Game stuttering with a high end PC

[Driver Kaldie]

Hello everyone, I'm getting sick and tired of the stuttering of the game...I have follewed lots of solutions that I find in this forum here and executed them all. I have downloaded the performance mod, adjusted the options for my videocard driver, and it still runs terrible.

Here are my system settings:

System Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
System Model: AX370-Gaming 3
Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 2700 Eight-Core Processor (16 CPUs), ~3.2GHz
Memory: 65536MB RAM
DirectX Version: DirectX 12
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
User DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 8GB
Display Memory: 40748 MB
Dedicated Memory: 8006 MB
Shared Memory: 32742 MB
Current Mode: 1920 x 1080 (32 bit) (60Hz)

So my pc is absolutely no potato. My performance mod is set to max 5000 distance. The other settings are also set to potato, My graphics are set to low (while it should be able to run at max settings with this machine).

At the moment I play the game on the map "Flat Islands" with can be found in the workshop. It's maglomania map. I run 281 mods (mostly vehicle mods), and one of the is a expanded industry mod. I have about 20 cities (not even big ones, just medium). At the moment I only have 10 trains running on the map, and the game is stuttering like sh*t...I have a framerate of about 85-100 when zooming in to a vehicle, and when I zoom out it goes to about 125 fps. But even when I zoom into a bear or another animal the stuttering continues.

I see people run youtube movies off the game with a lower end pc than mine and hundreds and hundreds of vehicles in multiple large cities...Trains, trucks, trams and the regular traffic going on the map flowing perfectly and without stuttering.

Can someone pleade help with (maybe even people who make those perfect looking videos on youtube). The game is unplayable, and I'm only frustrated when I run this game. First you spend hours to make a nice map, fill it up with some towns and industry, and when you start playing this happens over and over again...So I'm lost and really don't know what else I can do to make my game run smoothly...

Thanks in advance guys :)

[Driver Kaldie]

引用自 RadiKyle：

Agree that hitting CPU limits is a possibility, especially with such high frame rates. Two ideas... Try loading a different highly developed map that doesn't use any mods. If you don't have one you can probably find one in the Steam Workshop. That would at least help identify whether mods are a major factor (because certain mods definitely can be, especially poorly LOD-optimized vehicles).

The other idea, just spitballing here... If your monitor supports it, try running at 1440 (or higher) instead of 1080. Yes it'll load up your GPU more and your frame rate will drop. But I'm wondering if it might offload the CPU a bit (my understanding is that some titles will burn CPU trying to keep up with an unbound GPU, but I don't know if that applies to TpF 2).

Also what is your GPU memory consumption in game? (Above you mentioned about 16 GB of 64 GB installed system memory.)

Thanks man...How can I set my monitor to 1440 ? How can I see what my GPU memory ingame is...Can I do that via the taskmanager ?

[numbat]

I too have a reasonably old PC, but TpF2 runs fine with no stuttering.

I see you have an NVidea GeForce, so figure out how to run the GeForce performance overlay (it's left-Alt-R on my machine) and see if you can figure out if it's a GPU or CPU bottleneck. Like Tusbame, I suspect it's CPU.

On the subject of FPS, I have never got fps numbers like that. The best I have ever got in my game is in the mid 30's, perhaps as high as 40 when I am in cab mode. Having said that, there is nothing wrong with the graphics performance and display on my machine, and there's no stuttering or any visual indication the frame rates are so slow.

There are some who would say that anything over 60 is irrelevant anyway. If it were me, I would start adjusting things so that you get somewhere around the 60fps and see how the game performs at that stage.

As to the 281 mods that you are running, it is very possible that one of those is causing your issues. I would also try a new map without any mods (or the smallest set possible for that map you are playing) and see how that goes. I have tried some mods in the past that have affected my peformance and so I try to limit them. I currently only run 62 mods.

Cheers,
Chris.

