FPS Drops

[TheScroogeMcDuck 6]

I get FPS drops about 25 minutes into playing that make the game unplayable. I think it's my CPU and that it isn't strong enough. Here's the specs,

MSI Radeon R9 270

Intel Core 2Quad CPU @ 2.66GHz

4 gigs of ram.

 

[Caboose187 (DayZ) 3036]

I get FPS drops about 25 minutes into playing that make the game unplayable. I think it's my CPU and that it isn't strong enough. Here's the specs,

MSI Radeon R9 270

Intel Core 2Quad CPU @ 2.66GHz

4 gigs of ram.

Cpu and ram.  I use an R9 270X and don't have a lot of problems but I'm also running a way more powerful cpu.

[kichilron 8550]

Any BI-game, including the ARMA-series as well as DayZ relies on having a powerful CPU. This is the reason why your framerate isn't that good. 

 

An Intel2Quad is more than outdated to play games these days anyway, though. It may be time for an upgrade to keep up.

[hleVqq 139]

I am having a similar issue, and I don't think my CPU is the cause for this.

 

i5-2500 @ 3,4GHz

HD Radeon 6870 OC 1GB

4GB RAM

5400-7200RPM HDD

 

Now why would a CPU cause horrible FPS spikes (with apparent issues with loading textures) 25 or so minutes into the game?

RAM usage never seems to go above 80% (I suspect it'd use more if I had more, but it doesn't go 100% on my 4GB still).

I suspect it's the HDD or the GPU (lack of VRAM?). The FPS itself is tolerable considering how old and weak the GPU is. I can't explain why the issue starts only after playing for a while. Restarting the game fixes it, flushing VRAM does not.

 

Playing @ 1080p on everything low, except Textures on Auto → Very High → Very High. I'll try lowering those values too when I get the chance to play. Launch parameters are properly set. The CPU cores don't go above 76°C and the GPU doesn't go above 81°C.

Edited November 28, 2014 by Powerhouse

[lautzki 0]

Same issue here. It has something to do with the Radeon, I think. I have a Radeon R9 270X.

[The Beast of Chernarus 20]

I have the same issues, but I have an old Nvidia

[The Beast of Chernarus 20]

BUMP

[hleVqq 139]

For me, it seems to be heavily related to textures. Seems my HD Radeon 6870 HD fails to load them quick enough, producing FPS spikes. Setting Textures to Very Low or Low (Filtering on Very High,a as it doesn't seem to make any difference performance-wise) seems to help a lot.

[The Beast of Chernarus 20]

I did that, still does it

[Caboose187 (DayZ) 3036]

I am having a similar issue, and I don't think my CPU is the cause for this.

 

i5-2500 @ 3,4GHz

HD Radeon 6870 OC 1GB

4GB RAM

5400-7200RPM HDD

 

Now why would a CPU cause horrible FPS spikes (with apparent issues with loading textures) 25 or so minutes into the game?

RAM usage never seems to go above 80% (I suspect it'd use more if I had more, but it doesn't go 100% on my 4GB still).

I suspect it's the HDD or the GPU (lack of VRAM?). The FPS itself is tolerable considering how old and weak the GPU is. I can't explain why the issue starts only after playing for a while. Restarting the game fixes it, flushing VRAM does not.

 

Playing @ 1080p on everything low, except Textures on Auto → Very High → Very High. I'll try lowering those values too when I get the chance to play. Launch parameters are properly set. The CPU cores don't go above 76°C and the GPU doesn't go above 81°C.

Get an SSD drive and you will get rid of most of the fps spikes.  

[SaveMeJebus 164]

I am having a similar issue, and I don't think my CPU is the cause for this.

 

i5-2500 @ 3,4GHz

HD Radeon 6870 OC 1GB

4GB RAM

5400-7200RPM HDD

 

Now why would a CPU cause horrible FPS spikes (with apparent issues with loading textures) 25 or so minutes into the game?

RAM usage never seems to go above 80% (I suspect it'd use more if I had more, but it doesn't go 100% on my 4GB still).

I suspect it's the HDD or the GPU (lack of VRAM?). The FPS itself is tolerable considering how old and weak the GPU is. I can't explain why the issue starts only after playing for a while. Restarting the game fixes it, flushing VRAM does not.

 

Playing @ 1080p on everything low, except Textures on Auto → Very High → Very High. I'll try lowering those values too when I get the chance to play. Launch parameters are properly set. The CPU cores don't go above 76°C and the GPU doesn't go above 81°C.

4 gigs of ram will get maxed out pretty quick with this game and will then cause huge fps freezes at times when it loads/unloads textures. I recently upgraded my friends computer to 8 gig after I saw in msi afterburner that his ram usage was almost always maxed out with 4 gig and it cut down the spikes a ton.

[smochi 2]

I have no idea how you can play dayz on 4gb ram as sometimes windows tell me to close dayz because of insufficient memory on 8GB when i have chrome open. The performance is slowing to crawl most likely because its swapping the memory to your harddrive. turned off for me for some reason as default.

[The Beast of Chernarus 20]

bump

[hleVqq 139]

I managed to solve my FPS drop issues by adding additional 4GB of RAM, making it 8GB in total. DayZ seems to load more and more RAM upon travelling to different areas without de-allocating it for the areas you have left, which is why it was necessary to restart the game after playing for a while before.