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.