Low GPU and CPU Usage

[zecele 211]

My config is:

GTX 660 Twin Frozr 2GB

AMD Phenom X4 3.4ghz 965 BE

Seagate 500gb 7200rpm

8gb xjawsram

750 Corsair Powersupply

This is on breaking point btw. Same fps on normal dayz though but no stutter

GPU usage in DayZ Breaking point is at around 40% on high settings if i set them too very high its ranges from 60% to 80% rapidly. Fps doesn't change much. Fps is around 30-40. CPU usage for all 4 cores never goes above 50%..

Please keep in mind that normal Arma 2 i get 60 - 120 fps and on the multiplayer i get around 60-70 it is just DayZ.

I have the game generally on high settings because low reduces my fps. I am also getting very bad stuttering because of this.

I am using ramdisk btw.

I have all the usual parameters.

All this is on a new install of win 7 64bit downgrade from win8 and also a newly formatted harddrive.

Im thinking its either too do with the zombies which would mean the standalone should run fine or i need an ssd.

[applejaxc 2500]

DayZ will hurt your frames no matter how well you run normal ArmA; the zombie models, clusterfuck of spawned items and terrain features, et cetera makes DayZ a lot more system intensive than normal.

[zecele 211]

DayZ will hurt your frames no matter how well you run normal ArmA; the zombie models, clusterfuck of spawned items and terrain features, et cetera makes DayZ a lot more system intensive than normal.

Its not really the frames that bother me. More the stutter im getting.

Edited June 9, 2013 by Zecele

[applejaxc 2500]

Its not really the frames that bother me. More the stutter im getting.

Describe your stuttering. Do you mean a visual one, or are you jumping back-and-forth when you try moving? Is there an artifact effect, or? "Stuttering" is used to name a great many problems.

[zecele 211]

Visual stutter like every 3 seconds its stutters like a lag spike per say.

[colekern 1364]

This could help:

Go into documents>Arma 2 and open Arma2 and arma2oa cfgs. Change gpumaxframesahead and gpudetectedframes ahead to 0 and save. Go into arma 2 and turn off mouse smoothing.

[zecele 211]

I've done that. Thanks for the tip though.

[nik21 287]

This could help:

Go into documents>Arma 2 and open Arma2 and arma2oa cfgs. Change gpumaxframesahead and gpudetectedframes ahead to 0 and save. Go into arma 2 and turn off mouse smoothing.

Why are people always coming up with this config/ startup-parameter nonsense?

GPU_MaxFramesAhead can only lower the Mouse lag by the GPU render-ahead buffer, nothing to do with the stuttering the TO describes..

Changing the value of GPU_DetectedFramesAhead is BS anyway as changing it manually has no effect because it's written by the engine each start.

[zecele 211]

It's probably to do with the zombies as when i go on an empty server there is no stutter. As the zombies are server side on the standalone the problem should be fixed whenever it is released to the public i am happy to wait,

Edited June 9, 2013 by Zecele

[colekern 1364]

Why are people always coming up with this config/ startup-parameter nonsense?

GPU_MaxFramesAhead can only lower the Mouse lag by the GPU render-ahead buffer, nothing to do with the stuttering the TO describes..

Changing the value of GPU_DetectedFramesAhead is BS anyway as changing it manually has no effect because it's written by the engine each start.

Well at least I'm trying to help instead of insulting people trying to help.

Edited June 10, 2013 by colekern