Space4Ace
Survivor
Your CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770 came out in 2013. You paired it with a more recent GPU. Don't expect good performance.And Prefab/POI mods shouldn't have any impact in this case. Used to play back in Alpha 21 where in some version (not the first ones) the freezes began, v1.x the same and so in 2.x. I can live with that and I don't feel that I have to explain myself, whether I post in a thread where actual hardware is used and the error is explained. Though I already could have posted years ago, but I didn't. I tried to help finding something for what I encountered and others too. Why it is a Windows update that helped fixing the issue I don't know. Maybe Win 11 on my side could help but you know that it's not officialy supported on my CPU but will run fine, as I know.
And @SylenThunder not every mod is evil as you claim every time here and on Steam. I already stated with or without Better Biomes I have freezes and I wonder how smooth the game runs with this massive mod. Stuttering freezes come from any other aspect. Could've been fine to find the reason. I know how software works and what should need extra performance and that 1-2 second freezes every few minutes are not caused by POIs or some more objects in the world, also without those extra objects.
The Expected Discontinuance of your CPU from the Intel web site is: 07/14/2017
7 Days to Die is much more CPU bound and that's where you PC is lacking the most.