Possible FPS Enhancer

[cloudious 1]

@Cloudious.

Maxframes settings in cfg @1

viewdistance @ 1500

scenecomplexity @ around 100000

Ingame settings @ medium and no clouds.

 

OC your CPU @ 3,8ghz. With the right cooling it should handle this clockrate easy. Don't be scared. I've never destroyed a AMD with overclocking.

You've got almost the same system as I got. These settings should give you a big boost. If you don't know where to find this variables read the rest of this topic.

Thank you very much for your reply.

I've been on Toms Hardware and he suggested for me to get a Hyper 212 and a GTX 660 TI

This is what I'm going to go for, but I'll take your configs and put them into mine and see how I role. At the moment I'm hitting like 57degrees on my cpu, is that normal?

[Wh1spY 110]

Q9550 is not a dualcore, it's a quadcore, hence the "Q" in the name. It's an old proccessor but does the job well enough tbh. It's still equal to even some i7's out there despite being a 6-7 year old cpu lol

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core2+Quad+Q9550+%40+2.83GHz&id=1049

 

 

Q9550 is a Quad Core, not DualCore.

 

I had a little boost on fps; I get 25-30 in cities now, which is a little bit bearable. Wilderness 50-65. I have yet to try with the affinity and see if it makes better or worse. Thanks

Lol my bad, just googled it quick and read to fast. Guess the Core 2 just got my attention since I have owned a Core 2 Duo processor.. :P

[RosscoMac 75]

If you're rocking nVidia SLI then you MUST check out this guide on Reddit.  Boosted my FPS by 75+%!  As of right now there is no SLI profile for the Dayz exe.  It will likely be added on the next driver update, or maybe the one after depending on where they are in the driver dev cycle.  But until then, follow the instructions posted in the link below.

 

http://www.reddit.com/r/dayz/comments/1ta9ry/how_to_enable_nvidia_sli_in_standalone/

 

Thanks for this! Made such a difference. :D

[-zEr0- 2]

I have tried many different graphic Settings so far but there is only one that offers good Performance as well as a nice looking game at the same time for me.

 

Resolution: 100% (1920x1080)

vsync: Off

Video Memory: auto

texture Detail: high

texture filtering: high

objects: very low (Scene complexity: 100000)

Terrain: low (terraingrid=25)

clouds: very high (doesn't eat a lot of Performance for me)

shadows: normal (I don't see a huge difference compared to high or very high)

antialiasing: normal

ATC: all trees + grass (for me the game Looks horrible without it although it causes a slight Input lag)

edge smoothing: disabled (postprocessing = cpu)

HDR Quality: very low (HDR presicion=8, can be set to 0 in cnfg file but surfaces don't appear shiny any more. Haven't noticed a huge Performance gain when turned off completely)

ambient occlusion: disabled

postprocessing: disabled (CPU)

mousesmoothing=0

gpu_maxframesahead=1

gpu_detectedframesahead=0 (haven't noticed a huge difference compared to 1)

viewdistance: 1600

preferedobjectviewdistance: 1600

shadowZDistance: 100

 

added the usual Startup Parameters to steam and installed the game onto an SSD.

 

For me it runs good with These Settings and it Looks good as well....

 

my System:

AMD FX8350

Sapphire Radeon HD6950 2GB

G.Skill Sniper 8GB DDR3 1866Mhz

Gigabyte 990FXA-UD5

Crucial M4 SSD 128GB

Edited December 30, 2013 by -zEr0-

[irishroy 1347]

Hmm, i am a pretty new,noob regarding PCs xD,

i got: i5 4x 3.4GHz, 8 GB-RAM, GTX560 with 1GB V-RAM

 

So my "settings" would be:

"-maxMem=8184 -maxVRAM=1023 cpuCount=4 -exThreads=4"?

[djporternz 644]

NOTE: Searched through this topic but couldn't find any references, so will post this. Apologies if it duplicates any other post.

 

I found that the biggest difference in my framerate came from the FoV setting. I.e. the difference between widest and lowest FoV was a doubling in my FPS. I had wondered about this since my FPS would jump up real high when scoped in (as displayed by Bandicam FPS overlay).

 

I've found that 1PP vs. 3PP also affects FPS with 1PP being 2~3 FPS quicker (doesn't have to render Player is my guess).

 

With the 'Normal' profile (ex. rendering set to 1440x900) and 1PP and smalest FoV, I am getting ~60 FPS in the wilds, and around 30~35 FPS in the large towns.

 

SPEC: AMD FX-8150 @ 4.2 GHz, Win7x64, 32 GB, GTX 560 Ti (1GB)

[nicolasvei (DayZ) 9]

Gained about only 3,4,5 FPS... I don't know if I did it alright.

 

My PC is : Intel Pentium ULV.   1.80 GHZ 8GB mem , x64 graphic card is : Intel® HD Graphic 

 

WIN 8

 

Processor : Intel Pentium CPU 2177U  1.80 GHZ

 

Well I use Very Low settings, all disabled, and 100% res.

 

I have around 10-15 FPS , and since I did all in the list, i get up to 17,18, 19 max.

 

I edited CFG files correctly.

 

And I put : maxMem=2047 -maxVRAM=1023 -cpuCount=2 -exThreads=3  on launch props.

 

Am I wrong on something? I know nothing about computers :D

Edited January 2, 2014 by nicolasvei

[mjf6866 22]

has anyone tried this RAMdisk trick?

 

[nicolasvei (DayZ) 9]

I just tried it. It barely change something. Was at +/- 15 FPS and still it is.

