JaTochNietDan

Fuck.

Well thanks for clarifying what you meant by synthetic, which was actually what I knew all along about how that specific benchmark measures performance through calculations rather than actually playing a game of course (aka, a real world scenario). Considering all games are coded differently, make use of different technologies and may work better with some hardware than it does with others (regardless of the synthetic benchmark data). So of course, the actual real world performance is going to be different depending on the game and various other factors. Though as the article you linked yourself says, these benchmarks still provide useful data, they are not as useless as you might have made them seem in your original post. You can still compare cards on a wide spectrum of the exact same benchmark, which provides consistency, not to mention thousands of different samples collected from different machines giving an average rating. It doesn't tell you anything about the real world scenario of course, but it does tell you about the quality of these cards on this specific benchmark, which is totally unbiased about how it obtains the results. I don't know if I made what I mean clear enough to you, I'm not as articulate as I would hope. I would love for more benchmarks like the one nVidia did with Max Payne 3, where they showed the FPS running at what resolution and what settings with a range of GPUs. Those good benchmarks though are few and far between, I've never been able to find them for games. The best I've found are useless system requirements testers and the like, which as we all know, tell you nothing. Anyway, thanks for clarifying the terminology you were using (it's a good term). Would just like to clarify on your final point, I like to see it as this rather than what you said: Synthetic benchmarks are a good indication of how powerful your GPU can be, but not a good indication of how it performs in certain games and/or software. Maybe you can agree with that.

I did compare those three on the aforementioned website, the result was actually pretty much the same as the quote (which lacks a source) that you cited. Also, what exactly do you mean by synthetic benchmarks? Care to elaborate?

If WarZ has everything they promised, then I would be mostly playing that for sure. However it's impossible to know at this stage, not only have we not been able to play the game yet, we haven't even been able to see the game in action. All we hear are details about how it will work, but hearing and seeing are different things altogether. If they delivery on everything they said they would, it would be pretty awesome, but who knows what DayZ holds in the future too? It's impossible to know at this stage and I also hate how people feel they have to quit one game to play the other. It's really simple, you just play the one that feels right to you, the one that gives you the most entertainment. Maybe sometimes you will feel like playing DayZ, other times WarZ, or maybe you won't feel like playing either of them any more. Just play it if you like it, simple as. As regards to making a decision on which one I will like better though, well that's impossible because one game is in alpha and the other hasn't even had any gameplay footage released.

That was bloody awesome, best DayZ video I've seen so far :)

Has always worked fine for me in the past. Can you provide an explanation as to why it's not accurate or telling the "truth"? You must have some evidence that you're willing to provide to backup your statement, otherwise there is no point in making it now is there? Sure individual game benchmarks would help, but only if they were for this specific game. So indeed, if you have a link to benchmarks for the aforementioned graphics processing units in this thread for ArmA 2, then please feel free to post them here.

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html Look at the benchmarks and compare your cards. You usually pretty much get what you pay for these days. Although specifically for DayZ, I'm not sure if it works better with nVidia or ATI, we'd have to do a few tests to figure that one out.

He means unofficial servers, ones that don't connect to the hive, which is a central database that holds all of the information about your character. Therefore your progress doesn't save on a server that is not connected to the hive.

Yeah I added to my post, you can luck out too by having configurations that just agree with games that are not optimised well sometimes. It's just unpredictable.

Might want to do an upgrade, your graphics card and CPU are pretty outdated. I would say your CPU more than anything, it only has a Passmark benchmark rating of 3,700, which is pretty low end quad core nowadays. The graphics card isn't as bad, with almost a 2k rating. The game isn't optimised well at all, it should run on your system but it won't and there really isn't any way to improve it further software wise without the game being optimised (probably would have to be completely rewritten) and nothing major is going to happen with ArmA III right on the horizon. You'll have to upgrade to get more FPS though unfortunately. Sounds like you've done as much as you possibly can though as far as software is concerned. I've got high end specifications (much higher than yours) and I still only get around 40 FPS in major towns, depending on the amount of bodies around and stuff. Everywhere else I get between 60 and 80 FPS. It just seems like you need to either completely overpower the game or else luck out on having a configuration that the game agrees with.

It's the best $30 I spent in years (although I bought the game a year ago). I've gotten about 100 hours out of the game so far which is great compared to a ton of other games that cost around the same and only offer around 20 hours of gameplay, even if you strive to do absolutely everything you can possibly do within the game's mechanics.

Agreed, I've heard some people I know suggest this too and I'm flabbergasted as to why you'd want these kinds of things added to DayZ (especially the removal of PvP, the most exciting part of the game). Adding more tools to give players power over the world is what I would like. I like this game because it's the players that make the gameplay, the game only provides the tools necessary to do so. I mean they can suggest it all they want, everyone has a right to their opinion, but I just hope that these particular suggestions are never added to DayZ. If people want a Left 4 Dead style game, it already exists!

