FIX FOR FPS LAG BUG FOUND!

[fps_lag_fix 7]

POST-EDIT AND WARNING

 

Due to user feedback and the sudden notoriety of this thread, I feel obligated to warn all DayZ players that the following information may in fact be incorrect or inapplicable to many of you. While this fix does work at least partially in some cases and some users have reported varying degrees of success, responses to this thread have helped us to narrow down what exactly the problem in the engine might be. I advice EVERYONE to read, at a minimum, the first page or two of this thread, if not its entirety, before deciding what your course of action will be (if any).

 

PROCEED WITH CAUTION!

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ORIGINAL TEMPORARY FIX FOR FPS LAG BUG

 

WARNING: This fix is temporary and somewhat dodgy and/or against the game rules and terms and conditions, and I accept no responsibility for any bad things that happen to your account/game/computer. I have tested the fix myself in multiple scenarios and have not bumped into any trouble with Steam or BattleEye as of yet, but I can't guarantee anything. I know that many people are very keen to get back into the game this weekend, and with Rocket proclaiming that a fix will not be out for days, this might be your only option.

 

HOW TO DO IT

 

1) Open your Steam library.

 

2) Right click on DayZ and select the Properties option.

 

3) Click on LOCAL FILES.

 

4) Click on Verify Integrity of Game Cache and let it do its thing. It might take a few minutes.

 

5) Once this is done, navigate to the Addons folder in the DayZ folder in your Steam folder. It will be something like:

 

...\SteamApps\common\DayZ\Addons\

 

6) Find the file:

 

weapon_attachments_textures.pbo

 

7) Make a backup of this file somewhere on your computer that is not in this folder (as a precaution).

 

8) Return to the Addons folder and rename the file to:

 

BACKUP_weapon_attachments_textures.pbobackup

 

9) Done!

 

As a result of this shoddy fix, weapon attachments (for at least the M4A1) will not be visible and magazines will look glitchy. But I figure most people will be able to live with this until Monday when Rocket speculates a permanent fix will be available.

 

GOOD LUCK AND HAVE FUN!

Edited February 8, 2014 by fps_lag_fix

[hogscraper 328]

Didn't they already add a fix for verifying that your pbos are correct? It doesn't make sense that they would verify buildings but nothing else. And if they did, someone needs to kick that programmer in the balls.

[Etherious 907]

[DropBearChick 1216]

Its also to do with pre patch gear causing problems

[fps_lag_fix 7]

Didn't they already add a fix for verifying that your pbos are correct? It doesn't make sense that they would verify buildings but nothing else. And if they did, someone needs to kick that programmer in the balls.

 

I'm not sure exactly what they have done, but I have had no problems (aside from the mentioned minor visual glitches) with this fix.

[fps_lag_fix 7]

If any of you guys use Reddit, please upvote my thread here: http://www.reddit.com/r/dayz/comments/1xcbdl/fix_for_fps_lag_bug_found/

 

Thanks.

[CS14 133]

Its also to do with pre patch gear causing problems

 

This.

 

 

If you guys are unsure just drop your gear and run away from it a bit and see if you get a performance increase. I was playing fine all day with zero performance issues until I picked up a fully loaded M4 with flickering textures on it, then performance slowly started to bog down within minutes.

[sidwulf 69]

Drop your gear and run away from it...that is quite amusing.

Edited February 8, 2014 by SIDWULF

[fps_lag_fix 7]

Can anyone else verify if this is working? Cheers.

[Killvana 1]

WORKS!!! FPS IS NOW BACK TO SUPER SMOOTH!!...there is a down side and that is that fact that you wont be able to look down or through any sights while using this method,

[Killvana 1]

so i have more good news....i didnt like how i couldnt use my acog or red dot so i renamed the file back to its original name and it turns out ALL THE FLICKERING IS GONE my green MP butstock and MP handgaurd are both visible and NOT flickering AND all the other flickering items i had such as soda cans have also stopped flickering, so my fps is great AND i can use my scopes

[LeChat 131]

Has anyone tried this and played for 2+ hours in a row?

Cause the moment someone mentioned the thing with flickering textures, I logged in - removed all of my flickering items and then it was fine... for about 2 hours and then my fps dropped again.

Had only picked up food and sodas which I consumed on the spot so.

[Grimey Rick 3417]

This didn't work for me. On either of my characters. It made my attachments look grey, but that's about it. I still slowly lagged until my game froze.

[fps_lag_fix 7]

Try renaming the file to its original name and starting the game again.

[Aqualo 0]

Beside the attachement and weapons going grey and shady, the game worked for i guess 5 min longer with this fix, then the memory leak happened again.

 

So this fix isn't working for me.

[thelonewarrior 886]

Yeah doesn't work for me, usually get 40-45 fps, getting 10 at the moment

[Grimey Rick 3417]

THE ACTUAL FIX:

 

Launch game. Look in inventory for items that have flickering icons. Drop them and get as far away from them as possible. This has worked for both of my characters. The only downside is if you come into the vicinity of another bugged item. I did a test run through Cherno and Elektro with random FPS drops that I found were caused by running into the vicinity of another bugged item or player carrying a bugged item themselves.

 

Predominantly bugged items:

 

1) Head Lamps

2) Weapon Attachments

 

I'll add to the list as I encounter more. Cheers.

Edited February 8, 2014 by Grimey Rick

[doctorwhy 157]

Hey Here is a question.

Is this only happening in stable branch? Is it happening in experimental too?

[cejota14 130]

I messed around with my Nvidia config and that seemed to help

[doctorwhy 157]

 

THE ACTUAL FIX:

 

Launch game. Look in inventory for items that have flickering icons. Drop them and get as far away from them as possible. This has worked for both of my characters. The only downside is if you come into the vicinity of another bugged item. I did a test run through Cherno and Elektro with random FPS drops that I found were caused by running into the vicinity of another bugged item or player carrying a bugged item themselves.

