LAG - Help Please !!

[CK21 0]

Hello, Day Z keeps lagging for me. I used to play this game around 8 months ago when I had a GT 440 graphic card but I stopped playing due to lag and other things happening in my life. Since then though I have bought a new graphics card and a good power supply, and this game still lags for me! Arma 2/OA runs fine for me but day z doesn't. I have spent over £200 so I could run this game and it isn't running like I would want it to so please help me!

My Specs:

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit

Intel Core i5 CPU 650 @ 3.20 GHz(4 CPUs)

4GB RAM

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Yes I know the graphic card is not the best but it isn't rubbish either and I am only asking it to run at my native resolution 1920 x 1080 and everything else is pretty much on low. I have updated the nvidia drivers, modified the ArmA2OA.cfg, reinstalled day z and nothing seems to be working.

help thank you

[SkilzZ 23]

DayZ Mod is still not fully improved, i had the same problem.

My Specs are even worse :

Intel Core i3 @540 3.07Ghz 2 CPU´s
8GB G-Skill Ram 1330Mhz
ATI Radeon 6570 2Gb DDR-3
300W Power Supply
Win7 Home Premium

And i can run the game on high settings, with AAx2 at 1440x900 with 25-35fps.
Your system is fine, the mod is buggy.
try to lower your settings a bit, turn Anti Aliasing off and post proccesing ;)

 

Edit 9.9.2013 :

 

I got a new Case and a 600W Power Supply for my future AMD FX 6100 and my Radeon 7870.

Edited September 9, 2013 by SkilzZ

[leviski 2152]

What the kind gentleman above me said

[h3retic 224]

i have a really good pc ([email protected], gtx670 4gb, 16gb ram) and i still am rather choppy in cherno and electro

so yeee, lagging is normal in arma...

if u want a smooth experience try to avoid big cities, though that kinda takes away from the gameplay, id rather just advice u to wipe ur tears off and deal with the stuttering.

[aarnoman 13]

In all honesty, I would recommend you get a better CPU. I would consider upgrading to an i5-3570k (have the same CPU), and it runs DayZ very smoothly. I used to have a 590 and played DayZ maxed out at 60FPS constant, so I can guarantee you that the 3570k will not cause any CPU bottlenecking. By contrast, the one you currently have is dragging your system down, and probably causing most of the lag.

[CK21 0]

DayZ Mod is still not fully improved, i had the same problem.

My Specs are even worse :

Intel Core i3 @540 3.07Ghz 2 CPU´s

8GB G-Skill Ram 1330Mhz

ATI Radeon 6570 2Gb DDR-3

300W Power Supply

Win7 Home Premium

And i can run the game on high settings, with AAx2 at 1440x900 with 25-35fps.

Your system is fine, the mod is buggy.

try to lower your settings a bit, turn Anti Aliasing off and post proccesing ;)

Thx for the response. I have pretty much turned all settings to low or off/default and followed guides but it still lags :( I could lower the resolution but then the game looks so poor.

i have a really good pc ([email protected], gtx670 4gb, 16gb ram) and i still am rather choppy in cherno and electro

so yeee, lagging is normal in arma...

if u want a smooth experience try to avoid big cities, though that kinda takes away from the gameplay, id rather just advice u to wipe ur tears off and deal with the stuttering.

Well,lagging isn't normal for me in arma, it's just dayz.... and yeah I guess i'll just have to.. :(

In all honesty, I would recommend you get a better CPU. I would consider upgrading to an i5-3570k (have the same CPU), and it runs DayZ very smoothly. I used to have a 590 and played DayZ maxed out at 60FPS constant, so I can guarantee you that the 3570k will not cause any CPU bottlenecking. By contrast, the one you currently have is dragging your system down, and probably causing most of the lag.

Thx for response, I will look into it and may buy when i get any available money(i spent quite a lot on a new gpu). But I think there isn't much hope when people who have worse specs than mine run this game better than me

Edited May 13, 2013 by CK21

[h3retic 224]

try balancing render load between gpu and cpu (set balanced settings - not all lows, because lows forces cpu to render everything, so u may actually lag less if u put a few highs as well)

id advice u to use no AA(or high/medium aa + atoc), no shadows (or high shadows, but not low), no post processing, medium/low texture,

dont just put everything to low, it wont help

also make sure u have set video memory to default (default uses up to all of ur available vram, while any other value uses only a set amount)

another trick is to set high priority to arma2oa.exe in task manager (ctrl alt del - task manager - find arma2oa.exe - right click - pirority - high. NOTE: DO NOT SET REALTIME priority)

Edited May 13, 2013 by h3retic

[h3retic 224]

a bit of copy paste from some old post i made

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Your profile configuration file is found in "c/users/[name of user]/my Documents (or documents)/Arma 2" or "Documents/Arma 2 Other Profiles"

there u will find arma 2 config files (it will have ur dayz character/profile name)

so locate arma 2 operation arrowhead config file (go over them one by one untill u find arma 2 oa config file)

open the config file with notepad (right click, open with, select notepad)

(- it is best to make a backup copy of the whole arma 2/ arma 2 other profiles folder before doing this)

it will look seomthing like this (BUT NOT EXACTLY LIKE THIS):

EXAMPLE of config entries:

"language="English";

adapter=-1;

3D_Performance=-180000;

Resolution_Bpp=32;

Resolution_W=1680;

Resolution_H=1050;

refresh=60;

Render_W=1680;

Render_H=1050;

FSAA=0;

postFX=2;

HDRPrecision=8;

lastDeviceId="";

localVRAM=924188672;

nonlocalVRAM=1475895296;

....."

there find the following lines and edit them so that they are exactly as they appear here (NOT IN THE ORDER):

anisoFilter=0;

TexQuality=0;

shadingQuality=0;

shadowQuality=0;

mouseSmoothing=1

sceneComplexity=120000; -(this one i am not sure right now, if u have anything bellow 100000, dont change it)

GPU_DetectedFramesAhead="1";

GPU_MaxFramesAhead="1";

in game settings:

video memory=default -always on default

post processing=off -always to off

anti alliasing=off /high -can be quite taxing on performance if set to on but makes visuals much nicer

shadows=off or high (medium can be worse than high for a 560ti)

3d resolution=100%

FXAA=can be set to normal without performance loss

ATOC=off (atoc only works when u have anti alliasing set to on)

Edited May 13, 2013 by h3retic

[h3retic 224]

also if u want a bit of anti alliasing at low cost, u can use the FXAA on high, its pretty decent

i used to play dayz with gtx560ti oem and i had pretty good performance on that, so good luck, hope ull find this info useful

- IF its just dayz, go to a different server, with few people on. big servers lag if they cant handle the load

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Edited May 13, 2013 by h3retic