FPS drops

[JimmyJ]

We just moved to a new server box. This was our old servers specs:

CPU

Intel Core2Duo E6600 2.4Ghz

Western Digital 250GB SATA

Intel DG33BU

4 x Kingston 1GB DDR2 667

Bandwidth

2000GB per month

windows 2003

New servers specs:

Intel Xeon E3 1230

8 GB DDR3

500 GB hard drive

10TB of bandwidth

windows 2012

So here's my problem. Our old server box had its issues but most the time it ran the game great. Main reasons for moving is we were hitting our bandwidth cap and we would max out the cpu from time to time (dayz item refresh would take forever!).

The major problem we are now having with our new box is the fps seems to be very unstable for people. I myself have had it go down to less then 5 several times and makes all the huds blink. These files are the same files we had on our old server with only very minor changes. What can be causing these crazy fps spikes? The fps is set to 70 max which is the same thing we had on our old server.

[Fatality[NL]]

I use a tool called "resource monitor", included with Windows Server 2012.

You might want to monitor your server when it happens(keep it running while playing, and look at the server whenever it happens),

it gives you a good view about what is going on on the system(see screenshot for an example),