Performance tweaks for even the lowest-end hardware!

[нιт◈ᴘᴏɪɴᴛ]

Hey guys!

Been doing a little fiddling today with settings, and have figured out how to boost performance ten-fold for people with low-end hardware (integrated chips/laptops especially).

I have a gaming rig that plays the game at max settings (besides tree density). Sometimes I don't have access to it when i'm not home and have to result to a laptop for my gaming needs.

Unfortunately, even at the lowest possible in-game settings, my laptop can only maintain 30fps (20 min). But guess what! There is a solution and you too can obtain 60 even on integrated chips!

How so do you ask? By lowering the LOD and Draw Distance to it's lowest possible setting through the in-game console! Until today, I thought you could only raise the LOD (200%) above it's maxed in-game settings. But with some testing you can run the game at 0% LOD, and 1 View Distance. Here's how!

Load a single player game (don't join a server, console commands while on someone elses MP server changes the servers settings). Hit the tilde key (brings up the console) and type these commands into said console.

sg OptionsViewDistance 1 (1-4 depending on your tastes)
sg OptionsLODDistance 0 (0-0.20 depending on your tastes)

Voila!

You're now able to run the game at a manageable framerate even on a toaster!

Hopefully one day TFP will give us the in-game option of changing these settings all the way down to the engines lowest functioning setting, and also allow us to use the highest possible setting without the game crashing (ala 15 view distance).

Remember. This is for people like me whom are on the go and can't afford an expensive gaming laptop. Especially if you have kids/friends who would like to play too.

This is an alpha. Alpha means we will see performance gains in the near future and the likely hood of these tweaks changing is high.

Hope this helped some of you with performance issues, as I know it worked for me.

Have a great day and may your legs never break :)

[Hans Blitz]

I have smooth gameplay at full spec for HD quality with good frame rates, I just get this memory loss issue after around an hour or so play. Windows 10 pops up with a low memory warring, and i got about 30 mins of play after that before it CTD's and i need to restart to refresh the memory.

Running Windows 10, 64 bit with 8gb DDR3 Corsair xms3 DHX dual path heat exchange ram onboard, Nivida 1070 8gb Strix video card.
CPU Intel extream quad core 3.00GHz, cores are a little old now but still holds its own with most modern programs.

Please don't tell me to go buy a new computer cause it ain't gonna happen, this PC has enough power to run far more powerfull games with stability. Your game needs to be optimized so the memory doesn't leak after a couple hours playtime.

I've already gone through my rig and killed unnecessary proccessors like "Super Fetch" that may interfear with file exhange, I've got my virtual memory set at just above what windows requires at 2GB which should be fine for windows paging. If i set it to auto it draws 5gb for paging which i don't think is needed unless advised otherwise, at most paging should only effect load times and not GPU memory usage.
I can't tell if the video cards memory is being effected by the low memory issue or if its the onboard ram, is there a way to tell the difference?

Any suggestions for fixes would be appreciated, Thanks.

[Bon]

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[郭勇]

i just wanna game can make Chinese language for game , we have much more chinese people play this game ,

[Hans Blitz]

This is the problem that pops up in windows 10 after playing awhile.

2017-01-03_114634 next to game executable. Where do i post this bug report?

The game is now stopping my Steam Client after the crash to desktop, WTF is going on with that? Its forcing me to reverify Steam aswell shall i report this issue to Steam support since its affecting the stability of the game client.

[Aryam]

Blackrain の投稿を引用：

I have smooth gameplay at full spec for HD quality with good frame rates, I just get this memory loss issue after around an hour or so play. Windows 10 pops up with a low memory warring, and i got about 30 mins of play after that before it CTD's and i need to restart to refresh the memory.

Running Windows 10, 64 bit with 8gb DDR3 Corsair xms3 DHX dual path heat exchange ram onboard, Nivida 1070 8gb Strix video card.
CPU Intel extream quad core 3.00GHz, cores are a little old now but still holds its own with most modern programs.

Please don't tell me to go buy a new computer cause it ain't gonna happen, this PC has enough power to run far more powerfull games with stability. Your game needs to be optimized so the memory doesn't leak after a couple hours playtime.

I've already gone through my rig and killed unnecessary proccessors like "Super Fetch" that may interfear with file exhange, I've got my virtual memory set at just above what windows requires at 2GB which should be fine for windows paging. If i set it to auto it draws 5gb for paging which i don't think is needed unless advised otherwise, at most paging should only effect load times and not GPU memory usage.
I can't tell if the video cards memory is being effected by the low memory issue or if its the onboard ram, is there a way to tell the difference?

Any suggestions for fixes would be appreciated, Thanks.

In your case I would never tell you to buy a new computer... I would only say it to someone who has no hope of playing at all with a really tiny computer. :) I myself had to struggle with a configuration far from perfect.

Best thing you can do to your memory is to lower the view distance by 1. If that doesn't make your game last indefinately it should lengthen the time you can play before having to restart, making the problam bearable.

8 GB ram is a little small for everything on ultra and maxed. So if it isn't a hard drive memory issue I would assume you are running out of Ram... However the problems might be connected. If your ram is filled up, your system starts using hard drive space. It's arround 500 times slower than RAM but allows apps to continue operating without shutting down... IF you are running out of both however that will cause strange behaviours, like missing GUI elements or missing chunks of the world.

