How can I minimize stuttering?

[i am ultra]

Hello,

Been playing for about a week now, no horrible performance issues so far except for the weird stuttering and completely random FPS Drops. Stuttering is mainly seen when I'm walking around and discovering new areas, and sometimes just randomly in cutscenes.

A few examples would be:

Stuttering when moving the party around in the monastery in Risen Road where you find the attacked Flaming Fists. But when standing still in the area, FPS stabilizes.

Stuttering during the cutscene where you find Volo in the Goblin Camp. No stuttering or any performance issues prior to the cutscene, but once you engage in a conversation with Volo the FPS goes wild (50-100 FPS stutters)

Random FPS drop outside of Emerald Grove after first fight, reloading the save will stabilize the FPS back to normal.

Random FPS drop in any area actually, when you move between areas to quickly. Reloading save will stabilize FPS.

Random stuttering whenever Cloud of Daggers is zoomed in on during a fight.

Random stuttering during 2nd dream cutscene with guardian, FPS fluctuates between 50 to 130. (I reloaded the entire cutscene, stutters are still present despite reloading save a couple of times)

Are these bugs? Or just how the game performs? Some of these instances I think are bugs, like the cutscenes specifically.

I don't have a high-end rig but I think it's more than enough to handle the game without any issues, despite the slight CPU bottleneck (depends on the game). Here are my specs:

CPU: R5 5600G OC (very slight Overclock, like so eensy weensy)
GPU: RX 7600 8 GB (Undervolted)
16 GB RAM
Kingston M.2 NVME 1TB

I also swapped out the GPU and tested the game on an RX 6600, stuttering was still present, especially during those two specific cutscenes I mentioned.

Using Rivatuner to cap the FPS helps a bit but the random FPS drops destabilize the FPS.

Without the FPS cap, I average around 80 FPS according to afterburner but it greatly depends on the area. The lowest I've seen while uncapped was in the low 70s around the swamp area. Usually the game runs between 90 to 120 FPS (it constantly stay within that area). Uncapped has a lot of microstutters though so I prefer to cap it to my refresh rate which is 75hz.

I run the game on DX11, Vulkan has more stutters but it does give me slightly more FPS. Overall, DX11 is smoother at the cost of maybe 5-10 FPS from my experience.

Any tips to get rid of stuttering? Any help would be great, thanks ahead.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by 𝔟𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔦𝔫𝙸𝚅:

How can I minimize stuttering?
Hello,

Been playing for about a week now, no horrible performance issues so far except for the weird stuttering and completely random FPS Drops. Stuttering is mainly seen when I'm walking around and discovering new areas, and sometimes just randomly in cutscenes.

A few examples would be:

Stuttering when moving the party around in the monastery in Risen Road where you find the attacked Flaming Fists. But when standing still in the area, FPS stabilizes.

Stuttering during the cutscene where you find Volo in the Goblin Camp. No stuttering or any performance issues prior to the cutscene, but once you engage in a conversation with Volo the FPS goes wild (50-100 FPS stutters)

Random FPS drop outside of Emerald Grove after first fight, reloading the save will stabilize the FPS back to normal.

Random FPS drop in any area actually, when you move between areas to quickly. Reloading save will stabilize FPS.

Random stuttering whenever Cloud of Daggers is zoomed in on during a fight.

Random stuttering during 2nd dream cutscene with guardian, FPS fluctuates between 50 to 130. (I reloaded the entire cutscene, stutters are still present despite reloading save a couple of times)

Are these bugs? Or just how the game performs? Some of these instances I think are bugs, like the cutscenes specifically.

I don't have a high-end rig but I think it's more than enough to handle the game without any issues, despite the slight CPU bottleneck (depends on the game). Here are my specs:

CPU: R5 5600G OC (very slight Overclock, like so eensy weensy)
GPU: RX 7600 8 GB (Undervolted)
16 GB RAM
Kingston M.2 NVME 1TB

I also swapped out the GPU and tested the game on an RX 6600, stuttering was still present, especially during those two specific cutscenes I mentioned.

Using Rivatuner to cap the FPS helps a bit but the random FPS drops destabilize the FPS.

Without the FPS cap, I average around 80 FPS according to afterburner but it greatly depends on the area. The lowest I've seen while uncapped was in the low 70s around the swamp area. Usually the game runs between 90 to 120 FPS (it constantly stay within that area). Uncapped has a lot of microstutters though so I prefer to cap it to my refresh rate which is 75hz.

I run the game on DX11, Vulkan has more stutters but it does give me slightly more FPS. Overall, DX11 is smoother at the cost of maybe 5-10 FPS from my experience.

Any tips to get rid of stuttering? Any help would be great, thanks ahead.

