Performance issues [Seeking Advice]

[frosty_plays 0]

Good day fellow survivors (and moderators).

I am having an issue with DayZ SA performance on my PC.

CPU: AMD FX 8150 Zambezi 3.6 GHz at 8 cores.

GPU: MSI GTX970 4G Gaming (oc)

RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws 16Gb 1866 MHz (2x8)

I'm getting very low frame rates in game.

Wilderness + woods: 41 fps (with slight drop in woods)

Towns: +/- 24

Cities: 17 and lower

All the settings are on lowest except textures and terrain which are on normal.

Non of the fps guides I find help, and I was wondering if anyone here knows anything that might help?

I know that the game is still in alpha and not optimised what so ever...

But still people manage to run it on good fps.

Plz HALP -.-

[Max Planck 7174]

It sounds counterintuitive, but it might help upping your graphics settings. It should force the game to utilize your gpu more.

[frosty_plays 0]

Thanks, I will try it as soon as I get to the PC.

[spartanxapathy 203]

What Max said. I noticed an increase after upping certain settings. Im still not getting as good as yours :( 

 

AMD FX-8350 Black Edition 8-core 4.0GHz 

ASUS GTX 970

16Gb of (i think) Ballistix RAM

 

So basically the same, my cpu says its a bit faster, but seems to be about the only difference. I get about 15 frames in Elektro/Cherno, 20's in small towns and bit over 30 in wilderness (this is with my scence complexity at 50000 and terrain grid at 25 :( I know the game isn't optimized, but I feel like my PC is not performing as well as it should. Let me know your results :)  (thought about overclocking, but I don't wanna break anything lol)

[frosty_plays 0]

I heard that running the game in winxp sp3 compatibility mode boosts your fps, can anyone confirm?

[spartanxapathy 203]

I know using -winxp in launch parameters helped me out a decent amount in the last patch, it seems to break it on this current build tho :(  I was getting a whopping 2 frames.

Edited February 26, 2015 by SpartanxApathy

[franzuu 211]

It sounds counterintuitive, but it might help upping your graphics settings. It should force the game to utilize your gpu more.

 

Mhmh, you could try disabling boost clokcs with rivaturner or poke around in nvidia control panel and have it run on max 100% of the time. This way you can run on lower graphics settings without fear of the card downclocking.