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I don’t know the lingo or what it exactly means but has something to do with ray tracing and colliders and some other stuff. Fatal is the programmer assigned to fix this. You can click on his profile and read his recent posts explaining the error and what he has been doing to try and fix it. If you understand any programming talk I’m sure you’ll understand what he’s saying but it’s all gobblygook to me. Or go to News and Announcements->Developer A20 thread to read the discussions. He posts quite a bit about his work on the game. It’s fascinating, the parts that I understand anyway.

Yes, that’s due to too-busy eac servers. If you are playing single player or only on servers with friends, you can turn off EAC on your rig and the server to deal with that. I don't think’ that is causing your issue but at least that’s an easy fix. Hopefully someone else here has some other thoughts on your freezes.

My understanding is the fix applied in A20.1 improves the issue but it is still occurring, just not as frequently. Fatal said he will continue work on it.

There is a discord channel for 7 Days, there might be someone there to talk to you but they really would need to see your log. Pastebin is really easy. Go to pastebin.com and paste the log content in the box and it creates a link, you post the link here, easy peasy. If you need help finding your log, its location depends on your operating system. Directions for finding the log are in the pinned topic in this forum, which also has instructions for using pastebin. Here is a link for that: https://community.7daystodie.com/topic/3956-how-to-report-an-issue-please-read-before-creating-new-threads/ Edit: Did you try excluding you 7 Days folder from your antivirus??

Is anything being reported in Windows Event Viewer about the freezes? Is this been a recent thing or have you been able to play A20 fine up until recently? The reason that I ask is the logs end abruptly with no errors. That usually points to an issue outside the game that fails while the game is running. The game is a massive cpu and ram hog, so it can bring out problems in hardware. You’ve updated graphics drivers, checked system files and hard drive health which is great but I’d also test your ram using Memtest, my fav, or Windows built-in mamory diagnostic program. Check for any chipset updates as well. Be sure that your 7 Days folder is excluded from your antivirus/antimalware software too. This problem, unfortunately, could be many things.

My understanding is that quest progression is trader specific which means he needs to finish all the tier 2 quests at the same trader before getting tier 3. I think it’s maybe 7 of them?? Anyhow, if he wants tier 3, tell him to stick to one trader. As soon as he goes to a different trader, it starts over at tier 1. I don’t think that there’s an edit for allowing certain tiers but you could read through the quest.xml file and see if there’s a way to edit the number of quests that you need to do before getting the offer of the next tier. I’m on my tablet not my pc or I’d check it myself.

Exclude your 7 Days folder from your antivirus/antimalware software. If that doesn't fix it, post your entire log here using a pastebin link so we can look for other hints however, usually it's the antivirus.

We really need to see the entire log so if you can use pastebin to link the whole log that’d be great. With only one line of the log to look at, my first guess is that you need to exclude your 7 Days folder from your antivirus/antimalware software but really need to see the entire log to be sure as there could be other hints, not necessarily errors in other parts of the log file.

Looks like you removed the following line from the config but don't know if that's the cause or not: <property name="ServerDisabledNetworkProtocols" value="SteamNetworking"/> <!-- Networking protocols that should not be used. Separated by comma. Possible values: LiteNetLib, SteamNetworking. Dedicated servers should disable SteamNetworking if there is no NAT router in between your users and the server or when port-forwarding is set up correctly -->

Line 1490 almost halfway through the first log. Right after that reload is when players started dropping out with from EAC. EDIT: the second log is showing warnings that in other cases have turned out to be some A19 files mixed in with A20 files but I could be wrong but here's the warnings pulled from the second log: 2022-01-16T23:31:22 7998.075 WRN No chunk for position 606, 62, 175, can not add childs to pos 606, 62, 176! Block cntMetalDesk02Closed 2022-01-16T23:31:25 8000.185 WRN No chunk for position 587, 62, 159, can not add childs to pos 587, 61, 162! Block cntCar03SedanDamage2v05 2022-01-16T23:31:27 8002.377 WRN No chunk for position 572, 62, 143, can not add childs to pos 572, 61, 144! Block cntCar03SedanDamage2v06 2022-01-16T23:31:27 8003.020 INF Entity animalWolf 1324 killed by zombieSteveFeral 1398 2022-01-16T23:31:29 8004.477 WRN No chunk for position 544, 64, 130, can not add childs to pos 543, 62, 130! Block shippingContainerSideOrange 2022-01-16T23:31:29 8004.477 WRN No chunk for position 544, 61, 130, can not add childs to pos 543, 61, 132! Block semiFlatbedMiddleWheels 2022-01-16T23:31:29 8004.477 WRN No chunk for position 544, 65, 131, can not add childs to pos 543, 65, 133! Block shippingContainerSideOrange 2022-01-16T23:31:29 8004.477 WRN No chunk for position 544, 64, 134, can not add childs to pos 543, 62, 134! Block shippingContainerSideOrange

