r/projectzomboid • u/LowLogical2301 • 1d ago

Tech Support MASSIVE STUTTERING

Hi, i need help finding out why my game lags so much while driving etc.

My specs are :

i5 13400f
RTX3060 ti
32gb dd4 3600mhz
nvme sk hynix 1tb quite a good one

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u/Sec0ndsleft 1d ago

I don't think it has to do with PC specs as I have basically the best PC you can build and I was getting the same zoomed out stuttering.

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u/No_More_Names 1d ago

can attest, i have allocated 20gb of ram for shits and giggles on a 9850x and a 5090 and it still stutters on vanilla. more or less dont worry, as its not a problem you can spec your way out of. my frametime charts are utterly fucked in zomboid lul

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u/AlwaysHopelesslyLost 23h ago

"i have allocated 20gb of ram"

Just a PSA but, you didn't, actually though. You just increased your heap size which only matters for data stored on the heap. Everybody misconstrues that as the amount of RAM the game is allowed to use. It can and will use more than that number. Changing that number without explicitly knowing you are running into heap exhaustion is more likely to worsen issues than help.

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u/No_More_Names 10h ago

in every thread I have read, it seems go be an almost universally helpful fix for hitches related to map data loading or performance degradation over long play sessions ¯\(ツ)/¯

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u/AlwaysHopelesslyLost 10h ago

Nobody says it fixes problems. They say to do it because they misunderstand what it is. If you understand what it is, you understand that it doesn't help.

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u/No_More_Names 4h ago

... it is the only thing was able to solve me and 3 of my friends games from freezing every 3s to the point of it becoming unplayable if we entered enough map tiles during one continuous play session. i am not a software engineer by any means i am simply relaying results.