Dayz standalone lag's even when i change the graphics

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I got dayz standalone and i get 20 fps and sometimes 15fps and i think my pc could do better.
Graphics card AMD 7870
processor: AMD A8-6500 Apu with radeon (tm) HD Graphics (4CPUs) 3.5GHz
8 gigs of ram
directx 11
Windows 8.1 64bit
 
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Your dayZ lag because you are playing it on a an APU.

APU's are not built for handling extreme CPU load on demanding games. DayZ is a spin off from Arma2 using Arma engine. That engine is known to be CPU taxing. Even i5 have issues trying to run the game smooth.

Don't buy an APU if you are playing hardcore games.

 
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I play DayZ almost everyday. I too had bad FPS even with my new R9 290 and AMD 8350 build. Trust me it is not your PC. The game is horribly optimized, especially for multi-threaded CPUs. If you can get over 35+ FPS, consider yourself lucky. Most of the community plays with less than that.

I recommend this guide to a lot of people, I myself use it as well: http://dayzintel.com/dayz-standalone/dayz-standalone-performance-guide

Tweaking some of these settings can possibly give you an extra 20 FPS without ruining your game quality and experience.
 
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He's NOT strictly playing with an APU. He's just using the CPU portion which is probably similar to an FX-4300 for performance. He's using an HD7870 so his PC really isn't too bad so I can see why he'd think he can do better.

*Monitor CPU usage with Task Manager to see if one or more cores are running at 100% usage while gaming (show all four graphs, not a unified one).
 
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The A8 is much worse than FX 4300 in terms of performance per core. APU's are not built for handling CPU taxing games so it doesn't matter if he is using a different graphics than the APU. There is a reason why on games recommended hardware, APU's are not listed because they all tend to be worse in performance compared to a true quad core especially on games like DayZ which is based on a terribly written engine from Arma 2.

My phenom 955 can run DayZ with an average frame of 35 on medium-high settings with an R9 270.

The ony real way to get more performance on terrible game engines is to overclock the CPU to get as much single core performance and decrease graphical settings.
 
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The A8 is NOT much worse. It is in fact BETTER than the FX-4300 if both were at the same frequency as it's a slightly newer design (not by much). So for all intents here they are IDENTICAL PERFORMANCE.

FX-4300: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+FX-4300+Quad-Core

A8-6500 (CPU only): http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+A8-6500+APU

So the FX-4300 scores only 3% higher at 4GHz Turbo compared to the A8-6500 at 3.5GHz (no Turbo). So next time do a little more RESEARCH...

Your Phenom 955 for comparison scores 4012.

*Having said this, every AMD sucks for per-core performance so a "true" 4-core is a recent Intel. The i5-4670K for example gets 7736 which is about 63% better than the FX-4300 with the same number of physical cores. Ouch!

This also helps explain why the 2-core G3258 beats the 8-core FX-8350 in Skyrim as the game only uses two full cores roughly.
 
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If the A8 is as good as FX 4300, he would not be getting 20fps. But on the other hand when my phenom score as you "posted" is only 4012 and yet i am able to get 35 average which surpasses his A8 with decent graphics settings.

That does not make sense on the benchmark.
 
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