FPS Issue on a good computer... Please help!

[jAcKy (DayZ) 0]

Hey guys,

i tried to run dayZ, but i got fps/performance issues...

My max frames are 20 out of cities and in cities 10. I can play Battlefield 3 and other new games on high or mid-settings without any problems, but dayZ won't run smooth.

I tried everything. Changed my GPU driver, the GPU settings, ingame settings, start-parameters, drive-defrag but it doesn't change anything.

Anyone here who can help me? Would be great!

Here are my PC-Specs:

AMD Phenom II X4 955 BE | 4 x 3,2 GHz

Kingston DDR3 Memory | 8 GB

Radeon HD 6850 GPU | 1024 MB GDDR5, 775 MHz

[Dylon 8]

having same issues atm, in fact i cant play at all im getting 3fps and i got no idea why

[blaaarg 8]

Hey guys,

i tried to run dayZ, but i got fps/performance issues...

My max frames are 20 out of cities and in cities 10. I can play Battlefield 3 and other new games on high or mid-settings without any problems, but dayZ won't run smooth.

I tried everything. Changed my GPU driver, the GPU settings, ingame settings, start-parameters, drive-defrag but it doesn't change anything.

Anyone here who can help me? Would be great!

Here are my PC-Specs:

AMD Phenom II X4 955 BE | 4 x 3,2 GHz

Kingston DDR3 Memory | 8 GB

Radeon HD 6850 GPU | 1024 MB GDDR5, 775 MHz

ArmA2 is a cpu killer, i can run bf3 w/o any problem (I5@4ghz, gtx460) but on arma2 the fps are only "ok" (~25-35 in big city on full server, 50-80 outside in dayZ with my rig), i wonder if a stock phenom II is enough to run the game with enough fps, especially if there is a lot of AI.

Try to reduce your graphical option to the minimum and see if there is an fps gain, if there is not... you got a cpu bottleneck.

ArmA2 require a huge mono-core power (oc'ed i5/i7) along with an SSD to run smooth. Trust me, an SSD is a must for this game bec it reduce a lot the stuttering / micro-freeze especially in cites, lower the LOD loading time and so on.

Can't tell if it's still the case, but ~1 years ago the server you were playing on was capping your fps, so it was possible to get great fps on a good server w/o a lot of people + ai, and switch to another server and get crappy fps.

[jAcKy (DayZ) 0]

This fuck game and those delevopers sucks so much!

2 years old and programmed like shit! You need an High-End Computer for this fucked up graphics... unbelievable..

Im looking forward to "The War Z". Fuck off arma and DayZ.

[Dylon 8]

man the dayz dev's do alot, i mean we are a small amount of ppl who are having problems when 11k hackers were banned in the past 2months.....

seriously warz, it'll be good but you wont get that awesome dayz feeling

[blaaarg 8]

This fuck game and those delevopers sucks so much!

2 years old and programmed like shit! You need an High-End Computer for this fucked up graphics... unbelievable..

Im looking forward to "The War Z". Fuck off arma and DayZ.

You need a high-end computer to play in a military simulator. No-one said ArmA2 was exept of bugs, unrealistic stuff and was running at 100fps on a 4 y/o computer, it's a big sandbox with a 15x15km map, ballistic on every bullets, no "invisible walls"... An alpha zombie game in a milsim that already require knowledge, tweaks & tricks to run fine, what do you expect?

[Mankind 8]

Same issue. Not just you.

I do respect the DayZ team as the amount of time and effort they put into it, is unbelievable. They do a great job for the amount of people they have.

[Friendly1337 0]

Hey guys,

i tried to run dayZ, but i got fps/performance issues...

My max frames are 20 out of cities and in cities 10. I can play Battlefield 3 and other new games on high or mid-settings without any problems, but dayZ won't run smooth.

I tried everything. Changed my GPU driver, the GPU settings, ingame settings, start-parameters, drive-defrag but it doesn't change anything.

Anyone here who can help me? Would be great!

