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You can make a high-end graphics engine that supports lots of players on the server. Graphics aren't necessarily what limits the amount of players. Most of the graphics and geometry can be handled locally. So for me, option 1 is the obvious answer, even if it did limit the player base somewhat due to higher demands on peoples own pc's.

If possible, wipe my gear, not my character. I stayed alive for two months, no duplicated gear, no cheats. Would be a bit sad to let that awesome run just disappear. No big deal though.

The stationary PC will definitely run Arma 2 well enough at low, but your GPU is the main issue I think. The laptop will also run it but probably not as well. Don't expect super performance, but if you can live with low settings, I think you can hit 30 FPS easily enough.

To all hackers: PRO-TIP! Arma 2 has an editor that lets you try ANYTHING YOU WANT. Want 60 ATV's and a battleship? GO TO THE EDITOR. Leave DayZ to be played the way it was meant to be played.

* [NEW] ACE mod feutures and ST_Movement and ST_Collision added to Dayz ^THIS * [NEW] Players now spawn with a Czech vest pouch --- patrol pack is small enough i think * [NEW] Coyote Patrol Packs now spawn and could be found as a loot. Assault back pack spawn chance increased. ^AND THIS * [NEW] Beans, sardines and pasta cans spawn chance decreased --- agreed * [NEW] Soda cans spawn chance decreased. --- agreed * [NEW] Bloodbags spawn chance decreased. --- agreed ^AND THIS All good. While it may never happen, it is a good post. You have my beans.

Why don't you all just STAY AWAY from places that don't offer you anything? Think the north is pointless? Stay in Cherno! As if you'd complain that the level 20 areas in a MMORPG wasn't useful to your level 80 character. All content in the game isn't always made with your playing style in mind. Just accept that some of us LIKE the north, the emptiness and loneliness creates atmosphere.

For EVERYONE with these kinds of issues: I've played DayZ for 4 months. I've never seen a hacker. Found that choice of server is important for your ping. Learned how to avoid death by ladder and death by door. (Just don't turn, crawl or do sudden movements, basically). Been killed maybe 10-15 times, often by bandits, a few times by zombies, occasionally by stupid mistakes. Once by a door, once by a ladder. Log in speed: How is it an issue? Sometimes you have to spend maybe 2 minutes to get in? 3? Get yourself a cup of coffee and sit down, chill. The game is popular, don't tell me other popular online games don't suffer just as much or more from bad ping. Find a stable server or two and play on those. Always. The zombies pathfinding: Yes Arma 2 isn't good indoors. And the zombies aggro easily sometimes. Maybe they catch your scent. JUST SHOOT THEM OR HIDE INSIDE. It is easy to shake them off now. Why do you want predictable zombies? So you can "farm the boss" because they never surprise you? I'd rather have random zombies any day. Zig-zagging zombies are cool to me because they make it hard to hit them. Server admins: Yep, some are a-holes. Definitely. It is a problem. Hopefully they'll get shut down when they abuse the server rights. Finally: ALPHA. ALPHA ffs.

You are wrong. Yes, loot is scarce sometimes, especially in those towns. But so are players. I've survived for 40 days regularly visiting the NWAF, thanks to being able to retreat to the towns in the north. It is a safe place from players. (if you really are scared of the "zombie hordes", you need to get a bit better at survival because the zombies are your least concern). For example, Lopatino has lots of vehicle parts and industrial sheds, making it ideal for kitting out a car. There are several vehicle spawns nearby (Hatchback, ATV, Ural, Heli). Some places offer loot, some places offer solitude and safety. And it is also quite easy to set up camp in those areas, at least for a day or so before it is discovered. Keep the north as it is. Need your loot rush? You have Cherno, Stary, Elektro, Berezino, Zelenogorsk, Gorka, 3 airfields. And if all those seem to scary for you, there are loads of deerstands where to zombie hordes will leave you alone and the military gear is ripe.

I move my left hand instinctively towards the push-to-talk button before talking to my girl. True story.

As many have pointed out, Battleye doesn't work in that way, you won't get banned from picking up hacked stuff, as long as you didnt hack it in yourself. At least that is the opinion of many fine folk. Better to be on the safe side though.

To equip hatchet: Move the rifle to your backpack (which you select by clicking and choosing "open bag"), then right click the hatchet, select use as weapon. To equip rifle: Right click hatchet, choose "move to toolbelt", then open backpack by clicking it and choosing "open bag", and move your rifle out of the backpack.

Tackar! Did try this solution but the other way around, from default to very high, since apparently the RAM-limit of Very High was removed in a recent patch. I guess I'll just switch it back and see what happens.

I also do quite a lot of tabletop RPGing, I know what you mean with the importance of building connections to your character. Maybe I'm just slightly more optimistic that by creating those connections, you can make a lot of pvp:ers into rpg:ers. Griefers will always be griefers though, but at least it is harder to respawn now.

^this And it is not GPU-related, folks. It might be a conflict between GPU drivers, DirectX and Arma2 but it is not your hardware that is causing it. Wild guess: it is related to the server giving out bad model information, telling you to load a model you shouldn't be able to load or don't have, or that is corrupted and can't handle the new graphics options. It happened to my entire group at the same time near Balota yesterday, on a fully upgraded server. We all got graphical artifacts at the same time, making me pretty sure it is server-related.