AzrailCross

I imagine this is included in trying everything, but just to take a stab at the random.. Download the latest installer for your antivirus and firewall, then proceed to completely uninstall your antivirus and firewall's current installation, reboot. Attempt to run DayZ and see if the problem still persists, if it does obviously reinstall your AV/FW and set them back up as tedious as that is. If however it works, install your AV and re-test, if it -still- works you know it's your firewall and need a new one or to focus on that to figure out why otherwise same deal only with your antivirus as the culprit. Only reason I am leery to trust the 'allow' function to firewalls is I came across a similar problem at least, not exactly the same but never know just what's going to solve weird issues like this really. So goodluck.

Pretty much on the same line as everyone else' Fix pathfinding first. Unlimited quick-respawning zombies in the same area isn't the long-term way to go, but short-term it has it's uses until something better can be done. Long-run I'd hope they introduce roaming zombies in hordes, sure, maybe have zombies respawn when a chunk of area has no players actively around viewing it so when they do just 'spawn in' it's completely out of sight and no where near someone; which in turn means firing a gun can spawn in zombies as others have said - just way off in the distance with a new found urge to come in droves toward the gunfire to join with the zombies that are just in general 'roaming' the area and hopefully the many that will eventually litter the area 'playing dead' But for now- it's a mixed answer IMO at least, I understand it's alpha and for all we know they are testing the mechanic to have gunfire attract zombies and have them spawn in accordance to a zombie's death to gunfire. Who knows, may just be bad design! But would I be pleased to see it remotely like this during release? God no. No. No.. No. But at least for now it's managable in a survival situation, have unloaded clips from my M4 and pistol in cities and had six or seven zombies come out of the wood work sometimes spawning in plain sight in front of me; but what it boiled down to each time was flee the area and they'd lose interest, or flee at least until it was just 2-4 zombies and break out the fireaxe and starting chopping so no more would be drawn in.

:Scratches out what little advice was there: Edit: Yeah, gotta admit.. Karma.

Me and my girlfriend had the same issue, we are both in the same house installed at the same time and setup and all exactly the same; obviously on the same router; but I was running it fine while she was getting 1000000 desync, sometimes come out of it and be able to play for a little while longer before yellow/redchaining and then it'd reoccur and battleeye would kick her for no response or something close to that effect, turned out she needed to go to the battleye homepage and download it directly for whatever reason and replace it in the steamapp/common/dayz dir whatever folder it's in, the top pinned post in this forum shows how to do it. Since then she hasn't really had a problem at all at least with full disconnects. I noticed some desync myself at times (but never full disconnects) on some highpop servers (20-40 players) that'd skyrocket to 1000000 for somewhere between 20 seconds to 2 minutes to be rather common and YET seemed fine low pop (0-6 players) only to desync and get a yellow/red chain for shorter periods and far less often but of course still be attacked by invisible zombies or bug through the floor of buildings, all at complete RANDOM and then be fine again at 30-50 ping.. then it'd happen again at random.. and rinse-repeat. So on low pop maybe go between 20-60 minutes without an issue, high pop was more akin to 2-15 minutes. I thought at first it was just 'alpha' and nothing could be done, figured the servers were buggy and that was that but... for the sake of making things more playable.. Ended up disabling my firewall to get no improvement; meanwhile she'd not have the issue WHILE i'm having it, she'd be pointing on her screen at a zombie I couldn't see! Then it'd happen to her, but not to me.. so once the firewall thing failed to help we both went into 'Game mode" in our firewall and that fixed it entirely, been running fine without a single lag-glitch or rubber-banding since. (Do not ask me why disabling the firewall did nothing, but game mode for the past several days has made it run flawlessly.. I'll never grasp that one.) All in all IMO it's worth direct-downloading battleeye and finding out where to install it; testing the game > if it still has any issues disable your firewall & try again > see if your firewall has a game mode and try that > if all that fails, uninstall your firewall altogether and test it again; if THAT works maybe it's time to find a new firewall. If none of that works, I'm at a loss. Sorry'