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Hello. So current Nvidia mobile cards allow only a +135MHz overclock without messing with the VBIOS. Does anyone know what kind of improvement this is (in simple terms, with numbers and colorful graphs?) over an non-OC'd GTX 980M? Is the increased power draw/heat worth it? This limit, I know, is designed to eliminate the risk of a user destroying their PC and suing Nvidia, but how much of a limit is this? (Card could easily do x10, or it's close to the OC ceiling?)

And, hypothetically, if it was a 17.3in laptop on an appropriately sized cooler intended to play ArmA 3 at very high-ultra (no AA) ?

*cough* private servers *cough*

I've never considered that point before and I appreciate you pointing it out. Now that I think about it, that is a significant barrier. There's so much (read: the thing over and over) to do that player interaction is an all time low. I, personally, absolutely hates every single person in DayZ except myself without exception and I won't reinstall until I'm able to host a private 1 slot server where I can have a number of zombies comparable to the loss of players because I hate player interactions, but I know that was 99% of the joy in the mod. Player count does need to scale with map size and we probably won't see that until the playercount drops off so significantly it won't even matter, and only RDM players will persist (or worse, RDM clans with their CheatSpeak3...). Before I stopped playing the SA, I remained on an apartment roof in Chernarus that overlooked 2 corner stores, a barn, and the wide, open field between them that had no cover. My M4 only had a broken ACOG but I decided logging in every day for 30 minutes until I emptied 5 30round magazines (have they reduced military weapon spawn rates?) at random players, which very quickly become at random zombies, and then at the floor hoping to attract attention. I saw maybe 3 players and only killed 1 on 40/40 servers day or night. So don't take the above as me disagreeing with you. At the very least, I agree with you now.

Before you shout at me for buying a product that only sells on the name of its endorsements and not quality, allow me to say they were a gift from my father, who is not as selective (or into) with technology as I am. I vowed to keep my wallet well away from Beats by Dre or any products with a rapper/hip-hop "artist's" name on them. Anyway: These headphones are awful, and I don't know if it's my fault or not. There's a constant buzz sound that I've been told is the noise cancellation feature, but it gets louder as bass increases on what I'm listening to and it's super fucking annoying. Every 6 seconds (I've counted) there's a periodic "beeeep" that isn't very loud but interrupts anything I'm listening to that comes from both headphones which is also super fucking annoying. Every google search that includes "Beats" or "Dre" either has links to threads with zero helpful posts or to the website (which is funny, because google responses that are titled "How to fix XXX issue" are links to their store... kind of tells you something). These headphones are more comfortable than my in-ear solution and I would like to use them if the buzzing and beeping stopped. They came with 2 sets of wires, both of which produce the problem. The box says "Beats wireless" but F if I've ever used a bluetooth device (I think I disabled bluetooth as soon as I got this laptop). If anyone can help I'll give them an Internet cookie. I'm really desperate; I don't want to tell my dad his Christmas gift sucked.

*cough* torrent it *cough*

How, exactly, have enterable buildings negatively impacted the dynamics of the game? Because there's so many more potential loot locations that large cities are no longer occupied or what? Because the Balota airfield is still the only good place to find people? I'm not trying to say you're wrong; I didn't enjoy my limited experience with DayZSA (99% of the servers were nighttime only, the other 1% had 1 slot and/or auto-kicked), and I don't think any number of enterable buildings will actually positively affect a game solely because the movement is soooo fucking awkward in ArmA (Like in ArmA 3, if you walk onto the balcony of any building for more than a few seconds, you will get stuck in the ground, which will either slowly absorb you until you're on the first floor or drop you to your death. I mean, seriously guys, the fuck. You want to sell a new terrain? How about you make your building models work?! You want to advertise your "Stances" system that revolutionizes PvP? HOW ABOUT YOU MAKE YOUR FUCKING MOUSE ACCELERATION WORK!?) I... ugh. If it wasn't for the editor, I wouldnt play ArmA. I think I can safely give that ultimatum. Hopefully when I'm rocking a not-ass laptop the movement won't be so difficult for me but... I don't know. I'll definitely give DayZ a try in the future. I've already paid for it, and H1Z1 allows you to buy airdrops. Fingers crossed for Survive the Nights, amiright? ...

