What if you have a nicer PC? What should your settings be and what FPS should you expect? A low-end PC? Here's a comprehensive guide.

[Hoff Suppressant 66]

I had to look all over to get good information about how to get the most from my hardware so I decided to try and put it all together in one video!

 

I don't want EVERYTHING on the lowest possible settings so I try to explain which settings are important and which you can turn off.

 

I know I don't have it all correct so if I don't have something quite right please let me know!

 

[blazinone 72]

Pretty good overall. I learned a few things! The game still looks good with those tweaks and they seem to provide some tactical advantages too so it's worth trying for sure.

FWIW, I found that leaving the Video Memory setting at Auto actually performed better and utilized more of my available VRAM than setting it to (max). This was with two 580s in SLI (2x 1.5GB) and monitoring mem usage with Precision.

If you set your config file to read-only does that prevent you from making changes and/or persisting those changes using the Video settings dialog? (from the video it didn't look like there was a problem with that but I didn't know if those changes would stick for your next session or not)

Could you post your top-end FPS averages (in cities and outdoors) post-tweaks so people will have an idea what to expect even with a tweaked out high-end rig?

[Etherimp 1323]

A must see for anyone interested in optimizing their dayz settings.

[Mos1ey 6301]

Honestly, I'm not 100% sure how much RAM DayZ can currently use. 4Gb may be recommended to allow the game to use 2Gb with 2Gb remaining for background processes, or it may be the case that DayZ can actually utilise 4Gb of RAM. I just tell it to use my full amount (8GB) as when you set something above the maximum via launch options in an RV engine game it will revert back to the maximum, so no harm done.

 

Also, as you have an i7 CPU you may benefit from disabling HT. It's single core performance you're after for DayZ/RV engine games.

Edited April 10, 2014 by Mos1ey

[SHR119 28]

All the tutorials in one, very well presented and explained. Thanks for posting  :thumbsup:  :beans:

[Hoff Suppressant 66]

Pretty good overall. I learned a few things! The game still looks good with those tweaks and they seem to provide some tactical advantages too so it's worth trying for sure.

FWIW, I found that leaving the Video Memory setting at Auto actually performed better and utilized more of my available VRAM than setting it to (max). This was with two 580s in SLI (2x 1.5GB) and monitoring mem usage with Precision.

If you set your config file to read-only does that prevent you from making changes and/or persisting those changes using the Video settings dialog? (from the video it didn't look like there was a problem with that but I didn't know if those changes would stick for your next session or not)

Could you post your top-end FPS averages (in cities and outdoors) post-tweaks so people will have an idea what to expect even with a tweaked out high-end rig?

 

Thanks for asking! I had a really good time making this today.

http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/185416-chernogorsk-apartments-max-graphics-settings-in-1080p/

[Fry76 23]

Very useful videos.

:beans:

 

Also your cats were cute.

[Hoff Suppressant 66]

Pretty good overall. I learned a few things! The game still looks good with those tweaks and they seem to provide some tactical advantages too so it's worth trying for sure.

FWIW, I found that leaving the Video Memory setting at Auto actually performed better and utilized more of my available VRAM than setting it to (max). This was with two 580s in SLI (2x 1.5GB) and monitoring mem usage with Precision.

If you set your config file to read-only does that prevent you from making changes and/or persisting those changes using the Video settings dialog? (from the video it didn't look like there was a problem with that but I didn't know if those changes would stick for your next session or not)

Could you post your top-end FPS averages (in cities and outdoors) post-tweaks so people will have an idea what to expect even with a tweaked out high-end rig?

 

Sorry I replied in a hurry earlier and I missed some of your post. The answer is yes, if you make the file read-only they become persistent. Since I had my sceneComplexity at 500k every time I loaded the game my Objects under the Quality menu would be set at Normal instead of my preferred Very High. Now I keep it at the 1M level and if I need extra frames I will manually lower it.

[Indigitally 36]

Don't even think seriously about it Now, now only the Alpha-version.
Everything (game engine and graphics) will be changed many many many times to middle 2015 and end of 2016 :D

[SGT. Kalme 106]

Pretty good overall. I learned a few things! The game still looks good with those tweaks and they seem to provide some tactical advantages too so it's worth trying for sure.

FWIW, I found that leaving the Video Memory setting at Auto actually performed better and utilized more of my available VRAM than setting it to (max). This was with two 580s in SLI (2x 1.5GB) and monitoring mem usage with Precision.

If you set your config file to read-only does that prevent you from making changes and/or persisting those changes using the Video settings dialog? (from the video it didn't look like there was a problem with that but I didn't know if those changes would stick for your next session or not)

Could you post your top-end FPS averages (in cities and outdoors) post-tweaks so people will have an idea what to expect even with a tweaked out high-end rig?

Having SLI of 2 1.5GB vcards, won't double the VRAM. You still have 1.5GB.

There was an issue with VRAM usage in Arma2 so that any settings besides Auto couldn't use 2 and over GB of VRAM properly. Don't know if it was fixed.

Making the file read-only prevents game to overwrite the changes to default.

Don't even think seriously about it Now, now only the Alpha-version. Everything (game engine and graphics) will be changed many many many times to middle 2015 and end of 2016 :D

It is very unlikely that any changes to game engine will be made.

Edited April 11, 2014 by SGT. Kalme