DayZ Takes Too Long to Launch

[Krunchy 0]

Ever since upgrading from a Radeon 6790 to a GTX 760, I've had the problem of DayZ taking forever to load after launching. I have reinstalled drivers, made sure my old drivers were gone, reinstalled the game, verified game cache, the works. Nothing seems to help the problem. It takes about a minute to hit the DayZ splash screen (before which is a black screen where the game goes in and out of non-responsiveness) and another 30 seconds to hit the Alpha disclaimer. It also takes an absurdly long (~30 sec) time to apply graphics settings like anti-aliasing. The game is installed on an SSD and was loading and running perfectly fine before I upgraded GPUs. As far as I can tell, nobody else is having this problem. Can anyone suggest a solution?

 

Specs:

AMD Phenom II x4 925 OC'd to 3.7GHz

EVGA GTX 760 SC w/ ACX Cooler

16GB 1333 RAM

ASRock 970 Extreme3 Motherboard

OCZ Vertex 4 128GB SSD (game is installed on this drive)

Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200RPM (game was installed on this, moving made no difference)

 

EDIT: Forgot to mention that it also takes about 45 seconds to load back into the game after alt-tabbing, during which it goes non-responsive as well.

Edited January 17, 2014 by Krunchy

[Dchil 829]

You really can't stand to wait 2 minutes for it to load to the main menu? How the hell do you have the patience to go to any town in this game is beyond me if this is a massive problem to you. It takes me 5 mins to go to the main menu from hitting the shortcut with a laptop that is nowhere near the quality of your computer.

[Krunchy 0]

It's not the waiting that gets to me, it's the waiting when I didn't have to before, even though I had worse specs.

[Jfiles 439]

Got that some processor but not BE edition.

[Krunchy 0]

Got that some processor but not BE edition.

Are you having loading problems as well? I don't see why it would be a processor issue, as that's one of the factors that has stayed the same through my GPU upgrade.

[Dchil 829]

I doubt that the processor has anything to do with it, but i will ask one question. How is your ram going? I might have knocked it and one of the pins might not have a connection. Also try running a program like CPU-Z to see if your specs are actually what you have. I remember having a laptop with 4 GB of ram. It went in for a fix and i found out 8 months later that it had somehow managed to go down to 1GB of ram according to CPU-Z. Turns out that the ram had been swapped to 2X1GB units and one had been knocked out or incorrectly put back in which lead to really slow speeds.

[Krunchy 0]

Yeah, I verified the clock speed and temps when I was overclocking. RAM still shows up as 16GB, is fully seated, and is running at the correct speed.

[poodude28 (DayZ) 36]

I have an AMD Radeon HD 6770, and 16 gigs of ram. Game takes me about a minute or so to load, alot of Bohemia games (ie ARMA) have somewhat slow loading times for me but the games run great, I just deal with it because the game atleast runs good. Also alot of my friends have slow loading times as well so  who knows what it is.

Edited January 17, 2014 by poodude28

[Krunchy 0]

After some troubleshooting, I have finally discovered the cause of the problem. Avast has a Web Shield that, for whatever reason, was affecting the speed at which DayZ launched. I went into the settings for the web shield and set the heuristics sensitivity to Low instead of Normal, and it has solved the problem. It now takes 30-35 seconds from launch to Alpha disclaimer, whereas with the Web Shield on normal sensitivity it would spend 30 seconds non-responsive and then spend 30 seconds actually loading. Hopefully this will help people that are having the same problem.

[Atom Quark 437]

Got that some processor but not BE edition.

The 925 Deneb is not a BE the op is overclocking it through the bus not the multiplier.  Not a bad overclock at 3.7 when it is 2.8 stock.  Used to be my main CPU now it runs my HTPC.

[byrgesen 1341]

Have you tryed using start parameters? :)

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

I might not help you, but it might also do the trick, worth a shot anyhow.

EDIT:
Just noticed you found the source of the issue. -_-
Guess im abit tired this morning hehe

Edited January 19, 2014 by Byrgesen

[Krunchy 0]

The 925 Deneb is not a BE the op is overclocking it through the bus not the multiplier. Not a bad overclock at 3.7 when it is 2.8 stock. Used to be my main CPU now it runs my HTPC.

Yeah, my chip has the C3 stepping, so it's a lot easier to OC than some of the earlier chips that had the C2 stepping. It's still a pretty weak processor, but I'm gonna try and make it last as long as I can.

[General Zod 1118]

If you want faster load times join the SSD club, they aren't that expensive and they are a must have for people who believe that Impatience is a virtue. 

[Krunchy 0]

If you want faster load times join the SSD club, they aren't that expensive and they are a must have for people who believe that Impatience is a virtue. 

 

If you're replying to me, I don't think you read the main post. I do have an SSD.

 

Anyway, the problem has cropped up again. This time I decided to try and go through all the system tray programs and disable stuff that I thought would help the problem. I tried disabling the on-screen display for EVGA Precision-X, which didn't help. Then I tried changing some Nvidia Shadowplay settings and disabling it entirely. Changing the settings did nothing, but disabling it made it launch in less than 20 seconds. I suppose I'll just have to wait until the next Shadowplay patch to try and record anything in the game.

[General Zod 1118]

If you're replying to me, I don't think you read the main post. I do have an SSD.

Nope it was a general advice.