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Maxtor, those drives are ancient, they had them when the Amiga was out. Must have been a Windows 9xx, XP PC. I never built a PC (owned quite a few older PCs, like Commodore 64 and Amiga) until I put together a Pentium 4. My first build had the PC shutting down over an over and would only stay on a few seconds. Turns out the CPU was overheating. I think I was using an Intel Heatssink/Fan or something. Then I put the largest Heatssink/Fan I could find, it was blowing down onto the motherboard with a massive fan. I then drilled holes in side and added fans there. I went AMD after that, until the Core 2 Quad came out. I had this puppy here for a Pentium 4:

They do sell 240mm fans and I have seen them mounted on the case panels. I plan to use six 140mm Noctua fans for the case. It will use up all the chassis headers on the motherboard, so I can raise them from the stock 2000rpms to say 1200rpms and then raise the fans to 2000rpms when I come close to 70c. I would love to do RGB but is way more expensive to do right - with the Corsair commander and Corsair RGB fans. With my luck these days I will have to RMA a lot of parts. I still do not understand what went wrong with PC after installing the GTX 4070 and then after I installed windows. The GTX 1080 is working in this PC, I tried running a 4K movie with the GTX 670 and it was really choppy, so I put the GTX 1080 Into It and the 4K movies were smooth. The GTX 670 is really only a safety card, if the 1080 fails, then I still have the 670. Man did this thread change. I sound like a blogger talking about building a new PC.

This sounds crazy, 320mm fan? Do they even sell these? even the 160mm fan is a little to large for a case unless its on the side panel.

Which cooler master case are you talking about? I spent $300.00 on a Lian Li case in 2012, the one I am using. I had custom braided front panel headers and was amazing at the time, but I hate it now. The case I want is too expensive: https://www.newegg.com/black-thermaltake-core-w100-xl-atx-super-tower/p/N82E16811133302?Item=9SIA8EF5V03053 This one has lots of 5.25 bays to use, for fan controllers and optical drives. I love large cases and I like lots of fan mounts and room to work in. It is barely a little larger than my Lian Li, so it would be about what I would like. I also need 6 hard drive mounts of which this one has. It has six 3.5 and three 2.5 native bays and mounts. The only difference in size is that the Lian Li has a lot of aluminum and the Corsair is steel, so it will weigh quite a bit more. I think the reason I want this one is the hard drive bays. Until I upgrade to 16TB drives, I have one 4tb, three 6tb, one 3tb and two 1tb 2.5 ssds. I remember looking and not finding enough drive bays in any other case. I know I should get a NAS for these drives but having run of the motherboard is so much faster. My old case with my dead motherboard: This thing was a huge pain in the neck to swap or replace hard drives. The corsair will be amazingly simpler.

Well as I thought, the motherboard is fried. I need to upgrade now in November on my birthday just for kicks. A21 should be out by then. There are a lot of people that buy piece by piece hardware like one month a motherboard the next the CPU, then the memory. This is the worst thing you can do because if the return window is over then you are stuck with the parts. I have a power supply tester that will run the case fans, so can buy the case and fans early and test the case fans. The Motherboard, CPU, Memory, Fan/Heatsink and Thermal Grease I have to buy at once and make sure they are working and then RMA one component if necessary. Even this is a pain the the neck, because you may not know which component may be bad. It could be The CPU, Memory or Motherboard, leaving you to guess which it is. I hate building computers now, I used to love it back in the 2000s and early 2010s, but I hate doing it now. Its really hard on my ticker at my age, if something goes wrong I have to start over and if that does not work, I could have a heart attack for all I know at my age and my health. But I would never buy a pre-built PC whether Its easier or not I will never go that route. I am not terribly certain if the video cards I tried are fried too, which sucks because I cannot test the RTX 4070 in the PC I am using now, the best I can do is test the GTX 1080 in this PC and then hope if the RTX 4070 is fried as well, I can RMA it to Gigabyte. I also have a good sound card and a NIC and a hard drive controller that may be fried as well as they were sitting in the dead motherboards PCI Express slots when it got fried. I can test these and buy new ones later but I really hope the RTX 4070ti is OK. Here's the case I like: https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16811139169?Item=N82E16811139169 The only problem is no external 5.25 bays, but I do not need it as much as I used to anyway.

