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There is allways a need of overclocking to erase the last small microstutterings^^ Okay.. for dayz it is not that important but in e.g. GTA4 you get mor fps with every 100mhz you get more on the cpu. Whatever. @theproblem Yes give dayz a try without overclocking. Do you have any other software running? Fraps, MSI Afterburner etc. Every software who is writing logs or doing the same task in every 1-3 seconds? Like fraps is updating the fpsnummbers every second. Maybe you virusscanner? I expierienced this in the game Stalker with fraps(on my old slow system) The Drivers on you pc are all correct? Chipset/GPU?

I think your CPU is a little bit weak. 3GB Ram are not much too(specialy with vista)... and a GTS450 has also not much power. You should get Windows7 and watach again. You should open the Task manager and the MSI afterburner. Then you start the game on a full server. When you get the bad fps.. tab back to desktop and watch if the CPU is on 100%, or the RAM is full or you GPU is 100% The one with 100% should be the bottleneck. You can also increase the pagefiles(or swapfiles) to get a littel bit more ram performance on vista.

So you started Arma2 and OA in steam? And you have set the arma2.exe to a administrator exe? Can you play Arma2 in steam without problems? Contact steam if not.

Sounds good for me! I like the idea.

I belive DayZ is playing some years after the zombie appears on earth. So the most zombies and humans are dead now. Only the strongest zombies are still there. A Zombie is still a biomechanic instinct controlled being wich needs energie for living. So the most zombies will die fast after the apokalypse started. You should go to cherno/airfield at daytime and shoot 5 rounds with the lee enfield. Then more as 10 zombies should chasing you. Most zombies are nearly blind and the ears are full of blood so its hard for the zombies to chase you between houses, bushes and stuff. I feel dayz more as a zombie simulation as a game.

I really really like this part!

Did you checked the steam options in the commander? http://dayz.ocuk.co/...d-commander.jpg (ignore the lunch parameters) Without the two crosses it will not start at my system. I think steam has to confirm the key or something like that. And... Idk exactly but there is possibilty that someone stolen your key.

Mainboard: Asus P8Z77 V PRO CPU: Intel Core i5 3570K (or a i5 2550k, if you want serios overclocking[ the 2xxx generation gots a much much better heatspread connection to the cpu{up to 10+ degrees difference to the 3xxx series}]) CPU Cooler: Scythe Mugen 3 Rev. B Thermal Compound: Arctic Silver Silver 5 RAM: G.Skill DIMM 8GB DDR3 1866 Kit GPU: XFX HD7970 Dual Fan HDD: HGST HDS5C3020ALA632 2TB SSD: Samsung 840 Series 256GB MLC(!) version CASE: Lian Li PC-8N Your PSU is fine i think but for serious oc i would take a 750W.

If PlaywithSIX is not nessasery for you, try the dayz commander.

@triggy89 i go with all your cpu statements but with the gpu statements not. It is not nessasary to have a 3770k instat of a 3570k... you will not have more FPS or you can easily overclock the "smal" cpu but with a 680 he will have much more fps on every game he can get. Especome socialy now, crysis3 will come soon and other heavy games, so he will gain much improvment with every little bit more gpu power.

Stick to official hive. The offical DayZ hive. Or the big vilayer hives. The admins dont have the power to spawn vehicles or to get player locations on this big hives. Only for private hives admins geht the special tools from the server hosters Like on on vert hosting, they have a tool where you can coustumize players gear. They are some really fucked up admins out there on pvt hives.

Guys... you must tell you resolution if you say: "I can play with 50fps with a GeforceXXX.. bla bla" everything else is useless. You can have 60fps with a HD6850 but on 1280x768 or 20fps on 1920x1080. And then try to say an avarange number. If you look on the ground you have 100fps, if you look on a city you have 20 fps. Based on this If you say you card makes 100fps, this is wrong and useless. The avrg is counting, but to say the lowest fps number too is very usefull. If you say "i have xX Fps with a XXX Card" no one can use this information. You are only confusing hardware newbies.

Tell us you full System pls. CPU, GPU, MoBo(FullName), RAM(speed), HDD(rpm) and the nativ resolution of your Display.

ohoh^^ this can end in a much waste of performance or money^^

Dont! His statement is to gerneral spoken. You have to check you system.

Oh i think with 95$ you will get nothing good. Go for 150 to 250. Listen!!: 1. Make sure your Mainboard gots a free 16x PCIe Slot for the new grapic card 2. Have a look on your Powersupplyunit, it needs enough power and fitting cables (2x 6Pin 12V@30A+ or 2x8Pin...., depends on the card you will buy) for the new card. 3. Have a look in you case if it gots enough space for a new card. If you can tell me the exact Name and speed of your CPU, RAM and Mainboard i can tell you your options.

