Arma 2 Poor Performance 7950 OC

[aseliot 23]

Hi i don't seem to be able to pass the goddamn captcha at the bohemia forums for whatever reason, i just dont know what it wants from me!!

Anyway, so i will post this here seeing it is kind of related and there are some people here that know more about it than i do.

I'm having very poor performance with my new videocard (name in the title yeah) and it doesnt make any sense, i've set it to low and i get 13 fps. Have no idea why, my previous 5830 could run it just fine.

Specs:

ASUS p7p55d

i7 860 @ 2,6 ghz

8 GB RAM

OCZ 120 GB SSD

Sapphire 7950 OC

[Owain1122 218]

Don't want to be that person but.... have you updated your drivers for the gfx card?

[Lonrem 62]

You've got terrible FPS because on low settings, most everything is run on the CPU. Turn your settings up. I've got 5k series as well and I get lower FPS on low than I do at high and very high.

[magicool 115]

GPU doesn't matter in this game

game engine is fucked up dipshit

[aplum12 69]

i find putting your graphics higher makes it run better. I play on a GTX 570 and play with basically everything on very high with some things disabled

[colekern 1364]

Don't want to be that person but.... have you updated your drivers for the gfx card?

It's weird whenever you run into a guy with the EXACT same profile pic.

[Wall-E 0]

I gained a lot of fps by setting it in -winxp in the launch parameters.

[colekern 1364]

A lot of people have had this problem. I think it's caused by the game itself, not your graphics card power. I, for instance, have a card in the AMD 6000 series, and it runs just fine.

[colekern 1364]

A lot of people have had this problem. I think it's caused by the game itself, not your graphics card power. I, for instance, have a card in the AMD 6000 series, and it runs just fine. Also, set VRAM to default.

[colekern 1364]

A lot of people have had this problem. I think it's caused by the game itself, not your graphics card power. I, for instance, have a card in the AMD 6000 series, and it runs just fine. Also, set VRAM to default.

[magicool 115]

colekern pls post it one more time

[aseliot 23]

Yeah i didn't quite catch that, anyway i've fiddled for a while with the settings without any result...so im out of ideas. i have the catalyst 12.8 drivers so that should be fine.

[spex 47]

Try this guide. Parts are for Nvidia cards but you should be able to find the same settings for your card. Took me from 20-30 FPS on a GTX 460 to 50-70. Also took me from 40-50 fps on my GTX 670 to 100+

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WdZYSLzMuZx95znSdVVCjI7DCOmc4DwY9tDYyxj6Gmc/edit

Edited August 30, 2012 by barrycarey

[twobeans 4]

Ive got same card, great fps

Follow this guide

http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/28160-guide-how-to-set-up-your-graphics-properly/

From start to finish.

Ive set most my settings on Very high. Dont forget the important step under "Advanced settings" part, the step where you configure MaxFramesAhead

Hope this helps

[aseliot 23]

Mh this is not neccesarily about DayZ but about singleplayer Arma 2.

[decoman 45]

I now have the cheaper Sapphire 7950 and DayZ runs ok on it.

Tip: Enable SSAA very high, to get smooth AA on tree trunks, housing and terrain with zero fps drop

I do have my card overclocked with Sapphire Trixx, running at 1100 MHz core and 1500 MHz memory, at 1.125 volt.

With my old 5850 and the new 7950, I sometimes get sudden 3-4 second lag, as if something suddenly was loading. Perhaps because I set some value in the config file too low, I have not found any cause for the occasional sudden drop in fps that lasts 3-4 seconds.