GPU Usage

[Loxa]

While playing Dayz my GPU usage is spiking all over the place, im smooth with 60fps then all of a sudden im 20fps and its super slow. When i check MSI AB for GPU usage its like a canadian mountain side

 

[CEUOTC]

Turn off v-sync?

 

[Loxa]

Turn off v-sync?

If i play without v-sync i get really bad screen tearing (only reason i use v-sync is because of this on DayZ)

 

[OptimaLnrg]

If i play without v-sync i get really bad screen tearing (only reason i use v-sync is because of this on DayZ)

if your cards cant push 60fps they will vsync at 30. if they cant do 30 they will sync at 20, then 15, then 12, etc.

if you have an nvidia card you can try adapative vsync which will turn it on when you push frames above the refresh but turn it off when you don't. I can't remember if AMD has something like this.

 

[Loxa]

My card can push 60 FPS no problem, i have a 7950.

 

[whyscotty]

I presume you have a 60 hz monitor.

Have you tried limiting your framerate to 59 via RivaTuner with v-sync off



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[thefogo]

Sounds about right for ARMA II, honestly.
If it's doing that in towns then it's normal. In the countryside, not so much.

 

[Loxa]

I presume you have a 60 hz monitor.

Have you tried limiting your framerate to 59 via RivaTuner with v-sync off



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75hz

 

[whyscotty]

Set your framerate to 1 under your monitor refresh rate,

that normal helps

 

[shankly1985]

Arma2 and dayz is very CPU demanding game. Dayz even more so, when in big towns its all the zombies that kill perform. The zombies are using soldiers models and have bone structures etc

In the standalone this is getting sorted and performance will be much higher.

You could try using dynamic vsync in radeonpro, same thing as adapative vsync, But I dont think it will matter tbh.

 

[Loxa]

Arma2 and dayz is very CPU demanding game. Dayz even more so, when in big towns its all the zombies that kill perform. The zombies are using soldiers models and have bone structures etc

In the standalone this is getting sorted and performance will be much higher.

You could try using dynamic vsync in radeonpro, same thing as adapative vsync, But I dont think it will matter tbh.

Yeah i know its problems I've played it for a year or so, i can never remember it being this bad though (my memory is bad so i cannot remember if i had the same issues with my 6850). Also sometimes randomly could be 2hours or 5minutes i get a drop from say 50fps to 5fps and everything is slow motion for 5seconds and then normal again. I've been checking temps and nothing wrong there

 

[shankly1985]

Also try to stay on low ping servers. I noticed on the dayz having a high ping makes frame rate drop.

 

[Loxa]

This is a screenshot showing the GPU Usage

http://i39.tinypic.com/fllj0m.png

 

[Loxa]

I presume you have a 60 hz monitor.

Have you tried limiting your framerate to 59 via RivaTuner with v-sync off



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So this allows meto play games with v-sync off (which before i would get screen tearing with), but limits it to 59 fps

 

[Loxa]

Also something else i noticed is on Arma 2 menu before you get ingame i have horrible coil whine and my GPU usage is at 99% :s (card gets very hot very fast). Seems strange to me as its on the the menu

 

[Sin_Chase]

My card can push 60 FPS no problem, i have a 7950.

In ARMA II engine?

Nope.

You get whine as you are not limiting FPS and get 100s of FPS in the menu system.

 

[Loxa]

In ARMA II engine?

Nope.

You get whine as you are not limiting FPS and get 100s of FPS in the menu system.

Even if i use v-sync i still get whine on the menu screen

 

[~>Dg<~]

at end of day the servers you play on are as important as your comp

laggy server will drop your fps

so even the best pcs in dayz will drop beloew 60 fps at some point just cause of server.

as someone else just said cpu power in this is very important.

try to get 60 fps but as long as you dont below 30 you should be okay. dont use v sync.