Scrolling Jump/Stutter

[EightyEightMPH]

When scrolling the map, either screen edge or WASD, i get a moment of smooth then followed by a jump and so on. Game otherwise runs fine, graphics are all otherwise perfect.

PC more the capable of running it 4070ti + i9 etc... drivers all up to date as far as i'm concerned.

Tired tweaking about with a few of the games graphic settings but to no avail (screen res. motion blur. things like that)

Weirdly i tried to take a video with Windows/Xbox Gamebar screen record thing... and that seemed to smooth it out a little but prevented me from capturing the full effect! Turning that off and it starts again.

Doesn't make it unplayable, just a bit visually annoying! Any help or ideas appreciated.

[Neitsuke]

I was wondering why the game would stutter for myself too since I have a high end graphics card. That shouldn't happen
I looked in the settings and for some reason, the resolution was set absurdly high (3840 x 2160)
I've set it to native resolution and the stutter seems to be completely gone now

[RuinsEcho]

Turning off V-Sync has fixed it for many people including myself. 4070ti.

[Neitsuke]

I've tried it but then the game has horrendous screen tearing no matter what frame limit I set it to and that alone doesn't make it worth the trade off
I tried turning v-sync off from the game itself and use v-sync from NVidia directly but the issue still happens. Unfortunately changing the resolution helped at first but the stutter came back with the settlement getting bigger
The issue is obviously CPU related since the stutter/low FPS is a lot worse the moment I use the UI overlay to see all buildings and workers, while the GPU usage and temperature stays very low no matter what

[EightyEightMPH]

Originally posted by RuinsEcho:

Turning off V-Sync has fixed it for many people including myself. 4070ti.

I’ll try knocking vsync off and see how that goes. Not tried that yet 👍

[EightyEightMPH]

Originally posted by Neitsuke:

The issue is obviously CPU related since the stutter/low FPS is a lot worse the moment I use the UI overlay to see all buildings and workers, while the GPU usage and temperature stays very low no matter what

Same with the FPS. The in game counter and external testing show it barely drops below 100fps and it’s not even taxing the system load/temp wise.

I have Corsair/icue and wondered if it was that as it does the really cool RGB sync up with the game (a pleasant surprise) and icue shat itself during one play and crashed itself. I tried disabling that on a restart and that didn’t fix the stutter either.

Again it’s only the scrolling of the map. If you sit and watch, it’s 100%.

I’ll try some more resolution/vsync changes though.

[EightyEightMPH]

Update: Turning off VSync in the games Graphics Options looks to have solved the issue

[Blacksmith]

This was very helpful. Turning off VSync fixed the issue for me as well.

[Neitsuke]

I fiddled with the game some more by playing uncapped for a while and realized the stutter is the game itself having low framerates when scrolling, dipping below 60 from time to time. It's as if my CPU isn't powerful enough to handle the game, which shouldn't be the case. While I don't have a top CPU it should be more than enough to handle this sort of game

Edit : I checked for the recommended CPU for that game and they list a +5000 score CPU. My current CPU is +17 000. It really shouldn't be a problem then

[`Reaven]

I fixed it by tweaking screen mode (fullscreen, windowed fullscreen)... Until the stutters were gone.

[Neitsuke]

I played more around the settings and found out something weird
Graphics was set to medium thinking it would help. I decided to switch to low and see if the FPS would be better, and the FPS went from 100 to 60. This is while the game was set to uncapped FPS. Picked medium again, frames back to 100. Low, 60. While at low graphics, I toggled v-sync on and off, and FPS is now at 110

There seems to be something in settings that don't play along very well the moment you quit and load the game without touching anything, which in turn then causes the stutter

[IceTee]

Latest patch broke my v-sync settings. I have to force it manually via Nvidia control panel. Only window mode is working with forced v-sync. The other modes are not affected. I don't know what they do, but they completely broke it.

[Leisurely Luke]

Hey! As others reported, turning off VSync and setting the frame-rate cap (to e.g. 60 fps) or changing the VSync to half monitor rate in the game's Options should solve the issue as it seems to be connected to very high refresh rates.

The problem seems to be rooted deeply in the Unity engine version that we're using and we'll look for a workaround to this issue.

[小龙马]

Strange though, I never encounter such issue until now, and I've played for 80ish hours...

[Terminus]

Came here because I have this issue, so happy to see a resolution already posted. Thanks so much! Loving the game, time to get back to it.

[EightyEightMPH]

Can also confirm the same tweak on Steam Deck gives the same improvement.