Game is not playable

[Barmatyr]

The curse of console gaming strike again. Returnal is just not playable.

Even with recommended machine, lowest setting, massively limited framerate (25fps). The game is able to lag and stutter. Killing the run 100%, time go by even when you have no frame.

No way to play it. oh...or maybe bying the expensive trash that are called console !

[Agathocles69]

Sad to hear that you have no luck with Returnal:(

You say you have a recommended rig, what are the specs? My rig is RTX 2070s, AMD 3600 XT, SSD, 16 GiG Ram, Win 10 professional. (play in 1080p, with High-epic settings, vsync activated)

Have no stutters and no crash/freezes to the present point. Beaten the game.

But, beside of asking your specs, i know the stutters and etc. My luck was, i never had them.

have a look here, maybe it will help you, good luck:

https://www.sportskeeda.com/esports/returnal-pc-stuttering-performance-issues-how-fix-possible-reasons

[Lince_SPAIN]

Originally posted by Agathocles69:

Sad to hear that you have no luck with Returnal:(

You say you have a recommended rig, what are the specs? My rig is RTX 2070s, AMD 3600 XT, SSD, 16 GiG Ram, Win 10 professional. (play in 1080p, with High-epic settings, vsync activated)

Have no stutters and no crash/freezes to the present point. Beaten the game.

But, beside of asking your specs, i know the stutters and etc. My luck was, i never had them.

have a look here, maybe it will help you, good luck:

https://www.sportskeeda.com/esports/returnal-pc-stuttering-performance-issues-how-fix-possible-reasons

record a video with an uncapped framerate and then we'll believe you, no offense but your CPU and GPU are not exactly the best and stutters are mostly caused by lack of CPU optimization while loading assets, chances are you're playing at 60 fps with a controller and not uncapped fps with kb&M

[Agathocles69]

Originally posted by Lince_SPAIN:

Originally posted by Agathocles69:

Sad to hear that you have no luck with Returnal:(

You say you have a recommended rig, what are the specs? My rig is RTX 2070s, AMD 3600 XT, SSD, 16 GiG Ram, Win 10 professional. (play in 1080p, with High-epic settings, vsync activated)

Have no stutters and no crash/freezes to the present point. Beaten the game.

But, beside of asking your specs, i know the stutters and etc. My luck was, i never had them.

have a look here, maybe it will help you, good luck:

https://www.sportskeeda.com/esports/returnal-pc-stuttering-performance-issues-how-fix-possible-reasons

record a video with an uncapped framerate and then we'll believe you, no offense but your CPU and GPU are not exactly the best and stutters are mostly caused by lack of CPU optimization while loading assets, chances are you're playing at 60 fps with a controller and not uncapped fps with kb&M

no need for this effort, sorry dude. i wanted to help and provide my thoughts on OP's topic. that was it, its not important if you or anyone else believe what i say. (why you talk about a "we" believe you?, its you who not believe ...lol)

i provided a link ...with this i tweaked my game, that was it. i have a 6 core cpu(12 threads), which is absolutely ok for this game to play in 1080p (high specs). as i said, maybe iam lucky...no stutters, no freezes.. over and out.

[Iron|Cu!]

9600K, RTX 2070


playing on tweaked high settings 1920x1080

75->120 fps. Average about 85

Zero issues but sometimes game feels less smooth, bit other than that, working fine

[Agathocles69]

Originally posted by Iron|Cu!:

9600K, RTX 2070


playing on tweaked high settings 1920x1080

75->120 fps. Average about 85

Zero issues but sometimes game feels less smooth, bit other than that, working fine

same for me! :)

[Barmatyr]

My bad, i'm below recommended config, RX6500 XT 12Gb instead of RX6700 XT 12Gb and CPU Ryzen 5600X 6 core instead of Ryzen 7 3600 8 core. I should not complain the game is unplayable. Still 1920x1080, lowest setting, 25fps limited, i have frame drop and stutter... it's really deadly in this game. And using mouse keyboard obviously.

[p0k314NET]

Zero problem with framerate here. BUT. Multiplayer stability do not exist. Crash after quit from game.

[IchigoMait]

I have rtx 2070, i7 8700k.
And I've maxed out all settings, including raytracing, everythings at epic.
@1080p, with dlss quality. I get constant 60-70fps, minor sudden drops don't concern me.
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/2049739361230829355/9A2B8FBE4BAE871FB08B7009FC53D6E56E4C530E/

[C1REX]

I've found this benchmark online with 6 core CPU and lower tier GPU. (before patch)
If somebody is OK with RT off and 60fps then it can be fine. Especially when using a controller. Depends how sensitive somebody is and how good VRR people have in their monitors. What is interesting is how different results people get. Some people get completely different FrameTime graph's spikes on a similar setup. I wonder what makes such big difference.

https://youtu.be/Lj-wtFxeJB8
He could get noticably better performance with High settings instead of Epic.

