Gpu/Cpu Bottleneck

[Kaigore]

Hi all, I have had an ASUS STRIX GTX 960 2gb graphics card for almost 9 months now. When I first got it I thought it was amazing, but recently I started playing dayz and noticed that it could only run at speeds of 45-60 fps when I have the video settings set to low. This had me thinking and I figured that since I am using an Intel I5- 4430 processor, my system could be  bottlenecking a good amount. If you think that is the case what CPU should I maybe get to reduce     bottlenecking and future-proof    bottlenecking because I may get a GTX 1060 soon after, but that is a whole other conversation. 

Thanks for the help!

[Waqas409]

That i5-4430 should not bottleneck GTX 960.
45-60FPS in days is totally fine i guess. Their 0.60 Stable Patch did fps boost for all that why you are able to get 40-60FPS.
Im assuming you will get 25-30 Min fps in Cherno or heavily Buildings area.

[ARikozuM]

DayZ is poorly optimized and the game isn't likely to get better as the developer is making few adjustments. Your 4430 won't bottleneck and even if it did don't limit your performance for the few percent that it would be affected by.

[Kaigore]

1 minute ago, Waqas409 said:

That i5-4430 should not bottleneck GTX 960.
45-60FPS in days is totally fine i guess. Their 0.60 Stable Patch did fps boost for all that why you are able to get 40-60FPS.
Im assuming you will get 25-30 Min fps in Cherno or heavily Buildings area.

Thanks! Also, would you happen to know if dayz heavily relies on a special feature from a gpu? i.e. vram or memory bandwidth

[ARikozuM]

Same issue occurs on Arma 3. The coding is overdone and isn't streamlined. They could have skipped (according to my software engineering friend as well) about 20K lines of code in their graphics engine and gotten similar results with a good boost to FPS and stability. And don't get me started on the draw calls...

[Waqas409]

1 minute ago, Kaigore said:

Thanks! Also, would you happen to know if dayz heavily relies on a special feature from a gpu? i.e. vram or memory bandwidth

Just set Video Memory Option to "Auto"
Also Try this.

Go to:

C:\Users\yourname\Documents\Dayz\Your_Profile_name\Your_Name_DayZProfile

and Set these:

Scene Complexity = 150000

ShadowZDistance = 100

ViewDistance = 1600

PreferredObjectViewDistance = 1000

 

These are the default FPS improvement Tweaks but its nice to get your ones by changing these values and testing out so you can see which one is better for you.