ARMA 2 runs better than DayZ?

[cameronthegreat 0]

ARMA 2 and Operation arrowhead both run really well online and offline on my PC. When I go on DayZ however my game starts to run at 10-15 fps.

Is a performance drop common, or is it just me?

[Welch (DayZ) 756]

It's probably all the loot, zeds, and little wrecks on the road. The fog seems to be a problem for me.

[m3ik0 333]

You can try one of these below. It's copy paste from another topic that i posted. Plus you can try some private hive server. They tend to be more performance friendly to me.

Hope they help.

When you go into the game, on the main menu screen navigate to Options, Video Options and set your Visibility to 1300, Interface Resolution matching your Screen resolution and 3D resolution on 50% (Half of your Screen Resolution).

When you have these done click on Advanced Button, Set everything to Low/Normal except Antialiasing,Atoc,Shadows,Post Process and V sync which i suggest you to have them disabled.

With these done you can go ingame and see if it's playable. If you have a decent framerate ( Monitor it using a 3rd party program like FRAPS. A decent framerate for me is 30fps plus) you can set your 3D resolution to 100%( The same with your monitor resolution) so you can get rid of the blurriness that Half 3D resolutions causes.

One thing you might want to know, if you set anything to normal and below you force your CPU to process it. If it's High and above you force the GPU to process it. So play around with your settings so you can find a balance point. But as i mentioned before Keep Antialiasing, Atoc, Post Process and V sync disabled.

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Edited February 12, 2013 by Meik0

[Average Pegasus 646]

No since dayz use more code line compare to arma and it online. maybe you have something else open went you play dayz

[cameronthegreat 0]

Thanks Helicopter hunter

[m3ik0 333]

No problem man. By the way, Welcome to the community.

Cheers