misterleroy

OBS does everything you need and probably more. It's also free without the need for piracy. :D Fraps is just too resource hungry for your average rig.

Just please do not make a mess.

Bless you. Development cycles - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle Optimise - Verb 1. optimise - make optimal; get the most out of; use best; "optimise your resources" Attacking someone who called you on your boring repetitive "calls for optimisation" is pathetic. Get out and read the red text.

You need to learn more about game development and cycles buddy, why optimise a game that's no where near being feature complete? JEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZ

Only he will know.

Quoting the important bit for truth

You're best off just trying different servers buddy.

You probably can, but it will be an awful experience. There are too many controls to map to a pad, plus it's just not set up (yet, maybe never will be) for use on a Pad.

Turn off clouds. Ensure aspect ratio (in interface settings) matches your monitor, then ensure the 3d rendering matches your aspect ratio (requires game restart). Remeber it's a horrible unoptimised alpha, and that people with $2000 gaming rigs still suffer poor performance in DayZ. GLHF (or take a look at suggestions here: http://day0.com.au/forum/dayz/950-dayz-alpha-performance-tweaks-and-settings-guide)

I only had to do this once, but that's how I did it indeed. The icon on the taskbar never properly loaded after that until the game was relaunched completely, it was just transparent until that time.

OP - I hope you realise we're not having a go at you, just offering some justifications for some of the dilemmas you've described. (Just for the record, I too have terrible eye sight, but at least in my case I can squint to read the signs. I can't obv speak for the level of eyesight you have.)

So far I've a mere 40 hours clocked in the game. I've met with friends every day I've played. We use road signs and landmarks (inc the sun) to find each other, usually within 1 hour of playing on any given night. It's not impossible, it's just not easy -- and it's not supposed to be.

Yeah I've been getting pings of 10-30 on those this week. Must be local.

DayZ mod area, not Mod(eration) area. :)