Jasonleeson

NOW FIXED: WAS RUNNING ZONEALARM FIREWALL'S 'GAME MODE' - TURNING THIS OFF SOLVED THE PROBLEM. DIDN'T CAUSE PROBLEMS IN ANY OTHER GAMES...OH WELL :P Thanks to all who made suggestions.

I see. Well the only other thing I could find is some guy saying re-install Battle-eye. No effect. Kind of strage that when I get back onto the main screen mere seconds after playing with the extreme stutter, it goes back to being perfectly smooth on the main menu. Heh.

Hmmm..so what what cause this?

This could be it, and if it's not happening to enough people, I'm not sure this'll be fixed any time soon :/

Right now I'm totally de-fragging my hard drive using DiskKeeper - Will report back when it's done.

I should also mention the main screen with DayZ mod running (Campaign, Multiplayer, Options ect.) has none of this stutter whatsoever. Only live, in-game, connected to a DayZ server (I have tried many, no change in problem). I should also mention that running ArmA 2 OA (Campaign/Multiplayer) has none of these problems, it happens in DayZ only. I should also mention I also play Diablo 3 and that is running fine with no change in performance. I should also mention there is no change in my overall PC's performance/responsiveness outside of any games, or in any other game I have experimented with.

Before the 1.62 patch I had 40-60 FPS with no stutter. Great performance. I now have a drop to 0 FPS, for half a second, every 1-3 seconds. This now makes the game completely unplayable. The HDD (Hard drive) sounds like it's going crazy, constantly loading. It almost sounds like it's trying to re-install the entire game in the background. Info -Steam Version of ArmA II & OA -Launch using SixLauncher (Have also tried launching from Steam, same problem) -Also tried using RAMdisk. No effect. Pc Specs i3 530 3.3Ghz HD 6570 2GB 8GB RAM NOW FIXED: WAS RUNNING ZONEALARM FIREWALL'S 'GAME MODE' - TURNING THIS OFF SOLVED THE PROBLEM.