Play withSIX causes major FPS drops

[playwithoutsix 0]

Hello DayZ Forums,

I get really bad fps when I don't close Play WithSIX upon launch. Did anyone experience a similar thing?

I turned off the option "close application after launch" today because I was looking for a new server and had to reconnect very often. Took some time to find out that the settings were not the real problem but play WithSIX, because suddenly, whatever I did, I could not get much more than 20 fps in the game, even on very low settings that worked perfectly before. While recording with MSI Afterburner, my framerate in cherno even dropped to under 10, making the game unplayable.

While I have read that you should close Play WithSIX upon launch, most FPS guides focus on in-game settings and config tweaks. I can't stress enough that Play withSIX may cause problems for a lot of players, especially those who don't have a good gaming PC (My specs are at the bottom if you are interested).

I guess the point of my post is that this should be the first thing you should try if you get bad FPS in game. Please try it out and share your experiences!

Notice that the before/after videos were recorded on the same server (just a few minutes apart) with MSI Afterburner at 720p and MJPG compression quality @ 90%, which takes away about 7-10 fps while playing. The only major difference is that in the first half, Play WithSIX was running in the background, while in the second half of the video it was closed.

Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 @ 2,5 GHz

Mainboard: Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3

Memory: 4GB DDR2 RAM

Graphics Card: Gigabyte Radeon HD7870 GHz Edition OC 2GB GDDR5 (just bought this one but it didn't give me any noticeable boost when playing dayz anyway)

Edited January 26, 2013 by playwithoutsix

[Testwd3r235 2810]

Try upgrading your processor.

[blunt_zephyr 51]

By chance, is the app trying to 'refresh' the server-list every five-minutes, weather if you're playing or not?

I believe there are options to pick the minutes between refreshes, to tell Pw6 not to refresh list while playing or to 'easily' shut itself down after you've joined a server.

If a new videocard shows no improvement...Your system is hanging, elsewhere..DDR2 ram..Sata 3gig hdd (5400 or 7200 rpm? ssd?) onboard sound causes issues to. Try downing the sounds to 24 or 16? (looking at your mobo..max 2gig per slot, socket 775, pc1200o.c. 1066 max-std..)

Make sure to have your mobo drivers updated as the audio chip and lan have had driver updates,dating fall 2012.

Edited January 26, 2013 by Blunt_Zephyr