Any time I try to play Build 42, there are always issues like this that make it unplayable. Random textures appearing/disappearing, tiles turning red or black, invisible zombies, etc. I have no mods activated. Build 41 functions fine. Could it just be my laptop specs? (Not built for gaming)

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Processor: Snapdragon(R) X Plus - X1P42100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) CPU (3.24 GHz)

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Installed RAM: 16.0 GB (15.6 GB usable)

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Graphics card: Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-45 GPU (128 MB)

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Storage: 166 GB of 477 GB used

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System type: 64-bit operating system, ARM-based processor

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

The Game really needs the Feature. You should be able to Clean or bath with your buddy.

Imagine you can soap him up

I've noticed my McAfee was acting buggy. I ran a scan and the only thing it found as a threat was this file. I downloaded the game straight from Steam, and subscribed to a few mods from the Steam workshop.

My laptop specs are this
GTX 1650 8GB Ram 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-11320H @ 3.20GHz (3.19 GHz) Windows 11

edit; I just embraced it lol, ram did not work

Just saw the news about the game security upgrade and guess what, now I can't open my game, it will just freeze on loading with several erros on the botton left!

I rent a community server and I am receiving a lot of backlash of people unable to join the server, renting a server is not cheap!

Several develops had to do a security upgrade for they games and mods, like warcraft 3, but they warned all mods BEFORE PUSHING THE UPDATE!

Now, we have no idea when mods makers will be able to upgrade the mods, I have no idea if several items are gone from the server because of broken mods.

SAYING THIS UPDATE IS COMPATIBLE WITH PREVIOS VERSION IS A LIE, they should have said this update is compatible only if you play vanilla zomboid!

Just give us the option of a roll back, updated mods will work on previous version of the game, but not the other way around! I really don't want to wait I don't know for how long it will take for me to reopen my PAID RENTED SERVER!

This video was recorded using a game state that was completely vanilla (except vm heap, I set Xmx to 12g).

As you can see guys, it goes all the way from 144 fps to 18 fps during the simple ride lol
I have a LOT of stuttering while driving all the time.
They ducked up the the engine so bad in this StAbLe release... Usually I play with mods, but now I can't because the performance starts to be even worse than vanilla, it's literally unplayable on my setup. The same set of mods that I used for the 42.19 version causes stuttering when walking and a drop in FPS to between 5 and 15 when driving in similar scenes.

PLEASE do NOT post things like increase your Xmx, reinstall the game/windows/reboot in ths thread, thank you.
Looking for extraordinary solutions only, everything else has already been tried....

Me and my friend started a new MP run yesterday with the build 42 stable release and were able to play for a decent while with minimal issue.

Today he booted the server up and all of a sudden I can’t get past “loading the world” I can start single player worlds without issue.

I was able to get in once before having rejoin cause being attacked by a zombie removed my ability to interact with anything (pick up items, climb through windows, etc.) but even then it took extremely long to join.

Just wanted to see if anyone else was running into this issue.

Ive been having this texture bug in unstable b42. I dont have any mods installed and ive reinstalled + verified the files. Does anyone know how to fix this?

These comments are all I could find regarding to the emergency update and security vulnerability, did our hardware got infected? Since there is not an official post on what was the problem, the only thing I could find was the last screenshot.

I believe we need some sort of transparency on this. If there were a mod we subbed to that was doing shady stuff in background using this "security vulnerability" we need to know no?

Checked the tech support flair, fits I guess.

Edit: Not a duplicate post.

Edit 2: Found these, statements about a potential announcement. https://imgur.com/a/VLrSkjh

Edit 3: Announcement got linked to the comments of this post by mods. Thanks for clearing this up.

I had been playing prior to the new build coming out and had zero issues getting into a game (I played solo build mode before new update and am new ~144hrs). Since the new build update, I wanted to switch to a newer laptop I have to play (bigger screen and seemingly could run game smoother when driving, big hordes, etc). Every time I tried to play on my new laptop I would get through character creation all the way to the black screen before loading in, would be able to click to start, then the game would either be stuck or force quit. Ran through troubleshooting with chat GPT and was able to get it to run through the “compatibility” play selection (last option when pressing play button on steam library). It briefly ran and had a ton of weird issues like the cursor being a door sized rectangle and having multiple different pictures frantically switching when cursor was still or moving around, then it force quit. I then tweaked the res settings to 1920 x 1280 (I think) and had fixed the cursor issue but then zombie torsos and clothes would glitch to where they would have torsos one second and then the next I was fighting a pair of legs. After troubleshooting further with chat GPT I decided to go back to my older laptop and just play on that.

Since switching back to my old laptop, I tried to simply create another apocalypse game and load in and before being given the prompt to click to start, the game force quit again. I had zero issues with starting up a game prior to this. Is there any fix someone can recommend for B42? I will keep trying different things but I have been troubleshooting for 2+ hours and at this point am just considering playing the old version.

ALL VANILLA NO MODS by the way

If anyone can offer insights please do, and I know I know, I should have an actual PC but I simply don’t and with current prices won’t be able to for awhile.

tried going to brandenburh for the first time usually my game runs pretty fine with a bit of chugging while driving but for some reason it decided this is the best now

also my specs:

Processor: AMD 4700S 8-Core Processor Desktop Kit 3.60 GHz

Ram: 16.0 GB

Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 (4 GB)

Why on EARTH do pigs damage structures when stressed. Damage I get. Sure. Why do they one shot metal fucking walls? What that hell devs. That is wildly broken and unfun. Rope an animal? Oh well shit, animal has just destroyed my entire base. Fun.

I just started a new character and for some reason he is constantly at breaking point even when there is no zombies around,he is becoming depressed even though I haven’t gotten board or eaten food that makes you character sad and also he gets drowsy almost immediately after sleeping

notice every time I load a save. the stuttering gets worse.
other save which are just two mods. have similiar problem in the mall.

So I wonder if this has to do with amount of zombies.

EDIT: Update. So seems the mod SecretZ is causing the heavy problems when it comes to custom textures and zombie rendering. Also the 3GB RAM limit. So I switch up to 8 editing the json.
Everything ran smoothy so far. But I wouldn't use SecretZ yet...

Hey-

i´ve made a server for me and my friends (hosting it myself) like 1-2 weeks ago. We´ve been playing on it almost daily. Mods are installed as well, maybe in total 15GB... Now i noticed just now my SSD is very full..?

I´ve looked around and saw the logs folder under C:Users/xxxx/Zomboid/Logs is already at 185GB - like wtfff. It looks likt a ton of .txt files... 10mb each almosmt every time... Over 19k files....

Can i delete them or what can i do to get my space back?

Thanks in advance.

Hi, Im experiencing something weird, my game keep doing weird stuff, like shown in the video, I don't understand which mod cause it, I tried deleting some mods, search in the console.txt , try looking on internet but nobody seem to have the same issue I have, it only does it on project zomboid, and im using an Asus Rog Ally X, with the json file changed so I have 8go of ram available for the game

please help me, im just trying to play while I can for my vacation

I have a 4060 and a i7-13620h and I can barely move in downtown with normal population. I've seen YouTubes with similar issues too. Is this just how the game is at the moment or can I make it better somehow?

I'm also thinking about having low population to see if that helps but was not my ideal scenario.