/v/ - Video Games

>>15124634

Did they even finish Arma 3 yet?

>>15124629

>>15124647

It's all true. Could you be any more obviously a shill?

>>15124629

>>15124647

Did you get a lobotomy or something? Everything that anon said was true.

also

>/v/ is one person

>>15124677

Just because that's a setting doesn't magically make it work. Check how much of your CPU is utilized, its only ever going to be at most 2 cores because that's what they've designed the engine around.

The CPU bottlenecking of the Arma engine has been well known since OFP came out and people noticed just how much a hog the engine is for CPU (can't have detailed independent AI without using alot of CPU power) and the complexity of the AI has only increased through each title. Part of the unoptomised claims are people too dumb to realize the engine is built around platoon-level and lower actions, but want to stick an entire battalions worth of AI on the map at once and then complain when the engine can't handle all the AI going on. This is only half the problem of the bad optomization, the other half is how clients and servers are handled by the engine and how each new player added to the server is yet more CPU cycles for EVERY client connected which translates into guaranteed less than 60 FPS no matter the hardware on any multiplayer server with more than 2 players since FPS is directly tied to the server. A part of the lag is also that the game is fairly dull without modding, so in order to improve effects, assets or enhance the AI, people tend to mod the fuck out of the game and further weigh it down because most modders themselves can't write efficient code.

It's an antique engine that's been stretched to far beyond its limits and the Bohemia developers don't have the cash or talent to really fix anything or even build a new engine to solve these issues. It's a real shame too because Arma is some real good fun with the right group/missions, but most people reserve themselves to shitty public servers with shit like King of the Hill or Life servers.

>>15125261

> If you spread NPCs over several cores, then you'd have NPCs sometimes acting on outdated data, but that happens in real life too, doesn't it?

Thats essentially what headless client is. Servers have the option of offloading all AI onto a separate "client" that handles all AI cycles and causes the AI on that particular server to react a whole lot better. It's a work around for the shitty engine code, because the host now has to essentially dedicate TWO "hosts" for one server to make it playable.

>Doesn't Bohemia Interactive sell this shit to military? That ought to give them a lot of money.

Pretty sure they're separate departments, they don't commit their military development into their game because the dev teams are separate. Just look at all the features Arma is missing out on that VBS has, dismemberment, functioning mud, compartmentalized damage system for vehicles, advanced medical and civilian interactions, list goes on and on.

>>15125385

>Folks should close down their browsers or anything that uses CPU power. I got a better FPS from it.

You will in single-player instances where all the AI is client-side, but the engine is limited by the FPS of the server, so if your client is outpacing the server, theres no hope for you to ever break its FPS cap because that leads to bad desync on this ancient fucking engine. FPS is directly tied to server FPS.