Thread: Server Performance

Cobs

If you press the "~" (tild) key while ingame you should see the FPS in the bottom of the debug monitor.

The server has yet to be stress tested but everything seems smooth at the moment. Keep us updated on your thoughts or experiances. Oh and welcome to the forums. You don't even have to wipe off your combat boots to come in anytime.

Thanks for the links!

Originally Posted by Merritt

Cobs

If you press the "~" (tild) key while ingame you should see the FPS in the bottom of the debug monitor.

Yes but that is client fps not server fps, server fps effects all players The new Epoch update will show server fps in debug as well so I can have something to compare mine to

We get ya.. usually when server side fps get weak you'll get warnings in the logs and to my knowledge this has never happened to date.

We've intentionally selected missions, addons, mods.. etc... that keep the server running smooth. The majority of feedback has been that we pickup alot of players because of the high frames and smoothness people experience here vs some of the other high pop servers.

That being said. Things that improve the situation are absolutely worth looking at!
That link you posted is direct from Dwarden which instantly gives it high rep and we'll be looking into it.

Just a quick TY to Cobbs.

We've been looking at and testing Dwarden's performance.exe since Epoch 0301 has proven to be more of a resource hog than prior versions. This along with other changes/optimizations we hope to release once they pass full testing procedures on our hardware.

This kind of input is greatly appreciated.

No problem, I've been obsessing over making the Arma series run better since I used to play on an old e8400 Core 2 duo. These days I have much more power, but I've always been a budget build kind of guy.

There is one more thing that may be worth taking a look at, I use this personally and have gained 10% better frame rate. It's fred41's custom memory allocator. This can be used both client-side and sever-side. https://github.com/fred41/tbbmalloc_arma

This is per recommendation by Dwarden himself.
Arma 3 STABLE server 1.40 "performance binary" feedback - Page 6

The key thing is that you must have "lock pages in memory privilege" enabled. I'm sure your server has that ability, but for any clients looking for better frame rate and don't have access to the local group policy (windows 7 and 8) you can do this:

1. Download Windows Server 2003 Resource kit tools. Download Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools from Official Microsoft Download Center
2. Install as administrator.
3. Run cmd as administrator
4. Enter ntrights +r SeLockMemoryPrivilege -u USERNAME (replace USERNAME with your computer username)
5. Copy tbbmalloc.dll in your arma3/dll directory.
6. Append -malloc=tbbmalloc to your arma 3 start line, run arma 3 as administrator.


As per the instructions on Github you can check the logs to make sure it's working for you. I benchmarked better FPS using this, just to be sure it wasn't placebo.