Obtain higher FPS in DayZ

[Mean Gun Morris 102]

Nvidia control panel- power management set to prefer maximum performance for dayz. Don't know if this will help any nvidia users but it helped me so I thought I'd throw it out there.

[deadjuice 64]

I tried this yesterday, and it actually worked pretty good.
Now, that's for me and my shitty laptop with a crappy AMD APU and 4G ram. I had to unpark, delete bloatware, turn off unnecessary processes and graphic effects, turn everything all the way down, mess with config files, low scene complexity and 1000 view distance, etc. a bunch of other things,  just to get it to sometimes average out at 30FPS.

Turning off processes and setting priority helped a lot, but I must have missed a lot of things, not to mention the other tweaks it does for you, because I got 5 to 10 FPS more in general, and it was way more stable than usual. I only remember one random severe FPS drop moment, (that only lasted for a few seconds) in the several hours I played with it [Not counting the obvious ones like the new school and lower now-very-dense Berezino area].
I happily was able to turn textures and object detail up a bit, it's so much better now.

I didn't use the built in FPS counter, because I didn't trust the program when I first tried it. I used the Steam FPS counter to get an approximation.
My FPS test:

Spawned outside Electro. In the open fields, north, I got 58-60
[and I swear at one point I had a steady 70 while looking north toward the valley with the road leading out of Electro. And one indecent where I was eating beans in a small house on the north hills of Electro, and was clocking in 90 FPS of sweet food-on-mouth action.]

Before, I was getting anywhere from 17-24 FPS in Electro, and now I'm getting 28-30, with a steady 30 and sometimes 40 in the industrial apartment dock area southwest of Electro, somehow.[but in the most intensive areas, it was 18-24, which is at least better than the 14-17 I'd suffer normally in the intensive parts]

Went into the horrible FPS rapist zone, the schoolhouse with all the pants. This would set me at 14 FPS before, if I was lucky. The steam counter SAID it was a steady 20 FPS, but it didn't feel like it, which is odd, and made me a bit suspicious [Maybe something is more fucked up with the school houses than just FPS dropadge, something is very intense about that building object]

Moving out toward Kamy on the coastal roads, I was getting 38-40+. I reached 50 a few times on the less dense sections of road.  

[someone tried to snipe me from the ambush rocks on the way east/north, and I was so happy and invigorated with the better FPS, that I turned defiantly straight toward the hills, whipped out my rifle, and charged the rocks. Reached them, crouch ran to the left of the formation, dashed up the valley into the hills to flank, came back down on the rock formation from the top of the hill... but couldn't find him]
In the small towns along the coast, my average was 28 - 34. A bit lower here and there, defiantly between the FPS in Solnichy VS Kamy.

Ended my journey in Beranzino. Sadly, the program didn't help much there. With my object detail and textures up a bit, it went from bearable [30 at BEST back down to 24, if not lower], all the way down to the typical janky levels. [i forget what the FPS was then [it was really bad] because I was in a heartpounding firefight with someone, and it went down because I was running from ally to ally to backyards and through houses.
I almost had the upper hand with a bunch of nice flanking maneuvers and control of the field and awareness/focus of the situation, but I'm really, really bad at aiming in medium/close quarters with the mosin [i killed two random guys passing though on the first shot from my initial sniping position, and then seriously wasted 20 rounds trying to firefight the third guy. As far as I know, I didn't land a single shot  :blush: ]. Also, he had a bambi helping him out, chasing me around trying to punch me and constantly yelling out my position. Go bambi.

I'm going to ask my brother, who has a very good expensive gaming Asus laptop and has little trouble running the game and getting decent FPS, if he'd be willing to try out the Razor program for comparison. I doubt it'll help him, I think it just straightened out MY bad settings I may have done with my laptop or processes or something.
Thanks for recommending this OP, because it is helping me. When it's not giving me more frames, it's at least making it more stable, for the most part. 
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[deadjuice 64]

No way to default it to high priority I know of but would like to know if there is as well.

 

You can alt+tab in and out of game to use task manager after it's started and using the startup flag -nopause seems to make tabbing in and out faster.

 

The OP's suggested booster will kill task manager along with other processes too BTW.  

Eh, I'm used to having task manager ready and speed clicking DayZ to high priority.  For some reason, I just feel more secure in changing it before the game starts, as opposed to tabbing out and changing it 

...really makes no sense when I think about it now. :\

I'll check back if I discover a way to make it launch at high priority. It seems like something you should deffiantly be able to do.

[bTW, for people that use the -winxp launch parameter, that will make the game crash when you alt-tab. I used it early on, and it did help FPS a bit.

But I got sick of accidentally alt tabbing/not being able to, and got rid of it. I believe it may be an obsolete command now, or isn't that effective anymore, because I've barely noticed a difference in FPS having it on or off recently]

I'm confused about the last part: By killing task manager, that doesn't mean it'll reverse the priority change I've made by any chance, does it? Or do you mean it just closes the task manager window?

