New World Generation Broken?

[Skakk]

Is New World Generation broken/still broken?

This has probably been discussed many times before so sorry for repeat, but I wanted recent information on this 'potential' issue.

I read a few months back that New World Generation was broken/not possible after having issues myself with doing this using overhaul mods. I just tried again to generate a new world with The War of the Walkers mod, as it has many custom POI's. Game crashed after a few mins spent generating a map.

Is there a work around or a specific way to generate a new world (third party software) as I see some MP games with generated maps? I am sick of the pregen 10k map and as i said the overhaul I want to use has custom POI's.

Any advise or information welcome.

[...👑 JOST AMMAN 👑...]

I've never had a problem with the A20 random world generator.

If you're using mods (overhauls) and custom POI packs, you should know that a bug report won't be accepted by the devs, since a modded game can't be a reliable test-case for a possible issue in vanilla.

Try generating a random world in vanilla and I'm sure you'll see it'll work fine.

As for the overhaul mod, you should ask this to the creator of WotW, he's probably the one who can find a workaround on that.

[RasaNova]

A20 random gen maps are definitely not broken. But if you're using mods, it really depends on how a specific mod works and you may have better luck contacting that author.

I haven't had issues with RWG in a very long time, other than occasional glitchy 90 degree vertical roads and even those seem better now in A20.

[ElDudorino]

I've never had issues. When I played WotW though it was earlier last year, maybe a20.3 days. I successfully generated a map with those over-the-top free loot PoIs from WotW.

[Mardoin69]

Increase your Windows PageFile size. That might overcome the issue. Set it's minimum to 4096 and max to something like 24,576......... some ppl like to go all way up to 32,768 even. Also....when generating, set the 'preview quality' to it's lowest. Not like you get a super detailed 'preview' anyway and it seems to make a noticeable performance impact.

[Skakk]

Thanks for the info guys.
I'm sure I read something about it around the time Alpha 20 dropped. Was hoping it was resolved so thought I would check in with the community.

Regarding contacting the author of War of the Walkers, I also was having issues generating maps with Ravenhearst. After a few failed attempts of generating maps, I managed to get a few to finish generating, but then had crash issues within them maps. It may be time to up my RAM as I notice I am hitting close to max these days at times using the overhauls. I have 16GB. Was always more than enough in the past, but last update or 2 seems to be possibly causing a bottleneck. May also need to play around with the settings a bit to give a RAM buffer.

Also I have the page size already at 24000, put it to 24,576 now, although it is not much of an increase. An issue I may be having is that my SSD main drive is almost maxed out with 3GB approx not used of 250GB. Its possible that when my RAM is hitting max/close to max, that my system is trying to free up space on my SSD as back-up memory space. If its not finding the space required then this may be causing a crash.

Anyway thanks for advise guys, will troubleshoot it with lower settings and try and free up some more space on my SSD until I can upgrade my RAM and SSD in the Summer. At least I can rule out the issue being the games code, so can focus on what I can do my end to improve.

[ElDudorino]

For what it's worth, I'm on 16GB as well so at the very least it is possible with 16GB. I've always let Windows manage the page file size and mine is set to 2432MB.

[...👑 JOST AMMAN 👑...]

Originally posted by Skakk:

An issue I may be having is that my SSD main drive is almost maxed out with 3GB approx not used of 250GB.

That's definitely your issue there.

[Mardoin69]

Uh....yeah.....So....that 'free space' on your drive......that is what is used for your PageFile. So, if you look in file explorer at your C: drive.....you don't want files, folders, apps taking up so much space that you don't have at least....the amount you've set for your PageFile.....but, it should be at least 10% of your drives total capacity....minimum....as a rule of thumb. A little more is even better but that also depends on your drive size to begin with......tiny drives need slightly more possibly whereas huge drives....10% is definitely enough. You'll start getting all kinds of issues in games / apps when you fill up a drive all the way like that......and not just SSD's......that's how it works with traditional drives as well.