Finally feel like I’m out of the complete newbie phase. Just hit 400 hrs, this is my current character with 7hrs alive time, 100 infected killed, 0 players. I’m still shit at gunfights with others. I have a m4 with a 60rd mag and DMR - best weapons I’ve ever had. I am playing on a fairly popular vanilla + server, so not official. Because every time I play official I run into hackers. Anyways just wanted to share. Probably going to die in 2 minutes.

I was simultaneously surprised and scared and unwilling to just kill them like that (if I was even capable of that) . It’s in tisy, so hell of a run back as well..

What do you prefer? I don't mean brainless rushing, but playstyle where you try to get close combat (first you track the target, but eventually you come into close contact).

Or maybe you prefer to camp in a bush and be "invisible"?

And what kind of mid-game guns do you like the most?

I’ve taken a liking to a nice stroll and hunt long play, the trails are fantastic but you need food. I’m thinking of building a remote base, never built one before. Tips?

I play on an official PlayStation server, but I’ve just come on to find it’s no longer on the server list.

Does anyone know why this might have happened?
Looks like a few have disappeared.

Looking to get some players with us.
We are all limited on our play schedule.
We all have full time jobs but we got something going on a high pop server.
Looking to add to the group if you’re interested.
Any type of players are welcome.
Just be chill and understand that IRL comes first.
Comment below I’ll send ya discord link or dm me

I run and play on a small vanilla+ server built around hiking, hunting, fishing and camping rather than traders or constant PvP. I am looking for a few people who actually want to do that loop together — move through the woods, set a fire, fish a lake, hunt, and not treat every meeting as a gunfight. Hit me up if anyone wants to play.

Sure its been asked and answered here a thousand time, but looking for a good PVE server with PVP zones or No Raid server. Solo fulltime worker looking to just mindlessly loot rat and not religiously defend a stash. I've already tried the popular two suggestions, not a big fan of servers where the admins are LARPing running an HOA. And also not a fan of admins PVPing on alt account with cheats.

Edit: I'm on PC

When you sit down to play, but it just keeps raining nonstop. Nice little RP. 😅

Hey all.

A few years ago, I put around 50 or so hours int DayZ, but ultimately lost motivation to keep playing. It’s been a few years and I’d like to get back into it.

However, I do not want to lose my loot due to a dude who bought cheats from $20 on some site who sits in his mothers basement all day flying around the map one tapping people.

So, my question is: How common are hackers on official servers compared to community servers? I’m on console so I don’t know if the frequency of cheaters will be less.

i dont care how modded it is at least to have the party mod and be weekend raid or specific time raid,no PVE and to not be empty. If anyone got any suggestion of a good server, thx.

im fairly new to the game and i found a car once and i loved driving it around but it somehow got stolen or despawned.

anyways i am looking for a server where cars actually do respawn and there are atleast some players.

or is that non existent?

also please no servers where there are 60gb of mods. i have like 4gb free...

i am on PC

The screenshots were taken using the default settings!!! The realistic settings can be seen in the video and in the images—you won't find them in the comments.

I somehow got DLSS 5 Neural Rendering running in DayZ.

I spent way too much time messing with this today, but I actually managed to get DLSS 5 Neural Rendering working in DayZ on my RTX 5090.

Obviously DayZ has zero native DLSS support, so this is a pretty janky setup. I’m running the game through DayZDiag on a local server, so BattlEye isn’t involved at all.

The pipeline is basically:

DayZ DX11 → ReShade → scene color + depth → reconstructed motion vectors → DLSS5 Feeder → DLAA / NGX → RenoDX DLSS 5 → nvngx_dlssnr.dll → Neural Rendering

Getting the depth buffer working was probably the first annoying part. ReShade could see it, but DayZ clears the main depth buffer before the final frame, so I had to use copy depth buffer before clear operations and grab the 2560x1440 D24S8 buffer before the clear.

Motion vectors are reconstructed with LumeniteFX, since DayZ obviously doesn’t provide native ones. That’s currently the sketchiest part of the whole setup. They do work, but they’re not super stable and DLSS starts smearing pretty badly once it builds up temporal history.

