My error is not multithreading. It's 7 Days eating all of my RAM (64GB), then starting to use pagefile (swap), bringing the game and my system to its knees and dying. I was initially told that this was video RAM (VRAM), so I logged my VRAM usage using nVidia's own tool and when the game crashed I wasn't even using 2/3 of the VRAM.
Re-install your legal copy of Windows 10 Enterprise, or even better, install Windows 11.
My guess is that your PC is messed up and Installing Windows again will clear everything up.
Can you try without mods and see what the result is, please? We need to be able to look at this in vanilla and without being able to compare vanilla to vanilla stats, we will have some difficulties.
I did that already, but never posted the logs. I can do it again. The mods I run shouldn't affect anything though. I wrote them. One allows you to set time up to 360 minutes per in-game day, one tones down the heat of dew collectors (we have not used any dew collectors in our saves), and one adds two guns we were not using (not even spawned into the world). I'll remove them and go back to 2.6 tomorrow and get you some logs.
Re-install your legal copy of Windows 10 Enterprise, or even better, install Windows 11.
My guess is that your PC is messed up and Installing Windows again will clear everything up.
Right. So Windows is hosed, but the only thing affected is 7 Days. Playing Panzer Elite for hours doesn't trigger the mess-up, right? I work in IT. I'm the assistant systems admin to a multi-million dollar business. Windows is fine. Checking event logs show nothing except when 7 Days crashes. Every other game on the planet runs fine. It isn't the PC.
I did that already, but never posted the logs. I can do it again. The mods I run shouldn't affect anything though. I wrote them. One allows you to set time up to 360 minutes per in-game day, one tones down the heat of dew collectors (we have not used any dew collectors in our saves), and one adds two guns we were not using (not even spawned into the world). I'll remove them and go back to 2.6 tomorrow and get you some logs.
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Right. So Windows is hosed, but the only thing affected is 7 Days. Playing Panzer Elite for hours doesn't trigger the mess-up, right? I work in IT. I'm the assistant systems admin to a multi-million dollar business. Windows is fine. Checking event logs show nothing except when 7 Days crashes. Every other game on the planet runs fine. It isn't the PC.
I didn't realize you only had this problem with 7 Days to Die.
I would also suggest you remove all mods (if any are installed) before you test again.
If you remove 7DTD, make sure to actually delete the folder also prior to the re-install, just to make sure there isn't something left (like a mod), because some games leaves the folder on the PC, even when you delete the game from Steam.
Done that twice now, mentioned previously. No mods, clean install, and verified files.
Now, an update. Last night I uninstalled 7 Days. Steam actually deleted the 7 Days folder from my drive. I then went into my AppData/Roaming folder and removed everything except my own prefabs and config files. This includes the cache folders and all. Then I reinstalled the game using the default branch.
I started the game and everything was right. Keybinds, player profile, audio levels, etc etc. No mods, mind you. Deleted the corrupted save and started fresh... AGAIN. Played for two-and-a-half hours. No crash. This was with the friend who is always on when it crashes. The thing is, I did a lot of things. Deleted the cache folders. Removed mods. Reinstalled fresh despite passing file verification.
With that said, We're playing again in a bit. If we get away with no crashes I'm posting the code to my modlets. I am 99.99% sure they are not the problem. The additional time modlet only adds three or four more options for number of real minutes per in-game day. Two lines of code. We'll see though. I will report back tonight.
