kraze1994

In some cases, yes. However for the most part ArmaII will work with multiple cores. I would recommend not setting your affinity and let Windows bounce the process around threads, it does a pretty good job of that already.

It depends, what I have noticed is that DayZ likes to hang around 20% CPU even with low player counts, With around 40 people in the server it has gotten up to 30%-35%. This is while being run from a four core VDS. So that percentage is not the entire processor, just two of the cores.

My server is being run off of an E5-2690 and CPU usage hangs around 20-30% in a virtual environment.

Nice, I will need to come play for awhile.

Ever since the latest 1.7.2 build of DayZ my server has been crashing randomly. I have tried re-updating DayZ,Hive and BE but nothing seems to help. Has anyone else been having this problems?

I would say so, yes. I currently have been approved and I know of a few others as well. However you will need to pick a good company for your VDS. Do not do a VPS, only a VDS. I personally use http://www.nfoservers.com.

A VPS I can understand but a VDS is a little different as it is built on dedicated resources, you are not sharing your resources with another customer and not buying it from your ISP, even though I have never seen an ISP offer VPS's, I would imagine they are pretty bad. The downside to a VDS is that there is some slight overhead from being in a virtual environment, however in my testing and reports from other users it works just fine as long as the machine you are on meets the minimum requirements

How familiar are you with the Arma series? Are you comfortable setting up your own DayZ server? I have seen very mixed reports for the current server hosters, but have seen good reports from users who have decided to rent a VDS and run one themselves.

If you order a VDS you can open a request asking what machine you are on and if it does not meet standard DayZ requirements we can usually move you to a faster machine for free without loosing any IP's or files. Here is a link where we explain a little more about our VDS hosting; https://www.nfoserve...ver-rentals.php O and @Cyborg_delta1, I think you mean 5000GB not 5GB.

NFOservers.com does not yet officially support DayZ on shared servers due to some of its requirements and alpha status, but many customers do successfully run it on unmanaged VDSes. We also use dedicated resources in our VDS plans, so your resources are yours and no one else. I would recommend nothing below a three core as I have seen a full 40 slot server use about two full HT cores and 2GB of ram. Going with a two core could leave the OS struggling for resources. If you are familiar with ArmaII and can follow instructions provided by the DayZ staff then setting up your server is really easy, and it is a good learning experience. Not to mention, we offer a free two day trial to new customers. If for some reason it does not work out simply cancel before the two days is up and never be charged in the first place.

Since the latest update I have noticed my server is not showing up in Six Launcher. I have tried doing a complete re-install and update but it does not seem to be working. I can see people connect and I can find it in my master list for ArmaII but SixLauncher will not pick it up.

Happening to me to.

Really just depends on the company, each company will have its own *safe zone* for machines and some may not, especially with DayZ it is important to leave that extra overhead. Well the point behind what I was saying is that if you have a quad core machine and at any given time DayZ is only using two of those cores, using those other two cores wont hinder performance. Simple because those cores are there and meant to be used, if they sit and do nothing it is neither helping nor hurting. Sounds like me and you need to have a LAN..lol

That is only assuming they are overloading there boxes, which some may be intentionally or unintentionally. I am not trying to pick a fight here but that would be a complete waste of resources. It would be silly not to run several servers DayZ or not from a machine that cost several thousand dollars.(Depending on specifications). It is not so much the problem that home connections cannot provide a decent quality line for a while it is that there are constant problems that home connections get pegged with. Datacenters have redundant systems to prevent that from happening, not to mention the connections to multiple NSP's just in-case one is overloaded or down. On top of that you will also find that many home connections are known to give packet loss or dropped connections, now for someone who is checking email, watching youtube it is not a big deal, but for a server that requires a constant connection even a little blip can cause issues and we are all aware of host fast and easy customers get pissed off.

You got to keep in mind that it is not just network speed they are after. Datacenters will provide a constant, reliable stream of data to a machine. Many ISP's do not, and during peak times speeds are known to drop. Now if you are on Fiber that takes away the speed dropping part but does not replace the reliability. Having multiple backbones and guarantees your speed will not drop is just a plus of using a data center. Not to mention users seem to be have better connectivity to data centers instead of regular ISP's, where packetloss and dropped connections are frequent.