Huge FPS Issues ~ Despite high spec?

[Senrab1996 0]

Whenever I play DayZ I receive huge fps issues around 7-fps generally, closer to the 7 mark in cities and large towns. I have tried countless things, editing max frames ahead in the games txt files, playing with my AMD graphics settings and so far nothing has made a significant impact.

I love this game and have tried to battle through the fps issues but it's been happening for so long that I am at my wits end with it. I don't think its just poor optimisation or anything as in all the patch notes and updates performance never seems to be a looked at thing, the dayz devs seem more interested in putting in a pointless crossbow or mp3 file for footsteps when walking over some cow shit in a field.

 

My Specs:

- AMD FX-8120 3.1GHz

- Two Sapphire Radeon HD 7770s In Crossfire 

- 8gb Corsair vengeance 1600Mhz RAM

- 750w PSU

- Windows 7 Ultimate (pirated)

 

Please respond quickly any suggestions or people in similar situations please feel free to offer anything to this topic below. Thanks.

[harvest (DayZ) 6]

I think it´s a Arma thing, those games has been poorly optimized throughout the series even though one have a good rig. It is a very demanding game, but in defense it is very pretty and a big

world that has to be rendered.

 

As for your rig it seems really good even though I have no recent experience with AMD stuff. I myself run a i7-4770k 3,5ghz with a Gefoce 780 and it gets real bad especially in towns.

I followed this guide, now this youtuber uses Nvidia but I guess there is equal settings in Catalyst Software for ur GPU. With his settings and configurations in CFG I gained +25 fps.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWGwM-SOQvY

 

Good luck

Edited May 4, 2014 by harvest

[fluxley 2228]

7fps does seem unusually low for that system, have you tried just running one 7770? Running in crossfire may be causing an issue.

[IkaikaKekai 1957]

Might want to snip that last little part off of your OS specs...I think it was said that Crossfire/SLI is not utilized by DayZ/Arma (at least not yet), you've already got it so it won't matter much unless/until they add it in.  Maybe more memory might be in order, but far as I can tell the Arma games utilize the CPU more than anything else.

[Senrab1996 0]

Cheers for the relplies guys, I'll try the changes menioned in the video. I'd like to know if bohemia/rocket have any plans to implement crossfire support. If anyone has any info on hat it'd be welcome.

[hitt0r 78]

It's your AMD 7770 Gfx cards mate  - to be fair they offer poor performance  - even in crossfire mode a single AMD R9 270 (£120) outperforms 2 x 7770's in crossfire. Combined with the fact dayz cannot utilise crossfirex at the moment and in your case your running dayz on a a single 7770 which simply isn't going to cut it. - enabling the arma2 profile doesn't add any performance gains for crossfire.

 

invest in a new gfx card or lower your resolution / textures.

[hrdrok 183]

It's your AMD 7770 Gfx cards mate  - to be fair they offer poor performance  - even in crossfire mode a single AMD R9 270 (£120) outperforms 2 x 7770's in crossfire. Combined with the fact dayz cannot utilise crossfirex at the moment and in your case your running dayz on a a single 7770 which simply isn't going to cut it. - enabling the arma2 profile doesn't add any performance gains for crossfire.

 

invest in a new gfx card or lower your resolution / textures.

 

While Dayz doesn't utilize dual gfx cards, a single 7770 should still give him more than 7 frames per second. My old 4850 gave me 25 frames in woods and 15-20 in towns. That things was like 6 years old...

 

Most likely a power saving options turned on the CPU. What temp is your CPU running at? A common effect of overheating CPU's is terrible performance.

Edited May 4, 2014 by hrdrok

[mixmastajingles 31]

Does your system run like this is any other game? Also, the part about DayZ not utilizing two video cards is most likely your problem. Drop some money on a new video card because you are out of date(even with 2 cards). 

[hitt0r 78]

While Dayz doesn't utilize dual gfx cards, a single 7770 should still give him more than 7 frames per second. My old 4850 gave me 25 frames in woods and 15-20 in towns. That things was like 6 years old...

 

Most likely a power saving options turned on the CPU. What temp is your CPU running at? A common effect of overheating CPU's is terrible performance.

 

Although this guy has a better CPU he needs to turn all rendering / quality to off / low and textures to normal. You may be correct that the CPU may be throttling down.

 

 

To monitor CPU & GPU temps:

 

http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/

 

http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html

 

is it only DayZ which runs poor?

Edited May 5, 2014 by hitt0r