FPS issues on G55VW laptop.

[xenweiss 4]

Hi guys,

Having some FPS issues and I hope someone could help me settings this up. I get mostly 30-40 FPS when everything is on low, and it drops to 15-20+ something in cities.

Now yes, it is playable, but after what I did I seriously hope I can squeeze *SOME* more performance. Also, people with the same machine as mine reported in this forum that they run this game on high settings smoothly.

I'm running a G55VW laptop with the following specs:

- i7-3610QM Processor @ 2.3-3.3 GHz

- 24 GB DDR3 1600 MHz

- nVIDIA GTX 660M 2 GB GDDR5

- 128 GB SanDisk SSD + 750 GB HDD

I followed many guides to set this game to work.

- I put pretty much all the necessary PBOs on a RAMDisk and symlinked them correctly.

- Set every setting to very low, low, normal, mixed everything up.. currently most settings are on normal. Disabled shadows, antialiasing, anisotropic filtering, PPAA, post processing.

- Did all the .cfg tweaks like changing GPU_MaxFramesAhead and GPU_DetectedFramesAhead to 1, setting the files to read only etc...

- Put the correct launch options in DayZ Commander and Steam itself, to use the maximum VRAM available and 4 cores / 8 threads.

- Overclocked the 660M to the max supported by its stock bios (+135 MHz).

I'm kind of fed up tweaking it already, but the thing that bothers me most is that people say the game is "CPU intensive".

I fired up "Intel Extreme Tuning Utility" to try and up the reference clock by a bit, to see if it makes a difference, but ended up using this piece of software to take a look at how DayZ rapes my CPU.

Well, it never uses more than 2 cores @ CPU utilization of 25% maximum. I don't mind the cores, but the utilization is a joke.

How is it possible? Am I missing something here? Is this Windows 8's fault, and I should revert to Windows 7 (I really doubt it)? How can I make it actually USE my CPU :/

[ifeastontears 0]

Hey mate, I fixed my fps problem by adding -winxp to the startup options ;) You should try that.

If you are running the game with steam, go to your library, click on Arma 2 OA, click properties, click startup options, just type -winxp there and click OK. Hope it helps.

Edited March 19, 2013 by Paramedic

[Mos1ey 6301]

Your CPU is your problem, it's not really cut out for ARMA...

Have you disabled hyperthreading in your BIOS and told ARMA 2 to use 4 cores and 7 threads?

[Zwafro 0]

Dont listen, your Laptop is fine. I have nearly the same config (i7-3630QM) and I am playing DayZ on high with 40-50 frames. I had the same problem and also posted about it today but changing the shadow quality did it for me ! You go to where you config files are and there should be a file with you name, just open the file with notepad and set "shadow quality" = "2".

Let me hear if it worked !

[xenweiss 4]

I messed around with alot of settings. Apparently I used a memory allocator that was just not the right decision. I removed it, and I can now play with textures, object level, terrain, and shadows all on high.

So for the next laptop gamer who comes here, indeed, don't listen to those who say this game does not run in laptops. It's quite beautiful.