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In light of the recent posts, I'll retract my former statement regarding "missions". All of the ideas that were posted after my post have really fleshed out the idea and made it pretty appealing... I was just picturing "wasteland style" missions and couldn't help but cringe... 200 page bump

I'm interested. Haven't really found a Epoch server I like yet, and I'm not currently Administering on any other servers. I have a massive appreciation for fair and balanced gameplay and would love to be part of a server community that felt the same way. Steam: pyro4688 Skype: About to make a new account since after a year of DayZ playing I've got too many people I don't know on my personal one. I'll PM you it.

Making it essentially the same thing as Wasteland, just with zombies and fewer armored vehicles. I don't really like that mechanic, though I can't seem to articulate exactly why at the moment. EDIT: To me, simply having a big square box pop up in the right hand corner of the screen telling me about something going on in Chernarus seems immersion breaking... I'd rather be more concerned with surviving everything happening around me than with migrating 10k away to some "objective" that will probably be completed by the time I get there anyway... I dunno... I think it's mostly the immersion thing that bothers me.

My rig: AMD FX-4100 running at 3.8Ghz 8GB RAM @ 1866 GTX 660 3GB with a small OC 7200 RPM optical HD Windows 7 I'm getting ~15 FPS (20 max) in the big cities and only about 25-34 outside of the cities... I feel like I've tried every suggestion in every guide on these forums and can't seem to get a decent frame rate... The ONE thing I've noticed that might be an indicator of the problem, is that I've been monitoring my GPU's power consumption using EVGA Precision X, and it NEVER gets above 70%... Even with the settings maxed... It stays between 100-110% when playing BF4 and other games... Any ideas?

Thanks for the quick replies everyone... I had foolishly set the core count to 4... 2 makes a bit more sense for trying to get it to make the most of the CPU. I'll give everything a try and let you guys know what happens! EDIT: just changing the cpuCount to 2 has made a massive difference. 40-60 FPS outside of towns and 27-35 inside elektro. Downloading the Windows 7 hotfix for FX processors now... Ill let you know the results.

Umm... I have a quad core newish pc and a decent mid range newish card... problems are not solved...

My rig: AMD FX-4100 running at 3.8Ghz 8GB RAM @ 1866 GTX 660 3GB with a small OC 7200 RPM optical HD Windows 7 I've gone through every friggin tutorial and guide to maximizing FPS and I still get 5-15 FPS when running around in Elektro. And only about 25-30 outside of the cities. I've tried putting the load on my CPU and on the GPU, and there seems to be almost no difference. I assumed it was pretty much the same for everyone until I was Het's post. He's got a pretty similar set-up in terms of speed but seems to outperforming me in spades... I need help :( EDIT2: If anyone is using an AMD FX processor, they should add -cpuCount=2 to the launch parameters if it's a quad core or -cpuCount=3 if its a 6 core... This just about doubled my FPS. EDIT: In the ARMAOA cfg file, I had already changed the GPU_detectedframesahead to 1, and decided to try setting GPU_MaxFramesAhead to 1 as well. This resulted in a small boost to my FPS. I was able to get no less than 17 FPS running through Elektro, the only problem was that my computer was freezing for about 2 seconds, once every minute or so... Should I try setting MazFramesAhead to... I dunno, 50? Also, should I expect to get any better than a steady 17-24 FPS running through Elektro with my rig? I just want to know when I should give up trying to make it better...

Honestly, that right there is the best advice. I dunno if I'd watch too many youtube videos and such as I fell like it takes away from the adrenaline of initially just trying to survive.

