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Arma 2 gives me 60fps+ when I'm just standing / walking, around 40fps+ when things are happening (for example combat) and about 28fps when looking / being around a lot of trees / forests. Dayz on the other hand gives me a maximum of 25fps when I'm looking at water and can drop down to about 12fps when things are happening. Why is this? My card is indeed not very good, but isn't Dayz supposed to be mainly CPU intensive? System: Windows 7 Intel Core 2 duo E6600 2,40ghz (overclocked to 2,70ghz) Nvidia Geforce 210 1GB 2GB ram EDIT: And oh yeah, this is on the lowest possible settings.

Determining the cpu count by adding -cpucount=2 (4 for quad core cpu's) to launch parameters drastically improved my FPS. It's very smooth now. I recommend anyone with lag doing this.

It all depends on the server. Some servers have a huge amount of vehicles and other features that will make you lag. Personal experience.

I just found out that adding -cpucount=2 to launch parameters will use both cores, multithreading. Can anyone confirm this will help?

^ very useful.

The C2D is a dual core processor which means 2.7ghz x2 = 5.4ghz, or do you mean that 2.7 as a dual core cpu is already too low?

So I decided to uninstall Arma 2: Combined Operations so I could later re-install it. There is a problem however. The uninstall setup only took about 5 seconds and I never got the 17+GB back on my hard drive. No remaining files from the game were left. I tried rebooting my PC, no luck. Where do I look now?

It's not a steam version.

Nope, not there.

Hey. I have 2 PC's, one for gaming and one for low end / medium gaming. Because I switch locations a lot, I mainly have my medium gaming rig for usage now. And today a great deal has been offered to me, I can practically get one of the following cards for free: MSI GT 210 Silent 1GB(geforce 210) or Sapphire HD5450 Silent 512mb. Statistics say the 512mb one is better, but what do you think? Yes they are both crap, but for free.. I'll do it. Looking to play arma 2 / dayz on about medium without lag.

Bump.

I'm back. So I received the GT 210 and I have some strange issues. Most of the time I have around 30-35 fps which is really good for my pleasure, but it often drops to literally 2-3 fps for around 5 seconds. It feels like a massive freeze. So 30fps stable most of the times, and sometimes it messes up at 2-3 fps. What is the cause of this? Is it my CPU? It's an Intel Pentium 4 3.5ghz (overclocked). Would it help to upgrade my ram or do I have to get a completely new CPU?

Whenever I try to launch a private server, this error comes up: Any help?

Sorry for double posting. Never mind my last post. I managed to increase the swap file size. So, I opened 2302 UDP and UCP on my firewall, and also in my router settings. I try to join my own server and it just says I'm banned. What is this?

I have roughly 100 gb on my hard disk, so that isn't the problem. And I dont' exactly understand what it means by "increase your swap file size". What is it, and how do I do it?