DayZ Client v0.45 - elleerre

DayZ Standalone Version 0.45

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Getting started to DayZ Standalone

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Performance Tutorial
This is a simple tutorial written to help you gain extra fps and smoother perfomance while playing DayZ Standalone. Read it with great care.
!! IMPORTANT !! - Make sure you've got a backup before you start.
How you start DayZ
Parameters can be used to start Dayz Standalone that will help with the performance of the game. You will need to know specific information about your hardware before you start. Firstly check what CPU you have, how many cores and how many thread.You will also need to know how much memory and video-memory you have.
Navigate to your DayZ root install folder and create a shortcut. Right click on your newly made shortcut and click on 'Properties', in the 'Shortcut' tab, you will have an edit box with a 'Target' lable next to it, inside this edit box will be the location of your exe. It should look a little bit like this example "E:DayZDayZ.exe". You need to add the following parameters to the end of the target.
-nosplash
-skipIntro
-world=empty
Example : "E:DayZDayZ.exe" -nosplash -skipIntro -world=empty
(Don't forget to put a space between the target and first parameter)
The next parameters are specific to your PC, and this is where you will need to change the parameters to suit you.
-maxMem=(Edit here, no higher than 2048, even if you do have 8gig)
-maxVRAM=(Edit here)
-cpuCount=(Edit here)
-exThreads=(Edit here)
Updated example : "E:DayZDayZ.exe" -nosplash -skipIntro -world=empty -maxMem=2048 -maxVRAM=1024 -cpuCount=4 -exThreads=8
You can now apply the settings, use this shortcut to launche Dayz. Test your new shortcut now before making any other changes.
Tip : In Windows 7 right-click the DayZ Standalone exe file, go to the ‘Compatibility Mode’ tab and check ‘Disable Desktop Composition’
Profile Settings
Before you can start, you will need to navigate to your documents folder (C:Users [Insert your Windows login here] Documents). At this location you will find two folders, and maybe more.
Open the folder called 'DayZ' and find a file called DayZ.cfg. In this file you will need to edit the following parameters so that the values match the examples below:
GPU_MaxFramesAhead=1
GPU_DetectedFramesAhead=1
Save and close this file, right click on it, go to properties and set it to read only in the general tab. Move back to the 'Documents' folder, you will now want to open the folder 'DayZ Other Profiles' and find the file named 'DayZProfile.cfg'. Open this file and edit the following lines
sceneComplexity=100000;
shadowZDistance=90;
viewDistance=1600;
preferredObjectViewDistance=1600;
Save and close this file, right click on it, go to properties and set it to read only in the general tab. Test your new settings now using your new shortcut before attempting to make any more changes.
AMD Radeon Specific
You may want to try 'AMD Radeon RAMDisk', I am not sure if this will work for everyone or if it is compatable with other vendors hardware, so please do your research before you try using this product. Please use google for aditional information.
Possible Crash Fixes
Before starting the game:
Update your NVidia / AMD graphics drivers.
Turn off SLI / Crossfire then start the game. See if it stabilizes DayZ Standalone performance.
Turn off your anti-virus software before launching the DayZ Standalone, but make sure you turn it back on after playing. Make sure Windows Defender is also disabled.
Try using only one GPU first (turn the other one off via your nVidia / ATI graphics control panel)
Try running the game in Windowed Mode (frequently works for low-end PCs)
Disable anti-aliasing and filtering, restart DayZ Standalone
Disable V-sync, restart DayZ Standalone
Disable background apps, and turn off your anti-virus software
In Windows 7 right-click the DayZ Standalone exe file, go to the Compatibility Mode tab and check Disable Desktop Composition
Once the game is running :
Start the game
Alt+Tab Out of the game
Open Task Manager
Right click on DayZ Standalone.exe
Set Affinity
Select core 0 and 1 only. You need to run the game on two CPUs basically, so to avoid the crash to desktop.