Stuttering fix

[Jeffrey Bigman: Attorney at Law]

So i suspect that there is an issue with Playstation games and their PC ports when using a Xbox controller. IMO the steam input that is the default option for every game causes this. I had terrible stutter on Death Stranding which was fixed by disabling the steam input in the controller option. I also tried this with FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE and it has also resulted in a stutter free experience. I would suggest giving this a shot to get rid of the stuttering.

[Sonic 1 Naomi]

Originally posted by CM_Miquella:

So i suspect that there is an issue with Playstation games and their PC ports when using a Xbox controller. IMO the steam input that is the default option for every game causes this. I had terrible stutter on Death Stranding which was fixed by disabling the steam input in the controller option. I also tried this with FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE and it has also resulted in a stutter free experience. I would suggest giving this a shot to get rid of the stuttering.

how you do it?

[Jeffrey Bigman: Attorney at Law]

Go to your library, right click on Final fantasy VII remake intergrade, click on properties, select the controller tab on the left, on the drop down menu select "disable steam input". close the window and start the game. It should now be stutter free.

As stated before, I suspect this has something to do with the way that the Playstation games are ported to PC and there being an incompatibility with either the Xbox controller input or the steam input. It did the same for me with death stranding until i disabled this option, now, both games are stutter free.

[Jeffrey Bigman: Attorney at Law]

I have also enabled DX11 by adding -d3d11 to the launch options. To do this, simply follow the steps above, but instead of selecting the controller tab on the left, select the general tab. Launch options will be at the bottom on the right.

[MoonlitDNC]

I personally have been playing with Steam input disabled since it breaks the XB360 pad's Xinput vibration feature. Without it disabled, the gamepad wont shake while Cloud swings his sword.

Back on Final Fantasy 15's Steam release, one of the big issues I recall SpecialK having to help fix was that SE has implemented an over-aggressive controller API call of some kind, that would be constantly checking for a switch between keyboard & gamepad EVERY. SINGLE. FRAME. of gameplay, causing terrible performance and for the UI icons to constantly be flickering. So if Steam input is causing similar performance issues here, I'm not shocked - it's unfortunately standard for an SE release of the magnitude.

[MahouKurein]

You are a LEGEND my friend! Combining disabling steam input + forcing the game to open with -d3d11 fixed my in-game stuttering with a gaming PC that I have! All is left is still some rare stutter during cutscenes, but hey, i'll take it and I didn't have to waste much time with options and stuff for this fix. Thank you, this thread should be very up high so people can see it! I can also say I had the same issue with other games about steam input but I didn't even think to try that out this time. Great catch!

[Kaldaien]

Correct. Steam Input is terrible for performance.

[Tr0w]

I'm using a dual sense and it stutters so the Xbox controller isn't the issue, it stuttered on my 3070, and it still stutters on my 4070Ti. UE4 is a cursed engine on PC.

[MahouKurein]

Originally posted by Tr0w:

I'm using a dual sense and it stutters so the Xbox controller isn't the issue, it stuttered on my 3070, and it still stutters on my 4070Ti. UE4 is a cursed engine on PC.

The porting is terrible and that's a fact, but the options provided by the op may fix for some and they're better than nothing.

[u_ku_shu]

My stuttering is terrible

https://youtu.be/B7BAQUdcy2I

I can run game and it will show me 80-110 FPS but still will get stuttering 3-6 times a second!

AMD FX-8350
Saphire RX5700 PULSE Tri-X
32GB ram
Win 10

and this is absolutely sure not a Videocard and not driver issue, because of:
1) there is no stuttering on another pc with same videocard (max quality 4k display)
2) there is no difference this is max quality or min quality settings. No difference this is 2k or 640x480
3) There is no game stuttering in half of scenes. And stuttering can appear in not "difficult scenes", but also in really simple scenes like "7 heaven" interior. And just after game run there is no stuttering at all until I first change camera position.
4) There was no stuttering before scene on the video. So all time up to first boss is going smoothly. But after - stuttering on almost each game scene. Absolutely sure this is software problem, but not hardware.

Tried:
* last 10~ videocard driver versions
* Disable of Xbox Controller and steam input
* Change graphix quality to minimum
* run with DX1 ( -d3d11 )
* Fullscreen/window mode

Absolutely horrible game optimisation.
Square enix, WHERE ARE FIXES?

[MahouKurein]

Originally posted by u_ku_shu:

My stuttering is terrible

https://youtu.be/B7BAQUdcy2I

I can run game and it will show me 80-110 FPS but still will get stuttering 3-6 times a second!

