john5220

Its been a game of eating food simulator to me. To the point where I have deleted DayZ and moved onto other games, its painful I cannot get a refund of my money but such is life these days until new laws are put in place to protect consumers. So my hope is to wait it out in the hopes that DayZ may improve on this aspect or people will be able to mod the game and give those of us looking for the casual experience. Many of us have to work for a living and have responsibilities and cannot spend all day looking for a gun looking for ammo looking for food etc Not all of us are 13 years old and have the unlimited time to walk miles looking for food and weapons.

I have not played DayZ since last year, I am planning on coming back once the new render is out because on my PC one that can run Battlefield 4 on medium to Ultra mix settings, it cannot even get more than 12 fps in cities in DayZ. No use playing in 12 fps especially when I can play BF4 in medium to Ultra and it looks 1000x10^23 better graphics. But I don't care too much about graphics, DayZ still gets 12 fps on lowest settings and its only because I have an AMD CPU because my friend has same setup with a intel and he gets 30 fps in cities.And funny thing is his intel is a dual core and its cheaper than my AMD CPU. I pray and hope one day DayZ would be able to run on AMD systems with proper multi threaded support. And I hope DayZ will have steam workshop mods so people can remove these food and drink part of the game. Until then there will be this hole in my heart knowing that $30 US was wasted on a game I cannot play, which is in reality $200 of my money where I live so its more hurtful than you may think for someone like me.

Its easily the biggest reason I bought DayZ. I had a feeling I may not end up liking the game but bought it anyway because it was $30 at the time. Do you think the steam workshop would allow a Left 4 Dead style of game with DayZ? What I mean is removal of survival aspects of the game no need for things like food etc. Essentially turning it away from a survival simulator (I have to do it in real life and its not much fun so yeah can't spend time in a video game aswell) I am looking for more the casual experience due to limited time I have for gaming etc. Looking for more an American map with an American city etc. I am assuming the steam workshop mods would allow for all of this just like it does for Counter Strike GO and Left 4 Dead etc?

Have not played since January this year or is it December last year? something like that. Wondering if the game is playable now and if the new render has been released. And if so how is the performance now on AMD CPU?

hmm when is the new render expected? AMD 760K 4GHZ quad core HD 7850 1GB 8GB RAM Unplayable in cities especially when being chased even on the lowest settings. 12 FPS etc, its a no go on AMD right now. Performance is everything in a game I don't care about graphics I just want them to fix the performance.

Hello I have been thinking http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/220397-new-renderer/ The Dev has hinted DX 12 is not out of the question. In regards to the very serious issue of DayZ's performance. My self included I have a HD 7850 xfx, 8GB RAM and a AMD Athlon 760K @ 4 GHZ CPU but I average 12 FPS on low settings. And this is with all drivers updated and everything, all other games like Battlefield 3 runs just fine on High. People from this community have suggested the issue lies with Bohemia as they do not have an Engine that uses more than 1 CPU core. This looks like very bad news for AMD owners. In light of this DX 12 aims to solve this problem, if you look at Mantle drivers in Battlefield 4 it has shown significant improvements on AMD CPUs. DX 12 is aimed to be like mantle in a way. So if it means DX 12, no more CPU issues, an Engine that utilizes 4 CPU cores, no more performance issues. Will you be willing to wait a while longer for a proper release of DayZ? I know I am. I support the idea fully to scrap any plans they have and start all over and bring us a proper DX 12 Engine if it means the betterment for the community. I rather wait a lot longer and have a properly finished DayZ product than be impatient and have something that falls short and feel disappointed. I feel the devs need more time and they need to reconsider a different Engine than the Enfusion. If it means a greater good for all of the community then I am willing to give them all the time they need. I don't want to have a final product and still have so many issues on my AMD system. While I agree AMD isn't as good as Intel, the bottom line is games like Battlefield 3 and 4 takes proper use of the multiple cores unlike DayZ and Arma 3 that only runs on 1 core hence requiring intel. For example in battlefield 3 my new AMD system with the quad core Athlon 760k richland is faster than my previous intel haswell pentium G dual core. The AMD is ultra smooth on the biggest servers and maps. Sadly its half the performance of the intel CPU when it comes to DayZ. thats because DayZ does not utilize 4 cores. I absolutely love the yellowish lighting effects in Arma 3. I did not know about Arma 3 until after I bought DayZ and if I had known about Arma 3 I never would have bought DayZ. Arma 3 looks stunning the lighting effects is mind blowing compared to DayZ. performance is also 100% improvement on my AMD system over DayZ. I would love a finished DayZ thats a lot more like Arma 3. If I had to do it all over again I would take Arma 3 in a heartbeat, even the lack of grass makes it more appealing to me than DayZ. I prefer the Arma 3 maps so much more, really sad I didn't do my research in it. My hope still remains DayZ will have mods like Arma 3 and I could justify my purchase sometime in the future and won't have to regret not buying DayZ over Arma 3. And it will have the beautiful yellowish and purpleish lighting effect like Arma 3. Arma 3 is so flawless if only I knew about it before.

