FPS Degrading Over Time (50+ -> 10+) Help Me Please

[Obsolescence 129]

Whenever I start the game fresh (especially after the machine has been idle for a while), I get 40-70 FPS. 40 in cities and 60-70 in forests. However, over the course of a half hour to a couple hours, my frame rate will slowly decay until it becomes unplayable. At first, I figured it might be a processor or GPU heat issue, but after watching my temps while playing I don't think they are anything to be concerned about; less than 70C on GPU and less than 40C on CPU.

Now I'm wondering if this could be a RAM issue or memory leak problem. I haven't experienced any sort of crash or BSOD, but I normally call it quits once I reach <18 FPS. Can anyone help me brainstorm what I might be missing here? I need some help. I'll list my specs, but the issue I'm concerned with is not whether X FPS value is appropriate for my machine, but rather why my FPS seems more dependant on time played than anything else.

Thanks for the help, as always!

System:

AMD Phenom II X6 1100 BE @ 3.3GHZ

AMD Radeon HD 6970 880MHZ w/ 2 gigs VRAM

DDR3 1600MHZ 8 gigs RAM

Edited July 31, 2012 by Obsolescence

[Lycake 33]

Yes this has to be some kind of leak or so. FPS is slowly dropping for me too

[iHACC 2]

Same here, i had the game running around 30-40 fps now it's gone to 3-11 fps

[crashmaster.nick@yahoo.com 1]

Me and a few friends have all had this issue as well, 2 of us have the 1090t and 1 of us has an FX-8XXX (forgot the exact number). After some experimenting I seem to have fixed it by adding

-cpucount=6

and

-maxmem=4096

to the startup paremeters, although I've heard anything above 2048 for maxmem gets reverted back to 2048 anyway.

[Obsolescence 129]

Me and a few friends have all had this issue as well, 2 of us have the 1090t and 1 of us has an FX-8XXX (forgot the exact number). After some experimenting I seem to have fixed it by adding

-cpucount=6

and

-maxmem=4096

to the startup paremeters, although I've heard anything above 2048 for maxmem gets reverted back to 2048 anyway.

I'm assuming you add those to steam A2OA startup parameters thingy?

[crashmaster.nick@yahoo.com 1]

Ya and here's some copy paste from an earlier thread for how to do it in Six Launcher / DayZ Commander

Six Launcher:

Open Six Launcher.

Click on the "options" button directly underneath the Twitter icon in the bottom left.

In the "Additional startup parameters" box type "-cpucount=#" without quotes, # being the number of cpus you have.

DayZ Commander:

Open DayZ Commander

Click on the "settings" button in the upper right corner to the left of "donate" and right of "versions"

In the box under "Additional Startup Parameters" type "-cpucount=#" without quotes, # being the number of cpus you have.