Game literally takes 5 minutes to startup and join servers

[OneSki]

I launched the game from Steam at 16:40, and sat at the "loading particles" for most of the time until the game reached the "click to continue" screen at 16:45. When I join a server, I will have to sit for 3-5 minutes at "Waiting for EAC verification" where I will be let in about 50% of the time. The other 50% of the time, I either get a EAC timeout or another timestamp error that I haven't been able to get a screenshot with. Today I did not get a crash and server connect was relatively fast. However, launch took 5 minutes.

Output_Log_Client: https://pastebin.com/ABWk61iA

Launcher Log: https://pastebin.com/W8X9UU0h

 

[SylenThunder]

Your GPU driver is extremely obsolete. Go to Nvidia and download the latest. Perform a clean installation without the GeForce Experience bloatware.

Server you are trying to connect to has mods and prefabs that you do not have installed.  Going to need to figure out what they are and get them. Rest of the log is pretty useless after that. 

 

[Riamus]

In addition to what SylenThunder said, if you have the game installed on HDD instead of SSD, it will take a long time to load and suffer a variety of performance issues.

 

[OneSki]

Perform a clean installation without the GeForce Experience bloatware.

I don't know how to do that, or what driver to look for without the GeForce Experience. :/ 

In addition to what SylenThunder said, if you have the game installed on HDD instead of SSD, it will take a long time to load and suffer a variety of performance issues.

I only have a TB on my SSD total and if I put all my games on it, it'd be beyond full. As it is, there's only 517 GB free. Where as my external HD has 5.5 TB free. When I bought the parts for this PC, I never expected I'd need more than 1 TB... now I'm starting to wish I'd have bought 30 TB. But I don't know enough about building computers to know how to increase it's SSD memory without buying a whole new computer. My friends put the one I have together. 

 

[meganoth]

I don't know how to do that, or what driver to look for without the GeForce Experience.

Find a friend you trust and with more knowledge to help you or pay someone you can trust for the service. You have a complicated system and if you do not service its parts you are inviting problems. Even a bicycle needs oil on the chain and new brakes from time to time or it will break down at the worst moment.

I only have a TB on my SSD total and if I put all my games on it, it'd be beyond full. As it is, there's only 517 GB free. Where as my external HD has 5.5 TB free. When I bought the parts for this PC, I never expected I'd need more than 1 TB... now I'm starting to wish I'd have bought 30 TB. But I don't know enough about building computers to know how to increase it's SSD memory without buying a whole new computer. My friends put the one I have together. 

You have probably some games or data on the 1TB SSD that could as well be on the HDD. If there are steam-managed games there you can create new space on the HDD and transfer the games through steam (Steam->Settings->Storage). Just move something big to HDD and 7D2D to SSD. It is worth it, 7daystodie reads and writes into the savegame continually while playing because it is a totally changeable voxel-world, most other games don't need this as their world is mostly a fixed "tapestry"

 

[Riamus]

I don't know how to do that, or what driver to look for without the GeForce Experience.

I only have a TB on my SSD total and if I put all my games on it, it'd be beyond full. As it is, there's only 517 GB free. Where as my external HD has 5.5 TB free. When I bought the parts for this PC, I never expected I'd need more than 1 TB... now I'm starting to wish I'd have bought 30 TB. But I don't know enough about building computers to know how to increase it's SSD memory without buying a whole new computer. My friends put the one I have together. 

You basically have a choice.  Accept the slow load times, regular freezes every 20 minutes with possible disconnects if you are on a server or connected to someone who is hosting the game, and a number of other performance issues, or move the game to SSD and avoid all of that.  You may still have some performance issues related to other hardware (or software), but the major ones related to HDD would be gone.  You said there's over 500GB free.  That is plenty of space for the game.  This game, probably more than almost any other, really needs to be on SSD.

Look at it this way.  The performance issues on HDD are significant enough that just from your description, I was able to figure out you probably had it on HDD.  If it wasn't a big deal, I probably wouldn't even think to ask about whether it was on HDD or SSD.