anyone has any idea how to reduce stuttering?

[puppamilaspranga]

downloaded back the game after maybe a year, saw that there were new "performance upgrades". now, i am playing on a pretty strong pc, usually running at 60-70 fps with graphics on high, but for some reason every 15-30 sec or so i get this annoying stutter where fps drop to 5 for a millisecond and then back to 60. i tried lowering the graphics but still gives the same problem.
anyone has any useful tip to lower this stuttering?

[kdodds]

Yep. Turn off your performance monitor software and just play. Also, if you're only getting 70fps on high, your PC is very far from strong. Specs might help though.

[utahcowboy]

Please post your pc specs, that will help us help you :) But yes, like kdodds said, that doesn't sound like a particularly strong pc. No hate though, I get it that not everyone has access to the latest and greatest. But that might also be your issue. To play Starfield comfortably, it requires a pretty beefy rig.

And just so you have something to compare it against, here is my setup:
CPU-AMD 7800x3d
GPU-Radeon 7900xtx
Ram-32 gigs ddr5 5600mhz
Storage-2 TB NVME SSD

With this setup I play Starfield at 4k with max settings and I get a very smooth high frame rate (I don't know how high because I don't check). And no stutters. But, my rig was also pretty expensive to build.

[puppamilaspranga]

Originally posted by kdodds:

Yep. Turn off your performance monitor software and just play. Also, if you're only getting 70fps on high, your PC is very far from strong. Specs might help though.

Yea i should point out it's not a beast but at least it's better than a potato, got a 3070ti and amd ryzen 7 6800h, 16Gb ram and no idea about the size of ssd, should be 1 tera.
But what do you mean performance monitor software?

[puppamilaspranga]

Originally posted by utahcowboy:

Please post your pc specs, that will help us help you :) But yes, like kdodds said, that doesn't sound like a particularly strong pc. No hate though, I get it that not everyone has access to the latest and greatest. But that might also be your issue. To play Starfield comfortably, it requires a pretty beefy rig.

And just so you have something to compare it against, here is my setup:
CPU-AMD 7800x3d
GPU-Radeon 7900xtx
Ram-32 gigs ddr5 5600mhz
Storage-2 TB NVME SSD

With this setup I play Starfield at 4k with max settings and I get a very smooth high frame rate (I don't know how high because I don't check). And no stutters. But, my rig was also pretty expensive to build.

Honestly i'm ok with playing even at mid graphics and only 60 fps, even 50, but i just would like to stop the stuttering because it's super annoying :')

[AoD_lexandro]

Check your settings in the games options page. Use DLSS with frame gen (not FSR). FSR may be active by default instead and lowering performance.

[sdunnyw506]

Starfield is a very demanding PC game to play.

I run at all maxed/ultra settings and can do so with the following:
i9-11900k
60gb RAM
RTX 4070Ti 12GB
1 TB SSD.

You will want a strong CPU, GPU, and high quality/quantity RAM. Starfield taxes all parts of the system.

[billlex]

A quick question. Can I use FSR with RTX3070 laptop? At first I thought FSR is only for AMD cards but people told me that I could. However, the game crashes whenever I use FSR instead of DLSS
update: game did not crash with FSR but with frame generation, any idea how to solve this? Cuz DLSS didn't improve fps enough for my laptop

[S'bass thulu]

Since I started using mods from creation I've noticed a persistence of vision problem. It's not a stutter... everything, for the most part does run smooth as it has since I started playing, but there is a kind of quick positional ghosting... mostly around the crowds and characters.

[Ben.E]

Originally posted by puppamilaspranga:

Originally posted by kdodds:

Yep. Turn off your performance monitor software and just play. Also, if you're only getting 70fps on high, your PC is very far from strong. Specs might help though.

Yea i should point out it's not a beast but at least it's better than a potato, got a 3070ti and amd ryzen 7 6800h, 16Gb ram and no idea about the size of ssd, should be 1 tera.
But what do you mean performance monitor software?

Your RAM is the issue. The requirements say 16GB is sufficient but on my PC with Windows 11 and 32GB RAM I regularly see over 16GB of RAM being used. I have MSI afterburner set up to allow me to monitor CPU, GPU and RAM usage. I dont run a lot of programs in the background when gaming and my monitor is 2K not 4K so I'd say 16GB is the minimum not recommended requirement