Stutter Issues

[Nikshay]

Heyy Everyone! I know it's kinda late but I am facing some stutter issues on my laptop, previously I played the game on the same laptop using a cracked version and the game was running very smoothly (45-50 fps) but recently I purchased the game and now am facing stuttering issues, I have tried most of the methods online(like stutter mod, setting fps limit in nvidia control panel etc.) but still the issue persists. When I boot the game it works pretty fine at start smooth 40 fps with textures on ultra and rest all settings at medium but after around 20 mins mark the game window kind of exits to desktop and then return to the game again, and after that fps drops (I get around 20-25 fps with stutters). If anyone knows how to fix it, it would be a great help.

My specs:
Processor: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-11400H @ 2.70GHz 2.69 GHz
RAM: 16 GB
GPU: RTX 3050 4gb vram

I know these specs are pretty low by 2024's standards, but it is what I have at the moment. [*Also Note: The game ran pretty fine on the same specs while using the pirated version].
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

[Nikshay]

Originally posted by Joker:

This game stuttered on my new Asus gaming laptop with Intel 13th gen CPU, 16GB RAM and NVIDIA 4000 series GPU. It runs much smoother on my custom built desktop PC. Laptops are not all that good for gaming. It's a good idea to get a cooling pad for laptops. They are very prone to overheating. Desktops have much better cooling. It can be weird when a game stutters and why. I had a game stutter to the point of unplayable on my laptop. I uninstalled the game and reinstalled it a couple of weeks later. The game suddenly was playing much smoother from simply uninstalling and re-downloading the game. idk lol

Yeah it kinda sucks when you don't know the reason of the stutter. Though, I have tried using the install/uninstall method it didn't help either, I'll try to get a cool pad for my laptop though to see anything changes. Thanks for the help though.

[Sam]

Originally posted by Nikshay:

Originally posted by Joker:

This game stuttered on my new Asus gaming laptop with Intel 13th gen CPU, 16GB RAM and NVIDIA 4000 series GPU. It runs much smoother on my custom built desktop PC. Laptops are not all that good for gaming. It's a good idea to get a cooling pad for laptops. They are very prone to overheating. Desktops have much better cooling. It can be weird when a game stutters and why. I had a game stutter to the point of unplayable on my laptop. I uninstalled the game and reinstalled it a couple of weeks later. The game suddenly was playing much smoother from simply uninstalling and re-downloading the game. idk lol

Yeah it kinda sucks when you don't know the reason of the stutter. Though, I have tried using the install/uninstall method it didn't help either, I'll try to get a cool pad for my laptop though to see anything changes. Thanks for the help though.

Any chance you use apps like Icue, or other hardware monitoring apps? I have had stutter for a long time, although mostly not major, at least out side of Saint Denis, that is. What I have found though is that Icue seems to be an issue, at least in part. I also normally play using MSI Afterburner, to watch things like temps. I found something on reddit from 4 years back mentioning they had an issue with a hardware monitoring app(HWInfo) polling a particular SuperIO chip on their board. Said the solution was to disable monitoring that chip. Unfortunately, that took away monitoring voltages, temperature and fan speeds, but at least worked.

[O.M.D.B]

Originally posted by Sam:

Originally posted by Nikshay:

Yeah it kinda sucks when you don't know the reason of the stutter. Though, I have tried using the install/uninstall method it didn't help either, I'll try to get a cool pad for my laptop though to see anything changes. Thanks for the help though.

Any chance you use apps like Icue, or other hardware monitoring apps? I have had stutter for a long time, although mostly not major, at least out side of Saint Denis, that is. What I have found though is that Icue seems to be an issue, at least in part. I also normally play using MSI Afterburner, to watch things like temps. I found something on reddit from 4 years back mentioning they had an issue with a hardware monitoring app(HWInfo) polling a particular SuperIO chip on their board. Said the solution was to disable monitoring that chip. Unfortunately, that took away monitoring voltages, temperature and fan speeds, but at least worked.

Wait.. this worked for you?

[Nikshay]

Originally posted by Sam:

Originally posted by Nikshay:

Yeah it kinda sucks when you don't know the reason of the stutter. Though, I have tried using the install/uninstall method it didn't help either, I'll try to get a cool pad for my laptop though to see anything changes. Thanks for the help though.

Any chance you use apps like Icue, or other hardware monitoring apps? I have had stutter for a long time, although mostly not major, at least out side of Saint Denis, that is. What I have found though is that Icue seems to be an issue, at least in part. I also normally play using MSI Afterburner, to watch things like temps. I found something on reddit from 4 years back mentioning they had an issue with a hardware monitoring app(HWInfo) polling a particular SuperIO chip on their board. Said the solution was to disable monitoring that chip. Unfortunately, that took away monitoring voltages, temperature and fan speeds, but at least worked.

No am not using anything at the moment, I have also turned off the nvidia overlay and steam overlay too because i've heard that they can cause some fps drops. But still nothing helped much.

