FPS issues?

[jayarr916 15]

Does anyone know any tweaks or fixes for FPS drops and such? I can barely do anything with the terrible FPS that I get in this game. I fell off a roof and died because of it.

[Lukio (DayZ) 24]

To help you out, please post PC Specs and run the benchmark (Benchmark 1) from the scenarios. You should get around 30 - 40 FPS with a typical mid-level gaming PC, even without much optimization.

General tips:

- Turn off Anti-Aliasing

- Turn off Post-process

- Set visibility range between 1500 and 2000

- Windows 7 Power Options -> Set to High Performance (Default is balanced)

[jayarr916 15]

Here are my PC specs. I ran the benchmark once and I get 32 FPS average before the tweaks. But it doesn't feel that way at all when I play.

I turned AA and Post Processing off. Every other setting I have is on normal. Visibility is 1500. Second benchmark I got 42 FPS average.

I swear it doesn't feel that way when I actually play lol. I get like 10 FPS.

[janivorickard@gmail.com 0]

There are some troubles with the mod now aswell, just not the extreme lagg spikes and desync. I get 120-200fps when i fly around on the empty chernarus map but in the mod with everything happening i'm rarely over 60 since the last few patches.

[fruity_rudy 0]

if you fly around on chernarus in the editor a) you#re the host b) no AI

[bjarnidk 9]

There are some troubles with the mod now aswell' date=' just not the extreme lagg spikes and desync. I get 120-200fps when i fly around on the empty chernarus map but in the mod with everything happening i'm rarely over 60 since the last few patches.

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It's kinda a no-brainer to understand why you have higher FPS while flying than while running.

Textures and objects are rendered differently depending on how far away you are from them.

[Lukio (DayZ) 24]

jayarr916 try setting your video memory to default, not to high or very high. As ARMA II is very I/O dependent defrag the disk you have your ARMA II install on and make sure its on your fastest non-OS hard disk. Sometimes actually increasing stuff like texture quality will give you more frames than limiting it. Anyways don't start hunting ever FPS, if you get around 40 in the demo you usually are well off to play.

[irl-calibre 744]

i've been monitoring my GTX680 & i've noticed that when my frames collapse (namely in around large towns) i've also noticed that my gpu usage also goes down - it never uses more than 60% anyways, but I dunno, i'm no computer expert, but surely GPU usage should be going up when there is more work for it to be doing, rather than going down. dunno if this is a fault with the game engine, or with the video drivers for the gpu, I dunno why mu GPU aint working harder, but even playing at 60fps the game feels laggy and is a nightmare when it drops to low 40's (along with GPU usage)..

[Taylor (DayZ) 7]

The game is very CPU intensive, and it only uses 2 cores at the most. I've got an AMD 1100T at 3.9 Ghz with a Sapphire 6950 2 gig and my FPS still tanks in Cherno. I've got all of the latest driver, and just did a fresh install of Win7 last week. I doubt there is much Rocket can do because it's an Arma 2 engine problem, not a mod problem.

Hopefully Arma 3 can use more than just 2 cores and DayZ can be implemented to it quickly.

I also suspect that this game might run better for Intel users, because everyone I talk to who never gets slow downs or hiccups are those with Intel processors.

[janivorickard@gmail.com 0]

The Arma 2 engine is more taxing on the cpu than the gpu.