Game suddenly becomes extremely slow and unplayable.

[arfarfgit]

This is my first time reporting an issue on GitHub, so I apologize in advance if I miss any details or conventions.

I’ve encountered a recurring problem for the third time now. While in-game, I was modifying player variables (this time, I was adjusting "jumps"), and I accidentally exited the game. Upon restarting, the game takes an extremely long time to load - over 3 minutes - and when it finally starts, it runs at about 10% of the normal speed, making it essentially unplayable.

I solved the first two times this "bug" occurred by reinstalling the game. But now I would love to solve it (if possible), since I'm almost at the end of it.

I’ve tried restoring default values and restarting from a previous save point, but the issue persists. Additionally, in Task Manager, I noticed the RAM usage spikes up to 40GB.

My system specifications are as follows:

CPU: Ryzen 7 5800X

GPU: Radeon RX 6950 XT

RAM: 64GB

Storage: Samsung 990 Pro SSD

Has anyone experienced something similar or have any suggestions on how to resolve this? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you in advance!

[EricPlayZ]

Hey, to start off, the mod menu is currently outdated and won't work with the latest version. The next update should release this week.

This honestly sounds like a memory leak, and I'm not sure if EGameTools or the game is causing it, but I've heard many people experiencing this issue, whilst it never happened to me. This issue also caused save game corruption, where even after uninstalling EGameTools, the game would try to load the save game indefinitely until it eventually caused the PC to crash due to running out of RAM.

I would first run the game without EGameTools to check if the issue still persists. If it does, it means your save game is corrupt. The only thing you can do is rollback to an older save if you have one. The next update will make sure to create backups of the save game from time to time to make sure there is always a backup kept of a working save game in case something like this ever happens again.

[arfarfgit]

Hi, and thank you for your answer. I have tried everything, from restoring an old backup to attempting to run the game without your program, but nothing has helped. I guess I will have to accept that I will need to replay the game if I want to finish it.

I also suspect that this is a memory leak, due to the high memory consumption. The only thing is that my PC doesn’t crash, but it loads for minutes, and when the game finally loads, it runs at 1/10th of the normal speed. Everything is extremely slow.

The idea of having the ability to create multiple backups would be great. If you could add the option to choose the frequency of the backups, that would be even better.

I will wait for your next version, and hopefully, things will improve.

One last thing: this is the error message I am getting: "MountDataPaks hook ran less than 3 times with the data PAKs limit set to 8. This means the increased data PAKs limit might not work correctly! If this message appears and your data PAKs past "data7.pak" have not loaded, please contact author." - I understand the context, but even without any additional PAK, the message is still there.

Thank you!

[EricPlayZ]

The only thing is that my PC doesn’t crash, but it loads for minutes, and when the game finally loads, it runs at 1/10th of the normal speed. Everything is extremely slow.

Yep that's normal considering the memory leak. Most people crash because they run out of pagefile memory too and there is nowhere else the memory can grow. You should try contacting Techland Support and see if they can do anything to restore your save game.

If you could add the option to choose the frequency of the backups, that would be even better.

I didn't think of that, I definitely will, thank you!

I understand the context, but even without any additional PAK, the message is still there.

This error message only shows up if you have the Increase Data PAKs Limit option enabled. It's supposed to simply warn you that in the case that you do have any pak files that go past the 8th file (past data7.pak) present in the source folder, they might not get loaded because of the error. So even if you don't have any additional pak files present in the directory, it will still show up.

I think I will simply let my mod check whether there are any other pak files present or not, and if there are, warn the user that the option might not work. Thank you again for bringing this up!

[arfarfgit]

Thank you for your kind explanation, and thank you for the time you are giving to this great tool.
I'm sorry to have bothered you with all those questions, and I wish you all the best!
Take care.