I don't understand why I get such low FPS

[dramarlo 0]

I've tried everything.I didn't think I'd every have to ask on a forum about this, but I don't know what else to do.

First off, my system specs:

Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-2670QM CPU @ 2.20GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.2GHz

Memory: 16384MB RAM

System Model: GX780/GT780/GT780DX/GT783

Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570M

I forget if anything else is relevant.

Things I've tried:

Ramdisk, Setting max frames ahead to 1 and 1, NVIDIA settings favouring max performance, following this guide on the in-game settings for optimising performance: http://www.dayzpvp.c...d-tweaks-guide/, forcing direct X 9 via dayz commander and changing the computer's power settings to favour high performance.

No matter what i do i can't get above 30-33 frames, and that's on good days. I'm almost sure that tweaking my graphics card settings has an ADVERSE effect, so I turn them off most of the time. Ramdisk seems to make no difference, and the only in-game settings that seem to make a real difference, (hence why i have them off) are ANTIALIASING and post processing.

I think there must be a conflict or something, I really have no idea why i can't get higher framerates.

If anyone has any ideas that'd be AMAZING.

[dulix11 731]

Its most likely your CPU. Having 3.0+GHz is the best. ArmA is very CPU demanding.

[anAveragePotato 5]

Now this is going to sound crazy :/ but you should try putting your settings on high or very high so that it uses your graphics card not your CPU (as far as I know anyway arma uses the CPU on normal and low settings and it then uses the gpu a bit more when on high settings). It might help a little with the bottle neck your CPU is giving you :) I might also be crazy and none of this is true but it's worth a try. Anyways 30 fps is good :D

[liquidmind 320]

You have a mobile-graphics-card in your pc.

According to the specs of the graphcis-card, I'd say low-medium would be a nice setting for you.

Also try to reduce the resolution.

High-end graphics cards have a benchmark of 5000 or above that at the moment. Yours has about 1500.

30 FPS already is quite good here.

I think I play with 15-25 atm... low settings.

[dramarlo 0]

I should probably make myself more clear, 30 fps is the highest it ever goes, my usual average is roughly 26 ish. I tried running it with all high, as I too has heard that makes it more gpu intensive rather than cpu, but its still slower with antialiasing on high than it is with it disabled or low. I've even tried high setting with nvidia turbo boost on and it does nothing haha. I wouldnt mind if twenty five fps was all my system could handle, but I know its not. Hell, my friends with worse or equal computes get higher fps even with antialiasing.

[Rozzok 20]

Intel I3 @ 550k Quad-core

2gb Ram

Gtx 650 2b

My personal settings

FIRST OFF dont play on private hives. I see public give better FPS I believe

Now my settings are on very high. But try making your graphics on lowest and make your shadows on the highest.. Might boost your fps. If not

get a new better GPU. ( CPU looks fine )

I run a sturdy 55-60 Fps ( I turn refresh rate on so it doesnt go over 60 )

Dont use antialiasing. Turn process effects off and mostly play servers like

US 1993. I get amazing fps on that. Private hives I dont for some reason

Not sure if this is help. but owell

[Mos1ey 6301]

It's the CPU, it's incredibly weak by today's standards.

[terminal_boy 860]

It's an MSI laptop.

Alas, DayZ doesn't like laptops, but you should get a playable FPS at Medium settings with a little tweaking.

AA and PP should be disabled.

[dramarlo 0]

Alrighty, thanks dudes! Is there anything else you recommend ne tweaking that hasn't been mentioned?

[rossymond 68]

Have you added the startup paremeters to actually tell Arma2 you have 8 active cores?

The correct parameter is "-CpuCount=8"

Adding this for my system gave me around 30% more FPS. As default I believe the Arma2 system doesn't see all your cores as to begin with, mine was only loading up on 2 cores :)

Hope this helps

[dramarlo 0]

Oh I didn't try that, thanks man

[Mos1ey 6301]

Have you added the startup paremeters to actually tell Arma2 you have 8 active cores?

The correct parameter is "-CpuCount=8"

Adding this for my system gave me around 30% more FPS. As default I believe the Arma2 system doesn't see all your cores as to begin with, mine was only loading up on 2 cores :)

Hope this helps

Assuming you're talking about an i7 you'd actually be much better off disabling hyperthreading and using -CPUCount=4. :)

[rossymond 68]

Not sure what effect that would have, I will do exactly that, and report the differences.

[beatSTV 631]

Not sure what effect that would have, I will do exactly that, and report the differences.

no games use hyper threading its a waste of energy just running off the 4 cores will give you a much more stable base to work off of. Is the missus back yet by the way?

[Mos1ey 6301]

Not sure what effect that would have, I will do exactly that, and report the differences.

Well you don't actually have 8 cores, you have 4 dividing themselves in 2. All that really does is create more idle time as processes are switched between cores.

It's only actually good for rendering videos or excessive multitasking.

Edited April 19, 2013 by mZLY