Potential Stuttering fix

[=NOR= RoyTT [✚]]

Find your "Engine.ini" file located in: \AppData\Local\DuneSandbox\Saved\Config\WindowsClient

Remove anything in it and add this:

[SystemSettings]
r.ShaderPipelineCache.StartupMode=3
r.ShaderPipelineCache.Enabled=1
r.ShaderPipelineCache.ReportPSO=0
r.AllowMultiThreadedShaderCreation=1
r.ThreadedShaderCompilation=1
r.OneFrameThreadLag=1
r.FinishCurrentFrame=0
r.VSync=0
r.Streaming.LimitPoolSizeToVRAM=1
r.Streaming.UseBackgroundThreadPool=1
r.Streaming.UseNewMetrics=1
r.Streaming.MaxMipLevelReduction=1
s.AsyncLoadingThreadEnabled=1
s.EventDrivenLoaderEnabled=1
s.ProcessPrestreamingRequests=1
r.Nanite.Streaming.Async=1
r.Nanite.MaxNodes=1048576
r.Lumen.Reflections.Allow=1
r.Lumen.DiffuseIndirect.Allow=1
r.GTSyncType=2
r.DumpGPU=0

(No need to set to readonly, game wont change the file)

!!Delete the "DuneSandbox_PCD3D_SM6.upipelinecache" in "\AppData\Local\DuneSandbox\Saved" before launching your game!!

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In the same folder as Engine.ini you will see a Input.ini.
Its optional but if you want to remove the games mouse smoothing paste this:

[Settings.Input]
bDisableMouseAcceleration=1
bEnableMouseSmoothing=0
bViewAccelerationEnabled=0
RawMouseInputEnabled=1

If you already got a line with [Settings.Input]
Just add the other lines of code under it.
Thanks @catch22atplay

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For more advanced players, there is another "fix" you can try, could help alot or not at all.
Go to your windows defender settings and put the dune game folder AND the dune folder in local appdata as an exception.

Hope this helps someone as much as it did me :)
Game still stutters here and there but i can finally play without force landing my orni because of 1 rock loading in...

[catch22atplay]

mouse smoothing needs to be in the [settings.input] top group but not the top as in not above it. For UE games we usually add all these. Especially the disable mouse smoothing and enabling raw mouse input.

[Settings.Input]
bDisableMouseAcceleration=1
bEnableMouseSmoothing=0
bViewAccelerationEnabled=0
RawMouseInputEnabled=1

[=NOR= RoyTT [✚]]

Originally posted by catch22atplay:

mouse smoothing needs to be in the [settings.input] top group but not the top as in not above it. For UE games we usually add all these. Especially the disable mouse smoothing and enabling raw mouse input.

[Settings.Input]
bDisableMouseAcceleration=1
bEnableMouseSmoothing=0
bViewAccelerationEnabled=0
RawMouseInputEnabled=1

You are totaly right :) thanks!

[=NOR= RoyTT [✚]]

Please feel free to share if anyone else find any fixes etc :)

[Ghazghkull]

Tried it today, it felt like I had less stuttering in the game with those settings.

Note : I didn't remove anything in Engine.ini, since I have some config in it. I've just added your part at the end.

[=NOR= RoyTT [✚]]

Originally posted by Ghazghkull:

Tried it today, it felt like I had less stuttering in the game with those settings.

Note : I didn't remove anything in Engine.ini, since I have some config in it. I've just added your part at the end.

I you had the old config from nexus mods claiming to boost performance and less stutters, that one actually causes more harm than good, i had rly bad fps and stuttering. Sendt it trough chatgpt and he confirmed it. He helped me make this preset i posted :)

[catch22atplay]

A lot of the UE ones on nexus are just the exact same ones they list for all UE games. And they throw the kitchen sink at it. Some make it worse. Some mess up the graphics. Some lower graphics settings so while it performs better it should as graphics are lowered. I do like the log removal and other unimportant stuff like that.

Don't use chatgpt. Each game will be different so it's kinda useless except for getting knowledge of what each setting can do.

So far only thing I use and like is below. It will increase vram usage by 1gb or so. I've not noticed if it helps stutters I just like to load as much as possible into vram. Most other settings do nothing or make it worse. Note 0=no limit. And 16gb gpu so no worries here.

[SystemSettings]
r.Streaming.PoolSize=0

[Serrel]

The Hitching is server side im pretty sure. There awful coding is FUBAR!

[Ghazghkull]

Originally posted by =NOR= RoyTT ✚:

Originally posted by Ghazghkull:

Tried it today, it felt like I had less stuttering in the game with those settings.

Note : I didn't remove anything in Engine.ini, since I have some config in it. I've just added your part at the end.

I you had the old config from nexus mods claiming to boost performance and less stutters, that one actually causes more harm than good, i had rly bad fps and stuttering. Sendt it trough chatgpt and he confirmed it. He helped me make this preset i posted :)

I don't any mod on this game, it's vanilla. Just saying that since my Engine.ini wasn't empty and things seemed to be important, I left it as is, I put your part in addition of it, and the result was less stuttering.

[Beans]

this actually helped me a lot! there's still weird stuttering when interacting with containers, but it's a ton better than what I was getting before, loading bases and ai doing stuff... it was really, really unplayable.

Thanks dude!

[blackhorse31]

Game was unplayable for me do to stuttering. I found a fix (for me) from the below vid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8OW_BcQlYE

I did 2 things: From the "DuneSandbox" file go into "Properties", Click the "Compatibility" tab, and I checked 2 boxes:
"Run this program in compatibility mode" (Windows 8)
"Disable fullscreen optimizations"

OK, I also did this for the "DuneSandbox-Win64-Shipping" file as it also came up as an executable.