Also if you notice in your task manager that currently availible RAM is much lower (like only half) of what you actually have installed on your PC it is on rare cases cause by slight incompatibilities between your CPU and RAM types. This inconvenience is maximized to this annoying level when you enter your BIOS and overclock your CPU. Also if you have an option within your BIOS that stops the BIOS loading screan when your computer starts up turn it of. It also causes some parts of your RAM to appear as inaccessible.

Also you might want to revert to Win 8.1 if it's possible for you. It is by far a more... "Completed" a product than Win 10 and has less problems and is safer.

If you can't or don't want to change your configuration you can keep decreasing the View Distance Option within the game, along with other options that have "distance" in their names. However the highest memory impact would be View Distance, Tree Quality and LOD Distance. The rest has much less meaning. Especially if you have the "shadow paging" option turned on in your 3D settings on NVIDIA control panel.
You have described few details concerning your problem so it leaves quite a few solutions to try out but I hope something helps.

[RangerChad]

I just now started my playthrough with Alpha 15.1 I have not played since 13.6. I use to have close to 60 fps with everything cranked up now my fps is 24-26 with LOD cranked all the way down. I tried putting all settings on minimum other than resolution but the FPS stays the same even when I put it all to max. However if I touch LOD it causes lag 24-25 at minimum LOD 8 FPS at max LOD. I don't get it. i7 5930k 3.50 GHZ, 16 GB DDR4, X99 Extreme MOBO, GTX 970. I don't know what they did but the game play at 24-26 FPS is not fun. xD I hope it's on my end and I can easily fix it. BF 1 runs 60+ FPS, Black Desert Online on High I get 40-60 FPS, Witcher 3 I get 40-50 FPS. Those have been the numbers since I had this rig. The only game to drop performance is 7 Days to Die.

[daretmavi]

RangerChad の投稿を引用：

I just now started my playthrough with Alpha 15.1 I have not played since 13.6. I use to have close to 60 fps with everything cranked up now my fps is 24-26 with LOD cranked all the way down. I tried putting all settings on minimum other than resolution but the FPS stays the same even when I put it all to max. However if I touch LOD it causes lag 24-25 at minimum LOD 8 FPS at max LOD. I don't get it. i7 5930k 3.50 GHZ, 16 GB DDR4, X99 Extreme MOBO, GTX 970. I don't know what they did but the game play at 24-26 FPS is not fun. xD I hope it's on my end and I can easily fix it. BF 1 runs 60+ FPS, Black Desert Online on High I get 40-60 FPS, Witcher 3 I get 40-50 FPS. Those have been the numbers since I had this rig. The only game to drop performance is 7 Days to Die.

Try to update your Nvidia Drivers, if it doesn't help, then try to remove the game + manually remove all game/save directories and install again.
My PC is much worse (FX-6200, GTX 960, 16GB DDR3) and I get arround 30 FPS on Linux Mint. You should get more.

[Cloud]

I have problem, i play with my friend, He host server but today i cant connected the server

[RangerChad]

I just had to select the Open GL box in the launcher and the game ran well. Thanks anyway, Daret. :)

[El Birri]

this is my pc and my video settings, any tips?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUqAYWCwaXU&list=PLgeR5HMHoZnbEMZ0SnSuXXOkWHUAzY33e&index=14

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El Birri の投稿を引用：

this is my pc and my video settings, any tips?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUqAYWCwaXU&list=PLgeR5HMHoZnbEMZ0SnSuXXOkWHUAzY33e&index=14

I am honestly surprised you can play it with the Intel HD graphics.

To be fair you have a good system if you only could upgrade your graphics card. Even going with like a GTX 1050 Ti or an RX470 you would see a MASSIVE improvement.

If you are willing to spend a bit and you don't know if your PSU can handle a graphics card that needs a 6 or 8 pin power connector then go with a GTX 1050 Ti that does not require one.

[El Birri]

iNHUMAN の投稿を引用：

El Birri の投稿を引用：

this is my pc and my video settings, any tips?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUqAYWCwaXU&list=PLgeR5HMHoZnbEMZ0SnSuXXOkWHUAzY33e&index=14

I am honestly surprised you can play it with the Intel HD graphics.

To be fair you have a good system if you only could upgrade your graphics card. Even going with like a GTX 1050 Ti or an RX470 you would see a MASSIVE improvement.

If you are willing to spend a bit and you don't know if your PSU can handle a graphics card that needs a 6 or 8 pin power connector then go with a GTX 1050 Ti that does not require one.

thx by the info. yes my pc is just like... the real power blocked xD

i gonna save for 1050 ti cus i no have power supplie with 6 or 8 pin power connect.

[Aryam]

I don't know why but most pre-built PC's with awesome stats have almost always 1 thing that's pretty... And when you power use the machine the whole thing is working with the efficiency of it's weakest part. luckily some things can be remedied - low ram, you lower drawing distance and LOD and alike... but... GPU's are a thing that you can only skip by lowering everything dow. :P So bascally you can't. But you upgrade your GPU and you have a monster with no weakness. :)

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