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Graphic settings seem to matter little if you can already run Arma II. I have a computer that can run Arma but not Dayz and settings options to low/high doesn't seem to matter much. This leads me to believe it's mainly a processor issue. Also there must be other code mixed in the same thread as the drawing thread, or they didn't separate out the drawing thread properly. Otherwise the game should slow down but not the rate of screen update/drawing.

You could, you know, wait until the game is finished if you want.

The fps slow down a lot whenever zombies present now. Even more if they are actively engaged in the player. On the flip-side it runs much better when there are no zombies.

What the hell. I've never seen this kind of request on work in progress before. I've played many in development games, usually from start up indies and they are usually lazy as hell, take months to change a couple numbers in their code etc. Rocket seems to actually be working on this and someone wants him to stop? Nonsense.

Uh....they like to play games like a lot of other people? I think you'll find the same amount of Russian people playing other games that allow both countries on the same server. I guess maybe you've never played a game that allowed multiple countries to join the same server before?

Minefield/guns/etc seems like a cheesy game trope ;). Other than that, I think if people aren't allowed to place vehicles in no-mans land there isn't a need to have an expiration date on them. All locations on the main map can be searched by someone eventually, so besides outside the boundaries there is no real way to hide your vehicle for good. I believe leaving the vehicles permanent works better than moving them back to the spawn. Instead of having to come up with random spawn locations to prevent spawn camping, it works itself out by vehicles being hidden/changing hands/hidden again.

In this case if you logged out of the server and reconnected it would be daylight again for you. Does anyone understand my previous post explaining this? I'm not sure I am explaining this correct, it is a bit complicated to explain. I'm referring to the fact there is only ONE time sent by the server. Your computer goes on it's own after that.

My going tech support rate is $50/hr :)

The key numbers are encoded or something in the registry. They won't look like the cd key you have.

I was under the impression the steam version would automatically change the registry to the person logged in. Seems strange it kept your key after an uninstall. I would try manually deleting that registry entry and re installing the game. If that doesn't fix it/find the problem I don't know what will.

I answered a thread I had on this earlier that might be of interest: http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=12236&pid=129841#pid129841 Also, I've heard that when you log into another steam account, steam will change the registry entry for that account, but a non-steam version will not.

So I tested it and it looks like you only need to purchase Operation Arrowhead to have 2 separate characters if you already have combined ops. It saves the key needed in the registry, which you'll need to copy from your first install and then install the second one to get both keys. You don't even need to install the second OA copy on the same computer or run it; I installed it on an old pc that couldn't run Arma so I could get access to the registry entry. The key your looking for is found here: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Bohemia Interactive Studio\ArmA 2 OA If you navigate to that in your registry you can open the "key" entry to get the codes needed. If your running Windows XP you can ignore the "Wow6432Node" part. Now once you have the two entries you can create a couple .reg files that will allow you to just double click on it to swap keys. I used texpad to create mine, but had to make sure to save it as type ANSI or it wouldn't work. Put this in the files: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Bohemia Interactive Studio\ArmA 2 OA] "KEY"=hex:xx,xx,xx,xx,xx,xx,xx,xx,xx,xx,xx,xx,xx,xx,xx The "xx,xx,xx,xx,xx,xx,xx,xx,xx,xx,xx,xx,xx,xx,xx" part will be the code you found on each entry. Make a file for each character and save it as .reg. Now it's pretty simple to swap characters. Just double click the appropriate file before loading Arma, choose the profile you want in the game and play.

Thanks for the update. I like how the casual way this mod is going, and your willingness to take chances. Reminds me of days playing OFP with my friends. We would play a couple hours, mod some more, play a few more hours. All great fun and in the end led to the most fun maps to play ever.

Yea, Arma 2 has never had anything like you describe modded into it before. Never happens, only one type of game in this sandbox. http://cityliferpg.com/

It's not always an Arma II problem, but a DayZ mod problem. I can run Arma II fine, but when I try running DayZ it's a slideshow even if I'm in the middle of the forrest with no towns or zombies around. It must have a bunch of random loops running all the time or something. I dunno, Arma doesn't do this but DayZ makes it just run terrible.

I've never actually had much choice on servers once I found out the advantage bandits have on 3rd person view. There is only 2 servers with 1st person only that have decent ping in my area. I find it much easier to survive though as I can scope out a town for bandits since they have to look out windows in 1st person.

Well I bit the bullet and bought another CO package just to make sure. I'm going to attempt to only use the OA part of the purchase to test the theory though. I'll update this post with the results.

I used to roam, until I started using vehicles.

Banned? No, I'm talking about purchasing another copy of Arma so we can use two characters on the same computer.

There is no point bothering to argue the realism of night in this game because we are all playing on different monitors!

NO. A group of people won't be able to make the right decisions. Great ideas only get done with one person in the lead.