New player, help with performance settings please.

[escrook 0]

Hi, I am experiencing low and fluctuating fps whilst playing DayZ. I understand my system cannot play high settings but on any variation i have tried fps bounces from 11 - 26, sometimes levels off at around 17-19 but then slowly lowers.

The system i am using is a Acer Aspire 5560G...

AMD A6-3420M Quad Core (1.5GHz, , Up to 2.4GHz in Boost Mode)

AMD HD7670M 1GB

4GB DDR3

Resolutin 1366x768 & Win 7 64Bit

I have removed all existing ATi & AMD drivers manually and with driver fusion then installed the 12.7 beta drivers.

I have tried all suggestions i could find online such as, disabling vsync, AA & post processing. Lowered the 3D resolution to 65/75%, matched interface and 3D resolution.

Can someone please offer help on this as all i wish to do is play Dayz with the best performance i can achieve to enjoy it.

Possibly a guide to manually editing the config file to change settings for the graphics and memory etc...

More opinions on the in game settings combinations i should attempt?

Different drivers?

Also this laptop has the crossfire enabled to use both the intergrated intel and 7670m cards, should i disable that function and what settings in the ccc should i edit. I am also unsure how to guarantee the system is utilizing the 7670 when playing the game.

All help is much appreciated, thank you.

[Nick2389 54]

The thing i found to help was kind of guess an acceptable level of settings in the advanced. Then restart the game. It must need like a full game refresh. At one point i was getting 15-20 fps. I restarted with the same settings and got 20-40+fps.

Also big cities and towns with heavy foliage seem to be the main killers of frames regardless. You could try changing everything to 'normal' then restart and check.

I can't really help with the cross-fire side of things sorry.

[Nick2389 54]

Btw ATI 12.8 is out i believe. My HD6790 is on that one and seems maybe a little better.

[escrook 0]

Cheers for the quick response. Installed the 12.8 drivers and spent a while testing different settings but still the same issue.

[Matchstick556 12]

According to GameDebate, your system should be enough to run the game. http://www.game-debate.com/games/index.php?g_id=4843&game=DayZ&p_make=AMD&p_deriv=Fusion+A6-3400M+Quad+Core&gc_make=ATI&gc_deriv=Radeon+HD+7670M&ram=4&checkSubmit=

I suggest disabling the crossfire. I wouldn't suggest using crossfire for graphic cards that are so different.

[Moose454 0]

I know from personal experience when I used to game on a laptop, if you put the power/battery option to "High Performance" and keep the charger plugged in, it will allow all components to operate at 100% load.

I remember doing it when I used to play MMO's, I was wondering why I would lag, then I realized, I would put it on Balanced when I was in school ect, and forgot to change it back.

Hopefully this helps.

[escrook 0]

Yea the resuls given on GameDebate suggest it should play pretty well but the variation that happens surely can't be right. Restarting the game and entering a server again does sometimes have a huge difference to the fps as mentioned.

Also changing the the power option to high performance appears to make things a little better and more stable since i have played after applying that.

Appreciate all the suggestions given it has certainly helped somewhat, i will keep testing different settings and hope i can find the perfect level for my system.