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Requesting immediate mechanical assistance.. over. Evac!!

I can empathise.. was nailed by a server hopper in SW barracks yesterday myself as well, on the Ziip server.. though I wasn't camping it, just passing through, had checked the last room at the bottom of the corridor, nothing really of interest and was making my way back into the corridor, when cunty mcCunt spawns in and riddles me in the back. He got some well tasty kit too, including some uber sniper rifle I was carrying for a friend cause I had accidently murdered him the day before in the fog of war of a shoot out.. oh well, got tooled up again pretty quickly & i'm back to where I was before I died, only with a lot less murders in the debug monitor... shit happens. no happy endings in the apocalypse..

clouds always move east..

6 months? I was playing a Zombie mod not dissimilar to this on ARMA maybe six years ago..

msi afterburner

right click DayZbeta and select "edit with notepad++ "

well my PC is quite old now with a new GFX card, as you can see in the pic I posted my gpu usage is only 25% - I feel this could be a driver issue that nvidia need to fix.. watercooled Q9550 @ 3.8Ghz 8GB 1800Mhz ram GTX680.. I have the standalone edition of ARMA2 but ARMA2 OA I bought through steam.. I used the DayZbeta launcher which is installed in the operation arrowhead folder which is in your steam common aps folder. I then used notepad++ to edit this file to direct it to launch from the @dayz folder in the ram drive instead of the one in the steam folder by simple editing the line call "%_ARMA2OAPATH%\Expansion\beta\ARMA2OA.exe" "-mod=%_ARMA2PATH%;expansion;expansion\beta;expansion\beta\expansion;@DayZ;" to call "%_ARMA2OAPATH%\Expansion\beta\ARMA2OA.exe" "-mod=%_ARMA2PATH%;expansion;expansion\beta;expansion\beta\expansion;G:\@DayZ;" this works fine for me.. edit - it just so happens that my ram disk was assigned "G" so change it to what ever letter windows has assigned to your Ramdrive..

Lepryy - I was in the same boat m8, I was having really bad stutter when I would zoom in & in major citys my frames collapsed to single digits and nothing but a slideshow & death.. with the ram disk, my min frames now is usually aorund the 40's mark and the game looks amazing.. have a hunt roound google there may be a guide on the main arma website or something.. heres a pic from down town Cherno - I had to avoid it for weeks cause of poor frame rate.. http://i530.photobucket.com/albums/dd341/IG-Calibre/arma2oa_2012_07_10_21_51_48_659.png

i'm trying to talk the lads I play with into starting out on a private hive server, they wanna set one up - i'm thinking it would be better to start out on an established one and just playing there, rather that trying to get another one up and running..

The guide I used to do this is no longer avaible since they updated the forums i'm afriad. I didn't actually watch the video tbh I assumed if someone went to the bother of putting it up, it would have detailed easy followed instruction. sry if it didn't. Maybe the person who posted the original thread will repost their guide here in the new forums. Also you don't need to install the whole arma 2 folder, you get a good 10fps min boost just using the @Dayz folder in my experience, though i've also gone a step further and i'm using another gig and a half of the ram disc for my system pagefile too..

Fresh spawn last night so I load the new 1.7.2.1 patch. Not really many servers happening, so I join the only uk server playing 1.7.2.1. It also only has a few players on it - spawn cherno and i'm pulling the inevitable z train from spawn as they aggroed pretty much instantly. Its dark so I have my torch out, make it to the hospital and i'm fired on immediately, i'd guess an ak of some discription, get clipped a few times but duke round the side and use my only bandage & shout out a bit of abuse in DC as I was unarmed. Make a break for it and get to fire station, call out in DC to a guy I see heading round the back to help me with more aggroed Zombies, run round the back in time to see him disconnecting - oh well.. manage to hop over the sandbags at the bottom of the tower and an english lad comes in as i'm making my way back down from the tower, nothing but shite spawned in it, no weapons, nada.. he's panicing about the Z's down stairs Ia sk him to give me a blood transfusion and he does, i'm thinking to myself "is this the guy who blew the load at me at the mash tents?" we go our seperate ways and i head back to the hospital. As soon as I get round the back i'm opened up on again, I get into the first tent and there is still nothing of use spawned. I call the wanker out again and tell them they can't shoot for shit, this time our friend finds his mic after I shout at him for about five minutes telling him to finish me off. T urns out he's a barbarous easter european cunt, but he speaks not too bad English - I tell him in chat he's nothing but a wanker, camped shooting unarmed fresh spawns, all the time waiting for something to spawn of use to me in the tent, an AKM spawns on the floor with no ammo, that's it, i'm fucked basically his friend finished me off - had ammo spawned with that gun, and if you're reading this my friend camped on the roof - you would of been completely fucking pasted.. wanker.