Here are my PC-Specs:

AMD Phenom II X4 955 BE | 4 x 3,2 GHz

Kingston DDR3 Memory | 8 GB

Radeon HD 6850 GPU | 1024 MB GDDR5, 775 MHz

I have got almost the same set-up as you do and i also could barely run the game at 30+FPS

AMD Phenom II X4 955 BE | Overclocked to 3,8GHz

Kingston DDR3 RAM 8GB

Radeon HD 6870 GPU | 1024 MB GDDR5

I could slove my low fps issue by moving my arma and arma oa folder to my new HDD because before that i had it stored on my 5 year old OS HDD.

Since then I can smoothly run it at high textures and max resolution with ~60FPS and a bit less in big towns.

It's because i read that the game is supposed to be more HDD dependant than on other hardware components.

My old HDD had an averange read of about 60 MB/s and the new one has over 120MB/s

Oh, also note : it can also be caused by joining outdated / bad servers. There are servers where i never get more than 20FPS but others that work wonderful.

There are also tweaks to create a virtual harddrive with the use of your RAM with a program called ramdisk

There are several tutorials on that on youtube like this one :

They recommend copying your DayZ mod folder to the virutal hdd to increase performance

Edited August 18, 2012 by Friendly1337

[jAcKy (DayZ) 0]

You need a high-end computer to play in a military simulator. No-one said ArmA2 was exept of bugs, unrealistic stuff and was running at 100fps on a 4 y/o computer, it's a big sandbox with a 15x15km map, ballistic on every bullets, no "invisible walls"... An alpha zombie game in a milsim that already require knowledge, tweaks & tricks to run fine, what do you expect?

Doesn't change my mind that the engine sucks...

Sry but what thought the delevopers 2 years ago?

Everyone who wanna play this game smooth with good FPS must buy a new high-end computer? Trololol...

And what does Arma 3 need on release?

Maybe 8 Cores, 16 GB RAM and a GPU for 1000$???

:DDDD

Best engine ever made... Better than GTA 4's :D

Edited August 18, 2012 by jAcKy

[Axz 30]

Hey guys,

i tried to run dayZ, but i got fps/performance issues...

My max frames are 20 out of cities and in cities 10. I can play Battlefield 3 and other new games on high or mid-settings without any problems, but dayZ won't run smooth.

I tried everything. Changed my GPU driver, the GPU settings, ingame settings, start-parameters, drive-defrag but it doesn't change anything.

Anyone here who can help me? Would be great!

Here are my PC-Specs:

AMD Phenom II X4 955 BE | 4 x 3,2 GHz

Kingston DDR3 Memory | 8 GB

Radeon HD 6850 GPU | 1024 MB GDDR5, 775 MHz

I am by no means pro at this sort of thing, in fact you might call me a "Newb" but after over a week of research I have been led to belive that any in game settings set to normal, low or very low will be processed by the CPU, any settings on high or very high will be processed by the GPU insted. So you can actually split the workload as you see fit between your CPU and GPU to hopefully be able to run everything without reaching eithers max' capabilty. So turning up some of the options may acctually increase your FPS.

Your GPU looks to be a little better than mine (mine is the radeon 6770) and your CPU is definatly better than mine (mine is a E6700 Dual-Core @ 3.20GHz each) and i've heard of people being able to play with an OLDER CPU and GPU than mine, they say it doesn't run amazingly, but it is definatly playable, so me and you should be able to play just fine (away from major citys at least).

Unfortunatly the game can take quite a bit of tweeking before it runs properly, it is in Alpha after all, there are lots of ways that you can tweek it most of them are listed in the forums. (-CpuCount=#, running in windowed mode, adjusting visabilty, emptieing mouse smoothing, you prob' already know most of them.) My FPS is 10 now (My radeon has not been put in yet, got a G41 express chipset atm), I got it up from a max' of 5 in the wilderness :/

It's a lot of work to get it going, but i get the impression it will be worth it.

[blaaarg 8]

Doesn't change my mind that the engine sucks...

Sry but what thought the delevopers 2 years ago?

Everyone who wanna play this game smooth with good FPS must buy a new high-end computer? Trololol...