I still should have done more research, its just the Gigabyte card got good reviews and was cheaper than a few others. One good thing is that people say that this card runs cool, so I guess I should happy about that - If my PC will start. Thank you. I would be really relieved if the PC would start this way.

I reinstalled windows and loaded drivers with the 4070 in the case, so that did not seem to be the issue. The power button is flakey and has been going on for a long time. But when I turn on the power supply switch on the actual power supply with the motherboard connected I get a flash of lights and the more I did this the less time the lights would flash until I got no light at all. Which makes me think it is a power issue on the motherboard itself. I tested the power supply with a tester and it was fine - so I think the motherboard is the culprit. I will be getting a new power supply Wednesday, so I hope that will work. The new power supply has a direct cable for the newer VGA connection, and is 100 watts more, Its a 850 compared to my 750 I have now. I will consider a new case sometime in May, as it may be the power button on the case. I have a feeling that the motherboard is just fried and that's that. So in September I will buy a new Motherboard, RAM and CPU. No 7 Days to die for a while. BTW does anyone know if this is something you can do without breaking your motherboard: Thanks guys for your helpful posts.

Well I finally understand the difficulty of adding new textures to the game, but at least you all had a good discussion with it.

Well now I don't have a PC to play at all, unless the new power supply works. I got to install windows with the 4070Ti and then the power button will not turn the PC on. I have been dealing with that power switch for a year or so, I press it up to ten times and it may turn the PC on, well not this time. Right before the fun of benchmarks and 7 Days FPS tests, Just like that, it wont start. I also did not do my research as I should of. The 1070ti is a flipping 3 slot card. Yeah the idea for that massive fan system is a bit ridiculous. I get it for the 4080 and the 4090, but the 4070 should not need a 3 slot fan at all. Its also about 2 and half inches longer that my GTX 1080. I barely got the thing in the case by move a couple of hard drives out of the way. I guess you could say "if its not broken don't fix it". But installing a video card should be easy to do, it always was anyway. Luckily I stall have my backup PC which is a i7 860 with a GTX 670 video card, but I cannot even imagine 7 days with this, even if I install my GTX 1080 into it.

Well this is encouraging anyway. Thank you again for explaining the engines use of textures.

Thanks guys.

Has anyone tried this. I loved Dying Light and I hope the sequel is similar.

I do not know what to say, other than the explanation makes sense to me. I just REALLY wish it was simpler.

The funny thing is that it happens randomly. So when it happens I think maybe its my ram being taxed as I have heard mentioned that 7 Days does not free memory very well after you quit. But who knows what it really is. I agree it has something to do with optimization though. I just wish the FPs would patch previous alphas and not expect you to abandon a current game to completely start over. Its irritating because I really get into the game and go to like day 200 or whatever and then I have to wait for a stable new alpha release to play again a year or more later. I do not use the CM to build bases, I like to work for the resources necessary to build my base, and to do that over again and again as new alphas come out is frustrating. Its too bad they do not add content and bug fixes to a current game, but I know that's not really possible because you would have things that are removed and things that are added and they would not work on a previous alpha save game. Maybe I will have 2 running games, one A21 and keep my A20 and continue with that by copying the 7 days game folder to another location - if that's possible.

I play single player without a server. What happens is that sometimes I open a container and move things to and from my backpack and the sound effect you get for taking items in and out of your backpack, lags about 2-3 seconds. I really do not get why this happens but it is annoying when I moving a lot of things in and out of my backpack. Like sorting out your last quests content into the right storage container. Like putting duct tape in the building container, putting bones in the chest next to the chemistry station, smelt-ables in the container near the forges and so on.

