MorninAfterKill

Well ive been lurking these forums and havent really seen anything on this. Every other game I have runs beautifully and no less than 60 frames. For some reason this game was giving me and a few friends a steady 22 frames, dipping to sometimes 18 when recording. After speaking to a friend thats an Arma2 vet he helped me out with this fix and now the game runs at no less than 60 frames in 1080 resolution. Figured I'd try to make my first post here a helpful and informative one, instead of the age old ''introduction'' threads. Hope this helped anyone around here if they were having the same trouble as me. Any and all feedback is always welcome :D <3 MAK

yeah man it shouldnt give you any problems. honestly if i was you i'd probably try reinstalling it as well.

im scratching my head on this one....i just have nothing for you man. what settings are you running in game?

thats interesting. most people that have done this using a radeon card had no problems with this working for them. can i ask what type of frames youre getting now anyway and if you record what program youre using

i dont really get any freezes, what i think you were seeing is the first stutter that usually happens after i start recording and its matching the frames per second at the amount i cap it at. the rest runs perfect.

what hardware are you running, curious

thanks for the info. its interesting to see it working on some and not others. the only thing we've nailed it down to is people using a third party launcher of day z instead of steam.

Also an interesting side note to this is that if youre using a third party launcher to launch with these settings it will automatically set the config file back to default settings. you must launch the game from steam for this to work for you.

honestly last time i used a mac was when they had floppy disks and one mouse key and ran off C prompt commands only. maybe someone else can shed some light. what i do know is that changing the value of the max rendered frames means that its rendering frames closer to you only and not 4000 frames away. hope that helps.

im not sure on forum protocols, but im only going to bump this up once for others to see it.

glad it helped you out some! lots of people have been saying its helped them loads....cant be more than pleased with how many people are having better experiences!

what are you running hardware wise?

Actually i just spoke with a friend, what are you using to launch your game? are you using a quick launcher or are you launching it from steam??

honestly man beyond whats been posted in here on these pages (there are more informative nvidia posts on like page 4 iirc) i dont know what else to do other than say screw with the in game video settings, vsync and draw distance of the game to see if you have any difference in frames

hmmm any ideas if this is possible in the ATI control panel, i wouldnt mind using all 4 cores to run this :D

well you said you have a pentium dual core 2.1 ghz processor...that seems like it might be a tad low to run ARMA. the fact that youre getting 15-22 frames is actually pretty good from what ive seen similar computers do

awesome man! glad to see theres more people out there trying to help, if you guys didnt see any frame increase from my video, try this out and let us all know what your results are! always looking to absorb more info :D

well i apologize for the inconvenience of showing you how and where the files are. i originally made this video for my subscribers that were complaining about arma 2 being a resource whore. so i put some time and effort into researching and asking around about how to fix this in the most easiest way possible. the easiest way for most people is to see the actual instructions being put to use....then i came across these forums and saw people asking the same questions my subs were...so i figured why not post this up here for everyone else....im not an expert at the game, nor can i offer any pro tips to keep you alive...but after reading this thread i felt like i made a valid contribution to the forums :D i have so many beans! Edit - To those trying this out tonight please report back with what card you have an how much of an improvement there is. ive posted some Nvidia information in the last few pages too for those not seeing it, this same fix can be achieved in the Nvidia Graphics Console and set the max prerendered frames to about 3 or 4

glad to see so many people are being helped by this :D

feel free to share any methods you used in here to help other people that this might have had little to no effect on!

do you have a screen capping program thats capable of showing your settings throughout the control panel for dayz. id love to update my video with information for Nvidia Users

im bumping this for the new Nvidia information. you can also change the max prerendered frames in the 3d GPU settings in the control panel to the same that we did in the config files. if any Nvidia guys try this out let me know. and as always, make sure you remember your previous settings before changing anything in your control panel, that way you can always revert!

ive been talking to a few people saying that turning off the VSync has helped them out for their frames with Nvidia Cards. most likely everyone experiencing these problems have already done it though. here are some things he's told me to run for nvidia people through the nvidia control panel Nvidia control panel: Ambient Occlusion - Off Anisotropic Filtering - Application controlled AntiAliasing Gamma Correction - On AntiAliasing Mode - Application controlled AntiAliasing Setting - Application controlled AntiAliasing Transparency - Off Maximum Pre-Rendered Frames - 8 Multi-Display/GPU Accelaration - Single Displace Performance Mode Power Management Mode - Prefer Maximum Performance Texture Filtering Sample Optimization - On Texture Filtering Negative LOD Bias - Allow Texture Filtering Quality - High Performance Texture Filtering Trilinear Optimization - On Threaded Optimization - Auto Tripple Buffering - Off Vertical Sync - Off

it seems majority of the users not seeing any type of gains from this are nvidia rated cards. also i now have a lot of beans, i wish they showed up in game :D

For those of you that said it didnt work after talking with a few people that have left comments on the video and contacted me about it, if you can try this again, but before you load up the game right click the CFG files and go to the properties and check READ ONLY. some have reported this made it so that Arma didnt automatically reconfigure your values! If you guys feel this should be in the General section i can always repost it there or a mod can move it...either way just trying to help everyone out. i dont know enough about the game yet to contribute to the other threads, as im reading them trying to learn too...especially the controls...why are there so many of them!