DayZ lagging with good computer? HELP!

[whincup123 (DayZ) 0]

Almost certain my computer is good enough to run dayZ Standalone at decent FPS. Here are my specs:
 

Intel® Core i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz
4.00 GB RAM
64-bit Operating System

 

ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series. Total memory 2794MB

 

Don't get me wrong I expect a little bit of lag now and again, but it seems way too common to just be typical lag.

Each time I bring up the player list my ping is around 22 and is by far the lowest in the lobby (pretty sure lower the better, right?) I have good internet as well:

Ping: 21

Download: 61.87 mbps

Upload: 16.77 mbps

 

Every single time I zoom in via holding the right click option or when a zombie comes close to me and attacks I get an immense amount of lag, almost unplayable. I'm also dieing a lot due to zombies hitting me while in lag which is extremely annoying, I'm sure everyone's experienced this at least one. I've tried turning my quality down but it doesn't seem to do anything. I play on 'normal' quality on pretty much everything and have disabled things such as 'clouds' etc. I have friends with worse PC's and it seems they aren't getting as much lag as me. I haven't changed any settings on my PC in the control panel and I have a very strong feeling it's something simple that just needs to be tweaked in either the setting on dayZ or my PC. Honestly any feedback or solutions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot.

 

[Ninja_Meh 115]

have you tried to get further away from the high population cities on the coast, most lag is due to being in a lot of other player bubbles and these are primarily around cherno elektro and berezino, try heading in land and seeing if that helps, also they are working a lot to optimise the game so hopefully we should see more smoothing as time turns over

[tinroofer 23]

I actually had something similar happen on one of my boxes with a slightly older ATI card in it. For some reason when I cranked all the gfx settings down to minimum, checked for a stable framerate, and then turned them all up to max again, it disappeared. I doubt it will help, but worth a shot.

 

My first port of call with a situation like that is to one by one crank all the settings to min/max and check the diff. I usually hit on something thats causing it that way, unless its an exterior factor - scheduled programs running in the background eating resources etc..

 

I know the above is not much help, but thought I'd mention it as I had a very similar problem with a similar box

[whincup123 (DayZ) 0]

have you tried to get further away from the high population cities on the coast, most lag is due to being in a lot of other player bubbles and these are primarily around cherno elektro and berezino, try heading in land and seeing if that helps, also they are working a lot to optimise the game so hopefully we should see more smoothing as time turns over

 

Thanks for the reply but sadly this isn't the solution. Been all over the map, popular city's, tiny towns on the out skirts, also been on many different servers, some with 40 people on and some with 3. Doesn't seem the be the problem but appreciate your reply for trying to help!

[whincup123 (DayZ) 0]

I actually had something similar happen on one of my boxes with a slightly older ATI card in it. For some reason when I cranked all the gfx settings down to minimum, checked for a stable framerate, and then turned them all up to max again, it disappeared. I doubt it will help, but worth a shot.

 

My first port of call with a situation like that is to one by one crank all the settings to min/max and check the diff. I usually hit on something thats causing it that way, unless its an exterior factor - scheduled programs running in the background eating resources etc..

 

I know the above is not much help, but thought I'd mention it as I had a very similar problem with a similar box

 

Will definitely give this a shot next time in on. Sometimes weird things like that actually work so I'll give it a blast and fiddle on with all the settings sometime tonight. Thanks for the reply as well I really appreciate people trying to help. More replies are very much welcome

[Ninja_Meh 115]

worth bearing in mind that actually this game is pretty cpu intensive, but also if you lower your graphics settings, you end up offloading the graphic display FROM gpu onto the cpu so it ends up causing in a lot of cases worse performance than cranking everything to highest settings, then dialling back seettings individually to find the most frame hogging settings. im on an nvicdia gtx 760 and a i5 sandy  bridge 2500k overclocked to 4.6 ghz, i rarely get frame issues on dayz until i encounter a lot of player bubbles (get a noticeable drop for about 10-20 seconds while it syncs) but that is down to being on a slow mobile usb dongle internet compared with a high bandwidth broadband connection i guess.

[Grimey Rick 3417]

Buy a better graphics card. That lag you're experiencing when you zoom in has nothing to do with latency, that's all your GPU. I used to get that from time to time even with two GTX 580s in SLI. Don't get it anymore since upgrading to GTX 780 Ti cards.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_HD_5000_Series

[nuggit 246]

Hi Whincup,

 

Settings for a reference would be a good idea. It is a little hard to pinpoint what setting is making your frame rate drop so hard. I would say it is down too settings not being configured optimally for your system 

 

When looking down a scope, I find anti-aliasing and object detail up too high drops my frame rate dramatically.

 

I would suggest using fraps or afterburner to monitor your fps whilst trying out different settings, we all have different software/hardware. Unfortunately there is no magic bullet and is down to trial and error on your part.

 

The settings in the arma series can leave a lot of folk quite baffled, even more so when lower settings don't always equal performance gain as ninja-meh pointed out.

 

Keep in mind performance in game is not ideal at the moment but will get better as development progresses. Dropping coin on new hardware is least productive at this stage, especially if it's just for a game in pre-alpha stage.

 

Hope you net some more fps :)

[leviaxxan 39]

That graphics card isn't going to be helping you at all. I've got a 7950HD and still only get 30-40 FPS in some of the cities.

[deebz1234 243]

amd cards used to be notorious for not working as well as nvidia with SA.

 

there were several "fixes" and tweaks to make it more playable.

 

i still run a gtx 570 and have everything almost maxed at 40-60fps outside cities and reasonable in cities 25 fps at least

full pop

 

then again i havent played in 4 weeks

[stafwow 0]

I could run this game on high quality then I reinstalled my computer. now It lags when I go on the server list :P

[frosti 2165]

OP, for DayZ your computer is at minimal.

 

You'll have to lower every graphicand turn off what you can turn off and lower the resolution.

[hefeweizen 254]

The game is unoptimized, you'll be able to run it fine later on.

For now, turn object detail down to low or very low. That'll give you the biggest boost in FPS, also make sure post processing, ambient occlusion and clouds are all set to off as those will each give you a few more FPS.

Run your textures at Very High, as well as Texture Filtering. I've heard running shadows on High offloads that process to your GPU, so I'd do that as well.

Edited June 27, 2014 by Hefeweizen

[hefeweizen 254]

That graphics card isn't going to be helping you at all. I've got a 7950HD and still only get 30-40 FPS in some of the cities.

GPUs generally aren't the issue at all in DayZ, you could probably get the same frames with HD4000 series. It is all about getting the most out of your CPU.

[hefeweizen 254]

OP, for DayZ your computer is at minimal.

 

You'll have to lower every graphicand turn off what you can turn off and lower the resolution.

I wouldn't. You won't get much better FPS and your game will look like crap. Keep your resolution at 1080 or 720p (depending on your monitors default resolution) if at all possible. Keep antialiasing on low, and turn on Alpha to Coverage on for All grass and trees.

[frosti 2165]

 

For now, turn object detail down to low or very low.

 

IMPORTANT

 

Don't do that if you are a PvPer. Object detail determinate from how far will you see loot on the ground and also players.

That's why as PvPer  all graphic options you can turn off or put on very low but Objects you must have on very high.