7 Days To Die Dev Tracker

We are definately CPU bound. Profiling last week after the terrain shader update and related tweaks, show that even more. Just tested a build and 4k res is running better than I've ever seen it at high quality, which is what I normally play at.

I would be interested to see your numbers when 19.2 comes out.

Thanks

I thought the deco writes were 0 as the log says, so it was confusing what was going on, but it turns out the list is cleared before the log happens, so it is writing out, in a 8k world, about 71000 entries, totally over 1 MB. Tried on my HD, but still not horribly slow, then on a flash drive, which gave a 7 second write time! The save timer is every minute, but there is a dirty check, so it does not always do the save.

The deco save code was changed a few months ago by another programmer to fix a problem with old saves, so it might have been only doing partial saves before, but since it does the whole thing now in any event, and on the main thread, it does lead to a large frame spike.

The simple solution was to write it into a memory stream, which is faster than a file stream anyway, then another thread does the actual file save, so minimal frame spike. This probably won't make 19.2, but hopefully 19.3.

I did the math once. With concrete you can carry about 2x the mass of the Titanic. =P

(which got immersed pretty well)

It's less "ignoring feedback" and more "not acting on every bit of feedback/wish".

Except that save message only happens on a full save, like when you Exit the world, do a save in the prefab editor or generate a world.
I am flying around the world and blowing the ground up with dynamite and that code is never called.

Are you using any mods?

Both. Legendary might come in all qualities so people experience them and have some meaningful choices to make... Do I ditch this brown iron legedary for a green non legendary? The top ranges will always be non craftable.

I played the game on a HD up until maybe a year ago. I did not have write issues as you describe. I would suspect your hardware/software.

Do you have a good amount of free drive space? Free up space and defrag the drive.

Is your antivirus software aggressively scanning written data? Try excluding the save folders.

Is your free RAM low when playing? Shut down other programs and/or background tasks.

Not a win for a lot of people, since a primary complaint is performance.
I actually enjoy optimizing code. One of my favorite things to do, because sometimes you do find that big win and multiple small gains together do lead to moderate gains.
Updating our terrain shader got me 15 to 20 more FPS at 4k. That is a big gain and definitely worth it.

You often don't know how it will turn out until you do it. That is life.

Not likely.

As long as I can get Fallout 5, Elderscrolls 6 on PC and mods I'll be happy.

The surface is what you stand on. You will notice that the dirt player stops after a few blocks down, no matter if you're on a hill or not.

The distribution really has not changed much since A17. Couple minor tweaks here and there but this old screenshot is still completely representative.

There are still large "empty" spaces between ore veins so digging down at a random spot is not a guarantee to find anything but rocks.

That kinda implies inter-dimensional piracy because it clearly wouldn't work with DRM so that's Not Okay.