PC How do people reach days in the thousands without any problems?

[MechanicalLens]

I can't either. I'll see no animals for 6 Days, then I'll exit game and come back, instantly 6 bears, 13 dire wolves, so many zombies, and around 9 cougars in the snow biome alone with more bears.

To my knowledge this is due to the fact there's a max number of entities (animals and zombies) that can be spawned in the game at any given time. You won't see the majority of them - they're behind hills, mountains, or buildings. This is especially true if you're traveling on a vehicle for vast distances - entities are continuing to spawn in a straight line as you're traveling the countryside. When you log out of a game, most if not all entities despawn, leaving room for fresh spawns.

Edit: Whoa. Seems everyone else has it covered then.

 

[SylenThunder]

To my knowledge this is due to the fact there's a max number of entities (animals and zombies) that can be spawned in the game at any given time. You won't see the majority of them - they're behind hills, mountains, or buildings. This is especially true if you're traveling on a vehicle for vast distances - entities are continuing to spawn in a straight line as you're traveling the countryside. When you log out of a game, most if not all entities despawn, leaving room for fresh spawns.

There is also a limited number of spawns in the area. Just like POI's. Once you have cleared it, you will have to wait for the reset before they spawn again.  If you're always in the same area, and don't explore, then you are going to experience periods where you have simply cleared the biome area and nothing is going to spawn.

 

[MechanicalLens]

There is also a limited number of spawns in the area. Just like POI's. Once you have cleared it, you will have to wait for the reset before they spawn again.  If you're always in the same area, and don't explore, then you are going to experience periods where you have simply cleared the biome area and nothing is going to spawn.

I believe the max zombie limit is 64 and the max animal limit is 50. Good point though.

 

[Grinding.Jake]

I have seen similar problem with rendering when i had mod installed - maybe there are some leftovers from some mod? (I could not find any info about manual removing 7dtd under steam folder- if you did it, sorry man didn't spotted it)

Also what i would do is to create brand new profile on windows and try run game on this new profile - it sometimes helps with random "crazy problems" maybe it will help here?