Extreme FPS lag, confused

[LesserEvil 0]

Before I start, here's my basic specs:

 

Geforce GTX 750 1GB DDR5

AMD FX-6100

4GB DDR3 RAM

600 watt PS

500 GB Samsung HDD

 

I had just bought DayZ a few dayz < huehuehue ago and I have had really bad performance issues. I have set virtually everything to the lowest setting, set the priority of the process to high, and prayed to allah, but nothing worked.

 

Anything that could potentially be sapping my frames?

 

Any help would great

[Baker. 1484]

Before I start, here's my basic specs:

 

Geforce GTX 750 1GB DDR5

AMD FX-6100

4GB DDR3 RAM

600 watt PS

500 GB Samsung HDD

 

I had just bought DayZ a few dayz < huehuehue ago and I have had really bad performance issues. I have set virtually everything to the lowest setting, set the priority of the process to high, and prayed to allah, but nothing worked.

 

Anything that could potentially be sapping my frames?

 

Any help would great

The game doesnt run all that great ATM regardless of hardware. In your case you are slightly weak in most areas, Your CPU being the weakest link in the chain. 

 

Short term (cheap) solutions? 

 

Overclock your CPU

Overclock your GPU

Pickup another 4gb of ram

Install Razer Cortex (shuts down unnecessary processes during gaming)

 

As far as ingame settings, make sure you have Post Processing, Anti Aliasing turned off as well as lower your shadow and object details. 

Edited October 12, 2014 by Bakermensch

[LesserEvil 0]

Mind if I ask if the developers are planning to optimize the game any time soon in terms of performance?

[XibaRootS 40]

The game doesnt run all that great ATM regardless of hardware. In your case you are slightly weak in most areas, Your CPU being the weakest link in the chain. 

 

Short term (cheap) solutions? 

 

Overclock your CPU

Overclock your GPU

Pickup another 4gb of ram

Install Razer Cortex (shuts down unnecessary processes during gaming)

 

As far as ingame settings, make sure you have Post Processing, Anti Aliasing turned off as well as lower your shadow and object details. 

Pretty accurate answer in my opinion.

 

Mind if I ask if the developers are planning to optimize the game any time soon in terms of performance?

In a distant future yes, first they will implement many other functionalitys into the core gameplay, change the engine. And that's my friend will take at least from my point of perspective, 8 months more. Then i guess you can start having hope about performance optimizations.

[Borges (DayZ) 40]

You are in dire need for a gpu and cpu upgrade. No worries though because dayz sa runs like crap at the moment, but to be blunt..

 

Your system is bad. Overclocking won't fix your issues.

Edited October 14, 2014 by Borges

[Mos1ey 6301]

Mind if I ask if the developers are planning to optimize the game any time soon in terms of performance?

 

The game will be heavily optimised later in development, but I don't think it will ever run particularly smoothly on that system unfortunately. As well as being poorly optimised in its current state, it is quite a hardware intensive game.

Edited October 14, 2014 by Mos1ey

[PoeticShaman 2]

Hmm -- taking a quick benchmark look at the CPU and GPU your PC's specs aren't all that much lower than mine (though the 4 GB of ram might be a real killer; my usage is sometimes up to 4 GB before I even launch DayZ.) -- but I can still run at a pretty solid 30 FPS.  Not perfect, but smooth enough that I haven't lost a gunfight just yet.  When tinkering with settings and searching online for solutions, the ones I found that really made a -huge- difference (as in, 10+ FPS boost) were the following:

 

Go into your Users/username/mydocuments/Dayz

 

Open up the file labeled with your player name that does -not- have .vars appended to the end.

 

Using the find function, search for the following terms and change them to the values I've specified:

 

sceneComplexity=90000;

viewDistance=3000;

shadowZDistance=100;

viewDistance=1600;

preferredObjectViewDistance=1000;

 

Save that file, then in the same folder open the DayZ.cfg file and alter the following:

 

GPU_MaxFramesAhead=1;

GPU_DetectedFramesAhead=1;

 

In all honesty, I am not certain which of the above fixed the problem for me (I'm guessing scene complexity, but really haven't a clue.)  And you could always try fudging the numbers down lower to see what works.  Nothing... and I do mean -nothing- else seemed to help my FPS.  Even dropping all my settings down to low.  Though dropping resolution did help a bit, but the game looked like poop so I've insisted on keeping it maxed.