rayza62

Hello guys, when I started to play DayZ (Summer 2012) I never had any FPS problems. It was running pretty smooth with >50FPS in cities and outside also. So we've started to play DayZ again but now i have a very annoying stuttering/fps drops every few seconds, I made a video so you can see what I mean: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tiQmGB15rU So, I did everything (almost) what I could find on Google, ill tell u what ive did so far: - Reinstalled drivers, older ones and newer - reinstalled arma, dayz, dayzcommander and everything what has to do with it - reinstalled windows 7 - changed ingame graphics and settings in nvidia controlcenter - installed ramdisk - activated turbo CPU and other stuff in my BIOS, deactivated AMD CoolnQuiet (so its always on highest clock) - compabilitymode, administratormode - cfg tweaks my system: gtx460 amd x6 1055T msi 870-g54 8GiG of Ram (Crucial) Crucial RealSSD 64GB Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB Every other game is running smooth, Arma2/arma2OA in multiplayer with 50 ppl also, but as you can see I only have this problem with DayZ. I paid 20€ (even it was last year) and im kinda angry now, since it worked back then and now it doesn't... Dayz commanders tells me that the newest beta patch is 107xxx(something) but the newest on the arma 2 site is 108xxx(something) - i installed 10 beta patches but none helped. hopefully someone can help me out best regards rayza

Hello guys, since none of the help I found in google helped me (always the same, like: cfg tweaks, change ingame graphics, use "game boosters" (which are crap btw)) I finally found a solution which probably will help more, since we are going to analyze where the problem is coming from instead of changing bunch of settings which are nonsense and in almost every topic mentioned. My CPU clock went down from 2.8 to 800MHz while playing DayZ... so I thought it might be overheating,which wasnt the case.. My Mugen cools my CPU always under 50degrees. DayZ simply couldn't challenge the CPU, so it clocked back to 800MHz and I had these LagSpikes or how you want to call them. So, all you do is download CPU-Z and start ArmA2 in Window Mode or move CPU Z to a 2nd Monitor if avaible, and everytime the FPS drops and your game lags, take a look on CPU Z and watch your Core Speed, which probably will change. So basically it stays at 2.8GHz if you play a game or do something else, but it seems like that it changes its Clock while playing DayZ. Anyway, the solution I found, which might not be the best related to saving energy, is to disable features like: C1E Cool'n'Quiet Turbo Mode These are the modes I disabled in my BIOS (AMD CPU). It helped, the only thing is it will stay on 2.8GHz even if you do nothing, so its up to you how you're gonna handle it. There are similiar options for PCs with Intel, just take a look into your BIOS. Lets keep it short: My CPU got bored with DayZ, or since the engine is poor optimized it didn't challenge my CPU somehow (which is pretty weird), so I told my BIOS to deactivate energysaving settings so it always stays on his highest Clock. Programs I recommend: CPU-Z # Shows you a lot of informations about your CPU and few other things (in realtime) GPU-Z # Shows you a lot of informations about your GPU and few other things (in realtime) MSI Afterburner # You can activate a OnScreenDisplay for Games, which shows the actual use of vRam, the GPU heat and more things, also you can modify your GPU (overclocking, undervolting,...) Speedfan # Shows you your temps (CPU, HDD, GPU, ...) Its important to analyze what could be the reason for that instead of using Google for 10 Hours without any solution :p

I'll try the option with the priority and the CPU, thanks. As far as I know ArmA2 doesn't use the whole GPU power, so I dont need to check it, right? Its like not even 50% for me (checked with MSI Afterburner) ArmA2/DayZ is installed on the HDD, I never install any games on my SSD..so I tested it with Ramdisk, after it did not work I installed it on SSD, which worked neither :P edit: I guess I found the problem.. my CPU goes from 2.8GHz to 800MHz when the FPS drops happen. I deactivated Amd cool n quiet in my BIOS but it still wont work, any idea? edit2: its constant on 2.8GHz now, I have also over 50fps but now it drops vom 50 to 20-30 and its very annoying if it lags... before it was from 30 to 5.. more fps but same problem