Major framerate wut?

[Beizs 186]

So, I decided to go ahead and optimize my DayZ today. I'd not really been having issues other than when first entering built up areas, at which point I'd see some drops and such before it evened out.

 

In the past, when I first played the game, I'd be getting around 20-60fps. Since, I've upgraded my GPU (massively) and my CPU (again, massively). I noticed that the game now is a lot nicer to play. It feels fairly smooth and doesn't feel like it has a low frame rate...

 

But then, today, I went ahead and got FRAPS to check the framerates. Now, I want to stress that the game does not feel like it's running at a low framerate. It actually looks like it's running at 60fps to me. I can tell the difference between 30 and 60fps very well generally, but there's a glaring issue here.

 

FRAPS is reporting like 16 FPS inside of cities... While, actually playing the game, it feels perfectly smooth. So, has anybody else had any kinds of issues with FRAPS reporting frame rates? Any other game, if its frame rate is that low, I find it unplayable. I'm actually very happy with how smooth DayZ is for me. So, what gives? I feel completely fine playing at the reported 16FPS in first or third person, while, on other games, 20 and below is unbearable for me.

 

EDIT: Since optimizing it, it seems smoother... Yet it's reporting lower framerates, btw. Before, I'd rarely see it drop below 40fps reported. I'm wondering if it's a similar deal to some of the older games that I play that only render new frames when they actually need to due to some setting I've tweaked? Really, really confused.

Edited January 6, 2015 by Beizs

[leeroynewman 4]

Stop smoking zucchinis, its not good for you.

[Death By Crowbar 1213]

Is this your first time reviewing frame rates? That's not a dig, that's a question - and the reason why I ask is because there's the age old "the human eye can perceive no more than 20 frames per second". That's true and false really - 20fps vs 60fps is noticeable in regards to smoothness even though your eyes can't pick out the individual frames. 16fps actually might not look that bad, because it's at the upper limit of what your eye can actually perceive as individual frames before it all blending together. You also might be used to how it looks. This is interesting, curious how it turns out, also how your tuning turns out. I've been too lazy to do it myself but I have read through a portion of the pinned post about it.

[Beizs 186]

Is this your first time reviewing frame rates? That's not a dig, that's a question - and the reason why I ask is because there's the age old "the human eye can perceive no more than 20 frames per second". That's true and false really - 20fps vs 60fps is noticeable in regards to smoothness even though your eyes can't pick out the individual frames. 16fps actually might not look that bad, because it's at the upper limit of what your eye can actually perceive as individual frames before it all blending together. You also might be used to how it looks. This is interesting, curious how it turns out, also how your tuning turns out. I've been too lazy to do it myself but I have read through a portion of the pinned post about it.

 

Nope, I do this kind of thing with every game I play.

 

I'm sure that there's something up with FRAPS now. I switched over to Minecraft quickly (which, by the way, gives me regular framerates of 500+ on higher settings when I'm not recording - which is notable as DayZ and Minecraft are both CPU heavy games) and turned the max FPS down to 20 to compare the games. Obviously it's not a great comparison as they're very differently styled, but DayZ felt infinitely smoother than Minecraft at 20fps.

 

I had an issue similar to this a while ago with DXTory after one of my drivers messed up OpenGL and DXTory working together, though the FPS only reported incorrectly when I was actually recording back then.

Edited January 6, 2015 by Beizs

[ToySmokes 116]

DayZs frame rate fuck with our minds o.o

[TheFarm 158]

Have you tried any other tools besides fraps? Also if the application in question (dayz) is not detecting/reporting the frames per second itself, then it will probably be inaccurate.

[zeotrope 76]

Fraps and Shadowplay both report the same framerates. In fact recordings ported into After effects show that what was reported on screen and what was actually recorded is one and the same.

You are in a large town getting 15 fps? Better believe it buddy. 

 

[BrainlessZombie 190]

Magic or aliens is my guess. Do i get a cokie?

 

Do you have the right res for the screen and all specs figured out, if so... I have no idea.