Other players can kill you and loot your body for stuff. If you want to keep most of your items you have to find a tent and build your tent somewhere safe. Weapons and ammo can be gained from buildings or military bases (or crashed helicopters).Īlso you can only carry a limited amount of items. You can bleed so you need to stock up on bandages and first aids. You have to avoid zombies as most of them are runners. You can gather food and drinks from the grocery store or you can hunt and get water from rivers. You have hunger and thirst meter so you have to eat and drink periodically or you will getting dehydrated or starved. You need to scour the buildings and towns around the (huge) map for canteen, food, weapons, ammo, tent, and other necessities. In DayZ you spawn on a point with a handgun. In summary, with more time will come better performance.Grviper: Just like Iron Front: Liberation? I don't really know about Iron Front Liberation. So, this also should allow for some.'wiggle room' in terms of small changes being made to increase performance by changing architecture in the game and the way that it works. It should also be taken into account that this game in in ALPHA so should be treated as a work in progress as oppose to a finished Triple A title. Now, in theory, because this engine is more up to date it will be able to utilize your computers resources more effectively and therefore people SHOULD see an increase in overall game performance. Extra comments: It was recently announced that the DayZ SA will be moving to an entirely new game engine due to limitations with the current one. To disable core parking simply refer to this guide: This is especially useful to those with AMD 8/6 Cores or the newer Intel 6 Core CPU lines.ĥ.
Every time that windows decides it then needs that core it will go to use it, but in games (where fluidity is key and small glitches noticeable) The 'Switching on' of said core can cause problems in the form of micro-stuttering or perhaps short 'lag spikes' seen by the person playing. CPU un-parking. Windows is a bit odd, in that it often shuts off some of your CPU's cores even while under load to decrease heat/power consumption. STORAGE- Having an SSD as oppose to a HDD will hugely increase load times and decrease weird pop in texture bugs currently in the alpha, just make sure that DayZ SA is in fact installed onto your SSD and not a HDD.Ĥ. RAM- More will help with load times I should think, but again, like with the GPU there is no point upgrading as 8GB is moreeeee than enough for DayZ SA currently. GPU- Again, due to the ARMA engine being basically terrible at utilizing resources available to it upgrading your GPU will only have very minor effects on performance and is not very cost effective when compared to the option of a better processor or overclocking. I would recommend an overclock of 0.5GHz on top your your current clock speed for noticeable increases HOWEVER DO NOT ATTEMPT OVERCLOCKING IF YOU ARE RUNNING A STOCK COOLER, INVEST IN A 3RD PARTY COOLING SOLUTION AND REFER TO THIS BEFORE ATTEMPTING AN OVERCLOCK: CPU- Overclocking is HIGHLY recommended because of the 'ARMA Take on helicopter's' terrible core utilization so each individual core must be treated as important. Suggested hardware changes for a higher frame-rate? Here you should scroll down to the bottom and be faced with the following:Īll lines of interest are highlighted in bold and all can be halved in value in order to obtain a significant boost in fps without sacraficing too much visual quality.ģ. Change both values here to "1" (without quotation marks)įor the next part of this we will be opening one of the other files located in Documents->DayZ but this time open the file that is a 'DAYZPROFILE' file but the one WITHOUT '.vars' in the name. Go to: Documents->DayZ->Open DayZ.cfg file. Here I will be covering what can be done to your config files in order to obtain a large performance boost. Especially good for a lot of the newer Intel processors with only 4 cores but many threads.Ģ. exThreads=# Change the # to the amount of threads your CPU has. maxMem=# change the # to the amount of RAM you have in MB so for 8GB is is '8192' (do the maths for working out other values where 1GB = 1024MB cpuCount=# change the # to the amount of cores your CPU has. "cpuCount=8 -maxMem=8192 -exThreads=8 -nosplash" Then type the following or copy and paste exactly(without quotation marks): You can go to your games section on steam->Right click->Set launch options-> In this post I'm going to be going over the best ways I think there are of increasing performance of the DayZ standalone.ġ.