Stuttering on a high end PC

[TeeJaaY]

Anyone else got constant stuttering? I've tried every possible combination of settings with no change. Using an ultrawide 3440x1440 monitor.

[Flipline Studios]

Not sure how well the game handles ultrawide monitors (though I'm assuming it's letterboxing it?) -- have you tried a windowed mode instead of fullscreen?

Also is the stuttering happening only when you click the screen, or is it happening all the time?

We did hear from one user who ran the game directly from where it was installed instead of playing it through Steam itself, and that seemed to help with issues their PC was having (from your Steam Library, right-click on the game, choose Manage > Browse Local Files to see where it's installed, and run the game from that folder) - let us know if that makes any difference!

[TeeJaaY]

It does letterbox on ultra-wide. I've tried using windowed mode with no changes as well as testing on all graphics settings. The stuttering is always happening. It looks like it's dropping frames every second. (I can sometimes catch Steams built-in FPS counter dropping from 30 to 15 frames.)

I tried manually lowering my desktop resolution to 1920x1080 and didn't see a change.

Running directly from the EXE didn't change anything either.

I'm a bit stumped.

[Jazz]

I'm getting a bit of random stuttering too, only thing that seemed to help was using windowed mode, haven't tested extensively though

[Daijin]

I'm getting low fps too in all settings. The game seems to be refusing to use more of my pc's resources to run faster for some odd reason when I checked in the task manager. This is the only game I've had this issue with.

[Flipline Studios]

Any chance you've installed it somewhere other than Steam's default location? Someone else reported problems when it was installed elsewhere (haven't quite figured out why though).

Also if your PC or laptop has multiple video cards (or integrated graphics as well as a separate AMD/NVidia card), you may have to make sure your PC is using the higher-end/discrete video card for the game as well as everything Steam-related (Steam itself, gameoverlayui, Steam Client WebHelper, etc.). The game itself uses a discrete video card when available, but if you haven't configured Steam and all of its connected bits to also use that same video card, that might lead to some performance issues.

If you think it might be something video-card-related, you can try editing one of the game's files if you feel like diving into that: From the game's local files, open
META-INF/AIR/application.xml and find this line:

<gpuPreference>discrete</gpuPreference>

And replace it with this line to disable it:

<!-- <gpuPreference>discrete</gpuPreference> -->

With that line edited/disabled, it won't force the game to run on the high-end card, so it would just use the default of however your PC/laptop is configured then. Might be worth a shot in case the Steam services like the overlay are still using the other video card?

In that same file, you can also try changing the rendering system of the game to see if it makes a difference. Find this line:

<renderMode>gpu</renderMode>

And replace it with this:

<renderMode>direct</renderMode>

In our own tests we found that "direct" mode would sometimes have better mouse sampling and in some situations better performance, but it could also cause performance issues and screen tearing on some video cards, especially at resolutions higher than 1080p.

[Daijin]

Hello, I tried your solution to disable the gpu preference line and it worked! Everything works buttery smooth now. Thanks Would be nice if I didn't have to do this for every future entry of papa's deluxe games tho.

[Beetlebugs]

I'm also getting pretty bad stuttering on a reasonably high-end PC. It seems to lag it all out even after I close it until I restart :/

Came back to say I tried the above and I still have the same problem. Makes my computer weirdly slow after closing too, which is kind of frustrating.

[Daijin]

The issue seems to be that the game runs terribly on some high-end gpus. I ran it with my integrated one and it runs better than the high end one which is weird.

[SeasonedSoulsBorne]

Capped at 30fps but no stutters

[Skulgan]

Originally posted by stellaviatori:

I'm also getting pretty bad stuttering on a reasonably high-end PC. It seems to lag it all out even after I close it until I restart :/

Came back to say I tried the above and I still have the same problem. Makes my computer weirdly slow after closing too, which is kind of frustrating.

I am having the same issue.

[Flipline Studios]

Any luck running the game EXE directly (instead of through Steam) to see if that helps? I can't imagine what would cause slowness after closing the game, unless it was related to the Steam Overlay, Steam Cloud, etc. (and ideally none of those would be running if you launch the EXE from the install folder instead)

[Skulgan]

Originally posted by Flipline Studios:

Any luck running the game EXE directly (instead of through Steam) to see if that helps? I can't imagine what would cause slowness after closing the game, unless it was related to the Steam Overlay, Steam Cloud, etc. (and ideally none of those would be running if you launch the EXE from the install folder instead)

The issue seems to be avoidable if I run the game in full screen? But trying to play it otherwise will cause stuttering even after closing the game, including with trying all the suggested solutions (though, in fairness, trying all the suggested solutions did decrease the amount of stutter during and after closing the game, but it did not eliminate it).