#General Performance - where is the usual bottleneck?

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thin ibex
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Hi,

i have recently upgraded to a 5090. However my CPU and RAM (DDR4 32GB) are not the most current generation but were quite good high-tier options some years ago.
In PZ i regularly drop below 5 FPS especially when i load an area with many items etc.
Otherwise game runs completely perfect.

This is not a big issue, i get it, lots of stuff, takes time to load and process. Not complaining.
HOWEVER
IF i were to upgrade my PC - would a modern top tier CPU, more and faster DDR5 Ram and a fitting mainboard bring a noticable improvement or will the engine/the game just have its moments where they drop to low-low fps regardless of hardware performance?

In short: PC good, GPU overpowered, does it make sense to upgrade CPPU/Ram purely for those rare 5 FPS Moments in PZ?

cunning hearth
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Depends, can you share a recording of when this happens? Can you also turn on the FPS meter in the recording? Press K while in game, it will also generally show whether the CPU or GPU is the bottleneck.

thin ibex
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ill try to get a video tomorrow but the moment it happens the most:

  • having a lot of boxes/storages close and transfering items from the backpack to a box
  • suddenly uncovering a lot of zomboids (like looking around a corner when a huge horde is following)
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transferring drops from 120 to 15-20

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i dont mind, just trying to figure out if i can use this to justify a hardware upgrade.
game is perfectly playable like it is

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B41 with mods btw - i know mods influence performance
thats why im asking for general opinions. Back in the day people used to say "game xyz is CPU or GPU heavy" and i havent seen much improvements when swtiching from 3080 to 5090 so i assume PZ needs CPU power more for those kinda things?

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or is it just because lots of mods all need to be taken care of by the api/engine/whatever and it just slows operations down regardless of hardware

cunning hearth
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There are also software limits, you can have the best PC in the world, and it still might stutter if mods are causing issues, or due to engine limitations in certain scenarios

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Which is why its best to test in a modless environment as well to check if you even need an upgrade or if you just need to get rid of bad mods

thin ibex
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thats fine and all i needed to know.
I dont need an upgrade as i can live perfectly fine with the issues likely created by mods.
But i now know that upgrading CPU might maybe help a little bit.

Now i just need to pray for RAM prices to go down 😄