fps = 0

[4ntidote 2]

Hi everyone. I'm having this problem with DayZ (mod) lately. Every ~10 mins of playing, the game takes a short break and the screen turns black. Then it comes back "running" at about 0,1 fps (debug says 0) with textures either looking choppy or completely missing. The only remedy I'm aware of is the flush command, but with the game being pretty much unresponsive it takes endless attempts to get even that to work.

 

There are already threads about that same issue, but I have yet to find a working solution. Hope somebody can help me out here.

 

Core2 Duo E8500 / 3.16 GHz

4 GB DDR3 RAM

GTX 660

 

 

 

[NagsterTheGangster 388]

Looks like your specs arent really.... up-to-date with what should be played with this game...

 

Ill bet more RAM or a better processor will help you out wonders.

 

Or a new graphics card..

[IkaikaKekai 1957]

I believe your CPU is more heavily used by Arma/DayZ, so that should be your first priority to update.

[4ntidote 2]

Thanks for the reply. The specs are definetly not state of the art, but they are sufficient. I've been playing DayZ since 2012, most of the time on a hardware worse than that. My problem is not the general fps I'm getting in game, because those are perfectly fine. Its them suddenly dropping to almost zero every couple of minutes. My best guess is that its a memory issue, but I cant figure out what exactly might be wrong.

[applejaxc 2500]

If you're having to FLUSH to recover, you're running out of memory. Go into settings and change your video memory to different values. How long has this issue been happening? Has applications/your PC stopped working with "Out of memory" errors? You could have failing RAM or a GPU on its last legs.

[btw001 19]

Looks like your specs arent really.... up-to-date with what should be played with this game...

 

Ill bet more RAM or a better processor will help you out wonders.

 

Or a new graphics card..

I run on Intel HD 4000 graphics and I run the mod fine.

[4ntidote 2]

If you're having to FLUSH to recover, you're running out of memory.

 

Thats what I've been thinking as well. From the various arma tweaking tutorials I got the idea that video memory should be set to default, as thats supposed to use all available vram. I'll set it to high and see what happens.

Both the ram and the graphics card are less than a month old, and I believe the issue has been occuring since then. I have yet to run memtest on the new ram, but since all other applications (including games I'd consider much more demanding) are running smooth, I dont really see how it could be the new hardware.

[4ntidote 2]

I tried a couple of things in the meantime that didnt help much. But I checked physical memory usage while the game was in fps 0 mode, which was at 77%. I'm no expert but to me that sounded like there was still a good amount of free memory left for the game to use.

 

So next I did what Applejaxc suggested and switched video memory to very high, even though I'm pretty sure it had always been on default. No more memory issues since then. I dont get it but won't complain. :)

 

Thanks for your help guys.