For 15,374,478,972,745th time: Turn down the worker threads slider.

[Judge Lazar]

Go into the L A U N C H E R settings. Scroll to the bottom. Click and hold on the neat little slider button. Move it to the left and reduce the number of worker threads the game is using. This will fix a lot of bad framerate and crashing issues. The defaults are set too high. After messing around with it, the best results are achieved when the slider is set to HALF or LOWER than HALF of the threads on your CPU.

Addendum: This is not meant as an end all be all solution and won't work for every body. Just something that's worth trying really quick to see if it helps.

[Unregistered HyperCam 2]

Not correct in all cases, i got better lows and averages when set to Max than at 12 threads on 24 total.

[nsieu13]

yup, perfect number for me is 8. Never crashed and performance is top notch with new patch.Many ppl whining about crash but never try to do some graphic setting which work for there best

[Judge Lazar]

Originally posted by Leaf Lover Dwarf:

Not correct in all cases, i got better lows and averages when set to Max than at 12 threads on 24 total.

Not in all cases no, of course not, but I've had a few friends testing this across various differnt CPUs and in most cases, the default makes the game run like ass. It's something that people can at least try before they come on the forums and make yet another "I don't have 28673945672894fps, game broken, want refund" thread.

[Bastila Shan]

I read you should set the number of worker threads to the same number of cores your cpu has.

[ELMatadario]

Originally posted by Judge Lazar:

Originally posted by Leaf Lover Dwarf:

Not correct in all cases, i got better lows and averages when set to Max than at 12 threads on 24 total.

Not in all cases no, of course not, but I've had a few friends testing this across various differnt CPUs and in most cases, the default makes the game run like ass. It's something that people can at least try before they come on the forums and make yet another "I don't have 28673945672894fps, game broken, want refund" thread.

LOL the game IS broken if lots of people experience bad fps and crashing and you have to fiddle with worker threads to hope the game functions

[Judge Lazar]

Originally posted by Hoboslayer:

I read you should set the number of worker threads to the same number of cores your cpu has.

Which in most cases, is half. AMD CPUs have it easy in that sense. My buddy got a new Intel CPU and due to their dishonest marketing, it took us a while to realize that he only had 16 threads to work with, not 20, due to Intel having P and E cores. P cores are like any normal CPU core but E cores are weaker, meant to handle background tasks that don't use a lot of CPU, which frees up the P cores for CPU intensive tasks.

[Judge Lazar]

Originally posted by Pino is reading a book:

For 15,374,478,972,745th time i played for 2+ years vermintide with 13 worker threads (1 less than max) without problems.... dont be a clown op

The only clown here is the one assuming that their experience automatically means everyone else's experience is exactly the same.

[Judge Lazar]

Originally posted by ELMatadario:

Originally posted by Judge Lazar:

Not in all cases no, of course not, but I've had a few friends testing this across various differnt CPUs and in most cases, the default makes the game run like ass. It's something that people can at least try before they come on the forums and make yet another "I don't have 28673945672894fps, game broken, want refund" thread.

LOL the game IS broken if lots of people experience bad fps and crashing and you have to fiddle with worker threads to hope the game functions

Did I say otherwise? I know it's a rare thing here on the Steam forums but I'm just trying to relay information that might help some people get the game to run in a playable state. You know, instead of being a curmudgeon with no constructive input to the conversation at all.

[Omegachai]

Have it at 11/14 threads (5800X) and though I haven't had issues with threads so it mightn't be necessary, I'm comfortable here. But yeah, it can be a troubleshooting fix for some.

[MeGa]

Originally posted by Judge Lazar:

Go into the L A U N C H E R settings. Scroll to the bottom. Click and hold on the neat little slider button. Move it to the left and reduce the number of worker threads the game is using. This will fix a lot of bad framerate and crashing issues. The defaults are set too high. After messing around with it, the best results are achieved when the slider is set to HALF or LOWER than HALF of the threads on your CPU.

thanks for tip, sure it helps a lot of people

with my i5 11600, at 12 threads, your tip wouldnt work.

Launcher allows 10 max, which is bad ofc. Defaults at 9, where I still noticed some bad performance. Sweet spot seems to be at 8

[Lord Rizzington of Mewingville]

I have a 10400f which is 6 cores, but the default says 8 (is it trying to use virtual cores?). Perhaps I should try setting it to 6?

[BIGGOURMAND]

thx op didnt know setting and it was at 22 was wondering why it ran like ♥♥♥♥

[Zothen]

Originally posted by Hoboslayer:

I read you should set the number of worker threads to the same number of cores your cpu has.

...Physical cores, that is.. not logical cores

[Zothen]

Originally posted by jenkem_lover189:

I have a 10400f which is 6 cores, but the default says 8 (is it trying to use virtual cores?). Perhaps I should try setting it to 6?

Yes, 6 should be save currently. You can test with +1-2 additional, logical cores, but currently it can be problematic until they did more optimizations.

[Stardustfire]

my i7-5820k has 6 cores and 12 threads, game sets me to 9 work, no problems on that end till now, but than im also one of the players who dont see many crashes (all in all 3 since prelaunch beta started)