Is there anyway to cancel the throw animation once it starts? I know the longer you hold RMB the further an oblect is thrown. however can it just be stopped alltogether before the weak wristed default effort plays out? 'i'd tell you the story about the man who threw the live grenade at his feet, but between you, me, and these four walls, i'd be far too embarrased..

I dunno, maybe i'm just a sadist, but, I think it looks awesome, when you see Z's charging towards you in the distance from accross the fields, should trigger the effect of the Bandit heartbeat (would that not be the best audio cue ever?) so at least you would know you've been sighted at distance by Z?) this would fairly ramp up the "OH SHIIIIIIIIIIIT!!". Last night a friend and myself were meeting a couple of other mates fresh spawns at Balota, all three of them were badly bruised just getting out of the mash tents & attempting to cross Balota. By the time they got to me at overwatch the group was 6 morphine injectors and some blood bags lighter.. but they survived! i've played a couple of time from spawn and I think everyone is exaggerationg about the Z's, I see no sign of them running up hills or inside buildings. I could get tooled up again pretty quick they're not that big an obstruction. Cons? Z's still spawning to close to humans is my only real complaint, also they are not provoked enough by tin cans / bottles, which makes it hard clearing them out of barns when that is all you have at your disposal & are desperate for loot.

you can respawn, & pay close attention to the bottom right hand side of the screen where it acutally tells you, or, I find road signs quite handy..

I take it thats Prud? I hunted manflesh there for hours yesterday, thought I was bound to catch someone either filling a water bottle, killing the cow, goat, or few rabbits knocking about.. I fell asleep and woke up with a session timed out message.. haha.. & there you are sitting relaxing by the pond, had that been a different server, it might of all ended in tears for you ;)..

so, would I get better performance by just using the ram drive for pagefile rather than adding @DayZ folder to it instead? gonna experiment..

you joined a private hive server probably, I wasted several hours on one the other night - well that's not strictly true, there was a level of team work going on on it like I haven't encountered in normal servers tbh. In truth I had a great time playing there, but, it's of no benifit when playing on "proper" servers..

it's supposed to keep an image & load it when win starts, but it doesn't seem to work on my machine. it only takes about a minute to sort out though on a restart & get up and running again..

thank you! thank you!! thank you!!! totally solved my nightmare slide show that was zooming or large urban aeras. I can get into 2 of the big citys no bother haven't tested Berezino yet & scope smooth as butter.. great work indeed, this thread should be well stickied.. 5 Stard'd

ah, ok.. so I found the ARMA2 AO Benchmark in the single player, scenarios section, how usefull a tool is this? according to the benchmark my average FPS is 77, yet this translates to less than 10 in multiplayer on occasion.. Do I need to just accept that this poor performance is a result of the "alpha" state of the mod and stop beating myself up about the poor performance and accept that my machine is not at fault here? what kind of scores are others getting?

though i'd hunt some farmers, didn't take me long to find two at Starry, threw a grenade at one and shot at the other.. both disconnected to avoid death.. players Panda & Jarron.. http://s530.photobucket.com/albums/dd341/IG-Calibre/?action=view&current=arma2oa_2012_07_04_13_20_31_006.png

logged back in ten minutes later the dynamic duo were back at it again.. dropped Jarron & the other one DC'd and left the server - http://i530.photobucket.com/albums/dd341/IG-Calibre/arma2oa_2012_07_04_13_40_13_843.png haha.. look at the loot on the ground.. they musta been farming for hours!! http://i530.photobucket.com/albums/dd341/IG-Calibre/arma2oa_2012_07_04_13_45_47_769.png

probably some poor soul afk..

wonder if thats the same scott who murdered me last night @ the mash tents in Berezino and then disconnected to avoid the horde he aggroed in the process.. if so, then no, the schmuck isn't banned..