Player running speeds

[Taelon 0]

My group was hoofing it last night around Stary running to Novy when we noticed something odd. One of our group ran slower than the rest. Were not talking he was slightly slower, this was noticeible. It came to a point that if we went into a creep run we would have to stop every 20 seconds and wait for him to catch up. He was not doing anything different in his running than us, nor was he carrying much of a different load than us, infact my load was heavier than his. We were all running with pistols in hand.

[zancie 26]

maybe he aimed down the sights, or he hadn't drank or eaten. I am not entirely sure what affects running speed. But it could be that.

[master721 9]

You guys could be using the 2xW sprint and he could just be doing the standing run.

[Hetstaine 10852]

He is definitely not running like a boss.

[syndicatefaction 118]

running with your pistol out causes you to run slower. Running with your rifle out, makes you run faster.

[Yarrick68 (DayZ) 26]

I might be wrong but I thought I read that the Arma II engine uses some sort of encumbrance system so if that is the case then maybe that person had a lot of heavy gear?

[ABORT 5]

None of the replies are correct thus far. This has to do with FPS. I know it sounds really weird, but I remember when my FPS were low, but my friend's were fine, I was running SO Much slower than him, even walking slower than him. Both of us had winchesters, both of us were doing the same exact thing. I was barely catching up with him when he was crouch running and I was full on sprinting. FPS is to blame.

[clever 12]

Oddly enough this happens to me often, but only seems to happen if my FPS is doing terrible. Anytime my FPS is high, I'm running at normal speed.

[Domocus 2]

Yes, I noticed this today as well, game looked slow-mo while my FPS was down, but zombies were acting normal. A simple 2x W fixed the trick temporarily, but FPS was definitely a factor.

[Reubenj 1]

Yeah I think it's caused by low framerate. My friend has this problem with an old laptop and I can always tell when his framerate drops . Sometimes he gets so slow that I'm walking while he's running and we have to server hop to find one with better performance.

Edited July 12, 2012 by Reubenj

[Taelon 0]

Not so sure it was framerate. Recently this has begun to affect me also. Both players were running with M4A1 SDs. Both were stand running, both eaten recently, both framerates around 60ish. All i know was that were both running and I was falling behind. Even tried changing weapons to pistol and Wx2 to no avail.

[OWD Trademarked 1]

None of the replies are correct thus far. This has to do with FPS. I know it sounds really weird, but I remember when my FPS were low, but my friend's were fine, I was running SO Much slower than him, even walking slower than him. Both of us had winchesters, both of us were doing the same exact thing. I was barely catching up with him when he was crouch running and I was full on sprinting. FPS is to blame.

This^^