ASUS R9 270X CUII TOP Average FPS - 19.0
ASUS GTX 1060 STRIX 6GB Average FPS - 22.8

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-Processor: AMD FX-6300 6x3.9GHz OC (~+9% OC)
-Heatsink: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
-Video Card: ASUS R9 270X DirectCU II TOP (+8% OC)
-New Video Card: ASUS GTX 1060 STRIX 6GB (+11% OC)
-Memory: Kingston 16GB 1600MHz HyperX CL9
-Drives: A-Data SSD 120GB + Seagate HDD 1000GB
-Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P
-Operating System: Windows 10 Pro
-Monitor: LG 22M47VQ
-Headset: Steelseries Siberia v1
-Keyboard: Logitech K740 Illuminated
-Mouse: Asus Republic of Gamers GX950
-Mouse surface: Asus Echelon
-Case: Zalman Z3 Plus
-Frames per Second: Single Player: 60-30 / Multiplayer 60-20

SINGLE PLAYER FOOTAGE (Heavily modded) [AMD 15.11.1 BETA]
Vanilla game achieves way higher framerate.


MULTIPLAYER FOOTAGE (No mods, 60 players Invade & Annex) [AMD 15.11.1 BETA]

Disable CPU Parking, to help steady performance. What that does is simple. Basically it will make sure that Your CPU is running on its maximum set clocks without limitations so it never bottlenecks. Do not use it if your CPU is power hungry or you are using heatsink off the CPU box.

There are two ways to deal with this. You either use program to do everything for You, or You can spend less than a minute to get everything done without trashing Your PC with unnecessary software. I will guide You trough the second method.

Press "START". Type in "Change plan settings", then press enter. On a plan that You are currently using (whether it is power saving, balanced or high performance) on the right You have button "Change plan settings". From there go to "Change advanced power settings" and scroll down to find "Processor power management". In "Minimum processor state" and "Maximum processor state" You should have 100%. Congratulations, Your CPU is now unparked.

DO NOT use it if your CPU is power hungry or you are using heatsink off the CPU box, because it is simply not worth it or/and may damage Your hardware.

SSD or HDD
If you have an SSD with a great capacity, you might want to consider installing Arma 3 on it to improve loading times and help steady performance.(SSD for competitive advantage, since SSD loads up all the game assets faster. For example: in situations like scoping, zooming and similar You will not suffer from stutters because assets will load up on the go way faster than HDD would do)

On the market there are SSHD (Hybrid Drives), those are another solution, but they come in price just like SSDs by themselves.

Video Card Drivers
With all the ups and downs with AMD video drivers. We finally got AMD Relive. Those drivers are just awesome. So far every release was fine. I highly recommend 17.2.1 as for now. Also the DVR is great!

Update: Since I changed to Nvidia I follow AMD driver support no more, I presume the latest is the greatest for now.

Always verify game cache after every major update to resolve any problems with the game.

-Sampling: Use 100% (unless you have a very specific reason that is NASA PC)
-Texture Quality: Ultra (lowering the settings make the game loose appeal for no significant performance cost, lowest setting for the competitive advantage)
-Objects Quality: Very High or High (removes texture pop-ins, I hate them. Very performance hungry settings. Ultra for competitive advantage)
-Terrain Quality: Standard or Low (Higher settings smoothens the terrain and add vegetation for huge performance cost, low for the competitive advantage. I hardly ever play with grass obscuring my vision in multiplayer servers so mine is set to "Low")
-Shadow Quality: Standard or Ultra (Almost no difference with Ultra. Ultra for the competitive advantage)
-Particles Quality: Standard (High setting for the competitive advantage)
-Cloud Quality: Low (we are playing a war sim people! Clouds are just a distraction!)
-Picture In Picture: Disabled (huge performance cost, not visible in vast valleys, but in towns it applies the effect in every single mirror, not worth it, ultra for competitive advantage)
-HDR: Standard (makes the game look vibrant and life-like at „standard” for couple fps, low for competitive advantage)
-Dynamic Lights: Standard (no significant performance hits, highly depends on rendering distance)
-Water Reflections: Standard
-Overall visibility**: 1800 for infantry/3500 for air support (my setting: 1300)
-Object visibility**: 1200 for infantry/2000 for air support (my setting: 1300)
-Shadow: 130 (0 for competitive advantage)

