Every Graphics Setting Tested + FPS Difference | Arma Reforger

[@thepurestchaos]

Master Arma Reforger Supply system and download a map that contains all hidden supply cache locations in Everon to have an upper hand in game: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3245230536 More tips: -Texture Filtering always on High - 13:30 Distant shadows actually give improved visuals on Ultra on close-medium distances, therefore Ultra is the best setting. Tips for more performance: 1. You can play the game on a window to increase perfomance drastically; 2. You can use "Lossless Scaling" app on steam to duplicate your FPS at the cost of possible screen artifacts and/or input delay. -This game really needs a better DLSS/FSR/XESS and, of course, optimization. My CPU was a 20-40% all the time while the GPU was at a constant 100%. Please consider subscribing at feedback.bistudio to notify the developers about implementing an improved upscaler in the game: feedback.bistudio.com/T177281

[@Jotaro_Kujojo]

I have 50+ fps and with my 180 ghz i enable amd afmf2. I cant see any latency

[@dim7239]

You're 100% right about optimization, but implementing DLSS/FSR/XESS into a game engine that doesn't already support it is difficult, and ARMA Reforger's Enfusion Engine doesn't natively support it. FSR 1.0 is a much simpler and faster to implement, unlike FSR later version of FSR and DLSS/XESS, which is why it's the only upscaling technology currently available.

[@thepurestchaos]

@@dim7239 Sad to hear that. Though, it would be worth it in my opinion

[@DeckardKain1992]

never in my life I have seen a better benchmark for any game. This should be mandatory by law for any developer / studio to put out.

[@thepurestchaos]

I totally understand and agree with you!

[@MilkJuzo]

You should 100% do more videos like this for different games

[@TOXIClck]

legit the best "benchmark" video i've seen, goated

[@thepurestchaos]

Thank you for your kind words! If there's something I can improve on let me know ;)

[@shotya9403]

Thank you so much for this video. This probably took a shit ton of rewatching footage and cutting, just wow.

[@thepurestchaos]

Thank you so much! Yes it did, indeed! Multiple hours over 1 week

[@darvey2788]

@@thepurestchaos Wasn't wasted

[@fuldaman1691]

Dude, YOU just created the hopefully new standard for the future

[@thepurestchaos]

Thank you! I am very proud of this video

[@gripen888]

Really in depth with actual fps gains for each options? Well thank you, sir!

[@cheaple393]

This was extremely informative and very high quality, keep up the good work

[@thepurestchaos]

Your welcome!

[@thomaslindberg5752]

Amazing video. The best performance walkthrough I ever seen! 🎉

[@Swisshost]

This is art, should be in a arma museum 😀

[@thepurestchaos]

Thank you so much for the kind words

[@Aftrmind]

The amount of dedication you put in is just incredible and will help lots of people like me. went from 45fps to 75fps on average on a 6800XT. Thank you so much!

[@thepurestchaos]

You are welcome! There are so many options that give little to no visual fidelity BUT has a massive impact on perfomance, even people with RTX 4090 should check their settings to maintain a FPS that respects the monitor hertz.

[@Kymra27]

My personal favorite settings based on what I saw in the video are as follows: Window mode : borderless FullScreen Render Scale : 85% or 95% Fidelity FX Super Resolution 1.0 : Yes Vsync : Yes Draw Distance : 1700m or 3050m Nearby Depth of field : no Post Process anti-aliasing : None Depth of field quality : None Ambiant Occlusion : Ultra Screen space Reflection : none or ujltra contact Shadow : Yes Hardware anti-aliasing : x2 Foliage Smoothin : Grass + trees Model Geometric Detail : High Object Draw Distance : ultra Terrain Surface detail : Parallax + shadows HQ Terrain details : ultra Grass : Lowest (cheat) or High Grass Distance : 50m (cheat) or 150m Shadow Quality : high Distant Shadow : none (Cheat) or medium (1700m Draw Distance) Render Target Format : High Environnement Quality : Low Uses 2D Scope : No

[@thepurestchaos]

Mine are similar - I also use Low grass and 50m for obvious reasons, render scale 85% for a nice FPS boost, I like Nearby Depth of field though, Screen space on ultra (sometimes the views are beautiful). Distant shadows I will still use on medium because otherwise It just ends up looking like Arma 3 and I'm not too sweaty to win. I considered using Environment Quality on Low but I feel like the coulds become too cotton fluffy. In the end those are nice settings, thanks for sharing!

