys.
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5/9/12 at 6:07am
a single 470 won't bottleneck a 950.........also it'll be nice if you could fill in your rig specs thumb.gif
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5/9/12 at 6:16am
running the mod on my sig rig
Cpu is at 4.1 ghz btw

The game runs great with everything maxed out at 1920 X 1080.

I would post the rest of your rig and check drivers maybe?
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5/9/12 at 7:24am
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Rig Specs (To the best of my knowledge)

CPU: Core i7-950
GPU: EVGA GTX 470
Cooler: Corsair H100
Ram: 12GB Corsair Vengeance
MOBO: EVGA SLI3 131-xxx-xxxx
Case: Corsair 600T
HDD: Seagate Barracude 1TB
PSU: Corsair 750w

I don't think an i7-950 will bottleneck a 470 either, but at the same time I don't know how much of a limitation the i7-950 will be if I was to upgrade to a 680 in ARMA 2.

Thanks for the input guys.
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5/13/12 at 5:59am
ive heard arma 2 CO doesnt really like Hyper-Threading from the i7 CPUs. you might have to do -cpucount=4 in steam launch options/game shortcut,or disable HT in BIOS.
u can also do a bit of config tweaking,go to my documents -> arma 2 -> open arma2OA.cfg with notepad, edit FSAA=2(i actually forget which value is equivalent to normal in-game,or u could just set it in the game video settings) , AToC=0 .
this game supports FXAA,u can use it alone or with the FSAA from the game. To enable it,set FXAA=17 which is the highest quality,or refer to http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/arma2.cfg for lower values

after all this u should be able to play with gd fps.
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5/13/12 at 6:20am

arma 2 is not going to benefit much from a 680. you need to overclock your cpu as much as you can for decent arma performance. a 470 is more than enough. the game is cpu dependent.

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