AMD FX-8350
Saphire RX5700 PULSE Tri-X
32GB ram
Win 10

and this is absolutely sure not a Videocard and not driver issue, because of:
1) there is no stuttering on another pc with same videocard
2) there is no difference this is max quality or min quality settings. No difference this is 2k or 640x480
3) There is no game stuttering in half of scenes. And stuttering can appear in not "difficult scenes", but also in really simple scenes like "7 heaven" interior. And just after game run there is no stuttering at all until I first change camera position.
4) There was no stuttering before scene on the video. So all time up to first boss is going smoothly. But after - stuttering on almost each game scene. Absolutely sure this is software problem, but not hardware.

Tried:
* last 10~ videocard driver versions
* Disable of Xbox Controller and steam input
* Change graphix quality to minimum
* run with DX1 ( -d3d11 )
* Fullscreen/window mode

Absolutely horrible game optimisation.
Square enix, WHERE ARE FIXES?

I don't know if you're gonna find it useful but having much space on my SSD made the game play much smoother for me. Try that as well!

[u_ku_shu]

Originally posted by MahouKurein:

I don't know if you're gonna find it useful but having much space on my SSD made the game play much smoother for me. Try that as well!

This is is only game locaded on SSD, other games located on HDD.

Half of SSD is empty space (>240 GB).

But thanks for a try.

[Henry]

Here's what worked for me. In Library, right click on Final Fantasy 7 remake, go properties, under "general", which should be the first, there's a space under "launch options", in that space write: -d3d11

I also disabled "steam Input for Xboxcontrollers" in the "general controller settings". also library, right click, controller, "go to general controller settings"

[Nasedo]

Originally posted by MahouKurein:

Originally posted by u_ku_shu:

My stuttering is terrible

https://youtu.be/B7BAQUdcy2I

I can run game and it will show me 80-110 FPS but still will get stuttering 3-6 times a second!

AMD FX-8350
Saphire RX5700 PULSE Tri-X
32GB ram
Win 10

and this is absolutely sure not a Videocard and not driver issue, because of:
1) there is no stuttering on another pc with same videocard
2) there is no difference this is max quality or min quality settings. No difference this is 2k or 640x480
3) There is no game stuttering in half of scenes. And stuttering can appear in not "difficult scenes", but also in really simple scenes like "7 heaven" interior. And just after game run there is no stuttering at all until I first change camera position.
4) There was no stuttering before scene on the video. So all time up to first boss is going smoothly. But after - stuttering on almost each game scene. Absolutely sure this is software problem, but not hardware.

Tried:
* last 10~ videocard driver versions
* Disable of Xbox Controller and steam input
* Change graphix quality to minimum
* run with DX1 ( -d3d11 )
* Fullscreen/window mode

Absolutely horrible game optimisation.
Square enix, WHERE ARE FIXES?

I don't know if you're gonna find it useful but having much space on my SSD made the game play much smoother for me. Try that as well!

The reason why most people are have problems with PC games is because their windows isn't optimized
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUEY4MCLr18
you take this guy for an example, he has top of the line hardware but most likely the settings for windows are not configured correctly or he has tons of stuff running in the background taking up system resources, it could be a number of things.

if you know how to config your windows and PC properly then PC games could run much better then Consoles and they generally do.

if your not a tech guy then just get a console, much easier for you to just update the firmware, download the game and just play.

[u_ku_shu]

Originally posted by Nasedo:

if you know how to config your windows and PC properly then PC games could run much better then Consoles and they generally do.

if your not a tech guy then just get a console, much easier for you to just update the firmware, download the game and just play.

No, this IS NOT THE REASON.

I'm software developer >8 years, I know how to configure my windows. In my autoRun there are only only 3 or 4 enabled apps. And all of them are lightweight. CPU used in most of time it is 2-3% (only 1 core, other 7 is 0%). RAM used less than 6 GB (I have 32)

* Any other AAA game works well on maximum settings (or close to maximum). Any of 3 last tomb raiders, Resident Evil 2 remaster, Resident evil Village, MGS5, Death Stranding, etc works well without any lag even from HDD. So how can it be that my PC is configured correctly for other AAA games but not configured "correctly" for FFVII located on HDD/SSD? (i tried both)

* And how you can explain in case of computer does not configured properly -- smooth 80-110 FPS up to death of first boss? But any scene after is with horibble luggs with the same 80-110 FPS ? My computer doing some magic in some scenes to create stuttering of game and reconfigure my PC, but works well on another scenes of game? And displays oncorrect FPS counter because of incorrect windows configuration?)

Absolutely insane to say that problem is in windows configuration in my situation.

[u_ku_shu]

Originally posted by Henry:

Here's what worked for me. In Library, right click on Final Fantasy 7 remake, go properties, under "general", which should be the first, there's a space under "launch options", in that space write: -d3d11

I also disabled "steam Input for Xboxcontrollers" in the "general controller settings". also library, right click, controller, "go to general controller settings"

already tried before posting those message. Does not work.