Soylent (DayZ)

Turn off post-processing (it looks like crap anyway). Turn off AA, set HDR to very high, FXAA Sharp Filter, and Anisotropic to very high or 16x. With these settings you'll get great long distance quality at a high FPS. Set video memory to "Default" instead of "Very High" if you have more than 512mb video ram. "Very High" is limited to 512mb (source: http://community.bis...:_Tweaking_Tips) Setting shadow to low = more CPU, high = more GPU. Turn off vsync, unless you get screen "tearing" effects, then turn it on (if you see half the screen is not catching up with the other half of the screen, or a verticle line appears) If you have Nvidia drivers, turn on Ambient Occlusion

This is not an issue with drivers or CPU or all the other stuff people have been suggesting. This issue happened somewhere between the 1.7.2.4-1.7.2.5 update (possibly a corrupted or unfinished update). I noticed that my client still said 1.7.2.4 on the Six Launcher, even though it had updated. So I uninstalled it and I installed the new "Play With Six" updater from http://www.six-updater.net, which ran some updates, and it resolved the issue. Now my FPS is back to normal again.

Started having same issue just recently. Everything was fine since I've started playing, but a couple days ago I start up a game and my fps is like a slide-show. Arma II single player plays perfectly fine, and other games run fine as well. Maybe there was some driver update?

Just started getting this same issue! My fps has gone from very smooth 60+ down to like 10-15 FPS. I don't know what would have caused this, because I have been playing DayZ for a while now, and this just happened suddenly (like two days ago..) *Edit: I installed the new "Play With Six" updater from http://www.six-updater.net, which ran some updates, and it resolved the issue Also, another thread on this here: http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/72364-sudden-fps-drop/#entry690068