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What are appropriate values for both parameters, I have 8 physical cores and no virtual threads.

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma ... s#cpuCount

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma ... #exThreads

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.p ... -exThreads

8 physical cores? Bulldozer? It has 8 threads and 4 physical cores.

So it would be for you That is not needed if you run beta, it should detect your cpu automatically and use this same values.

Moved to general hardware support.

'[R-COM wrote:MaSSive;1775955']http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma ... s#cpuCount

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma ... #exThreads

8 physical cores? Bulldozer? It has 8 threads and 4 physical cores.

So it would be for you

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arma2oa.exe -cpuCount=4 -exThreads=7

Moved to general hardware support.

Actually Bulldozer has 8 Physical cores and 8 Threads. Each bulldozer cluster contains 2 physical cores, but they share a FPU and share L2 cache. This is why everybody but you refers to it as a 8 core processor, 4 modules and 2 cores per module.

That is same a HTT. Those are virtual cores not physical.

Bulldozer Architecture Explained | Overclockers

'[R-COM wrote:MaSSive;1775963']That is same a HTT. Those are virtual cores not physical.

Bulldozer Architecture Explained | Overclockers

It isn't HyperThreading. There are physically 8 cores on the die.

Its kinda hard to explain. Its 4 physical cores, and each of them having 2 virtual inside them.

Go ahead and try to start the game with -cpuCount=8 and say what do you get. While it might work, I doubt you will see any improvement.

If you have a FX 8120 or FX 8150, try
-cpuCount=6 -exThreads=7

however, the -exThreads=7 doesn't always do anything for your FPS.

Reports show it's important to have 1GB of RAM dedicated per CPU.

-cpuCount=4 -maxmem=4096 seems to be the perfect pairing for your CPU.

I tried -cpuCount=4 and -cpuCount=8 and I get 40% improvement with -cpuCount=8. Looks like I'll do -exThreads=7 and -cpuCount=8

zamani532 wrote:I tried -cpuCount=4 and -cpuCount=8 and I get 40% improvement with -cpuCount=8. Looks like I'll do -exThreads=7 and -cpuCount=8

And what happens if you start the game without that switches and -maxMem=8192 ?

Only do that if you have 8gb if not put there maximum you have. But afaik any value higher than 2047 will fall down to that value. Its a limitation in game engine.

Try and run tests in that way see what happens. Btw how did you measure that values? 40%?

I measured with the ArmA2 OA benchmark. 70FPS with Cpucount=8 and 55FPS with Cpucount=4

If I don't put in any switches I get 65. Go figure.

Did you test out the

Cpucount=8 -exThreads=7

combination? What were results in the benchmark?

[R-COM]LITOralis.nMd wrote:Did you test out the



combination? What were results in the benchmark?

I used that combination in both benchmarks.