Based on what you wrote, use this and try again
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3031161135
there is more that can be done, but try that first

[i am ultra]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Originally posted by 𝔟𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔦𝔫𝙸𝚅:

How can I minimize stuttering?
Hello,

Been playing for about a week now, no horrible performance issues so far except for the weird stuttering and completely random FPS Drops. Stuttering is mainly seen when I'm walking around and discovering new areas, and sometimes just randomly in cutscenes.

A few examples would be:

Stuttering when moving the party around in the monastery in Risen Road where you find the attacked Flaming Fists. But when standing still in the area, FPS stabilizes.

Stuttering during the cutscene where you find Volo in the Goblin Camp. No stuttering or any performance issues prior to the cutscene, but once you engage in a conversation with Volo the FPS goes wild (50-100 FPS stutters)

Random FPS drop outside of Emerald Grove after first fight, reloading the save will stabilize the FPS back to normal.

Random FPS drop in any area actually, when you move between areas to quickly. Reloading save will stabilize FPS.

Random stuttering whenever Cloud of Daggers is zoomed in on during a fight.

Random stuttering during 2nd dream cutscene with guardian, FPS fluctuates between 50 to 130. (I reloaded the entire cutscene, stutters are still present despite reloading save a couple of times)

Are these bugs? Or just how the game performs? Some of these instances I think are bugs, like the cutscenes specifically.

I don't have a high-end rig but I think it's more than enough to handle the game without any issues, despite the slight CPU bottleneck (depends on the game). Here are my specs:

CPU: R5 5600G OC (very slight Overclock, like so eensy weensy)
GPU: RX 7600 8 GB (Undervolted)
16 GB RAM
Kingston M.2 NVME 1TB

I also swapped out the GPU and tested the game on an RX 6600, stuttering was still present, especially during those two specific cutscenes I mentioned.

Using Rivatuner to cap the FPS helps a bit but the random FPS drops destabilize the FPS.

Without the FPS cap, I average around 80 FPS according to afterburner but it greatly depends on the area. The lowest I've seen while uncapped was in the low 70s around the swamp area. Usually the game runs between 90 to 120 FPS (it constantly stay within that area). Uncapped has a lot of microstutters though so I prefer to cap it to my refresh rate which is 75hz.

I run the game on DX11, Vulkan has more stutters but it does give me slightly more FPS. Overall, DX11 is smoother at the cost of maybe 5-10 FPS from my experience.

Any tips to get rid of stuttering? Any help would be great, thanks ahead.

Based on what you wrote, use this and try again
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3031161135
there is more that can be done, but try that first

Thank you, will look into this.

You think the devs will make an official fix for this though?

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by 𝔟𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔦𝔫𝙸𝚅:

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Based on what you wrote, use this and try again
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3031161135
there is more that can be done, but try that first

Thank you, will look into this.

You think the devs will make an official fix for this though?

Hm... Uncertain. It is one of those issues where the main issue lies with Windows, and less the game. Think of it like cereals in a bowl where the cereals represent the game and the bowl the OS. If the bowl has a leakage, what kind of cereal you need to fix the bowl?

In addition to the tool linked above try also setting the process priority for the game to high. Especially with Windows 11 it helps. And yes, plenty of users have dumb performance issues with Windows 11. Because they do not understand the new Windows standards and what comes with that.

[RealDealBreaker]

Speech therapy

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by RealDealBreaker:

Speech therapy

King George approves, but it is not about speech stuttering

[Dragon Master]

Well, I minimize stuttering by speaking a little slower than I normally do, think about what I say before I say it and....oh, graphical stuttering. lol.

[talemore]

Bigger graphic card and run it on the memory

[i am ultra]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Originally posted by 𝔟𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔦𝔫𝙸𝚅:

Thank you, will look into this.

You think the devs will make an official fix for this though?

Hm... Uncertain. It is one of those issues where the main issue lies with Windows, and less the game. Think of it like cereals in a bowl where the cereals represent the game and the bowl the OS. If the bowl has a leakage, what kind of cereal you need to fix the bowl?

In addition to the tool linked above try also setting the process priority for the game to high. Especially with Windows 11 it helps. And yes, plenty of users have dumb performance issues with Windows 11. Because they do not understand the new Windows standards and what comes with that.

Thanks, played with the tool you gave me for about 30 minutes a few hours ago. I don't know if there was a significant improvement on performance but the frametimes in the room in the monastery where the kobols are improved. Will do more testing to see if it actually works.

Windows 11 also causes issues with Red Dead Redemption 2, mainly with consistent GPU utilization. Hopefully Microsoft continues to optimize the OS because I don't want to downgrade back to Windows 10. :/

[Clovis Sangrail]

Originally posted by 𝔟𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔦𝔫𝙸𝚅:

How can I minimize stuttering?

Demosthenese put pebbles in his mouth. You could try that.