Vexus

Dear Jessica, Please help me get a passport. I am stuck in Chernarus. I have a Makarov pistol and a single magazine. There are zombies everywhere. Please forge me a document, I cannot stand this soviet lifestyle. I can pay in beans, lots of beans. Your friend, Vexus

I love how stupidity always comes out. "I found NO LOOT on this server! And it was a full server with 50 people who are all looting all the gear all the time! And no one was at the NWAF for some reason, maybe because there is no loot and everyone looted the gear already! It's unfair, I need to go back to Diablo 3 where I get my own unique loot that no one sees!"

DayZ Comparison to Real Life: People play, get pissed the game isn't fair or easy, realize they're terrible at the game, and then resort to hacking, spawning themselves all the gear without having to work for it, and finding all the other people who got their gear legitimately and kill them while invisible. People work, get pissed the workforce isn't fair or easy, realize they're terrible employees, and then resort to voting for Obama, sending themselves welfare checks every month without having to work for it, and spending everyone else's hard earned and hard paid tax dollars on alcohol and drugs.

The game is called HackZ, so yes, hacking required. Else you spend 2 days gearing up with friends to die in the time it takes someone to scroll down to "Fuck shit up" in his hacks.

Congratulations! Guestimate of 10% hacking.... 100,000 hackers! But seriously, good job.

I'd like to come up with some awesome catchy story to get everyone's attention and then ask about your hacker run-in experiences. But, it's 19 days to the next game. So, anyone else have awesome stories about how you died to hackers? Because I'm finding that's becoming the norm in HackZ. Let's get this topic pinned so we can all discuss every HackZ moment we share!

HackZ happened.

Like someone else here said, some games push your system harder. DayZ is not optimized like an actual released game, that's why even high-end cards get frame drops in DayZ yet are smooth when playing Crysis. DayZ is not optimized and you generate more heat. Download the program Speedfan and run it. Watch your GPU temperature through a shutdown, and watch it peak somewhere I assume at 70-80C, shut down, cool down to 60C quickly or less, and come back online. You could just clean the dust, but if that doesn't work, new thermal compound needs to be applied to the chips. Best to let a tech do that work because I've seen plenty of DIY jobs gone wrong.

Post a server you're on and I'm sure they will accommodate you.

Your video chip is overheating, causing the chip to shut down, causing that message to pop up. Your screen goes black for a second, and then comes back as the chip comes back online after it has cooled down a little. Then it keeps happening. Take to a computer shop (in Seattle? I can help!) and have them take a look.

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Re-touche?

Guys... Don't get attached to playing a game. Yes I just owned all those 'Don't get attached to your gear' comments.

First. But seriously, there are hackers messing things up along with giving every server admin 'cheating' powers. You're not just in danger of hackers, but the hordes of server admins who do wtf ever they want. Basically tempting them every time they get killed to dish out punishment to you with no recourse. I thought if this would work as stand-alone, and the only way would be MMO style, as right now all the servers, the lack of policing hackers, and "well it's alpha so the hackers are showing us what to fix so deal with it" is bad bad news. Please update the next DayZ version / Arma 2 beta with a feature which disables all the built-in teleport, spawn, and other waiting-to-be-abused code so hackers have less access to all those commands.

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