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.

I had read a few places that dropping all of your gear you owned previous to the latest patch solves this issue. I was very reluctant dropping all the gear I spent several days amassing, eventually I gave in. Have not seen any video lag or leak since.

Im not for or against base building, and I certainly don't know the best way to implement it. However, I kind of feel base building should just be fortification and tents if implemented, but I also see the issues with this and the hive. With that said, base building and fortification (omit tents and underground) should be handled by said server. Since fortifications and any built structures in the open will immediately draw attention, their longevity I see as limited. If they are not saved by the hive, they would be instanced to what ever server you are on and the hive concern is of no question. See State of Decay for base building/fortification, have it as server specific; this will encourage the community aspect as well as detract from server hopping - if you are into building fortifications. Its all very raw at the moment, and I am sure Dean has some good ideas for building, this was just a thought I had after skimming this thread.

I want to add to this as I was given a nice surprise yesterday. My group and I got into a fire fight at very close quarters, I had taken a few shots while dispatching one of the shooters, fell unconscious and was revived by a squad mate to stay in the fight. With my screen all black and white but no blur, one of the many shooters (there were at least 4 more) clipped me while shooting at the friend who revived me, and we both fell unconscious. I laid there for a solid five minutes because no one from our group was near to revive, as did he. Then the server restarted, the sounds of curse words rain down on chat thinking we would be fresh spawns on re-log. We both stayed in as the countdown message continued so the other members of the group could follow easily through steam. After they had re-logged into the same server, we exited and followed them through steam. Upon entering the server, pleasantly both of us are still unconscious, one of the members of our squad revived and we didn't lose any gear. I had thought for sure with the server rebooting we would have been considered dead upon logging into the same server after restart due to be unconscious.

The directional audio does seem very nerfed, it is hard to tell the distance and location of sniper fire. A buddy and I tested this out by firing from one location at a distance, and turning the target to hear out of left and right phones. No two shots were the same, some sounded as if he fired the mosin off in my ear, others had the feel of a distance shot, while some seemed change from which direction the shot was taken from. If I recall correctly, the audio sources is for mic only?

Ahhh the old analog controller vs mouse and KB argument... it cracks me up how console gamers swear up and down by the controller and that mouse/KB is shit... of course you know they have not mastered the use of a keyboard/mouse, or maybe never tried. Why anyone would use an XBOX controller for this, or any PC game other than maybe sports titles and racing, is mind boggling. EDIT: If you want a so called survival game, with controller, there is another one out there I will not mention (blasphemy?) for the 360 that was ported. I will admit, I purchased it, ran through it in a few days, haven't touched it since.

I feel your pain, but we are still very early in development. Have you tried crawling up those stairs in the barn, then suicide off the ledges? I don't know if this actually works, haven't had my legs broken yet since purchasing.

SSD or Hard Drive spec has no bearing on Frames, only load times. Also, it has been stated by others there is a serious memory leak with the emergency patch. I'm sure a dev will post something soon about it, hopefully. A 7950 should allow you to play DayZ with better settings than low. Your processor can certainly be a bottleneck depending on your hardware setup, but with most people running modern gear to play their games, that bottleneck is not serious enough to take down performance this drastically. Hell, the bandwidth on PCIE 2.0 and 3.0 aren't even able to be saturated by any current video card we would be deploying. Issue is patch related, just be patient

This isnt The Sims - Zombie Apocalypse lol You might have a fine idea for another game though

What??? Really??? Quickly edit that post m8, your GPU is the single MOST important piece of hardware for rendering your fine video games... and my friend, games are most certainly multi-threaded. Please refrain from posting on topics you have limitations on. With hardware, there is no "opinion" there is only facts. Opinions on 2+2... is it really 4 gentleman???

Want to throw out my kudos as well. The Dev team is kicking ass, your hard work is appreciated by the majority! Keep 'em coming guys!