Irenicus (DayZ)

I like this idea of sanity. Perhaps it could be something as little as the persons face changing to look nastier. The blood on people for a certain amount of time is also a much better idea than just some skin. As I see it, there are lots of people who claim they want realism (and many of us truly do) but then you have the others who say similar things, yet shoot everything that moves. That is not realism. There's probably a very small minority who would KOS constantly in real life, were the shit to hit the fan. You'd certainly have many difficult, tense and scary confrontations, but right now most people aren't truly roleplaying it like that. Which in turn means those of us who want to either get killed constantly when trying to be friendly, or we end up KOS'ing too because it's them or us. Only the truly nastiest and most psychotic among the population would be killing everything that moves. Yes I know its a game, but you can't claim to want realism and complain about this and that not being like it would in the real world and then act like a psycho. Even roleplaying surely not everyone wants to be a psycho either? I have had much more fun co-oping than when I kill other survivors, even in self-defense. Sure it can be fun picking someone off from a distance, but again, there's just so much more you can do. Anyone else seen vids of people pushing two guys into a deatmatch arena with only hatchets, or getting kidnapped, mugged, made to be someone's bitch or something at least more creative than just bang you're dead? Or even done it themselves? Those who argue that all there is to do is kill to get your murder count up truly lack any imagination and would be better off in something like Battlefield, not DayZ.

There's plenty more to do, but lack of imagination means most do as you are saying, as they (and you) lack the imagination to do other things... Can't think what else there is to do? Tough shit, I'm not going to give you ideas to make up for your lack of imaginative skills, but you only have to look at some of the more interesting vids on DayZ to know what I am talking about.

Coneback? Is that some kind of new bong? lol Well I just don't think it will come back, perhaps banditry will be punished in a different way, but I think the skin idea is just too restrictive and simple....the world is more complicated than that, and so should be the world of DayZ. Just all IMO of course ;)

I think you need to run ArmaII and ArmaII OA at least once before you play DayZ. Should fix it, try and let us know. DUH I should learn to read every post before I, umm, post. lol

Supposedly easy....well I'm sorry, I know the makers of this app put time and effort into this, but it's not easy nor does it work as intended. For me at least It always wants to update my mods even when I know they are installed and up to date. It always shows about 2 or 3 servers from australia, but no others. Tried everything but it just doesn't do it. In the end, I hoped this program might be an easy way to browse servers (as I definitely will not use it to update my mods, too much of a control freak for that lol) but since it only shows 2 out of about 50 of the servers I usually see on my in-game browser, if fails to meet my expectations. The other thing that annoys me is servers always have 9999 ping, making the server browser part of the app completely useless (if having only 2 aussie servers wasn't bad enough) Also I find many of the options and controls clunky, unintuitive and therefore useless. I'm a techhead and usually have no issues with this sort of thing but really, it needs some revamping IMO It's so much easier to install mods manually, use ArmA2 Launcher and browse for servers in game using the filters. So much easier! Why it is people who seem to be noobs and can't get mods to work manually find this a better solution (ie they arent savvy enough to do manual installs) is beyond me...but hey if it works for you, all the better. Sadly it's just not for me.

Sounds like typical DayZ bugginess to me. It does happen....but I've only seen this issue on either bugged/crappy servers, or just after an update.

It's looking that way....but whatever the case, I'm sure Rocket's silence is a sign of him working frantically to push this update out. Even if it's a day late.... Everyone must be sick of not being able to loot areas with those damn glitches, myself included. Patience grasshopper

So the big question I've been wondering about is:When will Rocket implement infection so that players become zombies? Man, can you imagine?

Ummmm long gone. Not coming back. Surprised people are still posting about this. Lmao deal with it, it's the same for everyone!

I use it more than most it would seem. If you had researched it wouldn't have taken you long. It took me about 5 minutes to find out info on this subject. If I can do it, so can you. Of course unless that is your brain is restricting you from using search tools efficiently. Furthermore, did you even test above setting changes to see if it makes a difference? On multiple servers? I did, hence why I can say with surety that gamma and night settings are server dependant. What was that you said about using your brain? Useful has only one l btw. So I agree, and I'd like to add, using your brain results in better spelling :) Sorry but you asked for that one.

