Mandatory beta patch

[John (DayZ) 62]

Anybody know why we're being forced to use the beta patch? I had some issues getting it to work at first, but now it's all right - it seems that a startling amount of people have no functionality with the beta at all, though. Before it wasn't a huge issue, but now we're being pigeonholed into using the beta just to run DayZ, and it seems to be having a pretty negative outcome.

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The beta patch increases performance in ArmA2 itself, and fixes the broken direct chat. Many other things were fixed. You should have the beta patch already, anyway. There's no reason to go without it, unless - of course - it doesn't work for you.

[John (DayZ) 62]

Works for me, not without an inexcusable amount of rigging. Completely destroyed my friend's game, despite having installed it in exactly the same way that I did. As for performance increases, I've noticed none; nor did I care about direct chat beforehand.

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Works for me' date=' not without an inexcusable amount of rigging. Completely destroyed my friend's game, despite having installed it in exactly the same way that I did. As for performance increases, I've noticed none; nor did I care about direct chat beforehand.

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I should probably say that there *might* be a *slight* performance increase... as for direct chat, I find it useful when arouns friendly players, or when my friend and I are trying to completely immerse ourselves.

[John (DayZ) 62]

Oop. Yeah. Now I'm trying to play ACE and all I get is "Error creating Direct3D 9 Graphical engine." Wee!

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Oop. Yeah. Now I'm trying to play ACE and all I get is "Error creating Direct3D 9 Graphical engine." Wee!

same deal for me, I uninstalled and I'm starting from scratch again, then I'll be using Six Updater.

[John (DayZ) 62]

Yup. I am confined to DayZ: ACE will not work no matter what I do. It doesn't help that any and all troubleshooting about ArmA II was either written by people that have no idea how to utilize English or are too familiar with their scripting languages to make any sense, either.

Glad I updated to the beta patch. So very glad.