Titanic3
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CCO SD
M429
FAL PN/NVS
AS50
M240
That would it.
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All of which can be fixed by the magic of Google search.
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Shhhh. Whatever you do, don't mention the tents. ;)
No tents involved. :) PM me if you want it.
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sometimes mine drops at a city, but mostly i get the video artifacts when going to nwaf or berz everytime
Restart the game completely, that means pressing abort at the main menu and turning it back on.
I can average anywhere from 40-60fps anywhere BUT cities -- when I look at a city it drops down to 25-30 average FPS. Setting everything to "very low", the highest I can get it is maybe 35 on average.
Anyways, I'm sure there's myriad threads on this issue but maybe the more that crop up, the more precendence this will take. I'm hoping that Day Z will see a skyrim-esque FPS improvement -- I remember that in Whiterun my FPS was around 30, and after one specific update, it almost doubled!
I'm hoping to see optimization like this happen for Day Z. Are my hopes misplaced?
Also, for reference, here's my system:
intel i7 930 @ 2.8GHz
2x GTX 470 SLI
12GB DDR3 RAM
I get pretty decent FPS everywhere even on high/very high (40-50 average), but it drops pretty substantially in cities. All I have to do to increase it is look away from the city lol.
Towns have a lot of loot as well as a lot of zombies and high textured buildings. All of which eats up PC resources.
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I always respawn on a low population night time server after death.
Less chance of aggroing zeds and virtually no chance of griefers, cos mommy sent them to bed, ;)
Nah only joking. Virtually no chance of snipers cos there is only one thermal optic weapon and even the dupers don't waste the space - unless they are protecting a camp.
Haha, just remember not to use a flashlight or road flare or even chemlights. I was on my way to Elektro at night when I found a player throwing road flares everywhere. Figured I climb Dobryy and see what's going on. I watch as he lights a flare in every building so he can see the loot. I let him get geared up, figured maybe I can scare him a bit. I fired a single .50 over his head and the poor guy starts flipping out and spraying everywhere with an AKM. I laughed as he attracted every zombie in town and got chased out into the open. Every time he tried to enter a building, I put a bullet at the front door and he ran the other way. He must've ran out of ammo because he got cornered in the pub by every single zombie in Elektro. 2 minutes later, ____ has died. I cried tears of joy.
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Click once to get iron sights. Hold it down to zoom in while in iron sights. Click once again to get out of iron sights.
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Ah, I'm sure I'll run into an L85 soon. My squad found 2x L85 in a row between two heli crashes and then another one a day later. We refuse to dupe, combat log or hack. Just dumb luck. Well, now we lost one, but it's alright, two of my squaddies still have one and we go player killing every day together. Now instead of me and him splitting the kills, I'll just kill and he can spot. :)
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Well this explains the drop in banditry.
All of a sudden with no more ammo refills after logs the snipers are running dry.
Shame that.
You'll have to get down into the mix with the rest of us now.
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Oh it's still there. ;) Just gotta do one extra step now. And nope, it doesn't involve hacks or scripts.
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You post in the Bandit section, what did you expect, holding hands and singing Kumbaya?
It's a cruel game, adapt, play smart, and play carefully. I missed the second rule today and had a fella roll his way from the bottom of Dobryy all the way to the top because I couldn't hear him. After putting a .50 Cal bullet through his chest (he was another Bandit, decked out with gear). When I should've relocated my position. But it didn't really matter because after he killed me, I ran to where his body was and took all his gear that he didn't bother to pick up. Got everything back and all I'm missing from my original character is a AS50 and a L85. Found an AS50 off a chopper crash within the hour and a M4 CCO SD a little later. I miss my L85 now. :lol:
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Kill a geared player in a building, preferably at the top of the powerplant or firehouse. Wait until scavengers loot the body thinking they're having a lucky day. Put a bullet through their lazy brain.
GO FIND YOUR OWN LOOT! B)
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Like others said, use 107 ammo but note they do less damage (still a one hit kill), and are slightly louder. If you have a vehicle, drive around the roads between Zeleno and Berezino. Heli crashes usually spawn right next to the roads in open fields. Very easy to find, very easy to get something good. You can always hoof it, but that takes a longer time.
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Eh, I was got into a shoot out with a sniper before in Elektro, I was on Dobryy and him on hill 115 north of Elektro. We started trading shots, I lost. Neither combat logged. I was rather excited and glad to be in that little engagement. Although I did exact revenge later by picking up gear from dead players I killed trying to find me on Dobryy, running over to hill 115 and put a bullet through his noggin. :P
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No duh, that's why I said if he CAN'T build it himself they are great sites.
Not everyone wants to learn how to build a computer.
All you need to know is how to use a screwdriver... :rolleyes:
Oh, also an easy tip, if you have a smart phone, a laptop, a tablet, or another PC nearby, watch online videos on how to do it as you're doing it. I was nervous during my first build, now I can probably build a PC with a blindfold on.
