low fps

[roelvvv 0]

Hey guys, I have a Geforce 260GTX and an AMD PHENOM II x4 (3,2Ghz).

But still I seem to get only 20 fps, even with all settings on low, and most of the things disabled. I even configurated it at nvida control panel and put everything on low.

It's like really annoying because I can barely kill any zombies with 20 fps.

Does anyone know a fix? I already updated my drivers.

Thanks in advance.

[Napoleon Solo 10]

All low @ 1920x1200 is my fate (except AF). My GTX 260 has served me well, now it's time to change. However all GPUs are out of stock, so I'm stuck.

Trees 50 meters away are actually sprites for me. :P

[roelvvv 0]

But how many fps do you have with your geforce 260GTX?

[grittafu 1]

I have GTX560Ti SLI and I cant run the game very well either.

[Officious (DayZ) 4]

I have a phenom II x6 @ 3.78ghz with crossfire 6850s and I have difficultly running this game faster than 40 FPS on 1080p.

Conversly I can run crysis on max at 60 fps and crysis 2 Dx11 at 60 fps on max (as well as many others)

Regardless of settings, the only ones that really effect my performance are the view distance, AA and the environment detail (trees and stuff)

[Napoleon Solo 10]

In the first Benchmark I get over 60fps, in the second 10-20. I guess I have about 60fps most of the time in this mod.

Maybe you need to defrag your HD. It could also be the CPU.

[roelvvv 0]

so nobody has a fix for this?

[landstriker 9]

I run my game on the lowest settings, with AA and VS disabled. I've also disabled shadows. I got a 260GTX running on a i7 920 2,6gz 8GB Ram, on 1920x1080 (native resolution). My frames average from 30-25 in town areas, but can plummet down to 15 during day time.

It's still playable, but I'm just waiting for the 580GTX to drop even further in pricing.

[OmarFW 0]

ArmA 2 is a game that is more reliant on hard drive and CPU speeds than GPU. If you don't have a slow hard drive you will get low performance regardless of the speed of your GPU.

[roelvvv 0]

So I need a slow hard drive to run this game properly, wtf???

[Mojo (DayZ) 66]

No, Omar means the opposite. Another player was reporting similar problems, I'll just repaste my explanation to him:

Simply put, ArmA 2 is hilariously poorly optimized.

First, despite possessing the LargeAddressAware flag on the executable, the OA executable (and the ArmA2 executable) cannot, under any circumstances, use any more than 2 gigs of memory. Whether you have four gigs or eight or 16 won't make a difference. It's two gigs max, period.

Second, at some point Bohemia Interactive decided that more people had bigger hard drive than lots of RAM, so instead of making the game RAM-intensive, they made it Hard Drive intensive. Watch your hard drive light next time to play. See it blinking like mad? You have no idea how much arma2oa loads and unloads from the HD.

Third, that also tends to mean there's a big chunk of page file/virtual memory it likes to use. Which increases hard drive usage even more. Fun!

Over all, the major performance limiter in the Real Virtuality engine is hard drive thrashing.

Lastly, Operation Arrowhead is a pure 32-bit executable. That means that regardless of anything else, Windows XP 32-bit remains the best operating system to run it under. XP 64 is a little worse, and by the time you get to Vista/7, well, it sorta freaks out.

So, what can you do to improve your performance?

Your first option is to install a Solid State Drive. Putting my Arma2/OA installs on an SSD gave me a performance boost of anywhere from 10 (the horribly unoptimized frame-eater Elektrozavodsk) to 30 FPS. On average I see FPSs of about 30-60.

Your second option is to install such a stupid amount of RAM that the executable runs off a RAM disk. This is even faster than an SSD. Between ArmA2 and OA, you're looking at about 16.5 gigs just for the space taken up. If you're selecting and very tweaky and control freak about what you put on your ramdisk, you can ramp that back quite a bit.

