#Whole PC Stuttering, Audio Cut offs (MP Host) B42.16.3

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sharp vigil
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In most cases while driving my game starts acting all crazy for no reason and stuttering then everything freezes for a couple of seconds and audio cuts off and it goes like that for 10 seconds. This didnt use to happen before in earlier versions of the game (B42) so i dont really know whats the issue (neither did it happen with B41 mp)?
CPU: Ryzen 7 5700g
GPU: Igpu
16gigs ram
sata ssd
plz help

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Whole PC Stuttering, Audio Cut offs (MP Host) B42.16.3

spice heron
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Can you share a recording of the issue? Preferably with the in-game FPS monitor turned on, you can turn it on with the K button

sharp vigil
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i noticed the disk usage goes to 100% and thats when everything starts collapsing

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why tho i dont get it, it didnt use to do that in earlier builds

spice heron
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Disk usage as in your SSD getting maxed out? That is the first time I heard of that

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Can you check your Task manager to see what is actually using the disk? Is it just PZ?

sharp vigil
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yup

sharp vigil
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then just "System" spiked up (until it was fully 100% usage) and Projectzomboid and Zulu started going down

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i've tried checking if the SSD is the issue but health is 97%, normal temperature and nothing corrupt / broken

spice heron
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That sounds like a lot of things might be going on, so your game is installed on your C drive?

sharp vigil
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yes

spice heron
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Can you check if you have "Enable Compression" checked in your Zomboid folder?

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Advanced settings, Compress contents

sharp vigil
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nope

spice heron
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It should be off

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In that case, can you add an exception to your antivirus for this whole folder in %UserProfile%\Zomboid

sharp vigil
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tried adding exceptions in both root game folder and zomboid it was still the same

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even tried disabling SysMain in case that was causing issues but it didnt change anything

spice heron
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Do you have a D drive?

sharp vigil
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no, just one drive

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tho i tried using steam library tool to make another "instance / drive" one out of Program Files but didnt work either

sharp vigil
spice heron
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Hm, you have any mods enabled? Just to rule out issues with them?

sharp vigil
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I do, they are mostly QoL so they shouldnt really cause issues

tired jay
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sorry i dont mean to chime in here to step on anyones toes i just wanna say i seen a few instances where this happens if u changed any settings during a current playthrough [like zombie respawn rate or maybe adding sprinters mid run] did u happen to do anything like that?

sharp vigil
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nope, everytime i start a new save on mp i delete the world and the player so its all fresh

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no changing mid playthrough

tired jay
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ok just thought i would throw that out there,sorry it didnt help

sharp vigil
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no worries thanks for trying

spice heron
sharp vigil
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ill test it and imma let u knw

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know

sharp vigil
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at first i started the save and whole shit froze up

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near the end of the vid u can see and hear audio cut off and all that mess

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i didnt freeze completely but it froze still

spice heron
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Hm, I have not seen something this severe before, can you share your logs.zip file found in %UserProfile%\Zomboid?

sharp vigil
spice heron
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Hm, you still have two mods enabled, so I cannot rule out any mod issues. I would first suggest deleting the "Mods" folder in the Zomboid folder

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After that, can you set the game to Windowed mode and reproduce the issue? Now instead go to the Task Manager > Performance section and watch your RAM

sharp vigil
spice heron
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Does it max out, or get to 80 percent? Because swapping will happen at that point

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Which will use the disk and degrade performance

sharp vigil
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i tought it was supposed to use 90% memory

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its almost always at 95% usage when playing

spice heron
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No that is usually pretty bad

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This is a server right? How much RAM did you assign to it?

sharp vigil
sharp vigil
spice heron
# sharp vigil 5 gigs

Try going with 4gb, but otherwise I can only suggest disabling as many background apps taking your RAM as possible

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That RAM usage is basically hitting your Pagefile, which uses you disk as RAM, with 100x lower performance

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Which is why you have the freezes

sharp vigil
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do you think its the faulty ram?

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since i dont even have that much stuff working in the background and its still using too much ram

spice heron
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When nothing is running

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Want to see your base RAM usage

sharp vigil
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in case the video isnt working

spice heron
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The RAM doesnt look faulty, but I think I see the issue.. you have an integrated graphics card, right?

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Those cards use RAM as their video memory

sharp vigil
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unless its "dynamic", idk really how igpus work

spice heron
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512mb is basically the internal VRAM, it takes more from your RAM

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This seems to just be a compounding issue basically, you have the game taking RAM, your system taking RAM, you have the server taking RAM and now you also have your GPU taking RAM as you are playing the game and loading textures

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Basically its just way too much for your RAM, and the system grinds down to a halt

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If you did not host a server, you should be able to play the game perfectly fine

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But playing on and integrated GPU and hosting a server on top of it is a bit much on 16gb

sharp vigil
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got it

spice heron
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With a dedicated card you should be fine as well, so its just an unfortunate combination of hardware and all the software

sharp vigil
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thanks for all the help and information

spice heron
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If you can have your friends host the server instead, then you should have no issues during gameplay