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It is difficult/expensive to get good gaming PCs from companies like HP/Dell.
If you are unable to build your own, use companies like CyberPowerPC and iBuyPower to build it for you. Their markup is low and you can much more easily configure and purchase a gaming PC without spending $2000-3000 from HP/Dell/Alienware.
I'd stay away from them, you can find the parts your self online from multiple vendors and build it your own knowing that everything is tight, neat, and no shortcuts were used. I've seen plenty of reviews where iBuypower and CyberpowerPC were built hastily and when users tried to turn them on, the PC would not boot. Users had to manually open up their own case and plug back in every component for it to work. IMO, this just shows lack of care for products and hastily built PCs.
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That might run DayZ at medium settings at best. For $700, you can build your own (or pay someone else to do it for a little more) computer that will blow the smoke out of that HP Pavillion.
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I doubt it, at low-medium settings maybe. Laptop graphics card and desktop graphics card are completely different. Companies have to reduce the size and power of a desktop GPU to fit it into a laptop (to prevent overheating and reduce size, some GPUs are as long as a laptop is wide). The "M" you see behind your graphics card stands for "mobile". Your CPU is rather weak, decent, but not strong enough to run Arma at high settings. Arma is especially a CPU hog since it has to calculate every single bullet, every single AI path, and every single player movement on your screen, and much more.
But also, a laptop is never good for gaming. Even those branded as "gaming laptops". They weigh a lot, they overheat like crazy, and are not as mobile as you think they are. Playing games without being connected to a charger drains the battery so fast, it wouldn't last more than 1 hour max, so you're stuck to the nearest electrical plug. You also can't update a laptop like a desktop can. After 3-4 years, a gaming laptop becomes obsolete and is unable to catch up with technology. In a desktop, you can keep adding new parts every 2-3 years, in a laptop, you're stuck with what you have. Remember, 5 years ago, the top GPU was a 8800GT that cost $500. Today, a GTX 560 Ti is twice as fast and half the price at $200.
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No, that will not run DayZ. Any Intel graphics is completely utter junk if you're looking to game. You need a dedicated graphics card and the CPU needs to be at least 2.8Ghz to run Arma 2 at medium to high settings (depending on what you buy). You would be lucky to get 20 FPSs with that set up you posted.
Stay away from Dells, they sell PCs that are great for office and normal web browsing but is completely obsolete in gaming. Since you said you're not good with PCs, I suggest you contact a professional to help you BUILD your own PC. Which is rather easy if you know how to work a screwdriver (sarcasm).
A decent gaming rig will cost you anywhere from $600-800. That's if you want to run most games on high (Arma 2 is a very demanding game, and even with a $800 system, it's unlikely you'll "max" it, but the difference between high and max is negligible).
And I'm confused, you said you are getting a desktop to replace your 6 year old Dell but that is a laptop you are posting. Laptops are very poor gaming computers. A "gaming laptop" will cost anywhere from $1500 to $2000 and even then, they weigh a ton, they produce heat like no other, and you are not able to upgrade them in the future (so within 3-4 years, you have a near useless $2000 paper weight.)
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For those who are computer illiterate and/or do not understand the basics of computer performance, I've decided to write this guide for them. Hoping it will be stickies as well as to prevent further threads about such topics.
There are 3 main components in a computer that will affect games in particular. They are called a Graphics Card (GPU - graphics processing unit), Processor (Central Processing Unit - CPU), and RAM (Random Access Memory).
You cannot have one top end part and expect it to work with two low end parts. Likewise, two top end parts will not be fully utilized if there is one low end part. When looking for a gaming PC or building your own, you must balance the components. When a high end part is prevented from doing its job by a low end part, it is called bottle necking. In every system, there is bottlenecking, your goal is trying to reduce it to a minimum.
DayZ/Arma 2 is a very demanding game (especially at max settings), but there is no need to run at max settings for "high" settings looks almost exactly the same but without the major performance hit. Anti Aliasing and Post Processing should always be off, for they are extremely "heavy" settings and will tax your system but the visual loss without them is almost non existent.
Perhaps the most important of the 3 main components is the Graphics Card (GPU) for it does everything that is related with graphics, textures, and pixels.
There are two types of graphics card, made by two different companies, nVidia and AMD/Radeon. Both companies name their GPU based on their performance. For example:
A GTX 560 is faster than a GTX 550 but is slower than a GTX 570.
A Radeon 6770 is faster than a Radeon 6570 but is slower than a 6870.
A GTX 560 is slower than a GTX 560 Ti.
A Radeon 6870 is faster than a Radeon 6850, but a 6850 is still faster than a 6770.
The first number in both types of graphics card is the "generation". The second and third number is the "speed". So for example:
A GTX 480 is faster than a GTX 560 even though it is one generation older.
