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Well, you should find out, what is used for 100%, if cpu not working full power, it means, that it just has nothing to do at the moment, process is stuck somewhere else. But anyway, here are some tips to boost fps: If that started couple of days ago - blame last beta patch, lots of guys sufferring from it and waiting for new one, including me :D In other case you might try to add " cpuCount=4 " to arma2 launch parametrs (since you got 4 cores) and, witch is more important, find file C:\Users\YOUR_USER_NAME\Documents\ArmA 2\ArmA2OA.CFG, open it with a text editor and change AToC=7 to AToC=0. This will make trees look much worse, but will boost fps. Still, keep in mind, that it is not the cpu, who caps fps, in arma it's mostly about video card, ram and sometimes, surprisingly, even hdd writing speed, cause game engines stores map(wich is huge) data in swap, not in ram.. what video-settings did you set? from my observations, V-sync decreases fps dramatically, so you can try to switch it off.

That makes no sense.. pvp is one of the most exciting parts of the game, deadly skirmish in random player encounters can't be taken away or forbidden by server admins.. what next? moving away weapons and zombies? :D To be sure that won't happen again, you could probably try some russian server, they are total meat grinder mostly, the minuses are that it can be hard to find low-ping one due to geographical distance, and half of players there does no understand english..