They've fixed a lot of bugs over the past year and a half, so a lot of the prior threads in this forums will probably give you a lot of misinformation. I'll give you just a couple basic tips that should help you avoid a lot of frustrations as a first time player. -If you try to put an item in your backpack and the backpack is full, the item will be destroyed. -Sometimes, dropping a backpack on the ground will cause it to disappear, If you have a backpack with stuff in it, and come across a new one, "open" the new backpack and move everything from the old backpack to the new one, then drop the old one and pick up the new one. -Zombies can, and will, glitch through walls and hit you if you're right on the other side of the wall. -Pressing "V" vaults you over a fence or other low object, however trying to "climb" onto rocks, stacked pipes, etc. by pressing "v" will sometimes get you stuck in a rock and break your leg. -You can drive a vehicle/ride a bike with a broken leg. This is extremely helpful if you don't have morphine. -Server lag can cause a bit of delay between shooting someone and having them die. If you need to shoot a player or zombie, Light them the fuck up and then get back behind cover. It sucks to trade deaths. I'll post other things if I think about 'em I still play Vanilla, send me a PM or add me to your steam friends list: "Pyro4688" if you're looking for anyone to play with. Edit: Welcome to Chernarus!

Klad's solution seems pretty plausible, I would give that a shot. Also, this reddit post describes something similar that seems to be related to windows 8.1 http://www.reddit.com/r/dayz/comments/1rn9gm/windows_81_causes_dayz_lag/

Only 4 more pages until we hit the magical "200" mark!! I like the prediction made a few pages ago that Alpher will release when this thread hits page 200! Quick! everyone post "it's happening" memes!

Thats "i5" in the title not "15"... but regardless that rig should be caking it. I think I've heard that ARMA doesn't like Win8.1 or SSD's or some combination of Win8.1 and ARMA installed on an SSD... You could try parking all but 2 cores on the CPU as well, but I can't imagine that that's an issue. I'm kind of at a loss... Send a PM to AmberHelios through these forums, He's a developer and will probably be your best bet for a solution.

I know... I just enjoy playing conductor on the hype train... It's obvious that nothing will ever be habeding...

I can't quite figure out why you believe Commander sucks... I've never used WithSix, but commander is so damn easy to use I can't really imagine anything working better....

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Deep shit bro. #PostPostModernism

I believe you're right on with this. There won't be much of a warning, but they'll probably be on for close to an hour for stress testing so I'm sure someone will notice. Also, I think they'd love to release it around thanksgiving to try to slip it under peoples' radar. *Insert "It's Happening" meme*

Don't forget that because of the way the scaling works, all they need to do is break that 25 player threshold with stability and they should have no problems scaling all the way up to 50. I think we need to keep our eyes on the test server tomorrow morning... Also remember that all the servers are ready to go, so once we see that 30+ player threshold on the test server for an hour, alpha release should be imminent.

LoL I love this. America in a nutshell. Sure its big, heavy, impractical, gaudy, and redundant.... But I want one... When he listed off all the attachment I laughed so hard O.J. came out my nose.

I think there should be an option to loot the player "only if the coast is clear/body is close/not out in the open" I will leave a body if its in an open area and the gunfight was drawn out at all. Otherwise: Loot. Bury.

Line of sight is very very important. I am always checking which way a zed is facing as I'm trying to pick my way through them. I crouch walk/run everywhere and get very little aggro, if ever, simply because I'm making sure a zed isn't facing directly at me before I start to move. I, personally, think the aggro is pretty great right now... I can almost always avoid it... but there are times where a zombie 80-90 meters away happens to be looking in my direction, and I don't notice until it's too late. So, its not too easy to avoid aggro... I dunno. I think it's good the way it is... I think the way you prevent people from sprinting through a town is to make the zombie path-finding better... which obviously can only happen in the SA. As far as the mod is concerned, I think increasing the "knock-down punches" from zeds is the only easy way to make sprinting through a town more risky.

It depends on how much stronger... right now night-time is an absolute cake-walk... It's far too easy to avoid zombies... I would absolutely still play at night so long as the zombies couldn't smell me from 100m away or whatever OP suggested. I just think there should be more of them and/or they should wander around a bit more and/or they should do more damage and/or be tougher to kill... Right now I tend to only play at night as I feel that it is insanely easy... To me, that's a problem...

Yeah, I didn't like having to choose yes or no, as I'm kind of in a grey area myself... But in retrospect I like that it's a flat out "yes" or "no" question. It's showing me that despite that fact that most of us use 3rd person and are somewhat opposed to first person only, it wouldn't stop us from buying the game and trying it out.

...Love it...

How have I played this game for a year without knowing that... SonufaBeach... I think I always just assumed that it wasn't something you could disable... Cheers