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How are the mildots used in real life? 1- 400m? 2- 500m? 3- 600m? 4- 700m?

I spawned first with no items in the "debug" area, yet I kept my ghillie suit. It would seem as if this is a bug. Already mentioned in the bug report system apparantly.

What will happen to the bike that I accidentally drove into a lake? The lake showed up out of nowhere and I had little time to brake.

I believe the newer radeon cards have some kind of effortless antialising feature, and it would seem as if there is no fps drop even when antialising is set to "very high". Dayz probably has little complex geometry, so maybe there is not much work for the graphics card to antialise the edges of the few trees, the buildings and the shapes in the terrain . DayZ options panel: PPAA - > MSAA = very high.

I currently have antialiasing for trees only, and msaa at very high in addition. Game runs with 40-60 fps. Usually 60 fps, but it drops a little for unknown reasons. The fps seem to be linked in part to the particular server I play on, which would explain why I got 13 fps on one server.

Our hosting solution had two instances in the server log today that indicated a server failure or "process failure" as it said. There was a window of more than 12 hours between the server restarts. Does anyone have an idea of what might have caused this? I guess we will have to ask the server provider, but I thought I should just air the issue and maybe get some relevant feedback as to how this could have happened. Afaik, this is the first time such a failure has occurred with the rented server in the time I have been playing (3-4 weeks).

Thank you! I was piloting a helicopter when the server crashed. Luckily, the helicopter was found where we last landed, in one piece but without fuel as expected. We never really landed there, because I was hovering over the ground at that location. Glad it did not just burst into flames or something like that.

I now have the cheaper Sapphire 7950 and DayZ runs ok on it. Tip: Enable SSAA very high, to get smooth AA on tree trunks, housing and terrain with zero fps drop I do have my card overclocked with Sapphire Trixx, running at 1100 MHz core and 1500 MHz memory, at 1.125 volt. With my old 5850 and the new 7950, I sometimes get sudden 3-4 second lag, as if something suddenly was loading. Perhaps because I set some value in the config file too low, I have not found any cause for the occasional sudden drop in fps that lasts 3-4 seconds.

I know where to always find SVD ammo, but I'm not telling. And I am not talking about finding stuff in tents either. :D Found a SVD camo sniper rifle once at the NW airfield, but it got eaten by a tent on restart.

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Aren't zombies moving too fast when running diagonally?

After playing with ArmA 2 Boot Camp and flying the transport mission there, it seem clear to me that the helicopter in DayZ behaves differently and I wonder if anyone else have noticed the similar thing. The problem with flying a helicopter in Dayz is that the nose of the helicopter seem to level with the horizon when flying forwards. I believe this is not so with the flying in boot camp. In DayZ I have to keep moving my mouse to compensate for the nose wanting to level with the horison and this seem tedious.

No, the two helicopters weren't the same, but the controls seem so different I wouldn't think of it having to do with any particular helicopter model.

I met this guy in a ghillie suit on the ridge just behind Stary, as he ran past me 5m off with two zombies after him. I think he said "I'm not a bandit", but I couldn't quite hear him. He spoke with a low voice and maybe I couldn't quite hear him because of the gunfire after I started gunning him down, :o

An important point I think is that the helicopter in ArmA 2 boot camp behaves differently and I would argue that there seem to be some kind of eh "bug" or unwanted feature here. (Edit: Yes, this is Arma2: OA)

Humanity show you many points you have left to go kill other people? :D

If building a computer, don't rush it. Read alot of reviews and try to understand why the various parts fit together (motherboard vs cabinet, cpu vs motherboard) You will need: Computer case, spacious, ok looks, has relevant features Mainboard, form factor and features are important, must fit with the choice of cpu Cpu, should be any modern quad core cpu Cpu cooler/heatsink (how about a passive cooler?) RAM sticks (probably cheap, important to get the correct ones) 8GB at least, 16 and 32 GB might not be a bad idea if it is cheap. SSD drive (something from Intel) HDD drive for storage Power supply (something ok, read reviews) Graphics card, preferably not the cheap budget option, something inbetween the best and the budget option. (I just ordered the Sapphire radeon 7950, 11196-01-40G, not 00 nor 02) 24" computer screen, with ok colors (read reviews beforehand) Things to consider: Computer fans inside a cabinet will make noise (air being moved), and you have the opportunity for making it pretty quiet, but some experience is required. Be careful and don't break the components when fitting it all together. OEM windows 7 is cheaper than regular versions, can't be transferred to other mainboards again. Alot of graphics cards have non stock fans which should be good, for lower noise and improved cooling. Have people review your shopping list/setup before buying anything.

On the server we play at, we had a whole week of tents appearing normally with each server restart, but then one day, all tents went missing once again, just like the week before. Then, after another server restart all the tents reappeared again. During this week, it seems as if vehicles actually stayed where you left then between server restarts, at least with a bicycle and an ATV. Tents never save items between server restarts afaik, and they simply respawn all items on every restart. Any tent with items in it, has become a source of plenty, never becoming empty. Who can blame me for putting my stuff in the tent in the first place before the first server restart, when tents no longer acts as functional storage containers between server restarts.

The point of my thread here is about how the zombies imo appear to be moving too fast diagonally. This thread is not really about the zombies' speed as such.

It seem obvious to me that it is all a mess and there is no consistency with regard to how tents and vehicles behave. It seem to be random or periodically working. <--- 1.7.2.5 & 96061

"The Firing Range" mod (mission) is fun and useful. Allows you to hit a target at 1300m with a dmr if you just eh fire a few shots and learn to position the target, not in relation to the recticle, but eyeballing it off its position to the scope itself. I was amazed at how easy it was to hit a target at 1000m accurately with repeated fire with the DMR.

The GPS window seem to overlap the icons seen on the bottom right side. Is it possible to move the position of this GPS window that opens with right ctrl + m?

I just noticed that when standing under a large tree, the rain effect is kept at a distance, just like when entering a building. It seems as if perhaps one can keep oneself dry if standing under a large tree when it is raining, so that a campfire isn't strictly necessary if being generally idle.

Could this be related to how the tents are not saving perhaps? The server I am on, didn't always appear in DayZ commander, so I have inputted the ip and marked the server as a favourite in order to quickly find it and log in.

How does one kill the driver in a black SUV? I shot alot of bullets into the side window from 50m range, in addition to having shot alot of bullets at the car earlier with an M249 LMG. The car seemed invulnerable and I guess it was scripted into the game at some point earlier. Could this car have been invulnerable or is it perhaps something special about the black SUV model?