High End PC Low FPS Problem

[Iska (DayZ) 0]

Hi

 

I got problem with performance in DayZ Standalone.

Low fps in towns 30<

 

Specs:

 

I7 4790k

R9 295x2

16 Gb Ram

SSD

 

I understand the game is in early dev. but cmon i need to be able to play it to test it

[NuckFuts 265]

Welcome to the "Low FPS in cities club".. 

 

Please know that you are not alone, as Everyone has it. It might be worth your while to check out some performance enhancing threads as they do help.. but don't expect miracle cures or massive gains.

Edited May 9, 2015 by NuckFuts

[Max Planck 7174]

Have a look here: http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/224710-performance-issues/

[hleVqq 139]

As it's a dual GPU card, you may try to disable one of the GPUs and see if that brings any improvement.

[ColdAtrophy 1850]

Lowering the scene complexity value in your config file alleviates the low FPS in cities issue. However, once you get to the point where your FPS is more acceptable to you, you will likely notice an enormous amount of pop in and texture flickering. This engine does not do occlusion culling in the way that modern games do. That's at least one reason why the new renderer is being implemented. It will render everything within a radius around you to the level of detail that you have specified in your graphics settings regardless of whether you can see those objects at all or not. 

 

I have an Intel i5-4690k @ 4.5ghz and a Gigabyte GTX 970. I have every setting maxed right now except for shadows, post processing, and objects (which is the in game setting that represents scene complexity in the cfg file). Since raising or lowering any one particular setting does not necessarily effect your overall usage in a linear fashion the way that you might expect from other games, I can turn resolution scale with these settings up to 125% and not lose frames, but going any higher with resolution set to 100% on any one of these settings will lower frames. I did a ton of testing and real time monitoring with the Rivatuner OSD lately to nail down the best settings for my rig.

 

If any part of this doesn't make sense to you or you want to learn a little more, please ask me. I'm thinking about doing a little more testing and typing out an updated guide for everyone. I would have to install DayZ on my girlfriend's AMD laptop and repeat all of the testing to make sure that my findings thus far are reinforced by results even with totally different hardware.