Massive lag overnight for no reason

[Nightwitch]

I don't understand anything anymore.
Inzoi has been running completely smoothly for me since release, even though I don't have a high-end rig (I5 10600K, RX5700XT, 16 GB RAM). Just last night, I was still playing Inzoi without any problems. Today, the game is starting to lag massively. I have to click on something for several seconds in the menus, in CAZ, and in live mode before it registers. I haven't changed anything in the game since yesterday. The only thing I did was install the stupid EA app (and also set it to not run in the background), but what could that have to do with Inzoi? I could cry, I don't understand what happened to my game from one day to the next. I enabled the overlay in the graphics driver; neither my GPU nor my CPU are too hot, and the VRAM and system RAM aren't being used to full capacity. It shouldn't lag so massively.
If I completely shut down the PC and restart it, the game runs smoothly for 30 minutes, then the lagging starts all over again.
I even uninstalled and reinstalled the game, and I got the same result as after restarting the PC. I can't restart my PC every 30 minutes.
I updated the GPU driver and did the latest Windows update, but none of that helped.
Does anyone with technical knowledge have any idea what might have happened and what else I can do?

[Lovyan]

One thing that springs to mind (which many people don't think about because it's 'unrelated' to the game): is your computer (ie: Windows) trying to do other stuff in the background (like updating / preparing for an update), or is anything else that is loaded at startup doing so? Such things can use up system resources and effect foreground program performance.

Try looking at your 'Resource Monitor' (which you can access by starting the 'Task Manager', going to the 'Performance' tab, and clicking 'Open Resource Monitor' at the bottom), and check which processes have high disk usage, which may give you an idea (MsMpEng is often a pesky culprit for this).

[KhyyZeith]

Got the same issue, but I cannot even open CAZ without the lag. My game also freezes and crashes after a few minutes. My pc is between recommended and minimum specs, more to the recommended. Can't even find anything in taskmanager or anything that might cause my problem.

[Angel]

Nothing here. I have had 3 crashes since the EA launched, but I blame it on the game still is in development.
Lots of stuff don't work, but the people on this forum are more preoccupied with their own sexual desires. I still hope more important things will get done before may.

[OFFICER BRAINFART]

I'm facing same issue, i run in ultra with auto specs, was smoothe, untill now, it decide to just be trash. It's in EA, so i hope it's things i will never see anymore in full release, cuz clearly, this ain't my config the prob.

[Nightwitch]

Originally posted by OFFICER BRAINFART:

I'm facing same issue, i run in ultra with auto specs, was smoothe, untill now, it decide to just be trash. It's in EA, so i hope it's things i will never see anymore in full release, cuz clearly, this ain't my config the prob.

For me, it's fixed. That means it was already fixed before the last patch. I tried a few things, so I don't know what ultimately led to the fix. I can only tell you what I did.

Introductory question: Do you use any mods?
I had some mods from Nexusmods that always worked without problems. At least, I thought so.

Okay, here's what I did.

1) I completely uninstalled the game.
2) After uninstalling, I deleted all the remaining folders that had anything to do with InZoi. (I had previously made a backup of the folder named "InZoi," where your CAZ creations, textures are saved.)
There were two folders left over after uninstalling. An "InZoi" folder, where, as mentioned, your textures and CAZ creations are stored, and a "Blue Client" folder on C (in my case, on C).
3) I reinstalled the game.
Immediately after installation, I let steam verify the integrity of my game files, because why not? I wanted to try anything at that point.

4) After that, I moved my backup of the Inzoi folder back into the newly created InZoi folder.

5) This is only important if you have mods.

I only moved the Nexus Mod Enabler back into my game folder (which you can find in the steam library folder), but this time in a different way. Before, I simply overwrote the "Blue Client" folder with the mod's "Blue Client" folder. This time, I opened the mod's "Blue Client" folder, clicked through the folders, and moved only the two files that were in the last "win64 folder" back into InZoi's "Blue Client" folder.
Then did the usual: create a mod folder and moved the mods I wanted into it. I deleted all the mods I had except for the "Inzoi Game Optimizer" and the "Remove Shower Blur" mod. These two are the only ones I moved back into my game folder.

6) After that, I let steam verify the integrity of my game files again , just to check if the two mods had broken any file. Everything was fine.

Then I started my game and everything was smooth again.

In my case, I have a suspicion that the second-to-last hotfix and one of the mods I had before weren't compatible. The creators on Nexusmods don't update their mods after hotfixes, so it's quite possible that this caused my problems and was resolved after I reinstalled everything fresh and kept only two mods.

If you don't play with mods, I have no idea what the problem could be.
You could still try steps 1-4.