I need serious help with the performance in the game. | Project Zomboid | Page 1

raw hearth Mar 2, 2023, 2:46 PM

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Being a tile based game is heavily CPU intensive, and yeah I feel you. I have an i7 8750h and 1060 on my laptop that can play VR games perfectly yet I generally consider myself running fast when I get 30fps in this game... To the point I have a hard time driving the cars when the frame rate is actually good and the cars suddenly go much faster.
The irony is my old 4770k and 760 with 6gb ram handle the game good.

I found that I sometimes get the low frames and it doesn't go away so a quick quit and rejoin seems to fix it. Going from 4fps back to like 16 is nice when you know you aren't in an area that should be causing it.

Remove any major game impact mods that take up large space (yes that means britas) and slowly add mods in to see what changes performance.

Hopefully the next release is good and does away with the majority of tile stuff.

PS don't have a lot of stuff on the floor. My base is pretty slow on my server because of all the stuff everywhere but in a fresh game it handles well.

uncut mist Mar 2, 2023, 3:23 PM

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Performance slowdown due to clutter and a lot of things on screen is normal especially due to a heavily unoptimized game like PZ.

My problem is my rig and other software crashing due to the game, awful framerate I can handle, but crashing is where I have a problem.

faint iris Mar 2, 2023, 5:24 PM

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Can you share your logs.zip file found in C:\Users\YourUserName\Zomboid if the game crashes again?

uncut mist Mar 2, 2023, 5:31 PM

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Sure yeah, that's what I'm trying to replicate right now. I am once again adding mods little by little to see if it happens.

uncut mist Mar 3, 2023, 8:59 PM

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Well, after two days of testing and re-adding every mod little by little I'm 100% convinced it's hardware or software. This time I couldn't replicate my system crashing BUT, I was getting an insane amount of freezing, stuttering and my system was also suffering from this meaning even the video I had running in the background was freezing. I couldn't manage to crash the game this time even though it's identical to what I did last but whatever. Here are the logs.

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📎 console.txt

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@faint iris

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The logs are from the last test.

faint iris Mar 3, 2023, 9:03 PM

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uncut mist Well, after two days of testing and re-adding every mod little by little I'm 100...

For some reason the game has a ridiculous amount of RAM assigned, this is not good

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I recommend resetting any RAM assignment

uncut mist Mar 3, 2023, 9:04 PM

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I did that.

faint iris Mar 3, 2023, 9:04 PM

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Additionally, there seem a ton of mods loaded, did you test the freezing without any mods as well?

uncut mist Mar 3, 2023, 9:04 PM

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Just to see if there's a difference but there was none.

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You're talking about the 10gigs ram allocation right?

faint iris Mar 3, 2023, 9:05 PM

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Yes

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Leave it default, allocating more RAM can actually hurt performance

uncut mist Mar 3, 2023, 9:05 PM

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faint iris Additionally, there seem a ton of mods loaded, did you test the freezing without...

Yep, it was all happening from the start pretty much.

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Obviously the framerate was worse with all the mods added in but that's to be expected.

faint iris Mar 3, 2023, 9:06 PM

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Can you share the latest “hs_err_pid” file found in your main game folder “Steam\steamapps\common\ProjectZomboid” as well?

uncut mist Mar 3, 2023, 9:07 PM

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📎 hs_err_pid39884.log

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This should be the latest.

uncut mist Mar 3, 2023, 9:11 PM

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faint iris Leave it default, allocating more RAM can actually hurt performance

Yeah, figured, resetting it via integrity check because I can't be asked.

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Thanks for your help btw, I appreciate your time.

faint iris Mar 3, 2023, 10:28 PM

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Seems like the error is specifically due to nvoglv64.dll

Try reading if this helps?
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/geforce-graphics-cards/5/480510/nvoglv64dll-applicaiton-error-is-causing-my-pc-to/

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https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Faulting-module-nvoglv64-dll-when-launching-AutoCAD.html

Faulting module nvoglv64.dll when launching AutoCAD

When launching AutoCAD the error Faulting module nvoglv64.dll is given in Windows event viewer. nvoglv64.dll is a file that is associated with the Nvidia based video card drivers. Often this can be caused by a corrupt driver installation. Uninstalling and reinstalling any currently installed video card drivers can help resolve this issue. You ca...

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It seems to be Nvidia related, perhaps a driver issue

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Can also come from overclocking, if you have done anything like that?

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Though this is of course a crash log, meaning this is just looking into the crash issue, not the performance issue

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But any driver issue may also cause slowdown

uncut mist Mar 3, 2023, 10:41 PM

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faint iris Can also come from overclocking, if you have done anything like that?

Nope, I've never touched OC-ing because of how dangerous it is if you don't know what you're doing and I don't.

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I guess I can try re-installing the drivers and try again.

uncut mist Mar 4, 2023, 12:03 AM

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Okay, performance is better but freezing for 0.2 milliseconds on zed hit with melee weapon persists.

uncut mist Mar 4, 2023, 12:54 AM

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I'm happy the crashing stopped.

faint iris Mar 4, 2023, 9:31 AM

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As far as I know, the zed hit freezing is mainly caused by a mod

sweet helm Mar 4, 2023, 7:27 PM

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@faint iris hello, where can i post crash logs? I need help lol

#I need serious help with the performance in the game.