Windowsversion? Soundchip/soundcard? Driver? Driverversion? Connection? Problems in the Past? bla bla...

delete the cfg file or reinstall the game(make sure you delete the setting files for arma too) btw.. it would be helpful if you say us the resolution(you noob). The native Display resolution, the used 3D resolution and the interface resolution he had and he wanted. Start using your brain people!

Server sounds good but 24/7 daylight is a no go.

You have seriosly no glue about level design, Nature and Cityarchitekture. Your are a liar too. "Forests around where I live are just like that."... thats 100% not true. Forests are not that clean, you have allways smaler plants, dead wood and the trees with a different size. You have smaler trees and trees wich covered with leaves or needles grown to the ground at the edges of a forest. On Glades you have higher grass, plants and more leaves/needles on the trees because of the more light. You have nothing of this in Taviana. Cherno is a real City Like every City on DayZ You can find realistic made Mountains in: Panthera Chernarus Takistan but not on Taviana. EVERY Mountain on Taviana has the same angle on the hillsides. The have the same vegatation everywhere. Same Textures everything looks same on every mountain. The Towns. You are talking about uniqueness... but one big tower or big building in a town is not uniqueness. Look, every town is on a totaly flat ground. In every town you can find the same buildings. No town is uniqe with their buildings, the placement of the streets or LOOT(wich makes destroys the gameplay). There are street 150m long without any sidestreet, door or gap to hide. Thats unrealistic and and kills a fair gameplay. And biggest mistake in the City: They all look freshbuild and like no one was ever living there. A Town after a zombieapokalypse is full of cars, garbage, newspapers on the ground, roadblocks, destroyed windows and electricity lines, destroyed bridges, burrned buildings, cars and garbage. Its not that the Taviamaker dosent had a good example with chernarus. In Chernarus you have a dirty postapokalypitc enviorment, you have a vertical gameplay because of buildings on hillside, lower and higher places in towns.. simple a realistic placment of houses. You feel life in cheranus. Somehing happend there, you can feel it and see it even without Zombie you know in chernarus something bad happend. And in Taviana? You feel nothing. A Happy clear sterile world without any life. And dont fucking tell me that one little traffic congestion in Sabina is life. Fuck that, a very bad production. You Said: "There is much more uniqueness then Chernarus and other maps like Namalsk and Celle, such as windmills, varying enviroments, oil rigs, and the huge cities." in Case of Celle, yes thats true. Based on Namalsk and Chernarus its complete bullshit what you are talking and every level designer or hoppy levelmaker will agree me. You get dazzeld by a huge map, big buildings(they offer only big doors, no big loot or something) and hype by little ignorant kiddys. Taviana is a nice idea but need much more work in gameplay(House,way placement), vegeatation and vehicle/playerspawn placement. If the maker countinues his works Taviana will be a great map! I have 2000 zombiekills on it, i like it but every time i play it im like: "omg what he done here... and here.... and there..."

Because this would be stupid?

Hey guys, some words on Taviana. Nice idea but not well made. The map is big... okay thats it. Every town looks same. The forestes and plants in general are very bad placed. Every forest looks really the same. EVERY fucking tree has the same distance to the next tree. Totaly unrealistic. There are no bushes, little plants or dead wood in the forest. No smaller trees at the forest edges. The level designer was never in a real forest The terrain is fucked up too. Every mountain gots the same shape. Everything looks the same. The towns are full of impasses and hundertes of meters long streets without cover or little sidestreets. It is terrible for the gameplay and totaly unrealistic. Every other map axcept celle are better made as taviana. Celle gots realistic forests with random density and random big plants and trees also samler trees at the forest edges but the towns and the flat areas are terrible too. But alle the cars, airports and militaryloot places makes this map(Tavi) intressting. If you can ignore the very bad terrain and vegetation give the map a try. Despite the bad leveldesign work this map can be fun if have a right group, camp, vehicle and enemys.

A Tent is useless shit. ALL fucking admins are goind to reset the server aft a hacker spawned one little fucking car. I lost so much fuckig tents with so much fucking NV and m4a1 cco SD's only because 99% of the DayZ Admins are shitbrains. Cars a little bit saver but can be stolen and they are harder to hide. I like the dead body situation now. If you wanna hide someone you can do it. BTW: The OP is describing a problem wich not excists. It is not easy to get back to your body. okok if you play on a empty server its np but we are talking about full servers. Most ppl get shot on Hotspots... and to loot you body on a hotspot is not that easy. Other ppl will shot you or loot your body first. Useless topic here. Hide Body function is nice. Stay at this! Server restarts are clearing the dead bodys. BTW2. You care about that someone gets his gear back. So you killed the person only for losing his gear, destroying his fun. So you dont killed for defens, his loot, clearing an area, your fun or rage. You Sir(The OP) are retarded.

They can spawn in all residantel buildings. The highest chance you have in Pubs/Bars and the Office/school buildings. They also spawn at heli crashsides but NOT on regular military spawns like barracks. The Camo suit doesnt give you 15% protection. Thats servercontrolled and no server gives you the protection.