Frustrating Low FPS.

[POSIPJ 8]

Alright, so I know this is a pretty talked about subject when it comes to playing this game, but I've honestly spent a month trying to get a good FPS in this game, and still end up just settling for crap. It's pretty decent in open fields, but when I get into towns and around buildings, it drops to like 5-7. My processor (Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 @ 2.33GHz) graphics card (NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT) and 6 GB of RAM is enough to be able to run this game smoothly, especially since I have all the graphics intensive settings disabled. I've set the settings to what people have recommended in NVIDIA Control Panel to get max performance, and I've even changed the Arma2OA.cfg file, as well as "Mouse Smoothing" and "Shading Quality" in my profile. I've tried the DayZ files on a RAMDisk, and overriding the DayZ directory to run off of that RAMDisk in DayZ Commander and still get the same results. I'm running out of ideas on what to do. I'm thinking it's my hard drive, and I need to save up money to go ahead and get an SSD, but if anybody might know what's going on, please let me know, I'd appreciate it a ton.

[gesundheitk 420]

It's your entire system, basically. Your processor is clocked pretty low, 2.33 GHz, especially since ArmA is pretty CPU intensive. My 9500GT barely kicks dust, and I'm looking to upgrade from that as well. You may be better off just purchasing new parts, or a new build if taking parts out of your PC isn't granted.

Edited October 23, 2012 by Gesundheit

[Viles (DayZ) 93]

Is your pc using all of that 6gb of ram?

[POSIPJ 8]

CPU usage is between 30% and 60% in my resource monitor, my disk is the one that jumps around everywhere. My RAM is fine, and yes I have a 64-Bit operating system so it utilizes the 6 GB that I have if that's what you mean.

[bluecrackers 175]

This is going to sound dumb but make sure you don't have any shit like itunes or any webpages that might slow things down. You won't believe how much of your CPU itunes takes up when it's open, it's ridiculous.

[POSIPJ 8]

Nah, no music or anything is going or anything like that. Like I said, my CPU usage is only at about 30-50 percent.

[gesundheitk 420]

Nah, no music or anything is going or anything like that. Like I said, my CPU usage is only at about 30-50 percent.

As I said, it should be clocked higher to gain better performance. You can have it running with 10% CPU Usage and still get around 5 FPS.