Framerate Plummets Whilst In Major Towns

[flam3 3]

Title says it all.

I can play the game fine if i'm not near a major town, but as soon as I start to get closer to being actually in a major town, such as Cherno my framerate starts to plummet the more I go into the town. It doesn't matter if I change settings or not, or alter the launch options, I go into a major town grab what I can with my framerate at ~15 without getting killed and get out of there, and of course as soon as I go out my framerate starts to become stable and well, playable again.

Anyone else have this issue?

[Booker (DayZ) 47]

Yeah I have this issue and so does most the other people I play with.

It's a combination of too many zombies/players and buildings in one spot, mainly zombies.

After server restarts or if I log on and log out the fps is improve greatly but for a while but eventually it slowly starts deteriorating again, in major cities I mean.

In the countryside I have 50-80 FPS but cherno is just 20-30 until it starts hitting the teens and just getting worse the longer I'm there.

[wolfstriked 143]

Towns are harsh on the CPU.Upgrade that part of your system.Sorry but that is really all you can do.

[Booker (DayZ) 47]

Towns are harsh on the CPU.Upgrade that part of your system.Sorry but that is really all you can do.

I started using RamDisk and run a 1gb harddrive for the @DayZ folder & some structure/building files so they load instantly, It's helped a small bit but I'm guessing it's mainly processor power =/

My current processor is an AMD Phenom II X6 1045T Processor 2.7GHz

I'm guessing it's below mid range tbh.

[flam3 3]

I'm running a Q9650 at the moment, and it's done me good for a couple of years now. I will be getting an i7 in the next couple of weeks though. Seems a bit daft that to play a mod (damn good mod at that) with stabl framerate you'd have to upgrade your system?

I suppose it puts my mind at ease a little to know that i'm not the only one having the issue, not to mention that you're running 2 more cores than me, Booker. Hopefully one of the patches will actually fix it instead of saying it has.

[andrius 2]

I don't think it's the CPU. I got an I7 2600 quad core at 3.4 ghz and i still get low framerates. I guess it's the graphics card because i have a good old gtx 460. My framerate is normally 50-60 on mid settings, and drop down to 20 in big towns.