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DayZ performance issues
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Hello. I bought DayZ recently and I enjoy it. I play at Medium settings at 100+ FPS and I'm quite comfortable with that... until the moment my PC begins to stutter and the FPS drops to 0 and stays so for several (up to maybe 15) seconds. The reason for it is that some processes such as System and Antimalware Service Executable begin to overload my SSD to 100% for no reason. When it happens, my SSD becomes the only part of my PC to be stuck at 100% load.
I had never had such a problem before, no any other game ever did cause such issues, even though their system requirements were higher. The 100% SSD load rise happens only when I play DayZ. This issue is very crucial to me because I might find out I've just been killed after the lag is over...
The most peculiar thing is that my game is not installed on the SSD (where my Windows 10 is), it's on a separate HDD.

Please help me solve the problem. I have tried disabling some Windows services (found this advice on the Internet) but this didn't work.

My specs:
CPU: Intel Pentium G4560 3.5 GHz
RAM: 8 GB 2133 MHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050Ti
HDD: WDC WD10EZEX-75WN4A0 (1 TB, 7200) — the game is here
SSD: SanDisk SDSSDA120G

Details

Severity
Major
Resolution
Open
Reproducibility
Random
Operating System
Windows 10
Operating System Version
1607
Category
Performance

Event Timeline

Geez changed the task status from New to Need More Info.Jun 8 2020, 12:02 PM
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Hello TomMarksson.
Are your configuration files located on the SSD? C:\Users\username\Documents\DayZ is the default path.
Also, does this occur if you delete the folder mentioned above and then verify the game data through Steam?
Regards,
Geez

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Hello, Geez.
Thank you for your reply.
Yes, these files are located there. I deleted the folder and verified the game files but the problem still remains. I mean, I may play peacefully for an hour without having freezes if I downgrade graphics settings to the very lowest ones. Or I may still have freezes that appear after a 30 minutes of gameplay – it's random.
I even created a separate Documents folder on my HDD (where the game is) but the game creates its configuration folder in the default path located on disk C:\. I'm trying to find out what has caused the SSD (C:\) to overload. Will moving the DayZ configuration folder from the SSD to the HDD help to solve the problem? If so, tell me how. If not, please tell me what else I need to do to fix these freezes.
Thank you.

Lex added a subscriber: Lex.Jun 10 2020, 2:16 PM

So, I solved the issue by increasing the RAM from 8 GB 2133 MHz to 12 GB 2133-2666 MHz. I still get freezes occasionally but they are not so long and devastating and are mostly related to environment loading that occurs as I travel from one location to another, I guess. The reason that might have caused my SSD to overload could probably be the swap file located on the C: drive. I didn't have the time to investigate this issue further by meddling with the swap file, so I decided to upgrade a bit.
Nevertheless, I had been told that I'd be able to play this game with 8 GB of RAM, as it is indicated in the System Requirements section of your product page on Steam, which I couldn't do even on minimum settings, although all requirements seem to have been met.
Anyway, thank you very much for your efforts to support me.

Geez closed this task as Resolved.Jun 16 2020, 2:40 PM
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