Poor Performance

[b00mjuice 1]

Hey all,

I am getting exceptionally poor performance in DayZ. Before you rage, yes I know it has much more coding than ArmA II. But I can run ArmA at max settings with 30 FPS, and DayZ literally plummets to 20 FPS with all the lowest settings, on 1920x1080. If I launch with Steam, it drops even further to 10 FPS.

Specs: GTX 560 Ti, AMD Phenom X2, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 500GB HDD.

I will be upgrading my rig soon but until then I want better FPS as I've seen many other people play it with atleast 40 FPS, with medium settings.

Is it my rig, or just unoptimized?

[gerow1337@hotmail.com 27]

0/10 potato pc thread.

[MrBlue21 4]

Ok Here we go again. Search does wonders you know. Here are some tips so I'm not just posting and saying use search. :P

One thing I did that helped no joke was a good defrag. Arma is as hard on your cpu and HD as it is on your video card. I see you have a Phenom x2 same as me. (Poor us) I suggest a good defrag program like "Ultimate Defrag" as you can select you Arma directory and move it to the outside of the platter, speeding up read times quite a bit.

http://www.disktrix.com/

Second I suggest creating a ram drive to move as much of the heavily used files to it, big increase in speed B) With only 4G of ram you might not fit much on it though. (I upgraded to 8G just to do this step for DayZ, ram is sooo cheap.)

Link to Ram disk guide: http://www.reddit.co...sk_information/

Try turning VSync of as the video card will no longer wait for the refresh rate. You'll get less slowdown but might see some screen tearing.

Next, NO STEAM! I suggest using a good Arma launcher if you comfortable installing updates to Arma/DayZ. Here is a good one. Useful to Launch with custom setting and easy to turn Mods on and off. :thumbsup:

http://www.armaholic...age.php?id=8241

There are sooooo many tips to optimizing Arma. Do not expect all or any or these tips to help. All I can say is that I have a similar PC and I get around 30-40 FPS. Can you post your video settings? Maybe that will shed some more light on the problem.

Good luck! :beans:

[b00mjuice 1]

Ok Here we go again. Search does wonders you know. Here are some tips so I'm not just posting and saying use search. :P

One thing I did that helped no joke was a good defrag. Arma is as hard on your cpu and HD as it is on your video card. I see you have a Phenom x2 same as me. (Poor us) I suggest a good defrag program like "Ultimate Defrag" as you can select you Arma directory and move it to the outside of the platter, speeding up read times quite a bit.

http://www.disktrix.com/

Second I suggest creating a ram drive to move as much of the heavily used files to it, big increase in speed B) With only 4G of ram you might not fit much on it though. (I upgraded to 8G just to do this step for DayZ, ram is sooo cheap.)

Link to Ram disk guide: http://www.reddit.co...sk_information/

Try turning VSync of as the video card will no longer wait for the refresh rate. You'll get less slowdown but might see some screen tearing.

Next, NO STEAM! I suggest using a good Arma launcher if you comfortable installing updates to Arma/DayZ. Here is a good one. Useful to Launch with custom setting and easy to turn Mods on and off. :thumbsup:

http://www.armaholic...age.php?id=8241

There are sooooo many tips to optimizing Arma. Do not expect all or any or these tips to help. All I can say is that I have a similar PC and I get around 30-40 FPS. Can you post your video settings? Maybe that will shed some more light on the problem.

Good luck! :beans:

Don't worry, I already regularly defrag/clean registry/virus scan. I have also tried tweaking the .cfg to no avail.

When you said moving the ArmA II files to a RAM DRIVE, what do you mean? I read the link but still a little foggy on the subject. Is it creating a separate HDD partition, or putting the files on a memory card and then telling the computer to use the card as RAM?

[MrBlue21 4]

Using the program in the Reddit link, DataRam's RAMDISK (just use the free version). I set up 4GB of my ram for my computer hold some of the most used textures. When the PC boots up it copies a disk image of the files into the RAM disk and you good to go, (re-loads every time you boot your PC, not permanent.) There are symbolic links to the RAM disk from where the files used to be so Arma doesn't know the difference.

The read/write speed is CRAZY because it's your RAM. Best thing the RAM drive improved was a little FPS (5-10) but NO MORE ZOOM LAG!!! So nice. Also try turning off ATOC (tree detail) and antializing (sp?) I just use Anistrpoic Filtering at High to clean up the image. Also "Post Processing Effect" Should be OFF or Very Low if you pc is no up to snuff. Also Video Memory set to "DEFAULT", as high will actually use less video ram.

PM me your config files if you like and I'll take a look.