Low fps when joining servers sometimes

[trials912 0]

Started playing dayz again after reviving myself from the population of "died off/peaked interest" people who orginally played the mod the year or so ago it was released. Now im having Framerate issues. The only difference between when I played now and back like a yearish ago is I have a new proccesor and motherboard.

 

Not really sure whats going on here, but its extremley annoying for someone wanting to legitmatley play the game and not some mod of a mod. Even despite some of the changes in the current patch not really being in favor.

 

 

I get low fps (below 10), when joining servers sometimes. It seems to almost be at random. Because I can join another server again and get my normal fps of 45ish or more at certain times and 30ish in the lows. I dont know why its happeing but its 100% unplayable and results in joining another server or trying the same one again, or even restarting the computer.

 

The game also crashes at times, sometimes its 15 min, or never crashes.

 

All drivers and games have been re-installed with the exeption of Steam and Dayz commander.

 

List of current hardware.

-AMD FX 4100 Quad 3.6

-8gb G-skill Rip Jaws DDR3

-GTX 660TI superclocked editon

 

I "want" to rule out possible hardware issues because I can play BF3 for hours with like 80 fps in the high end, and 40 fps in the low's at times in Ultra settings.

 

Any help would be appreciated. I'm just looking to play Dayz again for a bit, and hope the standalong is done "Right", before a release date comes to mind...I'm not that hardcore of a "zombie game" player to go start playing some other stuff that could come out. It would take alot to live up to what dayz as a game is in general. In otherwords, I probably will still play Dayz in the future as long as they dont fuck it up. But I am always open minded.

Edited September 6, 2013 by trials912

[Cobs 49]

Alot of people are reporting problems with FX processors and Arma 2.  This might be helpful: http://forums.unitedoperations.net/index.php/topic/13152-amd-fx-cpus-and-arma-2/

 

 

Basically, if you're running a highly-intensive program on an FX processor and it does NOT utilize all your cores (ARMA 2 won't fully utilize anything above 4 cores), go to the BIOS and change the AMD ACTIVE CORE CONTROL to "1 Core per CU (Module)" and overclock as much as you can, and you will gain performance, even if you don't overclock. But if the program DOES utilize all of your cores, setting the CPU to only use 1 core per module will only decrease performance.