Help with new video card

[krazypunk1018 0]

Hi everyone new user here. Just downloaded arma2 combined operations and wanted to play the dayz mod.

Well once I get in I'm having huge issues with my FPS. I already tried everything in the guide how to set up your graphics properly and I had a barely noticeable difference in improvement.

I used a website a friend recommended me called http://www.systemrequirementslab.com to see if I meet the requirements.

I met all the requirements except for my video card which confuses me.

Min. requirement for dayz it says "Minimum: NVIDIA GeForce 7800 / ATI Radeon X1800 with Shader Model 3 and 256 MB VRAM or faster" word for word

You Have: GeForce 8400GS is what I have.

Then it says:

Features: Minimum attributes of your Video Card

Pixel Shader version 3.0 is required and 4.0 is what I have

Vertex Shader version 3.0 is required and 4.0 is what I have

Dedicated Video RAM 256MB is required and 1.0GB is what I have

So do I meet the min. requirements or no? and is there anything I can do to help my FPS. Oh yea I also used Gamebooster and but there's no difference

Please and thank you for anyone that can help me. Also I just got this video card recently before I knew about arma2 or dayz.

Edited August 10, 2012 by krazypunk1018

[Psyl3nt 125]

8400GS

Right there is the issue, it does "technically" meet the minimum requirements, but for most games it really is better to have at least the "recommended" specs, otherwise you will definitely have performance issues.

You can get a better card than that very cheap, less than $200 . If you have the option an upgrade would be highly desireable.

[mikhail 65]

in a nut shell, that is a old crappy graphics card. If you got that you've probably got a crappy cpu as well. In a nut shell, you're probably barely going to be able to run this game.

[krazypunk1018 0]

I have a AMD Phenom 9750 Quad-Core Processor is that a bad CPU?

[krazypunk1018 0]

I'm really on a tight budget but would a ​Geforce GT 430 be viable to play DayZ?

[ninjabeaver 0]

Also check the settings config file for arma and set the render ahead distance to 1 instead of 1000....that was screwing up my frameset so bad even with a new processor and gpu

[krazypunk1018 0]

Also check the settings config file for arma and set the render ahead distance to 1 instead of 1000....that was screwing up my frameset so bad even with a new processor and gpu

I tired that and it barely changed =/

[Retchet187 6]

I have a AMD Phenom™ 9750 Quad-Core Processor is that a bad CPU?

Probably fine, I have a PhenomII x4 925 @ 2.8ghz with 2 Nvidia GTS250's the game runs pretty well. The server you join seems to have a big impact on Frame Rates.