Put it on an SSD !!!!!!

[Jodinar]

Hey guys,

For the longest time, I've struggled running this game on a computer that has a 1060ti, 16 GB ram and a Quad core processor at 3.6ghz.

My friends reported absolutely smooth frames, and I even bought a gaming laptop that handles this game with ease.

Turns out, what they all have in common, is that they have the game installed on an SSD.

So today I went to Properties on 7 Days in my library, and used Steams Move to another library folder tool, and set 7 days onto my SSD.

I can now run the game at 60 FPS (Vsync) at completely ultra settings (Except reflections turned off, because that setting is glitchy AF.)


PUT. IT. ON. AN. SSD!

A normal hard drive cannot fetch the files for textures as quickly as the game can render them.


I will say again, PUT IT ON AN SSD!

[Sanquin]

Yea, this helped me too. Normal HD: Hovered around 40~50 fps, installed it on an SSD, smooth 60 now pretty much.

[Bones]

Water is wet.

[Shurenai]

Yep. SSD and a large amount of good ram (16gb+) and the game runs WAY better. Go figure, since these are the two most used resources by the game; followed shortly by I think the CPU.. GPU does a fair amount of work too, but, for keeping a reliable framerate and performance in general, a good harddrive and ram make a world of difference.

[Beef Hammer]

You JUST started using a ssd for games???

[MystaMagoo]

SSD for the OS everything else is on normal HDD
32GB of 3200mhz ram,threadripper@4ghz,1080

[Jodinar]

@Beef Hammer

I haven't needed to before. Everything else runs fine.

This particular game just really REALLY needs it.

[Evil The Cat]

I could barely afford my PC years ago, I can't buy this now.

[36564176]

i run all my games on my 2tb hard drive and they work fine

[SiEgE]

Raid 0 SSD strictly for big, "resourceful" games.
Absolute blast. Raid 0 HDD is nowhere near.
Many hitches and freezes are completely gone, and 7dtd is now bottlenecked just by my videocard. All you need is i5-4670!

[SiEgE]

Originally posted by MystaMagoo:

SSD for the OS everything else is on normal HDD
32GB of 3200mhz ram,threadripper@4ghz,1080

I personally don't mind having fast OS. But you only launch your OS once a day. As for games - they'll read resources thousands of times per minute, so it is a complete waste of potential to have just OS on SSD.
Just get 2 semi-cheap SSDs, make a Raid 0 out of them, and you'll get a pretty smooth experience, as if your entire game is loaded into your RAM stick.

It takes me around 67 seconds to launch 7dtd and fully load into one of my old worlds. On HDD it was around 2 minutes just to load into the main menu.

[SylenThunder]

Originally posted by SiEgE:

Raid 0 SSD strictly for big, "resourceful" games.
Absolute blast. Raid 0 HDD is nowhere near.
Many hitches and freezes are completely gone, and 7dtd is now bottlenecked just by my videocard. All you need is i5-4670!

Just a note, SSHD's are pretty quick. Put a pair in RAID-0, and it's just as fast as an SSD.
Even better, a 2TB SSHD can usually be found for between $60 and $80. So for $120-160 you can have 4TB of storage that's as fast as an SSD.
Most gaming motherboards have built-in RAID controllers. You can software RAID if you have to, but it is about 5-10% slower. That's still faster than most platters, and not much slower than a plain SSD.

And yeah, I agree with the OS bit. Why it is they build these systems with the OS on a small NVMe drive, and then throw in a 1TB slow as hell platter drive for everything else? Even high-end gaming laptops. They'll put two NVMe's in RAID-0 for the OS, and then put the games on a slow-ass HDD.

That's why I would build a gaming system with a 250GB 2.5 inch SSD for the OS, and two 1TB NVMe's in RAID-o for the fast games. I'd have another pair of SSHD's in RAID for large storage and slower games that take up a lot of drive space like Doom, Borderlands, Ghost Recon, ect.

My current setup is like this, except I couldn't afford two NVMe's. So I've just got one atm, and an open slot for another later.

[Necromancer]

Originally posted by Shurenai:

Yep. SSD and a large amount of good ram (16gb+) and the game runs WAY better. Go figure, since these are the two most used resources by the game; followed shortly by I think the CPU.. GPU does a fair amount of work too, but, for keeping a reliable framerate and performance in general, a good harddrive and ram make a world of difference.

16GB RAM is more than sufficient. I run the game maxed out on all settings, have 64GB ram, and never go over 16Gb running the game at 1440p, with a web browser, steam and discord open at the same time.