Dayz SA Unplayble since 1/8

[Nel 2]

I purchased Dayz SA on the weekend of the 4th and up until the 8th I had none of the issues I'm now facing.
 
The game has become virtually unplayable for me, literally. I log on to any server low pop or high pop, great ping or decent ping and instantly I'm not able to equip any items at all or move any items on my toon or in my inventory. I can run, jump, crouch all with no issues at all.
 
However when running with teammates (more then 5) they tell me over comms that they are right next to me, in front, beside, or behind but I can not see them. When I attempt to draw my weapon they see my weapon become equipped in my hands but on my screen the weapon never moves and stays on my shoulder.
 
I've been killed several times by zombies I never see but hear, and other players I never see but certainly hear the trash talk.
 
I've spent hours combing over blogs, youtube vids, other forums trying to figure out my issue to no avail. I've tried everything literally I could think of or found that seemed half way plausible or thought out. I've changed every setting in the game, changed setting on steam, verified game files several times, and even uninstalled and re-installed, again to no avail.
 
I'm certain that the issue is not my PC or connection. I play a ton of other online games such as WoW on ultra settings with 25 other people on screen and never see latency/FPS drop.
 
Any help or direction the dev team or community in general could give here would be greatly appreciated.
 
I've thoroughly enjoyed the game thus far despite its alpha state and would like to get back to running with my teammates again.
 
Thanks,
 
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Edited January 11, 2014 by Boneboys

[Publik 404]

Please wrap that in a

tag, and it's not you, it's DayZ. Word is they're fixing that with the next patch, whenever that is.

[Nel 2]

I'm not sure how to do that but with some instruction I would be happy too.

 

Is there a post or something I missed officially about this? I have a team of about 7-10 other players that are not having any of the issues I am.

 

I'd prefer to not base my hopes of a fix on what the word is. 

Edited January 11, 2014 by Nel

[majawat 0]

Same issue here... and have done all that you have as well... i feel better knowing i'm not alone... also where did you read that he was fixing it in a new update? i havent seen that

[GotAWarInTheHead 16]

Me, too!  No one I know is having this problem.  So many things happened: friend tells me I'm being attacked by a zombie...I see the zombies standing still 20 feet away.  I enter a new server and I'm bleeding, from the attack that I couldn't see.  I also -- even if I wait like 5 minutes -- can almost never pull out my gun.  Some servers it does work...but then stops later.  I'm def. glad I'm not alone!

[Nel 2]

As described in my prior post http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/163942-dayz-sa-unplayble-since-18/ the game has been unplayable for me since the 8th.

 

After a lot of trouble shooting my friend may have found the fix that worked for me. Sharing in hopes it works for the rest of you.

 

Close out of Dayz and Steam completely. Find steam on your desktop or start window and right click the steam icon and click run as administrator. Load up Dayz and see if that works for you. 

 

Hope its the fix. Best of luck to you all. 

 

Props to HatoriHanzo for helping me with this.

[ZackAttack885 0]

Thanks for the try, but is not working for me

[majawat 0]

my friend has started having the same issue... coincidentally it started for him afer he shot and killed me because we couldn't see each other, he assumed i wasn't me. now he has the "Zombie AIDS" our new name for it, i guess i gave it to him... lol Now it's down to just waiting for a fix i guess... good luck all

[boneboys 7988]

Not a fix for the above problem but sometimes solves different errors, in much the same way as validating game cache files.

Desync is a Server/Hive/ Client affair.