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Also nights... In current build playing at nighttime is pretty much as easy as playing in the daytime. Nights used to look like this

Well, AMD's drivers are CPU-demanding, this one is too slow for any higd-end AMD card, go for Nvidia.

Currently, nights are way too bright hence the need for artificial light source is almost non-existent. You can see almost as good as during daytime. That's how dead of night looks like, no moon: I really miss the old, pitch black nights where you could not see the tip of your finger. What do you guys think?

Reinstall your video drivers with DDU, try using Crimsons. Also, your CPU is way to slow for this GPU, espacially cause it's a FX processor.

I hope they'll introduce lighting system similair to Arma 3's one. Depending on the date, nights are failry bright or completely pitch black where light source is indispensable, that is what I would like to see in DayZ.

I turned clouds on and set them to very high, brightness is pretty much the same as it was before.

Even with stock cooler most Q6600s go up to 3,0GHz with no problems, though, motherboard may be a problem.

What is the exact model of your cpu? Also, give me model name of your motherboard. Overclocking CPU is necessary if you want to play with decent frames.

You should go for Nvidia GPU like GTX 750Ti or GTX 950, avoid AMD GPUs with your CPU as the AMD drivers tend to be more demanding for single core performance. Combining AMD CPU with AMD GPU will result in poor performance(low gpu usage) in CPU-bound games like DayZ.

Actually, ram sticks with higher factory clocks are made of superior quality memory modules thus will achieve higher clocks in OC. Furthermore, is 10$ really big deal in damned 1700$ build?

No difference at all... 15% improvement in performance. Really bad deal for 10$. http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?166512-Arma-3-CPU-vs-RAM-performance-comparison-1600-2133-up-to-15-FPS-gain

What is point of such powerful PSU and why did you pick 1600MHz memories? 2400MHz cl11 are just 10 bucks more expensive but significantly better.

Hey, I used to play on night time servers but now I don't see point in that. You can't use advantages of night anymore. I miss the times when you were able to sneak in the shadows. Currently during nights everything is almost as visible as during day even if sky is completely clouded. Artificial sources of light lost their meaning too, in the dead of night you can easily scavenge without flashlight. What do you guys think about that?

In Arma2/3 cranking gamma up will work only when sky is clear and stars are visible. With completely clouded sky even with gamma on max you would not be able to see the tip of your nose.

Currently they look like this: http://i.imgur.com/L2sNtBj.jpg Even if there is not a single star on the sky everything is clearly visible. They used to look like this: http://i.imgur.com/H3ZzPbD.jpg which was very nice.

It is better to buy 970 insteed of 980. 15% performance for 200 bucks, that's bad deal.

No, AMD chips have poor architecture. Even in games with support of multi-threading they lose to +2nd gen i5s. Same thing goes with the Photoshop, After Effects, CAD and Blender.

Non k I5s beat FXs in 99% games. If we talk about k versions they give no chances to FXs. It won't change soon.

I'd take i5, especially now. DayZ is still using DX9 - utilizing only 2 cores at once. FXs have relatively low performance of single core. With new renderer FXs will perform better than now but I doubt they catch i5.

Of course not, even AMD FX-9590 5GHz won't be as fast as the cheapest i5 in DayZ. Not to mention it draws over 200W at full load. Also, it is better to buy 970 instead of 980. 200$ for 10% performance isn't good deal.

If you want to get decent framerates, don't even dare to buy AMD. Go for i5 4th or 5th generation.

Sometimes I can really understand dupers. I played over 300 hours and I died 3 times because of players. Most of my deaths were caused by stairs and ladders. I condemn them when they dupe just because they can't fight like a man, but when you lost your gear just because stairs broke your spine in 26 places, you really can't blame yourself for that.

New lighting system is damn awful. Even with clouded sky you can spot someone in forest in the dead of night, amazing... I just hate how devs makes this game more causual...

Accuracy of weapons is ludicrous. Try to hit 100m target with stock M4. At this range it has 1,2m dispersion so anything you can (propably) hit is soil.

Current dispersion is ludicrous. For example M4 should have 10 times lesser dispersion.