Still has a lot of stutters

[Osmane888]

Well, as the title says the game still has a lot of stutters.
What's odd is that i did not had THAT much stutters when i played it when it came out on steam and i started playing it again recently and started to get a lot of stutters today, does anyone have the same experience with this game ?
(i dream of the day when async shader compilation will be a standard in every game engine and every game lol)

[A6N6T6ON]

Strange, I've change my post, immediately when I posted. Sorry, I don't want to be rude.
I see few stutters in transition from second location to third (main hole). But gameplay is smooth like on my PC. Please tell me which windows do you use? And sorry for rudeness again.

[Amene]

I'm on windows 11, with some misc. adjustments - while I doubt they would change much in practice - for the sake of completeness: no antivirus defender, some security stuff turned off including cpu bug workarounds, gpu drivers installed via NVCleanstall and some tweaks here and there I don't even remember anymore (mostly removed annoyances - like all the widget ♥♥♥♥ and so on).

Hardware side is in short: AMD 7800x3d, RTX 3800 (12g ver.), 32gb ram. Games are installed on separate decently fast nvme.

[nanny_granny]

From my understanding, the only solution to this problem involves going into the options file and making some change to the way the textures load. The problem is that UE4, the engine, loads textures as you enter a new location, causing the stutter. I've noticed even high-level players (like Mayo on YouTube) have these stutters, so they must be very common and people have learned to live with them :( Breaks the immersion, but then thankfully the game is so good you get back into it right away :)

[Osmane888]

Originally posted by nanny_granny:

From my understanding, the only solution to this problem involves going into the options file and making some change to the way the textures load. The problem is that UE4, the engine, loads textures as you enter a new location, causing the stutter. I've noticed even high-level players (like Mayo on YouTube) have these stutters, so they must be very common and people have learned to live with them :( Breaks the immersion, but then thankfully the game is so good you get back into it right away :)

Yep at least it's not ruining the enjoyment of this game, it's a problem but not one to make me stop playing definitively

[snowykoyuki]

no stuttering for me so far actually

[NecromancerPig]

Jinfeng's desk at the beginning of the tower is only problem area I've found, frames drop about 20fps there for me

[🎇TYPHOON🎇]

Loading data from the drive into the memory ALWAYS makes a computer stutter. That's why most games have loading screens. When the game runs while it loads new data, the game WILL stutter.

Welcome to computers. You must be new.

[A6N6T6ON]

Originally posted by 🎇TYPHOON🎇:

Loading data from the drive into the memory ALWAYS makes a computer stutter. That's why most games have loading screens. When the game runs while it loads new data, the game WILL stutter.

Welcome to computers. You must be new.

It just shows that you don't have such a knowledge. It is most a big problem for UE4/UE5 Engine only.
A lot of other engines don't this problem or can be solved. But UE4/UE5 performance is a total disaster. And funny thing consoles don't have this problem with UE engine. This is ridiculous.
My rig CPU: I9-14900K, GPU: RTX4090, DDR5 6400, SSD Sabren Rocket 4 plus, 4K display.
But UE games I prefer to play on consoles.

[EliteForceQc]

I own the game on PC and PS4

Not gonna lie, the PS4 version is very stable and never have a drop in fps compare to my PC.

[A6N6T6ON]

Originally posted by EliteForceQc:

I own the game on PC and PS4

Not gonna lie, the PS4 version is very stable and never have a drop in fps compare to my PC.

Yes. I own the game on PC and PS5. And this is a big shame when an over-powerful PC runs this game worse than a much weaker console. Last few years PC gaming has been a total disaster, especially UE games.

[🎇TYPHOON🎇]

Originally posted by A6N6T6ON:

Originally posted by 🎇TYPHOON🎇:

Loading data from the drive into the memory ALWAYS makes a computer stutter. That's why most games have loading screens. When the game runs while it loads new data, the game WILL stutter.

Welcome to computers. You must be new.

It just shows that you don't have such a knowledge. It is most a big problem for UE4/UE5 Engine only.
A lot of other engines don't this problem or can be solved. But UE4/UE5 performance is a total disaster. And funny thing consoles don't have this problem with UE engine. This is ridiculous.
My rig CPU: I9-14900K, GPU: RTX4090, DDR5 6400, SSD Sabren Rocket 4 plus, 4K display.
But UE games I prefer to play on consoles.

Ah, so you're the expert, right.

As I said...whenever a computer is loading data into the memory, it will stutter. Nothing will change that. It doesn't matter what engine it is running. Unreal Engine is not worse than any other in that regard.

When you open a door in this game, it will load the next area. That means you will see stutter while going through doors, as expected, because there is no loading screen. But the graphics in this game are simple. So there is not much loading anyways. On a good computer, you will hardly notice it.

Why do you say this is a problem? Why do you care about stuttering while walking through a door when there are no enemies? That's completely ridiculous.

[A6N6T6ON]

Originally posted by 🎇TYPHOON🎇:

Originally posted by A6N6T6ON:

It just shows that you don't have such a knowledge. It is most a big problem for UE4/UE5 Engine only.
A lot of other engines don't this problem or can be solved. But UE4/UE5 performance is a total disaster. And funny thing consoles don't have this problem with UE engine. This is ridiculous.
My rig CPU: I9-14900K, GPU: RTX4090, DDR5 6400, SSD Sabren Rocket 4 plus, 4K display.
But UE games I prefer to play on consoles.

Ah, so you're the expert, right.

As I said...whenever a computer is loading data into the memory, it will stutter. Nothing will change that. It doesn't matter what engine it is running. Unreal Engine is not worse than any other in that regard.

When you open a door in this game, it will load the next area. That means you will see stutter while going through doors, as expected, because there is no loading screen. But the graphics in this game are simple. So there is not much loading anyways. On a good computer, you will hardly notice it.

Right, right, you are absolutely right, but this problem can be solved with no-linear shader compilation, which the developers didn't do. A lot of developers can solve this issue on their engine using some tricks between transitions from part to part. My point is that you will never face this issue on console, so it is a lazy approach from developers during PC port. Like a good example of amazing optimization - Horizon Forbidden West or Ghost of Tshushima, or if we are talking about UE Engine - Hi-Fi Rush. So it can be solved, but PC gamers nowadays used to eat unoptimized s**t.

[EliteForceQc]

I don't know what I'm talking about. But Sifu was a exlusif release for sony. As playstation run on Linux, maybe the game is optimised for linux and then get port on PC.

Steam deck is Linux so if i'm on point, there will be no stutter on steam deck.?

I remember well the time Xbox was new, game build for xbox OS stutter on playstation and vice versa.

Correct me if i'm wrong.

[KJV1611]

for me turning off Nvidia Geforce Instant replay (the clipping feature) helped and made it stop stuttering.

[Amene]

Originally posted by KJV1611:

for me turning off Nvidia Geforce Instant replay (the clipping feature) helped and made it stop stuttering.

GFE's (and NVApp's as well) overlay has been reported many times to cause stutters, so that might be a good find. M$ stuff hidden behind xbox bar as well (presence writer, etc.).

On a semi-unrelated note, why would anyone install that bloat either way.