Love the game, can't play it.

[DaddyStillGaming]

Every time it happens...

I start the game it's fine textures load beautifully, no lag. Then I walk ten blocks then the frame drops hit me. Spike every three seconds.. 70..0..70..0

I have done everything to the point that the game looks like a potato.. I can't play but I love this game.

32 ram

Ryzen5 cpu

3060 nvida card 

Installed on ssd

I open process and I see hdd going bonkers on the graph 100 to 0 but my ssd does nothing 0% idk if this has anything to do with it pls help I'll check this forum every day till I have an answer

[Thorfinn]

Don't be offended, but you did move the data directory somewhere other than your %appsdata% directory, right? That was probably on your original hdd.

[Thorfinn]

Oh, and just noticed -- Welcome to the forums, @DaddyStillGaming

[DaddyStillGaming]

Thank you.. and ik it maybe be tedious but can you give me a step by step to moving appdata?

[dakko]

Do not move appdata!

Thorfinn meant to move the VIntage Story user data out of appdata. Someone will be along that can help you, or I can when I get back home. Just do not move appdata.

[dakko]

@Thorfinn

[DaddyStillGaming]

I believe I've found a solution but I'm going to play it one more night to confirm, Thorfinn may have been on the right track with this I'll post back later tonight when I run the game again.

[Thorfinn]

Sorry. Yeah, don't do the %appdata%.

There's a post in the guides that's a lot more involved than you want, and a page on the Wiki that's probably up to date, since nothing in the command line has changed that I know of, despite having hinted to @Tyron that an --addMacroPath switch would be SO nice.  

The Cliff's notes version is that you add a switch to the command line in the shortcut that tells VS where to store the player data. It's

--dataPath E:\Wherever\the\heck\you\want\files\saved

 

Edited July 18, 2025 by Thorfinn

[DaddyStillGaming]

Essentially the solution i found is that I changed the data path to the sdd so my hdd isn't bouncing the hell around I'll screenshot the "target" when I get home from work later tonight.

[Thorfinn]

The "target" field in the Windows properties box? Hmm. I'll check later, but that should be pointing to the directory where the game assets are kept. If so, seems that would tell the game to put player mods in the main mods directory, which, as of this version, there's now a nastygram telling you not to do that.

Post a reply to the forum post I linked to above. Maybe someone like @Streetwind knows.

[DaddyStillGaming]

That's actually who I found to do this he has a step by step to doing it but I'm more of a picture guy so I'll probably end the thread later with a screen shot collage on what needs to be typed out.. literally took close to 12 hours of research for 14 keystrokes lol

[FlareUKCS]

While I am curious why you have a SSD for games and not for your OS, the OS is so much faster with an SSD, but thats not the issue.

I find it odd your performance was so bad, you have a similar spec to me (i74790k 32 3060 on a SSD) and I get smooth 75 FPS (my monitor limit). I am curious did you install the game on the original SATA HDD and then later move the install to the SSD ? If you did try installing it from fresh to the SSD as that should set all data paths correctly. I run the game on my gaming SSD, but originally off a SATA drive, so I installed it onto the SSD rather than just cut and move. 

Lets start at the basics, did you install the game to the new SSD, or simply move it there ?  

[DaddyStillGaming]

im sorry flare but you must have misinterpreted what i was trying to say i can confirm i have fixed the issue my next post will contain a collage of examples of what i did to fix it to answer the solution to help others.

 

[DaddyStillGaming]

turns out I originally installed to game to my HDD when I should have installed it to my SSD (not sure if this had anything to do with the path that the data was being saved to but did that first anyway)

uninstalled the game and reinstalled it to my SSD.

then i went and right clicked the shortcut that was created on my desktop and entered the following to the "Target" box: { --dataPath Z:\Vintagestory} (there is in fact a space just before the "--" (double hyphen))

now that is an example, not what you should put... theoretically you can put it anywhere as long as its somewhere in your SSD [correct me if I'm wrong] but what I believe it does is take the strain off your HDD and puts it on something that has more space if your CPU is lacking in the computing department.

game works, crazy lol

 

[Thorfinn]

Oh, yes, dopey me. "Target" is the correct box. I've been playing around with various distributions of Linux too much lately, and misremembered what the boxes in "Properties" was called. "Target" is for command line, including switches, "Start in" is where game assets are located.