[@Kymra27]

​@@thepurestchaos Thank you for your incredible work, especially.

[@Oliver_Dao]

Nicely done purechaos!

[@thepurestchaos]

Thank you Oliver, always fun to play with you ingame!

[@Oliver_Dao]

@thepurestchaos thanks!

[@40tonkubusss]

keep doing what you doing man great job

[@yak-machining]

Thank you very much

[@glennpeterson1357]

Amazing work! Thanks!

[@thepurestchaos]

Thanks!

[@Bameranting]

Literally the Perfect Video

[@alexmalhavok8624]

It's crazy to me that draw distance barely affects fps. i7 3770k/1070. Our cards have the same amount of VRAM albeit GDDR5 vs 6. I think that has something to do with it. I am averaging 50fps and cannot gain or lose more than 5fps average by changing settings. I like this style of graphic setting comparison, thank you!

[@thepurestchaos]

Thank you, I'm very proud of this video. You should test it on an area where you can see far away - if there's mountains or walls that block your view, the game does not render the things that are behind it, making changing the draw distance no change in the fps, the game is optimized in that aspect

[@kenpachi4129]

Thank you for your effort.

[@sean.d7171]

Thank you this is next level

[@trsr2]

Nice Video. Thank you for your Work!🎉

[@GJ69OG]

Thank you, very informative! I'm going to base my settings on this video :-)

[@thepurestchaos]

Thank you! Everytime I play a new game I look for the best settings online, for some of the settings could be broken or offer no good enough improvement of visual fidelity for the massive perfomance impact. Did not find one for Arma Reforger so I made it. Have fun!

[@brolaire8851]

If only they could figure out the CPU optimization in this thang

[@thepurestchaos]

I Guess a proper upscaler would aleviate some GPU pressure, but let's hope they don't rely solely on that

[@UnsettlingDwarf]

Yeah cities and larger amounts of people make it suppper cpu bound for whatever reason. I hope they can fix/ tweak that because it seems it can get a lot better.

[@vending3022]

keep up the good work

[@ToddMoore1]

Wow awesome, just what i was looking for to squeeze some fps out of my i5 6600k and RX6600xt

[@klausmalzbier]

Thank you man. Best video so far. I hope we get DLSS soon :D

[@thepurestchaos]

Yes, I hope aswell - You can see on the video my GPU was always on 100% while the CPU was 25-40% all the time. The game is very GPU demanding

[@klausmalzbier]

@@thepurestchaos yes I saw that. It is true. I hope once the game transitions into arma 4 the performance is way better.

[@rubenthekid]

Underrated

[@blackice3820]

Taking game suggestions for your next graphics comparisons?

[@thepurestchaos]

I've made this channel for Arma Reforger only BUT if I do have the game I COULD do it What games are you thinking?

[@gutsy6390]

@@thepurestchaosnot the original poster but can you do Squad44(post scriptum)

[@BaseBassOne]

thx you bro very nice video

[@bsavagestudios]

World detail was my biggest FPS drain... With that on medium I can run everything else on ultra @ 1440p. Turn the world detail up and I'm down 40 fps... I only really noticed a change with the sky.

[@thepurestchaos]

If you mean environment quality 15:55 then yes, it's a HUGE fps drain for what it offers. I did only see the clouds changing aswell

[@799MILO]

So Environment quality is just about the clouds? It seems so from the video. But seems strange, why not cloud quality or sky quality. Anyway, great video with work behind, good job. Please if you can, update the Grass distance with upcoming patch. They increased that from 150m to 300m, it's already on Exp.

