Hydranix

Definition of Server Hopping: The act of changing servers continuously at a high-loot location to acquire loot from multiple servers. Current legality: Legal, frowned upon by at least some players. I play on only a few public servers and I've found that every police station and high-loot residential is looted, with all other locations mostly untouched. This is a bit disappointing, as there is little if any worthwhile loot at the better locations. Over the course of the 3 hours I've played today, on my usual local San Jose server, I closely watched the player list. I typically open the player list after each building I loot. Sometimes a bit less often. At its peak there were 6 players, myself included. With a pen and paper I started tallying how many people joined the server after I noticed a trend. 41 confirmed, 2 unsure. Only 1 other player played on this server for the whole time I was on. These 41 players joined the server. Stuck around for a couple minutes, and left. I believe they were server hopping for loot. If this is something the devs intend, please let me know. Otherwise I might have a solution. Though it's probably not a new idea by any means, I'll still share. When rapidly changing servers, players should be struck with increasingly severe hunger and thirst. One hop within 15-30 minutes shouldn't really effect the player. Two hops should take the bar down a color. And reset the 15-30 minute timer. Three hops should start the be more severe. By the fourth and fifth hop, the effect should be severe enough to require immediate intervention on the players behalf to avoid blood loss. Beyond that is suicide. I feel like this will force players who server hop, to stock up on food and drink, if they choose to take this journey. Or stay near a water supply, and either scavenge or use the wilderness for food. Further discouraging them from rapidly looting multiple servers. If they choose to stock up prior, they'll need to balance the loot they acquire with the amount of supplies they carry, reducing their efficiency. They will need to spend more time on a server replenishing themselves which make the timer less noticeable in the first place. This will also expose them to the dangers of other players. I'm going to think about this more. Please show me why this is a bad idea, so I can improve upon it.

A few points were made about legitimate players being penalized by the ideas I put forth in the original post. I tried to address by allowing a small number of rapid server changes, which seems perfectly reasonable. Also we need to understand every legitimate reason that a player would have for changing servers more than once or twice in a 15 to 30 minute period of time. Searching for a lag free server. (which typically can be determined by server ping) Unintentionally joining the wrong server several times. (a weak point really) Being disconnected for reasons outside the control of the player. (very rare at best) Could anyone help add things to this list? Even if they're weak arguments, designing a proper system should still at least consider every legitimate reason before being suggested.

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Ok those extra dism commands only work on Windows 8 and up. Try navigating in explorer to each of those files and checking if they're digitally signed by Microsoft in their properties.

That's like falling off the roof of a single story house. Now put on a backpack full of canned food and ammunition. Now throw a 40 year old loaded shotgun over your shoulder. Now slip and fall off the roof. :)

Personally, I like the single server private shards more than public. I feel like the waiting screen hang wouldn't be much of an issue with my current idea because 3 server hops still wouldn't be terribly noticeable. It's when it becomes excessive that the punishment would be bad enough to cause problems. Admin abuse is also toxic to the game and doesn't really factor in very well. It's kind of like saying hackers should be considered in current penalty implementations. My game also hasn't crashed more than 5 times in 200+ hours. I don't know if that is close to the average crash frequency but, I typically rejoin the same server when it does crash. On a less serious note, I've taken matters into my own hands. Every police station I come across I booby trap. I grab all the morphine and leave a bear trap, or a land mine. In a few when in had no traps, I left a PET bottle or canteen of gasoline in upstairs storeroom. :) Beware :P

Not process processor affinity, process priority is what you mean. Process processor affinity restricts the game process to only run on select cores, process priority suggests to (does not force) windows to prioritize the game above all other processes, including important windows processes, like networking. This can introduce network lag, and application hangs. It can also cause crashes when certain functions the game relies on take longer to complete due to the game's CPU cycles taking precedent over said functions.

Navigate to the blocked file in explorer, right click it and check properties. It should be digitally signed by Microsoft. If it is not, I would recommend reinstalling windows as a virus may have penetrated core windows system files, and most antivirus cannot fix these problems.

Check your CPU temps when you play, your integrated graphics might be overheating.

Hi, I'm a computer technician by trade. What version of Windows are you running? What are your computer's basic specs? Such as Laptop/Desktop/Mobile, CPU model, RAM model/size in GB, Disk configurations for the disk(s) containing Windows and the disk(s) containing the game data? Are you using any extra launch options when running the game? Have you updated Windows to the latest updates? Are your device drivers up to date? Do you run any antivirus when launching the game? Is this a shared computer with multiple user accounts? Are you the administrator of this system, or have access to administrator rights?

I get near perfect fps everywhere, unless I go near a huge bugged loot pile. NVIDIA experience optimization actually works well. Plus shadowplay is great for streaming and recording game play.