DayZ FPS LAG

[cmd51 0]

So I recently purchased Combined Forces from Steam and i installed Day-z the mod, I have been getting such fps drops and my pc is pretty good. My fps is around 17 - 27 its unplayable i don't know maybe I set the wrong settings but every thing seems to be fine when I play in the Armoury or editor (ARMA II) i get the standard 40 - 60 fps just Day-z.

My specs are

AMD X4 965 3,4

GPU: 7870 OC Sapphire 2GB

4GB Ram

PS. I can run BF3 on High 1080P

Please HELP !! :((

[thetamsen 57]

AMD...

[SnaKe (DayZ) 0]

AMD...

pff ... arma2

[Kolourblynd 3]

Let me paint a picture...

My Rig:

2500K @4.5GHz

8GB 1866 MHz G.Skill RAM

2x GTX460 running SLi @820/1900/1640MHz

X-Fi Fatality Card with an assumed 512Mb RAM

60GB OCZ Vertex2 SSD (Quite fast for Sandforce2)

Settings IG:

ALL are set to Normal, with exceptions to AA = Low, Shadows = High, Post-Proc = Low, Memory = Default, and Aniso = High. Draw Distance in DayZ is capped and static.

FOV is currently Custom fit for my 24" 1080P monitors, calculated at a est. 83 degrees. Look up FOV tweaking for ARMA 2 if you wish to change this.

Maximum FPS: No V-sync = 78~81FPS

V-sync on = 60FPS

Average FPS: No V-sync = ~58-63FPS

V-Sync on = ~48-58FPS

I recommend you take my setup and resulting performance into consideration when deciding what you want to have on IG and not.

All settings apart from Texture, Memory, and Aniso Filter will result in heavy FPS flux, so start with low settings in all these and work up from there.

Page tearing WILL occur even with V-sync on, but you will see a big difference in the amount while it is on; Not to mention that with very powerful cards vs. low end games, overdraw from 60+ FPS can cause less performance.

Best choice you can make in order to break your 27FPS cap would be to buff your GPU; My 2500K will run two cores at roughly 60% load, while my two GF104 cores are pushing 90% load at all times.

Also, and this is something more of a caution rather than advice, but I'm usually sitting at 68C max on CPU, and a whopping 78-82C from both GPUs, after a course of a few hours and massive air cooling, so be aware of what temps you might be running at after a while; More heat will usually cause safeguards to kick in and throttle performance on some PCs.

[VitaminK 6]

Good Lord Colour 68C CPU?! I dont come above 48C.

I have no problem runnnin everything on max settings but I do have AA, Post-Proc, Anis, and Shadows set to normal.

AMD 960T @ 4.0GHz

sli MSI GTX 560ti 2gb

8GB 1600mhz G.Skill Ripjaw X

Asus Sabertooth 990fx

WD HDD 7600rpm

[Kolourblynd 3]

@VitaminK

Yeah man, it's going beast mode in this Texas weather and heat; Roughly 80F in my house at all times due to AC saving, and I might want to reseat my cooler with some newer paste... but with 12-14 Fans whirling around (CPU and GPU included), the only thing that can help my temps at this point is a h2o cooler, and $400 ain't worth it atm... T.T

[roarboar 5]

i got amd phenom II 3200 x 6, and radeon 6870 and i sometimes got 12 fps in cities, i mean seriously, what the fuck.

You would expect that a 6 core with that gfx would be able to run the game...

[Salm0n 0]

Try turning down your shadows, or turning them off all together, It also makes it easier to find items in what would normally be a darker area.

[-NGR- Larkinto 87]

My fps is around 17 - 27 its unplayable

lol really? Stop being a pussy.

[Kolourblynd 3]

@roarboar

Not to doodoo on anyone's parade, but if you aren't currently aware of this...

Windows 7 and before all have poor optimization for anything more than a dual core; Even my 2500K doesn't see full utilization on all four cores, usually using up only 30% or less of subsequent cores after the first two.

Windows 8 is, and I highly doubt they will keep this exclusive for long, rated to be optimized for Quad and Hexa-core processors; Not going to be the thing that saves W8 however.

Not to mention that DirectX 10-11 are also poorly constructed to fully utilize the CPU's additional cores; DirectX 11's successor will more than likely be better equipped to handle the overhead left from unused resources.

Ultimately the end result of these software faults and our bolstered hardware setups is the failure to achieve performance on par with what manufacturers and distributors are advertising.

We live in an era where research and careful understanding goes a really long way. Sometimes you might misread or get mislead, and best thing to do is just take more caution on the next.