But if you could give me some advice, tweaks that I can make that will help to get my server somewhere between your fully managed servers performance and that I am getting form the basic setup, I have now. Sadly I wont be able to get them to spill the beans on everything they do to get their level of performance on their managed machines, or else everyone would do it, and they'd loose money.
#HOW TO RUN AN ARMA 3 SERVER HOW TO#
I ask this on here instead of the BI website, because here I can get an answer from others who use these servers and possibly host other Arma servers.Īt the very least, I know NFO offers to host older versions of Arma, and has them running smooth, so with luck they can give some tips on how to optimise the game. Will setThreads=7 force multithreading in the game, and force it to use all 4 cores better?Īfter all the only real upgrade option available right now would be to go for a 6 core to get the extra processing power, but I'm not going to think about paying extra for cores when I cant get the game to utilise the ones its got.īefore any one points out, I am aware it's still an Alpha, so its not optimized yet. So that leaves my only option to try and force the game to use all 4 cores better. Is there a way to force it to use all 4 cores equally? Or at least more efficiently!Īfter a long discussion with the support team, it became apparent that the server hardware I am using now is the best they can offer, and no more powerful system is available. I have already started the server with cpuCount=4 to make it use all 4 cores, and as far as I can tell it is. When the game is running, it will start to lag a little, when I look at the task manager in the server, it shows that one core is maxed out almost constantly, 95-100% Second core is at 50-70% and the remaining two cores are barely touched. I am running an Arma 3 server, unmanaged, and set up using the exact settings suggested on the BI website.