Windows Huge FPS drops

[Atombombe1212]

Hey,

I’m experiencing massive performance issues in 7 Days to Die and wanted to report this because the game becomes almost unplayable.
Normally I get around 100–160 FPS, but as soon as large numbers of zombies are present (for example in high buildings), my FPS drops hard to 5–25 FPS.

I’m playing on PC, multiplayer, on a dedicated server as a client (not host).
The issue is not only on my side:
The host and other players experience the same problems
In high-rise buildings / skyscraper POIs, the lag gets so bad that players fall through blocks
Everything feels extremely delayed and desynced
Overall the server and client performance completely breaks down when many zombies are active. At that point the game is basically unplayable.

Hopefully someone have a idea how to fix this, because the performance impact with high zombie counts is extreme.

Thanks.

 

[bdubyah]

You said dedicated server but then mention the host also has issues. Are they running dedicated server and playing on the same PC then? Or is it actually a P2P game? What hardware is the host/dedi running?

 

[Atombombe1212]

Sry i mean P2P
Host got a 3070 ti, ryzen 5800x3d,32 gig ram

 

[Umbionis]

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[Jugginator]

A log from you and the host would be most helpful here. There may be some errors going on that may be the cause of it

 

[Atombombe1212]

I didnt know the exact date where we expirence big problems it was mostly when wie loot a skyscraper... i send all logs if it helps. the mods i have are most serversidet and didnt work. later i send the logs from my firend (Host). i am the oly one with mods(we have this problem before i had mods i was only try to improve performance)