jrussell4402

23. Clear the building before you begin to search/loot

Put two in raid 0

I would suggest spending your first 20 hours on low pop servers. Get to know the mechanics, learn the map and spawns, the hot loot spots, and all of the gear. There are certain houses and building that spawn specific / or have a high rate of probability for certain items. Orange brick, piano house, school/office, jails, barracks, just to name a few buildings

Is this really the state of console converts? I know I am of no help here, but I lol'd Check all the guides in the new player section, google newbie guide for DayZ SA, find a group on these forums that enjoys assisting new guys.

Or more means more! When he says texture and detail qualities to Very High, are we speaking of the Texture Detail and Texture Filtering? or do you mean all Rendering, Quality and Textures? Use this link for reference to the in game graphical settings, sorry for it's size, I am borrowing it from another poster on another forum. If a mod has an issue with this go ahead and delete!

What hardware are you running on?

Some good information going on back and forth here, I don't feel so alone. I figured it was just the same old same old Alpha line, and we will just have to wait a while for the optimizations to be put in place. I am going to try the higher detail tonight and see if the load on the GPU increases and frame rates go up. I should have added to my post that I use the -maxMem=4095 -maxVram=4095 -cpuCount=4 -exThreads=7 -maxVram=4095 because I have the Gigabyte R9 270X 4GB card -cpuCount=4 -exThreads=7 because I have hyper threading enabled on the 4 core i7 Also note, in the Catalyst Control Center all graphical settings are set to application specific so that each game manages its own settings rather than forced by the driver set. I wonder if forcing AA/AF, rendering, detail and buffering would help at all? Does anyone have any experience with forcing these for DayZ? I have in the past used these settings to force in game when I ran lower end hardware (disabled and set for performance over quality), but have since stopped doing so within the last few years.

Thank you. I started reading this thread and I am seeing these numbers people are throwing out there. This lead me to searching through this entire forum, google, etc. to find out why I am not getting the frames these people are seeing. I currently run: I7 870 @ 3ghz 8GB RAM 2 x SSD in Raid 0 R9 270X (upgraded a few weeks after release of DayZ) AA: Low Alpha to coverage: disabled FXAA: Normal HDR: Low Ambient occlusion: disabled Post process: Low Bloom: Pretty low on the slider Blur: Off Objects: High Terrain: High Clouds: Low Shadows: Low Texture Detail: Normal Texture Filtering: High Vsync: Enabled (to eliminate tearing) I ran through the FPS enhancer guide and tweaked the config files, but ended up back to default as they didn't make much of a noticeable difference. Running around outside of cities I see consistent 50-60 fps, if I enter Elektro, Cherno, Svelto or Zeleno I grind down to around 20-25 fps sometimes dipping into the teens. I had considered that maybe because I am on a Asus Maximus III Extreme P55 mobo that has a PCIE 2.0 slot, the card is saturating the bus, but this is not the case. In my research I have found through a few articles that even the high end PCIE 3.0 cards will not saturate the 2.0 bus currently. Before the upgrade to the R9 270X I had the Radeon 5870s in crossfire, and with that setup only one card was used. The settings were very similar to what I have here with the exception of FXAA set to Low, Texture Detail set to Normal, Objects and Terrain set to Normal. Am I missing something in my settings? Any thoughts on what I could change to increase performance? CPU utilization never pegs 100%.

It seems the abundance of fresh fruit is up! Just yesterday I had 7 oranges, 2 bananas, 1 kiwi and 2 apples. I decided since I was finding so many fresh pieces of fruit I would start my own market, dropped all unnecessary items, and loaded almost all of my slots with fruit, then gave it away

I piss my pants at every sound... hear someone drink or eat, "OHHH SHIT THEY COMING!!!" Hear some foot steps (more often than not a zombie in the building) "HOLY SHIT THEY HERE!!!"

Chart for blood compatibility

I like it! Only suggestion I might make is the formatting and text color could be better, but those are just minor.

Curious about the rain and getting wet function. When I am inside a structure I still see rain coming through the ceiling, will we be getting wet while inside a building too?

That's interesting Meat, I have died once since dropping all gear and getting fresh gear back, and kitted back up. Yet still no lag issues, but I have been seeing these weird hitches from time to time, certainly no video lag to a grinding halt like before. For those with the persistent issue, I guess tomorrow is the day

Screw helmets, I am a black beanie or black radar cap only kind of guy. Helmet and gas mask are essentially the uniform of a bandit and shot on sight.