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If you're replying to me, I don't think you read the main post. I do have an SSD. Anyway, the problem has cropped up again. This time I decided to try and go through all the system tray programs and disable stuff that I thought would help the problem. I tried disabling the on-screen display for EVGA Precision-X, which didn't help. Then I tried changing some Nvidia Shadowplay settings and disabling it entirely. Changing the settings did nothing, but disabling it made it launch in less than 20 seconds. I suppose I'll just have to wait until the next Shadowplay patch to try and record anything in the game.

Yeah, my chip has the C3 stepping, so it's a lot easier to OC than some of the earlier chips that had the C2 stepping. It's still a pretty weak processor, but I'm gonna try and make it last as long as I can.

After some troubleshooting, I have finally discovered the cause of the problem. Avast has a Web Shield that, for whatever reason, was affecting the speed at which DayZ launched. I went into the settings for the web shield and set the heuristics sensitivity to Low instead of Normal, and it has solved the problem. It now takes 30-35 seconds from launch to Alpha disclaimer, whereas with the Web Shield on normal sensitivity it would spend 30 seconds non-responsive and then spend 30 seconds actually loading. Hopefully this will help people that are having the same problem.

Yeah, I verified the clock speed and temps when I was overclocking. RAM still shows up as 16GB, is fully seated, and is running at the correct speed.

Are you having loading problems as well? I don't see why it would be a processor issue, as that's one of the factors that has stayed the same through my GPU upgrade.

It's not the waiting that gets to me, it's the waiting when I didn't have to before, even though I had worse specs.

Ever since upgrading from a Radeon 6790 to a GTX 760, I've had the problem of DayZ taking forever to load after launching. I have reinstalled drivers, made sure my old drivers were gone, reinstalled the game, verified game cache, the works. Nothing seems to help the problem. It takes about a minute to hit the DayZ splash screen (before which is a black screen where the game goes in and out of non-responsiveness) and another 30 seconds to hit the Alpha disclaimer. It also takes an absurdly long (~30 sec) time to apply graphics settings like anti-aliasing. The game is installed on an SSD and was loading and running perfectly fine before I upgraded GPUs. As far as I can tell, nobody else is having this problem. Can anyone suggest a solution? Specs: AMD Phenom II x4 925 OC'd to 3.7GHz EVGA GTX 760 SC w/ ACX Cooler 16GB 1333 RAM ASRock 970 Extreme3 Motherboard OCZ Vertex 4 128GB SSD (game is installed on this drive) Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200RPM (game was installed on this, moving made no difference) EDIT: Forgot to mention that it also takes about 45 seconds to load back into the game after alt-tabbing, during which it goes non-responsive as well.