Game having odd FPS drops.

[Baeo 0]

Hey there! My friend has been trying to play Day z, and when he first logged in, he noticed that his game was having these weird FPS issues.

Now I'm not talking about a constant, say, 20 FPS, because that would obviously have something to do with video settings. His problem is that he'll be getting good FPS until he moves or turns, then it will tank for about 4 seconds then go back to normal, and keep repeating like that. The odd part is that this never changed when he lowered his video settings from maximum to minimum.

I can run ArmA perfectly with near max settings and have no problems at all. And my computer isn't THAT much better than his.

So does anyone know what exactly is causing this? Is it poor optimization? Is it just the nature of alpha mods, or what?

[b00m666 38]

Go to video options then advanced then disable vsync. That helped me alot

[pyroxfire 10]

also make sure video memory is Always set to default and try setting textures to low it could be that it cant load content from the hard drive fast enough for the higher textures not sure though. make sure vsync AA and post are all disabled what are his computer specs also?

[Baeo 0]

Just a reminder: Video options don't make a difference (I'm not sure if my friend tried to disable Vsync so that might still be an option)

I'm not sure about all of his specs. I know he has 8 gigs of RAM, and has a Radeon 5550 or 5570.

Edited July 22, 2012 by Baeo

[pyroxfire 10]

what kinda of cpu does he have and benchmark his hard drive. one of those are causeing a bottle neck

[Baeo 0]

I'm going to have to wait until he's back at his house to give you those numbers.

[pyroxfire 10]

thats fine if you want feel free to pm me once you have that information. im more then happy to help. i play decently on a 2010 macbook air lol

[Baeo 0]

Specs are: AMD Phenom quad core 2.9 ghz, ATI HD Radeon 5570

Hard drive bench: 655