FPS Issues (Come Post Your Specs)

[t.monte87@gmail.com 8]

I have seen several threads due to bad FPS with good hardware. I think it would be a good idea for everyone suffering from these issues to post their PC specs so people with some great knowledge on how the game works can comment on whether it is indeed your hardware or its a setting you have set in the game or its just the mod itself not being optimized. I would like some feedback from the community before I go out and spend money on my rig only to find out that I still suffer from bad FPS.

So list the following:

PC Specs

CPU:

Motherboard:

RAM:

Graphics Card:

CPU Load:

GPU Load:

Ingame Settings

Texture detail:

Video memory:

Anistropic Filtering:

Antialiasing:

Terrain Detail:

Object Detail:

Shadow Detail:

HDR Quality:

Postprocessing Affects:

Interface Size:

Aspect Ratio:

VSync:

Interface Resolution:

3D Resolution:

FPS

Highest FPS:

Lowest FPS:

Average:

CFG Files (Optional, altho the more the better)

Copy & Paste both your:

ArmA2OA.cfg In My Documents/Arma 2

Profile.ArmA2OAProfile In My Documents/Arma 2 Other Profiles/Profile Name

PLEASE POST THESE TO PASTEBIN.COM AND INCLUDE THE LINK IN YOUR POST. BETTER FOR ORGANIZATION!

I believe this should be enough information for others to comment on.

[WeedFoXx 7]

i play arma2 free + OA

1090T x6 @3.2 ghz

8gb g skill sniper

gtx 570 Evga @800mhz and 1280 mb

60 Fps on High

all very high around 20-30 but its to slow ^^

but on some server i only have 5-10 fps dunno why

[patluk@sasktel.net 1]

I think you should have to add your CPU LOAD and GPU LOAD in there too. That information is very important. Use MSI Afterburner (free) and the windows taskbar to monitor these.

PC Specs

CPU: i5 2500k @ 4.5 Ghz

Motherboard: Gigabyte P67X-UD3-B3

RAM: 16GB Patriot G2

Graphics Card: GTX 560 (Two in SLI)

CPU Load: 48% Typically, 39% Typically in big cities (FPS drop)

GPU Load: 55% Typically, up to 90% in forests. 28% Typically in big cities (FPS drop). NOTE: BOTH GPU'S have same load.

Ingame Settings

Texture detail: medium

Video memory: default

Anistropic Filtering: normal

Antialiasing: off (FXAA forced in config)

Terrain Detail: normal

Object Detail: normal

Shadow Detail: very high

HDR Quality: very high

Postprocessing Affects: disabled

Interface Size: very small

Aspect Ratio: 16:9 (1920x1080)

3D Resolution: 1920x1080 (100%)

VSync: On (off if performance is poor in build/server)

FPS

Highest FPS: 60 (vsync off 85)

Lowest FPS: 24

Average: Too binary to give an average. 60 in the countryside, 30 in big cities (1.7.1.1)

CFG Files (Optional, altho the more the better)

Default except for the beta patch enabled FXAA to be forced on (works with post-processing off!)

FXAA is a much more efficient shader based anti-aliasing routine based on DirectX

[t.monte87@gmail.com 8]

PC Specs

CPU:Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200

Motherboard:LP JR P45-T2R

RAM:4GB Transcend 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) JM800QLU-2G

Graphics Card:MSI Radeon 6950 (Unlocked to 6970)

Ingame Settings

Texture detail:Very High

Video memory:Default

Anistropic Filtering:Disable

Antialiasing:Disable

Terrain Detail:Very High

Object Detail:Very High

Shadow Detail:Disabled

HDR Quality:Very High

Postprocessing Affects:Disable

Interface Size:Very Small

Aspect Ratio:Custom

VSync:Disable

Interface Resolution:1920x1080

3D Resolution:1920x1080

FPS

Highest FPS:55

Lowest FPS:8

Average:20-25

Arma2OA.cfg = http://pastebin.com/8DFKAdWy

Profile.ARMA2OAProfile = http://pastebin.com/F7hZbttK

[patluk@sasktel.net 1]

Gorgenzola

It's been said that putting your settings on High/Very High will put more load on your GPU rather than your CPU. Have you given this a try?

I would assume this works for shadows and video memory settings only. Terrain detail should only be maximum decals/objects, and texture detail is only the resolution of the textures being called directly from the GPU memory. Since my GPU load is already quite high during gameplay I figured I already had ideal settings. I will test futher by putting terrain detail, object detail and texture detail on very high tonight and compare performance and GPU/CPU loads.

I am hitting spikes of 96% GPU load on my SLI cards in thick forests already though.

