Player Inventory Persistence Problems

[Easy_Tiger (DayZ) 33]

Hi All,

I've been playing day z for about a week now but I am being driven mad by my inventory going walkies when i try and play on official public hive servers. In most cases my characters stats and location are saved but all my inventory is gone, on the odd rare occasion my character data is lost altogether (though this may be down to the server being private and not telling me in the server notes).

I have a char on a private hive server and DO NOT experience the same problems however this servers timezone means its dark when i get home and log on and without NV its a bit crap so I want a WORKING public char to hop between servers.

Environment:

ARMA 2 Free

ARMA OA Steam

Beta patch 100296

Launching via Day Z Commander which states components are up to date (arma 2 / day z mod)

Day Z 'Launch with Steam' + replace Steam files parameters set

Only connecting to servers with the same Beta patch version

The only thing I can think of is originally I launched the game via a desktop shortcut and tried to join games using the default server browser instead of launching with day z commander + settings detailed above. The reason I say this is I couldnt get VOIP to work unless i launched via Steam as it prevented mic acess for some reason, could not originally launching with steam somehow knackered my public hive character settings?

Any help appreciated but please keep your 'only play on private server' responses to yourself please :)

Edited January 21, 2013 by Easy_Tiger