Nastrond

Hey guys, checking back in. I got OA/DayZ to a playable level finally! After a few BSOD while testing the overclocking stability, I settled with just bumping my clock speed up from 2.3 to 2.6 and I was able to get those ~25 frames I was looking for(granted, everything is still on low/verylow). Running on a stock heatsink and fan, the temp never went over 65c. Not the best temp, but for not spending any money and able to play the game I'm satisfied. Worst case is that everything burns out and I have to buy new hardware which is in the cards anyways :P. I'll leave my final specs here incase someone comes along looking for a similar solution: AMDphenom 9600 Quadcore (Overclocked to 2.6ghz) 4GB DDR2 RAM Nvidia 550Ti 1gb graphics card And a lot of the various tweaks and fixes found here: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-2565.html Thanks again for the help

Thanks for that info Domokun. I'll try overclocking my processor tonight and try and get 2.5 - 2.8 out of it. Its a black edition so it shouldn't be too hard. I'll probably need to look into new hardware for the long term, but just to see if it helps. Unfortunately AM2 processors are hard to come by and generally more expensive then an AM3 of better quality. Anyways, thanks again for responding Domokun. If I eventually get something playable, I'll post my setup and work around so others can try it out.

I am in the same/similar boat as you. I get below 15 FPS in ARMA2OA and <1FPS in DayZ (unplayable slideshow) with all settings as low as it can go, video memory set to default, all the -nosplash, -winxp, etc.. recommended commands, everything is up to date with patches and drivers. I did the nvidia control pannel stuff, and I can't get anywhere. I've spent 2 days now looking online for answers. The game's menu's work fine. If I push escapse I can navigate the options lag free. If I alt-tab, I can open google, or other smaller programs, and there is no slow down, but this game is barely running. It's like it isn't even trying to use the resources available to it. My system is currently: AMD Phenom 9600 Quad Core 2.3Ghz 4GB ram Nvidia GTX 550ti 1gb the OPTIMAL specs for arma2 are: CPU: Intel Core 2.8 GHz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ or faster RAM: 2 GB Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT / ATI Radeon 4850 with Shader Model 3 and 512 MB VRAM or faster My specs are twice the Ram, 2 more cores and 100mhz faster processor, and a video card that has almost twice the rating on Tom's Hardware. That is just optimal, it is even more beyond the minimum. How can this game barely work on the lowest of low settings when I more then meet all of the Optimal requirements? I feel like there is some "silver-bullet" I'm missing that will fix this and make the game playable. I'm going to try a few more things and look some more, but I might have to try the refund route and just skip this game, which is a shame because I've heard good things from lots of places. :\ I'm not looking for 45+ frames, but ~25 on normal settings would be good enough for me.