Insane stuttering in citys!

[Death By Crowbar 1213]

Hey guys i wonder if anyone could help me figure this out, i think i have a decent rig (i7 4820k at 3.7GhZ a gforce gtx 660 and 4gb ddr3 1333 memory) and in citys the game complety stutters to the point of completly freezing  specially when i zoom in or look around with alt, i dont notice fps drops, just the stutter, maybe i dont have enough ram? What is causing this?

I did a little testing last night - and my machine with just the Chrome browser open was taking up nearly 4GB of memory. I fired up DayZ and ran around for a bit, and after entering a city I watched the memory consumption of DayZ jump up, and my machine as a whole was using nearly 7GB of memory. Assuming you're running windows 7 or windows 8 I can say with confidence you don't have enough memory on that machine to run DayZ in it's current state without paging to all hell, which I'm assuming is what's happening to you. 4GB isn't really sufficient in general for Windows 7 or Windows 8, you'll start paging from just browsing the web. You should have at least 8GB of RAM, or better yet 16GB.

[Death By Crowbar 1213]

I just captured what DayZ is currently taking up on my system - there's no way with your OS and the standard load of stuff Windows 7 and Windows 8 use plus any other minor things you installed that have services running that 4GB of RAM is sufficient. This isn't windows XP anymore, any Windows 7 or Windows 8 machine needs minimally 8 GB RAM, preferably 16GB.

[audax 207]

same for me

 

 

i can run arma2 (and other games like rome 2 etc etc etc) at max settings

 

but i cant enter a city even with the lowest settings.

[soulfirez 901]

same for me

 

 

i can run arma2 (and other games like rome 2 etc etc etc) at max settings

 

but i cant enter a city even with the lowest settings.

You can run arma 2 at max settings but struggle with dayz at lowest settings in the city?? Strange very strange seeing they are ( currently ) on a very similiar engine...

 

Even stranger you say you can run Rome2 on max settings a loaded 32 bit game that struggles for resources at the extreme setting ( which is highest including ultra sized units) i would clearly say any rig that can run extreme settings on R2 with 40000 men on screen in a siege battle would do quite easily with dayz ( or do you actually mean you play sort of high settings with lower men per army counts and avoid sieges like the plague because it turns into a slide show for you because unless your doing 40 k men in siege at extreme settings you are not maxing the settings( i get 25 fps in this situation.)

[Caboose187 (DayZ) 3036]

I asked the magic 8 ball what could be your issue and it says............ "ALPHA".  Who would have thought??

 

Come back when they do an optimization pass on this un-optimized early access alpha.