PC Alpha 21 Dev Diary

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Phoenixshade35 said:
Since there is a lot of pages to comb through, and i dont have a fine toothed comb, would anyone say that a21 is a fair bit more optimized than a20? like not gonna drag a comp down?
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Direct timestamp. tldr: while streaming 4k ultra gameplay, t5 poi in the city center gives ~40fps with ryzen9 7950x

 
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Fanatical_Meat said:
I donno know, 30-40 FPS with ultra or most settings at high while streaming isn’t all that bad in my opinion.
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I have the same CPU as Lathan, a 3070 TI GPU and play at the lower resolution of 1440p, yet I put no settings on Ultra. I want a smoother higher frame rate, so I use High, which nets me 80-100+ FPS most of the time. There is a big difference between being out in the forest with not much around you vs in a city with buildings all around you, so I pick settings for the more demanding locations.

 
faatal said:
I have the same CPU as Lathan, a 3070 TI GPU and play at the lower resolution of 1440p, yet I put no settings on Ultra. I want a smoother higher frame rate, so I use High, which nets me 80-100+ FPS most of the time. There is a big difference between being out in the forest with not much around you vs in a city with buildings all around you, so I pick settings for the more demanding locations.
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Is it correct to say that the ready-made graphic presets "ultra, high, medium, low" are stable combinations of settings and it is better to use them than to try to change the settings manually?
Will the game run less smoothly if some settings are left at a high level and others are low or disabled?

 
Roland said:
Or you might conclude that 9pm CST is after-hours so they wouldn't be working on bug testing anyway. :)
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you could even go as far to think that just maybe this playthru serves as a test for QA also and they are just showcasing some of the procedures while trying to pin down some more bugs. :) just a thought....

 
Laz Man said:
So if no major bugs are see on Wedneaday, the likelihood of an imminent release is higher? 😁
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I'll believe it when I see it, or rather, when I don't see any new bugs. But I'll have to watch the recording.

4am local time is a bit early by my standards.

 
My deepest fear is with A21 that it will become unplayable on my 8 year old laptop. (Even at lowest settings) 7d2d currently runs without any problems on it and on medium settings. Im afraid with all the new changes, improvements, and graphics that even on lowest settings my laptop wont be able to go above 10 fps. 😕 *crosses fingers*

 
hiloboys said:
My deepest fear is with A21 that it will become unplayable on my 8 year old laptop.
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This should not happen. It should even run better than A20, since according to the developers, much was optimized in A21 so that 7 Days to Die also runs smoothly on consoles.

 
mstdv inc said:
Is it correct to say that the ready-made graphic presets "ultra, high, medium, low" are stable combinations of settings and it is better to use them than to try to change the settings manually?
Will the game run less smoothly if some settings are left at a high level and others are low or disabled?
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That isn't really how settings in games work.  Presets just set things at what is considered a specific level all at once so you don't have to change everything one at a time.  But the different settings all impact the game differently and are all affected in different ways by each person's hardware.  If your hardware struggles with shadows, then lowering shadows while leaving everything else higher can give you a performance boost while not reducing other graphics settings.  There really isn't a combination of settings that would be more stable.  Any graphics settings should be stable... just some may have more of a negative impact on your system than others.  Of course, if you try setting the graphics on Ultra and have a computer that can't even handle Medium, then you might consider that not being "stable" even though it's not that the settings are not stable but just that your computer can't handle them.

You may even not like certain settings and want those disabled.  For example, I hate motion blur in games and will always disable it.  That has nothing to do with any impact it has on my computer and is entirely because I hate the effect.  In certain games, I'll also disable Bloom as it can really look awful in some games even though it looks fine in others.  But it's not because of any impact on the game.

In short, feel free to adjust settings in this game and any other game to give you the best combination of performance and graphics on your computer.  Note that "the best" is based on your own opinion and may not be the same opinion as others.  As a side note, in games that recommend settings for you, you can also feel free to adjust them to your liking.  I've found that the recommended settings are often much lower than my computer can actually handle with good fps.  What others think is best may not agree with what you think is best.  That's another reason why presets are just starting points for you so you don't have to change everything one at a time and can set things the way you feel will be best in a single click and then make adjustments from there if needed.

hiloboys said:
My deepest fear is with A21 that it will become unplayable on my 8 year old laptop. (Even at lowest settings) 7d2d currently runs without any problems on it and on medium settings. Im afraid with all the new changes, improvements, and graphics that even on lowest settings my laptop wont be able to go above 10 fps. 😕 *crosses fingers*
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They haven't given much detail on what the optimizations have done for the game but they did state that the game uses less RAM.  They also haven't said anything about increasing minimum or recommended specs and as RipClaw said, they're keeping things at a level that will work on console, so if the game works for you now, I'm sure it'll continue to work for you up through gold.  Even so, it's probably not a bad idea to look into saving up for a new laptop (or desktop).  This game and others will work much better on a newer computer and you'll eventually start finding games that can't be played at all on your laptop or with such low settings as to not be enjoyable.  Set some money aside each month that you won't use for anything else and within a year or two, you should have no trouble getting a decent new computer even if you can't set aside much each month.

 
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Annihilatorza said:
Can the Kraken come out to play?
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My prediction is A21 will be released... Soon.

It will be more soon than the Kraken getting lucky in Vegas (take that ether way).

Even more soon than Aliens invading Earth, demanding the movie "Titanic" be remade with alien actors. 

We will see how my analysis turns out!   Could be two days... 

 
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