General game performance?

[[email protected] 14]

I stopped playing this mod months ago, and now I want to get back into survivalism. I've seen several patches were released since my break, so:

Is performance in-game better?

What about those really long log-in times, are they faster now?

Edited December 10, 2012 by shomicide

[Fraggle (DayZ) 15720]

Not really and yes.

[purepassion 383]

Yes, loading times have been decreased immensely.

In-game performance however is not really subject to the DayZ mod development but rather your own choice of video settings.

There are streamlined and improved scripts that run at a lower performance impact but in general, development of the Mod cannot make a huge impact upon how the game performs apart from the mentioned scripts.

However, there have also been quite a few Arma 2 Beta Patches which had a positive effect on the actual in-game performance. :)

Just out of interest, what exact problems are you experiencing? Just general low performance or is it something else?

aah snap, ninja'ed. But I guess our posts are in a advantageous symbiosis, Fraggle ;)

Edited December 10, 2012 by PurePassion

[[email protected] 14]

Yes, loading times have been decreased immensely.

In-game performance however is not really subject to the DayZ mod development but rather your own choice of video settings.

There are streamlined and improved scripts that run at a lower performance impact but in general, development of the Mod cannot make a huge impact upon how the game performs apart from the mentioned scripts.

However, there have also been quite a few Arma 2 Beta Patches which had a positive effect on the actual in-game performance. :)

Just out of interest, what exact problems are you experiencing? Just general low performance or is it something else?

aah snap, ninja'ed. But I guess our posts are in a advantageous symbiosis, Fraggle ;)

Great to hear about decreased loading times!

Well, ARMA 2 runs great of high setting for me, DayZ on the other hand works great too (most of the time), I remember joining servers with terrible fps problems, where the admins had to restart it every 2 hours for this not to happen, but I understand it's an engine issue and know this will get fixed in the standalone version.

Thanks for the information! :D

[purepassion 383]

Glad to hear you usually have sufficient performance :)

Yeah, that's a whole different story. As opposed to single player, the multiplayer experience is also heavily dependant of the server's hardware. If it runs poor or you have a bad ping, there is very little the installed software on it can do about that.

See if you can find some servers with a good response time and ping, preferably a private hive (whitelisted PW protection) and stick to it. It will be a worthy new beginning :)

Speaking about the engine, it actually runs outstanding for all the things it does in realtime. In DayZ however, a lot of that is not needed and thus produces a unnecessary drop on performance. Fortunately, the standalone will have all of this removed, optimized and improved so it will stand with a better performance.

No problem, you're welcome mate!

[Michaelvoodoo25 3120]

Yes and no, but in equal measure, but less to the left than the right of the middle!

Install and run it, it's come a long way, just not too far!

[Dreygar (DayZ) 178]

Load times for me atleast haven't changed. If it's a low population server I generally load in pretty quick. If it is a high population server it still takes ages.

[-Guardian- 206]

Ive noticed that it runs a tad smoother and the load time has reduced signifigantly, plus im not sure if anyone here has tried out taviana but i havent had a single zed walk through a wall at me on that map.