7 days to die unplayable on high end pc?

[melissa.bunnie]

Hi all

I was trying to play 7 days to die but i get so much studdering every time i move and look ect.that even with the game at bare bones setting at all the game can't not be played and i just got it last week to say with is sad for something like this.

PC Specs:

OS: ms win 7 Home edition 64bit
CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-4770K Processor
(8M Cache, up to 3.90 GHz)
Motherboard: SABERTOOTH Z87
Gpu: GeForce GTX 780 Ti x2
Ram: Vengeance™ Memory — 32GB 1866MHz CL9 DDR3
HDD: WD10EALX SATA 6 Gb/s 3.5 Inch 7200 1 TB 32 MB with OS
WD10EALX SATA 6 Gb/s 3.5 Inch 7200 1 TB 32 MB for data

as i hope this will help and understand that is game is is early alpha stage of being made.

Any help would be great if can be if able too.

[Boss]

Thanks for the input all. My rig was built 3-4 years ago and I get consistent 60 fps but bad stutter, like every 3 seconds. No major resources running in the background. Have messed with all of the settings for hours with exact same results.

AMD Phenom II 3.2Ghz x6 cores 1090T
Radeon XFX HD 6950 (not modified to 6970)
Corsair 8GB 1600 RAM
Windows 7 64 bit

[Ragequit Inc.]

Publicado originalmente por Boss:

Thanks for the input all. My rig was built 3-4 years ago and I get consistent 60 fps but bad stutter, like every 3 seconds. No major resources running in the background. Have messed with all of the settings for hours with exact same results.

AMD Phenom II 3.2Ghz x6 cores 1090T
Radeon XFX HD 6950 (not modified to 6970)
Corsair 8GB 1600 RAM
Windows 7 64 bit

Probably just terrain generation/loading 'lag'.

[Pheex]

Publicado originalmente por AC|R Ragequit Inc.:

Publicado originalmente por Boss:

Thanks for the input all. My rig was built 3-4 years ago and I get consistent 60 fps but bad stutter, like every 3 seconds. No major resources running in the background. Have messed with all of the settings for hours with exact same results.

AMD Phenom II 3.2Ghz x6 cores 1090T
Radeon XFX HD 6950 (not modified to 6970)
Corsair 8GB 1600 RAM
Windows 7 64 bit

Probably just terrain generation/loading 'lag'.

Nah. I have / had the same thing. (Havn't played for a week or so now) Same gpu aswell and similar cpu.

I can run around for 15 minutes exploring and rendering everything a mile around my starting position, then run back to the middle and the stutter is still there while the game shows a steady 60fps.

[Jᴧgᴧ]

That's called loading lag. There's a different workaround for it.

[Boss]

There is a work around for loading lag? Do tell...

[Jᴧgᴧ]

Publicado originalmente por Boss:

There is a work around for loading lag? Do tell...

Fix for loading lag/stutter (8GB RAM or higher required)

• Download trial version of PrimoCache from http://www.romexsoftware.com/en-us/primo-cache/
  
• Install and create a L1 disk cache on the 7DTD install volume, give it minimum 2gb of RAM (2000MB). If you have more RAM, give it a larger share.
  
• Block size should be 8-16KB, higher if you use RAID on the 7DTD install volume.
  
• Cache Strategy should be "Read-data & Write-data"
  
• Do NOT enable Defer-Write unless you have a UPS battery backup on your computer.

As you play the game, PrimoCache will fill up the L1 cache with game and asset data, and slowly eliminate loading stutter. It is helpful if your 7DTD install and your save games are on the same drive cached by the software.

[Jᴧgᴧ]

Nothing new and mysterious about it - It's been happening since 11.0 released. A large number of people see the problem. Less so on faster drives.

[dszombiex]

Publicado originalmente por Angela:

Publicado originalmente por Jᴧgᴧ:

Nothing new and mysterious about it - It's been happening since 11.0 released. A large number of people see the problem. Less so on faster drives.

Some of these guys are running on an SSD and get this "loading lag". What is the difference between them and me?

Not all SSD's are created equal. In this case I'd guess that it isn't the SSD read performance that is the gating factor, but perhaps the IOP's.

[Boss]

Thanks all for the replays. I guess I hijacked this thread but think it will help people who are having issues with stutter. Thanks Jaga, going to give it a shot.

[dszombiex]

Not to sound like a broken record, but if you have a spare computer you can host a dedicated server for yourself on it and that will actually solve most of the stutter issues (depending on the computers in question).
This seems like a much simpler option to me as all you have to do is copy 1 folder over, then edit the serverconfig.xml file for the server settings and you're done.

[melissa.bunnie]

to every one and to thylbanus ived fixes a few errors and have the specs up to date please view the orginal post. ty. still working on the stuttering but taking a break and playing other things as well.

[BigRowdy]

Publicado originalmente por melissa.bunnie:

to every one and to thylbanus ived fixes a few errors and have the specs up to date please view the orginal post. ty. still working on the stuttering but taking a break and playing other things as well.

Wooo Hooo!

[Ryohei]

Anyone else enjoying the game on 6 gigs of ram on a stock 400 dollar PC from 2012? lols Thanks to tfp for all the streamlining these past few updates! Game is running quite smooth I must say ;)

[Selexo]

If you have ram to spare you could just make a ramdrive of 7d2d and stick the game on that thing. It will be faster then any SSD by miles lol, and this game is only 3 gigs.

Free and one of the best ramdrives available.

ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver
http://www.ltr-data.se/opencode.html/#ImDisk

Also if you want an alternative to PrimoCache trialware, you could just create a ramdisk and use the ram disk as a readyboost drive. While PrimoCache may have a few extra tricks compared to the built in one in window, overall you may not tell the difference.

If you want a persistence ramdrive on reboot you can just have ImDisk load the image file on boot of the ramdrive readyboost disk.

[Jᴧgᴧ]

A RAMdrive and a L1/L2 Disk Cache that works with the Windows native cache are fundamentally different things. I have 48GB of RAM in my system - I could easily do a RAMdrive, but I choose not to. I found it wasn't as efficient for the system as a whole, and that everything (including 7DTD) is snappier when utilizing the disk cache instead.

I ran a system for ~2 years with a large, persistent RAMdrive (28GB), and it was a far more cumbersome solution than simply using Primocache. Write time on shutdown, read time on startup, volume corruption.. they all complicate the hell out of a RAMdrive.

I wouldn't recommend Readyboost on a RAMdrive at all. It's like the junior varsity compared to PrimoCache. With Primo I have a 22GB L1 cache (with 60s deferred writes), a 28GB persistent L2 cache on a fast gaming SSD. And it all works for any volume I put it against, as it caches at the block level. System boot time is something ridiculous like 5 seconds. Getting into 7DTD and loading a save from the time I launch is around 16 seconds total.

My opinion: RAMdrives seem neat and super fast when you first play with them. But their utility is highly limited. I'd rather speed up the entire system equally, with a minimal latency solution that isn't susceptible to some of the same problems.