FPS troubles in Dayz Mod

[Megabadgerful 0]

Hello everyone,

This is my first post to the Dayz forums so bear with me.

I recently have invested in a ~ $900 gaming PC and was lookin forward to playing Dayz flawlessly. The specs are as follows:

430w corsair PSU

Intel i3 3220 Dual Core (with hyperthreading)

Nvidia 660 2GB

8GB DDR3 RAM

500GB 7200RPM HDD

In my opinion this system seems perfectly capable of playing Dayz maxed out, since it can play other games like Far Cry 3, Metro Last Light, Battlefield 4, Skyrim, Borderlands 2 and other games like it on High - Ultra setting with no framerates dropping below 45.

Dayz on the other hand is a nightmare on this machine, I can usually get about 25-35 fps when in the forest or flying, but in large cities like Cherno, Elektro and Zeleno, I will be lucky to get 20 fps, with it regularly dipping into the unplayable region of under 15 fps.

As for my research I have heard over an over again that Arma 2 was not optimized well, funny thing is Arma 2 works just fine on my computer. While playing various missions or messing around in the armory I have never dipped below 60 fps, even when running through the large cities.

Does anyone see an Achilles Heel to my build. Me personally, I think it is my CPU, since it is a dual core. Should I spend the cash to upgrade and if so to what. Thanks in advance for the replies.

[TIC 1050]

This will probably give you an upper hand with performance: http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/45835-ultimate-guideinformation-thread-to-increase-performance/

In general, online multiplayer for Arma 2 can create dips in performance depending on the up-time of the servers or what's been actively running in the background (Scripts)