The REAL fix for stuttering/bad frame rates

[Half-dude]

Hello, so I thought I'd help you guys today. If you're like me, you've tinkered with this game on and off since it came out trying to get the thing to run well. You've battled with random frame-rate drops and terrible performance overall. But you know that the game could run good, your computer runs other IDTech 5 games like RAGE butter smooth. Maybe it even runs New Blood just fine, you know there's gotta just be some kind of tweak or config change that's stopping the game from running well and it's killing you trying to figure it out. Well congratulations you're were I was at...

But I found out what the fix is, you ready?

Go into a level, open up the console (ctrl + ~) and type:

jobs_numthreads 1

I immediately saw the game go butter smooth just from that one command. I was also testing it on the infamous 'rainy night stealth mission' before you get onto the train to Berlin. That level always ran HORRIBLY for me and now it's a constant 58-60 fps.

I heard about this command a while back, but I never tried it because the person who posted it said that in the newest update the command made the game run WORSE. This is obviously BS.

I suggest everyone try this for yourself. Also you can set this command to launch every time you play the game if you want by putting it as +jobs_numthreads 1 in your start up commands for the game or in the shortcut.

BTW: I also suggest if you're running in game AA (r_multisamples -) that you don't go over 2. Anything over two on my rig hurt the framerate badly.

[Esotericles]

didnt work for me

[Doko]

I think it worked for me, though I've also turned shadows down to the lowest, turned ingame Vsync off, turned Faze off and manually disabled DoF and turned ppf down to 16 and using a custom config file from a thread within the mod config guide section on here.

It sucks that we have to keep tweaking this game to get it running buttery smooth and still look good, i recently bought a Zotac 980 just to play this, GTA V and MGSV because I already knew my 680 couldn't handle most on max settings, turns out GTA V is still stuttery as hell and this game you have to tweak to hell and back instead of Bethesda just flat out sorting the game out so those with actual horse power can just crank it up, at least MGSV was a decent port but lacking a quality AA option, in fact most PC ports the last 5 years have more or less dropped supporting decent AA settings and just give us MSAA to tank our fps or FXAA which blurs the ♥♥♥♥ and doesn't do much of a good job, I really just want a game that runs at 60fps, looks beautiful and kills most of the jaggies, it feels like we'll never get that unless we either go SLI and tweak our games to ♥♥♥♥ or just never at all.

[Half-dude]

For whatever reason that main hub area in Camp Belica still gets totally horrible FPS.. like average of 24fps for no reason. Walk inside the barraks, the cement factory, or the knife's guard courters and the fps is constant 60.

[REMi]

Nice, it works, thanks

[Astra]

Could you share with the group what the command does so I know if I want to use it or not?

[HeavySmok]

Originally posted by Half-dude:

Hello, so I thought I'd help you guys today. If you're like me, you've tinkered with this game on and off since it came out trying to get the thing to run well. You've battled with random frame-rate drops and terrible performance overall. But you know that the game could run good, your computer runs other IDTech 5 games like RAGE butter smooth. Maybe it even runs New Blood just fine, you know there's gotta just be some kind of tweak or config change that's stopping the game from running well and it's killing you trying to figure it out. Well congratulations you're were I was at...

But I found out what the fix is, you ready?

Go into a level, open up the console (ctrl + ~) and type:

jobs_numthreads 1

I immediately saw the game go butter smooth just from that one command. I was also testing it on the infamous 'rainy night stealth mission' before you get onto the train to Berlin. That level always ran HORRIBLY for me and now it's a constant 58-60 fps.

I heard about this command a while back, but I never tried it because the person who posted it said that in the newest update the command made the game run WORSE. This is obviously BS.

I suggest everyone try this for yourself. Also you can set this command to launch every time you play the game if you want by putting it as +jobs_numthreads 1 in your start up commands for the game or in the shortcut.

BTW: I also suggest if you're running in game AA (r_multisamples -) that you don't go over 2. Anything over two on my rig hurt the framerate badly.

That works like hell!

Thx dude.

Fight scenes was unplayable, lower than 30 fps. With that command it's always 50-60. Now the game is playable.

cpu: fx 8320E
gpu: sapphire radeon r7 360 2GB nitro
ram: 8GB

[Nordeck]

Works like a charms, appreciated mate)

[AlexMason66]

nice!! its worked for me, thanks mate

[jonsgambit]

That worked! Thank you!!!

R9 Fury owner here. The 17.4.1 drivers work for me. Anything later doesn't even let me launch the game.

[Mister Torgue Flexington]

for me, forcing on both V-Sync and Triple Buffering through the graphics card helps out with framerates

[Deus_nsf]

wtf ? it is basically switching the game to a monothread mode, how can this improve performance ?

[jonsgambit]

After playing with the settings, forcing both V-Sync and Triple Buffering did the trick like Mister Tongue said.. I'm not sure that the jobs_numthreads worked in the end for me.

[HeadBobGunPants]

I run a 660m on my laptop so didn't have huge expectations on my ability to run this. However after an age of tinkering I found that if I limit the the framerate to 59hz, just below my screens max refresh of 60hz I can row run it at nearly ultra settings nice and smooth. (50-59fps)
You can limit the frames in nvidia inspector, not sure if you can do it using nvidia experience?

[Brickfest]

Worked like a charm, thanks man

[Astaroth]

worked like a charm on nvidia gtx 950. thank you mate. Steady 60 fps