I dunno, its certainly weird. But PCs have always experienced this sort of thing. No amount of tweaking will help (well ok it helps in general but doesn't fix whatever is causing this.) Lets hope this is sorted when standalone comes out.

Mate it's the same for us all. Even those with monster rigs are getting terrible FPS in cities. Not much you can do, tweaking will help up to a certain point, but most of the performance issues seem to be related to server load and I imagine Hive load. Wouldn't surprise me if it's all down to the hive...the more zombies and players, the worse FPS is and gets even worse with time. That's why server restarts seem to help, but only for a while

I did try to tell you. Or maybe that was another thread lol Anyways, stop stressing guys, it will be fixed later today if the 1.7.2.5 rollout is on schedule (though admittedly I have my doubts about that!)

Strange. I have a much lower spec PC than the OP yet I can run the game with higher settings... PPAA doesn't make any difference to FPS on my system. Definitely SceneComplexity helps, setting it to 150k or 100k. Post Processing should most certainly be off if you want extra frames, at the cost of having no DOF or bloom. Those I can live without. ATOC=0 - this is a must, but note ATOC only works if you have FSAA on.So if you already had FSAA off, setting this to 0 will not be any different. Sure trees and grass are a bit "sharper" and not very smooth, but hey it's worth the extra frames, and another side effect is slightly better visibility as you can see past edges of some trees, whereas with ATOC enabled (5 for dayz) you get much more bushy trees etc. Frames Ahead- 1 or 2. Personally 2 works better for me, no idea why, but setting it to 1 results in lower FPS. If Vsync is on it's worth downloading 3dOverrider and forcing triple buffering. Much smoother though uses more vid memory if I recall correctly.

Thanks for that! Trying it out atm and so far a slight increase in FPS (CPU bottlenecking so I didnt expect much) but definitely less stuttering! Hope you don't mind me passing this info and vid link on to others needing help. Cheers

Ramdisk makes a virtual disk but uses your RAM which is far faster. Then all you do is copy over your Dayz folder and point the game to it. Googling is pretty easy lol just type ramdisk into google takes about .001 second :)

Careful though, reducing object detail reduces how far you can see other players. I originally thought that view distance affected this, but it does not. Careful testing has proved this. I've personally had to go for a compromise and set obj detail to low, and can see players far enough. On low I would only see them when zooming in, at a certain distance (which is how I discovered the problem).

For sure, it's not client side. I've had similar experiences to yourself. Problem I have is I end up tweaking to get better FPS, but when it IS in fact running as best as can be expected, lowering some options actually results in worse FPS. So what I do is back up my cfg files when I have it running smooth, in case I change anything. That way I can be sure it's not something I changed. So yeah, definitely a server/hive issue or a combination of both?

I dunno but I have PMC and BAF and they show up in the lower bottom left corner, not up the top right as it's a bit different to mods since they were made by BIS themselves. Seems like it's working fine. You have the PMC icon down there :)

I know plenty about OC'ing but generally you don't see a massive improvement with OC'ing your gfx card. If it works for you though hey I'm all for it! OC'ing my gfx card probably yeilds little to no results because my CPU is bottlnecking my system. I suppose I should have thought about that before saying what I did. Btw my CPU is an old Opteron 165 with a 63% Overclock. Amazing CPU, as most CPU's will give you 10-20%, at least if you're running on air which I am.

You have to launch without @dayz

Actually what it is, is that you have to run both games once to create profiles, once you've done that it should run ok as long as you have installed correctly and use correct launch parameters

Don't do this, it's not really advised. Mod should be in it's own folder ie Arma2OA/@dayz with the files themselves in @dayz/addons

It's a common issue for newcomers who don't install correctly or use incorrect launch paramaters. Follow the instructions here and you will be fine. it's annoying but not too hard to sort. Just requires a little reading and instruction following :) Good Luck! http://www.dayzwiki....to_install_DayZ

have you tried different servers with the same issue? If not I suggest trying that first and see how you go. otherwise as mentioned above, reinstall... EDIT: Oops ok I see you got it sorted. :)