What is the cause of my lag? Arma II OA

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theonewhoforklifts

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Hello, I have recently been getting around 5-10 FPS On Arma 2 but normally I get 20-25 Ish. I did not change anything on my game settings and lowering the video quality and resolution doesn't do anything. My specs are as listed below.

CPU: FX 8350
GPU: GTX 650 TI Super clocked w/ wind-force fan
RAM: 8 GB clocked at 1333 MHz
OS: Windows 8

I thought my HDD was the problem at first so i bought a SSD and loaded arma 2 onto it. That didn't help. I have not yet moved my OS onto it due to the lack of any change in game with arma 2 on my SSD.
I also have tried changing the arma 2 Config files to optimize my game better but nothing as changed drastically.

Also, I have 3 monitors @ 1920 x 1080 Could this be causing the lag? They have always been there and this would not explain the spontaneous change in FPS.

Any advice will be very helpful.
 
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Brantyn Gerik

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sounds like the game is only using the onboard graphics of your motherboard. that being said, the 650ti isn't the fastest card out there.

make sure all drivers are up to date, and that your cpu is set to max power (turn power saving off) and that it is using your 650ti rather than the onboards graphics of your motherboard. if you are playing the game across 3 monitors, you are running out of vram most likely. go back to using one until you get a faster gpu
 
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theonewhoforklifts

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Thanks for the response, I just updated my nvidia drivers and it has not improved FPS. I only run the game across 1 monitor and even with the settings on the lowest possible, there is still only 5-10 FPS. Could this be a ram issue? My ram is slow and only 8 GB.
 
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Brantyn Gerik

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8gb is more than enough. make sure everything in your system is properly physically installed. then run programs like memcheck and prime 95 to ensure that there are no troubles with your ram or cpu. then run something like unigine valley and compare your scores in that benchmark to other online benchmarks for that gpu to make sure you don't have a faulty gpu
 
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theonewhoforklifts

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Tried running benchmarks for all components listed above and all are running fine. Anything else I can try? Thanks for helping out btw.
 
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(Ignoring the 3 monitors, will address that after)Honestly, I have no clue. I'm very experienced with Arma and all the problems that come with it, but this one stumps me. The PC far surpasses the one i have used to play arma at around 25fps with ease for years. You've tried moving HDDs which is one solution that obviously hasn't worked.

The 3 monitors is probably the problem here. Your graphics card is very weak and and probably can't stand it. However this does not solve the sudden drop if as you say you haven't changed anything.
 
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