Theodryck

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm actually trying to set up some swap space on my SSD. That should almost act like more RAM, although the write speed isn't exactly as fast (600gb/sec). Either way, it is a testable hypothesis.

The save game is on the SSD, unless I use linux native instead of Proton, in which case it does store the save file in /.local/share/7 Days To Die/Saves which is on the main HD. ln -s has no effect since the game just updates the save file in the original folder. However, when I use Proton, the wine save files are stored on the SSD, which in this case is /media/theo/Games/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/251570/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Roaming/7DaysToDie/Saves/ This is as it should be. I tried to have everything set up so that the game and Steam are forced to only use the SSD. Sometimes it actually works, lol.

I have Steam and all games installed on an SSD. A 300 gb Western Digital, to be exact. My main/OS drive is a 2 tb drive. And even though I would like both Steam and the game to use just the SSD exclusively, they both seem hell bent on putting files in /home/theo/.local/share I've given on trying to fix that over a year ago, however. But it is the HD that is going nuts, not the SSD. if the game would dump a core, I could at least do a backtrace with gdb. That would be something.

Thanks for replying. Every little bit helps. I already have 4 gigs of swap running, but since my graphics card has 8 gigs DDR4 RAM, I don't think my RAM is the issue, although I will certainly look at it. And I have nothing open but 7DTD and Steam. Again, the game runs great while it runs. Load times are short and I usually have over 100 fps, even with things like AA maxed and textures on Ultra, etc. There is generally no warning. So it's not like it happens progressively. It just happens. I'm playing, then hard drive maxes out.

Runs worse in native Linux. It crashes faster and more often. Proton is better.

That's more of and emulator than a VM. It's called Proton, which is a fancy shmancy python script that passes settings to Wine (a sort of Windows emulator).

As requested, I am starting a new post. Ever since I switched to Alpha 20, I can barely play for more than a few minutes before my HD starts to go nuts and hogs all system resources, essentially freezing my system. There is generally no warning, rhyme or reason to it. I'll be walking along, and BAM! Sometimes it happens when I activate something (pressing TAB, or hitting 'E' to see what's in a container). Sometimes it just happens when I'm doing nothing really at all. It never crashes to the desktop and I am always forced to do a hard reset to bring my PC back up. Before with A19, I've never had any major issues. Even with A20, my game still runs at 100+ fps and looks great with all the new lighting and shading. Here is the last log from my game. I don't really see anything out of the ordinary, but I am no expert in 7DTD logfiles, either. https://pastebin.com/jqTgySz9 My system specs are as follows - Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER CPU: Intel i5 3470 Quad core @3.2 Ghz RAM: 8 gb DDR 3 OS: Linux Kubuntu 20.4 I've tried forcing DirectX 10 (-force-feature-level-10). I've tried using the Tool option on the launcher to clear all data. I've switched between the Linux native version and various versions of Proton (Wine). I've even done an complete uninstall/reinstall to a fresh copy. So far nothing has worked. I know that this is an experimental build and hiccups are bound to happen. But watching everyone else having fun after waiting for a year and a half for A20 is kind a bummer.

No, Linux doesn't have pagefile. It uses swap which is similar. As far as RAM goes, I have plenty. I can easily run the game at 100+ fps under normal circumstances and with all the bells and whistles turned on. The reason I didn't create my own thread is because Roland had a habit of moving threads I create into other existing posts. I figured the same thing would happen here as well. Since the topic was crashes in A20, I thought it should be relevant. But I do appreciate the response. If I need to create my own thread, then I will do so.

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Damn, Capp. Here I was just singing your praises in the recommended creators thread. I shoulda known you would have a presence here. You and Glock got me into 7dtd and even inspired me to try to create some content of my own, although I'm still trying to work out the suck, lol. I looked through all the posts you made here and realized I've already watched all of them...ha!

I can't believe nobody mentioned Glock9 or Capp00...Those guys are both great and probably two of the cornerstones of the YouTube 7dtd community. Glock's channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC96HuwJhXI2p-_zZi3oAR_g Capp's channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo82a6R5BDP57ykqNHLT6dA Great stuff!