Grumpy Monkey

Don't overclock your CPU when you use a stock cooler. Terrible advice. The guy is obviously not that tech savy (no disrespect mate), so I hate to see him kill his CPU.

Hehe yeah those days. The days of Homeworld 1, Wing Commander 1-3, X-Wing vs Tie Fighter, Under a killing Moon etc.

Yeah don't upgrade just for DayZ alone. Upgrade your hardware when you notice multiple games you are interested in are starting to show signs of having trouble. Yes it is early access, and yes they havn't worked on any kind of optimazation yet because of it being EA. Truth be told (this is no complaint just an observation) like most simulator type game engines they arn't known to be running on the average machine with high FPS for obvious reasons. This has always been the case and I'm afraid it always will be. It kinda is like the days of old with PC gaming when games where always pushing the technical capabilities of the hardware of the time to the max. In the years of the gaming consoles this is for 90% a thing of the past, and maybe we arn't quite as used to it now. It's both a blessing and a curse, but this is another whole discussion so I won't go any further into that. Anyways I digress.

Graveyard in 3...2...1... You're posting in the wrong section mate. This will probably get moved to the Gallery section if you're lucky. Alright, since I'm already responding let me give you some advice. If you want your channel to grow it takes a lot of work and dedication. Especially when you're one of the many let's players, even a DayZ let's player. To get some good will and viewers from here it doesn't exactly help that your first post on the forums is about you promoting your channel. No body is going to give a shit. Sorry for being blunt, I'm not trying to be a dick, but it is the truth. I do wish you good luck though with your channel. Keep working hard and hopefully viewers will come.

Ok, I'm not sure what graphical effect you're talking about then. Sorry.

Ok two things. One: This is still an alpha so that means that optimizing of the engine isn't great yet. Two: That GPU you have is a bit dated. I realy doubt it will be powerful enough. I know this isn't what you want to hear, but to be blunt it is the truth.

Yup, chop chop. Go and install a 64-bit OS.

I think you're talking about "Postprocess Quality". Put that on " Disabled". It is in the Rendering menu.

It depends. Do you have 4 gigs of ram or more?

You're very welcome mate. Glad to hear it doesn't crash anymore. Enjoy!

Strange, my old GPU was a HD 7770 and I didn't had that problem.

Awesome mate, and good luck. I know it is a bit annoying, but in the end you'll be happy trust me. Don't forget to back-up your saves though, if you have those that are not saved by the Steam cloud. Just a warning. I lost all my Dark Souls 2 saves. :(

I upgraded my system a few days ago aswell. When I installed my new motherboard (amoung other stuff) I had to do an OS reinstall because of that (driver conflicts, the old windows 7 wouldn't boot up). When you reinstall Windows 7 (I'm not sure about other OS) you have the option not to wipe your HD clean. It will rename the old Windows and Program files directory as Windows.old. That means you can't boot it up again from the old Windows and all the installed drivers are not usable anymore. It does let you keep all your programs and files though, but you have to reinstall them in order for them to work again. 32-bit only applications will still work in a 64-bit version of Windows. You can install them and they'll be fine. Most games are 32-bit anyways, so that would be silly if they didn't. ;) Mate, seriously Install a 64-bit version of whatever Windows. Now you shot your PC in the foot with that 32-bit one. NP that you didn't knew. You can't know everything when you build your own system for the first time. We all learn from our mistakes. :)

So let me get this straight. You run 32-bit Windows on that machine?! What a shame....You know that because of that you won't utilize your 16 gigs of ram right? 32-bit OS are ment to be for systems that have 3 gigs of ram or less. Install a 64-bit OS A.S.A.P.