Low FPS on a powerful laptop

[zak.preston@gmail.com 8]

Hello!

I have a quite powerful laptop MSI GX60:

CPU: AMD A10-5750m ES\QS @ 3.5GHZ (overclocked)

GPU: Radeon 8950m

RAM: 16GB DDR3-1600

SSD: 256GB SanDisk Extreme

Full-HD display

 

The problem is that DayZ on minimum setting runs smoothly only in fields or in wilderness, while in any decent town fps drops dramatically, even without zombies (1-3 zeds can't be taken into account). If I raise settings, performance drops insignificantly, so the problem is in CPU mostly.  I had the same performance issues around 6 months ago, while on start DayZ SA ran much more smoothly.

 

 

Unfortunately, this game is unplayable with such a low FPS and "unoptimized" DayZ mod runs much better for me. Heck, even ARMA3 DayZ mods feel more comfortable (while mooore buggy).

 

Are there any major performance fixes planned?

 

P.S. I started playing DayZ when there were around 16-20 servers in total and DayZ had no more than 5k subs, now me and my team want to return to this game and I started scouting the situation.

Edited November 6, 2014 by Zak Preston

[Element47 2481]

i would be really surprised if we'd see a serious focus on client optimisation that early in the development. server optimization and engine development come first.

the game runs sufficiently well on a normal gaming pc to test the builds, so i dont really see the need for optimisation for mobile GPUs either

[zak.preston@gmail.com 8]

i would be really surprised if we'd see a serious focus on client optimisation that early in the development. server optimization and engine development come first.

the game runs sufficiently well on a normal gaming pc to test the builds, so i dont really see the need for optimisation for mobile GPUs either

 

 

After some search I see that low FPS is a problem even for more advanced rigs.

I guess my problem is not in GPUs (Radeon 8970m is equal to standard Radeon HD 7870, which is quite sufficient for comfortable gaming). Guess my CPU is bottlenecking the system (in overclocked state it's equal to quad-core desktop AMD CPU) and a poor optimization.

 

I agree that server optimization comes first, but honestly, I see no real progress in DayZ SA development progress since it's launch.

[uncle evad 11]

>Laptop

>Gaming

Pick one. Damn casuals.

[ChainReactor 922]

Guess my CPU is bottlenecking the system (in overclocked state it's equal to quad-core desktop AMD CPU)

 

That's very likely. The most important cpu parameter for DayZ is single core performance. AMD is a step behind intel on this one.

Edited November 6, 2014 by ChainReactor

[agolay 2]

My reasonable pc lags like a laggy thing on the normal servers but runs like a dream on experimental - which one are you using?

 

On that note does anyone else have this issue? Anyone know why it happens?

[Element47 2481]

After some search I see that low FPS is a problem even for more advanced rigs.

I guess my problem is not in GPUs (Radeon 8970m is equal to standard Radeon HD 7870, which is quite sufficient for comfortable gaming). Guess my CPU is bottlenecking the system (in overclocked state it's equal to quad-core desktop AMD CPU) and a poor optimization.

 

I agree that server optimization comes first, but honestly, I see no real progress in DayZ SA development progress since it's launch.

 

well, you either ignored completely all the communications channels then or you have a different definition of 'real progress' :)

 

i'd suggest looking into the devblog at http://dayzdev.tumblr.com/ sometimes.

[Zak_Prestor 15]

So, more than half a year passed, and I still can't enjoy my DayZ game. ARMA3 + Epoch works way smoother and is kinda enjoyable, H1Z1 runs like a charm with 30-60 FPS, but 5-10 FPS in DayZ SA make me really wonder about this game's future (especially after thousands of hours in DayZ-Mod)

Edited July 5, 2015 by Zak_Prestor