Jones586 Posted July 26, 2016 Report Share Posted July 26, 2016 (edited) Anyone know a fix for combat lag? Almost anytime I go into combat with other players the server/game lags me and gets me killed, I have tried lowering quality settings doesn't seem to make a difference. Not sure if it is my computer or server lag, it happens most times not all. Here is a video of what I am talking about, notice how it lags or bogs down when I start shooting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug5VWwKZf-s&feature=youtu.be Here is my specs: GPU: GeForce 970 CPU: Intel i5-4690k @ 3.50GHz 8GB RAM Win 10 Thanks Edited July 26, 2016 by Jones586 Link to comment
Eric916 Posted July 26, 2016 Report Share Posted July 26, 2016 FAIL "This video is private" Jones586 likes this Link to comment
Jones586 Posted July 26, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 26, 2016 2 minutes ago, Eric916 said: FAIL "This video is private" Lol I fixed it Eric916 likes this Link to comment
Eric916 Posted July 26, 2016 Report Share Posted July 26, 2016 3 minutes ago, Jones586 said: Anyone know a fix for combat lag? Almost anytime I go into combat with other players the server/game lags me and gets me killed, I have tried lowering quality settings doesn't seem to make a difference. Not sure if it is my computer or server lag, it happens most times not all. Here is a video of what I am talking about, notice how it lags or bogs down when I start shooting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug5VWwKZf-s&feature=youtu.be Thanks I've actually had this problem a lot on Asylum. Just another lag issue which they are actively working on making servers less laggy and have less de-sync. So it's actually something they are working on. Try playing on Server #1 since they rolled out the Headless client I have been experiencing much less of this problem. However this was a serious problem for me and almost made me quit playing Altis Life altogether. So aside from trying server 1, and them adding more things to fix lag, you can upgrade you own system to decrease lag etc. Link to comment
Clint Beastwood Posted July 26, 2016 Report Share Posted July 26, 2016 First you have to understand how ArmA affects your computer. Lowering the settings will severely damage your gameplay. Why? Because you're moving the load from one system to another. Lowering your settings puts a huge draw on your CPU performance and takes it off of your video card. Essentially you need to find a common ground between quality and performance. For instance here is a common setting that most people found comfortable. http://imgur.com/a/GhITl Start at these in game settings and modify however you see fit. Jamooze likes this Link to comment
Eric916 Posted July 26, 2016 Report Share Posted July 26, 2016 WOWW!! watched video... and dayum I get it bad but that is insane! Link to comment
Clint Beastwood Posted July 26, 2016 Report Share Posted July 26, 2016 After watching your video I guarantee its not the server. You can tell your stuttering is driven by hardware or a bottleneck somewhere. Give us the stats of your PC in a nutshell. Jaylen Sarrett and JAY1HP like this Link to comment
JAY1HP Posted July 26, 2016 Report Share Posted July 26, 2016 6 minutes ago, Clint Beastwood said: After watching your video I guarantee its not the server. You can tell your stuttering is driven by hardware or a bottleneck somewhere. Give us the stats of your PC in a nutshell. Ya need specs mate Link to comment
Eric916 Posted July 26, 2016 Report Share Posted July 26, 2016 @Jones586forget the lag video what about the hilarious video of your dog farting. your dog is super classy btw. 19 minutes ago, Clint Beastwood said: First you have to understand how ArmA affects your computer. Lowering the settings will severely damage your gameplay. Why? Because you're moving the load from one system to another. Lowering your settings puts a huge draw on your CPU performance and takes it off of your video card. Essentially you need to find a common ground between quality and performance. For instance here is a common setting that most people found comfortable. http://imgur.com/a/GhITl Start at these in game settings and modify however you see fit. Hey thanks bud I've been lowering my settings more and more even turning sampling down to 50% (LOL) and it looked terrible and my CPU was going from 3ghz down to like 1.9ghz I tried putting the sampling at %100 and it improved a bit. but I still noticed my cpu dropping down further than usual. by using the settings in the imgur image you posted (aside from display size, i cant use small, i have to use very large) and i'm already noticing the load has been taken off of my CPU by a lot. Thanks Clint Beastwood likes this Link to comment