Seems to run the game just fine on 1920x1080 with most of the settings on highish.

70 hours of game time here so far and I disagree with you that DayZ fails and is not fun. It's in its early stages, the core concept is awesome and all we can do is wait for it to grow and provide feedback on stuff that's being tested. More end-game content will be added at some stage as rocket said he was going to focus on that, which is important because it gives people real purpose to play once they have gotten really well geared. I'm looking forward to those updates but you just have to keep in mind that things like this take time to develop, it's early yet. Also, it doesn't need to be realistic, it just needs to be fun. Like Rocket himself has said before, suspension of disbelief, not pure realism. It is quite fun now and it will only get more fun over time as more and more features are added and they grow in complexity with time.

JaTochNietDan's Story - Day 1 (Part 1) I ran into a town that was seemingly called "Electrozavodsk" in Russian (luckily I had learned Russian when I was growing up) looking for some sort of weapon or maybe even survivors. All I currently had on me was a hatchet and an M1911 with around 7 rounds left. I saw some fellow running from the factory at the back of Electrozavodsk and then he saw me. He pointed his Revolver at me, I panicked and decided to open fire before he did. He immediately got down, unfortunately I was too far away and all my shots missed, except one which hit him in lower chest and left him bleeding. He ran in behind a little shed and I assumed that he had started bandaging, so I quickly decided that with no ammo left, I had no other choice and ran his direction with a hatchet. Next thing I know bullets are flying towards me, blackness. I wasn't dead. I was still breathing, but heavily injured. I regained conciousness and saw the attacker crawling towards me, probably to loot me. He must have assumed that I was dead. I quickly stood up and ran towards him, hatchet in hand, swinging wildly. The hatchet came down with sickening, crushing force on his skull several times, leaving the man disfigured and ultimately...dead. I looted his body and took his Revolver, he had plenty of ammo to go with it. The story doesn't end there. I decide to head off into the wilderness, this life of war isn't for me. As I'm running out the road from the factory out of Electro, I hear shots from multiple directions whizzing passed my skull at ferocious speeds. I run and run, looking in every direction as I run forward and bullets zoom passed me in an attempt to see where at least one of the attackers was shooting from. I finally spot one, far off in the forest, he notices that I spot him. I manage to get behind a small wall and lay low for a couple of seconds, before making a run through thick lines of hedges and trees. Bullets continue to fly passed my head ferociously, the attackers were getting a little bit more desperate. As I continued running forward, I eventually lose sight of the attackers, I'm now in the forest to the west of where I last saw the attacker. I climb up high in the forest before going back east in the general area where I saw one of my attackers. I estimated how far east I had gone and started heading back downhill, through the dense forest, looking around anxiously for any sign of the attacker. I jumped as I saw my shadow go across a tree at one point. Then I see him, he's near the bottom of the hill at the edge of the forest, he looks shaken. He is moving around quickly, looking in the direction that I was when he originally started shooting at me, clearly he was not aware that I had flanked him. I was too far away to take a shot with the Revolver, so I slowly made my way towards him, using the dense forestry to make sure that if he happened to turn around in my direction, he would not see me. Thankfully, he never did turn around. I got as close as I was comfortable with and hid behind a tree, waiting for the right moment. He paused, looking anxiously around where I had been previously, I could smell his fear. I pointed my gun at his back and took a shot. Blood gushed out of his lower back immediately and my attacker gasped in tremendous pain. I didn't want to give him any chance of redemption, so I shot at him 2 more times. One bullet hit him in the arm and another hit him through the neck, blood gushed out as he fell to the ground grasping his neck with his hand. There was no doubt now, he was dead. I checked his body and boy was I in luck. He had a DMR with 4 clips, an M1911 with 5 clips, night vision goggles, a toolbox, an entrenching kit, a map, a GPS device, a couple of bandages, morphine, painkillers, cooked meat, soda drinks and some canned food. There was an immense feeling of satisfaction, this man had set out to kill me and take my hard earned spoils, but I had gotten the best of someone who clearly should have gotten the best of me. It felt like I could walk into the forest and live happily ever after, I could stay away from all of these heavily populated areas of death and destruction. Avoid the stench of death and the sound of flies buzzing around dead, deformed bodies. I could live free in the wilds, I had all of the equipment I needed to hunt animals, gut them, make a fire and cook the meat. I could find a water source in a safe area and fill it up whenever I needed with my newly acquired water bottles. Looking back on it, maybe that's what I should have done. To be continued....