Andarne (DayZ)

Like a few of you, I have spent considerable time in the revamped towns and cities of Chernarus. Whilst the additions, renovations and overhauls are all excellent, there remains a lack of variety in our humble Russian abode. That is why I present to you some minor additions, depending on the sizes of towns. --- Pharmacy Small building, spawns low-tier medical loot like vitamins, painkillers and single-bandages. Does not stock blood bags or saline kits. Library Provides an abundance of books, as well as writing implements to bolster community spirit! Community Center Contains mid-range residential loot, at the cost of having an abundance of zombies. I'd assume that the populace that survived the initial outbreak of the virus, would take shelter with other survivors. Jail Russian prisons are hardcore, and stocked full of inmates. We could have similar amounts of zombies, like the CC above, but have industrial/military loot to represent the prisoners/guards respectivley. Automobile Dealer The place to get your cars! While stocks last. Post Office See library. As always, I welcome constructive criticism and improvements upon these ideas. I'd love to hear what you guys think. Also, Happy New Year folks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K3ZHaA5MTg My friend Hwaet decides that Mookie needs some urgent, un-needed Medical Attention.

Any word on when you'll be fixing the horrible desync issues, that have made the game pretty much unplayable?

I think there are more urgent issues than zombies walking through walls to attend to. The desync issues, for one are my biggest annoyance.

Hey there folks! My friend and I just upgraded to the latest stable release (0.32.114577) and we've been unable, at all, to play the game. For starters, both of our framerates have dropped by nearly half since the latest patch. We were running an easy 45FPS average each. Now we're down to 15-20 in the wilderness. Secondly, we're both experiencing extreme desync issues all the time. It's made gameplay impossible, as we cannot see each other move nor manipulate objects in the world. Finally, we're crashing every so often when going into the inventory or walking for a little bit. We've both verified the game through Steam, and all files returned successfully. Just wondering if these bugs are new with the patch, and why we're still seeing the desync? Any help will be much appreciated.

I...think I understand. Thanks again!

Cheers for the rocket-reply. Hehe, that should become a thing. You said that the new update added "complexity" to running a server. Can you elaborate on that, so we humble serfs might understand?

Let's keep the bickering to a minimal, or at least, direct it towards those GODDAMN BUGS! *Clears throat, apologetically* I believe I've fixed my performance issues regarding FPS. I knew my DayZ.cfg and profile files couldn't of been altered, as they're set to Read Only - while browsing through the Documents folders, I found the new variants that were added in the patch for my renamed character. After adding some edits to these new files, and setting them as Read Only, I now am getting around 30-35FPS in small towns. It's a start, but nowhere near where it was before the patch. Ideally, I'd like to keep this thread open for explorable ideas to resume my high-FPS. I also checked my in-game graphics settings; they were as they were before the patch, nothing had changed.

Thanks for the info, Rocket! To confirm, these are the servers/hosts that can't save or load character data properly?

We have tried over ten servers, and all of them present the issues I've listed. We didn't stick to the same hosts either; Vilayer, MPGS and a couple of others. All were low-ping. Same as before the patch; I was averaging around 45FPS in towns and even hit 120 when looking at a wall! Now we're lucky if we can get 25 looking at the floor... For the record; Steam launch paramaters, and DayZ.cfg/DayZProfile.cfg edits to suit my system. Even running on high-performance mode.

I'd like to give Shadowplay a go, simply because of what Nvidia advertises it to be. Does anybody know if AMD are making progress into something similar?

Rocket, have you any idea when you and your team will be releasing a build that focuses on player-built structures? Have you reached a decision, yet, about underground building? I've heard that Bohemia's tool has made some advancements in terrain modification.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKEw4NuwKjs She was doing this for around a minute before I started recording. I really, really hope that this doesn't represent the speed of the zombies in the final version of the game. ;)

I guess so. After I fired some shots, she kind of...dropped to the ground. I think the shock of hearing the gunshot, and the lack of sugars in her blood, caused her to faint. REALsheaffer tended to her for a while, but she just got back up and ran over the hills and far away, before we could stop her. I'm afraid to say that the cable wouldn't stay in after it was unplugged. Giggidy.

After applying these 'fixes' I still encountered some trouble with desync. That's when I decided, for the first time since getting the antivirus, to enable 'Gamer Mode' on ESET. Within moment, all descync was gone. I won't deny that I had a long-anticipated sigh of relief at that. After around an hour or two of gameplay, the desync returned; it wasn't as severe, but was noticeable at moment. Granted, it only lasted for a few moment.

Take your pick, good sir:

Try setting your Power Options to High Performance. Worked for me, and I gained about 20 FPS.

I managed to get an insane performance increase by setting my PC's power scheme to High Performance. Maybe that'll work for you?

Nah, the game would be crap without it. *Chuckles* See what I did there? Anyway, back OT, I like the look of these things, but am more interested in what we don't know is coming to the game.

No, I stay away from that place at all costs. The South, in general, as well. Looks like you shot another God-fearing survivor. Shame on you! I suggest you read that book! *Whacks you with some sticks*

I feel quite stupid about this... I checked my drivers, all were fine. Checked BIOS, all good. Checked Power options. I noticed that I was running the Power Saver preset. So, naturally, I put it on High Performance. Started up DayZ. Slow, to begin with...but then I got in-game. Wow....no lag whatsoever. I'm now running a happy average of 40FPS. EDIT: I just looked down, and got 120FPS.

If you find it, please give me a PM so I can at least attempt to sort my issues out.

Pfft. Forget the NVG's and grenades, I'm looking forward to the shits. Realism FTW!

What's this "work" you speak of? xD

Remember to eat and drink until you're full. The healthy indicator isn't a big green bar in your character menu, it's grey text instead. Maybe you have it already, but just haven't noticed yet.