FPS boost when opening inventory/hitting ESC

[WilliamCZ (DayZ) 1]

Hello there, I just upgraded my rig, hoping to get better fps, but it looks like that there's some glitch in Arma, maybe in the mod.

 

When I'm playing on any server, any mod, means I can also play on Wasteland or Overwatch, legacy DayZ, anything, I get superlow fps - about 20.

 

The thing is when I hit ESC, open my inventory, my fps goes insanely up, it's like 20 extra fps, nothing is changing in the game, it's still rendering the same stuff on the screen.

 

This is always happening after few minutes in games (10+ or so). When I join in, I got like 50 fps, after some time, bam happens, drops to ~20 fps. Hitting G or esc gives these framerates back, but when I get back to game, it's back on 20 again.

 

Not sure where should I post this to let this information pass to developers, so I'll just give it a shot here. It looks like 7/10 are having the same problem.

 

Also next thing, my GPU and CPU loads are superlow - GPU about 30%, CPU 50%, in singleplayer, they're load on 99% and this causes these framedrops.

 

Anyone have any ideas how to solve this?

Edited June 9, 2014 by WilliamCZ

[TIC 1050]

This is likely due to an interface being displayed instead of what's rendered in the game, which is related to an increase of FPS when opening the diary menu, map menu and other interfaces that appear on screen. This is normal.

 

Take these to consideration below. These are fairly simple to try which will make a big difference  :)

• What are your system specs?
• Do you have programs running in the background?
• Do you use Steam or DayZ Commander?
• Tried any start-up parameters? (Apply it to both Steam and DayZ Commander)
• Edited configuration files?
• Adjusted video settings? (Changing video memory to Default helps significantly, leaving other options on high only results in a single frame drop)

Find more solutions: http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/45835-ultimate-guideinformation-thread-to-increase-performance/

 

If those don't work, please let me know.

Edited June 3, 2014 by TIC321

[WilliamCZ (DayZ) 1]

I'm a DayZ veteran, did a lot of stuff to try to tweak Arma out.

 

My system specs are just fine, it's not specs related, it's a game/mod related, I'm running the game with parameters set for my rig.

 

Also my GPU load in only 30%, CPU load 50%. I can run singleplayer on high with 70+ fps and even 130+ when I'm using the settings like now. So the rig is really not important in this case. This was also happening to my friends, who I was on Teamspeak with, who also has highend rigs.

 

I'm messing around with windowed/PhysX settings, trying out what is causing this, still haven't figured it out.

 

Next thing is, that the debug monitor is showing more fps than the Fraps is (23-30 is the real, debug is showing 40-55 -> 15-30 fps difference), so maybe the debug can see that my game actually should be running better than it actually is. So there might be a bug somewhere.

 

Also, pressing ESC and clicking options makes your HUD being visible again, so it's not HUD related problem.

 

So... something is slowing the game down, since debug is showing the fps I should have and the real fps is lower.

 

Last thing is, that my real fps are not changing on ANY video settings. I can max it out, or play on low, the fps is still the same, only debug fps are changing, not the real ones.

 

Using -nosplash -nopause -malloc=system -cpucount=4 -exthreads=3

 

GPU_MaxFramesAhead=2;

GPU_DetectedFramesAhead=2;

 

And a bit lower scenecomplexity. So it has nothing to do with this.

Edited June 4, 2014 by WilliamCZ

[WilliamCZ (DayZ) 1]

Added screenshots.

 

http://cloud-3.steampowered.com/ugc/3316086302965955824/BAD1953805B0E855DDE3112AC41CB3CE88867F34/

 

http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/3316086302965953579/4E5B77247EC89CBCAE85EC95C81FB5287860FF99/

[TIC 1050]

Does this happen to all servers you play on?

[WilliamCZ (DayZ) 1]

Yes, every server, every mod.

 

Also just noticed that my GPU load is changing and causing drops. It's dropping to 40% even in game menu, after it loads the scene and drops me to 70 fps from 180 fps that I have when the GPU load is 100%. When the scene in menu is changing, load is again on 100% with 180 fps, after some time, usage and fps drops again.

 

Guess I should pass this information to BI forum.

Edited June 4, 2014 by WilliamCZ

[TIC 1050]

This is my best guess..

 

The menu is run off the CPU from the LOCAL machine. This just shows that low fps in ARMA's MP is because the server is suffering low fps which can happen due to various reasons(Not enough restarts, too many scripts) therefore slowing down just about all clients. But then again, I believe this does happen in single player mode as well.

 

Have you tried removing -NoPause ?

Edited June 5, 2014 by TIC321

[enforcer1975 1111]

No tweak will help you when player fps is depending on server fps in ArmA. If the client is lagging the server is lagging...server lagging client lagging...endless circle. Server restarts help but most of the time it's just admins throwing in a ton of scripts into the mission without looking if they have any effect on eachother or the server. We had this case once in a gaming community where after a mission update every client was suffering heavy fps loss but the admins didn't want to believe it or admit that they could have made a mistake so when they held an event with the faulty mission it dropped their jaws...Too bad you can't see server fps as a client without extra scripts.

Edited June 5, 2014 by Enforcer

[WilliamCZ (DayZ) 1]

Well, I don't believe that the servers runs on 30 fps only, because my friends can reach 50+ fps easily on similar rigs and I can barely reach 25. I'm confused because of this low GPU load, which causes these drops. This has nothing to do with server fps, if it happens just in menu, when I launch the game.

[facoptere 180]

Maybe it's because all the scripts in the background that use the 'sleep' command are suspended when the GUI is at the foreground. The bottleneck in your case is the CPU.

[WilliamCZ (DayZ) 1]

If my bottleneck is CPU, why do I have 60+ fps when I join the server and it drops to 25 in few minutes and this inventory/menu thingy is starting to happen? It's not a CPU related problem I believe, nor memory, since I still have 1GB free.

 

I also tried to overlock my CPU by 600MHz on all four cores, nothing has changed. Also got only 50% CPU load at the peak.

Edited June 7, 2014 by WilliamCZ

[TIC 1050]

Did you update to the latest beta version?

[WilliamCZ (DayZ) 1]

I'm still running the game on latest 1.62 patch, anyway 1.63 is not solving this problem.

[r4z0r49 4761]

I'm not quite sure what your asking . The game is heavily scripted the reason you get move fps when your load the gear menu is due to alot of the backgrounds task get paused while we wait for the gear menu to close again. As facoptere said i would say your CPU isn't upto the task but without knowing what your CPU is we cant really help

 

You really haven't told us much at all. All we have seen is a few photos of the debug monitor we stupid viewdistance. If you would like to give more info about your pc like specs maybe someone can put a little light on whats going on.

 

CPU - Speed

Ram Speed (not the amount as it means nothing)

HDD speed

GCARD - info

 

Also what exact versions have your tried saying 1.62 or 1.63 really does not help. 

[WilliamCZ (DayZ) 1]

As for version, said I'm using latest 1.62, which means 103718. The problem of low GPU load in menu is also appearing in the basic version of Arma without any updates.

 

I'm running that on AMD Phenom x4 955@3.8GHz, 1333MHz DDR3, GeForce 750Ti Gaming 2GB and the game is on SSD.

 

Another update - when I change clothes ingame, my fps drop goes away for a few minutes.

Edited June 10, 2014 by WilliamCZ