Shodex 15 Posted January 22, 2014 Might be a silly question for the community, but I'm going to ask anyways. I, like all of you that haven't already, plan on moving to the Standalone and dropping the mod in the future, but I'm worried about my computer. Despite much tweaking my performance in the DayZ Mod is pretty laughable, and I know that the large brunt of this the Arma 2 engine not being well optimized. In town my FPS seems to drop to 20, out of town 30 on average and 40 if I'm really lucky. I'll dump my specs at the end but I can run Planetside 2 on highest settings and still get generally 60FPS. Now DayZ SA is on an updated engine, though still the Arma engine. And I know that in the current state of the games my performance won't be any better, more than likely worse, but when the finished product is more stable should my computer be able to run it well? I meet the specs given on Steam, but I also meet Arma 2's specs. This is less of a question about specs and more of a question about optimization, will Standalone run better than Arma 2? Again this is a tough question for people who aren't devs, but I'm more or less just wondering if Rocket or somebody else has said something regarding this that I may have missed. I'm a little paranoid (DayZ does that) as I don't want such a big graphics leap to completely destroy my frame rate. In the spoiler is a summary of my specs:Operating SystemWindows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1 CPUAMD FX-6350RAM8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 668MHz (9-9-9-24) Graphics2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Not the best, but more than enough for Arma 2 in theory. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kichilron 8550 Posted January 22, 2014 Even though your post is quite wellmade you should have use the proper topic for it: http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/154395-can-i-run-dayz-retail-post-here/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Shodex 15 Posted January 22, 2014 Even though your post is quite wellmade you should have use the proper topic for it: http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/154395-can-i-run-dayz-retail-post-here/The specs were merely an afterthought just on the off chance somebody would ask. I'm asking about optimization, and whether we know any details on how the game should run on release. Will the performance be similar to DayZ mod? Worse? Better? Does the updated engine have optimization fixes? Etc. As I said, in theory I can run DayZ with my specs but only actually trying it can tell for sure so I don't need to ask. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gc_stealth 30 Posted January 22, 2014 I played the mod and the standalone and i'd say SA runs better and is a lot smoother although occasionally I do get some drops but seems to be optimised better than the mod IMO. My specs only just meet the min requirements so you should be able to run it decently. I get about 30 fps on low. When comparing arma 2 and SA standalone definitely runs better already. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Shodex 15 Posted January 22, 2014 standalone definitely runs better already.This is good to hear, as I'm sure performance will increase greatly as the game becomes more and more polished as well. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BlksnshN 127 Posted January 23, 2014 My performance dropped from Mod to SA. Went from about 25 in cities to 17 - 20. I recently upgraded from an FX-6200 to a i7-4770k and still only get about 35 fps in cities. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mos1ey 6301 Posted January 23, 2014 My friend with an FX-6300 and GTX 760 run the game absolutely fine on "high" settings. I think you're good to go. As above - if you have any more questions then please use the Can I Run DayZ Retail? topic...http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/154395-can-i-run-dayz-retail-post-here/ Thanks. Locked. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
