Annoying Stutter

[TheEpixCherry]

I have tried everything I have been to able to find to try to stop this stutter from a reinstall of the game to disabling the ssdpsrv service and I cannot for the life of me figure out why it is stuttering, and I am just praying that someone here can please help me because I used to be able to play this game fine and then recently the stutters started which I do not understand

[RedSkyKing]

I'm still trying to figure out the stuttering myself, because like you, I've only recently had these issues. After getting a new GPU and monitor, before that I never had issues.
If I had to guess, it has something to do with resolution. When I play the game in windowed it's fine. Going back to full screen stutters.
Ridiculous, all this ♥♥♥♥ over a simple rhythm game

[Seph]

Just launched it and it was a stutterfest too, absolutely cursed. Not sure if recently updating to Windows 11 had a hand in it.

[Soup-chan]

You may have seen this already but I'll put it here just in case:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2954137882
Here's some things I personally know can cause stutters, based on spending months analyzing them to try to fix them after the game was released.

More recently, I also started having stutters from Nvidia's software; this never happened before, so it may be caused by a newer driver. If you have a Nvidia card, try going to Windows' Service menu and Stopping the Nvidia LocalSystem Container service and see if it helps.

[Seph]

Disabling that service helped A LOT. I wonder if it's related to the new nvidia app? It was apparently causing problems with some other games.

[TheEpixCherry]

Soup-chan původně napsal:

You may have seen this already but I'll put it here just in case:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2954137882
Here's some things I personally know can cause stutters, based on spending months analyzing them to try to fix them after the game was released.

More recently, I also started having stutters from Nvidia's software; this never happened before, so it may be caused by a newer driver. If you have a Nvidia card, try going to Windows' Service menu and Stopping the Nvidia LocalSystem Container service and see if it helps.

I just tried this, as well all of the other solutions posted in your guide, but unfortunately the stutters are still there :(

[Soup-chan]

Another possibility is that the game is trying to use an internal GPU rather than a better one. Even if you haven't changed hardware lately, something may have been reconfigured to make this happen.

You can also try to increase the game's CPU priority in Task Manager. It seems that the game really doesn't like having CPU power taken away from it, and changing this can lower that happening to some degree.

I'll also mention that I always play the game in borderless windowed. Even aside from any performance issues, I get noticeably more input lag in proper fullscreen.

[TheEpixCherry]

Soup-chan původně napsal:

Another possibility is that the game is trying to use an internal GPU rather than a better one. Even if you haven't changed hardware lately, something may have been reconfigured to make this happen.

You can also try to increase the game's CPU priority in Task Manager. It seems that the game really doesn't like having CPU power taken away from it, and changing this can lower that happening to some degree.

I'll also mention that I always play the game in borderless windowed. Even aside from any performance issues, I get noticeably more input lag in proper fullscreen.

I dont happen to have integrated graphics on my cpu, but i will try setting the cpu priority higher !

[TheEpixCherry]

TheEpixCherry původně napsal:

Soup-chan původně napsal:

Another possibility is that the game is trying to use an internal GPU rather than a better one. Even if you haven't changed hardware lately, something may have been reconfigured to make this happen.

You can also try to increase the game's CPU priority in Task Manager. It seems that the game really doesn't like having CPU power taken away from it, and changing this can lower that happening to some degree.

I'll also mention that I always play the game in borderless windowed. Even aside from any performance issues, I get noticeably more input lag in proper fullscreen.

I dont happen to have integrated graphics on my cpu, but i will try setting the cpu priority higher !

okay so after trying setting the cpu priority to above normal, high, and realtime, (changing them before booting into a song and playing for a little bit) the stutters still occur unfortunately :(

[Soup-chan]

For testing purposes, try disconnecting entirely from the internet and give the game another try. Disable wifi, unplug any ethernets, etc. Whether the issue still happens or improves at all can be a hint to what the problem is.

You can also try making a new Windows profile. If the game worked fine before, something may now be configured differently to cause issues; this should use the default settings.

[TheEpixCherry]

Soup-chan původně napsal:

For testing purposes, try disconnecting entirely from the internet and give the game another try. Disable wifi, unplug any ethernets, etc. Whether the issue still happens or improves at all can be a hint to what the problem is.

You can also try making a new Windows profile. If the game worked fine before, something may now be configured differently to cause issues; this should use the default settings.

So I tested this out, and if I unplugged the ethernet or disable the ethernet port in control panel it plays perfectly fine

[Soup-chan]

Good, at least that's a way to play the game if needed. My first suspect would be Steam installing things in the background, but that should have already been covered if you followed the guide. To be sure, next time try keeping your computer online, but switching Steam to offline mode to see if it's any worse. If so then the issue is something else using the internet.

It could also be that your computer is constantly disconnecting and reconnecting to wireless devices that are barely in range. When the game first released, the worst of my stutters apparently came my wireless printer across the houses constantly disconnecting. Uninstalling it from my system entirely helped drastically; this game seriously HATES device changes. Try keeping Windows Device Manager open on the side while you play. The list goes blank for a moment whenever a device is added or removed, so if that happens at the same time as the game stutters, that's your problem.

[Sex]

Download the unlocked framerate mod with divamodmanager and itll fix stutters and lag.

every lag related issue in this game is beacuse of the god awful frame limiter.

[Seph]

I wish, that mod definitely doesn't fix all stutter scenarios tho.

[TheEpixCherry]

Sex původně napsal:

Download the unlocked framerate mod with divamodmanager and itll fix stutters and lag.

every lag related issue in this game is beacuse of the god awful frame limiter.

It unfortunately doesn't fix the lag, and I have the High Frame Rate mod (which unlocks the frame rate) and the DivaNoSpy mod installed as well

[TheEpixCherry]

Soup-chan původně napsal:

Good, at least that's a way to play the game if needed. My first suspect would be Steam installing things in the background, but that should have already been covered if you followed the guide. To be sure, next time try keeping your computer online, but switching Steam to offline mode to see if it's any worse. If so then the issue is something else using the internet.

It could also be that your computer is constantly disconnecting and reconnecting to wireless devices that are barely in range. When the game first released, the worst of my stutters apparently came my wireless printer across the houses constantly disconnecting. Uninstalling it from my system entirely helped drastically; this game seriously HATES device changes. Try keeping Windows Device Manager open on the side while you play. The list goes blank for a moment whenever a device is added or removed, so if that happens at the same time as the game stutters, that's your problem.

So I tested this and Windows Device Manager does go blank after the stutters occur, is there a way to check which device is connecting and disconnecting? It doesn't give the sound cues as if I plugged in a device manually and unplugged it.