To be fair, alpha. To be honest, I know how you feel. I haven't played DayZ SA for more than a few minutes since a month out of release and have been waiting for a devblog that actually interested me. Who knows who long it will take, who knows if Virtual whateveritsfuckingcalled engine 1.x will somehow revolutionize the ArmA experience. But don't give up! You can probably join a whitelist hardcore RP server owned by a haxxing 6 year old whose dad totally works for Microsoft and will ban you if you have fun. <3

But there's only 1 "Load time" on joining a server; it's not like I need to be the first person to spawn into a map and yoink the team's Tank. I don't see there being a huge benefit of dedicated a huge part of a 128gb SSD for DayZ. And it's the Clevo p670SG. I don't know a lot about Sager vs MSI vs et cetera because I've only ever owned consumer Toshiba laptops, but I can grab this setup (980m, 16gb ram, i7-4720HQ, SSD and 1TB HDD) for ~$2000. And if you wouldn't mind: "+200 bins" means literally nothing to me. +200 out of what? What is this changing in the CPU's performance? How big of a change is it? How big of a change is +135mhz on my GPU? (The only thing I know about OCing is EVGA will cap at +135 to stop me from bricking my electronics and I don't dare question its judgement)

Sager NP8762 (Customized through XoticPC) Laptop Monitor resolution: 1920x1080 CPU: i7-4720HQ (2.6GHz; no interest in OC) Graphics card: GTX 980m (OC +135mhz) RAM: 8-16 @1600MHz SSD? DayZ will be installed to a 7200RPM HDD. I don't know why the S/H field is relevant; if anyone can tell me why that would be appreciated. Of course top-of-the-line mobile GPU is going to run hot, and I'm aware heat causes throttling; the laptop will have thermal paste and extra copper heatsinks, and will probably be used on a fan more often than not. I haven't opened DayZ in months; does anyone know if general performance has improved? Or are all CPU-based settings still suuuuper slow?

Hear me out: In the main menu, I would like to see a list of players that I have killed (completely, absolutely, 100% dead, not players that I've wounded). I do not want a list of players who have killed me; when I respawn, I'm a 100% new person, not out for revenge. There would be no benefits to a large kill list whatsoever, nor a penalty. There would not be any kind of message in-game telling me whether I have killed someone or not; that hurts realism considerably. (Along with this, a stat tracker for how many transfusions I've given, players I've bandaged, etc)

I haven't played in a while, so forgive me for not knowing this, but: The AKM, MP5, and RAK don't have select-fire?! WTF? Not only can't they get their zombies to work, but now firearms are getting half-assed?

The hip-fire reticle was WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY more useful than half of the weapon's ironsights, and sometimes even scopes. I refused to play DayZMOD on non-veteran servers.

1: I think there's a time and a place for hip fire in any game 2: I think it's too easy to kill stuff from the hip. Even on "Veteran" mode (no crosshair), it's pretty easy, and sometimes even better than using your scope at long range. In ArmA 2, the hip-fire icon was OP as hell, in ArmA 3 it's at least a little bit more vague, but still too precise to be difficult.

I think it's sad I feel more inclined to start paying for a previously free version of DayZ rather than play the version I've already payed for. ATM I wouldn't make a monetary investment, but I also support resurrection on some level. Vanilla DayZ Mod was fun.

I know it's an alpha, but it's disgusting that they'd release a game, then several months later, after making zero appreciable progress (on our end) of zombies, they tell us that "Oh, well we're just going to redo the entire engine again because it can't do what we want." Why does it take them 8 months to realize that the A2.5 engine has terrible lighting? People have complained about it since day one, way even before DayZ Mod was a thing. So excuse me if I'm perfectly justified in being pissed off that they are throwing wrenches into their own machine by putting a time-delay on realizing all the flaws with ArmA rather than addressing them or, at least, clearly telling the people they sold this game to that they know all of the work they claim to be putting into the "New Engine" or "Hybrid Engine" or whatever buzz tag they use is bullshit and they're going to say, "Nah, we scrapped that work from before and we're redoing it again."

Wow. This game really defines the zombie apocalypse huh? (didn't run into a single zombie for after a minute of running around)

Maybe you haven't read any of my ramps about 3rd party communication applications, cheating, and the destruction of the multiplayer survival genre, but I'm a lone wolf mate. Sorry.

1: I didn't mean battle in the SA, I thought we could choose something like Contagion where I can tryhard-camp 2: Maybe we should team up.

This ^ If I felt like being helpful instead of admitting my jealous yesterday I would have said the same thing. When I'm rocking an 880M Rainbow, you and I are battling. There can only be so many Rainbowdashes on one forum... <3

Nah no all those parts are like 6, 7 years old at least. You'd be lucky to push 20 in the cities, maybe 30 in the forest. Jk I'm super jealous...

0.49 Uninstall until the game works

1: That's how they're supposed to work; just because you're talking into a radio doesn't mean people around can't hear you (unless you whisper into it, which isn't an option...) 2: If I have a radio, I've got a battery in it and it's on. I've heard things every now and then. Someone kept saying something like "Yeah yeah I'm at the hospital... nonono turn around... yeah the one in Elektro..." like he was giving directions to a really lost player. I was trying to find him (so I could kill hiim and his friend) and unfortunately Elektro was completely empty :( I wasn't able to talk back to them as far as I know. I kept trying to say things like "*heavy breathing* It's so nice... to see... a friendly face... in Elektro...mwahahaha..." They either didn't hear me or didn't react. I felt like a dork.