How to Really Increase FPS?

[Easy_Tiger (DayZ) 33]

I play on a core 2 quad @ 2.6ghz and it handles arma2 / dayz with no problems, the OP's i5 should be more than sufficient.

You could actually get better performance if you increase your gfx settings (if your gfx card is good enough ofc) as you will be filling up your gfx cards memory instead of your ram / swap file and making the gfx card take on work your cpu would be doing. Get MSI afterburner and monitor the gpu usage + mem usage as you increase the gfx settings in game. My GTX460 used like 40% gpu / 300mb on low settings and 60/70% / 500mb on high settings, so not stressed out enough to cause problems imo.

The big performance killer in this game is swapping the large game files in and out of memory & swap file , especially if you have less than 2gb of RAM free . If you have 64bit windows and 4gb of RAM free after arma 2 has taken its max memory of 2gb then get a ram disk put the game core pbo's into it and then get a app to rewrite the filesystems symbolic links for these pbo's so arma reads the pbo's in your ramdisk. This will result in a pretty sweet fps increase / 'stutter' elimination.

Edited May 16, 2013 by Easy_Tiger

[CannedPakes 5]

That is mouse smoothing you are talking about. Always disable it. You can find it at control options just slide it all the way off to the left

Wow. I really didn't have that much lag. I guess this whole time it was mouse smoothing... I will still use everything I've been told though! Thanks everyone. Might as well still upgrade to an i7 once I get $200 anyway. Also, I will be able to share my specs tomorrow. And if anyone thinks I'm stupid for not knowing about mouse smoothing, it's because for about 3 years now I have played straight Xbox 360. Actually, last month, I had just bought my three first PC games. Honestly, it is a much better experience. Mods and 100 person servers... the glory of PC! Edited May 16, 2013 by CannedPakes

[Mos1ey 6301]

LOL! Yeah, mouse smoothing is a pain in the arse. Disabling post-process effects also cleans up your mouse input a bit, if you haven't done that already.

Edited May 17, 2013 by mZLY

[whitefur22 10]

YES i7 will fit in i5 and its worth getting, maybe a better coling system aswell.

stob bieng a beta asfuk i5 and become an ALPHA i7

wat... :/