Clint Beastwood Posted July 26, 2016 Report Share Posted July 26, 2016 Just now, Eric916 said: @Jones586forget the lag video what about the hilarious video of your dog farting. your dog is super classy btw. Hey thanks bud I've been lowering my settings more and more even turning sampling down to 50% (LOL) and it looked terrible and my CPU was going from 3ghz down to like 1.9ghz I tried putting the sampling at %100 and it improved a bit. but I still noticed my cpu dropping down further than usual. by using the settings in the imgur image you posted (aside from display size, i cant use small, i have to use very large) and i'm already noticing the load has been taken off of my CPU by a lot. Thanks If you still are running windows 7 you may want to look into unparking your cores. If you have win 8 to 10 you are fine your cores remain unparked. Link to comment
Jones586 Posted July 26, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 26, 2016 10 minutes ago, S | 1HP said: Ya need specs mate Heres my specs: GPU: GeForce 970 CPU: Intel i5-4690k @ 3.50GHz 8GB RAM Win 10 Link to comment
JAY1HP Posted July 26, 2016 Report Share Posted July 26, 2016 thats very strange you shouldnt be lagging.... 8 minutes ago, Jones586 said: Heres my specs: GPU: GeForce 970 CPU: Intel i5-4690k @ 3.50GHz 8GB RAM Win 10 Link to comment
Jones586 Posted July 26, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 26, 2016 30 minutes ago, Clint Beastwood said: After watching your video I guarantee its not the server. You can tell your stuttering is driven by hardware or a bottleneck somewhere. Give us the stats of your PC in a nutshell. GPU: GeForce 970 CPU: Intel i5-4690k @ 3.50GHz 8GB RAM Win 10 Yeah with my specs I would think I should be able to run everything on ultra. Games like battlefield 4 run great on ultra. Link to comment
Jones586 Posted July 26, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 26, 2016 44 minutes ago, Clint Beastwood said: First you have to understand how ArmA affects your computer. Lowering the settings will severely damage your gameplay. Why? Because you're moving the load from one system to another. Lowering your settings puts a huge draw on your CPU performance and takes it off of your video card. Essentially you need to find a common ground between quality and performance. For instance here is a common setting that most people found comfortable. http://imgur.com/a/GhITl Start at these in game settings and modify however you see fit. I'm going to try this, now that my specs are posted do you think I need to lower my graphics this low? Link to comment
Jones586 Posted July 26, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 26, 2016 57 minutes ago, Clint Beastwood said: First you have to understand how ArmA affects your computer. Lowering the settings will severely damage your gameplay. Why? Because you're moving the load from one system to another. Lowering your settings puts a huge draw on your CPU performance and takes it off of your video card. Essentially you need to find a common ground between quality and performance. For instance here is a common setting that most people found comfortable. http://imgur.com/a/GhITl Start at these in game settings and modify however you see fit. I have tried these settings now and not seeing any difference so I'm thinking it is something else? Link to comment
Clint Beastwood Posted July 26, 2016 Report Share Posted July 26, 2016 3 minutes ago, Jones586 said: I'm going to try this, now that my specs are posted do you think I need to lower my graphics this low? Your computer is great. I think your game just needs to be optimized. There's a common ground you can find to your liking you have to sacrifice a bit. Start with exactly those settings and then go upward in some catagories. You could go to Ultra on both Texture and Objects if you wanted to make your game look pretty. The reason why Terrain is low is because Arma adds depth to the bushes and trees which makes people harder to spot if you increase that beyond Low. Meanwhile, if it was on low, you would see that person easier because you dont have the bushes and trees as detailed. Shadows are completely up to you - It does cause an FPS hit and its debatable if it helps you in fighting. Particles - you can go up in as well. Slight FPS hit Cloud - Fuck that PIP - useless Lighting - I personally put HDR at Very High, makes lighting at night look better. No FPS hit Dynamic - I have that at Very High Also. Works well at night. Tiny FPS hit Water Reflections - Disabled... useless unless you want it to be pretty at the cost of FPS. Those are the settings that make your game "Pretty" vs Performance Link to comment
