FPS same on very high or very low settings problem

[jamestrendall 38]

As the title say's im having a problem with my FPS. No matter what server i play on freshly restarted or not i am getting 20fps that drops down to a solid 10fps after about 20 minutes of playing.

I can run around on the coast, In citys, In the forest's absolutly anywhere in game at a solid 10fps regardless if im on very high settings or very low settings. My resolution is set at 1280x720 (Native for my screen)

The only thing i can think of is my gfx card is not working properly or the game is using my cpu instead of my gpu.

Has anyone else had this problem? Did you find a way to fix it? Please help as i cant play on any of the servers on DayZCommander be it DayZ, DayZero, Breaking point, Origins every server or mod i try this happens to me after 20 minutes.....

My PC specs,

AMD Phenom II x4 965 Black edition OC'd 3.7Ghz

Asus HD7770 2GbDDR5

16Gb Corsair Vengance ram

I have try'd to add and remove all start up parameters, Tried running DayZ on RamDisk im at a loss to figure this out please someone help me.

[Beck (DayZ) 1768]

http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/38865-how-to-increase-fpssmooth-out-the-game/

[John69 64]

Download Msi Afterburner : http://www.guru3d.co...a_download.html

Install and set it to display youre gpu usage along with youre fps.

That way you can monitor how much of youre gpu is used when you change youre settings ingame.

When correct tuned, the game should use anything from 85-99% of youre gpu all the time..

The MSI afterburner is a monitoring and overclocking utility and can be used with ANY Vendor, not only MSI gpu`s.

Check pic:

Edited June 9, 2013 by John69

[jamestrendall 38]

MSI afterburner sounds like a great plan thank you for that. Atleast i can now find out if anything is broken with my system. Thank you loads for that suggestion.

Also Thank you for the link for helping with FPS and settings i will do that after i check MSI.

Best advice i have ever had on the forums for a long time thank you loads guys.

[gambla 118]

Check my sig, trying to accumulate all proven help to improve fps...

[John69 64]

MSI afterburner sounds like a great plan thank you for that. Atleast i can now find out if anything is broken with my system. Thank you loads for that suggestion.

Also Thank you for the link for helping with FPS and settings i will do that after i check MSI.

Best advice i have ever had on the forums for a long time thank you loads guys.

No problemo...anytime..

[=DiG= Zgraphz 84]

lemme guess you have steam and or arma 2 installed on a standard 7200rpm Hard drive, Is that correct... Of coruse it's correct, because the processor/graphic card and ram you have is perfect and flawless for great dayz play, the only thing you don't have is a SSD. arma 2/dayz revolves around 2 main computer components. 1. Processor speed of 3.0ghz or higher, and a SSD with a fast read/write speed, arma 2 is all about index searching, and prcoessing, it's important to had a healthy gpu for a solid average of fps, ram should be 8+ other then that your good to go chef, thats why your settings dont change from high to low, your harddrive is bottle necking the shit out of the processor

[triage 117]

This is an issue with everybody. Arma 2 its self dosent really give you bad frames. To start off Arma 2 isnt even a optomized game. Dayz isnt any better either.

Your game lags because of the zombies and the loot spawning every where. Thats why you have random lag spikes. When you have all these zombies spawning all over the place, espically in high populated servers your going to lag.

[arrowxd 9]

SSD'S cannot always increase fps, as he said, it can only help fps in terms of write speeds .etc, As the ArmA engine runs like shit go find some tutorials to make the game playable, if the fps is under 20 then it isnt playable 25-30 fps is playable, just give your eyes sometime to adjust to the framerates and speeds on what appears on your screen, dont be too picky, forget about the fps just make it playable, then play

[=DiG= Zgraphz 84]

SSD'S cannot always increase fps, as he said, it can only help fps in terms of write speeds .etc, As the ArmA engine runs like shit go find some tutorials to make the game playable, if the fps is under 20 then it isnt playable 25-30 fps is playable, just give your eyes sometime to adjust to the frame rates and speeds on what appears on your screen, don't be too picky, forget about the fps just make it playable, then play

FPS is what makes it playable, thought, i do agree that SSD's do not always increase fps, but it does speed up the index searching that arma 2 does, if you noticed, arma 2 runs all images and items off PBO files, which need to be indexed while playing the game. If you speed that up with either a ramdisk or ssd or even a High performance Hard Drive that cost must more than a standard ssd. then its all up to processor and gpu. u don't need a rig from the future to play arma 2/dayz just fast HDD, 3.1+GHZ processor and a beefy g-card with 2+gb even some high performance 1gb can handle it and maybe 6-8+ gb of ram and your set for 60+fps

all hardware+software should be updated or checked for updates at least 1 time every 2 week to ensure maximum performance.

Edited June 9, 2013 by =DiG= Zgraphz

[arrowxd 9]

FPS is what makes it playable, thought, i do agree that SSD's do not always increase fps, but it does speed up the index searching that arma 2 does, if you noticed, arma 2 runs all images and items off PBO files, which need to be indexed while playing the game. If you speed that up with either a ramdisk or ssd or even a High performance Hard Drive that cost must more than a standard ssd. then its all up to processor and gpu. u don't need a rig from the future to play arma 2/dayz just fast HDD, 3.1+GHZ processor and a beefy g-card with 2+gb even some high performance 1gb can handle it and maybe 6-8+ gb of ram and your set for 60+fps

all hardware+software should be updated or checked for updates at least 1 time every 2 week to ensure maximum performance.

Yeah, people have told me that i have an ok GPU but my cpu is only a pentuim g650 2.9ghz and im going for an i5 3570, my motherboard suppourts it but do i need to update my BIOS