Whenever I reinstall the server (which is a rented dedicated server), I backup a copy of the serveradmin.xml and serverconfig.xml as well as any xml that I’ve modified. Then I wipe all files including any saves, perform an install then delete the newly generated versions of the xml’s I’ve backed up and then upload the backed up xmls. If I’m doing this because of a new version update, I go over the new and backed up xmls looking for any changes. In your case, I’d do exactly the same thing, compare the backup to the new generated xml to be sure there are no syntax errors. If you are using a separate computer in your house to run the dedicated, I’d recommend uninstalling and cleaning your folders as explained in by clicking on the blue banner at the top of the forum. I honestly don’t know if this will help in your case because I’m really not sure why this is happening in the first place. This could be a Windows issue, software issue, internet issue etc. instead of a 7 Days issue but I don’t know what else to advise. If you do this clean reinstall and you still see the disconnects, at least you’ll have ruled out 7 Days as the cause and will then move on to other possibilities. Let us know if it works or not.

Yes you are correct as to how it works. There is a pinned topic above dedicated to people listing good seeds, I’d start there.

Use a web-based port scanner to make sure all of the needed ports are open/forwarded. A list of the ports needed are listed above. Make sure your game folder is excluded from your antivirus/antimalware software. Be sure you don’t have any background software that monitors/adjusts network traffic like Asus Game First. If you still are having an issue after doing all of these things, start a new thread and post your server and client logs using pastebin.

When a server is started, one of the early steps is to load the serveradmin.xml so that the server can set parameters in that xml. So why is the server randomly reloading the xml? It’s almost as if the server loses connection. It isn’t rebooting because the only thing that actually happens is reloading that xml, no other boot up procedures. Hopefully, someone else has some ideas. I’d hate to see you have to uninstall/reinstall the server but that’s the only thing I can think to try and fix this. As SylenThunder mentioned, there are no errors in the logs. I really don’t think EAC or EOS are causing this as neither would have the ability to reload an xml. If there were incorrect settings in that xml then it should show an error.

I see where in the log it’s happening but there is no error listed. The server just reloads serveradmin.xml then everyone gets booted by EAC for having invalid login info. The players are prohibited from reconnecting for 2 minutes by rule. Very odd. I’m assuming you have a stable internet connection with the speed and bandwidth to run the server?

In my opinion, your save is corrupted. In this pinned topic above, there is a section for attempting to repair a corrupted save. I'd attempt this and see if it works for your situation. SUPPORT FAQ: Information and Common Solutions - General Support - 7 Days to Die

It is a confirmed bug and the fix is coming in A20.1.

I haven't experienced this myself. Could your mouse right-click button be failing? Is there another game with right-click ADS'ing that you can see if it also happens with or a different mouse to switch out? There are two options for ADS(weapon aiming), Hold and Hold and Toggle. With it set to Hold, as long as the default mouse right-click is held down you'll be aiming; with Hold and Toggle you click right mouse button and it stays aimed until you click it again. I just tested Hold and Toggle and it stayed aimed for a full 2 minutes until I stopped. I guess you could try some compressed air in the right button or try assigning it to the middle mouse button instead of right click button.

There are several wikis that list all of the commands but a quick way is to type help in the console and it’ll list all of the available console commands.

Post your log using pastebin. Consult the pinned topic above for instructions.

It is automatically saved after generated. In order to play the map, go to start a new game and cycle through game names to find it. You’ll need to remember what game seed it was assigned. For example, if your seed was “ThisGameRox” and you go to generate, it will tell you that the name is Tykeo County or something like that. So when you cycle the seed names Tykeo County should be a choice. I hope this makes sense.

Looks like his player data got corrupted. As you can see the game attempts to spawn him and the spawn location can’t be read properly. You will need to delete his player files and he will then start over. You can use admin commands to give him back the experience and items to get him back near where he was before the problem. Here is the pertinent line in the log: 2022-01-14T20:56:59 6918.069 WRN Spawned entity with wrong pos: [type=EntityPlayer, name=[BM8] Rebelodicus, id=50183] id=50183 pos=(0.0, 0.0, 0.0)

Remove both mods and see if fps remains that low. I haven't seen any reports of anyone else seeing fps drops while mining. Just because a mod has been updated to A20, doesn't mean it isn't the problem. However, if mining in a vanilla game results in bad frame rate then there is an issue. As for mining, I assume you mean iron/coal/nitrate or lead and not ethereum as ethereum is not in the game. If vanilla mining is fine, I'd post about it in the mod forums as those folks would likely have the answer that you need. EDIT: well I'm dumb, ethereum as in crypto mining......yes it will devastate your game performance

The only other suggestion for city frame rates is to either turn dynamic mesh off or set it to land claim. This is the first version of dynamic mesh system so it’ll need some tweaking to get it working better.

This is a known bug and there is hopefully a fix coming for this when A20.1 gets released.