gaveroid

Removing vicinity is an, no offense, stupid bad idea in my opinion. It's a key feature in not only picking up/sorting items, but also in general inventory management. There's only so much you can do with the scroll-wheel over items method of looting - not only that, but the scroll-wheel method is wonky when you're trying to aim at something. I can see why you don't like it, though. Now, what about making it so you can't move while in your inventory like in Arma 2? That's how it was in the DayZ mod (for A2) and it wasn't abused; everybody was happy with it, no complaints. Gavin

Good idea, but, may I ask, how do you effectively play all four if you can only have either experimental or stable at a time?

I got the DayZ standalone a couple of days ago, and I've been playing it on my Alienware M14xR2 (650m 2GB DDR5, 16GB DDR3, i7 3740QM 3.7GHz 6MB cache) on it's 1600x900 screen, and I got good frames at mostly low, and the game looked nice. I get home from my vacation and hook it up to my monitor and mouse and keyboard setup like usual, boot up the game, and have issues. The frames are crap at 1680x1050 (the monitor's resolution), and when I set the interface to Large (the only one that fills the screen) and 16:10 aspect ratio (the AR of the monitor), I've got half of the HUD and menus cut off like zoom on a crappy, cheap flatscreen. I don't know what to do... I've had to set it to 16:9 which looks horrible to see it all. Just saying this now, don't criticize Alienware. I like it, if you don't, keep that to yourself. It's what I wanted. I wanted a cool-looking laptop with flashy lights; it doesn't mean that's your cup of tea. I almost feel criminal saying Alienware online.. I shouldn't have to even say this, actually. But, anyway, does anybody have any recommended settings and a way to fix the aspect ratio? Yes, I know it's in alpha, but this pretty much ruins the game for me. :/ Should I disable my second monitor while playing, or even put it in Windows Basic mode (which I'm about to try)? Thanks, Gavin

Yep! :D I reset my config file, and it worked perfectly; the aspect ratio is fixed. Thanks much! Gavin

Huh... no, they're both at 1680x1050. I might try reinstalling the game at some point or deleting a config file, hopefully that'll reset it and fix it. Thanks, Gavin P.S. If you'd ever like to play some DayZ with me, I'm Gaveroid on Steam. :P

I've taken some screenshots and uploaded them to Imgur in an album; here is the link (the pictures are labeled). https://imgur.com/a/uxJxn

Thanks for offering to go through all that trouble! :) I'll take a screenshot when I get in-game, every server I get makes me wait 200 seconds to spawn... UGH (and I crap myself thinking that it's reset my character, LOL), I'm waiting as we speak. Thanks again, Gavin

Yep, my framerate does plummet at that resolution, and the HUD is messed up when I switch to my native resolution. The whole game goes into 16:9; I wouldn't mind if it was just the menus, but it's sad to see that a popular aspect ratio is left in the dust (at least on 1050p). I could attempt lowering my game's interface resolution to a smaller 16:10 res', and upscale the 3D resolution to 1680x1050 like my monitor is worth natively - it's worth a shot until this is fixed, right? I don't want to have to use this solution forever, as then the interface would look out of whack, and the game might even possibly downscale the 1050p res to the smaller interface resolution and just use the supersampling as kind of an anti-aliasing effect... I'll write back if it works, though. And, about the Alienware thing, I agree; I just didn't want to see replies flooded with my choice of system... there used to be server-wide fights on the Just Cause 2 Multiplayer beta test server... one of the biggest servers has actually banned the word "Alienware!" Thanks, Gavin

To all the people not reading it because it's too long; come on, don't act like babies. It's a good story, suck it up and read it; if you don't wanna do that, don't post here. :/