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During the week I barely have the time to play. But where I live sunday is a rest day and I usually have some spare time on this day to play in the noon till dusk. I get your point that you want to play on official servers. Howbeit, for the mean time you should try out some public daytime servers. Many of 'em are pretty good.

Yeah well, right now you have the choice to play on a "daytime" server or normal ones. I still think that the idea to sync in-game time with real time is a good idea, but I can't stress enough the need of dynamic shadows for that matter. Fortunately, this feature is planned with the coming renderer (bohemia said that it will be implemented in Q1 2015). And when this time will finally have come, playing dayz in night time will be really really fun/spooky and give a complete new type of game experience.

Get some highly clocked ram, as it seems to make a quite big difference http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?166512-Arma-3-CPU-vs-RAM-performance-comparison-1600-2133-up-to-15-FPS-gain PS : as the engines from Arma 3 and DayZ are very close, we can assume that the solution for one of these games, also applies to the other.