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Jul-13-2012

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Jul-13-2012

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Jul-13-2012

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DayZ is an open world survival horror video game mod for the 2009 computer game ARMA II and its 2010 expansion pack, ARMA 2: Operation Arrowhead. It has been widely praised in the game media for its innovative design elements, with Kotaku and Eurogamer describing it as possibly the best zombie game ever made, and PCGamer saying it was one of the most important things to happen to PC Gaming in 2012. The mod was responsible for putting the three year old game into the top seller charts on Steam for over seven weeks, spending much of this time the top selling game, and is responsible for over 300,000 unit sales within two months of its release.

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AssassinKID

04:48 May-17-2013

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GD Dayz server looks deserted :( Was gonna buy Arma II: Combined Ops for this game but nobody on GD seems to play this any more so I don't know. If I run DayZ, would I get playable frame-rate?

Chyper

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mostly at tweaked low setting :)

Orcjura

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Tero, Markus and me played today on GD server

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Can i run it? I lowered my CPU... So this isn't spam.
Also please settings and fps
also does me lowering my i7 to i5 3570k Make a diff? In game preformance?

Zuperdiego

04:06 May-16-2013

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Settings and Fps? Please

Chyper

10:54 May-16-2013

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high-max, this game is not so well optimized, so dont be surprised if you had FPS lower than your prediction :)

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22:20 May-14-2013

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Settings and fps!?! :D (im guessing low.. lol)

Chyper

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med-high setting with 25-30 FPS :)

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How many fps Should I be getting? I know what I am getting but wondering if I can tweak it for Better performance

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You should be getting 40+ FPS on high settings

bodbod1

15:07 May-14-2013

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I get about 15 fps on low - medium...

Joef360

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Are you sure you're not on a bad server?

bodbod1

23:39 May-15-2013

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Its ok I realised that my processor was overheating and that was the issue, It now runs ok with 40 - 50 fps on high settings

Joef360

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How well could I play it?

Chyper

03:33 May-14-2013

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your ram is holding you back to playing it at med, so stil at low setting in lowered resolution ;)

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Reccomended RAM is 2GB... :S

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What could I run this at? Anything will be much appreciated :)

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high should be smooth enough. well, as smooth as it can be as this game isn't optimized well

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What FPS would i get on DayZ with Med-High?

Chyper

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25-30+ maybe..

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How much Fps can I get ? (on med. or high)

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60+ i guess :)

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ah I doubt the 60+. This isn't optimized well, so you will experience fps drops

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What fps and settings can i run at?

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med-high setting

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and with what fps?

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28+

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can i get like 40 fps if i lower the res to 1366x768 ?

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maybe :)

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Arma 2, I think, is one of the worst optimized games there is, so it will just consume you GPU's power, I couldn't get anything above medium with my GPU

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