Could someone help me improve performance please?

[bibbish 49]

Hi all,

Wondering if someone could give me a little help here. I have an old pc which I upgraded the graphics card on. I'm managing to run Arma II and Dayz but I encounter that problem where the game locks up, for, anything from half a second to 5 seconds. I'll post my pc spec below, if anyone has any suggestions of what I can tweak on my pc settings or in game settings which might help that would be great.

Vista Home Basic, SP1

Intel Core 2 Quad CPU, 2.4GHz

BIOS, Award Software International Inc. F3 09/04/2008

SMBIOS Version 2.4

4GB RAM

Total Physical Memory 3.50GB

Available Physical Memory 2.44GB

Total Virtual Memory 7.22GB

Available Virtual Memory 6.14GB

HDD Maxtor 6V250F0 ATA Device, 233.76GB

GFX, AMD Radeon HD 6670 2GB, Driver from 08/07/2011

I read that if you put your game settings to high the GFX does the work saving your CPU a bit. I did this and was surprised that the game ran quite well and looked good. Of course it still locks up from time to time, and sometimes when I play at night it is very sticky. I'm wondering if my PC doesn't like the lighting effects of a torch (!), chemlight, or flare?

I encounter the game locking up on different servers, but I mostly play on Whitelisted UK46 ATM, where I still get the problem.

Thanks in advance for any advice! :)

[The Shadow 119]

To start, if it was me id chuck vista in the bin and get 7 (personal preference)

Also upgrading ram may help, if you have space to add more that is.

Edited December 22, 2012 by The Shadow

[OrLoK 16191]

Hello there

Arma2 does have a habit of streaming a lot of textures from the disk as far as I'm aware. Have you tried turning down the texture quality?

Also, as you said setting some things higher than one would imagine can have the opposite expected effect. Play around with shadow settings too.

Lastly, for now, make sure post processing is off.

Rgds

LoK

Edited December 22, 2012 by orlok

[AmberHelios 2071]

have you tried looking at the following

http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/28160-guide-how-to-set-up-your-graphics-properly/

http://www.coreclan.net/dayz/topic4794.html

or you can try a ram disk setup people say that he helps but i dont know as my system has never had any problems (touch wood)

hope this helps

[oppa (DayZ) 46]

and update your drivers

[bibbish 49]

Thanks for all the replies guys. I'll do some tweaking.

Considering standalone is coming... eventually, do you think it would be worth upgrading my RAM or a whole new PC? I'm on a budget and can't really tell if this Processor is crap and old or not (a friend sold me the PC for next to nothing to make room for his baby!)

have you tried looking at the following

http://dayzmod.com/f...phics-properly/

http://www.coreclan..../topic4794.html

or you can try a ram disk setup people say that he helps but i dont know as my system has never had any problems (touch wood)

hope this helps

What do you mean by a 'ram disk setup' - do you mean where the HDD supplies extra memory or something else?

Cheers.

[Bass50 43]

Sort of the opposite rather, RAM disk is where you convert RAM to virtual disk space, which is faster than an SSD. Basically you sacrifice memory but by using this space for game files, the loading of textures and what not should be a lot faster.

However this is only recommended if you have a decent amount of RAM to begin with, don't really wanna fall below 4GB ram after converting some of it to disk space.

Edited December 22, 2012 by Bass50