 

I tried the boost which the topic suggest, no changes.

 

What am I gonna do :(

 

At least, the game is not laggy for me, I can run it fine at very low and 100% resolution. Not that bad.

Edited January 2, 2014 by nicolasvei

[OrLoK 16185]

Hello there

 

Try using the Armarize or Playwith Six launchers, they make these extensions a simple case of ticking boxes. Be aware that PWS has ads built in now though.

 

Rgds

 

LoK

[Senna s1979 6]

I just tried it. It barely change something. Was at +/- 15 FPS and still it is.

 

I tried the boost which the topic suggest, no changes.

 

What am I gonna do :(

 

At least, the game is not laggy for me, I can run it fine at very low and 100% resolution. Not that bad.

 

Are you gaming on a laptop? Never heard of your processor. What socket is it? i.e 775, 1155, 1156, 2011.... etc

That's the biggest bottle neck you have. You need to be rocking at least 3GHz i3 to get something half decent out of DayZ imho.

[irishroy 1347]

guise, i need a lil bit of help, as mentioned above:

 

i5 4x 3.4GHz, 8 GB-RAM, GTX560 with 1GB V-RAM

 

So my "settings" would be:

"-maxMem=8184 -maxVRAM=1023 cpuCount=4 -exThreads=4"?

 

 

I tried this and that, but i didn't notice any difference... :|

[Senna s1979 6]

guise, i need a lil bit of help, as mentioned above:

 

i5 4x 3.4GHz, 8 GB-RAM, GTX560 with 1GB V-RAM

 

So my "settings" would be:

"-maxMem=8184 -maxVRAM=1023 cpuCount=4 -exThreads=4"?

 

 

I tried this and that, but i didn't notice any difference... :|

 

You won't. All i noticed was i crashed a lot. So i deleted the launch options from Steam start-up and it's all gravy  ;)

[kugane 4]

i have a amd phenom 2x6 1100t @ 3.4ghz (in 2 weeks i7 4770k)

evga 780ti classified

8gb ram (in 2 weeks 16gb 1600mhz)

samsung 840 pro 120gb

 

and the SA run only with max. 15 fps of minimum!!!

[Bestburg 2]

Thanks for the tips. I am sure this will help many people!

[colinm9991 196]

I haven't read all pages, but as far as I did read I was surprised that nobody mentioned Unparking Cores,

 

I'm also surprised that absolutely nobody has mentioned the following parameter

-malloc=

which gave me a good FPS increase in ArmA 2 when swapping allocators.

Edited January 6, 2014 by ColinM9991

[reidman 0]

I had to register to reply to this post, thank you so much man, I was struggling to stay above 20 fps in cities but now I average 30 and outside of cities I have a drastic improvment going anywhere from 40 to 70 fps, I never thought this old rig would be able to do that so thank you! My shit specs are below.

 

Q6600 2.4ghz

GTX 550 Ti 1GB

3GB DDR2 RAM 667MHz (lol)

[nicolasvei (DayZ) 9]

Gained about only 3,4,5 FPS... I don't know if I did it alright.

 

My PC is : Intel Pentium ULV.   1.80 GHZ 8GB mem , x64 graphic card is : Intel® HD Graphic 

 

WIN 8

 

Processor : Intel Pentium CPU 2177U  1.80 GHZ

 

Well I use Very Low settings, all disabled, and 100% res.

 

I have around 10-15 FPS , and since I did all in the list, i get up to 17,18, 19 max.

 

I edited CFG files correctly.

 

And I put : maxMem=2047 -maxVRAM=1023 -cpuCount=2 -exThreads=3  on launch props.

 

Am I wrong on something? I know nothing about computers :D

 

The only thing I can add is : ASUS X550C Series

 

Senna.

[Nienko 41]

I just foud the way to improve fps.

All it takes is €500 or $680 on pc parts :P Its still not perfect, but works ok for me.

[TedZ 424]

Before Christmas, when i didn't have my new computer i had to do this edit, but with my new 450£ One i can run DayZ on max settings,

[TIC 1050]

I believe this topic should be stickied into here as well: http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/forum/126-troubleshooting/

[Crawflex 3]

I edited the values in the cfg about object/shadow distance and have been noticing alot of pop in, especially on the distant trees near the fog.

 

Can anyone tell me the default values of the commandline that manipulates that?

[ZomboWTF 527]

in the old arma 2 wiki it says that valid values for exThreads are only 1, 3, 5 or 7, which sets a maximum of 3 external threads on ON of OFF

 

1 = 001  3 = 011 etc., i think most people know bytecode by today

 

for better understanding, look here:

 

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma2:_Startup_Parameters#exThreads

 

by this table, setting it to 4 would leave you without file operations in an external thread, which can lead to no peformance boost at all or even errors

 

so, if you have a quadcore even without hyperthreading, i'd recommend you guys to set it to 7

[ZomboWTF 527]

I haven't read all pages, but as far as I did read I was surprised that nobody mentioned Unparking Cores,

 

I'm also surprised that absolutely nobody has mentioned the following parameter

-malloc=

which gave me a good FPS increase in ArmA 2 when swapping allocators.

do you mean setting it to the windows 7 allocator, which seems to be the fastest of all of them?

in that case, it would be simply -malloc=system right?

guess i'll have to try that one out

[Synton 15]

None if these tips helped for me, i5 750k and 5850. 4 gb ram. 30 fps in cities 40/60 outside cities. Is this the most i can get? Textures high rest low or disabled.