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Low FPS when aiming scope at lots of foliage
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Description

I get low FPS when using scopes. It seems to be less when using a PSO (any which one) compared to the hunting scope. It seems it's tied to how far 'said' scope can zoom in. The issue occurs specifically when aiming towards trees (real bad when aiming at the actual crown of the tree). The FPS loss when aiming at a pinetree is lower, but the birch tree specifically is real bad. The FPS loss when going from not using the scope to fully zoomed in using the scope is from 70-100 FPS to 15-25 FPS, the further i zoom in with the scope the lower the FPS gets. It occurs in a lot of places with lots of foliage doesn't have to be specifically birch trees but they are the worst. I have tried changing pretty much all my settings from 'high' to 'off/low' and it did change my FPS when not using the scope, but when I zoomed into the birch tree it always had pretty much same FPS (gained about 2 FPS when turning AA off) The only setting I could change where it would have a significant change was the game resolution. I play at 2560x1440 because that's the native resolution of my monitor, when I change resolution to 1920x1080 and aim into the same trees as I did with 2560x1440 resolution I have about 35-45 FPS as suppossed to the 15-25 I had when on the 2560x1440 resolution. To begin with I thought it was my computer not being powerful enough, but I just find it strange how I can have 70-100 FPS and then go to 15-25 just because I use a scope. I played at 2560x1440 in older patches too and didn't have such big issues when using scopes as I do in the current stable patch '0.60.133617' I've specified the severity as major, because the game is near unplayable when using a scoped weapon (tested with Blaze with a hunting scope) I haven't found some binos to test it out with but I'm almost certain it would have the same effect because I believe it has something to do with the zoom level and LODs

Details

Severity
Major
Resolution
Open
Reproducibility
Always
Operating System
Windows 10 x64
Operating System Version
Windows 10 64bit Version: 1511 OS Build: 10586.420
Category
Performance
Steps To Reproduce

Aim scope (hunting scope for best result) into lots of foliage, FPS will decrease the further zoomed in you are. The biggest hit on performance seems to be when you aim into the crown of birch trees, however FPS loss does happen when there isn't birch trees around aswell, but those are the ones that have the biggest performance hit for me.

Additional Information

<-- Information from Dxdiag about my system. (My CPU is overclocked to 4.2 Ghz)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H68jA01Zvl4 <-- Video showing issue at 2560x1440.

<-- Copy of my DayZ.cfg file, however I have tried changing pretty much all values in this file with no difference, other than the resolution (I have also deleted the .cfg and dayzprofile to generate a new one, still has same effect on FPS)

In-game settings (also in the video):

QUALITY:

Objects: Normal
Terrain: High
Clouds: Low
Shadows: Low

USER INTERFACE

Resolution: 2560x1440x32

TEXTURES:

Video Memory: Auto
Texture Detail: Very High
Texture Filtering: Very High

RENDERING:

Anti-aliasing: Low
Alpha to Coverage: All Trees + Grass
Edge Smoothing: SMAA Normal
HDR Quality: Very Low
Post-Process Quality: Low
Ambient Occlusion: Enabled


I have sadly not gotten around to test with all the different scopes, but it does happen when using the Hunting Scope specifically, however I'm pretty sure it will happen when using other "fullscreen scopes" (binos, PSO-1/PSO-1-1 etc.) with their zoom level accordingly at how bad the performance hit will be.

  • Here at the end I can only say keep up the great work on DayZ you guys are awesome and I thoroughly enjoy being the consumer of something as great as DayZ. Stay awesome DayZ Dev Team *salute*

Event Timeline

TikTactical changed Category from General to Performance.
Merce added a subscriber: Merce.Jul 11 2016, 4:27 PM
TikTactical edited Additional Information. (Show Details)Jul 13 2016, 12:30 PM