Horrible FPS drop on certain server

[Grazhny Bratchny 0]

I've been playing on one particular server for a few days and I've found some nice stuff (vehicles), so needless to say I'm quite eager to play on that particular server again. The issue is that now when I join it, my FPS is very low. Like, in the 1-5 range. Normally I get over 50 FPS when out in the woods, which is where I am, and when I was playing on the very same server earlier today and yesterday I was getting perfectly fine performance. I've joined other servers and I get fine performance there, too.

Does anyone know what is going on here and if so how can it be fixed? Obviously it's quite impossible to play with such lag. It is simply very unpleasant and I've grown rather attached to my ATV and all the stuff inside of it.

I'm running the steam version, and launch the game using six launcher.

Windows 7 64 bit, nVIDIA GTX 250 GPU.

Thank you in advance (hopefully...)

[Disgraced 1123]

Does the server restart regularly?

From what I've heard, it can really impact client performance after a while.

[Grazhny Bratchny 0]

Does the server restart regularly?

From what I've heard, it can really impact client performance after a while.

I don't know, actually. The strange thing is that I was playing not 8 or so hours ago and my performance was perfectly fine, but now when I join it just tanks.

Could there really be that drastic of an effect after such a short time?

[GenTroy (DayZ) 22]

Most servers I join run fine. I have found a few tho that really slow down my game, some will have bad FPS and others will give me consistant 1/2 second freezes. I found one that is consistantly good, and restarted 2-3 times a day, so I try to only play there.

Edited July 25, 2012 by GenTroy

[Grazhny Bratchny 0]

Sigh. I guess I'll keep rejoining that server once every few hours and hope it gets better.

Thank you for the info though, it at least gave me a better understanding of what's probably happening here.