FPS on Horde Nights

[The Killing Jay]

Hello all,

I am having issues with FPS specifically on horde nights. I believe our server is set to spawn the max amount of zombies. I can usually play on medium just fine, not sure exact FPS but probably 30+.

Once horde night comes around though, all bets are off. I put it on the Low preset and at best I'm probably getting 5fps. I don't have a way of tracking it exactly, but its bad. I still got around 80 zeds last horde night but another buddy of us 3 also has this issue and together we are probably the reason why we lose every horde night since day 21. I only got those kills because I was standing still and clicking with my AK on where they would gather up.

Is there any trick or way to improve FPS? Putting things on low seems to do nothing :(

Specs
GPU: GTX 1060
CPU: AMD FX-8320-E Black, eight core 3.20ghz
RAM: 16gb
OS: Win 10


Any tips or changes would be appreciated.

[Crater Creator]

Originally posted by The Killing Jay:

...I'm probably getting 5fps. I don't have a way of tracking it exactly, but its bad.

While others will chime in with performance tips, I’ll say you can press F8 to turn on the game’s FPS counter.

[Progje]

I also got low FPS when i am digging in the ground, like when i am about 10 meters deep or so, temp goes up to 93 degrees but when i am above ground fps goes up and temp goes down... Is that weird or what........

[Crater Creator]

Yes, that is weird. You might see how your framerate underground compares when looking forward versus looking up and down, to narrow down if the game is wasting computation on stuff that's occluded.

[ÐåŕķMệşşịäħ]

You need to wait until they optimize the game which will probably never happen...

I played this game with 5 other people and all of us have high end hardware/computers ($3,000+ rigs) and even then we still had the same issues you have during horde nights. It becomes super laggy, the frames drop drastically, the game freezes up sometimes, and eventually some zombies look like they're moving in slow motion.

It's just the poorly designed game not your computer. The only fix I had was you need to kill them quickly instead of letting them pile up. People need to split up since this game can't handle so many zombies loaded up in one place. Or you need to lower the zombie count (which makes the game boring).

[FT]

Originally posted by The Killing Jay:

Is there any trick or way to improve FPS? Putting things on low seems to do nothing :(

Specs
GPU: GTX 1060
CPU: AMD FX-8320-E Black, eight core 3.20ghz
RAM: 16gb
OS: Win 10

Any tips or changes would be appreciated.

Problems at horde-night when the rest of the game runs decently are almost always from your CPU's single-core speed being slower than the game wants. Those old AM3+ CPU's suffered pretty poor stock single-core performance, but they can be healthy overclockers and if you keep your CPU-voltage within reason (around 1.45-1.5volts) you can easily keep them cool and safe. You can also lock it down to 4"cores" instead of 8 which will run cooler and it'll still be faster in many games after you overclock it a decent amount at 4cores.
The best way to overclock the FX-series in my experience is increasing your CPU/HT speed (I think default is 200, but it might be different for the later gen FX), this can likely push up to around 250-260 before making other things on the motherboard a little unstable (not in a dangerous way, but in a "my PC keeps crashing" frustrating way that you simply turn it down a little and it works fine).
Increasing the CPU/HT speed (sometimes called FSB I think) gets a pretty direct boost from the FX series while multiplyer OCing can reach similar number but doesn't perform nearly as well.
The one somewhat tricky bit to keep an eye on is you may need to lower your RAM speed back down to default or lower..because the FSB/HT overclock also affects RAM speed and pushing that too high will also give you blue-screens and general un-fun times.

The fastest way to test is something like Cinebench R15 or R20. If you can pass a regular run of Cinebench R20, you're in pretty good shape and your CPU overclock should be good. Keep an eye on temperature when running Cinebench though, it'll push the CPU pretty good, so it'll run a bit hotter there than it typically will in games. I want to say that CPU will throttle itself down before it even hits 90degrees, but it never hurts to keep an eye on it anyway with something like AfterBurner or one of the hardware monitor programs.



