Unreal FPS Problems (Unplayable)

[ifeastontears 0]

Hello all,

I just bought myself the complete collection of Arma 2.

Dayz looks much fun to me so I would love to try it out, so I installed it today and tried to play.

However my fps is uber low! I set every setting at his lowest and I get like 5 fps? I can't believe this is happening on my laptop.

These are the specs of my laptop. I am sure that I am running on my 630m and not on the integrated graphics. It can't be true that an old game like this is unable to run on these specs right? I tried some solutions but nothing works, I see people posting about their worser equipped pc's which can run this game at like 60 fps. I just don't get it.

I hope someone can help me, otherwise I have thrown away 30 euro and I really want to enjoy dayz.

http://valid.canardpc.com/2735982

CPU Arch : 1 CPU - 2 Cores - 4 Threads

CPU PSN : Intel Core i5-3210M CPU @ 2.50GHz

CPU EXT : MMX, SSE (1, 2, 3, 3S, 4.1, 4.2), EM64T, VT-x, AES, AVX

CPUID : 6.A.9 / Extended : 6.3A

CPU Cache : L1 : 2 x 32 / 2 x 32 KB - L2 : 2 x 256 KB

CPU Cache : L3 : 3072 KB

Core : Ivy Bridge (22 nm) / Stepping : E1

Freq : 2896.13 MHz (99.84 * 29)

MB Brand : Acer

MB Model : VA50_HC_CR

NB : Intel Ivy Bridge rev 09

SB : Intel HM77 rev 04

GPU1 Type : Intel® HD Graphics 4000

GPU2 Type : NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M

DirectX Version : 11.0

RAM : 8192 MB DDR3 Dual Channel

RAM Speed : 665.8 MHz (1:5) @ 9-9-9-24

Slot 1 : 4096MB (10700)

Slot 1 Manufacturer : Hyundai Electronics

Slot 2 : 4096MB (14200)

Slot 2 Manufacturer : Corsair

Edited March 18, 2013 by Paramedic

[spinager 152]

how many servers have you tried? how does vanilla arma 2 play?

Edited March 18, 2013 by Spinager

[ifeastontears 0]

Have played on like 5 servers and all the same story... Now running Arma 2 to check how it runs ;)

Edit: Arma 2 same story

All my other games run fine btw, It's just Arma

Tried running it without Steam, and giving the process priority High, boosts my fps a bit but it is still not playable.

Running it with Gamebooster on gaming desktop and shutting down explorer.exe, Arma process at high priority gives me an average of about 15 fps...

Edited March 18, 2013 by Paramedic

[SP45M 240]

Your video card is fine but no matter how good your card is Arma2 is very processor intensive and im afraid yours just isn't up to the task. Faster clock speed and more cores = better fps with Dayz/Arma2