AMD Pheno 3.4Ghz, 560TI, 4GB, 18-20fps inside towns

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After the most recent patch the game is now somewhat playable for me, at least the fps isn't nowhere as bad as before. But when I enter the large towns my fps goes from 4/5/60 down to 18 fps or holds around 20ish, same thing happens when I enter buildings.

Before I ran the game on all the lowest/disabled settings I could and that made everything worse, after reading Flying on fumes post (thanks buddy) I now run everything at high and the game runs a lot better.

But i'm still puzzled as to why the game drops 40 fps just by going into a town?

Before anyone claim it's my setup, I run bf3 on ultra at 40 fps (single player, no aa), stalker maxed, crysis 2 maxed, etc etc, this is the only game so far where the fps drops to insane levels.

Flying on fumes

Don't know if this has been said before apart from me:

setting the GFX to NORMAL and below will use your CPU

setting the GFX to HIGH and above uses your GPU

If I was you I would try all to HIGH apart from MEM to DEFAULT, AA OFF and PP OFF

VIEW DISTANCE dont do anything in DAYZ has it's set by server...

If you have a 2nd monitor put System Monitor II and GPU Monitor Gadget's on and see what I mean... :)

If the DEVS turned the GRASS off then you would get another 15fps, grass is useless anyway beyond 50 meter's...

Any ideas? According to arma 2 sys requirements i'm well above, kinda odd seeing how the game runs.... Although arma 2 runs at 5-60fps maxxed in singleplayer.

Before you suggest the usual: this is a new pc custom built, new os, new hdd etc, yes i've tried lower settings, but running at high makes the game run better for me. Yes all the other games runs flawlessy except dayz.

Thanks