[knucklesMad@1.7.1 0]

Cpu: amd fx 6100 3.6Ghz 6-core

Gpu: Crossfired dual ati radeon hd 5750's 1GB mem each

Ram: 2xGskill Ripjaw 4gb 1600Mhz ddr3

Pre-patch 70Fps

post-patch 3-4

some servers are fine some are as above 4fps

[t.monte87@gmail.com 8]

3-4 FPS? There must be something wrong there. Post your Configs

[hawken 22]

it has to do with bodeis not being deleted on a few servers

[redsh1rt 24]

Some of the issues with FPS are server side. I can join a server and spawn in the middle of the woods with 7fps, and when I disconnect and join another I get 50. Servers that have not been restarted for a while have horrible fps in my experience.

Also this game seems to be very CPU dependent. I've had my i7 920 at stock speeds (2.4GHz) for a while... I overclocked it to 3.33GHz today just to see what difference it would make. Running around in Cherno like an idiot at 1920x1200 I get around 35 fps where I'd get around 20 before. In the wilderness I'd get 60fps where'd I'd have got 45 before.

i7 920

6GB RAM

AMD 6970

160GB SSD

[t.monte87@gmail.com 8]

nice I will put some work into overclocking mine, even tho I dont have a proper heat sink fan for overclock and I think my RAM is lacking which also is why I dont get good FPS. So can we get some acknowledgement from a "dev" that this is a known issue that the servers are causing the FPS issue and is the DayZ code itself or just the hardware the server is using.

[Skint (DayZ) 138]

Fps issues for this Mod have nothing to do with you PC specs.

I have joined many servers over the course of 2 months running all versions of the Mod/Beta Patch/whatever, and there has always been different rates of fps, my PC stayed the same throughout, I didn't change a single component, and this happens to everybody regardless of hardware, so this thread is totally pointless I'm afraid. 1.7.1: 20-25fps, 1.7.1: 0.2-10fps, 1.7.1.1: 13-16fps, see, nothing to do with my PC at all.

[Brew78 27]

Not sure if its related to the problems other people are having, but any FPS issues I've had seem to relate to the server I'm connected to.

Some are fast and smooth and it runs great.

Some are crap from the start, or start to slow down over time.

I'm noticing more servers with M'sOTD that say something like "This server restarts every X hours"

For the record, I got everything set to very high except AA is off as is post-process effects.

Win7 Ult 64

Quad core black-edition AMD chip

4 gigs RAM

AMD 6950

FPS = enough to be fluid and smooth when running well, choppy and hard to move when bad.

[sidmo001 0]

CPU: AMD FX 8120 8-Core Processor, Black Edition

Motherboard: Sabretooth 990fx

RAM: 4GB

Graphics Card: Sapphire HD 6950

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Every single one of my in-game video options can be shot to the max while playing ARMA 2 Normally, or while playing any other mod and I have no problems what so ever, and a steady FPS of 40-50

However, when I play DayZ, since the new update, on any level of settings, I get 5-10 FPS.

[BL1P 252]

PC Specs

CPU:AMD 1090t @3.8

Motherboard:cant rember

RAM:16gig

Graphics Card:ATI 6950

CPU Load:40-50

GPU Load:80-100

Ingame Settings

Texture detail:very high

Video memory:who cares

Anistropic Filtering:high

Antialiasing:high

Terrain Detail:very high

Object Detail:very high

Shadow Detail:high

HDR Quality:normal

Postprocessing Affects:off

Interface Size:small

Aspect Ratio:16:9 wide

VSync:yup

Interface Resolution:1920*1080

3D Resolution:100%

FPS

Highest FPS:60

Lowest FPS:30

Average:40

Using an ssd to run win and arma2

FPS sometimes drops alot but thats a server thing normally not my pc.

I use -nosplash -world=empty -maxMem=2047 -cpuCount=6

I also use :-

AToC=0;

[-Apoc-FOX 0]

CPU - AMD 1100T at 3.9 Ghz

MB - Asus M5A99X

RAM - 2 x 4 gig Corsair Dominator at 1333 Mhz

GPU - Sapphire 6950 2 gig

OS - Win 7 64 bit

Settings

Texture detail - very high

Video memory - default

Anistropic Filtering - high

Antialiasing - low

Terrain Detail - very high

Object Detail - very high

Shadow Detail - very high

HDR Quality:normal

Postprocessing Affects - low

Interface Size - small

Aspect Ratio - 16:9 wide

VSync - on

Interface Resolution - 1600x900 (1920 native)

3D Resolution - can't remember

No matter what I do my FPS is terrible in Cherno, even with all settings dropped all the way down.