Can't join any server, stuck at Wait For Host

[PoweredBySoy 5]

I've been playing this game fine (relatively) all week, but then last night I started being unable to join any server. I'll click on a server and it goes to the Wait For Host screen and my game locks up. I have to start task manager to get out of it. And it's doing this for every server I try, and I've tried about 30 so far.

 

Sometimes I'll also get the error Confirmation Of Changes - Connection Failed. I don't have to cntl-alt-delete that error, but it still doesn't let me join anything.

 

I do notice that my character on the title screen isn't the last character I was playing with. I was about 30 minutes into a new character, and that isn't the one that is showing. So I'm wondering if there's some sort of sync issue that's preventing me from joining. If so, is there any way I can respawn or reset my character while not joined in a server???

 

I did verify cache in Steam, didn't help.

 

Thanks for any help.

Edited December 29, 2013 by PoweredBySoy

[applejaxc 2500]

Have you tried closing Steam completely, then restarting it? I've had an issue where DayZ refused to automatically update until I did so.

[PoweredBySoy 5]

I just restarted Steam and it didn't fix it.

 

Doesn't look like there has been any update lately.

[Steak and Potatoes 13480]

Just a thought,

• Uninstall the game
• Clear the appdata dayz folder
• Delete the game folder and profiles
• Reinstall with steam running as admin
• Run the game with steam as admin

Let me know what happens,

 

Steak.

Edited December 29, 2013 by Steak and Potatoes

[PoweredBySoy 5]

Deleted all files - reinstalling now.....

[PoweredBySoy 5]

Unfortunately that didn't work.

 

Server browser -> click on a server -> Joining Game.....  -> Kicks me back out to the browser with Confirmation Of Changes: Connecting Failed.

 

Tried about 20 different servers.

 

And obviously I know nothing about nothing, but I still think it's odd that the title screen is showing an older character. It makes me wonder if the character I was last playing with isn't somehow being recognized, so the game doesn't know where to put me.

 

Considering my current addiction to this game, I find this predicament troubling. 

 

 

edit: I'm not sure if this is related or not, but now it seems whenever I try backing out of the server browser, either by clicking Cancel or hitting Esc., the game locks up on me. I don't ever remember that being the case.

 

 

edit 2: OKAY! Now it's working. *sigh* I noticed my resolution wasn't set correctly, and after that it loaded up the game. I know I had defaulted the video settings while trying to diagnose what was going on, but I'm not sure why my resolution was originally set incorrectly to start this. Anyways, I hope that was is. Sorry for making a dumb post.

Edited December 29, 2013 by PoweredBySoy