The in-game settings that affect CPU most are:
-ShadowDistance (OFF can help a lot for horde-night)
-TextureStreaming (ON can run better and uses less RAM/VRAM too)
-TreeQuality/ObjectQuality (HIGH or MEDIUM runs better, but MEDIUM and lower can cause visible pop-in for a lot of things where they will disappear until you walk really close)
-ViewDistance (shorter viewdistances should help CPU useage at least somewhat)

Most of the other Video Options hit the GPU and not really the CPU, and the 1060 is a solid GPU so you're in good shape there if you want to turn most settings up (aside from MotionBlur, DepthOfField and SSreflection).

You may also want to go into Sound Options and turn EnableVoiceChat OFF..click apply.
Some folks have gotten a big performance improvement from this, but I think it's an overall improvement so I kind of doubt it'll affect you...but it doesn't hurt to try.

[Andy Mil]

I was on server with random people and lagging too like down to 10 fps during blood moon and also freeze up sometime

[The Killing Jay]

Originally posted by FT:

Originally posted by The Killing Jay:

Is there any trick or way to improve FPS? Putting things on low seems to do nothing :(

Specs
GPU: GTX 1060
CPU: AMD FX-8320-E Black, eight core 3.20ghz
RAM: 16gb
OS: Win 10

Any tips or changes would be appreciated.

Problems at horde-night when the rest of the game runs decently are almost always from your CPU's single-core speed being slower than the game wants. Those old AM3+ CPU's suffered pretty poor stock single-core performance, but they can be healthy overclockers and if you keep your CPU-voltage within reason (around 1.45-1.5volts) you can easily keep them cool and safe. You can also lock it down to 4"cores" instead of 8 which will run cooler and it'll still be faster in many games after you overclock it a decent amount at 4cores.
The best way to overclock the FX-series in my experience is increasing your CPU/HT speed (I think default is 200, but it might be different for the later gen FX), this can likely push up to around 250-260 before making other things on the motherboard a little unstable (not in a dangerous way, but in a "my PC keeps crashing" frustrating way that you simply turn it down a little and it works fine).
Increasing the CPU/HT speed (sometimes called FSB I think) gets a pretty direct boost from the FX series while multiplyer OCing can reach similar number but doesn't perform nearly as well.
The one somewhat tricky bit to keep an eye on is you may need to lower your RAM speed back down to default or lower..because the FSB/HT overclock also affects RAM speed and pushing that too high will also give you blue-screens and general un-fun times.

The fastest way to test is something like Cinebench R15 or R20. If you can pass a regular run of Cinebench R20, you're in pretty good shape and your CPU overclock should be good. Keep an eye on temperature when running Cinebench though, it'll push the CPU pretty good, so it'll run a bit hotter there than it typically will in games. I want to say that CPU will throttle itself down before it even hits 90degrees, but it never hurts to keep an eye on it anyway with something like AfterBurner or one of the hardware monitor programs.



The in-game settings that affect CPU most are:
-ShadowDistance (OFF can help a lot for horde-night)
-TextureStreaming (ON can run better and uses less RAM/VRAM too)
-TreeQuality/ObjectQuality (HIGH or MEDIUM runs better, but MEDIUM and lower can cause visible pop-in for a lot of things where they will disappear until you walk really close)
-ViewDistance (shorter viewdistances should help CPU useage at least somewhat)

Most of the other Video Options hit the GPU and not really the CPU, and the 1060 is a solid GPU so you're in good shape there if you want to turn most settings up (aside from MotionBlur, DepthOfField and SSreflection).

You may also want to go into Sound Options and turn EnableVoiceChat OFF..click apply.
Some folks have gotten a big performance improvement from this, but I think it's an overall improvement so I kind of doubt it'll affect you...but it doesn't hurt to try.

Thank you for your insight and detailed response. I am semi-aware that my CPU fell off very quickly from when I built this rig in 2015, and even that its line was discontinued, and every now and then I see stuff like this that reminds me why lol. I have never overclocked before, but may look into it, as I run into issues more and more these days.

However, I did used to have an overheating issue in 2017 with Battlefield 4 with temps reaching 90C, which I eventually identified and solved with new thermal paste application, but ever since I have been fearful of pushing the thing too much, because as far as I know it may have been permanently damaged.