monkie

as long as you dont think a new pc will greatly improve the way the game runs, because you will be extremely disappointed. as far as i know the only people that have reasonable, and i mean reasonable not good, performance are those with modern cpu's that are overclocked.

thats a pretty good question, i didnt realise Arma 3 alpha was coming so soon, but if arma 3 fixes the problem with multiplayer CPU/GPU performance and dayz SA doesnt because its on the old engine i might give dayz SA a miss.

very true, but it is also true that the more popular a given thing becomes the more people will feel the need to comment, you will always have these schisms its human nature it seems, people become invested and believe only they know what true purity is. i hope those involved can see that it isnt really about them, its stupid humans. p.s. i can just see the headlines, dean hall developer of the popular game dayz is advocate for the seal clubbing industry. ;) p.p.s. im going to be shameless and say, please please can you use your influence to get BIS to fix multiplayer in the arma 2 engine, everyones CPU is running at 50% capacity and their GPU at 30%, you have the power! (sorry) :P

im sorry? i dont have a account on reddit, i had absolutely no clue about the "bean can issue", i checked a thread about the new hotfix to see what it was fixing, and saw the post. now its a simple fact of life that if someone realises they are wrong and says so publicly, says sorry, it is a good thing. i also suggest you work on your insults, they are not very impressive at all, now if i wanted to insult you over what you said to me i would say something like: have you had a look at the warz forum lately, i think you would feel at home there. :) or considering where you are from maybe before you insult me you should keep in mind that im paying for the fact that you didnt pay any taxes. :) i hope this makes you realise it is not a good idea to insult people based upon where you think they are from or where you think they should go. ;) back on topic, for the short time i played the patch the experience was smooth and i didnt notice anything game breaking.

chernarus is a proud european nation, free from the imperialist designs of the british crown, it is only right we drive on the right!

you realise he actually took the time to say sorry, right? :)

well your graphics card seems to be most of the budget the OP says he has for the whole upgrade unless im reading it wrong, and at that price i would hope it runs dayz at decent FPS. compared to the in game benchmarks multiplayer drops my FPS by about 50%, i use a i5@3.0GHZ and a 650TI but im not playing at 1080p.

i thought by sticking my tongue out people would realise that part of my comment wasnt that serious, i meant that he shouldnt worry to much about dying when getting used to the game, it happens, for all kinds of odd reasons. i havent had any bad experiences in dayz, interesting ones, frustrating ones, but not bad. :)

im not sure those benchmarks mean anything, they are probably right for single player but i doubt that test included multiplayer. if you run msi afterburner and HWiNFO64 (both free), enable the on screen display for cpu and gpu and then start up dayz you are going to be in for a surprise, i have a gtx650TI and only run at 1650x1080, i get poor FPS and my CPU and GPU are running at 50% and 30% capacity. see: http://dayzmod.com/f...th-poor-mp-fps/

you are going to end up dead in the forest anyway, trust me :P there are quite a few video's on youtube that will help you in your quest to survive

i would strongly suggest downloading MSI afterburner and HWiNFO64, enabling the overlay so you see your GPU and CPU utilisation in the game before you purchase anything.

"we" all know there are 100's of threads about tweaking arma to get decent performance online, the same is true of the BIS forum, and the bug tracker at devheaven. i am one of the 1000's (if not many more) who in the last year paid money for arma II purely for the multiplayer experience, to play dayz (and recently wasteland). there are many people who upgraded their PC in the hope of improving performance, as i did, there are many who tried every tweak there is to improve performance, as i did. after upgrading and tweaking i was shocked to find out that my CPU and GPU were running far below maximum. in multiplayer games/modes based on arma my CPU load is around 50% and my GPU around 30%. BIS is aware of these issues but say that they cant or wont fix this, as can be seen on the bugtracker at devheaven: https://dev-heaven.net/issues/6963 https://dev-heaven.net/issues/59932 now i know some people will say that its a old game, i should not complain, but BIS is still selling this product, they have sold a lot of units in the last year based purely on the multiplayer experience, together with rocket they are now developing dayz SA based on a version of this engine, considering this i dont think its too much to ask for them to use some of those resources to fix this issue for the good of all, dayz SA, dayz the mod, and for all the other cool mods and missions that are still hugely popular. i know that rocket has said that some improvements have been made for dayz SA, since i am not a developer i have no idea of those improvements have anything to do with this issue that BIS wouldnt fix in the past, but if they are i would like to appeal to rocket to make these improvements available to vanilla arma II OA, if they are not i would like to appeal to rocket to have BIS allocate time to properly look at this issue. there is still one open issue/bug on devheaven that has not been closed/rejected that is related to this problem, but it hasnt been assigned and its priority is set to normal, it was started in 2011 and was last updated 7 months ago, which i find disappointing for such a massive lack of performance. https://dev-heaven.net/issues/26297 maybe if people here that purchased arma II in the last year and have similar issues could add their experiences something can be done about this. i expect to be criticized by some fans for posting this, but i hope people understand that i too love this game/engine, and i hope that if you read this and have similar issuess that you spare the time to at least post a quick message saying that you agree this should be fixed. :)

