DayZ - Low FPS since 4 Days

[SkilzZ 23]

Hey Guys,

My name is Alex, im german so dont worry about my english, but i have to say something :

i play dayz since 3 months and allways my fps-average was fine (25-30fps on middle settings) and i never had any problems with the game, bud since a couple of days, my fps-average in Arma 2 + OA + DayZ is under 15 !!!

I dont know why, but it happend after i installed something over the dayz commander (think it was a new peta patch or something), and now i have no idea what to do :(

Reinstalled both Games ? - Over 3 Times now, and i also cleaned my Windows Registry, so i deleted everything which was from Bohemia Interactive and DayZ.

earlier i had 25 fps in the cities , and now I'm glad if I have 15 !:/

If someone could help me, I would be very happy :)

My Skype is : chiller352

[motocross 49]

Dayzcommander has nothing to do with patches, dayzcommander is a mod down loader and program to manage dayz. Your fps wouldn't have anything to do with dayz commander if you are actually using it. There is a thing you can do to lower fps lag, if you message me if interested I can give you the details on it.

[SkilzZ 23]

Dayzcommander has nothing to do with patches, dayzcommander is a mod down loader and program to manage dayz. Your fps wouldn't have anything to do with dayz commander if you are actually using it. There is a thing you can do to lower fps lag, if you message me if interested I can give you the details on it.

Yeah sure, but i have tried many things to get a better fps in the past few days, like edited my arma 2 oa.cfg (GPU_MaxFramesAhead=1;), tried to lower my settings but nothing works :/

add me on skype if you want : chiller352

[will@willweb.co.uk 0]

Have you managed to fix this? I'm experiencing the same: used to have about 60fps on very high setting at 1080p, now I have about 15fps no matter what graphic settings :(

specs are i7 2600k & gtx 560ti

[donsteffa 0]

1. Update drivers,

2. (or) Downgrade drivers (Could work since arma has been out for quite a while and sometimes new drivers dont support older games that perfectly with some graphic cards)

3. Check for malware/virusses etc,

4. Remove every unnecessary parameter in the start up line,

5. QQ at a local computer store and demand them to fix it.

6. ????

7. ???

8. maybe profit.

Edited August 29, 2012 by donsteffa

[jurrasstoil (DayZ) 12]

I have the same problem and it makes the game almost impossible to play.

Newest drivers, killed every stuff in the bg to see if that helps and turned down the quality to absolute garbage.

X3 3.2ghz

GTX 460

8gb ram

w7 x64

latest arma and dayz ofc.

[h3retic 224]

might be server lag

try different servers

also take a look at this (how to optimize)

http://pastebin.com/F7Q8Ne2i

Edited August 29, 2012 by h3retic

[RapturJesus 90]

Go into advanced settings in the game. Turn post processing effects, shadows, antialising, and ATOC off. Set video memory to default. You can turn a bunch of other things off as well.

[schrapple 119]

Same problem here, for no reason a couple of days ago my FPS crashed. No updates or driver changes or any of that. I have a 2700K and a GTX560 ti so it should handle it no worries.

[jurrasstoil (DayZ) 12]

I tried 10-15 servers yesterday. Same problem. I even joined some servers with <5 players on them.

The thing is that it just changed. Everything was working fine, then everything went to ****. I mean, the only logical thing is that is has to do with one of the beta patches i guess, because that's the only thing that changed on my end as far as I can tell.

[Kapr (DayZ) 1]

Some guys on this forum says that new patch(1725)has worse FPS than old one(1724)i dont know...but i remember i used i cfg(config file)tweak....i was in cherno...turn on game and what the FU**??the game runs smoothly like 30+(and i have only X4(3.0Ghz)and 9800GT OC....but i dont know it was before or after new patch(i think before)cuz i have same PC and same tweak...and i got massive lags in the towns....try old patch..

[jetao2008@hotmail.com 175]

DayZ commander has the option to download previous versions of the game, so maybe try to downgrade to 1.7.2.4 and see if it helps?

But it's weird to see that some other people are having the same issues.

[Kapr (DayZ) 1]

DayZ commander has the option to download previous versions of the game, so maybe try to downgrade to 1.7.2.4 and see if it helps?

But it's weird to see that some other people are having the same issues.

i now testing 1724...will see....and six launcher have new patch(1725)

[schrapple 119]

Don't think that's it, I played on 1.7.2.5 for a while with no problem then suddenly it went bad. Unless it has to do with the server version in use?

[SkilzZ 23]

Oh wow, im so happy, that im not the only one who have this problem :D

Btw : 2 Everyone who say, turn graphics down, change this ect... It has nothing to do with Graphic-settings or whatever...

I logged out after a few hours playing... then next morning i logged in and my fps jumps from 30 to 15...

-> LOGIN - 30fps 1Sec Later - 15fps

I would say the only thing what we can do is waiting for a new update, and I Hope they will fix it :/

[byrgesen 1341]

For some reason a disc defrag works wonders for Arma II. Try it mate

Maybe do some disc cleaning aswell.

And what ever else people wrote :)

[SkilzZ 23]

Mhm, okey im gonna try it now :)

thx

[AMDftw 1]

I noticed the lag when i first get into a server for the first time each day. After playing the game for 5min, i shut the game down and relaunch the game and my FPS goes back to normal.. I do play with Eyefinity enable so my resolution is 5760x1200. everything is on ultra setting minus the AA is set to 2x. I have full tree and bush foliage enabled as well.

[twinturbonet (DayZ) 294]

DayZ commander has the option to download previous versions of the game, so maybe try to downgrade to 1.7.2.4 and see if it helps?

But it's weird to see that some other people are having the same issues.

I would suggest this as well.

[Closi (DayZ) 9]

Guys, it has nothing to do with your hardware.

My rig is now approx. 3 years old -> AMD X4 Phenom 965, 4GB RAM, (New graphics card) HD 6950

I can play this game on very high settings except AA, Shadows

My brothers rig : newest i7, HD 7970 , 16 GB RAM

= We get the same FPS results DEPENDING ON THE SERVERS WE PLAY ON.

Custom24 ( on bad server ) I get max. 10 FPS

UK33 (good server) I get 60+ FPS.

When server is not getting restarted it will sooner or later start to lag for some people.

Just look for a new server or wait until it gets restarted

[:VADER: 88]

the newest update did the same for me made my fps drop to like nothing I could not even play

[Gradan 4]

Try to set your sceneComplexity lower like to 100000. This setting can be found in my documents in Arma 2 other Profiles\Charactername\Charactername.ArmA2OAProfile

Open this file with a texteditor and search the entry, edit save, done. Good luck.

[twinturbonet (DayZ) 294]

Yea Closi, servers can make or break your FPS. I was assuming the OP had tried different servers already.