Changing video cards problem.

[andreim92 0]

Ok,first off all hello to all of you out there!! 

I'm new here and unfortunately i had to join this community for the troubleshooting part....you know what i mean...

Ok ,so heres my problem...a weird one I must say...

This was my setup before buying a new video card.

 

AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition 3.4 Ghz

4 GB DDR3 1333 Mhz

and the best card i ever owned and loved , Ati Radeon HD4770

GA MA770T-UD3 mobo

 

Now,I was able to run DAYZ SA quite ok on that spec on low settings and dont remember using any on very low...shadow disabled etc...I was ok with it ....of course lower FPS in cities and that kind of stuff....but as i said,i was perfectly fine with it and learned to live with it and could actually play it without getting annoyed. 

The things changed when I bought a GIGABYTE R9 280X 3GB Windforce and had really nasty problems with DAYZ (ONLY DAYZ) I started to have insane FPS drops ,for example next to Cherno...I was looking at the town exit and had like 30-40 and when I looked at the city i've seen it drop to as low as 6 FPS (15-18 after it calmed a bit)  ,normal FPS in Cherno is like 10-20 ....and thats driving me crazy because I cant cope with that...and thats on freaking low settings.....with no shadows and no nothing...

I dont know whats wrong but stepping to a High End Video Card made my experience way worst that i could have imagined with this game...it actually destroyed the game for me because it's unplayable and i really love the game.

 

Tried all kinds of optimization GUIDES and didn't help me a bit.Modified cfg files and start parameters and that kind of stuff.

 

Any idea why this happened?Is it because the card is way better than the CPU and it bottlenecks it?More WAAAAAMMM or what?

 

I have to say that i finished CRYSIS 3 on very high/high  and play lots of new games like Far Cry 4 ultra/high and it runs great so that proves that the card is ok.

Will the new render engine solve this game out?

BTW ,im playing on a 24 inch display at 1080p.

 

Thanks. Andrew

Edited January 14, 2015 by andreim92

[foolee 43]

The new render should make a huge difference for everyone. Half the problem is IMO trying to run DX9 graphic on DX10/11 hardware. DX10 was a substantial update as was DX11. Microsoft started from the ground up to support new unified shader architecture.

 

Download and run this to clean off old drivers. It has to be run in safe mode (F8) while turning your pc on.

http://www.guru3d.com/content-page/guru3d-driver-sweeper.html

 

install the latest drivers and set launch parameters in Steam.

 

"Set -cpuCount= 4 -exThreads= 7 -high -malloc=system -maxMem =4096"

 

Turning off things like post processing, turning down AA will help. If your getting less than 30fps turn on Vsync. I find only running alpha coverage to only tree, and disabling ambient occlusion makes difference for me. Play with the setting find out what works. Apparently if your graphics are turned down the game engine loads up the CPU more. If your have the graphics turned up it loads up the GPU more. If your so inclined overclocking your cpu north bridge makes a huge difference on the older Phenom based AMD cpus. Just don't go past 1.4v. You should be able to get 2.6ghz out of it pretty easy. It said to net upwards of 10% performance improvement. Turning up the cores wont hurt either. Might as well get your moneys worth. I OC'd my Phenom II X6 1045T from 2.7ghz -> 3.4 on just FPS.No voltage required. Keep the HT at the same speed as the NB. They like to be in sync.

[andreim92 0]

The new render should make a huge difference for everyone. Half the problem is IMO trying to run DX9 graphic on DX10/11 hardware. DX10 was a substantial update as was DX11. Microsoft started from the ground up to support new unified shader architecture.

 

Download and run this to clean off old drivers. It has to be run in safe mode (F8) while turning your pc on.

http://www.guru3d.com/content-page/guru3d-driver-sweeper.html

 

install the latest drivers and set launch parameters in Steam.

 

"Set -cpuCount= 4 -exThreads= 7 -high -malloc=system -maxMem =4096"

 

Turning off things like post processing, turning down AA will help. If your getting less than 30fps turn on Vsync. I find only running alpha coverage to only tree, and disabling ambient occlusion makes difference for me. Play with the setting find out what works. Apparently if your graphics are turned down the game engine loads up the CPU more. If your have the graphics turned up it loads up the GPU more. If your so inclined overclocking your cpu north bridge makes a huge difference on the older Phenom based AMD cpus. Just don't go past 1.4v. You should be able to get 2.6ghz out of it pretty easy. It said to net upwards of 10% performance improvement. Turning up the cores wont hurt either. Might as well get your moneys worth. I OC'd my Phenom II X6 1045T from 2.7ghz -> 3.4 on just FPS.No voltage required. Keep the HT at the same speed as the NB. They like to be in sync.

I tried everything you said....cherno and big cities ruin my fps...in small towns i can get to about 30 or even more....on fields i can get 60 or better....didnt try airport but im sure i get lots of fps there.

Thanks for the reply...i think im going to take a break till the new render comes out...lets hope my beard won't reach 1 meter till then.

Edited January 15, 2015 by andreim92

[foolee 43]

Worth a shot, it picked up 10fps for me. According to the road map the new render should not be to far down the road. I can't play either right now. The latency on my internet is too high.

[andreim92 0]

Worth a shot, it picked up 10fps for me. According to the road map the new render should not be to far down the road. I can't play either right now. The latency on my internet is too high.

I dont know man....this is one fucking wierd game...tried to disable HIPS on eset and didnt do shit....while entering Polana  the FPS was like 13 for a long period of time....then i had to put down some more details and afer getting a 15-25 boost i had a fps drop to fucking 0-1 for like 30 seconds...this has to be fixed....

[foolee 43]

I get that random FPS drop to 1-2. I was a getting a random FPS drop to 5 while in game. Restarting the client resolves that for me. Setting launch setting and adjusting game graphcic netted me upward of 50% improvement. I was getting 14-20 at times now I get a steady 28fps for the most part.