Dayz and mine craft fps concerns

scottydot123 · Mar 9, 2015

Hello
At the moment I've been playing DayZ with my friend who has a alienware x51
http://www.dell.com/uk/p/alienware-x51-r2/pd?oc=d00ar259&model_id=alienware-x51-r2.
And when i ask him what settings he's running on he says everything on max at 50 fps and i'm getting 20 with everything on max.Also my computers nearly the double the amount of that alienware.Also on minecraft i have 25 mods and glsl shaders ultra and it's like 30 fps and my friend says he gets the same.Also i don't think my friends lying as he was prepared to show me in a video.

My specs
CPU:I7-4790k 4.00GhZ
GPU:Msi GTX 970 4GB
RAM:16GB corsair vengence ram 1600Mhz
HDD:1TB Seagate 7200RPM hard drive
Motherboard:Gigabyte Z97M-DS3H

Epsilon_0EVP · Mar 9, 2015

Without meaning disrespect, unless something is wrong in your system I think your friend is lying. The best configuration I could see on that website is an i5-4460 with a 750 Ti, which should be destroyed by your 4790K and 970. Either your friend is not running at max settings, or he's running at a lower resolution, or again maybe we need to figure out why your system is running slow.

scottydot123 · Mar 9, 2015

Epsilon_0EVP :

So how would i find out if it's a problem with my system.

Epsilon_0EVP · Mar 9, 2015

scottydot123 :

Do all other games run fine? Have you noticed any stuttering in any other game? Maybe check temperatures while gaming to see if there is any throttling. I really doubt that would be the issue, though. It's more likely your friend is just using some reduced settings in DayZ.

scottydot123 · Mar 9, 2015

Epsilon_0EVP :

Well before i posted a youtube video of me doing a video of benchmark valley and i just ran it and got round about the same fps and i have been having trouble with temperature.
My Other thread: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2545862/temperature-gpu-cpu-degrees-celsius.html

Epsilon_0EVP · Mar 9, 2015

scottydot123 :

What is running at 80C, the GPU or the CPU? The CPU running at 80C is not terrible, specially if you overclock to 4.3GHz (although we could do better). If the CPU is running at 80C, we need to check what's wrong, since the 970 is not known to reach those temperatures normally. Perhaps your fan configuration is not exhausting hot air properly.

scottydot123 · Mar 9, 2015

Epsilon_0EVP :

scottydot123 :

What is running at 80C, the GPU or the CPU? The CPU running at 80C is not terrible, specially if you overclock to 4.3GHz (although we could do better). If the CPU is running at 80C, we need to check what's wrong, since the 970 is not known to reach those temperatures normally. Perhaps your fan configuration is not exhausting hot air properly.

Is this bad

Epsilon_0EVP · Mar 9, 2015

scottydot123 :

I think you may have missed posting something. I need more information about the temperatures to help determine if there is an issue.

scottydot123 · Mar 9, 2015

Epsilon_0EVP :

Well my gpu msi 970 just playing minecraft with 27 mods and glsl shaders didn't go above 80C

Epsilon_0EVP · Mar 9, 2015

What about in DayZ? Those games use the GPU in very different ways. Although running heavily modded Minecraft that well without being able to run DayZ well is suspicious.

scottydot123 · Mar 9, 2015

Epsilon_0EVP :

Also i don't understand how i'm not getting like 300 fps in a vanilla minecraft like i used to.

Epsilon_0EVP · Mar 9, 2015

What framerate are you getting in vanilla Minecraft? If BF is not the only game to perform differently, it might point us in the right direction. Do you have any other GPU-heavy games you can also test?

scottydot123 · Mar 9, 2015

Epsilon_0EVP :

Should i try DayZ as a GPU test and put it on very high alos how the hell is this guy getting 1000+ frames
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCysZ20lNP0

scottydot123 · Mar 9, 2015

Epsilon_0EVP :

I did a re-test of minecraft and was getting 300 fps

Epsilon_0EVP · Mar 9, 2015

scottydot123 :

Yes, you should test your machine using DayZ, and check the temperatures while running it. That may help us figure out the issue.

Minecraft is not a very demanding game; it is easy to run vanilla Minecraft at extremely high FPS on high end machines. Since you are getting 300FPS, though, I wouldn't worry much about it; it seems the issue is in DayZ only. Do you have any other games we can also test?

scottydot123 · Mar 9, 2015

Epsilon_0EVP :

scottydot123 :

Yes, you should test your machine using DayZ, and check the temperatures while running it. That may help us figure out the issue.

Minecraft is not a very demanding game; it is easy to run vanilla Minecraft at extremely high FPS on high end machines. Since you are getting 300FPS, though, I wouldn't worry much about it; it seems the issue is in DayZ only. Do you have any other games we can also test?

I have The forest which is a beautiful looking game.

Epsilon_0EVP · Mar 9, 2015

scottydot123 :

We can also use that to test. How well does that run? Do you have any recent AAA titles? Those tend to try to use a lot of flashy graphics, so they will let us see if there is an issue with your graphics card underperforming.

scottydot123 · Mar 9, 2015

Epsilon_0EVP :

I don't know what the forest runs at but it about above 60 FPS i'd say.And i do have some recent AAA titles like Metro 2033 Redux but it's not installed currently but when i did run it i remember i ran it just a bit below Ultra.Can you recommend any CPU temp moniters as i already have a GPU one as it's MSI afterburner.

scottydot123 · Mar 9, 2015

Epsilon_0EVP :

I've got one I'll test DayZ now on Ultra.

Epsilon_0EVP · Mar 9, 2015

I think Afterburner can also monitor CPU temperature. Try looking at the options.

It looks like only DayZ is causing you issues, though. It is known to be a very unstable game, so that's not surprising. Maybe lower some settings to get better performance? I really doubt your friends machine can run it much better if it does have the specs listed on the website you linked.

scottydot123 · Mar 9, 2015

Epsilon_0EVP :

My temperature while playing dayz on max out settings
GPU:Min:35C Max:78C
CPU:Min:36C Max:72C
And i was in Berizino get round about 19-31

I was planning on getting a new cooler for my cpu like this:http://www.amazon.co.uk/ARCTIC-Freezer-Xtreme-Rev-Double-Sided/dp/B001X017G2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1425940095&sr=8-1&keywords=lga1150+cooler

Epsilon_0EVP · Mar 9, 2015

scottydot123 :

That sounds a bit high, but it does not sound terrible by any means. I doubt temperatures are the issue. What settings are you running the game at?

scottydot123 · Mar 10, 2015

Epsilon_0EVP :

My cpu has quiet a loud noise to it but planning on changing it and the gpu is quite as hell!
I'm running dayz all max settings everything.

Epsilon_0EVP · Mar 10, 2015

If possible, try re-installing. That may help solve any issues.

Another thing to consider, though, is that DayZ runs on an engine known to run terribly at certain points. Dropping to 20fps regularly is common, even on high end systems like this. Perhaps your friend was referring to framerate at other points, not the extreme minimums.

scottydot123 · Mar 11, 2015

Epsilon_0EVP :

Do you think overclocking would of had anything to do with this?

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