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Character creation not working, cannot connect to multiplayer.
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Description

After re-installing the game and Steam multiple times, verifying game cache, adding exceptions and even disabling firewalls for DayZ, I cannot create a character. The character profile is successfully written to My Documents, but in-game I do not see my character at the main menu. I'm assuming this is the reason I cannot connect to servers, as people on ARMA 2 have reported a similar issue of not being able to connect to servers if they have not created a profile. And yes, I have the Multiplayer tab set to Internet, and the filters are set to default, and I have tried setting the ping to 200, 300, 400, and higher.
Another computer on the same network with very similar hardware and the same operating system is functioning perfectly with DayZ, so I don't know why this is happening.
You can e-mail me at tristangy@yahoo.com if you have any other questions.

Details

Legacy ID
466083287
Severity
None
Resolution
Fixed
Reproducibility
Always
Category
General

Event Timeline

Deliverance set Category to General.Dec 17 2013, 2:11 AM
Deliverance set Reproducibility to Always.
Deliverance set Severity to None.
Deliverance set Resolution to Fixed.
Deliverance set Legacy ID to 466083287.May 8 2016, 1:58 PM
komin added a subscriber: komin.May 8 2016, 1:58 PM
komin added a comment.Dec 17 2013, 3:14 PM

So problem is that you are dont see any servers in server browser, or that you just cant join them? If it is second case, does any error message show up?

Cannot see any servers to connect to. Character also fails to display in main menu. Im guessing the failed character creation has something to do with not seeing any servers?
Character is written to the My Documents folder, though.

komin added a comment.Dec 18 2013, 1:12 PM

In this case we will need dxdiag and files from this folder: "C:\Users\<Name>\AppData\Local\DayZ\"

Can you pack the files in winrar and upload it somewhere please?
When the *.rar will be smaller than 2.097k, you can attach it here. Thank you.

http://www.gamefront.com/files/23925232/DayZ.rar

Thanks Komin. I hope this is what you're looking for.

Yes they are, but we will also need DxDiag.
Press Start button in Windows, type DxDiag in Search box and press Enter, then just save it and upload here. Thank you

OK - it seems to have been a driver issue. The system was not running the correct version of Catalyst drivers. Was running a very old version of Catalyst. Updated to the 13.9 and everything works fine!

komin added a comment.Jan 6 2014, 12:28 PM

I am glad to hear that. Thank you for your feedback ;)