GTAStunting 0 Posted December 31, 2012 Hey everyone, I need a little help with something today. So I got a new card about 20 days ago, specifically a Powercolor 7850, and it is a GIANT improvement from my last card that was a AMD Radeon 6450 which was really slow. Pretty much all of my games I can play at the highest settings and get a good framerate. But I went on DayZ today and tried to play some, I had everything at very high settings and I got like 15 fps. So I was like alright, I'll just lower the settings some. Eventually I set everything to very low and I still had about 15 fps. Does that make any sense that I have the same fps on each setting now? Because ever since about July when I bought the game my 6450 played Dayz great, I got up to 40 fps sometimes on low settings and like 3 on Ultra. Now I get about 12 on low settings and 12 on Ultra with this card. What's the problem.? Because it doesn't make much sense to me. Also games like PlanetSide 2 and GTA IV do about the same thing. I can play on any setting and I still keep the same fps, although I get a decent framerate on those I won't complain to much, but still. But other games like APB Reloaded and Gotham City Imposters I got about 19-25 fps on my last card on low settings. Now I get about 60 fps on APB maxed out and over 100 fps on Gotham City Imposters. I really have no idea what to do right now because right now my last card played DayZ better than this one at low settings, and idfk what's going on with all of this. Any help will be greatly appreciated and I need to find out if I can fix this sometime soon, because one of my friends just bought ARMA today and wanted me to play some. One more thing, I just went on singleplayer on ARMA 2 and I get about 30 fps maxed out and around 50 on very low, so yeah..Btw here are my specs:My Specs: AMD Athlon II X2 260 3.2 ghz PowerColor Radeon 7850CORSAIR Enthusiast Series TX650 V2 650W 4 gb Ram Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit OS 465 gb Hard Drive Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
w153r 0 Posted December 31, 2012 Uninstall driver (including catalyst control center), run driversweeper, reinstall driver. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GTAStunting 0 Posted December 31, 2012 Alright, I'll give it a try. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SP45M 240 Posted December 31, 2012 What CPU do you have? Dayz crunches hard on cpu so even if you have a great card you may end up disappointed. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
John69 64 Posted December 31, 2012 (edited) Arma II is very demanding on the cpu, it really needs a good solid quadcore to perform well together with a decent gfx card, youre 7850 is just right for the medium to high setting in Arma II.Arma II will need a overclocked cpu (2 core) if you want desent framerate, youre cpu is a bottleneck in this game, thats a fact.Try get a hold on aPhenom x4 or a x6 series cpu (check what youre motherboard can handle first) and you will see a decent boost in frames.Link to benchmark for youre HD 7850, its run on a i5 2500K cpu in the test : http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2012/03/05/amd-radeon-hd-7850-2gb/3 Edited December 31, 2012 by John69 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
w153r 0 Posted December 31, 2012 Spasm, read his post, he says what proc he has.John, fully read his post, you will see that his old video card got more FPS than his current card, from what he's written it doesn't seem like the CPU is the issue. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
John69 64 Posted December 31, 2012 True, now i think its maybe a driverproblem after reading the post properly.But i have one solution for monitoring the gpu and gfx memoryclocks, its just for checking if youre card really goes innto 3D clock mode or stay in lower clock 2D mode.First download MSI afterburner,its a overclocking/monitor program, can be used with ALL kinda gfx cards, not only MSI products.Latest beta can be downloaded from Guru3d here : http://www.guru3d.com/files_categories/videocards_overclocking_tweaking.htmlThen install and run it,click on settings ---> monitoring .Check gpu temp, gpu usage,fan speed,core clock,memory clock and framerate.That will give you a OSD (on screen display ingame) so you can see if youre gfx card have the right clocks,temp...so on.And before that, make sure you uninstall youre catalyst driver, reboot and install latest catalyst, current 12.11 beta.Make sure you run the driver as "Administrator" by rightclicking on it.Always download the catalyst from AMD site, NOT the manufactures siteAlso reinstalling youre OS can solve the problem. sometimes dll`s and stuff get messed up when changing the hardware.Use drivercleaner to sweep and clean up any "bad" data left from previous drivers. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