[deadjuice 64]

 And i don't really care about people saying it's in ALPHA or BETA, performance and playability is FUNDIMENTAL, it has been ignored ever since the start of development, which is like 2 years now? Ask people, make a poll and see what they will complain about the most. Any decent gamer should react to this in a negative way unless you are lucky or just plain don't give a crap about performance (in which case good for you, keep on enjoying this game). 

 

I'm talking strictly about performance and not the rest of the game which can progress in whatever speed it needs to. I think it's a great game but for me nearly unplayable and not a very enjoyable experience anymore.

Si-SIR, I quite disagree with this!

Alpha is usually a time to shove features in, to make sure basic mechanics are working, and to stomp out major bugs if possible. Performance and other bug-work is usually reserved for beta or late alpha.

I don't believe this is a time where playability is typically supposed to be the fundamental, and in fact, I think in several cases, they have gone out of their way to ensure playability for the alpha players. [it sucks when they turn off zombies/persistence, or certain features are delayed. But this is usually to preserve playability]

 

inb4 someone makes a crazy defensive rant, just because someone isn't happy with how alpha is working out

[BCBasher 2465]

I'm confused about the last part: By killing task manager, that doesn't mean it'll reverse the priority change I've made by any chance, does it? Or do you mean it just closes the task manager window?

 

Not sure, I just found the 1 process that Cortex found that I hadn't noticed and uninstalled the Razer software and went back to doing it manually. I leave taskman maximized on the performance graphs on my right display so I can tab out and check if I have a memory leak or if something starts back up while I'm playing. 

[t1337dude 101]

To obtain higher FPS in Dayz you must obtain money and buy better graphics processing unit with said money. Better yet, ration some of that money so you can pay for food to enjoy while you play DayZ.

[aasand 92]

Wtf just happened?.. That thing upped my fps with 50% on my laptop and i've pretty much done every tweak possible killing everything unecessary process and maxing the power output, cfg files, and clean install av windows 8.1

 

Suddenly i have 80 -90fps outside cities and 50 in the middle of cherno, so it did something alright. On a two year old midrange laptop.

Edited July 29, 2015 by aasand

[VC DarrelI 2]

the only people that deserve higher FPS in dayz are hero groups like mine OVER 

[st20wind 8]

the only people that deserve higher FPS in dayz are hero groups like mine OVER 

everyone plays their role. everyone gets good fps :)

Edited August 6, 2015 by ST20winD

[ZomboWTF 527]

Wtf just happened?.. That thing upped my fps with 50% on my laptop and i've pretty much done every tweak possible killing everything unecessary process and maxing the power output, cfg files, and clean install av windows 8.1

 

Suddenly i have 80 -90fps outside cities and 50 in the middle of cherno, so it did something alright. On a two year old midrange laptop.

 

that thing? do you mean the youtube tutorial from OPs post or gamebooster?

[ColdAtrophy 1850]

To obtain higher FPS in Dayz you must obtain money and buy better graphics processing unit with said money. 

 

I really hope no one listened to this piece of advice. 

Edited August 6, 2015 by ColdAtrophy

[OrLoK 16182]

I really hope no one listened to this piece of advice. 

All problems are solved by simply throwing money at them. The money itself will sort out what your requirements are. Its an internet "fact"

 

PS: I was being pseudo sarcastic by the way. Throwing money at a GFX card is NOT the way forward. Just in case anyone took me seriously.

Edited August 6, 2015 by orlok

[Zhang Liao 16]

I will need to try this. Unfortunately Crossfire doesn't work. :/

[GhostSlayer (DayZ) 13]

surely you cant be banned for using razer gamebooster, if so thats fucked, if they are banning players for using gameboosters and not banning players who hack

Edited August 7, 2015 by GhostSlayer

[ZomboWTF 527]

they can't ban you for Razer GamebOoster, it's just closing some background processes...

 

btw Razer Gambooster gives me zero fps boost, just like windows 10 had no positive effect at all

[cash81 506]

5820k, 980Ti, fresh install of Windows 8.1 and runs like crap. Old setup with 3770k and 670 ran it better. I guess i'm just unlucky, as it wouldn't be first time very high-end system gets stomped.

Im in the same boat kinda. Upgraded my computer and am getting worse results than when i had my 6 year old laptop. I am wondering if my old laptop had some magical combination of garbage that made the game run decent enough. Now with newer tech i cant get the game to run anywhere close to what i used to... i guess im in the boat with the others who have to wait for optimisation. Sucks :(

[danfinger (DayZ) 14]

This didn't do anything on my 980Ti and 5820k at 4.6ghz. Game still runs like complete ass (40-80 woods and 20-30 in cities). Worst optimization i have ever seen in history after PC gaming for 8 years.

 

LOL. "Worst optimization" ? You know the game has not actually been optimized yet?

 

I've same specs as you with exception of 6700k (same Ghz though) - my steam FPS readout is pegged at 60 FPS no matter where I go. Everything set to MAX.

[danfinger (DayZ) 14]

I really hope no one listened to this piece of advice. 

 

Because it is good advice? 

 

Old system:

 AMD FX-8150 Zambezi 8-Core 3.6 GHz

GTX560ti

 

FPS in Cherno: 13-15 if I was lucky- settings hobbled

 

New System:

Skylake 6700k

GTX980ti

 

FPS in Cherno and everywhere else I go: 60 - all settings to MAX

 

It would likely be more if I turned off vsync but honestly 60 fps is perfectly fine for me at the moment. Everything looks great and it is stable as hell. 