And what does Arma 3 need on release?

Maybe 8 Cores, 16 GB RAM and a GPU for 1000$???

:DDDD

Best engine ever made... Better than GTA 4's :D

You don't need to buy a new computer, an ssd to install the game is a good start and it's day and night from a classic hdd (did not checked for a while but we can get some good 60go / 60€ - 120go / 120€ SSD now?) Seriously, from an HDD to an SSD in this game is like switching from a 17crt to a flat 24', 120hz monitor.

This game can be tricky, you need to tweak a lot (and sometime remove some bottleneck in your rig by buying new parts) in order to get a smooth play. The hard drive *is* a bottleneck in this game and will reduce your fps and add stuttering if you don't have the game on it (or a ramdrive) no matter how good is your cpu / gpu.

I5 750@4ghz

4go ram

gtx460

game + system on SSD

Low / mid setting, 30-80fps, no stuttering, smooth gameplay. Aint a top end computer (bit old actually), but it run the game fine. Could be prettier, but don't really care.

If you can and have the knowledge to do so, clock your cpu a bit. You'll get solid fps gain in ArmA2.

Edited August 18, 2012 by OuicheLorraine

[blacktric 3]

"Trust me, an SSD is a must for this game bec it reduce a lot the stuttering / micro-freeze especially in cites, lower the LOD loading time and so on."

You do NOT need an SSD to play DayZ without worrying about hiccups and stutters. I have a decent 7200 RPM SATA2 HDD I bought nearly 4 years ago and as long as I do regular defragmentations with Diskeeper (even Win7's defragmenter works), I never experience a problem with any game, including BF3, ARMA II or DayZ. If you are having hiccups/stutters, try defragging your HDD and if it doesnt solve your problem then get a new 7200 RPM SATA2/3 HDD. You dont need to dish out tens of hundreds of dollars for a petty 60 gig HDD unless you want faster load times for both games and your OS. SSDs haven't become a viable replacements to old HDDs yet. Unless you have the money of course.

[blaaarg 8]

"Trust me, an SSD is a must for this game bec it reduce a lot the stuttering / micro-freeze especially in cites, lower the LOD loading time and so on."

You do NOT need an SSD to play DayZ without worrying about hiccups and stutters. I have a decent 7200 RPM SATA2 HDD I bought nearly 4 years ago and as long as I do regular defragmentations with Diskeeper (even Win7's defragmenter works), I never experience a problem with any game, including BF3, ARMA II or DayZ. If you are having hiccups/stutters, try defragging your HDD and if it doesnt solve your problem then get a new 7200 RPM SATA2/3 HDD. You dont need to dish out tens of hundreds of dollars for a petty 60 gig HDD unless you want faster load times for both games and your OS. SSDs haven't become a viable replacements to old HDDs yet. Unless you have the money of course.

You can buy some basic but good 60go ssd for ~60€ / 120go ~110€ and there is nothing you can do to prevent stutter / slow reaction time in town or near building / slow lod with arma2 on a regular HD, this game have I/O spiks a regular disc can't handle. You will be able to play the game, but it will never be perfectly fluide.

http://forums.bistud...y-using-RAMDISK

http://forums.bistud...nalysis-results

Told some friends of mine about this issue, they were used to play with the game on an hard drive, made a few test and since their ArmA2 is on an SSD. You can't realise how it change the game until you try because you are used to play on a regular HD.

Edited September 2, 2012 by OuicheLorraine

[Kunaskev Z. Ulteria 0]

I also found that putting d3d9.dll in your Arma II folder increases your frame rate. So if you have Steam and assuming you use the Six Launcher the path would be:

"C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\Expansion\beta\"

OR

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\Expansion\beta\"

Depends on your OS and weather you use 32-bit or 64-bit.

I noticed a DRAMATIC increase in my frame rate in doing this.

My (laughable) Specs:

AMD Sempron Dual-Core 2000 (OC'd to 2.4 ghz)

4 Gigs RAM (DDR2)

Nvidia GeForce GTS 450

500 gig HDD