Girlfriends Day Z is running wonky.

[Thetalon 5]

Hey guys so she has played the game before and we haven't really had much problems with it.. I know her computer is on the lower end of the spectrum but it has worked before... I noticed she was lagging a little bit so I lowered her settings even lower then what they were and then it started... Unbelievable video lag... like 2 frames per second it seems... The wierd thing is .. is me lowering the video settings are what triggered this .. I don't get it.. I can post her specs for you although I don't know how much information this will help with because I have definetly ran the game on this computer before without much problems.. We tried rebooting the computer and re logging back into the server but to no avail.. Anyway thanks for the help if you can provide any and here are the specs..

2048 MB of ram

Intel Core2 DUO CPU Processor

GE FORCE 8800 GT video card

[Maroite 48]

Hey guys so she has played the game before and we haven't really had much problems with it.. I know her computer is on the lower end of the spectrum but it has worked before... I noticed she was lagging a little bit so I lowered her settings even lower then what they were and then it started... Unbelievable video lag... like 2 frames per second it seems... The wierd thing is .. is me lowering the video settings are what triggered this .. I don't get it.. I can post her specs for you although I don't know how much information this will help with because I have definetly ran the game on this computer before without much problems.. We tried rebooting the computer and re logging back into the server but to no avail.. Anyway thanks for the help if you can provide any and here are the specs..

2048 MB of ram

Intel Core2 DUO CPU Processor

GE FORCE 8800 GT video card

I've run into video lag from the server side before. Are you playing on the same server you always play on?

Also... her poor PC is not on the lower end, its on the archaic end... -.-

[Disgraced 1123]

You have to be careful because from what I've heard, if you lower the settings too low, you'll start pushing the graphical load from the GPU to the CPU. That is apparently what causes WORSE performance with lower settings.

Yeah that 8800gt was a workhorse back when, I ran two in SLI. I replaced them with a 265, now a 560. My kid has the 265. We burned out both 8800s.

Pretty old stuff.

Edited August 10, 2012 by Disgraced

[ninja! 6]

Arma requires heavy load and im not sure but her specs are not good enough. if you say that the game ran well before then it most likely be the server you are playing on. i am running on AMD x4 B55 8GB ram and 560ti and still get crappy frames sometimes but that is due to the server. if you go on a fresh server which recently restarted then that might help.

and always leave the video memory on default!

Edited August 10, 2012 by ninja!

[Thetalon 5]

Haha you're right, I know.. and yes this happens on every single server she joins.. I just don't get why it would have worked fine before and not now..

[Thetalon 5]

Hmm even know when II switch them back to what they were it just doesen't go back to what it used to be.. It seems to have somehow permanently messed it up.. She runs diablo 3 fine.. which is wierd and used to run Day z pretty fine..

[Maroite 48]

Haha you're right, I know.. and yes this happens on every single server she joins.. I just don't get why it would have worked fine before and not now..

Its possible that the hardware is (finally) failing. Sucky, but its still a possibility.

[Thetalon 5]

Yeah I kinda figured something like that was happening.. Thanks for the super fast replies guys!