As for operating it in a 32-bit mode, compatibility options will never be quite as good as a native 32-bit OS. However, if you put -winxp in the launch parameters of your DayZ shortcut, it does actually help quite a bit.

Lastly, I'd recommend turning Anti-Aliasing off. For some reason it seems to cause OA to freak out. If you really hate jaggies and really like anti-aliasing, I'd recommend using FXAA on the beta clients of the Operation Arrowhead executable, which even at its highest settings gives me much (much, much) better frame rates than FSAA on lowest settings.

In other words, do not upgrade your graphics card expecting leaps and bounds in improvement. It may help draw the geometry marginally faster, but remember that if Arma is delivering its streamed content slowly, no matter how fast that GPU can go, it is limited by how fast it gets the information.

You can be the fastest portrait artist in the world, but if nobody ever visits your studio, you're going to draw exactly zero portraits.

Things that will significantly improve your FPS:

1. Faster platter hard drives.

2. Solid state drives.

3. Striping platter drives.

4. Striping SSDs.

5. Running OA on a Ramdisk.

[landstriker 9]

So' date=' what can you do to improve your performance?

Your first option is to install a Solid State Drive. Putting my Arma2/OA installs on an SSD gave me a performance boost of anywhere from 10 (the horribly unoptimized frame-eater Elektrozavodsk) to 30 FPS. On average I see FPSs of about 30-60.[/quote']

Just out of curiosity, what's your system specs? I got a SSD laying around, but it's only a 64GB, 2nd gen. I was thinking about using it for my Win7 for faster booting.

Taking what you mentioned above into consideration, I think I might get a second SSD to run ArmA on. Would be interesting to see if I could actually get a bit of performance boost on my current system.

[Mojo (DayZ) 66]

So' date=' what can you do to improve your performance?

Your first option is to install a Solid State Drive. Putting my Arma2/OA installs on an SSD gave me a performance boost of anywhere from 10 (the horribly unoptimized frame-eater Elektrozavodsk) to 30 FPS. On average I see FPSs of about 30-60.[/quote']

Just out of curiosity, what's your system specs? I got a SSD laying around, but it's only a 64GB, 2nd gen. I was thinking about using it for my Win7 for faster booting.

Taking what you mentioned above into consideration, I think I might get a second SSD to run ArmA on. Would be interesting to see if I could actually get a bit of performance boost on my current system.

Eh, it's basically middle of the road stuff. nVidia GPU chip, 460 series OC'd, 8gb RAM, 1x phys 4x logical AMD that's stock 3.41 but pushing something or other right now, with a 240 gig Sata 2 SSD with a SandForce controller. Stock air cooling kept in check with regular cleaning.

[liquidje 38]

-edit- other people explained it better.

[roelvvv 0]

So how am i supposed to run this game on a Ramdisk?

[Mojo (DayZ) 66]

So how am i supposed to run this game on a Ramdisk?

As fun as it might be to actually have somebody with a ridiculous amount of RAM and then set them up with a ram disk, unless you know how to off the hop, I'd recommend not bothering.

Go out and get a solid SSD or stripe a couple of 10,000 RPM mag drives. Either of those options is going to be cheaper than a new GPU or even the stupid amount of RAM (and the motherboard needed to support it) to set up a ram disk.

[roelvvv 0]

Ok but I found out I have a solid 25 fps in singleplayer, but in multiplayer only like 10.

Is there any fix for that?

[liquidje 38]

Ok but I found out I have a solid 25 fps in singleplayer' date=' but in multiplayer only like 10.

Is there any fix for that?

[/quote']

Check your settings.

But please, your posts are quite annoying (no offense). People here write down quite elaborate posts, and the only reaction they get from you is one or two sentences, you don't really respond to the people helping you.

there is no "fix" for bad framerate, there are some things which can speed up your performance (see some of the stickies in the several fora), but most fixes are already in there by using patches. And at last, this is more a ArmaII issue then a DayZ issue.