Well this may due to using normal maps or similar, I went from bump mapping and displacement mapping in 1999 and then they started to use Nvidia's normal mapping, but its been so long since I worked in a 3D engine, it could be something else, like parallax maps, whatever that is, which I am not familiar with. A well done normal map looks like there are really cracks and other depressions or extrusions, you have to zoom in to see it is really just a flat texture map. Normal Map: I know normal maps are hard to make, but you can use the same normal map on 10 different color choices and you get the same result. I was wrong in thinking that the materials just need color, I forgot that they are using real textures like the wood is a texture map, but it is still super easy to change the color balance in Photoshop. Here is an example of a concrete texture and the different color which took me 3 minutes to do. I realize there is a good reason of why there are not more materials to choose from in the paint selector. i just do not know why and I may be the only one making a big deal out of it. I hope no is thinking that I am just being a "know it all", its just that I have worked game engines making levels in the mid 2000s, like thief3edit (unreal engine modified for thief 3), the Valve source engine (Half life 2) using hammer 4.0 making day of defeat maps and the dark mod (modified doom 3 engine for the dark mod). And I have used 3DS max back when it was 3D Studio Max (version 3.2). Which I self taught myself, because I had no internet and I just had the 3D Studio Max 3.2 manual. My First creation in 3D Studio Max: I tried to simulate Global Illumination by putting omni light all around the scene.

Looks awesome but if this is a 10k map you need a lager variety of towns, . if it is an 8K map this the best you can get with towns, or at least it used to be.

What is DMS? Here is what I have: Massive Base:

If I have bulletproof glass walls in my base, does this hamper performance? I was wondering about this and tried to demolish the bullet proof glass and a shed on my roof, for no reason broke up and part of my solar panels fell and I had boatloads of money invested in level 6 solar cells. Would business glass blocks be better or is it it the same thing? I could move everything out of harms way in you can tell me for sure that bulletproof glass causes lag. I have eight 7x3 walls of bulletproof glass:

Well my impulsiveness holds no bounds, so I bought a RTX 4070Ti. I have been meaning to upgrade my GPU for some time now but with the ridiculous prices of the RTX series I have been putting it off . So with the all the shipping and extended warranty I paid $1050.00. I am also going to do a clean install of windows 10 and get rid of the ridiculous amount of software I do not need. This will also clean out uninstalled programs that still have traces of. After its done I think I will see some better performance, I hope.

That's what I was hoping for, maybe someone knows what to change in what XML, if I am lucky.

Is there a console hack or something to lower the amount of yellow glow from holding the wire tool. Its very hard to see anything.

Mine does, I had some chili dogs not too long ago, but other than that and eggs and toast and grilled ham and cheese sandwiches, my guy eats way better than me. Marie Calendar TV dinner does not count as a cooked meal. I imagine most bachelors do not make to many fancy meals anyway, well at least I don't.

Hey Pille, Thank for this amazing tool. I made a few maps as you may see on page 7 of this thread. The biome by elevation was a great idea and cuts down on going from one biome to another in one step. I really never liked that idea but until now I had to live with it with the RWG or preciously in A19 nitrogen. Unfortunately I am deep in a game at day 160 something so I will not be using the tool for a while. I usually build my end base and then quit for a while until a stable next alpha comes. So I will more than likely use the tool for A21 if it is supported. Also, did you get a patron account via papal, so I can buy you a coffee or a beer or maybe a rum & coke.

I get some low framerates (sometimes in the 30s on bloodmoon) at my massive base. I have the video set as medium for the most part. I have: Intel i7 9700k 32 GB DDR 3200 GTX 1080 So I was curious which factor is more important = CPU or GPU? I know in most traditional polygon games the GPU is very important, but if you ever demolished that skyscraper construction POI for fun, you will see your framerates go into the 10s and 20s and that is the CPU, not the GPU. I really would not be buying a RTX 4080 anytime soon but was still wondering, I know the CPU would be the bottleneck with a RTX 4080 and It would be cheaper to go CPU, Memory, Motherboard, Power Supply & Case with the cost of the RTX 4080 at about $1200.00, but I also need a new dryer and dishwasher and that is more important than computer garbage. I also seem to get lag when you move something out of your inventory and you hear the sound effect 2 seconds later. Does anyone know If you restart your PC and therefore clearing the cached RAM help with the lag you get from moving things around? Its really irritating. I really do not have too many TSRs and my CPU usage at idle is 3-5% so that's not the issue with it. I use VMware workstation sometimes but always turn that off before starting 7 Days To Die.