Things I don't understand about Vintage Story.

[WinnieTaylor]

When on large bodies of water, sometimes I can't get back on land and appear to be struck offshore.  I've read that VS does not have tides.  Is it a temporal storm?  What am I missing?

Sometimes I am killed by another player, but I play standalone.  I never see any other players.  Also, I get requests to allows LAN players, does this mean I'm making it a LAN game?  What don't I understand?

Sometimes the game freezes.  A rotating circle appears.  Usually starts working again after a minute or so.  But sometimes I have to restart the game.  

Just things I have noticed.  I haven't analyzed the logs, the game is enough of a challenge.  Not a big deal.  I obviously like VS, I've played over 780 hours.

 

[LadyWYT]

2 hours ago, WinnieTaylor said:

When on large bodies of water, sometimes I can't get back on land and appear to be struck offshore.  I've read that VS does not have tides.  Is it a temporal storm?  What am I missing?

Are you in a boat or on a raft when this happens? Sailboats can be a bit finicky sometimes regarding boarding/disembarking. Otherwise, if you mean that you swim/sail out into a body of water and have trouble finding the opposite shoreline...it's probably just a really big lake, or even an ocean, especially if you changed world generation to give you a world with more water. 

 

2 hours ago, WinnieTaylor said:

Sometimes I am killed by another player, but I play standalone.  I never see any other players.  Also, I get requests to allows LAN players, does this mean I'm making it a LAN game?  What don't I understand?

To my knowledge, you have to actively choose to open your own game to LAN via the pause menu; it's not access that can be requested by other players. If you're getting death messages about getting killed by another player in singleplayer, that sounds like a bug. In which case, what were you doing at the time of death? My best guess there is that you somehow managed to damage yourself, and the game treated it as damage from another player, hence the weird death message.

 

2 hours ago, WinnieTaylor said:

Sometimes the game freezes.  A rotating circle appears.  Usually starts working again after a minute or so.  But sometimes I have to restart the game.  

In this case, it sounds like your graphics settings are set higher than what your computer's hardware can handle, or that you've installed more mods than your hardware can handle. It could be a bug--checking the logs should show whether or not there's anything goofy going on--but settings and mods are generally the first suspects.

[WinnieTaylor]

Now I am getting slow or no response from anything I try to do.  Among many, one example is trying to open or close reed baskets.  Also having the same issues trying to use this forum.  Don't know if it's issues with my pc, network or Vintage Story.   This didn't happen before I installed the latest release 1.21.1.  This game is tough enough as is, but I'm considering not playing anymore, which is sad because I really like VS, but I'm starting to think I'm wasting my time.

[Thorfinn]

Does your 'puter act like that with older versions, too?

[EDIT]

Oh, I had a system with marginal ram. 16, I think, but might have been 8, I don't recall. But it absolutely could not handle the game and a browser simultaneously. Since most browsers do not shut down "clean", I had to cold-boot and go straight into VS.

Mods can add a serious load to your machine, too, particularly those with large atlas changes. There are a lot of machines out there that cannot handle things like Wildcraft, for example.

I'd start by doing as @LadyWYT suggests -- start by setting your graphics at minimum, and play for 5-10 minutes, then nudge it up a notch and see if that's what's causing the issue.

Edited September 23, 2025 by Thorfinn

[WinnieTaylor]

Didn't change any world generation settings.  I don't use a boat or raft, I swim.  I can see the shore, but I never get there.  My PC should not have problem with high graphic settings.  I'm having the same issue just trying to use this forum.  This is too much trouble just to play an already difficult video game.  VS encourages posting concerns or issues in their discussion groups, but when I do, I get the impression they don't care.

[WinnieTaylor]

Here is my memory:  

Total Physical Memory:         32,509 MB
Available Physical Memory:     25,675 MB
Virtual Memory: Max Size:      34,557 MB
Virtual Memory: Available:     27,000 MB
Virtual Memory: In Use:        7,557 MB

I believe there is something wrong with my computer.  Please disregard my posts for now until I figure it out. 

[Zane Mordien]

I blame north Korean hackers.

[LadyWYT]

1 hour ago, WinnieTaylor said:

Now I am getting slow or no response from anything I try to do.  Among many, one example is trying to open or close reed baskets.  Also having the same issues trying to use this forum.  Don't know if it's issues with my pc, network or Vintage Story.   This didn't happen before I installed the latest release 1.21.1.  This game is tough enough as is, but I'm considering not playing anymore, which is sad because I really like VS, but I'm starting to think I'm wasting my time.

Try rebooting your pc and see if that helps. If everything runs smoothly after a reboot, it's very possible you've run into a memory leak somewhere, which can easily tank performance even on beefier hardware. 

[WinnieTaylor]

It was my mouse.  Interesting, I didn't know a defective mouse could cause a PC to quit responding.  Just thankful that it wasn't a north Korean hacker.  But everyone knows south Korean hackers are ok, but I doubt there are any of those.