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The engine for ARMA 2 is CPU heavy. About 70% of the work is from the CPU, 30% from the graphics card. You'll want to upgrade that first gen phenom to a second gen phenom x4, at the least. They are about $110 on newegg right now and your motherboard should be able to handle it because they are the same socket type. You'll just need to understand the process of swapping out a CPU before you do it. Also, look up your motherboard's CPU support list. If it doesn't currently support Phenom II X4s, you'll probably just have to do a BIOS flash. A flash is a software upgrade, if you are uncertain of what it is. For now: Turn off post-processing, it is useless and drags FPS down badly. Turn shadows off, terrain detail to low, object detail to low, view distance to about 1000. Video memory: leave at default. No AA/AS, HDR to normal. 3D reso to something that is good looking but not FPS killing (depends on how your rig takes it). There are a lot of tweaking guides out there, too, so check those out as well.

I think I killed you when you jumped me between Balota and Cherno with your buddy, who despawned before I could kill him. And then I think you're also the guy who fired at me around Cherno's apartments and failed at aiming twice only to be shot in the chest with one shot from my M4. Cool story bro. Go back to your -10/10 shitty COD and revisit when you're 18 years old.

Camo and ghillie suit work fine with the beta patch. Haven't had an issue.

First of all, your title of the thread- if I disagree, I must be an exploiter. This is a fallacy; there is no link between the two. Second of all, this assumes we are all mindless players who do not have lives outside of DayZ. A few weeks ago I received a phone call from a friend who was stranded on the interstate in a heavy downpour. I logged my ass off to go deal with a real problem. I'm not going to think about some pissant's wet dream to get his kill whether or not I was in a firefight. A 30 second timer could mean that my sudden logging out will turn into a surprised and confused me logging in and seeing a "Pick male or female" screen. Imagine this: I log out due to needing to do something important suddenly, while in a building/town/someplace. While my character is pending despawn, a suvivor sees me and kills me because he can tell that I'm pending despawn. Where is the fairness in this? This is a terrible idea for all the wrong reasons. The truth is, you cannot assume that everyone's internet connectivity and power grid is as stable as yours. That is unfair to people, even if they are a minority. Also, you are assuming that ArmA2's netcode is robust and unbreakable. Wrong there. I've been playing on this engine since Operation Flashpoint and while ArmA2 is worlds better than OFP, it still has a lot of issues on multiplayer games. I really hope you understand what a 30 second timer will do to honest people. I work hard for the things I do in DayZ and I'd rather not have all my hard work taken away because I died due to a long ass pending despawn when I responded to something important in real life. Edit: On the topic of delay for switching servers, I also disagree. Until the servers become more stable and there is some way to see what the in-game time is on a server, this is only going to piss people off. Most sessions, I have to bounce in and out of a few servers to find one that I like. Sometimes I will log into a server that's currently on a night cycle, so I'll log out. The next server might have given me the weird issue where I log in and have absolutely shitty performance (like 2fps, when I have very high fps on the highest settings). Other times I'll try to join and I'll get stuck at "loading" or "waiting for character to create." I can only imagine this being worse for people who do not have great machines. Simply put, this idea of 10-15 minute waits between server joining is not friendly to players who are playing honestly. Who cares about server hoppers; the damn loot is going to respawn. Crippling the game for others just to nab a few server hoppers isn't the way to fix the issues.