Game slows down on horde night peer to peer.

[Nova]

So I haven't actually tested this on a public server that's properly hosted, I play this game peer to peer with friends and I have this issue where every horde night my game slows down, however it's not normal FPS drop and lag, I have a decent machine running the thicc 3 ultra 5700 XT Sapphire GPU with a Ryzen 2700x CPU 32GB of 3400 mhz ram, I run on medium- high settings and normally my FPS is great however when I host on horde nights I get this problem, it doesn't feel like normal FPS drops, I played this game a little while optimizing it on my moms PC which isn't very built so I understand how to feels to get proper FPS drops in the game and it doesn't feel like it at all, it's as if the game turns into slow motion, does anyone have any Ideas on a fix? Side note the friends I play with have much less built into their PCs, my brother runs the XFX radeon RX 570, and I believe he has a I5 for his CPU with 16 GBs of ram and has no issues on horde night but again I'm hosting.

[SylenThunder]

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[FT]

Your HordeNight zombie count setting will MULTIPLY for every extra player...so playing with a single friend with ZombieHordeCount set to 16zeds will actually cap the Hordes at 32 zeds onscreen at once instead of 16. If you set it to 12zeds and play with 2 other players, you can see 36zeds at once during the hordes.

Too many zombies chasing the players all at once will cause the game to run choppier and slower.
Usually you can expect it to run pretty decently if you keep it under 30zeds (so around 16ZombieHordeNight count or fewer with only 2players)....but leaving EasyAntiCheat and GameSparks running can slow you down a little more, and putting up a lot of torches around your base or fighting area will also hurt performance.
You'll also generally get a slowdown at night/morning in the Forest Biome, which can often only be worked around by temporarily lowering ShadowDistance to OFF or NEAR...or moving to a different biome like the desert or snow/tundra (I think the Wasteland suffers a similar effect as the Forest).

When playing with a single friend, it can be a good idea to lower the HordeNight ZombieCount to half of what you use for singleplayer.

These things can stack and hurt performance more when added together...like leaving EAC and GameSparks on while playing with too high of a HordeNightZombieCount in the Forest with ShadowDistance MEDIUM/HIGH and several torches added somewhere relatively nearby.

If you don't use all the 2700X threads for rendering video or something, you can also get extra gaming performance (and cooler temps with quieter fanspeeds) by turning off HyperThreading/SMT and locking the CPU down to 4 or 6cores, then overclocking it to 4.1-4.3ghz with Vcore (CPU voltage) kept relatively low, like 1.35v-1.4v or lower if it'll remain stable.
Make sure your RAM is actually running at XMP instead of default 2400mhz too.

[Nova]

Originally posted by FT:

Your HordeNight zombie count setting will MULTIPLY for every extra player...so playing with a single friend with ZombieHordeCount set to 16zeds will actually cap the Hordes at 32 zeds onscreen at once instead of 16. If you set it to 12zeds and play with 2 other players, you can see 36zeds at once during the hordes.

Too many zombies chasing the players all at once will cause the game to run choppier and slower.
Usually you can expect it to run pretty decently if you keep it under 30zeds (so around 16ZombieHordeNight count or fewer with only 2players)....but leaving EasyAntiCheat and GameSparks running can slow you down a little more, and putting up a lot of torches around your base or fighting area will also hurt performance.
You'll also generally get a slowdown at night/morning in the Forest Biome, which can often only be worked around by temporarily lowering ShadowDistance to OFF or NEAR...or moving to a different biome like the desert or snow/tundra (I think the Wasteland suffers a similar effect as the Forest).

When playing with a single friend, it can be a good idea to lower the HordeNight ZombieCount to half of what you use for singleplayer.

These things can stack and hurt performance more when added together...like leaving EAC and GameSparks on while playing with too high of a HordeNightZombieCount in the Forest with ShadowDistance MEDIUM/HIGH and several torches added somewhere relatively nearby.

If you don't use all the 2700X threads for rendering video or something, you can also get extra gaming performance (and cooler temps with quieter fanspeeds) by turning off HyperThreading/SMT and locking the CPU down to 4 or 6cores, then overclocking it to 4.1-4.3ghz with Vcore (CPU voltage) kept relatively low, like 1.35v-1.4v or lower if it'll remain stable.
Make sure your RAM is actually running at XMP instead of default 2400mhz too.

Thanks so much, and yes my RAM is running at XMP I made sure to change that in BIOS a while ago, I am in the forest right next to the wasteland however I dont have many torches up, however Ill give all your suggestions a try, thanks so much!