p4p0r Posted July 4 Report Posted July 4 I've been playing this game for some months on my old PC and after upgrading to a new setup with considerably better components, for some reason the game runs worse. My old specs were as follows: Intel i5-2320 Nvidia GTX 660 2GB 16GB DDR3 RAM (don't remember the exact speed) Some random HDD the game was installed on The game could run at a steady 60fps with infrequent drops on medium-low settings with about 256 render distance. Unfortunately I don't have a specific screenshot of the settings I've ran. My new PC specs are: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X AMD RX7600 8GB 16GB DDR4 3200MHz RAM The game is installed on an SSD Now on my new rig the game can handle all the fancy graphics settings a little better, but any render distance above 200 seems to completely kill the performance. I've took some screenshot to try and demonstrate how the game performs (also note that the framerate shown is when i'm not moving the camera, in actual gameplay it'd not be stable and drop under 60 all the time). Maximum settings, but 160ish render distance: Minimum settings, but 224 or 256 render distance: I have tried to set the Window mode to Maximized borderless, but it didn't change anything. I do not have an integrated GPU, only the RX7600, so I know it's using that. I'd really love to come back to this game but it hurts to be forced to play at such low settings knowing that my PC should definitely be able to handle much more than this. Any kind of advice or answer as to why is this happening will be appreciated.
LadyWYT Posted July 4 Report Posted July 4 2 hours ago, p4p0r said: Any kind of advice or answer as to why is this happening will be appreciated. Welcome to the forums! I notice you're using mods--a modlist would be handy for troubleshooting, since mods can very often cause issues. One thing to check for sure is to make sure the mods you are using are updated properly for 1.22, since 1.22 introduced some code changes and many older mods no longer work correctly.
p4p0r Posted July 4 Author Report Posted July 4 These are the only mods i've tried to use now, but running the game without mods didn't change anything
DejFidOFF Posted July 4 Report Posted July 4 4 hours ago, p4p0r said: I've been playing this game for some months on my old PC and after upgrading to a new setup with considerably better components, for some reason the game runs worse. My old specs were as follows: Intel i5-2320 Nvidia GTX 660 2GB 16GB DDR3 RAM (don't remember the exact speed) Some random HDD the game was installed on The game could run at a steady 60fps with infrequent drops on medium-low settings with about 256 render distance. Unfortunately I don't have a specific screenshot of the settings I've ran. My new PC specs are: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X AMD RX7600 8GB 16GB DDR4 3200MHz RAM The game is installed on an SSD Now on my new rig the game can handle all the fancy graphics settings a little better, but any render distance above 200 seems to completely kill the performance. I've took some screenshot to try and demonstrate how the game performs (also note that the framerate shown is when i'm not moving the camera, in actual gameplay it'd not be stable and drop under 60 all the time). Maximum settings, but 160ish render distance: Minimum settings, but 224 or 256 render distance: I have tried to set the Window mode to Maximized borderless, but it didn't change anything. I do not have an integrated GPU, only the RX7600, so I know it's using that. I'd really love to come back to this game but it hurts to be forced to play at such low settings knowing that my PC should definitely be able to handle much more than this. Any kind of advice or answer as to why is this happening will be appreciated. 16GB of RAM is absolutely minimum to play moded VS.
LordVonSchmellen Posted July 7 Report Posted July 7 Hey p4p0r, here's a different train of thought from the others who have replied - I have a very, very similar system to you with the exception of more RAM and a heftier GPU with seemingly no issues. Given that you have the Adrenaline overlay up-and-running, I'm going to conclude that your GPU drivers are up-to-date! Here's the thing, Ryzen is fickle when it comes to RAM, so my question is this - Are you running single or dual channel memory? More specifically, how many DIMMs (sticks) are installed in your system? If you have a singular DIMM (one stick), the bad news is that Ryzen really hates single-channel memory. Provided you have multiple DIMMs (two sticks, or very unlikely four) check that your "XMP" or "DOCP" profile in BIOS is actually set to 3200MHz! If all else fails, I have personally seen some wilder stuff on AM4 (CPU Platform) be resolved by updating the BIOS, so I'd give that a whirl after checking the aforementioned things out! P.S. Just run the game on high settings instead of the literal maximum, your RX7600 *will* prefer it that way. Good luck!