I personally have 16core 3950x and Radeon 5700xt and the game feels surprisingly good for me. Upscaled to 1440p, High settings. capped at 60fps and using a controller. Feels like upgraded ps5 or at least not worse than that.

I think that people on high end PCs with way higher standard and expectations can be more disappointed. 1frame traversal stutter is not a big deal but few frames drops when moving your mouse can feel horrible.

[Lince_SPAIN]

Of course 60 fps cap + controller hides a lot of stutters below 16.5 milliseconds, but the thing about PC is being able to play at least at 90 fps or uncapped fps with m&k controls.
The game has an fps slider for a reason, Digital Foundry called the devs out on the stuttering that appears playing at 70+ fps, don't tell me they are wrong and can't "handle their games", devs acknowledged the stuttering and are allegedly working on a patch.

In my opinion the players who claim "my game is fine" are all on average hardware playing at 1080p and 60fps cap, that's just like a 2013 smartphone.

I can't find a video anywhere of someone playing at uncapped fps with no stuttering. There's none.

[C1REX]

Originally posted by Lince_SPAIN:

Of course 60 fps cap + controller hides a lot of stutters below 16.5 milliseconds, but the thing about PC is being able to play at least at 90 fps or uncapped fps with m&k controls.
The game has an fps slider for a reason, Digital Foundry called the devs out on the stuttering that appears playing at 70+ fps, don't tell me they are wrong and can't "handle their games", devs acknowledged the stuttering and are allegedly working on a patch.

In my opinion the players who claim "my game is fine" are all on average hardware playing at 1080p and 60fps cap, that's just like a 2013 smartphone.

I can't find a video anywhere of someone playing at uncapped fps with no stuttering. There's none.

I think nearly every new single player game stutters. I’m not even sure if it’s possible to have completely flat frame time graph in any new game. However some people managed to get very decent results. This guy here have nearly perfect frametime not worse than other new games.

https://youtu.be/TI48w3-ul9s

I’ve also heard you can do some tricks with some high end cards to force the game to use 20GB of vram to help with performance.

[sadman]

Originally posted by Agathocles69:

Sad to hear that you have no luck with Returnal:(

You say you have a recommended rig, what are the specs? My rig is RTX 2070s, AMD 3600 XT, SSD, 16 GiG Ram, Win 10 professional. (play in 1080p, with High-epic settings, vsync activated)

Have no stutters and no crash/freezes to the present point. Beaten the game.

But, beside of asking your specs, i know the stutters and etc. My luck was, i never had them.

have a look here, maybe it will help you, good luck:

https://www.sportskeeda.com/esports/returnal-pc-stuttering-performance-issues-how-fix-possible-reasons

game even didn't launch after i downloaded of 52gb and for my not fast internet its was like 3 hours of waiting so i was dissapointed plus people said about stutters, lags. i would try this game but idk

[C1REX]

Originally posted by sadman:

game even didn't launch after i downloaded of 52gb and for my not fast internet its was like 3 hours of waiting so i was dissapointed plus people said about stutters, lags. i would try this game but idk

Was it a genuine version or pirated? Cracked versions are often broken and don't launch. You could also have download error and no steam option to verify/fix files.

[sadman]

Originally posted by C1REX-PL:

Originally posted by sadman:

game even didn't launch after i downloaded of 52gb and for my not fast internet its was like 3 hours of waiting so i was dissapointed plus people said about stutters, lags. i would try this game but idk

Was it a genuine version or pirated? Cracked versions are often broken and don't launch. You could also have download error and no steam option to verify/fix files.

Well i bought offline account and launched it in offline mode

[sadman]

Originally posted by C1REX-PL:

Originally posted by sadman:

game even didn't launch after i downloaded of 52gb and for my not fast internet its was like 3 hours of waiting so i was dissapointed plus people said about stutters, lags. i would try this game but idk

Was it a genuine version or pirated? Cracked versions are often broken and don't launch. You could also have download error and no steam option to verify/fix files.

And i pressed to check integrity of game files its said here everything fine. And i as well updated gpu driver for rtx 3070 too just was reading about some issues and here was recommendation about updating driver. Tried launch it with rights of administrator but didn't work anyway