Kean__1

I'm glad you're seeing good results but I wouldn't assume your experience will be the same for everyone. ....not yet at least because even they are not sure this will resolve the crashing / BSOD for all. It will probably be a few days before we really see how effective the fix was.

I ran across an article that for the life of me I can't find again. It talked about two different server types on PC and how it was possible to modify so many more of the parameters in one but not the other. .....the other being controlled by the devs I gathered (sort of like our current situation I suppose).

....key word being "some". We'll have to see how these changes work out for folks.

I had two last night. I hope this was applied today and not yesterday.

....btw, looks like they moved this thread back from the basement to the general forum.

PS4 doesn't have a an equivalent to XB1's Game Preview where consumers can buy works-in-progress. ....so no, the only time PS4 players were actually able to get their hands on the game on this console was when BI released it as a "finished" product. There was also no demo. Having said that there have been other games that released on PS4 with components that were not ready for full release like RDO that came a month after RDR2's release. .....GW in GRW, etc. I said it before but I'm not going to claim ignorance of DayZ's turbulent history. I've been following it off and on since before it became a stand alone product. What I will say is that I was encouraged by the more recent progress and drive to get the game back on track. ....and yeah, I did buy into their more recent commitments before and after the PS4 release. ....but unfortunately, with every new update comes new bugs while some of the most persistent of the old ones remain. ....or in some cases are made worse. When they announced the sale of physical copies and then a DLC, that was when I realized bug squashing really isn't the priority they made it out to be. Fixes are few and far between with most coming in the updates rather than hotfixes. ....and then again, we usually end up with more issues than we had before and the big ones are left untouched. If BI simply communicated more with their customers it would go a long way to quelling a lot of this frustration and anger.

That's the sad truth. I've died more times because of my character freezing while in a fight, weapons suddenly not doing any damage or glitching, etc. than by my own stupid mistakes. ....and then having to jump through hoops with workarounds that are not always guaranteed to work. It seems I spend more time worrying about what I do in the game world that can be affected by a glitch than I do with simply playing the game. Lag spikes while driving? .....no problem, just keep your speed under 20 KPH and you might be lucky enough to not crash too hard if one occurs. Things getting locked into inventory in tents, trunks, etc.? ....no problem, just rent a server so you and your friends can log off and restart it every time you need to get something out that is stuck. We actually have to do this about 1-4 times a session on top of me having an auto restart every evening. Mag and weapon loading glitches? .....no problem, just don't use the reload button (triangle). Just reload from your inventory using the combine function (thanks to etaab for turning me on to this one). Extremely annoying especially when in a fight but it seems to work. Character freezes shortly after driving a car? ....no problem, just make sure you dart into the nearest house while crossing your fingers that you don't freeze before you get there and hang out for 2 minutes or so. ....but even then, that's no guarantee you won't freeze once you step out that door. These are just a few examples of things I constantly have to worry about while playing simply because of bugs with the game. ......and those are just the ones that I found potential workarounds for. For once, I'd really love to just play the game using the available options, features, items, etc. as they were originally intended without all the problems.

.....the funny thing is that they'll end up fixing this one issue while we're still stuck with all the other game breaking bugs that can cause player death, stop progress, glitch / ruin items that you spent hours obtaining, etc.

That would be nice. Wouldn't mind also seeing ways to edit the population of items on the server, etc.

Easy there Luves. I read the above from your post which is why I said I wasn't sure why you were asking for PC options. I don't know what they have available to them either. I stopped building PC rigs before DayZ was available as an ARMA mod. Regardless, I agreed with you. It would be nice to have more options on the servers as I rent one myself. As far as what is possible, I have no clue but I like some of your ideas.

Yeah, just had three today in a two hour session with my friend. .....really sucked. He froze twice as well and we had more inventory issues than normal that required server restarts to fix.

Quite honestly, I haven't seen a connection to the freezes / blue-screens and population. I have been getting both (more freezes than BSODs) even on my private server with just two of us on and just myself at times. I had 3 in a row yesterday.

Not sure why you're asking for PC options when you're not even sure what options they have. .....but I get the gist of your plea. btw, we also can force FPV on our servers although I agree that more options would really be nice. Obviously, they may have some limitations due to their affect on performance, etc.

.....or maybe bite the bullet and bring in a third party like NWI did with Sandstorm to co-develop for consoles.

It was kind of an odd poll to be honest. I think it would have been better to ask who is affected by the problem or how frequently people are (e.g. never, rarely, frequently, etc.).

The avatar threw me off too.

Fyi... Siva is just a member like us so that response you replied to wasn't made as a dev or BI rep.

I got one of those when I was cornered by some infected. I switched guns as that usually works but then found out all of my weapons were no longer dealing damage. I couldn't log out for obvious reasons to correct it and died. ....not fun.

I had one crash like that since the update as well. Completely locked up my system. I had to do a hard boot. My system was completely unresponsive. Hasn't happened again.....yet. I should also note that I'm on an original PS4 with and external SSD.

Well, that's the thing.... I didn't notice any improvements in the stutters, texture loading, etc. after the update. The cars are also just as bad as they ever were in that regard too. I guess what I'm trying to say is that if there was some kind of improvement in that regard, we sure didn't notice it. ....on that oint though, the freezes I get when loading in do seems to occur as textures are loading in. ...or if I move too soon. I've been attempting not to move for about 20 seconds or so after it appears everything is loaded in. So far, I have not had a freeze on startup when I do that but there's no proof it helps as the freezes were random.

Just to toss this in.... It's happened to myself and my friend on my own private server with just us. Also, while this issue did occur extremely rarely before 1.05, we get far more freezes and blue-screens than we ever did prior to the update. On that note, we do get freezes way more than the BSOD. A lot of those are when loading in. .....maybe unrelated but perhaps not.

.....yeah, 20 days later they say they are "investigating". I know they are listening because they still respond with silly gifs in a sea of tweets talking about when they are going to fix all the issues including the blue-screens since 1.05 release. The problem is their lack of communication to the community. .....the acknowledgement of the persistent bugs / problems people have been reporting, their status, etc. The below Tweet didn't help back in September but at least I figured they might actually come through this time and fix some of the long standing bugs. Instead, now we (those who are affected) still encounter those same issues we did before and I now get more freezes / blue-screens than I did prior to 1.05. ......so now maybe they'll fix the more frequent blue-screens caused by 1.05 but then we're right back to square one with all the other problems they have still yet to address.

That was meant as sarcasm in regard to the many issues that people have brought up but have yet to be addressed. .....or rather "fixed" if you will.

.....assuming it does even if you do.

I agree with Kaneda. IMO, either they are expecting 1.06 will fix some of the bigger issues on console or they are just going to continue this "business as usual approach" as they have been. I'm rarely one to Don the tin foil hat and suspect conspiracies or such, but this is looking more and more like a money grab to me or perhaps they really are ignorant to the fact of just how many these issues affect. .....fyi, I was a little miffed this morning to see that they moved a thread asking for BI to open their communication to the community to the "Console Update" sub forum where traffic is essentially dead. ....with no link. An obvious attempt to bury it short of deleting.