 

High end hardware works wonders on this game. 

[hleVqq 139]

So overclocked Skylake is able to pull off 60FPS+? (Because it's definitely not because of your GPU.) Nice. Gotta have someone else to test it to confirm.

[lsaaq 19]

Honestly, if you want good performance and nice looking graphics, too, get 59 exp, turn on new UI, very low detail settings, then very high texture settings, normal antialiasing, high fxaa, normal post processing, all alpha to coverage and ambient occlusion. Everything else minimum setting. Bam. Game looks awesome, 40fps+ in Berezino (on my rig, at least).

Can turn off post processing or antialiasing and gain like 5fps for either without making the game look bad, but not both.

If you're cool with 30fps in Zino and don't record or stream, you can probably push object detail and clouds to normal, too with a decent rig.

Edited November 19, 2015 by lsaaq

[boneboys 7988]

Not even worth it. -removed-

Don't do that, report your post in future.

[Baker. 1484]

This is probably the third time I'll link this in a thread pertaining to Razer's Game Booster. It simply doesn't work.

 

I've used it (two separate times, the second after a friend telling me how much better it had gotten since the first time I tried it -- it hadn't) and it did literally nothing for me, just like the article I linked. All it does is kill some background applications, which you can do yourself.

 

@OP: If it helped you that much, you'd be better served with a format of your operating system's hard drive.

Short stroking if its mechanical helps a lot as well

[sneakydudes 278]

I would be careful with game booster because I think that you may get banned while using those.

 

Reasons: To "boost" your game it must cut off some graphic context right? And by anti hacks it can be taken as a hack program trying to use wallhack or something.

 

If I am wrong and someone is using this game booster for a while and not got banned please post.

 

PS.

 

I am thinking about accident that took place a while ago when players were boosting their FPS by removing grass from the game. Some of them got banned.

Game booster or the new one Cortex by razor, turns off a few windows resources. It has nothing to do with battleye or dayz in general. It offers the user better performance if for example your using window updates it will turn that off.

 

Game Booster

How does game boosting work?

When you launch a game or manually trigger boosting, Razer Cortex temporarily shuts down processes your computer doesn’t need to run when gaming, freeing up processing power and restores them once you exit your game or return to normal mode.

 

It also closes down some services, and other programs such as antivirus, adobe, and you can adjust windows explorer to turn off and on if your low on memory.

 

Razor products that i have known, have never modified an in game setting. If it has then i am sorry.

 

 

From the link, and its important that people understand this.

 

Note that these benchmark results won’t apply to every computer. Because of the way Razer Game Booster works, people who have a hundred programs running in the background will see a noticeable improvement while people who only run a few background programs that are light on resources won’t see an improvement.

 

I too probably wont see a difference as 16gb takes up the slack for me. for anyone running 8gb or less with lots of programs running in the background you might see a 10-50% improvement. You would have to test this to see your exact results.

Edited November 21, 2015 by TheSneakyDude

[sneakydudes 278]

Short stroking if its mechanical helps a lot as well

Good article thank you. Ive read others on this, but this is pretty simple to follow. I have mirror ssd and somehow i am getting 830 read and 300 + write. Its 550, 530 but 2@ 128 ssd mirrored somehow outputs this total. I am going to look into this further. I have 256 one here that has good read and write speeds.

 

Edit=

This article explained what my raid 0 setup did.

http://blog.superuser.com/2011/03/25/the-king-of-kings-ssd-testing-part-2/

 

Its a good read. from 1 ssd to 2 ssd raid 0.

Edited November 21, 2015 by TheSneakyDude

[Funkmaster Rick 373]

There's a lot of crap flying around in this thread, mostly on the first couple of pages. Lots of claims about how Game Booster only speeds your shit up if you're running a Grandma PC chock-full of Internet Explorer adbars and the such. That's some bullshit. Here's a short, no-bullshit assessment.

 

Game Booster will not get you banned. I've run it parallel to DayZ pretty much since SA launch, no worries about getting banned.

 

Game Booster functions primarily by shutting down unused processes and services. The services part is important, too, simply because most people don't think to mess about with shutting down Windows service, figuring out which ones are unnecessary to your rig's current purpose. If you already kill processes, it's probably the services you missed. Overall, this can be achieved yourself. But why the fuck bother? Here's a handy tool which'll do it for you. It decreases your workload like a good tool should. Welcome to Technology, boys.

 

It's also got a few other things bundled in, like defrag and other tweaks. Many of them are useful without you necessarily having to know too much about your rig, though a bit of fairly standard computer know-how will help.

 

Overall, you can probably expect to gain 5 FPS at most. Some rigs will gain nothing. Some rigs will gain significantly more. It is silly and useless to worry about whether or not your rig will gain performance, or how much, since it's a free product you can literally try out and uninstall if you don't like it - just sacrifice a goat to Thor and give it a go. It's not going to track your porn usage and call you a weirdo. Probably.