I think I've got the problem too - as soon as I enter most servers during peak hours (late afternoon-early night) I can't do anything - my weapon won't go into my hands, I can't drop things or use them via context menu in inventory, and for at least 1-2 minutes I have blank hotkey bar (it tends to appear aftwards, but there's still no reaction from my character). There are couple things not mentioned in this thread (or ones I missed...), that are quite unique: 1) The one server that's never affected, regardless of population is UK Survival (109.236.82.169:2802) 2) Some very low pop servers work for me during peak hours 3) Pretty much every single server works like a charm at 5AM in the morning on workday, even if it's 40/40 full on deathmatch with 20 people in my 'network bubble'. I couldn't find any correlation between the issue and reinstalling DayZ, validating, updating BE manually, router, modem, ISP, anti-virus software, or nesting in my backpack.