Clint Beastwood Posted July 26, 2016 Report Share Posted July 26, 2016 4 minutes ago, Jones586 said: I have tried these settings now and not seeing any difference so I'm thinking it is something else? Are you running a solid state hard drive? Are you running shadowplay to the same drive? Kill any other tasks in the background of your PC and turn off shadowplay just for testing. Might want to run CCleaner on your PC and get rid of any temporary files that is taking up space and clear any registry errors. Link to comment
Payout Posted July 26, 2016 Report Share Posted July 26, 2016 12 minutes ago, Clint Beastwood said: Are you running a solid state hard drive? Are you running shadowplay to the same drive? Kill any other tasks in the background of your PC and turn off shadowplay just for testing. Might want to run CCleaner on your PC and get rid of any temporary files that is taking up space and clear any registry errors. Was gonna suggest the SSD as well, Before I got mine I was stuttering really badly everytime I got into a firefight or when I would scope in cause it wasn't rendering everything fast enough. Link to comment
Cassettes Posted July 27, 2016 Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 Its not your PC it happens to me a lot and my PC is worse than yours, but it happens to a few guys from my gang that have top notch pcs and lag during combat, especially when i scope and zoom in, its soooo frustrating and you lose a lot of engagements because of this. Link to comment
Jones586 Posted July 27, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 2 hours ago, Clint Beastwood said: Are you running a solid state hard drive? Are you running shadowplay to the same drive? Kill any other tasks in the background of your PC and turn off shadowplay just for testing. Might want to run CCleaner on your PC and get rid of any temporary files that is taking up space and clear any registry errors. I have a 256gb solid state drive and my windows and some other basic programs take up about all of that, all my games are on HDD. Arma is too big to put on my solid state. Yeah I killed everything except whats needed before I open Arma. Maybe I need to upgrade my memory to 16GB RAM? Link to comment
Jones586 Posted July 27, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 2 hours ago, Payout said: Was gonna suggest the SSD as well, Before I got mine I was stuttering really badly everytime I got into a firefight or when I would scope in cause it wasn't rendering everything fast enough. Yes I notice I get a lot of frame drop when I enter towns and stuff too. Like you said if I aim down a scope it causes this as well, or if I start shooting it often causes this and therefore leads me to getting killed. Link to comment
Jones586 Posted July 27, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 3 hours ago, Eric916 said: @Jones586forget the lag video what about the hilarious video of your dog farting. your dog is super classy btw. Hey thanks bud I've been lowering my settings more and more even turning sampling down to 50% (LOL) and it looked terrible and my CPU was going from 3ghz down to like 1.9ghz I tried putting the sampling at %100 and it improved a bit. but I still noticed my cpu dropping down further than usual. by using the settings in the imgur image you posted (aside from display size, i cant use small, i have to use very large) and i'm already noticing the load has been taken off of my CPU by a lot. Thanks Ha yeah my dog loves his farts, that was like 5 years ago and he only farts more. Eric916 likes this Link to comment
Payout Posted July 27, 2016 Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 12 minutes ago, Jones586 said: Yes I notice I get a lot of frame drop when I enter towns and stuff too. Like you said if I aim down a scope it causes this as well, or if I start shooting it often causes this and therefore leads me to getting killed. Yeah then I would suggest investing in an SSD and putting only arma on it. Unless its large enough for your OS and arma as well. Link to comment
Jones586 Posted July 28, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2016 I did a complete PC wipe and reinstalled windows, installed Arma on SDD and it seems to be running a lot better. Kinda sucks I had to delete everything but needed to be done. Thanks for the help all. Payout likes this Link to comment
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