Game runs atrocious on decent hardware

[Lockenheada]

I can play halo infinite on 60 fps and Hades on 144, yet Zomboid runs at a staggering 14fps in crowded places. And ~26 by default zoomed out.

Interesting game

[⛧Pawizes⛧]

i have the same problem

[G54B]

240fps to 140 fps when zooming out; welp I guess that rtx laptop is kicking in finally.

[Jojo]

Conflicting mods can also hamper performance heavily, if you have any.

[Nebgama]

You cannot really compare other games to each other as already stated. Especially the game you are trying to compare.

Just looking at a video of Hades i can tell its a pretty linear looking game and does not need much computing power a game like Project zomboid on the other hand is very dynamic meaning that it does a lot of things on the fly. Not overly steep requirements needed to run it but its a lot more heavy than Hades.

Two totally different ballparks at play here.

Your system should be able to cap refresh rate on this game so you must being doing something wrong on your end.

The only time i experience that sort of FPS lag is in LV because of the sheer amount of stuff there. It is smooth for majority of the time but then every once in a while it will have low choppy fps and i need to restart or log out of the server. Not a big deal though it happens after long gaming sessions otherwise its good.

[Quineloe]

Originally posted by Nebgama:

You cannot really compare other games to each other as already stated. Especially the game you are trying to compare.

I'm sorry, that's just a really cheap excuse.

There's no reason for PZ to run somewhat the same on a 5 year old midrange computer and on a current highend machine. That is what isn't making sense.

[Nebgama]

Originally posted by Quineloe:

Originally posted by Nebgama:

You cannot really compare other games to each other as already stated. Especially the game you are trying to compare.

I'm sorry, that's just a really cheap excuse.

There's no reason for PZ to run somewhat the same on a 5 year old midrange computer and on a current highend machine. That is what isn't making sense.

OS: Windows 10, 64 Bit
64bit OS required
Processor: Intel 2.77GHz Quad-core
Memory: 8Gb Ram
Hard Disk Space: 5gig
Video Card: Dedicated graphics card with 2 GB of RAM minimum, OpenGL 2.1 and GLSL 1.2 support (generally 2012 or newer)
Sound: FMOD compatible sound card

So as long as you meat these requirements then yes most platforms should have a similar experience. Seeing as the devs do not list a minimum and recommended specs then this is assumed as the minimum required specs stated by the devs for comfortable gameplay.

Majority of games can play under the stated threshold stated by the devs because they generally state specs that they know the game is going to run on for the average end user without many headaches.

if you look at the allocation that the game uses it actually only interfaces 1gb or 2gb memory by default unless you change it. i cannot remember without going and looking. The point here is that 8gb is an intended over statement.

The dev here has test the game on a Q6600 which is missing all the modern instruction sets that we have now and has said that the game is playable on that platform which is a 17 years old platform btw.

Socket 775 is paperweight btw but it is still a little engine that can do some impressive things today.

Edit: Sorry well 775 stopped production in 2011 and is 10 years out of date my bad. It was a platform designed in 2004 so 17 years since release making it a 17 year old platform.

[Quineloe]

How do you allocate more RAM to an application and does that actually do something

[Nebgama]

Originally posted by Quineloe:

How do you allocate more RAM to an application and does that actually do something

yes -xms and -xmx this is a java game and there is many parameters we can use because its a java and java is a VM. Its basically a hypervisor or abstract layer sort of like a software computer running on the target machine.

[Nebgama]

Quad Core i5-4460

Haswell refresh is still a very capable platform that has a lot of life left in it. Avx2 support which is the biggest denominator that separates old platforms vs new ones everything else past this is just re hashing of old systems already in play.

Enigma grey is using traditional Haswell 4670k which is also still a solid platform. If they can use a system like this with no problems then that is saying something about the game.

EDIT: Actually saying more about computers here people don't realize what they have half the time when they think they have an old computer.

I am paying even older than both of these atm Nehalem because its my favorite platform i have several even modern ones. Going to have to turn on my Haswell soon though but for the most part it is doing well plays this game fine and majority of games.

[Nebgama]

Originally posted by EnigmaGrey:

Honestly, I think I underestimated how decent my old 980 ti performs, just going though a few benchmarks this morning. So it might well be explained by hardware … :/

Iirc, I was aiming for an i5, not a core duo cpu when I wrote that (2.77 ghz) spec many moons ago, Nebgama. It can certainly run on a dual core, but pz uses quite a few threads (an oddity back in the day for a game). Was also -desperate- to avoid gma/express gpus.

yeah 980 is still very good i would prefer a 980 over a 1660 any day.

[Nebgama]

Originally posted by EnigmaGrey:

Honestly, I think I underestimated how decent my old 980 ti performs, just going though a few benchmarks this morning. So it might well be explained by hardware … :/

Iirc, I was aiming for an i5, not a core duo cpu when I wrote that (2.77 ghz) spec many moons ago, Nebgama. It can certainly run on a dual core, but pz uses quite a few threads (an oddity back in the day for a game). Was also -desperate- to avoid gma/express gpus.

yeah true for most of gaming though i guess nobody is really running dual core now anyway. Dual core is ancient plus core duo was coming out of the 32-bit era initially we past that now and 64 bit around the q6600 being the endgame cpu's but that cpu is lacking now and not really viable.

Still it can do some stuff like you have said. it can play the game and i have seen games like warcraft play on it but that is a game that target the oldest of pc for money saturation purpose.

[Nebgama]

I think maybe now the devide is happening because in older versions of PZ dual core would probably be fine but no so much now.

[Nebgama]

Since HT timeline here in case someone tries to argue the point cause it may happen.

[Sifright]

Runs like arse on my computer as well and it's modern with fully updated drivers and windows install.


https://imgur.com/m159dHT

Graphics card is an RX 6700 XT.

This isn't the kind of computer that should be getting 18fps fully zoomed out, if there's launch options that could used to assist with making this less painful I'd love to know what they are, it wasn't like this in build 40.

[Lockenheada]

At least Im not the only one. Was surprised by the 9!% positive when the game runs this bad in many many areas