Severe System Overload Error

[TrinityTaylor]

• Game Version: PC

• Platform: Steam windows

• Mods: never used

• Hardware Specifications & Operating System: Windows 11 Pro | AMD Ryzen 7 7700 8-Core Processor (3.80 GHz) | Ram 48.0 GB (47.1 GB usable) | 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor | Storage 2.73 TB

• Issue Date: May 3, 2026

• Error Message: Applying Performance Optimization - A severe system overload was detected.

• 20260506-010406.usvx (15.8 MB)

• Details: I’ve now gotten this message three times over the last 4 days. Should I be concerned? Is my save file cooked?

[HeinziDerHeld]

Thanks for reporting this. Would you please add info about your GPU too?

[TrinityTaylor]

GPU 0: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

GPU 1: AMD Radeon™ Graphics.

[lastricerobinson]

I have a MacBook Air with the M4 Chip and 25GB of RAM. I keep getting the same popup!

[HeinziDerHeld]

Thank you for this additional info

Usually this system overload message doesn’t appear out of nowhere. My guide (updated for v0.8.2) should be able to help you solve it though: inZOI – Graphics & Performance Guide (revised after update v0.8.2) → Take a look at it and simply adjust one or two of the settings mentioned in there. This should actually take the now completely shifted setup workload off of your system

EDIT: I don’t own a MacBook, so I’m not totally aware of the inZOI settings available. @lastricerobinson - you should be able to make a few changes from the guide mentioned above and it should be enough too =) Welcome to the inZOI forum btw!