Low FPS is caused by the game.

[Revoku 0]

I have a 955 black edition 8gb gkill ram, 5850 gfx card and get 8 fps on most servers

this computer isn't top of the chain anymore for sure, but its def not anywhere near the bottom, it can run all current generation games at well over 60fps on ultra settings max resolution(typically 100 fps+ for most games)

except armaII wasteland/dayz

Tryed all the tweaks(including the cfg tweaks people repeat like sheep)

tried every combo of settings

even went so far as to install different driver versions, operating systems, SSD drives, installed borrowed some ram sticks and put 32gb ram in and made a ramdisk and put all of arma2 oa+ dayz on it

Also ran monitor/log program during gameplay during much of this testing, dayz is barely using 23% cpu, 26% load on gfx card, half my video ram, and hardly any of my normal ram

This problem seems to be occuring fairly often on many peoples computers that are well above the specs this game should need

and its doesnt seem to be spesific to brand of card, I know a guy running a 7750, and a 945 quad core getting 50fps where I am getting 8 fps

the 7750 is a low power card, thats roughly half the speed of the 5850

its making the game completely unplayable.

[DarkHart07 1]

I've always been getting low FPS on this game, and this game alone.

Setup:

GPU: Radeon HD 6750 (Not the best, I know, but it runs games with better graphics than this and on higher settings - no problem)

CPU: AMD Phenom II x4 965 Black Edition - Overclocked to 3.8 gHz

RAM: 16 gigs

It's ridiculous how un-stable this game's been. People have been having this problem for months, or however long it's been since it came out, and still no one found the problem?

[m.cab 83]

Wow man, thats really a shame!

I got two desktop-PCs here. One was state of the Art about two years ago, the other one has been about five years ago. I also tried a lot with the graphic options and read all the guides in the internet and stuff.

Even the newer PC is struggling with dayZ sometimes but overall its running pretty good. Of course i need to put the graphic settings for the older PC lower then the settings for the new one but when i dont put it too high its also running 'ok'.

In the End i can give thee final tips to the people who "tried everything":

1. You really have to get yourself over to put the settings (seginificantly) down if necessary even if you have some very nice hardware. Many ppl just cant accept that they can go super high settings on other games and it just doesnt work with the DayZ.

2. Antialiasing. For many ppl it seems like puting off AA makes it ~50% better, no matter what else they did!

3. Server. Many servers are just running the game like shit! Many ppl jump only between max. 4-5 servers and dont realize that they are all crap.

[DarkHart07 1]

Well, I always turned every setting I could to as low as it could go, and I was always picking different servers. I tried at least 30 different ones, probably much more. I was always around 8-10 FPS, which is ridiculous. In fact, even when I changed the settings back to high, or medium, my FPS remained constantly at around 10.

Edited April 18, 2013 by DarkHart07

[Revoku 0]

Well heres a list of tried and failed:

Every combo of graphical setting

Found the best to be AA off, postprocessing off, everything else on normal except shadows which i set to off

video memory on default

arma2oa.cfg edit also helped a little

using ati tray tool to enable multithreading helped a little

setting the cpucount mannually in the launch parameters helped a little

none of this helped it be playable tho

after a fresh reboot I can get 35 fps in cherno on a 60 person server while full, after the first death its 18, after the second death, its 8fps, or, if I dont die, after an hour it ends up at 8 fps.

so theres something wrong with the game, a bug that is causing this

Myths:

"Its super CPU intensive because of all the zombies etc" this is a myth, its not THAT cpu intensive, wow is more cpu intensive, so is battlefield 3. which both have more things going on at once.

Sure if your running a dual core, your going to have a problem, as dual cores haven't been useful for gaming for about 5 years(don't kid yourself they're not)

but any quad core(excluding low power arm quads) can handle the cpu load of arma2/dayz fine

"its super hard drive intensive" again, not that much, sure getting an ssd helps, as it does with any game, but not enough to stop a bug from knocking a game down to unplayable FPS(a ramdisk runs at 5000 megabytes a second, about 100x what dayz can use, and it made little difference to fps, 5fps more max) unless your computer is already chugging along because other programs are accessing the disk to much for whatever reason already, then this isn't going to be your problem.

"its got to render tons of zombies" yes, it does, but that doesnt mean fps should drop like it does, client renders thousands of mobs in other games of the same gfx quality without issue, this games gfx are old hat, and it also employs removing grass and heavily reducing gfx textures at about 70 yards.

the fact that the fps gets worse as the games running, and during deaths shows a memory leak, which means its a coding problem.

The reason this isn't being addressed is there is a mix of people, those who truely have this problem, and those who have super crap non gaming computers complaining that they "have this problem" dual core 2gb ram 5570 gfx card type people, who think they brought a gaming machine

even those who don't think they have this problem have it, those who're getting playable fps of 60+, I bet after a few deaths that fps has dropped to 50(which is still acceptable)

can someone test this? cheers

Edited April 19, 2013 by Revoku