***Dayz: Stand Alone Thread***

[[TFU] Thegoon84]

SA runs infinitely better for me than mod did, saying that I only really played the mod in its early days.

Same here... I'm running an i7 920 on 7970 and it runs great... Even runs great when I stream. By all means look at my stream recordings.

And to the people who are saying "not much has been done since the mod".... REALLY?

They've had to completely revise the basic mechanics. The inventory system along with the early crafting system could never have been added to Arma 2!

The map has been re-done and whole new building designs.

 

[Murray]

It really isn't much progress considering how long its taken them.

 

[Sasso]

*holds goon back* woaahhhhh easy boy.....eaaasssyyyyyyyy

 

[Puppetmaster]

Is the game not using the Arma engine? I was under that impression (clearly the wrong one) and hence expected performance somewhere in the region of what the mod gave, but it happens to have gotten a lot worse.

For people who have the gaming running well, what in game settings are you running and what hardware are you using? Game looks terrible at normal settings so I would like to be able to up the settings without having fps at 30 - 40 all the time.

 

[Murray]

Zzzzz. Was searching for some supplies when the server crashed, went onto a server and someone was standing at the spawn point and shot me as I spawned in

 

[~>Dg<~]

if yours looks terrible you not got right settings . looks as good as arma 3 if not better in some areas.

 

[Murray]

These are my settings, it looks worse and runs worse than ARMA 3.

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Texture detail : High
Texture filtering : High
Objects : High
Terrain : High
Clouds : Very High
Shadows : Normal
AA : Normal
Alpha to Coverage : All trees + grass
Edge Smoothing : FFXA Low
HDR Quality : Low
Ambient Occlusion : Off
Post Processing : Off
Bloom : Off
Rotation Blur : Off

 

[Neil79]

Might be that post process again not you ^

 

[cuffylad]

Is the game not using the Arma engine? I was under that impression (clearly the wrong one) and hence expected performance somewhere in the region of what the mod gave, but it happens to have gotten a lot worse.

For people who have the gaming running well, what in game settings are you running and what hardware are you using? Game looks terrible at normal settings so I would like to be able to up the settings without having fps at 30 - 40 all the time.

I have the following specs:
HD7850
I5-3570k 3.40ghz
8GB Ram
Windows 7

I run everything in game on High (with the usual stuff disable to remove vasaline)

I get 60fps most of the time with a slight drop in cities maybe down to 30fps.

I don't overclock anything on my PC and as you can see I dont have the most powerful pc by a long shot.

 

[Xcept1]

It's going to look worse than A3 regardless of settings.

 

[Jaynos]

It's arma init, can look amazing in the right time of day/location but hideous at other times.

Most inconsistent looking game ever made

 

[Puppetmaster]

Here are 2 screenshots I took. Post processing is turned off on both.

Normal settings, quite a few options turned down or even off. I tend to mostly get around 60 fps with these settings, but near any place with buildings it will often drop down to 40.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/chris998/DayZ_2013_12_20_15_15_29_331_zpsf524589d.png

These are at high / very high settings but still with AA and stuff turned down. Looks much better but I get 30 - 40 fps mostly dropping into the 20's in Cherno.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/chris998/DayZ_2013_12_20_15_20_29_651_zps330050e7.png

Photobucket killed the res when uploading but you can still mostly see.

I can only thing its the 290 causing issues because of how new it is

 

[MarkeR]

Yeah but it runs like poop for me, lots of red chain and when in combat even without the red chain I have to fire about 10 bullets to put someone down. I am fine on other servers though

Witches, was this constant for you?

Also, anyone else played on it yet, if so can they let me know how it runs for them please..

Still to do some config changes for it..

 

[robmol]

Also, anyone else played on it yet, if so can they let me know how it runs for them please..

Still to do some config changes for it..

was on it this morning and it ran pretty nice, a decent amount of stuff and z's about

 

[MarkeR]

Cheers rob, anyone else?

Rob, you need to get back on ts3 mate..

 

[Xcept1]

Was running fine for me last night with 30+ players on.

 

[Witcher1979]

Witches, was this constant for you?

Also, anyone else played on it yet, if so can they let me know how it runs for them please..

Still to do some config changes for it..

Yeah I dunno why m8 Probs just my routing or something, no one else has said anything so looks to be my end. Running around I get no lags I do get the red chain. But combat is a no no I can empty a 20 round clip into a guy with an axe who still chops at me haha. Probs just my end m8 will try again later if it is not full. I didn't mean to put the server name down or anything just saying for me I was having an issue.

 

[MarkeR]

Yeah I dunno why m8 Probs just my routing or something, no one else has said anything so looks to be my end. Running around I get no lags I do get the red chain. But combat is a no no I can empty a 20 round clip into a guy with an axe who still chops at me haha. Probs just my end m8 will try again later if it is not full. I didn't mean to put the server name down or anything just saying for me I was having an issue.

Cheers mate, of course I knew you didn't meant it like that.. Just want anyone on here to be able to play on a decent server.. If there were/are problems then I would have had a support ticket in..

Thanks

 

[enigma27]

Guys trying to sort out performance issues you can try these tweaks i posted on my site.

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Over the past few days I have been checking out the DayZ stand alone game and have noticed performance is about the same as the Arma2 mod.. I started to trawl the internet to find some tweaks to help with performance and below is just a few which will hopefully help those who are experiencing low FPS.

Command Line:

I am currently using the below command line option.. this is set in the Steam option under ‘set commandline options’ and helps DayZ use the full amount of threads on a quad core cpu.

-nosplash -cpucount=4 -exThreads=4

In game Options:

These are the in game settings I am using. Generally I get a constant 60fps in outdoor areas dipping to 40′s in large towns.

CFG and Profile tweaks:

The following tweaks I found online and really helped with getting my FPS higher.. First off locate the below file under the below location.

C:\Users\yourname\Documents\DayZ Other Profiles\yourdayzprofilename\ and open the file named yourdayzprofilename.DayZProfile

once opened change the following settings

mouseSmoothing=0;
sceneComplexity=150000;
shadowZDistance=100;
viewDistance=1600;
preferredObjectViewDistance=1600;
These settings should help sort out mouse acceleration and also give a good fps Boost.

Next up locate the following location

C:\Users\yourname\Documents\DayZ and open DayZ.cfg and change the following two options*

GPU_MaxFramesAhead=”1″;
GPU_DetectedFramesAhead=”1″;

* make sure you put the quotes around the numbers otherwise DayZ will change them once booted up.

and that’s it.. hopefully this will be helpful to some people. For more help visit the Dayz Forum for discussion on the game.

 

[Sasso]

enigma, is that for a cpu with hyperthreading on or off? i.e. if i have HT turned on then the -exthreads bit should be 8? or is it extra threads so the cores 4 plus threads 4 takes the total up to 8?