Dragonfire613 Posted July 8 Report Posted July 8 (edited) I have similar issues running an i7-6 core with RTX-2070 8GB, 32GB ram (2x16), installed on fast SSD... the game is almost unplayable and increasingly annoying in intense moments. Running at 45fps and minimal settings makes no difference. I do not have these issues on other high spec games... maybe a few fames dropped here or there but nothing that interferes with gameplay. VS will freeze for a full 2-3 seconds at times before catching up. Frames dropping several times a minute. Seems to be a common issue. Have tried every suggestion I can find online as far as settings, nothing seems to make a difference. This is on vanilla with no mods, singleplayer. The only fix has been to run a server on a second PC, so the hardware duties are split, which has its own undesirable annoyances for essentially single player game. Edited July 8 by Dragonfire613
VaelophisNyx Posted July 9 Report Posted July 9 On 7/7/2026 at 12:25 AM, LordVonSchmellen said: Hey p4p0r, here's a different train of thought from the others who have replied - I have a very, very similar system to you with the exception of more RAM and a heftier GPU with seemingly no issues. Given that you have the Adrenaline overlay up-and-running, I'm going to conclude that your GPU drivers are up-to-date! Here's the thing, Ryzen is fickle when it comes to RAM, so my question is this - Are you running single or dual channel memory? More specifically, how many DIMMs (sticks) are installed in your system? If you have a singular DIMM (one stick), the bad news is that Ryzen really hates single-channel memory. Provided you have multiple DIMMs (two sticks, or very unlikely four) check that your "XMP" or "DOCP" profile in BIOS is actually set to 3200MHz! If all else fails, I have personally seen some wilder stuff on AM4 (CPU Platform) be resolved by updating the BIOS, so I'd give that a whirl after checking the aforementioned things out! P.S. Just run the game on high settings instead of the literal maximum, your RX7600 *will* prefer it that way. Good luck! This is probably it. Single vs Dual channel memory doesn't really matter anymore, but clock speed is EVERYTHING for Ryzen CPUs. You want it as fast as your monterboard, RAM, and CPU can all handle together. Ryzen CPUs use a technology called "Infinity Fabric", upon which all the chiplets in the CPU talk to each other through. That fabric runs at the same speed as your RAM, by nature, but doesn't affect the core clocks of the CPU, so it'll report it's however fast you think it is, but perform only at the speed of your RAM
LordVonSchmellen Posted July 9 Report Posted July 9 14 hours ago, VaelophisNyx said: Single vs Dual channel memory doesn't really matter anymore, but clock speed is EVERYTHING for Ryzen CPUs. It is not my intention to go off topic, however, this is a fundamental misunderstanding of AMD's Zen Architecture from its inception to its current form. Single vs Dual channel memory absolutely still matters due to the Infinity Fabric. All Zen CPUs use CCDs (Core Complex Dies) which talk to the memory controller via the Infinity Fabric, for a lot of complex reasons I won't go into, Single versus Dual-Channel memory really does matter here. Furthermore, while clock speed absolutely matters, it doesn't matter how many clock cycles your CPU can achieve if a large quantity of them are spent doing nothing whilst waiting around for data. You're not entirely wrong though as Zen and Zen+ did tie the Fabric's clock speed 1:1 with memory speed! Again, this is all a gross oversimplification as to not get lost in the weeds here. 1
rereretrograde Posted July 16 Report Posted July 16 16gb is not enough to play this game as far as i am able to understand. I regularly max out my 16gb to play this game with only 1 firefox tab and discord on at the back. It is incredibly memory hungry. I plan on trying to find a deal for another 16gb kit (lol) just so i can stop stutters on this game.
p4p0r Posted Friday at 08:18 PM Author Report Posted Friday at 08:18 PM On 7/7/2026 at 7:25 AM, LordVonSchmellen said: Hey p4p0r, here's a different train of thought from the others who have replied - I have a very, very similar system to you with the exception of more RAM and a heftier GPU with seemingly no issues. Given that you have the Adrenaline overlay up-and-running, I'm going to conclude that your GPU drivers are up-to-date! Here's the thing, Ryzen is fickle when it comes to RAM, so my question is this - Are you running single or dual channel memory? More specifically, how many DIMMs (sticks) are installed in your system? If you have a singular DIMM (one stick), the bad news is that Ryzen really hates single-channel memory. Provided you have multiple DIMMs (two sticks, or very unlikely four) check that your "XMP" or "DOCP" profile in BIOS is actually set to 3200MHz! If all else fails, I have personally seen some wilder stuff on AM4 (CPU Platform) be resolved by updating the BIOS, so I'd give that a whirl after checking the aforementioned things out! P.S. Just run the game on high settings instead of the literal maximum, your RX7600 *will* prefer it that way. Good luck! I actually do use a single 16gb stick, which considering what you've said may be the issue. I was planning to get another one at a later date when building this PC, so I suppose if I'm gonna actually need it if i want to play some VS. Thanks for the input, I wouldn't have figured it out myself. Hope if i eventually get another stick the issue is resolved. (my XMP is also ON, so it should be running at the full 3200)
LordVonSchmellen Posted Saturday at 06:02 AM Report Posted Saturday at 06:02 AM (edited) 10 hours ago, p4p0r said: I actually do use a single 16gb stick, which considering what you've said may be the issue . Yup, that means you're running effectively half of the memory bandwidth your CPU is capable of, which most likely explains your issues. Zen was literally architected around Dual-Channel memory. I'm glad we could narrow it down, however unfortunate the issues may be. Cheers! Edited Saturday at 06:32 AM by LordVonSchmellen
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