[Sam]

Originally posted by Nikshay:

Originally posted by Sam:

Any chance you use apps like Icue, or other hardware monitoring apps? I have had stutter for a long time, although mostly not major, at least out side of Saint Denis, that is. What I have found though is that Icue seems to be an issue, at least in part. I also normally play using MSI Afterburner, to watch things like temps. I found something on reddit from 4 years back mentioning they had an issue with a hardware monitoring app(HWInfo) polling a particular SuperIO chip on their board. Said the solution was to disable monitoring that chip. Unfortunately, that took away monitoring voltages, temperature and fan speeds, but at least worked.

No am not using anything at the moment, I have also turned off the nvidia overlay and steam overlay too because i've heard that they can cause some fps drops. But still nothing helped much.

Have you also checked your RAM and VRAM usage in game? What I have noticed is that it seems that this game eats a lot of RAM. I saw my end hit 13GB in this game alone, which seems rather high, higher than I remember at least. It also seems that when it is high like this, I see more stutter, despite not being maxed out. Maybe you are having the same issue. Seems like a traditional memory leak, if so.

[Code3volved]

I have 30 hours without stutter and the same computer setup, suddenly i get a game stutter every so often to the point where the game isnt even fun to play anymore. What changed?!

[Sam]

Originally posted by Code3volved:

I have 30 hours without stutter and the same computer setup, suddenly i get a game stutter every so often to the point where the game isnt even fun to play anymore. What changed?!

A lot of what I have read was that the game was hit hard after the Naturalist Update. This patch was released on July 28, 2020. Now, other things can cause issues like this, GPU drivers, other apps running on your PC.

From my experience, the most stutter I see is near and in the towns. Outside of towns, the game usually runs fine. You can visibly see a frametime spike with Afterburner when it happens. Still trying to see what can be done, or if this is one of those things that only R* can fix(They probably won't).

Testing this mod, so far so good, but have not put a lot of hours into testing yet, but Saint Denis runs a lot better so far. If you are willing to try, here is the link;

https://www.nexusmods.com/reddeadredemption2/mods/5280?tab=description&BH=1

[Nikshay]

Originally posted by Code3volved:

I have 30 hours without stutter and the same computer setup, suddenly i get a game stutter every so often to the point where the game isnt even fun to play anymore. What changed?!

Idk what is wrong with this game, for me it ran pretty fine during the introduction after that it was just a stutterfest, No fixes yet for me.

[Nikshay]

Originally posted by Sam:

Originally posted by Code3volved:

I have 30 hours without stutter and the same computer setup, suddenly i get a game stutter every so often to the point where the game isnt even fun to play anymore. What changed?!

A lot of what I have read was that the game was hit hard after the Naturalist Update. This patch was released on July 28, 2020. Now, other things can cause issues like this, GPU drivers, other apps running on your PC.

From my experience, the most stutter I see is near and in the towns. Outside of towns, the game usually runs fine. You can visibly see a frametime spike with Afterburner when it happens. Still trying to see what can be done, or if this is one of those things that only R* can fix(They probably won't).

Testing this mod, so far so good, but have not put a lot of hours into testing yet, but Saint Denis runs a lot better so far. If you are willing to try, here is the link;

https://www.nexusmods.com/reddeadredemption2/mods/5280?tab=description&BH=1

I used the original stutter fix mod, it stabled the game a bit but did not remove the stutter problem completely, will try using this mod too to check if it helps. Thanks for the help though.

[Nikshay]

Originally posted by Sam:

Originally posted by Nikshay:

No am not using anything at the moment, I have also turned off the nvidia overlay and steam overlay too because i've heard that they can cause some fps drops. But still nothing helped much.

Have you also checked your RAM and VRAM usage in game? What I have noticed is that it seems that this game eats a lot of RAM. I saw my end hit 13GB in this game alone, which seems rather high, higher than I remember at least. It also seems that when it is high like this, I see more stutter, despite not being maxed out. Maybe you are having the same issue. Seems like a traditional memory leak, if so.

Will check it when I play it again. Thanks for the suggestion.

[lopkiu2000]

Originally posted by Nikshay:

Heyy Everyone! I know it's kinda late but I am facing some stutter issues on my laptop, previously I played the game on the same laptop using a cracked version and the game was running very smoothly (45-50 fps) but recently I purchased the game and now am facing stuttering issues, I have tried most of the methods online(like stutter mod, setting fps limit in nvidia control panel etc.) but still the issue persists. When I boot the game it works pretty fine at start smooth 40 fps with textures on ultra and rest all settings at medium but after around 20 mins mark the game window kind of exits to desktop and then return to the game again, and after that fps drops (I get around 20-25 fps with stutters). If anyone knows how to fix it, it would be a great help.

My specs:
Processor: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-11400H @ 2.70GHz 2.69 GHz
RAM: 16 GB
GPU: RTX 3050 4gb vram

I know these specs are pretty low by 2024's standards, but it is what I have at the moment. [*Also Note: The game ran pretty fine on the same specs while using the pirated version].
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Go with the pirated version if it works. You paid for a full version but RockStar will never fix it. Go with what works.

I have tried every fix I can find for over a year and nothing works for long. I even reformatted HD and reinstalled windows. Did not work.

What is weird for me is some days I can play for hours at a time with no issues. Other days i can't play more then 5 min. so I know it has nothing to do with over heating.

IMPORTANT ... make sure every single person who reads this, post a review on Steam telling people NOT to get the game. Just click that little thumbs down button.