 

Predominantly bugged items:

 

1) Head Lamps

2) Weapon Attachments

 

I'll add to the list as I encounter more. Cheers.

 

Can't be.  I have NO weapon attachments in my inventory and nowhere near a town with items. :(

Still happening within 15 minutes.

 

EDIT:

 

Maybe Add beans to this.  I have 5 Cans of beans with ZERO textures

Going to drop them and try.

EDIT: Couldn't even get back in with them on my screen they're in a yellow protector case. 

 

EDIT: Got back in got rid of cans restarted my server so they would go away from the vicinity.  Going to play a bit to see if this does anything.

Be back in a bit!

 

No go. Didn't work like AT ALL.  Got to a horrible state quicker.

Edited February 8, 2014 by DoctorWhy

[discipled 63]

For me had to replace my ballistic helmet, shoes, pants, shirt and I noticed by Blue Mountain Backpack flickering... dropped it and ran aways, once i got so far, my FPS shot right back up to perfect, ran back to get my stuff and fps dropped too poor again. That's my fix. Oh and I dropped my acog scope on my m4 but for sure my backpack caused me issues.

[DarkwaveDomina 1099]

I don't have this issue, but even if I did I would be extremely hesitant to mess with .pbo files as the game was recently patched precisely to prevent tampering with them. Use this fix, if it works, at your own risk because you might well end up banned by Battleye for messing with the integrity of the game files.

[Dr. Goner 661]

If any of you guys use Reddit, please upvote my thread here: http://www.reddit.com/r/dayz/comments/1xcbdl/fix_for_fps_lag_bug_found/

 

Thanks.

 

Only problem is your fix doesn't solve the problem. In fact the people who did this were kicked by battle eye and could be banned by VAC later. Also, the one player that I know that did get in, the issue was the same.

[fps_lag_fix 7]

I have edited the original post with a warning regarding the possible problems that might come about using this fix.

[blueleader 18]

All this happened when the devs implemented the mini patch and not before

 

Known New Issues:

• Animations: Right hand twitches during pointing, character twitches once when middle finger is activated/deactivated
• Actions: If player puts burlap sack from his head to ground his vision stays black

New:

• Animations: Ruger 10/22 hand pose
• Animations: It's now possible to blend directly between various gesticulation states (pointing,finger,greeting...)
• Crafting: Can repair clothes, weapons, and items using specialist items (such as sewing kit)
• Gear: Configured sewing kit and its recipes
• Gear: Added configuration for durable riders jacket
• Gear: Added Cowboy hats to the loot spawns (multiple colors)
• Gear: Added Sewing kit to the loot spawns 
• Gear: Added B95 and 762 speedloader to loot spawns
• Gear: Added configuration for durable riders jacket
• Gear: Added durable leather jacket to loot spawns
• Gestures: Thumbs Up gesture added with default F7 key binding
• Server: Optimization of synchronization of textures/materials (minor improvement to server FPS)
• Systems: Falling now causes dynamic damage (roughly, fall of >5m break legs depending on equipment, >15m probably death)

Fixed:

• Actions: Could not cover another players head with a burlap sack
• Actions: No longer spawns clones of sack after Remove Head Cover action
• Actions: Removing Head Cover (burlap sack) while inventory is full won't leave you blind and without burlap sack anymore
• Art: Duplicate geometry in lower resolution LODs of flannel shirt resulted in visual bug at distance.
• Animations: Fixed an issue where the player would stay zoomed-in in sights for reload while aiming in prone
• Animations: Player should now be force-disarmed when clapping while holding a single-handed weapon.
• Animations: Pointing and clapping now works even when initiated from aimed states
• Animations: Fixed an issue where the left hand would stay glued to the FNX45 for aimed prone reload
• Animations: Default rifle aim stance (stand and crouch) slightly changed to better fit different guns
• Animations: Twitches on right hand fixed when holding an item while middle finger and pointing.
• Crafting: Cannot combine ruined stacked objects (such as ammo, rags)
• Crafting: Cannot chamber/load magazine with ruined ammunition
• Crafting: Motorbike helmet visors didn't retain their type when spray-painting the helmet
• Crash: Game Crash when using FLUSH command
• Crash: Out of bounds crash when no sounds defined
• Inventory: Loot would stay on dead character after it is picked up, causing teleporting loot and general chaos
• Medical: Cleaning wounds with alcohol tincture doesn't add last stage of infected wounds
• Medical: Vomiting/Stuffed was completely broken. Now simplified and streamlined
• Melee: Short melee weapons do damage now (hammer, screwdriver, hammer, hacksaw)
• Spawns: Lowered probability of Weapon cleaning kit spawns
• Systems: Healing system was double processing for blood regeneration
• Systems: Notifier messages were not being cleared/reset on within-state changes
• Systems: Players position was not saving on disconnect
• Systems: Players could get continually stuck in a dead character during load from central server
• Systems: Players would not receive any falling damage
• Systems: Disconnecting dead player would delete the body after ~30 seconds
• Systems: Damage was being equally applied to all objects inside inventory slot when shot/damaged (now items reduce the damage when they take damage)
• Systems: Notifier gets stuck on "stuffed"
• Weapons: Ballistic parameters of all projectiles tweaked for more realism (special thanks to Gews for his great analysis on weapon characteristics)

 

Edited by rocket, Yesterday, 01:27 PM.
Updated with new info +4

 

So as far as i am concerned its got something to do with these new tweaks above  that the devs implemented yesterday  problem is which one