DayZ (S) not working on my new windows 8 Laptop

[Dom Stower 0]

Hi all,

My old laptop died about a week ago and I got a new top of the line windows 8 one.

When I go to play dayz through steam I press the play button and it says "preparing to launch dayz" it then closes (like normal) and nothing happens and my account goes back to online instead of ingame dayz. I have also uninstalled and re-installed and nothings changed. 

Ive gone to steam support for help and done all of the things it recommend and the problem remains.

Please help!

btw it worked fine on the old laptop and is still on it if its a problem. 

Edited February 23, 2014 by Dom Stower

[plexico 386]

What are the specs of your new laptop?

[Dom Stower 0]

Specs:

OS Name Microsoft Windows 8.1

(System Model Satellite S50D-A)

 

Processor AMD A10-5745M APU with Radeon HD Graphics, 2100 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)

 

Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB

 

System Directory C:\Windows\system32

 

 

Are any more specs needed?

Edited February 23, 2014 by Dom Stower

[MrJoeDirty 34]

You may not be able to play very well...

That CPU is bad... for DAYZ anyway.

Your PC says it has AMD dual graphics... have you opened catalyst control center and changed the settings for your graphics cards to "Maximum Performance"?

 

I am not terribly familiar with PC things... but I know, from what I see on that PC that it might have a difficult time playing.

 

These are my specs on my laptop below...($1300 laptop....)

 

Operating System Windows 8 (64-bit) Processor Intel® Core™ i7 Processor 3635QM (2.4GHz)

Display 15.6" LED Full HD (1920 x 1080)

System Memory 8GB

Storage 1TB

Graphics AMD Radeon™ HD 8770M Graphics

 

With these I rarely get great gameplay. Usually I am playing at about 30 fps in the wild and 15-20 in towns.... This is with just about everything low and off...

 

Based on CPU Benchmark info... your processor is about 40% as powerful as mine.(it scored only 40% of what mine did...)

Edited February 23, 2014 by MrJoeDirty

[Dom Stower 0]

Ok ive done that graphics thing and are re-downloading dayz.

Edited February 24, 2014 by Dom Stower