well cheap hardware SHOULD go well with DayZ. Its up the Devs just look at Battlefield 4, stunning game, very large map 64 player servers and runs fantastic Look at Planetside 2, not so great graphics I agree, but giant map bigger than DayZ, yet runs 100% better performance than DayZ

yeah my 12 FPS is actually in a fight scene but when running around in elektro its 15 FPS so this sums it up right here. I can play BAttlefield 3 on High with Anti Aliasing just fine and dandy on 64 player servers. From what I was told Frostbite Engine utilizes 4 cores to its max or that is its very efficient at doing so because my older setup with a haswell Pentium G actually ran BF3 slower than my current quad core AMD. In DayZ however its the opposite effect this is why I have a hard time believing DayZ or Arma 3 runs on 4 cores

A 4.7 GHZ FX 6300 is a extremely powerful CPU thats heavy over clocking sorry I don't have that much money or balls I have a Athlon 760K @ 4 GHZ basically a richland 6800K with the GPU disabled. Sadly it has no L3 cache but cache never really helped AMD that much u know Even then I should not be getting 12 fps in cities, I have a friend with a over clocked 750K AMD and its same 12 fps in cities.

actually its a MASSIVE problem for millions and billions of folks like myself who got their copy of windows 7 from you know from a rather special sauce. But by the time this game is finished and then hits DX 12 I should have a new rig I guess....

It should never be the case that if you have an older CPU you will suffer in cities. DayZ does not really have anything ground breaking for it to perform this badly. Compare to battlefield 3 on 64 player maps, sure not same size as DayZ but BF3 on High graphics runs flawless on my system and looks atleast 1000000000 X10^24 times better than DayZ

Arma 3 runs pretty good for me and I have the 760K Athlon 4GHZ and HD 7850 GPU with 8GB RAM However DayZ SA runs at 12 FPS for me in cities etc. Even on lowest settings the only way to fix it is edit the cfg and reduce the total lighting down to arma 2 level which is horrid btw. I have tried everything including reinstalling windows 7 People keep saying Arma 3 and DayZ uses only 1 core but when I check taskmanager I see all 4 cores light up on my AMD If I play heroes of newerth only 1 core lights up in task manager

http://steamcommunity.com/games/221100/announcements/detail/136567799676176785 My guess is these pics are from Arma 3? I wish DayZ was as colorful as Arma 3 :(

this is what I am saying No way could these animals be from the current engine. It looks like Arma 3. I am using a HD 7850 radeon

how is that possible? so how my game don't look like that? should I buy a nvidia card? I am not talking about the first pic I mean the second last one

http://steamcommunity.com/games/221100/announcements/detail/136567799676176785 according to that link it seems like I might get my wish, DayZ new render will look like Arma 3 with its beautiful colorful yellowish and purpleish lighting effect Assuming those pics are from the new Render?