well, BIS seems to be a "oldschool" developer in that they update their products and encourage modding, it can make sense for a business to support its customers, a good reputation is valuable, many people bought a old game purely for the multiplayer experience, i dont think it is asking that much. this has already been taken up on the BIS forum in the past, and from what i undestand the basically the same engine is going to be used for standalone, many people purchased bis products for one reason only to play this mod. rocket now works for BIS, i think his game is now going to be a important product for BIS in the future, i think this is a excellent place to raise this issue :)

i dont get it, this game is hugely popular, you are arguing in the same way some economists do, expecting constant growth, or even a constant increase in the rate of growth. dayz had a huge rise in popularity in 2012, there are natural limits to how popular a game can become? if SA even manages to hold on to the popularity of the mod then i imagine it will be seen as a huge success,

im not a developer of pvp games so maybe im not the right person to ask that question? :P i assume you have played other pvp games in the past? most dont claim to be mil-sims, most are played on tiny maps, some have mini-maps that show a lot of information. all i know is that the developers of arma chose this method for a reason as they stated in the manual. please note that i havent personally defended the need for peripheral dots up to now, i can understand/see that sometimes they are too obvious, but i also think that they are there for a reason and taking them out should not be done lightly.

its not my court, nor my ball, but a reasonable answer to the question seems to be this: a simulation of real world peripheral awareness which is restricted by technology.. so while not perfect the dots are in arma for a good reason.

i will try to give you a serious answer by responding to a previous post you made to me this says that you do not fully understand what, in my eyes, makes dayz special, your viewpoint is so limited. you are defining success on the basis of cooperation, in theory this sounds warm and fuzzy, but it ignores reality, human beings are unpredictable, irrational, and dangerous, it does not matter what you do to constrain people it will never change that fact. so while i am a person who loves to cooperate, it is the fact that dayz exposes people for what they really are that makes this game thrilling, the fact that you dont know if the person you run into is going to be a complete lunatic or just another friendly person. with AI/NPC everything is completely predictable, there is no reason to fear, there is no confusion, everything is set in stone. there are so many games that offer only this, or only limited scope for human interactions on set paths limited by the developers views. there is nothing one can do with AI/NPC that would make me see them as anything other than window dressing, moving scenery. even if you never kill or act agressively towards another player dayz is defined by PvP, it is all about PvP, it is 100% pure PvP, and if you cant see that you are missing something. if dayz fails in the future i doubt it will be because of a lack of a endgame or missions or npc action, it will be because of human nature (ignoring dealing with cheating for a moment). for me dayz is the experiences i have now, and not some mythical end game i am working towards.

i dont use the word epic lightly, but to me dayz is epic because of the sandbox nature,perma-death and player interaction, not because of zombies or any other scripted/npc content. in other open worlds one sees the same, there are always creative people making their own stories, these stories resonate more than anything scripted ever can, i hope you hold on to this part of your vision for the game and dont listen to those people who lack imagination.

my system is worse than yours, i tried most of the tweaks suggested online but none of them have that much effect, i also play wasteland, if you have something like MSI afterburner or EVGA precision X you can monitor your GPU while in game, i was surprised to find it was only running at about 40% capacity in wasteland, in the vanila game on current settings i get about 85FPS in the benchmarks where the GPU runs at 95% capacity but lower FPS than you online. one thing that did seem to give me a boost was to set the arma OA .exe to run as adminstrator.

fair point about the abusive nature of posts towards people working on the mod in their free time but i would like to answer the blood bag question, i have no doubt that most human beings can self administer a blood bag and find a suitable vein, especially if one knows there is nobody else to do it and one is going to die if one doesnt. you only have to consider all the junkies that are shooting up as i speak, if they can find a vein while high as a kite why cant i if my life depends on it? same goes for infections due to using a blood bag, or other reasons, disinfection isnt rocket science, heat, alcohol, saline solution, various chemicals such as bleach and peroxide can be used, and would be used by anyone with a bit of common sense, and one would assume that in a zombie apocalypse those without common sense would already be dead?

except the devs said there was a bug with how the changes to the AI were implimented? im always amazed at these people that can type on the internet but seem to not know how to read. you seem to be taking rabid fanboy-ism to extremes, everyone that doesnt agree with your purer than pure interpretation of what dayz is meant to be is a cheat and you know better than the developers what was intended and what is a bug?

let me first say im not a programmer, nor a brainsurgeon or anything like that, but my dumb bit of lateral thinking on that is that if the only way to fix that arma 2 AI issue is to drop a weapon in the zeds hands why not do just that, take a crowbar, remove its texture (or let the zed hold another zeds bodypart), and reduce its damage to 0, or make it do the damage the zeds do to players now.

thankyou :) its good to hear from staff about this issue, and a lot more pleasant than being told to f-off to COD that some others here seem to think is the way to respond to issues people have ;)

is this now the warz forum? rabbid fanboys shouting down anyone who doesnt see things exactly the way the developer(s) chose to implement things? some of the comments along the line of "fix the zombie glitches before making them harder" and "why make it tougher for solo players" seem fair comment to me. i dont know how experienced in life some of the people making comments like yours are but do you really expect everyone to agree with everything all the time? maybe its me but i presume that people voicing concerns about features or directions the game is going in are far more valueable to developers than fawning yes-men.

not that im german, but the way i understand it the OP says the clan has edited Taviana to add a base for themselves complete with a petrol and repair station, all the vehicles are in the base and if you kill a admin they do a rollback. When asking the admin about bases the admin says they can build you one for 10-20 US dollars.