1.02 patch introduced a memory leak or whatever

[Celicni]

Game was working perfectly fine before. Ever since the new patch, after playing for like 2 hours or so, the game will just start massively stuttering and freezing, not responding to inputs for like a quarter of a second. It's hard to explain but basically it sucks balls and I have to restart the game to fix it.

...and given how bad persona sometimes is about not letting you save, I basically had to watch an hour and a half of story constantly stuttering, completely ruining the experience.

Anyone having this issue/ knows of a fix?

[Exarch_Alpha]

I had this issue even BEFORE the patch. Unplayable after 3 hours.

[Tatsuya Hiroki]

yep, now the game, even with the Process Lasso solution seems to drop frames even worse than before.

Just wonderful

[Celicni]

A minor update: Setting affinity to ONLY processors 2 and 3 seemed to mostly fix the stutters for me. With all of them on it was stuttering like crazy. Basically it's proof that it's ♥♥♥♥ code, not something wrong with my (or any others') PC.

[Dark]

Originally posted by Celicni:

A minor update: Setting affinity to ONLY processors 2 and 3 seemed to mostly fix the stutters for me. With all of them on it was stuttering like crazy. Basically it's proof that it's ♥♥♥♥ code, not something wrong with my (or any others') PC.

funny, that reminds me of RPCS3 saying to use 2-3 threads. Happy you found a solution!

[Mast3r]

I have a potential fix.
I was having random stutters and pretty bad framepacing issues that made the framerate extremely uneven. I tried everything there was to try. Nothing worked.

Then I found out that Windows 10 and 11 have something called "game mode" (just search for it in the searchbar). It's supposed to help with framerate, but I guess it broke something with Persona 5. Thanks windows <3

Turned that off and boom. Perfect framerate. Like magic.
It still randomly stutters, I don't know how to fix that yet, but the framerate is MUCH better.

Hope that helps anyone!

[Celicni]

Originally posted by Mast3r:

I have a potential fix.
I was having random stutters and pretty bad framepacing issues that made the framerate extremely uneven. I tried everything there was to try. Nothing worked.

Then I found out that Windows 10 and 11 have something called "game mode" (just search for it in the searchbar). It's supposed to help with framerate, but I guess it broke something with Persona 5. Thanks windows <3

Turned that off and boom. Perfect framerate. Like magic.
It still randomly stutters, I don't know how to fix that yet, but the framerate is MUCH better.

Hope that helps anyone!

Had no issues with the framerate itself, but it can never hurt to give another thing a try.

[Ϻoпᶄ]

I set my cpu affinity just like you suggested, turned off "game mode" and tried all kind of things, however none worked.

You are indeed correct, the new 1.02 patch introduced a memory leak. I downgraded my P5R to the release/day one version and any kind of lag or stuttering is completely gone.
Just open your Steam console, put this command:

download_depot 1687950 1687951 6406163737106697359

It will download the day one version to the steamapps\content folder. Then its just a matter of copy and pasting to the P5R folder, replacing every file and its done.

Hope this helps

[Celicni]

Originally posted by Ϻoпᶄ:

I set my cpu affinity just like you suggested, turned off "game mode" and tried all kind of things, however none worked.

You are indeed correct, the new 1.02 patch introduced a memory leak. I downgraded my P5R to the release/day one version and any kind of lag or stuttering is completely gone.
Just open your Steam console, put this command:

download_depot 1687950 1687951 6406163737106697359

It will download the day one version to the steamapps\content folder. Then its just a matter of copy and pasting to the P5R folder, replacing every file and its done.

Hope this helps :P5R_Ryuji:

Thank you very much for this command.

[Ϻoпᶄ]

Youre welcome :) just dont forget to turn off auto-updates for P5R

[Ceriss]

I'm actually not having this problem, and yesterday I played practically all day.

Not saying you're not having the problem so don't get on the defense or anything... but yeah.

Windows 10
3050 (Laptop)
8 GB RAM
i5 11th gen @4.1 GHz

[Aphelium]

Originally posted by Ceriss:

I'm actually not having this problem, and yesterday I played practically all day.

Not saying you're not having the problem so don't get on the defense or anything... but yeah.

Windows 10
3050 (Laptop)
8 GB RAM
i5 11th gen @4.1 GHz

Same here, my shortest hour session was 5 hours, and I never noticed anything.
This is the first notice I have about a mem.leak existing

[kagai_yami]

i cant even play for 5 hours. before the patch i was able to play perfectly fine. beat my first playthrough. but now after the patch no part of the game runs at over 20 fps making the game unplayable. is this something i just need to wait for atlus to fix through another patch? or is there some not well known fix? because ive tried all the potential fixes and none of them work

[Atomas]

That's really weird and unfortunate, I've gone on multiple 12 Hours+ sessions without any problems. Why is it that anytime people experience bugs or performance issues in games I never get them? Most notable was Cyberpunk, which for a lot of people was unplayable at launch but I never crashed or had massive stuttering. So weird.

[kagai_yami]

i didnt have any issues with cyberpunk either. or persona 5r at first. the patch broke something though

[Atomas]

Originally posted by kagai_yami:

i didnt have any issues with cyberpunk either. or persona 5r at first. the patch broke something though

Damn that's unlucky as hell. Hopefully it gets fixed.