To start off with my macbook is broken. The screen doesn't work and I have to start it up in recovery mode for it to show anything on an external monitor. Its a 2015 15' Pro with a not too bad spec. So I thought fuck it, i'll install bootcamp and see if I can install steam so I can play 7 Days to Die. Everything worked until I got to the gameplay.
I haven't been their biggest fan (and it's well detailed in articles here on GOL), but they did eventually release the Linux build and people have been enjoying it.
The problem now, is it appears all testing on Linux (and Mac) has stopped. Proof is in the pudding with Alpha 12 being completely broken on both platforms. Here's what it looks like right now:
Something that big with everything being grey, textures not appearing, black boxes everywhere would have been caught if they had a single Linux test machine, as it took me all of 5 minutes to see the bug in action. They aren't the only developer who treats Linux as a second class citizen, I'm looking at you Rust.
Early Access does come with a whole host of troubles if not done by a competent developer, but that 'Early Access' excuse wears a little thin with such glaringly obvious bugs that just weren't tested. Remember, no matter what, you have paid for it, so it should work to a certain degree. There's also six pages of people confirming the bug here, so it's not a small issue.
If you were thinking of picking 7 Days up, I would seriously lay off it right now, and I would seriously wait until it exits Early Access. You can find 7 Days To Die on Steam.Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Today I’m going to explain how to get a better FPS (+/- 60 FPS) for “7 Days to Die” game. So this game is still in Alpha, so it’s not that well-optimized. You probably play it at 30 FPS and constantly get lower FPS (8, 10, 20 FPS) and I’ve seen a lot of guides, yet couldn’t really found a good one. After a lot of testing, finally… I present to You my guide to get a better FPS and even if Your FPS will drop sometimes, it mostly won’t drop below 30 FPS (+/- 40 FPS for me).
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So, let’s just get into it!
There are 2 steps you need to get into, the first one is customizing your Graphic Card, and the second is customizing your game.
Customizing your graphic card
- First, go to Your Graphic Card Control Panel (NVIDIA for Me).
- Select “Manage 3D Settings” and select “Program Settings”, press “Add” and choose “7 Days to Die”.
- On the “Select the Preferred Graphics Processor for This Program”, choose “High-performance NVIDIA Processor”.
- Change the “Maximum Pre-rendered Frames” to “4”.
- Change the “Power Management Mode” to “Prefer Maximum Performance”.
- Change the “Threaded Optimization” to “On”.
- Change the “Vertical Sync” to “On”.
Customizing your game
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- In the game menu, select “Options”, and then select “Video”.
- Turn off Your “V-Sync”, “Reflection Quality”, and “Motion Blur”.
- Uncheck Your “Reflected Shadows”, “SSAO”, “DOF”, and “Sun Shafts”.
- You can keep “Texture Quality” to “Full Size” and “Water Quality” to “High” if You want to.
- Change Your “UMA Texture Quality” and “Tree Quality” to “Middle”.
- Change Your “View Distance” to “10”, “Field of View” to “70”, and “LOD Distance” to “50%”.
- Keep “Gamma” at “75%”, but change the “Water Particles” to “25%”
Now, open up “7 Days to Die”, join Your game, and press “F8” to check your FPS. It should be around 60 FPS (can get down to 40 FPS and more than 80 FPS). Only at very rare case, it’ll drop to below 10 FPS, but again, very rare case. I’m testing My method with “Acer Predator Nitro 5 AN515-51 Core i5-7300 HQ”.
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