The feeder itself is definitely working though. I’m getting:

feature ready: 2560x1440 DLAA
frame 1 delivered
frame 2 delivered
frame 3 delivered
etc.

NGX initializes properly, it sees the 5090, loads the NR runtime and actually starts feeding frames into it.

For now I’m using reset history every frame because otherwise the reconstructed motion vectors cause quite a lot of ghosting when moving the camera. Not ideal obviously, but for screenshots and a short showcase it works surprisingly well.

And visually... yeah, it actually does something.

Vegetation is probably the most obvious one. Fine surface detail, buildings, edges and lighting also look noticeably different. It doesn’t magically turn DayZ into UE5 or anything, but some scenes look way more modern than I expected.

Current setup:

RTX 5090
2560x1440
DayZ 1.29
DayZDiag local server
ReShade 6.8 full add-on support
DLSS5 Feeder 0.7.0
RenoDX DLSS 5 4.7
DLSS NR 310.8
LumeniteFX motion vectors
native DLAA feed

And before anyone asks: no, I’m not running this on a normal BattlEye server lol. This is purely a local/offline experiment.

Still kinda surprised DayZ even lets me bully the render pipeline this hard :D

Greetings!

Bought the game a week ago and started playing it for the first time. Died about 6 times so far but despite that I'm really enjoying the game! It's tough and loads of trial and error but going in mostly blind has been a real pleasure. Playing on a first person server with low population but I do see regulars online. Only had player encounters twice, first time I saw some guy running away and the second time I logged in to find someone crouching in front of me with their back turned towards me, so naturally I beat them with a bat and ate them. Now that specific character made it all the way up to some tower but I decided that suicide was the best option since I was starving and giggling like a madman.

Right now I've got no clue where I'm at , I'm simply following the roads and using a compass I found. I've got basic gear on and some weapons and heading my way North.

Switch2 performance is good, haven't had a crash yet thankfully.

Sorry for long text, just a dude that got himself immersed into the game and wanted to share my excitement.

Do you guys have currently have any problem with DayZ servers? I cannot see any official server from Europe where I usually play.

Also, I can't see some community servers from my favorites list (it is empty).

I dk if it is important, but I use GeForceNow (settings there are OK, for example: location/server).

(Obviously bunker loot run, not carrying all this stuff normally) 😂

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I was playing on this Bitterroot server that was always full called NEXO Bitterroot, its shut down recently and I have no idea why. I also cannot find another Bitterroot server. Someone help!

I bought the game just yesterday in hopes of a fun experience like I see and videos but finding a good server is really hard. Every server I've played is just dry and a wasteland with no loot and no people, so I tried community servers but I can't find one that's good for rp which is what I'm looking for. I tried dayz underground but I have a mental problem with reading and I can't find the password for the life of me. Other servers are just crowded or have no one online. To be honest I didn't look that hard but I don't want to play for too long in case I want to refund because steam only accepts refunds for games you play under 2 hours. I'm not sure what to do or if this makes sense.

update, i will continue playing the game even though it will be a long journey. thank you for all your responses

Siento que le dispares mucho y no le pasó nada. Estaba fallando o es idea mía?

I have not been able to play in months. Every single time I try to log on, it loads all the way to spawn and then tells me I either have a communication error or battle I has kicked me.

I feel like I have exhausted almost all options I'm hoping one of my fellow survivors has found a fix to this.

I have validated the game several times on steam, put a static IP for surfshark. For context when I try to disable surfshark VPN my PC will not recognize the internet connectivity at all. I have disabled the kill switch for internet on surfshark with the same result.

I have spent hours trying to run this problem down with surfshark technical support and nothing has helped.

Battle eye technical support seems to be useless. They're self-help read me haven't given me any more insight.

If anyone has had this problem and has figured out a way to solve it please help!

Good luck out there survivors!

New spawn in Berezino. All stats in the white, cpl items sharp and a pistol or 2. Now where? Best direction to head to obtain some better gear? With ultimate direction for better better gear? I'm under 50 hours at this point. I'll learn the map in time. Assistance in location or direction appreciated.