Graphics settings

[don1107 3]

Havent played for last 6 months.  Came back in and game has a lot of bugs with graphics.

 

I have a lightning effect happening with loading screen.

 

also very laggy ingame

 

and seems everything is out of focus ans twitchy.

 

Does anyone have a graphics set up i could follow to get me back to a simple playable game?

 

 

[BCBasher 2465]

Havent played for last 6 months.  Came back in and game has a lot of bugs with graphics.

 

I have a lightning effect happening with loading screen.

 

also very laggy ingame

 

and seems everything is out of focus ans twitchy.

 

Does anyone have a graphics set up i could follow to get me back to a simple playable game?

 

There's lots of tutorials but because this game runs wildly different on different hardware there's no magic fix all config that works for everybody plus "looks good" is quite subjective.

 

I play on mixed medium/potato at 10-15fps at an ultra wide ratio and it looks good to me because my shitty eyes can pic out motion throughout my whole natural FOV but others would say it's laggy wide potato.

[boneboys 7988]

Trouble goes in Troubleshooting.

In the meanwhile...

 

https://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/203970-resolution-problems-read-here-before-posting/#entry2049835

[GaryWalnuts 1680]

I have a lightning effect happening with loading screen.

 

If it's the blue-ish background on the loading screen iirc it was attributed to steam launch parameter -skipintro or -nosplash  Try removing those.

If you're using -winxp option definitely remove that one, it caused some issues too.

Actually you might have better luck removing all of your launch parameters and starting from default, devs said that most of them were outdated.

 

Steam > Library > (Right Click) DayZ > Properties > Set Launch Options > (Remove Everything)

[KenoSkir88 181]

One decent FPS fix is :

 

○ ALT-TAB out of DayZ once it's loaded to menu screen

○ Hit CTRL-ALT-DELETE

○ Click Task Manager

○ Find "DayZ.exe *32" in process list

 

Then : (if using windows 7, if not skip to next step) Right click "DayZ *32" process, got to Set Priority and click HIGH. You are now done.

 

Then : (If using windows 10) Right click "DayZ *32" go to "Go To Details". Then in the Details tab that opens, click the already highlighted "DayZ *32" and go to Set Priority, set priority to HIGH. You are now done.

 

You should see a noticeable improvement in FPS immediately.

 

There are edits you can make in the games text files to improve FPS also but this is a quick easy fix with decent effect you can perform at any time. You must however set this priority every time you start DayZ. Beware if you are running other programs as well as DayZ such as OBS or other recording software, or you are streaming, this may effect those programs.

 

EDIT : Re-read OP and realised this was nothing to do with FPS :blush:

Edited October 18, 2015 by KenoSkir88

[eno 1049]

 

 

EDIT : Re-read OP and realised this was nothing to do with FPS :blush:

 

Still an awesome post. I'm going to try that too. 

 

Is this reserved for low end systems or can there be benefit across a broad array of systems? 

[KenoSkir88 181]

Still an awesome post. I'm going to try that too. 

 

Is this reserved for low end systems or can there be benefit across a broad array of systems? 

 

It's really a % increase of around 5-10% frame rate, it works on any system running windows. Bill Gates thought it would be a great laugh to with-hold some of your precious processing power, it makes windows "seem" faster when you do things like open another program while running one etc but the real noticeable effect is that you're missing out on some of the processing power you deserve :rolleyes:

 

It's also wprth checking your computers Power Options (search Power Options in start menu search thingy) and setting your computer to a high performance profile, instead of the Balanced one it is likely set to. Used fractionally more electricity, makes your computer do what it's damn well meant to do <_<

 

Hope it helps , u think it's worth making a separate thread if many don't know this stuff?

[BCBasher 2465]

Still an awesome post. I'm going to try that too. 

 

Is this reserved for low end systems or can there be benefit across a broad array of systems? 

 

I play on a older tower but don't see why it would hurt on a good one, works on all games for me btw.

[eno 1049]

 

Hope it helps , u think it's worth making a separate thread if many don't know this stuff?

 

There are a few threads up already about optimizations and FPS enhancers etc... probably belongs in one of those. 

 

Thanks again!

[KenoSkir88 181]

Mine's fairly high end and i still use that method, it gives me noticeable FPS increase in big cities that really helps my aim.