ACTUAL STUTTER FIX

[Lowkey Legend]

TLDR: Lower your output resolution. (Or read note for DLSS users section)

Issue is the games textures. As there is no texture resolution setting, when playing at 4K the texture size is too large for most GPUs VRAM. I have a 10GB card and get crazy unplayable stutter. At 1440P however all that stutter is gone (asset loading stutter still occurs, but this is now perfectly playable)

Note for DLSS users: You MIGHT be able to still play at 4k if you want to do some extra legwork. There is a program called "nvidia inspector" that lets you edit a bunch of useful things. Most developers when using DLSS also set a negative LOD bias because the game is rendering at a lower resolution and using the AI to upscale to 4K or whatever your output resolution is. You MIGHT be able to turn off the negative LOD bias inside nvidia inspector and this SHOULD make it so the game loads the lower res textures into VRAM and fixes the issue while still being able to play the actual game with your desired native resolution otherwise. I havent tested this which I why I say maybe. Just figured out the stutter issue and actually was able to enjoy the game so yknow... did that instead of more tests.

FSR users: I dont know how AMD users could edit negative LOD bias but I'm sure theres a way. Good luck.

[Jayhova]

Doubt it's a VRAM issue. I have 16GB of VRAM (RTX3080) and play at 4K Native. My VRAM usage tops out at like 68% which is like 11GB of VRAM, so I have plenty to spare.

I tried 1440p for a bit and it did seem smoother but it's hard to say with this game because even at 4K you can have long stretches of smoothness for 15-20 minutes, and then all of a sudden it starts stuttering, and the cycle repeats.

[Terepin]

Originally posted by Lowkey Legend:

TLDR: Lower your output resolution. (Or read note for DLSS users section)

Issue is the games textures. As there is no texture resolution setting, when playing at 4K the texture size is too large for most GPUs VRAM. I have a 10GB card and get crazy unplayable stutter. At 1440P however all that stutter is gone (asset loading stutter still occurs, but this is now perfectly playable)

Note for DLSS users: You MIGHT be able to still play at 4k if you want to do some extra legwork. There is a program called "nvidia inspector" that lets you edit a bunch of useful things. Most developers when using DLSS also set a negative LOD bias because the game is rendering at a lower resolution and using the AI to upscale to 4K or whatever your output resolution is. You MIGHT be able to turn off the negative LOD bias inside nvidia inspector and this SHOULD make it so the game loads the lower res textures into VRAM and fixes the issue while still being able to play the actual game with your desired native resolution otherwise. I havent tested this which I why I say maybe. Just figured out the stutter issue and actually was able to enjoy the game so yknow... did that instead of more tests.

FSR users: I dont know how AMD users could edit negative LOD bias but I'm sure theres a way. Good luck.

I know what you are talking about, but that is not stuttering. Your performance tanking is due to the insufficient amount of VRAM, yes, but stuttering is from streaming. That is why even people with RTX 4080 are experiencing it.

[Philhalo66]

its not VRAM related. i have a 2080 Ti with 11GB and i rarely ever see over 8 or 9GB used and i still get stuttering occasionally

[GODzilla]

RTX 3090 here and the random stutter is probably not a vram problem, nope. ^^

[Lince_SPAIN]

It's all caused by on demand asset streaming, without a loading screen you are definitely going to notice the impact on framerate. Frostbite engine can't do background streaming, a possible fix would be preloading as many assets as possible in RAM and VRAM but then again you'd need to find a spot to swap assets every once in a while leading to unavoidable stuttering.