Decent PC low FPS?

[Ki aka Kyle 0]

Hey guys I bought my first gaming rig before christmas, It was pre-built and cost a fair £440. The Specs are:

500GB SATA II HDD

6GB DDR3 RAM

AMD A6-3500 APU with Radeon HD Graphics 2.10GHz (Tri-Core)

Windows 7 64-bit (HPE)

Now I can play Skyrim in Ultra Settings with little to no lag, then try to play other games like Borderlands 2 and I gotta tone down the settings abit to play smoothly. But with DayZ I'm running at 20 FPS in fields untill i look at trees or run through a forest then am down to anything around 7 to 10FPS, I go up to about 16 in cities and kicker! If I look up at the sky it's straight up to 60FPS. Does anyone know anything I can do to increase this? I'm running most settings on Normal at the moment because the FPS drops don't seem to be as bad as on high, but the poor quality of the graphics is stafrting to bug me. I've changed the ArmA II folder in Documents for the GPU's to be at 1. Is there anything else I can do to increase the FPS?

Thanks in advance people.

Ki

[Mos1ey 6301]

I'd recommend a 3Ghz quad-core, 4Gb RAM and med-tier dedicated graphics card absolute minimum for playing ArmA 2/DayZ.

Your PC just isn't powerful enough to run the game smoothyl I'm afraid. :(

[jason_h44@hotmail.com 313]

ye, i run a 6 core 3.3ghz, 8gb Crucial Ballistix Ram, and a Nvidia GTX

Still struggles at times.... :/

[Ki aka Kyle 0]

Does it look like i'll have better luck with the Standalone? I hear that the ArmA II game that DayZ is based of isn't exactly streamlined in the coding and that's what causes the main issues. So since the DayZ Dev Team have now got a new Engine for standalone, is it looking like I can play on that? I mean don't get me wrong I can play DayZ but the sudden drops in FPS are annoying as hell.

[Michno 33]

Dayz SA will be optimized but rocket has yet to decide if thats gonna be used for more zombies or more FPS

Also try playing Take on Helicopters as Dayz SA will be using that engine

Edited January 16, 2013 by Michno

[Ki aka Kyle 0]

Cheers Michno, I will give that a shot today. Thanks dude.

[Allie (DayZ) 97]

20FPS is very good for that computer, Arma is notorious for needing speed and graphics power.

When a new version of Arma comes out i always bought a new highend pc for a couple of thousend.

[Mos1ey 6301]

Having not played the standalone it's hard to say at this point, but I wouldn't expect any miracles, you'll only be disappointed. It will be better optimised but there's a lot more graphical fidelity so I'm expecting pretty much the same performance.

[thebluefish92 0]

I run an e8500 dual core with 4gb RAM and 9800 GTX (1GB), playing on medium settings I get around 20fps. If you want a boost, turn down the AA first, then shadows/shaders.

[Michno 33]

No problem mate :)