MiracleWhip21

Alright, I'm pretty sure it was the server. I just logged onto one of those official servers and was getting 35-45 FPS in a small town and 40-55 in open fields. The server only had 5 people but even with more I think I could get good FPS. In reply to Fion though, I do have bad cable management and only 1 fan (other than the power supply and CPU fan) running in my computer. So I have bad airflow and my CPU actually gets pretty hot while playing DayZ for more than 30 minutes. I have to buy a new power supply because mine couldn't support my graphics card and 2 fans. I'm also cleaning it out tomorrow so I get all that nasty dusty and stuff out. The link you gave me on optimizing DayZ helped out a lot too. Thanks for the help everyone!

I bought Arma 2 and Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead through Steam and I'm running Build 103419 (According to DayZ Commander). I use DayZ Commander to start up a game whenever I play DayZ. The problem I'm having is really low FPS in DayZ. I just played on a server with 15 people and was getting 15-20 FPS in an open field and sometimes it even dipped to below 10. I'm not running the game on high settings either. I've tried almost everything to optimize the game where I can decently play and it hasn't worked. I even used the program "GeForce Experience" from nVidia to optimize Arma 2 for it's best settings with my graphics card and my FPS was still low. I've got a decent PC, specs are below. AMD Phenom II X4 965 Processor (4 CPU's) ~3.4 GHz 8 Gigabytes of Ram nVidia GeForce GTX 560 64-bit Windows Operating System Not sure what else I can give to you to help me. I know Arma 2 is a pretty CPU intensive game, but I would thing my CPU could handle it. If anyone who could help me needs more information about my PC or anything else I'd be happy to provide it. Anything that could help me get better FPS.