GTX 660 & Fx 8320, What does it take to run DayZ?

[Plancherfoot 0]

I understand the game is in alpha and low frames are expected, but I was running on an fx 4130 not to0 long ago, bought the 8320 and noticed very little difference. Is this to be expected/Is there anything I should try for a smoother game experience besides turning down the max render distance to like 100m ahead of me.

[zecele 211]

I have a GTX 660 and FX 8350.

 

Couple of things ill say.

 

1. DayZ hates AMD

2. DayZ is heavily CPU based.

3. I get around 40-50 fps in the forests etc.

4. Around 20-30 fps in places like Berezino.

[agentneo 337]

i use 660,, i get between 40-60 fps. go into Configs and reduce view distance to 1800 instead of 3000. Players only render at 1000 anyway

[TonyMahony 17]

I have an Intel Core-i5 3570 3.4Ghz and a ATi Radeon R7 265 2GB running in my PC.

The framerates are always above 30fps (@1080p) independent of the area.
 

Edited June 11, 2014 by TonyMahony

[enforcer1975 1111]

A vanilla GTX 580 should be enough to run DayZ on high settings. I doubt the specs will change a lot when the game has been optimized, it will never run on a PC with PS4 specs/price. Don't waste your money yet if you have a GPU that can run the game on 30fps without problems. A lot can change.

Edited June 11, 2014 by Enforcer

[TonyMahony 17]

And always remember that everything above 25fps is enough. Who needs 60 or even 80fps?

[BSB Jimmy 360]

I have a GTX 660 and FX 8350.

 

Couple of things ill say.

 

1. DayZ hates AMD

2. DayZ is heavily CPU based.

3. I get around 40-50 fps in the forests etc.

4. Around 20-30 fps in places like Berezino.

I have an 8350 and the game runs fine. Playing at 1080 with high settings

[Poindexter 11]

I've  got the 660 and the i5-3330 and have rarely had a problem that bothered me, top settings too.

The Experimental has messed me up a few times but thats about pa for Experimental at the moment

[escobert 112]

I'm running a 3.7GHz i3 and a GTX480, have no issues

[crimsonbzd 247]

I understand the game is in alpha and low frames are expected, but I was running on an fx 4130 not to0 long ago, bought the 8320 and noticed very little difference. Is this to be expected/Is there anything I should try for a smoother game experience besides turning down the max render distance to like 100m ahead of me.

 

The biggest improvement that you can make to your computer in terms of playing DayZ SA, and other unoptimized EA games, is a blazing fast SSD.

My Samsung 840 EVO plays this game smoothly regardless of my FPS, with stuttering only occuring if for some god-awful reason I get less than 15 frames.

The reason being, in lamens, is that when you're playing this game it's pulling the files you need raw off the hard drive and flopping them on your screen as need be. When you stack 17ms wait times some 600 times in a minute, this equals out to considerable lag on your end. A SSD takes stacking those 17ms wait times into stacking >1ms wait times, which is not perceivable my the human mind, at least in my case.

[Element47 2480]

And always remember that everything above 25fps is enough. Who needs 60 or even 80fps?

 

http://30vs60fps.com/

 

always remember that a video game is not a movie.

[Nienko 41]

I understand the game is in alpha and low frames are expected, but I was running on an fx 4130 not to0 long ago, bought the 8320 and noticed very little difference. Is this to be expected/Is there anything I should try for a smoother game experience besides turning down the max render distance to like 100m ahead of me.

What clock is on your fx? More cores will not run better. Try to overclock it. I got fx 6350 overclocked and it runs ok on high settings. Reduce in game distance, unless you are mosin sniper all the time. Make sure vsync is off in the settings.

Dont mind anyone saying that dayz is mostly cpu dependent, its not just "arma" anymore. Gpu is also very important.

[TonyMahony 17]

http://30vs60fps.com/

 

always remember that a video game is not a movie.

 

While playing Dayz I never saw any difference between 30 and 60fps. When the FPS is above 30 then it's all the same to me.

So in my eyes 30+ is always enough.

[peyket 0]

Use GeForce ;3

[The_Habu 2]

I am running a 17 920 at stock 2,66 and a GTX 670. Everything runs really well especially considering the game is not even optimized yet.

[Fern Baron 128]

http://30vs60fps.com/

 

always remember that a video game is not a movie.

 

Made me dizzy...