[@MrArapahoe]

Now someone make a cheat sheet with all the best settings lol

[@thepurestchaos]

Depends on the computer and what you want to achieve. I'd assume you'd want an advange in reducing graphics, the only I could find is general graphics reduction for more fps and grass on low and 50m to be able to see more

[@crazyjake536]

Grass (and fields) view distance is still max 150 meters.... What a downer. And on top of that, people can turn it down to 50m anyways... Say good bye to fair gameplay. Say good bye to realistic gameplay. Thx for the video.

[@thepurestchaos]

I would also love if everybody had the same grass view distance, maybe it is possible to toggle such a thing in a custom server? It will increase to 300 meters in the next update though!

[@crazyjake536]

@@thepurestchaos Oh, i didnt know about the 300m grass view distance yet! Thx for the info.

[@Swisshost]

Server admin can set the distance for everyone same.

[@Jotaro_Kujojo]

How do you feel about shooting with grass in your sights while lying down?

[@thepurestchaos]

@@Jotaro_Kujojo I don't lay down when there's any grass around me. I, if I want to lay down to shoot, usually find hard surfaces or parts with little to no grass - grass blinds you

[@Люся-щ1и]

Can you share your graphics settings? I have exactly the same pc config

[@thepurestchaos]

Sure, it goes as follows (in order): I'm using 1440p resolution. (if you have 1080p then 100% Render scale is fine) - General - Borderless Full-screen 85% Yes No 144 1700m Yes - Post-processing - None Simple Ultra Ultra Yes - Quality - 2x Grass+Trees High Ultra Parallax + shadows HQ Ultra High Lowest 150m High ultra High Medium And 3D Scope.

[@Люся-щ1и]

@@thepurestchaos If I use your graphics settings, I'm short of 8gb of video memory and start dropping fps to 10 frames. Have you encountered this problem?

[@thepurestchaos]

​@@Люся-щ1и Yes I have in older cards in modded servers. A quick temporary fix would be to change terrain detail 11:18, if I'm not mistaken. If it isn't terrain detail then it is another setting that is close by it. Try lowering one of those settings and you'll see the fps back to normal - to maintain high fps and avoid that problem you lower the setting that makes the fps go back to normal when the problem occurs.

[@Люся-щ1и]

@@thepurestchaos Thanks, will definitely try this method as soon as I get home from work

[@t.g7383]

for reforger, better to change CPU platform or GPU? i have same CPU with slower GPU, and i wonder what i could change to have more frames, changing GPU would be cheaper…

[@thepurestchaos]

Arma Reforger is a GPU intensive title, so changing your GPU would be better. You also have to understand that it depends on the graphic settings you are using and the resolution.

[@t.g7383]

@@thepurestchaos makes sense, thanks - i do use FHD, and to be honest no matter of settings FPS are more/less same, that's why i wondered about CPU change, but as for now there is nothing good available were i live, 7800x3d price went x2

[@confidential837]

What map did you do this on? Arland or Everon?

[@thepurestchaos]

It was recorded on Everon

[@alekercegovcevic4133]

I usually play conflict pvp, what would be the best setting down this list for that, i could care less about how beautiful the game looks, i just want high fps and able to identify the enemy easier. any help would be appreciated!

[@thepurestchaos]

I believe grass is the main setting to lower in order to spot enemies better, you can play around with the other settigns, it does not matter that much

[@lowfatmofat2152]

Seriously play this game low video output console and medium PC for better performance because the servers are capped at 30-60fps anyway and the environment ain't such as bigger hit graphics as you'd think.

[@kxngmars6527]

Man the hardware anti aliasing is horrible haha. Such a performance hit for such little improvement. Crazy to think it's still being used these days when we've had such massive improvements and options when it comes to AA.

[@thepurestchaos]

Yes, and the environment setting aswell - why does it take such a massive hit? I can't wait for the day they will implement a better AA and/or upscaler