Is there any way to boost FPS??

[Lepryy 54]

right click DayZbeta and select "edit with notepad++ "

wtf is dayzbeta? all i have is arma2oa.exe? what do you mean by dayzbeta?

[christopherwright_75@hotmail.co.uk 109]

Make sure your laptop is actually using the NVidia GPU some laptops save power by not using the proper GPU unless its needed and can be buggy about deciding when its needed.

[Ramboness (DayZ) 15]

Lepryy - I was in the same boat m8, I was having really bad stutter when I would zoom in & in major citys my frames collapsed to single digits and nothing but a slideshow & death.. with the ram disk, my min frames now is usually aorund the 40's mark and the game looks amazing.. have a hunt roound google there may be a guide on the main arma website or something.. heres a pic from down town Cherno - I had to avoid it for weeks cause of poor frame rate..

http://i530.photobuc...1_51_48_659.png

Excuse me but, what framerate recorder is that? Kinda interested.

[Lepryy 54]

Excuse me but, what framerate recorder is that? Kinda interested.

FRAPS.

EDIT- my bad i thought you were talking to me (Awkwardddddddd) :blush:

Edited July 14, 2012 by Lepryy

[Lepryy 54]

Make sure your laptop is actually using the NVidia GPU some laptops save power by not using the proper GPU unless its needed and can be buggy about deciding when its needed.

it is

[j. patterson 8]

Thanks for the tips. VSYNC did it for me in terms of the biggest boost next to Antialiasing. Now I can turn up a few of the texture settings with minimal FPS drop. Playing on a HD 5750 (1440x900) getting around 50fps dipping to 35 which is still very playable. Much better than it was before I found this thread (was 15-25fps)

[irl-calibre 744]

Excuse me but, what framerate recorder is that? Kinda interested.

msi afterburner

[mrducky (DayZ) 33]

First of all, the GF 550m is sounds like a mobile version. (mobile = slow).

So even though I have no actual benchmarking data to back that up, but something like GF 550m could pretty much be crap compared to even the oldish non-mobile GF 260 or such. So a minimum of say GF 260 does not mean a mimimum on that model number for the mobile versions.

If that is the case (you are GPU limited, rather than CPU limited), then first and foremost you should check the following settings:

- Antialiasing off

- Set the vsync off (specifically while experimenting with other settings, otherwise it will mask any small changes)

- Don't try to use some kind of high resolution. Being GPU limited means it usually almost directly correlates with your screen resolution. If you halve the total amount of pixels by dropping resolution, you usually nearly double the framerate. (Go see the 3D resolution setting). If dropping the resolution has no noticable effect on the framerate, then you're probably not GPU limited, but rather CPU limited. Arma 2 and particularly DayZ is a CPU hog.

- Drop the draw distance. Just drop it to the minimum 500 meters first to see if it has any effect, go up later on if your framerate can handle it. Its pretty much the only video setting in the game that has any significant CPU effect (disabling shadows helps a tiny bit too). Disabling those obviously reduce the GPU load as well.

- If you are CPU limited, then you obviously should also stick to the low population servers. Go to a server with max 30 players. Forget about the 50 player servers. Also, I'm not sure how well it has been fixed, but earlier the servers that had been running DayZ for a longer period of time caused the engine to crap out and use most of its CPU time doing some total nonsense. So finding a freshly restarted server had a great impact on your framerate. I haven't really seen that happen anymore though.

- Also, you should get a rather new the arma 2 beta patch installed if you have not already done so. The older versions had horrendous performance in DayZ. At the moment of writing this, 94876 build is the latest you want to use. The newer 94945 does not work, at least it did not work for me a few days ago.

Most likely you are both GPU and CPU limited. Possibly GPU limited and once you tweak the settings a little bit to relieve that issue, then you quickly become CPU limited.

Any sudden random short framerate drop spikes or such could be the disk access. (To which the use of ramdrive might help). But the disk is not the issue, if your framerate is always bad.

About vsync (which you should turn off if you cannot get the game to run otherwise):

If you want, you can get a few extra frames per second by setting the vsync off. If you have vsync on, then assuming you have the usual 60Hz display, you can only get a framerate that the 60Hz is a multiple of... Meaning that the framerate options are: 1/1*60 = 60 FPS, 1/2*60 = 30 FPS, 1/3*60 = 20 FPS, 1/4*60 = 15 FPS, etc. So, if you had vsync on, you probably keep getting that exact 20 FPS, until you get it running at at least 30 FPS or above. After which it will be that exact 30.

This may be relevant, if you're just below the 30 FPS limit, say, at 29 FPS, in which case you'll be getting 20 instead.

So, by setting off the vsync, you can now possibly get the 29 fps or such. (unfortunately with some screen tearing)

In short about vsync: You should only use vsync in games if you can get a consistent 30 FPS or better. If you go below that threshold with the vsync, then your framerate will drop dramatically.

All in all, you should experiment with the settings. It pretty much depends on whether the biggest issue is with the GPU or the CPU how high you can get your settings to. (And how much you can affect the framerate from the video settings in general).

And yeah... Frankly... Arma 2 (and DayZ mod for it) in particular have been one of the most power-hungry games I've come across in a while. Had to overclock my somewhat oldish rig to get any decent framerates out of it. :P And despite that, I was losing hope on actually wanting to play the game with the crappy framerate, until some time ago some arma beta patches and dayz patches came along and fixed the worst framerate issues.