DayZ has taken its merry time shuffling its way to a full retail release, but the zombie-slaying online survival sim has finally made its way to Steam with an early alpha release of DayZ Standalone.
DayZ Standalone is the follow-up to the incredibly popular Arma II mod, DayZ, pitting you and dozens of other players up against impending zombie doom. Already featuring over 230km² of landmass, this looks like one not to miss. So be sure to check the DayZ Standalone Alpha System Requirements to see if your PC gives a double-tap to the zombie hordes or gets its brains devoured by the masses...
DayZ Minimum System Requirements
OS: Windows Vista SP2 or Windows 7 SP1
CPU: Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or Athlon X2 2.5 GHz
RAM: 2GB System Memory
GPU RAM: 512MB Graphics Memory
GPU: Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT 512MB or AMD Radeon HD 3830
DX: DirectX 9.0c
HDD: 10 GB Free Hard Drive Space
DayZ Recommended System Requirements
OS: Windows 7 SP1
CPU: 2.8 GHz Quad Core Intel Core i5-2300 or 3GHz AMD Phenom II X4 940
RAM: 4 GB System Memory
GPU RAM: 1 GB Graphics Memory
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 or AMD Radeon HD 7750
HDD: 14 GB Free Hard Drive Space
The minimum requirements on DayZ look to be very reasonable for a game on this scale. Anyone who met the recommended requirements for the original DayZ mod should be comfortable playing this game.
The minimum requirements for DayZ standalone require the classic Nvidia GeForce 8800GT and upwards, as well as a dual-core processor clocked at at least 2.4GHz. It's worth bearing in mind that the more chaotic things get in DayZ the more your system's going to struggle. Those of you with PCs neared the minimum requirements will be fine during the slower-paced parts of the game but once it heats up may struggle to keep pace.
The recommended settings are a bitof step up, with the extra hard drive space evidently going to higher resolution textures which will be more demanding on systems. DayZ is fairly CPU dependent so having a higher-tier processor could also make a huge difference. Joining those larger servers it's probably best to have more than the minimum 2GB of RAM but overall this game isn't overly demanding for what it is, with the Arma II engine the game is based upon now over four years old.
Remember, you can always check out how well your PC can run the DayZ Standalone System Requirements here, where you can check benchmarking and performance from other users.
Okay then, what do you think of these system requirements?
Have you already had a play, how does it run on your rig?
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I have put in my specs, and it said that I can run on high with an average FPS of 85. When i run it on high setting my FPS is 40 in the wilderness and 15-20 in cities. What am I doing wrong?
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What settings should I run it on?
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can i run it?
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I can run the dayz mod can I run this?
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Can I run it?
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can i run it?
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I was messing with the settings and it seems that i must have the graphics completely lowered to get any decent framerate. The thing that makes it unplayable is an artifact glitch that causes textures to "spaz" all over my screen.
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Just need a suggestion guys.. what would be better buy Dayz standalone for $30 or ARMA II for $12 and download free dayz mod???
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The developement progress of the standalone is quite slow, if you're impatient, getting the mod is better. Plus it would provides you with the ArmA II base game, which still has a large playerbase as of today, also DayZ mod has tons of submods like DayZ Origins to add more contents. I still play DayZ Origins sometimes when I'm bored of other FPS games :D
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and it will be cheaper too...thnx alot for your opinion assassin...:D
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Though Assassin is right, if you want to purely play DayZ, I'd personally buy the standalone, it has full focus from the devs, they release patches pretty much daily and its smooth and easy to run.
It is missing content, but its playa
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playable*
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What settings for me?
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well since this game is cpu intensive this is gonna be tough for you
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Can I max this out?
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**** ya!
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I doubt it actually, it's very CPU intensive like Arma. You should be able to play it on high settings though with 60fps.
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it is cpu intensive and the fact that he has a fx 6300 means that he doesn't have to be worried about cpu performance his cpu can easily play the game with 150fps+ if the gpu is powerful enough
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Are you joking?! I'm guessing you haven't played the game or don't know anything about it if you think a 6300 and 290X can play DayZ on max at 1080p with over 150fps!
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There seriously isn't a rig that would get solid 60+ fps on ultra in this game, since the optimization is horrible :(
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I guess the optimization is horrible then, or the engine limits the hardware...
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Yep, agreed with Fudgehog, optimisation is lacking. The game is playable on most machines but is near impossible to run on max at 1080p or above with 60fps+
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Thank you all for your input!
I'll see for myself once its done downloading.
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Probably the best idea, you'll definitely be able to play it so nothing to worry about there :)
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Well i was told that the game time is real world time and that is why my screen is all black and grey but just tried during day time and it is the same
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THEY HAVE STARTED ALLOWING PEOPLE TO BUY SERVERS NOW ALWAYS DAY SERVER ILL INBOX YOU IT NOW
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If the Map is DayZ_Auto then it is night, if it is Dayz_Auto then it is day. Note the difference is if the 'Z' is capital or not.
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These are good news! I can run it!
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can i run this?
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You can
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What settings please
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Very low at best but I don't think that you can run this game.
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Most likely unplayable even on lowest :(
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very low fps, its mostly unplayable on integrated graphics
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what settings?
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ULTRA ....low :-)
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Settings for me please, Thank you :)
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Not dure with FPS but you can run it well with your resolution.
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is it F2P?
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$30..
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lol you wish! :-D
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it would have been so awesome if it was but oh well..:(
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They worked on it hard for free long time, I think they deserve some profit, they are not some company like EA
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It would have been awful being f2p. There'd be way too many people and too many hackers.
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dont get all jumpy guys,just asking ;)
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jamdude not all f2p titles are like that
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We were talking about DayZ, not every f2p game there is.
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What the hell is with these system requirements...?
Somebody needs to fix that...!
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I'm confused. The CPU for recommended is different on here and the official "Can I run this" page.
Which is the correct one...?
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Would i be able to play this?
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Yes you will be.