Discord invite is coming back as invalid bud.

I've had the random uninstall of DayZ happen to me to and it had to have been because I had separate directories at the time (Steam on my system driveand the library on my storage) didn't realise it at the time though. You say it can happen to any games in your library, and at random?

Snipped! Re-read what you said... Is it a stubbornness on the programs part that it just wont die or something? :P

I still don't see why it is suggested that if you have a DRM free (retail) version of Arma 2 that you should activate it on Steam so you can play DayZ properly, I've never had to (I actually bought mine that way because at the time Steam was a notorious pain in the arse to get DayZ to work on) and even with GameSpy shut down I can still access everything through Commander easily enough. Am I missing something?

Just out of interest, what IS your native resolution?

Unless the leg or arm was propped on something and you hit the weak point (knee or elbow) hard enough then probably not... No reason why you shouldn't be able to crack ribs with a body shot though, so long as having body armour can protect against it. And, well we all know the kind of damage people can do to skulls with their fists.

Find out for sure what it is and check it's compatibility list. I'm willing to bet that the temperature output will be too much for your motherboards socket to handle my mobo is also about 2 years old but only handles a TDP of 140W, yours will probably be in the same bracket or there about judging by the fact you bought an HP computer... I have a FX-4170 that can run everything I can throw at it but when I DO upgrade it, (I'm like you in finance stakes, buying my GTX 760 3 months ago nearly killed me) it'll be to an FX-8350. But definitely find out what your mobo is and check it's compatibility list else you'll have spent a wedge on making your computer an over expensive paperweight. If you need to download and run cpu-z (or cpuid, same thing) and that will tell you the serial/model numbers for your main components. :)

I don't see why anyone needs to cheat in any game anymore, I'm nearly 32 and I haven't had to, or felt inclined top use any cheats since I was 10. And back then some games were so freaking hard that you HAD to use them, and that was if you could find them out. I would never had been able to finish Kid Gloves on the Amiga if I hadn't fluked finding the inconsistent 'infinite lives' cheat.. Anyone else remember those days?

In DayZ Commander (after you've applied the current updates for the Arma games themselves) go to install/update and install latest DayZ Commander (if yours isn't the most recent version.), Arma 2 Patch, DayZ (this adds the @DayZ folder and files needed for ANY of the mods to successfully run) and then the version of Epoch that you need for the server you wish to play on,most of them are updated regularly but some hosts don't update right away. Then enjoy playing.

You need the free versions of ACR and BAF to get past the requirement, then if you want the hi-res textures for the expansions you have to pay for them. They're available from the Armaholic website.

It's not the DayZ community that's gone to shit, it's just that the release of the SA brought a whole load of FPS players that only found out about the immortal words from Steam. My issue is that they don't seem to be going anywhere, and there's more coming. :(

Upgrade your cpu, nowadays games prefer to run on nothing lower than 3GHz, no matter how many cores you have to spread it across. I was running a GTX 295 (duel GPU right?) with an 8 core Phenom II at around 3.6GHz I think, I forget the model number now so I can't check... Anyway, with the mod on medium settings across the board, I was getting a steady 20-30 frames in towns depending on the population of the server, can't speak for SA as I've upgraded my system considerably since then but I'd imagine I'd have had similar results with it set to lowest settings. Then again I get weird fps spikes in the most random places due to the game not being optimized yet but yeah...

Because power stations aren't sentient, they don't know that no one is around to NOT use the electricity. So assuming no one shut down the power station during the "exodus" that would undoubtedly ensue during a catastrophe on such a scale, then power stations would keep generating electricity until it's fuel source ran out or a fault occurs. If it's a nuclear power station then it could continue to work for centuries or until lack of maintenance causes it to go into meltdown.

Yeah, CPU upgrade time for you methinks...

Anti-virus could send out false flags, I don't know if it works the same way nowadays or with Battleye in particular. But I'd get an occasional ban on Freelancer (anyone remember that?), mainly caused by my anti-virus running background processes at random causing my outbound packets to, essentially, queue up causing me too lag quite badly and the anti cheat to think I was running a speed mod (illegal on most pvp servers when it was about) because the information being sent to the server was intermittent and as a result anomalous. Is it possible that that could be happening?