PC V1.0 b336 Hotfix
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Tixij
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Can’t speak for the OP, but I can say that I also have big issues with fps on later horde nights, and mine is indeed set at the default 8. It was fine for the first couple, then really plummeted for the following blood moons. It’s pretty much a slideshow at this point. Also in the wasteland in general it sometimes gets noticeably choppy, more so in cities. Not sure if there’s any settings I can try to help it, but hopefully they can optimize in some way to where the default settings can maintain a decent frame rate in those two areas.
Space4Ace
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Could you, or someone else, please post a picture of the Video Settings (in the QUALITY page) so we know what's on consoles. Also, which console (PS5, Xbox series S or Xbox series X)? That might help as other people could help you choose the best settings.
ScarierMonster
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We don't have a quality tab. I'm pretty sure all that we have are motion blur and FOV, UI scaling. I can get a screenshot later if no one else posts one.
It seems a lot of console players have no problems with FPS. and others have massive problems. I would have thought with the uniform platform that should not happen, but it does. One possible explanation:
There are lots of blocks in 7D2D, some of them are easy to draw and others very expensive to draw (a lot of vertices). In most other games the level designers carefully design each area so that it never exceeds the capabilities of the machine. In 7D2D though you have RWG placing random POIs and also players placing all kinds of blocks.
Long story short, always expect FPS drops in city centers with high rise buildings and don't make it worse by putting your horde base there. And most importantly, don't grow a forest of trees (one example of a very expensive block) in viewing range of your horde base. Better also put farm plots and dew collectors far away. Also good lighting sadly kills FPS. Better use headlights on horde night instead of using flood lights everwhere.
There are lots of blocks in 7D2D, some of them are easy to draw and others very expensive to draw (a lot of vertices). In most other games the level designers carefully design each area so that it never exceeds the capabilities of the machine. In 7D2D though you have RWG placing random POIs and also players placing all kinds of blocks.
Long story short, always expect FPS drops in city centers with high rise buildings and don't make it worse by putting your horde base there. And most importantly, don't grow a forest of trees (one example of a very expensive block) in viewing range of your horde base. Better also put farm plots and dew collectors far away. Also good lighting sadly kills FPS. Better use headlights on horde night instead of using flood lights everwhere.
daddydooku
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Anyone know if series s will ever get more than 2 player hosting just feels weird that I can't host more than 1 friend for multiplayer
II Blittz II
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Hmm...maybe the Wasteland biome has something to do with it, but I'm not sure though so please don't quote me on that lol. Also, doesn't the Wasteland constantly spawn zombies at night time more so than all of the other biomes in the game? I'm no dev or expert, but maybe there's a lot of factors coming into play where the Wasteland biome which causes higher spawn rates for zombies, on top of horde night taking place in higher populated areas like big cities could possibly be a factor to why the frame rate is taking such a nose dive?
With that said, I recently just finished a Day 56 horde night with a Gamestage of 130+ in the Pine Forest and didn't have any major slowdowns with the frame rate. And is it possible that it might be due to the biome and location you have your horde base in that's causing the frame rate to slowdown for you? And lastly, are you playing offline solo or online multiplayer with other people? In my honest opinion, your best bet is to start documenting it with recorded gameplay footage, list the platform you're currently playing on (PC/PS5/X|S), map, biome, location, day, gamestage, blood moon count, etc to better help the devs locate the source of the problem on what's causing the frame rate to slowdown during horde nights for you.
Cheers! ☺
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II Blittz II
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When dedicated server come to Console, you'll be able to play with more than 2 players. With that said, as far as the Series S goes for hosting online multiplater games, it just doesn't have the RAM capabilities to host more than 2 players. The Series S comes with 10 GB of RAM and then when you factor in the Operating System and System Files, that's about 3 GB right there. The more players you have, the more RAM it needs to allocate per player. Keep in mind, when you host an online game, it's using your Series S as a virtual server to host that game, meaning it's using that Console's hardware such as CPU, GPU, RAM, etc. And if I had to guess, the Series S would need at least 8 GB of RAM to host 4 players plus being able to leave some headroom for the Memory/RAM.
Tixij
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It is most noticeable and consistent in the wasteland, so I agree there is probably something with that biome specifically. I think if I had a horde base there, it might blow my console up.
I also have the base in Pine Forest. I think it was stage 170 or so. And I’m on ps5. I will say that the experience I’m speaking from specifically at the moment was in multiplayer. So that probably has a lot to do with it, spawning extra zombies and things. However, I have also seen similar drops in my solo game as well, they just aren’t as bad and I’m also not as far along yet. I know consoles have a lot more limitations though, so I don’t know if there’s much more optimizing to be done.
There was a chunk persistence option when starting a new game, which is set to “very long” by default on ps5(it’s unlimited on my pc). I don’t know if lowering that would do anything at all performance wise, or if that’s strictly only related to save file size which it mentions in the description. I could try it the next time I start a new game.
Thanks for the suggestions and input
II Blittz II
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Not sure, but I currently have my Chunk Persistence set to "Medium" and haven't had any issues during horde nights so far.
Sora
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Someone pushed the wrong dedicated server version to the stable channel (beta v1.1 instead of v1.0 b336).
Updating dedicated servers using SteamCMD will result in servers switching over to a beta of v1.1.
Also of note, as of this post at least, updating the dedicated server will once again overwrite our serverconfig.xml (yet again).
Updating dedicated servers using SteamCMD will result in servers switching over to a beta of v1.1.
Also of note, as of this post at least, updating the dedicated server will once again overwrite our serverconfig.xml (yet again).
NukknFuttz
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When are yinz all going to fix the constant crashes on xbox? can't even play 5 minutes on my X without it crashing me back to main menu
Still got a lot of stutter or hitching. It felt a lot better but anywhere that was 'busy' was having issues. After my multiplayer session I went into solo and it was also a bit better until I went to highrise "7 days hotel" or something like that. I got 10 fps the entire time I was there. After 10 mins of that I hated life. Ended up scrapping everything rather than looting to get out faster....
I agree with the cities thing. ~10fps the entire time clearing the 7dayshotel or whatever it was called. (Xbox One X)
Space4Ace
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Are you aware of this bug?
Basically, on Series S at least, zombies are stopping too short and often can't hit your hitbox if your camera is positioned on them. You can cheese most zombies this way.
khzmusik
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Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that experimental releases are only available on PCs? So if you update a server to an experimental version, console users may not be able to join?
I believe that's the case due to restrictions by Microsoft and Sony, but I could easily be wrong.
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