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Not the whole engine, I wasn't talking about that :) The network code was done from scratch. They scrapped the old logic and implemented a new one. And possibly a whole lot of other things were made from scratch. And now they are refucktoring the renderer which will take its sweet time again I'm sure. In C++ one doesn't simply refactor legacy code ...

That is true. We used Unity as engine of choice. That didn't change anything though. In the case of DayZ, the implemented a new server architecture called authoritative server-client networking (as far as I can tell anyway). Previously the RV engine used peer-to-peer (I think) to get networking done. Rewriting this is a huuuuuge amount of efford. Still is as it would seem as they only partially got it done so far.

See, there's that misconception. The game is really allowed to be broken. No one (apart from those that gonna hate ofc) said those things will stay broken. This is, as many disclaimers and texts stated, an unfinished product. Do you have any idea how long it takes to develop a game? At work, we're working on a multiplayer racing game (It's a trivial game concept compared to DayZ). Writing the network code alone and getting it straight took us about 4 to 5 months. And that's only a small portion of things that need coding. There's more like track logic, GUI logic, racer customisations, data backends, deployment pipelines that need maintaining ... and all that fancy crap. It's not just flipping a few switches you know. 2 years is really not that much when you're developing things from scratch.

I can vaguely remember @ctorchia talking about it not fitting to the player model and so they removed it. Would sorta make sense looking at the screenshots in the OP, the top ends are above the characters shoulders and the vest body clips through the jacket really bad.

Ah, one can never please all the people. It's a rule of nature it would seem. But the good thing is, you can just not play the game for a little while, right?So when all the things that make your personal gaming experience hell will be fixed or at least mitigated, you can come back in and have some good times.It has been said more than 10 times (far more that 10 times) that those issues will get fixed. Making it happen just takes some time and in the meantime,we can enjoy the first drafts of the hunting system and stuff. I find that to be very fair.

Ohrly. See, didn't know that one. I only went to save a friends stash every now and then when he got shot at the airfield again. So I was doing that on a dead character all the time.

Yes you can do that. But why didn't you just try it out? ^^ It's just like standing there and the backpack contents are shown in your vincinity view

There is no mouse acceleration anymore. It's all raw input and that's obvious. It's extremely sensitive now. Try updating your game, that might fix it ^^ Also, that's not a suggestion, now is it?

New ones usually come with a guide on how to do it. (Also if they don't come with heat paste, you wanna buy a tube because otherwise it might get hot too fast) If in doubt, better go to a local PC shop where people can put it together for you. Or, if you have friends who can do it, politely ask them.

Why yes. That would be a rather beasty CPU You will need a beasty power supply though ^^

Well. That really depends on your personal preferences. At work we got a new batch of workstations with R9s in them. Those things rock everything you throw at it so far. I suggest you do some research on the hardware specs (on newegg perhaps). Some important bits are those: The word width (128bit or 256bit or whatever, the more the better) The stream processors (more == better) RAM Speed (the GPU RAM) RAM access speed (I think it's denoted as frequency too) (more == better) GPU Speed (more == better ofc) And what Sarge Hornet said, there is some crazy CPU usage involved in dayz. Questionable is however, if it stays that way (seeing that they are refactoring some things right now that have to do with the GPU)

No problem. For future reference though: If you have an AMD CPU and are short on money, go with other AMD products. The new R9 gfx cards are incredibly good and cost not as much as nvidia cards. If money is not your concern or you plan some long-term upgrading (with that nvidia card in mind), it might be useful to buy an Intel motherboard and an intel CPU at some point - as those work better with nvidia cards. That "works better" may only be a disregardable margin though. I don't think there are benchmarks for it. It's up to you. Anywho. Have fun. // Edit: DayZ just runs bad like that. It's not necessarily your gfx card. Try other games if you can (some unreal engine games like Dishonored, Thief or Borderlands) If those run well then your hardware can't be THAT bad.

Probably, yeah. It's not only those two components that make your games run you know. But it's a good start, should give a good boost. Only, don't benchmark it on dayz. It just runs like crap most of the time regardless. Also disregard that phenom thing. It would appear the FX series are better.

Your motherboard works with AMD chips. So no Intel. Except you'll also go that step further and buy a new motherboard with an Intel socket. But you can put a AM3+ CPU on it so you might wanna think about an AMD phenom processor - if a new processor is in consideration for you.

A fun read. Really nice and suits its purpose like a glove. A good fitting glove, mind. Not those flimsy ones without fingers.