Shadow setting causing microstutter on anything other than low

[CheaterDog27]

Anyone else getting this? I played on launch day for about an hour an had no issues, now I noticed fps drops and microstutters while looking in certain areas. If I drop my shadow setting to low it seems to smooth out.

[MastaGlazy]

Exact dame here. Have everything on ultra and gpu usage is about 70-75%. 60fps stable. But specific areas when i point the camera, gpu rises to 100% and fps drops to 37-40.

Shadows on ultra, high or medium does not do anything, but set it to low and its back to smooth as butter.

Its only specific areas when pointing the camera in specific places.

[CheaterDog27]

Originally posted by MastaGlazy:

Exact dame here. Have everything on ultra and gpu usage is about 70-75%. 60fps stable. But specific areas when i point the camera, gpu rises to 100% and fps drops to 37-40.

Shadows on ultra, high or medium does not do anything, but set it to low and its back to smooth as butter.

Its only specific areas when pointing the camera in specific places.

As weird as it is, My issue was fixed by deleting the frame gen file "nvngx_dlssg" in the game install location. Of course you can't use frame gen, but I wasn't anyways.

But the gpu rising to 100% in certain areas may be because tessellation is on ultra, It kills frames in the realm between realms and a few other areas.

[Broonatic]

I am experiencing this too, has there been any other solutions found minus keeping the Shadows on Low? I tried removing the frame gen file but it still persists.

[7xSven]

I noticed the same problem yesterday, I solved it by setting the V-Synch and G-Synch with the FPS cap via the Nvidia control panel, deactivating the same settings in the game

[Broonatic]

I seem to have solved it on my end (fingers crossed), hopefully anyway. I changed the windows power plan to Ultimate Performance from Balanced, which Windows 10 defaults to. I now have everything on high, with Shadows set to medium and all stuttering seems to be gone. Except for the occasional texture load in. I think the issue was with my CPU constantly changing the clock speed of its cores, and struggling to keep up in scenarios where the game was demanding. With Ultimate Performance mode the CPU stays at a constant clock speed across all the cores and seems to have alleviated the issue. Obviously the FPS still goes up and down but the horrible stuttering is hopefully a thing of the past. I travelled through the Wet Lands and across the Dwarven city, which were trouble areas before, and minus my FPS dipping it was smooth. Hope this helps others, cheers!

[7xSven]

Originally posted by Broonatic:

I seem to have solved it on my end (fingers crossed), hopefully anyway. I changed the windows power plan to Ultimate Performance from Balanced, which Windows 10 defaults to. I now have everything on high, with Shadows set to medium and all stuttering seems to be gone. Except for the occasional texture load in. I think the issue was with my CPU constantly changing the clock speed of its cores, and struggling to keep up in scenarios where the game was demanding. With Ultimate Performance mode the CPU stays at a constant clock speed across all the cores and seems to have alleviated the issue. Obviously the FPS still goes up and down but the horrible stuttering is hopefully a thing of the past. I travelled through the Wet Lands and across the Dwarven city, which were trouble areas before, and minus my FPS dipping it was smooth. Hope this helps others, cheers!

You didn't need to change the power settings and lower the resolution. All you had to do was literally change two things from the Nvidia control panel and you were done

[Broonatic]

Well I tried your suggestion and the issue was still present so I kept tinkering and through changing the Windows Power Plan, like I stated above, the problem was solved.

[7xSven]

Originally posted by Broonatic:

Well I tried your suggestion and the issue was still present so I kept tinkering and through changing the Windows Power Plan, like I stated above, the problem was solved.

Did you turned off the V-synch and FPS Cap in the game options?

[Broonatic]

Yes

[7xSven]

Originally posted by Broonatic:

Yes

There is something wrong, it must work that way there is no other solution