A weird situation with lag

[tanir 0]

Hey guys,

Let me start off at the beginning. I've been playing Day Z for months (bought arma just for it) with no problems, I play usually on high-very high settings with fine FPS (not really sure what number exactly as I don't have a way to track it but I can tell it ran perfectly smooth). A bit more recently, I started playing Lingor Island which was giving me a weird "choppy" gameplay, not necessarily bad but choppy and I preferred it to be smooth. In order to fix this, I tried some things like messing with my arma2oa.cfg file (changing the max fps ahead/behind settings and a few other things I found on google). This didn't help my game really so I left it.

I can't remember exactly when but shortly after I did this my game seemed to...die. The only way to really explain this is I have what seems like 1 FPS and the game is literally unplayable. The weird thing is, it's not just Day Z. I often play on zargabad/takistan life servers and I get this lag on those servers as well. I've done everything I can think of, changing settings, adding a ramdisk to my computer, hell I even reinstalled the game completely. Nothing has worked, and here's where it gets really odd...whenever I play on the server Day Z 9999 (or something like that) my game runs flawlessly just like before. Perfect FPS on max graphics, no problems at all. I haven't tried a million servers but I have tried quite a few and with every other server I simply cannot play. Chernarus, Lingor, Takistan, it doesn't matter the map they are all unplayable to me. I've spent a lot of time on google and I haven't found anyone with a problem like mine and I really have no idea how to fix it. I hope you guys can help me! I'll post my computer specs below.

Processor: Intel® Core i5-2300 CPU @ 2.80GHz (4CPUs)

Memory: 8GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

Just as a side note I'll list some of the things I've tried so far off the top of my head.

Changing GPU_MaxFramesAhead=0; and GPU_DetectedFramesAhead=0; to 0, 1, and the defaults (1000 and 3 respectively)

Verifying integrity of my game caches (for some reason I always get 1 or 2 files that were errors and were reacquired when I do this)

Full reinstallation of both Arma 2 and OA

Lowering/raising in game settings

Closing background applications

Anything else you can think of for performance tweaks, however I don't think I need performance tweaks as I can run the one server and probably others I have yet to try just fine. It seems like my game has cancer on every server except that 1 so far and I have no clue what the fix might be.

Edited September 30, 2012 by tanir