A Radeon 5970 is faster than a Radeon 6870 even though it is one generation older.
There are a couple of exceptions (a 5870 is actually faster than a 6870) but usually, the newer generations have new features integrated into them (better cooling, less power consumption, utilizes new technology, or can do certain things faster than their old generation counterpart, etc etc).
The second most important component is the CPU (Processor). A top end graphics card is bottlenecked by a low end CPU and vice versa.
There are two types of CPUs by two companies, Intel and AMD. Generally, Intel is almost always better than its AMD counterpart. A CPU can have multiple cores, each core doing work, up to 8. However, very few games and programs utilizes more than 4 and most only uses 2. So be careful about purchasing a $1000 8-core CPU if all you do is play games that uses only 2. Cores can variate in speed from 1.6Ghz to 4.0Ghz (there are higher but generally, those are out of the average person's budget and accessibility). A decent CPU should be at least 2.8Ghz. The best ones currently are the Intel i5 and i7 series.
The third component is RAM. This helps you load faster in games, boot faster, and avoid memory problems in games that require it. They range from 512MB all the way to 32GB and sometimes even 64GB (but again, that is generally out of most consumer's reach). 512MB is pretty much obsolete for gaming, 2GB is mediocre but is acceptable. 4GB is good, 8GB is great and 16GB is perfect. RAM can either be separated into two or four sticks or a single stick.
For example:
With 8GB of RAM, you can either have
TWO 4GB sticks
ONE 8GB stick
FOUR 2GB sticks.
Most motherboards (place where the all computer components are attached to) have 2x RAM slots.
BEWARE: if your operating system is 32bit, it can only use 4GB of RAM maximum, regardless of how many you have. 64bit operating systems can use as much as you can put into it.
As a general guide to shoppers:
(For Radeon Cards)
A x5xxx card is very weak for gaming, but it will run old games (2007 and previous) perfectly.
A x6xx card is ok for entry games, it will run current games on low or medium.
A x7xx card is decent for current gaming, it will run current games on medium no problem.
A x8xx card is very good for current gaming, it will run current games on high no problems.
A x9xx card is extremely good for games, it will run just about everything on maximum settings, (including triple monitor setups).
(for nVidia cards)
A x2x is extremely weak.
A x3x is weak. Will not run current games, older games will be no problem (2007 and previous).
A x4x is ok, will run most games on very low to low.
A x5x will run most on medium.
A x6x will run most on medium-high.
A x7x will run most on high.
A x8x will run all on high.
A x9x will run all at maximum settings.
This a very generalized guide, there are exceptions but I will not list them all, for they are too complicated to go into detail and explain.
If you have any questions or comments or additional help, please add it below. I will try to answer them as much as possible.
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Your video card is extremely poor in terms of performance. The only way to get high FPS is a hardware upgrade. I would recommend a Radeon 6870 or 560 Ti, the 560 is slightly faster but also costs about $50 more. Both will run Arma 2 on high flawlessly. What is your PSU and motherboard? If both are not good enough, I'm afraid you won't be able to upgrade at all.
Here's a comparison between a 8500GT and a Radeon 6870:
http://www.hwcompare.com/6091/geforce-8500-gt-vs-radeon-hd-6870/
Note the difference, the 6870 is about 1000x faster than your old and obsolete 8500.
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The 560ti don't do ultra settings fella but plays with it all on high, I've got one. :)
Oh and you can't add extra ram to a gfx card as far as I'm aware
I don't see much point in some of the game's settings anyway (post processing and anti aliasing). They hit your performance extremely hard for almost no gain. Ultra is something only the top top high end cards can run but IMO, it's not worth the money.
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Play with friends you know. Running up to random people and asking them to go with you is to me "Lol, easy kill time".
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I'm not sure how it is in euros but...
Best GFX for the price right now is:
$160 - Radeon 6870 or GTX 560
$200 - GTX 560 Ti
$250 - Radeon 7850
Any of those cards should run Arma 2 on high settings no problem, you might be also push for Very High (with anti aliasing) but I think the performance loss for visual gain is not that great.
The 6950 is a decent mid-high end card, although a 7850 is slightly cheaper and you can also overclock it past the 6950.
IMO, go with a 560 Ti, its a great card for its price.
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Go play Battlefield if you don't think a .50 BMG isn't going to kill you in one shot.
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So much fail in this thread. If you've never fired a .50 against a human or seen first hand what it does to a human...do not post in this thread. I don't care if the .50 hits JUST the arm, try to see if you can survive having your arm ripped off without a hospital nearby or any medical supplies (you could try to make a pillow to rest your head on before you die with the bandages though).
Is this stuff any good?
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Better than nothing. I'd keep that in case one of your members die, then he can run back to that base camp and gear up again. At least that's what my squad does. Of course, it is then your job to go look for a replacement. :)