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I'm sorry how did that contribute to the conversation?

Thanks I'm going to try to play on some of these servers people sent me and give it another shot. It's the only game I have ever just purchased a new video card ( even though it didn't help) to play and it's the only game I'll endure 15 frames a second for. I was so amazed by this game and am sorry if I annoyed people complaining about the hackers but I am just experiencing the frustration about it, and when I finally got my first kill and then got banned for hacking it just pissed me off to no end. I'm a noob, I never had sniper rifle I was so excited to get one :(

Thank you, I heard that name somewhere, barlota, I'm going to try that. I had some helpful members here actually PM me with some server Ips to try too, it seems that Day z has a good community for the most part and that's a very important thing!

I'm sorry if you're sick about the same rant, this is the first time I posted about the hacking. I'm sure nobody has ranted about getting banned for hacking the first time they killed someone.

Thank you! Don't worry, people that grammar nazi like that are just children who want to look smart so that they can feel better. It's the internet, I could care less if I make a typing mistake.

I'll take your word for it, I want to like this game but I was so pissed off after what happened. I'll try the stand alone when it comes out, there have been several members here that have messaged me with servers that are better so i'm going to try them, i'm glad some people are helpful other than 12 year old kids like macbre that just try to fight everyone on the forums.

I did some research on it and I believe you'd need at least an I5 to play this decently, and probably a 550 TI at least but I'm no professional, not sure about amd and radeon. The standalone is supposed to be less resource intensive but it does still use the amra engine.

Thank you for the people that gave me honest answers, as for Creep, Macbre, and Josshill do the world a favor and go take a bullet. Constructive criticism is what helps improve a game, 12 year old trolls that are up past their bed time that are probably hacking are what ruins the game. Idiots.

I know people will flame me because I'm complaining, whatever, maybe expressing this will somehow improve the game, I can only hope so because Day Z is the kind of game I really really want to force myself to like but every time I play it I end up banging my head against my keyboard saying WHY WHY WHY. I'm a 35 year old man who grew up with computers and Nintendo so I still play games, I own a web design company so whatever insult me all you want to I'll game until I die. I started playing Day Z because I like playing games between work when I'm building a website. Hell at first I liked the game so much I dropped $300 on GT 660 TI because I thought the reason my framerate was so bad was because of my 550 TI, read up and found out that it was my CPU, Intel Q9300 ain't enough to run the Arma 2 engine. I get my new card and dive into this game. I didn't read many guides because I felt the best way to enjoy the game is to learn it from experience. I learned a few things right away, even though this game is all about survival and has the hash perm death penalty, you will get killed by hackers constantly. The Arma 2 engine must be one of the worst engines for security that the computer industry has ever seen. I have never seen a game hacked so much in my life, but you've probably heard that already and don't want to hear it. So trying to force myself to play it I start researching how to find a server that has no hackers, I try the BMRF (Billy mays relief foundation) that requires a whitelist to play on. My 2nd day on the server after for the first time I find a nice gun I find someones tent in the middle of the woods. As soon as I start looting it someone teleports to me (I think I don't know that much about it) and shoots me one time in the head while i'm hiding under a tree and kills me. I quit the server and don't come back, obviously the only thing a whit elist means on the BMRF server is that hackers are more careful and not obvious. I then find this server called gamers-dream.com and think hey it's a private hive with a white list, I'll give it one more shot. I play on this server for a total of 6 hours, FINALLY find my first car and am so thrilled. Hide it in the woods and go to sleep, wake up today and am thrilled that it's still there. I never knew they stayed like that but I figured I'd try it just in case. Get ready to head out and a hacker joins the server even though it's a private hive with a whitelist, teleports everyone to the center of the map. I instantly turn my computer off in hopes that I disconnect before I die from the hacker. I go onto the gamer-dream forums and report that there is a hacker on the server, they say it's safe to go back on so I sign back in. Now I venture to a town and start looking for a gascan because I need to fuel up the car. I start shooting zombies and one of the admins starts trying to shoot me with a sniper rifle. He missed once so I run to where the sound came from while kind of zig zagging to make myself harder to hit, he then shoots again and misses, and I see him laying on the ground in a camo suite (Guile I think? or something like that ). I walk right up and shotgun him in the face and kill him in one hit. What happens after I get my FIRST player kill in day z? Yes my first kill after working for it for weeks? I get banned from the server because the crybaby admin says something about godmode which I've never heard of and bans me. All my weapons I found, my first car, all gone. I never got to loot the corpse of the first person i killed because it happened to be a crybaby admin who couldn't handle getting shot gunned in the face. I have now uninstalled Amra2 and I don't know if I'll be spending my time with the standalone. My experience with this mod has been the worst gaming experience of my lifetime, and that says a lot because I've played online since Quake1. You get killed by hackers and then when you finally land your first kill and you are excited about it, you get banned because an admin can't handle the fact that you killed them? I'm not complaining about the developer, I can't remember his name but I remember Rocket hehehe, I think he did an amazing job on the mod, I just think it's built on the worst engine in the history of video games and that completely ruins the game. My suggestions if anyone cares for the standalone would be improving the efficiency of the engine, a Gt 660 TI should not be getting 15 frames a second. I'd also advise if you're going to make it perm death please for the love of God stop the hackers. They in their own way cost this game another player, the admin even though he's a crybaby on the server probably would not of have thought I was hacking if there weren't so many hackers destroying the day every second of the day. On the other hand, thank you who ever made this, it tried to force myself to like this game because it's just the PERFECT zombie survival game, but the hackers and the terrible admins have just ruined it for me. I wish you the best of luck with the Stand alone and even though I can't stand the game because of how I've been treated in it, I will still try to recommend it to other people....

I have found this game to be unplayable on my computer even at lower resolutions which I find to be extremely strange. I don't have the best computer out there, but it should easily be able to handle this game at lower resolutions. I have played many games, borderlands 2, skyrim, etc, and have gotten acceptible frame rates at 1920x1080, however this game, I can't manage to get 10 frames a second at half the resolution. I don't have the best system, but it should still handle this game: Intel Quad Core Q9300 Zotac Geforce 550TI Overclocked edition with 1 gig of ram (DDR5) 4 gigs of DDR3 ram (not that much, but this isn't the problem) 2 Sata 2 7200 RPM hard drives in a raid 0 array I have read this forums and have tried everything to no avail. I have tried playing with launch options, setting -winxp even though that's just for mutiple GPU's. I've tried setting my core count to 4, does nothing. I've tried setting my graphics in the game settings to high so it uses GPU, does absolutely thing. I've tried the trick where you edit the config file in my documents and set the two values to 1 on the prerender frames, does nothing. This is the only game I can't play, and the regular version of the game without the day z mod works fine, it's only the day z mod that kills the system and drops me down to 10 frames a second in cities and makes the game unplayable. This mod has a problem with Nvidia based cards and works better on ATI's from what I"m reading as I've even seen people with GTX 660's having the same frame rate problems. I will not buy an ATI/AMD card just to play one game, so does anyone have any idea how to make this game work on an Nvidia chipset? The only people having problems with the frame rates are usually people with NVidia graphics cards.