How I raised up my FPS from 10-15 to 30-40 on my LAPTOP!

[barrett_killz 229]

Hello guys! Since August till yesterday, I've been playing the DayZ mod on my Lenovo G570 laptop on the lowest settings with under 10 FPS in the woods, around 15 FPS in the cities, and up to 20 FPS in general. My specs:

• Lenovo G570 Laptop; Lenovo 20079 Motherboard
  
• CPU: Intel Core i3-2330M, 2200 MHz (22 x 100) (QUAD-CORE)
  
• GPU: Mobile Intel� HD Graphics 3000; AMD Radeon HD 6370M [DUAL-GPU @ 2GB]
  
• RAM: 4,00GB DDR3
  
• HDD: Western Digital 500GB SATA-II
  
• SYSTEM: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate x86 6.1.7601.17460
  
• MONITOR: AU Optronics B156XW02 V2��[15.6" LCD]
  

All I did was THIS:

http://pastebin.com/F7Q8Ne2i

Sounds CRAZY! But setting the "post-processing" from "off" to "low" and adding FXAA from the config file gave me a serious FPS boost, now I'm not having less than 20 FPS in the woods, and playing on 40 FPS and more in general!

I strongly recommend this for you guys, have fun!

EDIT: Also here's a video I made recently that proves my laptop is running Crysis 3 BETA (yes, Crysis 3!) on these specs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap_2EbkxXfc

Edited February 9, 2013 by Barrett_killz

[sobieski12 835]

I'll try this out.

* Btw , tempting Crysis 3 game-play.. :P

[Primeval (DayZ) 18]

Read the vid description for more info. Played on an ASUS G46VW.

Edited February 9, 2013 by Primeval

[sobieski12 835]

These settings could work.

* But for me they didn't, it actually dropped 15 frames.

- It could be that my system is already optimized well for the game.

I first changed the settings, to his nvidea specifications.

* Was around 85 fps, where I was at.

- Had some screen flickering of which later ended the test.

* Then after, I wiped the the new settings.

- I applied my old ones, and I was hitting 95 - 100 fps.

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I don't want to discourage anyone.

* Reading about his changes does make some sense in various ways.

- But post processing is not going to convince me.

Atm, I am in the ARMA 2 editor, sitting in Cherno town square.

* If have it on very high, I lose 2 FPS.

- When I disable It gain 2 FPS.

[barrett_killz 229]

These settings could work.

* But for me they didn't, it actually dropped 15 frames.

- It could be that my system is already optimized well for the game.

I first changed the settings, to his nvidea specifications.

* Was around 85 fps, where I was at.

- Had some screen flickering of which later ended the test.

* Then after, I wiped the the new settings.

- I applied my old ones, and I was hitting 95 - 100 fps.

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I don't want to discourage anyone.

* Reading about his changes does make some sense in various ways.

- But post processing is not going to convince me.

Atm, I am in the ARMA 2 editor, sitting in Cherno town square.

* If have it on very high, I lose 2 FPS.

- When I disable It gain 2 FPS.

I was actually really SHOCKED, when I realised that adding an anti-alising setting and post-processing boosts your FPS!

[Avallanche 121]

You sir, deserve my beans.

:beans:

After adjust correctly the FOV, I'm having a fresh new experience and SO much better performance.

Thanks a lot!

[sobieski12 835]

I was actually really SHOCKED, when I realised that adding an anti-alising setting and post-processing boosts your FPS!

Well that makes sense really.

* It put some stress off the CPU and it gives it to the GPU.

* I know anti-aliasing will make GPU work, at about 25% more stress to the GPU.

As for the methods in boasting your FPS.

* If you actually disable both "anti-alising and post processing" you actually get more FPS.

- Give me a min, I'll take a couple screenshots.

Test 1

Very High "anti-aliasing"

Very High "post processing"

Test 2

Disabled "anti-aliasing"

Disabled "post processing"

I'll try the FOV change.

Edited February 9, 2013 by Sobieski12

[sobieski12 835]

Yup it works.

* I'll make another thread in-regards to FoV

- It's going to help allot of people playing 1st person servers.

Old FoV

fovTop=0.75;

fovLeft=1.3333334;

1920 x 1080 resolution

New FoV

fovTop=1.03;

fovLeft=1.83;

1920 x 1080 resolution

Edited February 9, 2013 by Sobieski12

[barrett_killz 229]

The funny thing is that the quality of the trees, and the effects at all look better, so you have a better performance and a better image quality.

Can't believe my laptop is running all this on around 40 FPS, when people with i7 and better GPUs can't run it with more than 25-30 FPS :)

Edited February 9, 2013 by Barrett_killz

[Dimnz 0]

I think I fucked up my FoV could someone calculate it for me my res is 1680x1050

[FinalNinja447 129]

I watched too much porn to read that topic subject right.

[barrett_killz 229]

I watched too much porn to read that topic subject right.

