Potential FPS help for nvidia users

[BananaSTEEF 0]

Please disregard the majority of this post about the anti aliasing compatibility, I have now found that is not the cause for the increase in FPS and I have yet to isolate what is, if I found out I will put in here.

 

Hello everyone. I'm going to keep this short or I will end up typing 3000 words on this. Very short. I have typed this up twice before in extreme detail and I am on my iPad so safari crashed twice near the end and I simply can't do it again, it'll kill me.

There is application called nvidia inspector. You can force settings for games through your graphics driver with it. Open the program and click on the button next to where it lists your driver version. Type ArmA 2: Operation Arrowhead in the box in the top left to open the profile for it. find the antialiasings section and then the anti aliasing compatibility setting (NOT NOT NOT the one with Dx1x on the end of it) choose the bit for Elder Scrolls 4: oblivion and Fallout 3, it gave me the biggest boost out of the ones I have tried so far, I will try the others later. It put me from 59 up to 70 fps where I tested it. Click apply changes in the top right, run game as normal. ONLY WORKS IF ATOC IS ENABLED!!!! My game is cpu bound so I don't why it does this, it just does.

I cannot guarantee this will work for everyone. If it doesn't make sure your ArmA 2 OA application is in the profile in inspector (it should be by default) of it still doesn't work try setting the anti aliasing mode in NV control panel to enhance the application setting. If it still doesn't work I then maybe it only works for me or something. I don't know why this games does anything it does.

Another way to improve FPS I have found is by lowering scene complexity, which is a config setting in your ArmA 2 profile file which is either in your documents with the arma 2 config or in a folder called ArmA 2 other profiles which is also in documents. By my understanding lowering it just decreases the range from which calculations are made and objects are rendered, like view distance except it actually removes background processes instead of just putting them in the background, improves cup performance a bit, I recommend anywhere from 50000 to 150000 for it depending on your view distance.

Download link for Nvidia Inspector
http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/nvidia-inspector-download.html

Nvidia Inspector is also great for forcing AA in games that don't support it by default and you can put transparency AA for alpha textures in as well.

Of people are having trouble I can post a picture of my nvidia inspector profile tomorrow. Sorry if I missed something I will review this and add stuff if needed tomorrow as well. Hope it helps.

Edited October 19, 2014 by BananaSTEEF