Skaarphy Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 (edited) I have a 3.90 GHz AMD 6350 six-core, 16 GB RAM, a 4GB GTX 1650 running Win 10 with DirectX 11, and my FPS are lousy, especially in cities and at traders. Just now I've tried turning everything either completely off or to the lowest possible settings and I still only get 20-25 FPS (when riding a bike in a city that is, on foot it's about 10 more). On the other hand, when I turn everything to medium or high (except shadows-related stuff and particles) I get about 25 FPS overall, and 15 in cities. I'm not even that fussy about FPS. I find 25-30 perfectly playable, but I just can't seem to get there. Is that to be expected with what I have, or is there something I can do? Edited June 24, 2023 by Skaarphy (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SylenThunder Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 That is an extremely old CPU with horribly bad multithreading support. IMHO the min specs need to be more specific in terms of CPU's because of cases just like yours. If it were me, I would put the min spec around a 4th-gen Intel i5, or 2nd-gen Ryzen CPU. You might get some improvement from disabling EAC, and setting CPU Affinity so the client is locked onto three or four cores. That might get you up into the 30FPS range, but I wouldn't expect more than that from that old platform. Even with the massive CPU bottlneck, your GPU is adding another 18% bottleneck on the CPU. (at 1080p) Lowering your resolution to 720p can help out your GPU bottleneck by about 10%, but you're still heavily limited by the CPU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skaarphy Posted June 24, 2023 Author Share Posted June 24, 2023 (edited) Excellent. That's a start. I knew my CPU was old and very likely the bottleneck but I didn't know it was that bad. I have found this thread on setting CPU affinity: https://steamcommunity.com/app/251570/discussions/0/3932159940141575728/ Can I follow the instructions given there? EAC has been turned off already, by the way. edit: Never mind. Apparently Win 10 allows for setting CPU affinity without a 3rd party program. I did that, and turns out Steam.exe is already allowed to use all cores. I'll try lowering the resolution then. The only thing I haven't tried yet, and what I really wanted to avoid ... Thanks for the reply edit: Lowering the resolution didn't help much either. The only thing I have left now is looting every building in the city, smashing windows, dismantling every car, etc. That should at least give me another 0.5 FPS I hope. Edited June 24, 2023 by Skaarphy (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Great_Sephiroth Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 I wouldn't worry with affinity, but the game is CPU-hungry. I run an i9-11900k with an RTTX 3080 Ti. 7 Days can get the CPU so hot the fans spin up quite a bit. I actually purchased a water-cooler to combat this. Ark was the only other game that ever pushed my CPU. FOr reference, I have 64GB of DDR4. Lowering your resolution won't help as your issue is primarily with the CPU. The world is voxel-based and eats CPU cycles when figuring out what to send to the video card in terms of what you see. The 1650 is a weak GPU as well, but my gut tells me your CPU is being utilized to the max and not sending frames fast enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skaarphy Posted June 25, 2023 Author Share Posted June 25, 2023 That very much seems to be the case. And I'm so close to upgrading my computer just for this game. Not going to happen though, not for just one game, no matter how much I like it. I've been holding off on playing 7DTD while waiting for A21 to drop but while I like it overall I've now reverted to A20.7. Towns can be a problem there too but it's not nearly as terrible as with A21. I even got over 70 FPS once! It was just for a second and in the middle of the wilderness. But still! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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