Andy Red

Great news! Was this FPS increase just from using an SD card or did you try any of the other tweaks with it?

Has there been any information or news about improving melee attacks and closing the gap between zombies hitting you from x amount of feet away? Or improving the hit test code between the player and zombies in melee combat? That's the only annoying thing for me is a zombie attacking me before I'm even close enough to melee range it's ass...

You know what, after your post i just looked it up and only just realized that an SD card is different to an SSD - sorry for the confusion! I thought they were the same thing lol. After reading up on SSDs and SDs, people are saying that a hard drive should still beat an SD card and that only an SSD would beat the speeds. But for some reason using the SD card for me seems to help with performance. I suppose now that my game runs nice and smooth I should try it out and see if there's a noticeable FPS difference between using my HD or SD.

I did this first, using Ram Disk software to put the DayZ folder in.However I kept forgetting to unmount the temporary drive when turning off my laptop so then when I turned it back on I kept getting the blue screen off death due to ram memory issues. Found the SD Card much easier just set it up and that's it and just as fast. I'm thinking of getting a bigger SD card as you suggested to put all my game files on, so it'll help boost everything I play but I may wait a few weeks for that or put it on my Christmas list off the wife lol.

Thanks guys! Hope it helps someone out rather than them having to spend a week tweaking stuff like I did lol.

It's funny seeing people say "oh look they tested with 25 people it will be out tomorrow now!" Do people not realize how long things take? They could be testing for 3 months, then what if they find any bugs with the new scripts and AI working together, they can't just always fix stuff instantly, it could then take more weeks to find where the bug is or why something isnt working properly and get it rectified. Chill your Beans!

Hiya, If your still having issues I recently created a new thread on how to sort out the best performance for the game. http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/151243-guide-how-to-set-up-increase-dayz-fps-performance/ I hope it helps!

Lmao I can't agree with you more! It would also be good if when your trying to melee attack a zombie it doesn't keep popping at a different side of you every second and that when you do hit it with your axe the server actually tracks that you've sliced it's guts out.

To see if it's over heating get yourself some temperature software downloaded, try download.com for a safe one to download. Then set it to show on top of your game and watch the temp to see if it spikes as your game lags up. Otherwise, have you Defragmented your hard drive to see if it's an issue there that's slowing down the game as more and more textures/objects need pulling from your drive?

You CPU is ok but your graphics is an integrated card which works as part of your CPU. Is it a tower desktop you have? You could do with getting a dedicated graphics card and installing that instead, if you have a normal tower they just click in to place inside. Even something like a £30-£50 dedicated card would improve your rig heaps compared to what your using now.

Still no luck with this, I don't know if anyone can confirm how the UI should actually look? I see two different styles. 1 - The ear/eye icon for sight and sound has a grey background and darkens as you make more noise or sighted. 2 - The ear/eye is green and has the little lines /// appear to the side of the icons when you make noise or if your visibility changes. Is the 2nd one the newest UI? I'm presuming it's that as the icons look more sleeker and refined.

Man I only just brought Arma2 2 days ago - at least wait till my next pay day to release the standalone so I can buy it then lol

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I'm new to Arma and DayZ and I have the same problem. I only installed everything yesterday and spent all day tweaking the graphics settings and configurations to get the game to run smoothly. Then I realized that my UI isn't the same as everyone else's. I've watched hours worth of videos about the game before I brought it and from what I'm guessing it's running the old Arma2 UI/Graphics instead of OA stuff. I made sure I brought the complete full collection so I wouldn't run into this problem but it seems that never worked out lol. I'll look into it tonight after I finish work (In the UK here) and I'll keep you updated on what I find! Andy.

Hi All! I've been debating whether to get Arma2 for DayZ for a couple of weeks then today I decided to Buy it - Waiting on the nearly 20GB download lol. Before then I was looking around the forums and watching loads of videos, I love Zombie games Left4Dead, DeadRising etc but I also love MMO's, so DayZ seems like the perfect game. I was going to wait for the Stand Alone version but seeing as how it's been delayed I've just gone ahead and got Arma2. I'm in the UK and will be looking for any new people to get started and play with in my time zone!