Graphic Settings

[Morriscode92 19]

Hey Community of DayZ!

After playing DayZ for sometimes at some of the lowest setting, I decided to invest in a new graphics card since my current one is old and a piece of crap. Currently from a distance, a player is just a stick figure. (about 200 meters) I am looking for a graphics card myself, but I really don't know one that could run DayZ with some high/medium graphics, but I also don't want a real pocket emptier. So if you guys could maybe give me some ideas about it or lead me towards some deals, I would love it!

Thanks,

Mike

[EDIT]: My brother has a friend that is built his own set up and even his own 1 TB server, he is going to check it out this weekend to see if I need anything different.

Edited October 24, 2012 by Mike561

[fathairybeast 246]

CPU and RAM will play a large role in your game quality as well. Also, supposedly this game is particularly HDD intensive. What I'm getting at is don't be surprised if a new vid card doesn't entirely bail you out.

To answer your question, I use a Radeon HD 7850 2Gb on a 1680 x 1050 resolution and the game looks like sex. I suggest you google vid card benchmarks and do a cost vs quality comparison based on how much you're willing to spend. This card was $200 and was rated better than many $400 cards... just sayin' - shop around.

[xX DeKz Xx 4]

my old rig with 4gb of ram and a 1gb hd 6870 could max out the game easy. (now iv upgraded to a 3gb hd 7850 and 8 gb of ram) so what I'm saying is you dnt need a super a rig to max out the settings.

[xX DeKz Xx 4]

my old rig with 4gb of ram and a 1gb hd 6870 could max out the game easy. (now iv upgraded to a 3gb hd 7950 and 8 gb of ram) so what I'm saying is you dnt need a super a rig to max out the settings.

[xX DeKz Xx 4]

my old rig with 4gb of ram and a 1gb hd 6870 could max out the game easy. (now iv upgraded to a 3gb hd 7950 and 8 gb of ram) so what I'm saying is you dnt need a super a rig to max out the settings.

[xX DeKz Xx 4]

facking iPhones sorry about that my 3G is shit

[DrunkPunk 159]

my 2700-k, evga 680GTX and 16 gigs of RAM runs circles around this game. i'd recommend starting somewhere around that.

[DrunkPunk 159]

also, anybody else notice the forums double posting quite a bit today? (edited, as this was a double post)

Edited October 24, 2012 by DrunkPunk

[Penny Sue 77]

Here's my basic setup:

AMD Phenom™ 9500 64-bit Quad Core processor @ 2.2 GHz

4 GB DDR2 RAM

Radeon HD 7750

400 watt PSU for the GFX card + all my HDDs, optical drives, USB stuff, etc etc

I run most settings at Normal

Resolution @ 1600x900 which is optimal for my monitor

Drawdistance 1600

This isn't a high-end machine. In fact a lot of people say it's "old" and "slow".

What I'm getting at is you could spend a couple hundred dollars and get acceptable performance. I spent $120 on my gfx card and $40 on a PSU. I bought this computer used two years ago for $200. For less than DrunkPunk's gfx card I've got an entire machine that can play DayZ just fine.

DrunkPunk isn't giving bad advice but it's not what you are looking for because you said you didn't want to empty your pockets. He's recommending a $450-$550+ gfx card, a $350 CPU, and many hundreds more on MB, RAM, PSU, case, cooling, etc. He's right... it will run circles around this game... but you gotta pay real money for that kind of performance.

This webpage helped me really dial in settings and configurations. Game runs very smooth even in Elektro.

http://www.dayzpvp.com/ultimate-dayz-graphics-settings-and-tweaks-guide/

For example using this guide I was able to put together command line parameters that help.

-cpuCount=4 -maxMem=2047 -skipIntro -nosplash -noPause

Also made many other tweaks that did yield more performance.