SylenThunder
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18 hours ago, Vedui said:
I'm a bit surprised this hasn't been locked/banned 😛 I mean it's one thing to want to do a petition against the devs.
It seems to go far beyond asking for DONATIONS from people here, to support them in their ... views.
Then again I have 2 copies (on 2 steam accounts) and would happily pay for dlc.
As far as Early Access games goes, while one can always have issues with speed of updates, there are few games who see active development 8 years down the line, paid for by the initial purchase. The game could have been released years ago and done with, but then we'd have missed so many fun versions to play with!
I didn't see where they were asking for donations. That petition has been around for a couple of years though. Since TellTale went bankrupt. In that amount of time they have only garnered just shy of 12k votes. Not that those are unique votes, just the total number. I could spend about 45 minutes and add a hundred or so votes pretty easy so....
And lets play some math games. Say we round it up to 12,000. We'll guess an average of $30 per person. That comes to $360,000. Which is maybe enough to cover lawyer fees to work out a contract with a new publisher. Not that it's actually income that could be used for it. That's just how much those folks already sent to the bankrupt company called TellTale.
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Have seen this happen with Nitrogen maps. Especially on 16k, or when using something like the compo-pack on the server, but the client doesn't have it.
Could be a really bad case of the occlusion bug, and the trees exist, but you cannot actually see them. (If you look careful, their shadows are there.)
More information is needed though. Logs would be useful. Especially the one where you generated the map.
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Blue Screen is a PC issue, not a game client issue. As Jugg pointed out, it does indicate a memory issue. Could be something as simple as bad timing. (very common, even on pre-built PC's)
But it could also be something else, like the Power Supply unit going bad, and this is just where the error ended up.
Also I fixed your post. That was a mess.
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Sorry, I assumed you would be already using the DirectX renderer since it's the default that would be used on Windows systems. Choosing Vulcan or OpenGL is typically only done as a workaround when aging hardware doesn't properly support DirectX.
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There is actually a system a little more complex already planned. Loot gamestage will be based on the difficulty of the POI/Biome. Details HERE.
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There are multiple full threads on this with the answer already. Why don't you shut up your attitude and actually do some reading and research.
The clean cut answer already exists, and is stated quite clearly.
It's not like we don't have massive red banners about it or anything.
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2 hours ago, Beelzybub said:
I'd be interested to know if you get the dedi to run on that architecture.
Have tried. It doesn't.
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7 minutes ago, Star69 said:
Oh and there has not been any official release date provided by TFP as of today.
No, and there won't be until after experimental has been out for a bit.
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1 hour ago, BFT2020 said:
You bought the game as is from TellTale Games, and they were responsible for updating the game. Based on Sony’s and Microsoft’s rules on breaking saves, it is probably impossible to update the game now to the same level as the PC version without being approved by them.
Correct. They might have been able to get in most of a16's features, but that is about as far as it could go. Not only because of the hardware limitations of the XB1/PS4, but also because changes to core mechanics would invalidate all existing saves.
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Add the startup argument -popupwindow to the launch settings in Steam.
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I stand corrected. I could have sworn it was just before a16 that it was pulled.
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The Pinned FAQ thread has possible recovery methods.
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13 hours ago, Beelzybub said:
Afaik, 32 bit support was removed in A18. Can you upgrade the computer to a 64 bit os?
Alpha 15 actually.
Will need to upgrade the server OS to 64-bit, or stick with the older versions.
If the server cannot be upgraded to 64-bit because of the hardware, then the system is very likely not capable of running the current version anyway.
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22 hours ago, DonDregon said:
@SylenThunder as a moderator, do you thing this entire stuff qualifies to be a pinned "something" as instructions for everyone to reach the most performance possible on the game or something similar?
Have done this before, but there isn't a flat set of settings and configuration that works on all systems. Add to this that it's a moving target. Each update changes values. Sometimes quite severely.
I do keep track of a lot of the tips, and when the game is closer to the end of Beta, I fully intend to put something like this together. It's a lot of work though, and as it is right now, I'm about a year behind on updating some of the support FAQ. I need to do a full re-design there, and am thinking of splitting it into two separate threads. Maybe three.
Seems like every time I start to get caught up, life throws a wrench in the mix. Soon as I get done with restoration from the tornado damage, and take care of a few other tasks, I should have a fair amount of free time again. At the current rate of affairs, that will probably be around the time a20 drops. So then I'll be busy with stuff again. :P (Actually might work out in favor of things here though. I'm already gathering some things together. Like chess, I'm typically thinking several moves ahead.)
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11 hours ago, skippy0330 said:
I really don't understand how people watched my 4 minute video about a bogus posting from GAME in the UK and construed it as - the games being updated, I clearly stated in the video that GAME is presenting it as so, but its most likely not the case....
4 minute.. video.. people really need to pay attention.
(edit) There are a few other videos I guess about it as well, it may have not been coming from mine.Even if they pay attention, they only hear what they want to hear.