30% increase in frames is horrible. Its still very much unplayable, that means people with AMD systems even at 4 GHZ will get no more than 23 FPS. Very very unplayable I hope that report is incorrect because I do not think its legal to ship a completely broken product and I don't see them advertising minimum requirements as a intel CPU There has to be support for AMD.

i always wondered this. I know there are a handful of companies like Blizzard who are pretty bias towards AMD. But in Bohema's case its really really bad. For example both the DayZ mod and SA runs at 12 FPS on my R9 280 video card with 4GHZ Quad core AMD CPU Their games are so good, its such a shame they insist on favoring intel over AMD. People on the net claim that intel pays them to purposely make AMD suck on Arma engines but I dunno its hearsay there is no proof it it, but it sure seems suspect. I played games for many years on the PC and I have never ever seen a bad company like Bohema when it comes to insanely horrid optimizations for AMD People say AMD chips are bad but this isn't true. I can get flawless 60 FPS in Battlefield 3 and 4 with my system and that Engine is insanely high tech compared to Arma. its such a shame because of how good their games are. The bias towards AMD really killed it if you ask me. I even bought a SSD for DayZ but nothing ever works, infact the MOD is worse EDIT UPDATE I forgot to mention the 12 FPS I get is the minimum and is hardly seen. Most of the time I get 22 FPS in Cities but can dip to 15 FPS. Near the coast when I look at the sky I get 100 FPS

^ because rural places don't have much of anything to offer really. its not like you are suggesting a old western american setting here. A rural post soviet place is not the same as what you would expect from how the west won. this isn't America where rural actually is pretty nice and has huge variety.

Agree FULLY!!! Dead Island has some amazing ideas, the problem with Dead Island is it lacks the gameplay of DayZ DayZ is bland boring and ugly at many points.

OP's poll is a bit useless why would he put It is pretty good, but some improvement wouldn't be a bad thing. Its obvious the few die hard DayZ supporters are going to click that. This poll does NOT represent what majority of the players in this community fell about DayZ The general complaint is DayZ runs bad on good systems, buildings are very very poor and repetitive, there is absolutely 0 variety of any sort. It feels lifeless it feels like a MOD. This does NOT feel like a game that warrants over $50 USD I have no idea what Bohemia is planning but they have to be joking if they feel DayZ is worth the current asking price of $35 let alone $50 everything is so repetitive and boring I cannot stand to run and find yet another rotten wodden house with nothing in it. People want a modern setting..... DayZ would have been better if they made it in Ukraine or Crimea Notice the closer you get to Moscow, Russia in real life, the more developed everything becomes?

No I am NOT. I am the type who loves Islands etc stuff near the Coast like Far Cry. I think DayZ has potential but the devs at Bohemia are stuck in the whole post soviet zone and its not in a good way like STALKER.

I have really really terribad performance on DayZ MOD really really bad no more than 22 fps at all. 17 average

How is he able to get over 30 FPS in Cherno on a Phenom II and 6850 on MAX settings yet I have a 760K pile driver Quad Core @ 4 GHZ and HD 7850 radeon yet stick at 12 to 22 fps in Cherno at medium to low settings?

Guys I deleted DayZ after just 40 hours of play time. The reason being is I started University and I also want to be a Indie Game Developer which will take more work than say someone who just wanted to learn Mechanical Engineering. I decided on Computer Engineering here in the Caribbean so I can open my own business etc. However the addiction in DayZ the days passing by like minutes, the constant running very long distances etc looking for food to survive it became an issue of surviving in both a video game and real world where I simply could not warrant doing it anymore, the addiction became too strong. I am wondering what do you guys do for a living? how do you manage time with DayZ? what would happen when you die starting all over again and putting in the time to acquire the items to die yet again and lose it all? I have since stuck to Black Ops 2 and Counter Strike GO for a casual experience. Its hard for me to see anyone playing DayZ unless they are in middle school etc like age 13 years or so, maybe long summer vacation would allow for the time to play it?' Maybe someone collecting disability or pension Dayz would be great for them they would have all the time in the world Or are you guys capable of just playing a couple hours a week and stopping? For me its so hard when I get pulled into an experience like DayZ I cannot let go and I keep telling myself yeah tomorrow I will get the work done and that tomorrow turns into another tomorrow into weeks and months. I want to reinstall DayZ but I am thinking its going to be a bad idea I am thinking 29 years of age its really time for me to give up that good fight, get my degree, make some money, lose some weight and find a girl friend. I am just not sure all of this can be done same time while I play DayZ due to my addicted nature. I am also learning Unreal Engine 4 and developing a game on it, as such it requires deep knowledge of C++ programming etc and as such I think my time is better spent doing that which may help me make money in the future.