I think you're in Balota GeoNugget, so am I.

And yes, UK125 is generally where we go, though it's on GMT so if it's late and you don't have night vision there are plenty of servers that operate at GMT-6 or UTC-6.

Well I died a few times but I think I've managed to end up in Balota again, however I'm only on 3K blood because I didn't get a chance to bandage myself.

Playing in a side chat server really alters the dynamic of the game. It lets you build up a picture of the server's community; You get chatty survivors who talk about everything they do, silent bandits trying to find them, vigilantes trying to find the bandits, clans trash talking each other, calls for medical help, tip offs of vehicles and loot.

Sure it makes the game more 'gamey' and strips out a bit of the loneliness and allows impromptu grouping and less shoot on sight to happen. Try it out.

Have played on a few non-hive servers just for laughs now, but Savage Sanctuary seemed to always have very few players.

It comes in waves between 5-25 people.

I has it now, haven't been able to make it work! Need assistance bitte!

Download Six Updater here: http://www.six-updater.net/

It basically installs mods for Arma 2 so just tell it to download dayz and it will fix it for you.

I couldn't get it to work for ages, used this and it was fine

You don't need your credit card information anyway, so use six updater.

Yes i have the(or one of) loudest weapon in game guess away!

Well, finally got everything installed overnight and running this morning. Connected to UK234 (UK125 didn't show in server browser) to get an initial feel, and holy shitballs my framerate is in the toilet. Like, on default settings, it looked like about 2-3 FPS.

Turning off AA and AF, lowering texture/object detail, turning off post-processing, shadows to "blobby" and a few other things didn't really seem to make a lot of difference apart from making the game look like ass (it looked gorgeous on default!).

At work now, but will try reducing resolution later. Any other specific tweaks that folks can recommend that might help?

CPU: AMD Athlon II X3 445 3.1GHz
GPU: ATI Radeon HD 5750
RAM: 16Gb