Recent content by Pico

I have only played Single Player, so I can't comment on your multi player experience. I like to play Dead Is Dead style, so no respawning - I start a new game if I get killed. So I found A19 single player to be quite difficult to survive the early hordes. I wanted a challenge, but didn't want...

Yeah, I've had a zombie bear clip through the walls of the trader base (I thought I was safe picking it off from the top of the base wall, but no, it clipped inside. I then ran into the traders trailer, and the #$%^ bear followed me, and pushed itself all the way in, leaving me with nowhere to...

It used to be that I would always make a ranger station my base, because it had a cobblestone base that immediately gave me a degree of protection without having to commit any time or resources into building it, but now those bases are radically different, and vulnerable as they stand on just a...

I got my first purple before day 14. It's a knife... a bone knife, and does 7 damage. Sheeesh! I wasted more bone to repair it, in the hope that the damage stat would improve... It didn't. :bi_polo:

Yeah, there have been hubcaps in the rivers for quite a while. It's a real pants-soiler when you dip your head under and find yourself over one. Haven't triggered one yet, so don't know if they're armed or just hubcaps.

Well, B155 exp has sorted out all my performance issues. I was formerly quite CPU limited, but it's flowing smoothly in b155, without having to resort to any of the tweaks previously mentioned (of which, "gfx st forceload" was by far the most effective in my case). I suspect knives will need a...

I'm picking that it is related to a bug I had with the bicycle disappearing, and the compas indicator showing it to be moving about. Curiously, in A17 I had a couple of occasions when the game crashed while I was riding it, and upon reloading the game I am instead on foot, and the bike is...

Buried Treasure quests from the Trader usually result in a lot of canned food. The treasure radius seems smaller than before, so typically less digging than in previous versions.

?? Could my antivirus software be part of the slowdown? Silly thought perhaps, but since I used Resource Monitor to investigate my poor game performance I found that my CPU was maxed out at 100% most of the time, but would give decent bursts of play every once in a while after a much shorter...

Well, I honestly think the latest update is giving me worse performance. It's very stuttery, and is making me feel ill. I've used gfx dt, gfx af, and I've set textures to their minimum size (smaller than I was using before the update), and it's still quite nasty. Grass and tree details set...

Ohhh, 1.6GB, it's a big one. Thanks for getting this out ASAP, now I can ignore all my duties at home for another wekend!

Bizarre changes in performance today... So earlier today I had a game that just totally bogged down performance wise. I've had the poor framerate issues, so have been using the gfx dt toggle to get things flowing, but my other issue of very poor performance within inventory / cookpot stations...

Yeah, MM has previously acknowledged his preferred technique is to configure stuff way harder than it likely needs to be, then to wind it back in later updates, depending on all the griping from the players. My own grizzles include the dog pack at way too early a stage, but top of my list is...

Fataal's earlier advice to turn off Distant Terrain has worked well for me (although I still find bad lag in Inventory and Cookingpot menus). His suggestion: Go into console (F1). Turn off Dist Terrain (gfx dt). Repeat the process to get dist terrain back when you need it. It's made the game...

Fataal has advised to go into the console and type: gfx dt This will toggle Distant Terrain On or Off. Feedback so far is that it helps heaps. Being a toggle, simply go into console again (F1) and type the same command again to turn DT back on again whenever you wish.