The best optimized version

[Superior Jam]

Hello guys, what is in your opinion is the best optimized version of 7 days to die.

[SiEgE]

"optimized" is also based on the hardware you're going to play it on. Techwise, the most optimized version is the newest one.
But, if you have an outdated, weak hardware, you'd find older versions of the game to be more "optimized" for your case. For example, many hardware requirements started to grow past 16.4 version.

[Bo0Mz]

the game has never been optimized
if you are looking for a good alpha that will run well on an old PC try A16

[dopugsnotdrugs]

naw hes wrong objectively, a16 will not run smoothly you need at least a10 the classic alfa on an old pc..

im pretty sad that the pimps decided not to do the voodoo vince art style that alfa 1 had.. i much preferred the more meincraft-esque voodoo vince style blocks and art.. now the zombies look more like a jrpg haha

[8_Hussars]

Originally posted by SiEgE:

"optimized" is also based on the hardware you're going to play it on. Techwise, the most optimized version is the newest one.
But, if you have an outdated, weak hardware, you'd find older versions of the game to be more "optimized" for your case. For example, many hardware requirements started to grow past 16.4 version.

FWIW A21 was already somewhat optimized by the company doing the console port in order to support cross play.

In my particular case, A21 performance on my clunker is far far superior to A20 and A19.

[Mardoin69]

There's no such thing. This game has never been "optimized" completely... regardless of version.

[Katitoff]

I would not put "optimized" and 7d2d in the same sentence.

Its laughably low priority, because apparently devs still are adding features, even tho nothing non cosmetic was added since electricity update.

[kandar]

Probably a more accurate way of stating the question would be: Which version of the game runs best with the potato PC specs listed on the store page?

[JM@PT]

From my findings the A17 and 18 were the most optimized since early versions then the performance started to drop but the worst of all was A15, this one feels lagish like it constantly runs at 30fps despite showing 100fps even the audio sounds unstable with dropouts.

The new alpha performs very similar to the previous one with some improvements in AI, handling ~50% more AI at the same framerame but it still performes poorly in POIs with more than 60 70zeds. Probably due to pathing that is taxing the way its spaghetti programmed.

A18,19,20
https://youtu.be/idL0PZrXx4g

A15,16,17
https://youtu.be/N2ElHfrDkFw

[MOON LEGS]

I'd wager keeping it modern still at alpha 16,17,18. Try reverting to pre-mesh qaulity features but keep it post-building blocks update.

[Dogmilk]

they have improved performance to some degree but they also keep adding textures, models and other things that impact it so at best it seems to break even

[DaemoN]

For the best optimization, this is 19 alpha, what was done in 21 alpha is disgusting, hard drawdowns up to 14 fps, on randomly generated maps, in the city center and a bunch of zombies, fps above 15-20 does not rise, which, taking into account almost low settings, was not so long in 19, recently personally tested. The worst optimization I've seen is 21 alpha, a disgrace.