Goodbye traversal stutter? A counter intuitive fix that worked for me

[VtalFluffy]

So yeah love this game, very good recently finished and got the "leave" ending, now started new game plus.

All the time while i was playing i experienced this bad stutter issue, not so bad to make me stop playing, but still very noticeable, every 20 footsteps POOM stutter and back to normal, i return to previous room POOM! there is again!!! but yeah, i finished. I accepted the issue like normal for UE5 stuff.

NOW to the point ---

Game was located first in my external usb SSD and later on my NVME, both with great read-write speeds, so it made sense that the drive was not the issue. Also i had resizeable bar ON ( this made black myth wukong run perfectly smooth, no stutter at all ) but it looked like for SH2 was not effective. Today i cleaned my computer and, since i had it open i decided to install an oldie yet freshly new SATA 3 SSD i had stored for long long time cuz, YAY more storage is always good right?.
This SATA SSD is of course way less fast than my other drives, but me being curious and loving to try diferent things with my computer, i moved game instalation to this new drive ( SATA SSD)
Check for file integrity, all okay, start the game and now, out of nowhere the traversal stutters are GONE, only noticeable when you do something like going out of elevator or opening a door to get outside building, or when you enter back. But i can say that fixed 95% of my traversal stutter issues. Yeah playing above 60 fps. Yeah i played 7 hours after new instal location just to be sure and oh boiiii is much more enjoyable when runs this smooth.

Counter intuitive, slower SSD conection works much better for this game. Could be that? hmm.... something to analyze still they better patch game anyway.

[Strelok]

I guess I have a faulty device in some way. It doesnt make sense.

Game is working really well here, stutters only when something is being loaded. But I have a REALLY good NVME.

I think most of people having stutters relies on Chinese or even SATA SSDs. Low GPU memory is probably a cause too.

[VtalFluffy]

Originally posted by Strelok:

I guess I have a faulty device in some way. It doesnt make sense.

Game is working really well here, stutters only when something is being loaded. But I have a REALLY good NVME.

I think most of people having stutters relies on Chinese or even SATA SSDs. Low GPU memory is probably a cause too.

I also ahve a good NVME, and my external SSD is also very good. both only for games (OS drive is also an NVME) but SH2 stutters bad on those, but runs almost perfectly smooth on my SATA SSD. 65-85 fps average and using dx12, all like it was intended i guess. What a mystery.

As i said it's counter intuitive for me, since its read-write speeds are not as high as my other drives yet works better. is a Samsung SATA SSD. Anyway, im happy to be able to play it smooth now.

[Zeke]

Are you actually using a frame-time graph? Or are you just relying on your eyes, which are unreliable. If this actually works, why has nobody mentioned it to Digital Foundry? You're probably spreading misinformation.

[Taberis]

Originally posted by Zeke:

Are you actually using a frame-time graph? Or are you just relying on your eyes, which are unreliable. If this actually works, why has nobody mentioned it to Digital Foundry? You're probably spreading misinformation.

Yeah it's easy to tell when it stutters as there is a spike on the frame time graph at the same time.

[dessgrantur]

Just use Vulkan instead of DirectX 12. It fix 99% of stutters. I completed the game twice. And I have about 100 stutters every hour with Direct X 12.
It's pitty that Vulkan can't fix all Unreal 5 games. I tested A Quiet Place, and this game works bad on DIrect X11, DirectX 12 and Vulkan on Win 11, and on Linux with Vulkan too.