[RadiKyle]

引用自 Driver Kaldie：

Thanks man...How can I set my monitor to 1440 ? How can I see what my GPU memory ingame is...Can I do that via the taskmanager ?

In the game settings menu under Graphics you can set the display resolution. (Has to be done from the main menu, can't change it while a savegame is running.)

For performance monitoring to see GPU VRAM usage etc there are a few options. I use the nvidia GeForce overlay that @numbat mentioned (Alt-R). Windows has a built-in one with its game bar feature (Win-G). MSI was mentioned earlier, there's probably others.

[Tsubame ⭐]

You can view your hardware usage stats through the Task Manager, accessed by typing it in the Search tab or through Ctrl + Alt + Del anyhere.

Then go to the Performance tab.

For the GPU, the main thing to watch is dedicated GPU memory, something like x.x/8 GB, it should not be near full otherwise things will become laggy.

Do note that Task Manager stats usage are for the whole computer, so if you have other things running in the background, they will also add to the overall usage as well.

A dedicated application like MSI Afterburner can differentiate between overall usage and usage for some stats like RAM and vRAM.

[Driver Kaldie]

引用自 Tsubame ⭐：

You can view your hardware usage stats through the Task Manager, accessed by typing it in the Search tab or through Ctrl + Alt + Del anyhere.

Then go to the Performance tab.

For the GPU, the main thing to watch is dedicated GPU memory, something like x.x/8 GB, it should not be near full otherwise things will become laggy.

I checked everything you said...I don't know if it's dedicated memory, but my processor says it uses 17-20% of 3.26 GHz, My RAM memory uses 14,1 GB of 64 GB (dedicated is 22 GB I guess), and my GPU (NVidia) uses 3% of 3D, dedicated 6,4 GB of 8 GB.

I hope I checked it via the right way, and that you see what I said here ;)

[numbat]

I don't trust the Task Manager for GPU usage. When playing TpF2, Task Manager tells me I'm at 25-40% GPU, whereas GeForce performance overlay tells me I'm at 99% GPU.

Your 3% does not sound right at all, especially with the fps that you're reporting.

[mlmcdougal]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fDXt7FQ_6g

[Driver Kaldie]

引用自 mlmcdougal：

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fDXt7FQ_6g

Thanks, but I already use this mod...

[mlmcdougal]

引用自 Driver Kaldie：

引用自 mlmcdougal：

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fDXt7FQ_6g

Thanks, but I already use this mod...

Did you "tighten in" the settings, instead of accepting the defaults?

[Jones]

If you are familiar with Bios settings, check your RAM XMP settings. If it is not enabled, your RAM might slow your system down in that case. Youtube should have guides how you can change it

[Metacritical]

XMP might be called DOCP or EOCP on your motherboard

[Driver Kaldie]

It's running a lot better now...I think it was because of a mod by Hugedragon.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3159618428
This mod...When I took it out, the game started to run better.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3159618517
By now this station is connected to ten tracks in both directions and the 50 trains and 20 or so trucks now run smooth...I still get to 70-80 fps sometimes.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3159619291
A few trains passing by without lag or stutter...

So I guess all of the other things I did via that website and along with the performance mod it worked out pretty well...I am still going to look to some other options if it starts again, but so far I wish to thank everybody for their help so far.

[Tsubame ⭐]

Mods are not optimized for performance, many mods, in particular vehicle mods, are very texture heavy and may be more demanding than vanilla counterparts.

Though at 6.4 GB vRAM of 8, on a decent GPU, there should have still be some room before stuttering is very noticeable.

Still, glad you fixed the issue.

[brahiam_83]

引用自 Driver Kaldie：

Vulkan

Did you tested with OpenGL?

[Zapp]

Sigh.

You should have tested by starting a new completely vanilla map, no mods whatsoever.

Then add mods ONE AT A TIME. Try and test. If the game still runs well, save and load with one more mod enabled. Repeat.

You would have found the offending mod much much quicker.