I am shocked more for the second day :)

[smore98 225]

I think an important thing for those who wish to keep them, along with presented ideas in this topic, is to keep your memory settings to default, so your game doesn't eat up so much CPU that it feels like a hippo is trying to feed off your computer to keep it running.

Everything else so far is highly suitable.

[CS14 133]

Been playing with just about everything on high so far and wanted to see if I could squeeze out more FPS with graphics. so I tried out the recommended settings from the pastebin link in OP and so far I'm liking it. Haven't noticed a performance hit, and I think I may have actually gained some FPS, will benchmark to find out. Going to test it out in some of the cities soon and see. Also plan on trying out the FOV settings as well. On top of that I'll be OCing my CPU soon as it's unlocked and I have good cooling.

Also for anyone knows, what's the cause of FPS drops in larger cities like Cherno. It's not too much but I'd like to maintain as many FPS as I can in the cities. I'm thinking it's relating to the CPU due to the number of zombies spawning and what not, am I right on that one?

Edited February 9, 2013 by CS14

[sobieski12 835]

Been playing with just about everything on high so far and wanted to see if I could squeeze out more FPS with graphics. so I tried out the recommended settings from the pastebin link in OP and so far I'm liking it. Haven't noticed a performance hit, and I think I may have actually gained some FPS, will benchmark to find out. Going to test it out in some of the cities soon and see. Also plan on trying out the FOV settings as well. On top of that I'll be OCing my CPU soon as it's unlocked and I have good cooling.

Also for anyone knows, what's the cause of FPS drops in larger cities like Cherno. It's not too much but I'd like to maintain as many FPS as I can in the cities. I'm thinking it's relating to the CPU due to the number of zombies spawning and what not, am I right on that one?

That is what many players are trying to figure out.

* But after screwing around in the editor.

I personally believe it has got to do with the buildings being destructible.

* Certain buildings have sections of which can be destroyed, depending where you fire from.

- Of course, only explosive or large caliber weapons can do this type of damage.

- But the code is still there.

Go ahead, and try the editor.

* Then destroy a building with satchels.

- The FPS drop is huge, not to mention that certain buildings are "Very" buggy.

- Where at times they cause an "area of effect" of death.

Basically if you walk too close to the destroyed building.

* At random times, the buildings will 1st make to blood, break your legs.

- Then the next invisible wave will kill you.

That glitched happened quite often on the map "Namalsk"

* Most often at the large rail road bridge.

- What happened at times, if your destroyed a section with satchel charge.

- It would then start a chain reaction, thus destroying more bridge parts, due to the aoe building damage.

[barrett_killz 229]

Then why do I get more FPS in the cities and low FPS in the woods? I think textures eat some CPU too...

[Talibambi 119]

Also for anyone knows, what's the cause of FPS drops in larger cities like Cherno. It's not too much but I'd like to maintain as many FPS as I can in the cities. I'm thinking it's relating to the CPU due to the number of zombies spawning and what not, am I right on that one?

(lazy 2 min shop is lazy)

Edited February 10, 2013 by Talibambi

[gripton 3]

Ok.. This is strange.. I got my pc from overclockers. My default login was "ocuk" but I made my own.now on 1600x900 playing dayz and red orchestra 2, med/low gfx I'd fight for 20fps. After getting drunk I somehow deleted my login xD.. So logged into the default ocuk login. And can play both games on high gfx with 40fps. So if u have a default user login which you don't use see if it's better.. May be due to the pc wizzards or may be a conspiracy of mine.

[Zoki671 29]

From my experience, everything depends on your hardware. Some settings if set to low strain the CPU, so putting them higher is actually better, giving some work to GPU. So just take some time, and test some setting combinations. Also, mouse smoothing set to min seems to fix the mouse/turn lag for everyone. Having a good hard drive/ramdisk helps a lot, too.

I think I fucked up my FoV could someone calculate it for me my res is 1680x1050

fovTop=1.13;

fovLeft=1.8;

[DanielTy88 133]

Okay! I can't find the file you need to edit...Looked I don't know where to go after I go into the control panel and if I just go to documents none of the things listed that need to be changed aren't there....Sorry,it is 4am and my brain is shutting down/being retarded...

Edited February 14, 2013 by DanielTy88

[p4triot 207]

I'll try this. Tired of playing at 8-16 fps...

[Fraggle (DayZ) 15720]

Well, I tried it earlier out of interest and I had quite a noticeable improvement in framerate! I'm genuinely surprised! I haven't measured the framerate yet but it was so much quicker. I didn't have time to test it properly, I just ran around for 5 mins but first impressions are good!!!

[p4triot 207]

Tried this and actually I did notice an improvement on graphics but not on my fps. Im using an ATI and seems I cannot found most of the settings Im supposed to change in the guide, so someone knows which settings would be? Playing at 12 fps is not fun...

At least now photos look better :D

[toxicsludge 406]

If someone could modify the instructions to better suit ATI users, that would be appreciated :)

[Lonwolf 0]

i don't even have those new settings,why?

Edited February 18, 2013 by Lonwolf