**I am playing PvE servers the most so I do not need more


-Display Mode: Fullscreen Window if you are streaming (otherwise Fullscreen +1 FPS)
-Resolution: Monitor native resolution
-Aspect Ratio: Change this to match your monitor
-Vertical Synchronization: Disabled (unless you are experiencing „screen-tearing” or your GPU suffers from „coil whine”)
-Interface Size: Personal preference
-Brightness: Personal preference
-Gamma: Personal preference


-Bloom*: 100 (personal preference) (turned off for competitive advantage)
-Radial Blur*: 0 (personal preference) (turned off for competitive advantage)
-Rotation Blur*: 0 (personal preference) (turned off for competitive advantage)
-Depth of Field*: 10 (personal preference) (turned off for competitive advantage)
-Sharpen Filter*: 80 (personal preference) (turned off for competitive advantage)
-Ambient Occlusion: Disabled (disabled for competitive advantage)
-Caustics: Disabled (disabled for competitive advantage)
-FSAA: x4 or x8 (x8 is for over 1080p, but still smoothens the image for low FPS cost)
-Alpha To Coverage: All trees + grass (disabled for the competitive advantage)
-Post Process Anti-Aliasing: FXAA Ultra (CMAA for competitive advantage)
-Anisotropic Filtering: Ultra

*Every turned on settings on any level take up 0.3% of performance

Arma3.cfg***
(C:\Users\*USERNAME*\Documents\Arma 3)

-GPU_MaxFramesAhead=4 (this helps stabilize your frames and mouse responsiveness)
-GPU_DetectedFramesAhead=1 (this helps stabilize your frames and mouse responsiveness)
-refresh=120
If you have 60hz monitor, you set it to 60, the same thing applies for 120 and 144hz monitors.


Mynio.Arma3Profile***
(C:\Users\*USERNAME*\Documents\Arma 3)

sceneComplexity=150000 (mine is set to 500000)

***After applied changes save the file as "read only"

(right-click ArmA 3 in Steam>Properties>Set Launch Options)

****For now what I've noticed is that Arma 3 Launcher bypasses the parameters set on steam so You have to apply them inside the launcher

-high - sets the game process on high priority
-NoSplash - skips the splash arts at the start of the game
-skipIntro - skips all cinematics and intros at the start of the game
-world=empty - loads empty world to game menu (no longer works with APEX)

Any other parameters make no difference at all (in case of used test rig).


(SweetFX is a universal image improvement and tweaking mod, that works with almost any 32-bit DirectX 9, 10 or 11 game or application.)
The settings I offer improve the colours of the game and post process effects for the minimal performance costs.

-https://sfx.thelazy.net/games/preset/1355/

With the patch 1.60 BI introduced refined shaders and textures along with other minor visual enhancements. Those provide SweetFX’ish look without compromising game performance.

The software I used and I recommend are:
-AMD Gaming Evolved (AMD GPU users) No longer supported by AMD
-AMD Relive (AMD GPU users) Adrenalin Edition now?
-NVIDIA Shadowplay (NVIDIA GPU users)
-Open Broadcasting Software (both for AMD and NVIDIA)

AMD Gaming Evolved uses now third party software called Plays.tv
It is still a pretty good recording software.

Every single one performs really great and has very small impact on game performance. Open Broadcasting Software offers the best file compression of them all.

Update: I was using AMD Relive, best DVR I've been using, EVER!

For now, this is all we can do with the game, I didn’t want to mess with the game code because the game is being updated quite regularly and using game’s core data in the game (SP and MP) may be treated by BI’s security systems as illegal and thus may grant You a ban.

If You have hardware with more potential than test rig, you can tweak your settings by yourself.

Like I mentioned, this guide will not only help you get the most of your hardware but also helps you understand most of the settings available in the game, so you can make the right decision to tweak the game for the best personal preference.


I will try to keep this thread updated, so stay tuned for the future tweaks!