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8 hours ago, Jugginator said:
May be onto something, @SylenThunder I dropped you a message.
Welp none of those Ideas worked, I don't think.
Yep, that looks like it was the issue. Removed that folder, and it's working now.
EAC is still broken though. Not sure how to fix it so it displays the names again. ah well. Another day.
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Ok, first off, not trying to run without Steam. Just trying to run from a desktop shortcut for a separate client installation.
Have been doing this for years without any issues, and suddenly for the past couple of months I have been unable to. Curious if anyone else has run into this, or has any fresh ideas on working around it.
Issue is that you start the client from a shortcut pointed at 7DaysToDie_EAC.exe, and then upon attempting to connect to an EAC-enabled server you get the following console error.
Sometimes (but not always) this is also triggering a Windows Explorer message about one of the game client DLL's being an untrusted system file.
I feel this is probably the cause of the issue, and is happening every time, and it's just not always displaying the message. This message does not stick around in the notification tray, and I have not located any events in the Event Viewer that correspond with this.
Log file from the most recent event. https://pastebin.com/raw/zGJWAVe8
Also, not sure if it's related, but EAC stopped showing names for installed programs. I feel like I have seen this before, but cannot for the life of me find it recorded in my notes.
Now, for the things I have tried so far.
I attempted re-installing EAC.
I attempted re-installing the client.
I completely wiped and re-installed the client.
I have run all Windows repairs.
The client is fully excluded from AV software. Have also tried disabling, and even completely removing said software. (Including Defender)
I have re-installed Windows 10.
I have installed Windows 11.
I tried adding the separate client to Steam as a "non-Steam game", and starting it from Steam. Same issue.
And for the life of me, I have been completely unable to find a workaround. Usually it's something simple like I needed to run the client as admin.
Even without attempting to connect to a server, I can exit out of the client and will see the Windows Untrusted System File error.
And if I start the client from the standard client install inside Steam. Zero issues. Everything is peachy.
Also note that I have not been able to test this on another PC yet. I haven't had a ton of free time, and have just been smashing my head into the wall occasionally over the past few weeks trying to come up with new ways to troubleshoot the issue. I have used three different OS installs on this PC though so....
Thoughts?
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36 minutes ago, DonDregon said:
This is not true at all, the GPU will affect the texture quality, texture filters, object quality, render distance and so on so your statement would be true if you've all those graphic options set to lowest/disabled.
Even using the CPU to deal with many things, the GPU is needed for many things while gaming.
Sorry, I probably should have been more clear.
Yes the GPU is necessary, and it is recommended to have quite a good one. Just the difference between a 1060 and a 1070 is noticeable, though not significantly different. What I meant was that the 3080 won't see a notable improvement compared to the previous generations because the game is primarily CPU-bound still for SI and AI mechanics. For this particular title, it most likely does not perform significantly better than a 1080 or 2080.
I am almost constantly inundated with people asking "Why can't I get 144+FPS at 4k on this game?", when they're sitting there running it on a 6th or 7th-gen Intel. Even Gen4 AMD CPU's aren't seeing significant improvements over the Gen3's simply because the game can't really utilize all the extra cores.
Back in Alpha 18 I did a direct comparison on varying clock speeds here. It shows how much of a difference small changes in CPU and RAM can make with no change to the GPU. Somewhere in General Discussion here there is a similar thread where I also included benchmark scores on the different setups.
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IIRC, the counter is that it costs more materials to upgrade than it does to make them straight out.
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Was looking at some builds a friend was doing, and the wiring was all over the place. Made it very hard to determine what went where.
Add in a radial option to choose a color for the wire placed with the tool. This way we can make section easily identifiable.
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3 hours ago, DonDregon said:
I mean, i've a 144Hz 2560x1440p monitor and an rtx 3080
Just a reminder that this is a CPU-bound game. It's also a 3D Voxel game, not something flat like CoD. Your 3080 doesn't really mean a whole lot in regards to performance.
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You need UDP 26903 open for LiteNetLib, which is the protocol responsible for network performance.
Also extremely high ping usually indicates a failure to exclude the client from security software. This is covered in the FAQ thread. Since he has the high ping, it's likely on his system. On your system, just because you disabled firewall and AV, does not necessarily mean they aren't causing an issue. Windows Defender and Norton both are notorious for this.
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This hasn't had a response in almost two weeks because you posted in the incorrect section. I have now moved it to the correct section, and advise that you read the Pinned thread on how to report an issue, and then follow the instructions it.
Video and logs would be especially useful.
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20 hours ago, Urban Blackbear said:
Sorry, meant to respond to this earlier. You're right, not sure what I was thinking. I gotta stop sniffing sharpies at work.
How will you ever get through your day then though?
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Asus ROG can't connect to any servers
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I cover both troubleshooting these kinds of issues, and how to report an issue in the Pinned threads. Aside from what is stated there already, I can't give you more information without better details.