PC Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

[DaVegaNL]

You mean a zombie digging though the dirt?

Yeah they could be extra fast diggers

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Hah lol, have them sorta like screamers for when you're out farming rock nodes too much. The sound of boulders breaking is tantalizing to them.

Lol! Yeah and they will steal all your ores and rocks!

 

[archergod]

Well I am still at office and just to see performance boost from B149, I run new Navezgame here, and on my i7 8700K, with 16GB RAM, 1050 2 GB Card (total 8 GB shared ram), I get 30 FPS with shadows offs, Texture streaming on, from Video quality settings. And most setting between/around Medium (default setting). In A17 I used to get 50-60 FPS on this machine where settings are mostly High. I can get 60 FPS by losing some reflections and closing all shadows etc, Guessing I need to reinstall game from ground zero?

 

[Proof_89]

AF is anisotropic filtering. It is a method of taking many samples of a texture to produce a higher quality image. It also takes perspective into account. Driver control panels usually let you disable it or enable lower quality but faster versions of it.
Just use "gfx af 1" to turn it back on.

If i turn the af to 0, the game looks like alpha 15-16. I do have an increase in FPS but with sacrificing the details.

I'm on a ryzen 5 3600, GTX 1080, 16GB DDR4 3000mhz.

Outside i have between 20-40 FPS. Inside 50-70. All settings maxed out in 1080p rez.

It's there any other way to boost the FPS other than gfx af 0?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Jugginator]

If i turn the af to 0, the game looks like alpha 15-16. I do have an increase in FPS but with sacrificing the details.
I'm on a ryzen 5 3600, GTX 1080, 16GB DDR4 3000mhz.

Outside i have between 20-40 FPS. Inside 50-70. All settings maxed out in 1080p rez.

It's there any other way to boost the FPS other than gfx af 0?

Thanks in advance!

Try gfx pp enable 0, and/or gfx st budget (number). it's how much video memory is used for streaming, it can help maybe.

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Yeah they could be extra fast diggers
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Lol! Yeah and they will steal all your ores and rocks!

Haha! Perhaps they don't kill you but knock you out and all your ore/rocks are stolen.

 

[jdizzy2010]

I was using a 4k monitor with a 1060 card and getting 10-20 fps so I decided to switch to a normal monitor and now on max settings I get 60+ fps all the time.

 

[minisith]

Holy crap, I was wrenching apart cars and it just started to rain and came in a downpour. I was just thinking that it this was a time when something bad is going to happen. I pack of dogs was jumping on my back.

I was wondering if that was one of the scripted horde events?

 

[Tetrameth]

I still think a 'crazy cat lady' zombie would be hilarious, especially in those dilapidated houses. An overweight half eaten woman dragging herself around, surrounded by a bunch of moldy felines, scrounging for a feed for her and her cats

 

[Jugginator]

I was using a 4k monitor with a 1060 card and getting 10-20 fps so I decided to switch to a normal monitor and now on max settings I get 60+ fps all the time.

Yeah running games in 4k, either by native or upscaled, is intensive. I'm sure you can still use your 4K monitor, just make sure in your graphics settings (from your hardware software, like Nvidia control panel) aren't set to upscale or anything. Change them to Application controlled.

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Holy crap, I was wrenching apart cars and it just started to rain and came in a downpour. I was just thinking that it this was a time when something bad is going to happen. I pack of dogs was jumping on my back.
I was wondering if that was one of the scripted horde events?

Lol! I think there's a scripted event after looting a buried supplies chest from a trader quest, I swear everytime i loot one a wandering horde spawns.

 

[SickPuppy]

'Nightmare run faster than player' is that a game stage thing?

I'm still running away from zombies as normal.

 

[-Holo-]

Be nice to have an anchor function so that item always goes there to that spot if you get one.

Oh yes yes yes! please

I replied to Gazz talking about inventoryhandling just last day with such idea/request/plead.

There must be dozens of us that would love such a thing, dozens!

 

[Zombuild]

17+ Demolishers from wrecking anything we throw in their path.

Fantastic story. I have not had any yet as i dont get past day 14 before i do a new map (next exp version).

Does the demolishers run up to a wall and detonate or do they just break it ? Did you just have a square base wall or maze type ?

 

[stallionsden]

Ok non mod game 1920 res

Using gfx pp enable 0 gave me 60 fps.

Modded game using it gave me 30 setting high.

 

[stallionsden]

Yeah running games in 4k, either by native or upscaled, is intensive. I'm sure you can still use your 4K monitor, just make sure in your graphics settings (from your hardware software, like Nvidia control panel) aren't set to upscale or anything. Change them to Application controlled.
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Lol! I think there's a scripted event after looting a buried supplies chest from a trader quest, I swear everytime i loot one a wandering horde spawns.

Could not find upscale or native or application control anywhere in Nvidia control panel lol

On a side note I get 540 fps in the main menu lol. Then when I start game and it's loading it sadly goes to 2 then when I get in game it goes to 11 then I type gfx pp 0 it goes to 20 lol

 

[Ripper270]

Hi,

Congrats on a job well done Fun Pimps - Alpha 18 is really great.

it would be nice to be able to set two separate XP multipliers for upgrading and mining - right now the XP earned for those seems a bit overrated especially in multiplayer(Coop) so it would be nice to have the possibility to set those parameters.

 

[archergod]

I simple suggestion, on Books when we already read it, it shows open book icon that I see most streamer are ignoring. and new player will ignore it too, So when we read book, can we change READ to "Re-Read" in button so people know they already read it?

 

[Thecolours]

I'll be posting videos about them once they are ready to show.

Are those coming in A18 stable or A19?

 

[stallionsden]

Ok using gfx pp enable 0 gave me 60 fps outside lol. Was using gfx pp 0 ooops... much better(ish)

 

[TSRViper]

No they should leave you alone unless injured or blood moon.

If I remember correctly, they attack you on a vehicle regardless of health level. They were that way in a17 as well.

 

[Jan2607]

B149 changelog states: "Updated PREGEN01-03"

What was updated on these maps? Is it worth to restart my game on one of these maps? Or is the update only minor?

 

[RipClaw]

THanks, yeah I'm having a blast with it as usual. Is a shotgun guy viable on horde night? I just have a crap q2 double barrel so hopefully things get better. I might need to get closer to them and build bars in my basement trench because shooting from above I have to wonder if half the rays are getting wasted.

How about a "no guns at all" build? Just to see if the game allows you to get along with no guns at all.

In earlier alphas this was still possible. Close combat and traditional weapons like the bow and the crossbow were equal and with a clever base design you could compensate the lack of DPS.