Why poor performance?

[Mister Shan]

I have a 5950x and a 3090. Yet the frame rate is dipping to as low as 30 seconds and highest like 60fps. I would think a game this old would easily be maxed out at 60fps locked. Why the poor performance?

[Cavador]

I just noticed the same exact thing. I was playing this game on Windows 10 with an RTX3080 at a full 60fps and never dropping a frame. Now, I have a new pc using Windows 11 and an RTX4080. On Windows 11, this game is stuttering heavily with frame rates in the 40s. Are you using Windows 11?

[Mister Shan]

Originally posted by Cavador:

I just noticed the same exact thing. I was playing this game on Windows 10 with an RTX3080 at a full 60fps and never dropping a frame. Now, I have a new pc using Windows 11 and an RTX4080. On Windows 11, this game is stuttering heavily with frame rates in the 40s. Are you using Windows 11?

Yea windows 11. Even a 3080 is way overkill. I remember maxing this out on a 980 on 1440p. Something is up.

[Cavador]

It might actually have something to do with the awful crap Ubisoft Connect launcher that is running drm. This issue is the last straw for me with Ubisoft. I'm finally done with them. I uninstalled Blacklist and Ubisoft from my pc.

[DrSensodyne]

Go to: task manager -> details -> find blacklist task -> right click on it -> set affinity - choose all processors -> hit ok. *enjoy*
repeat after restart game or swaping tasks

[Cavador]

Here is the issue I have with that solution. It seems to be extremely temporary. For example, when in the control room before selecting a mission, I go into the task manager and set the affinity to all processors and the frame rate becomes stable. Then after I select a mission, the game resets everything back to one processor. So I have to go back into the task manager and set the affinity back to all processors once again. And each time the game changes to windowed mode while doing that and I have to reset it back to fullscreen every time. In addition to all that, there are far too many times that I get a black screen and the game never loads. That is WAY too many hoops to jump through to play a game from 2013. Time to move on from Ubisoft for me.

[DrSensodyne]

I am with you on that, it is a real shame that Ubisoft and lots of other publisher don't give a rat ass about their products anymore and just moving on to whip out the next crapy game.

I started to have this issue since windows 11 and AMD processor can't say which is responsible.

It works for me to select borderless window mode and not swapping the task while in the game.

I understand your frustration and miss the time when games used to just work out of the box, just like in the good old days!

[Cavador]

Me too! Those were the good old days for sure. No DRM either. However, I do like downloading games from the comfort of my own home now instead of having to get out and buy games. And getting patches online is cool too. Thanks for your suggestion though. I've just had it with Ubisoft.

[crampedlocket95]

hey, don't know if your still looking for a solution to your problem or not but I would try going to your game page in your library, click on the settings button, go to properties and then type -offline in the launch setting bar and launch through steam instead of a shortcut. iv been playing this game on windows 11 with a Ryzen 5 and Gtx 2050 with no crashes or frame dips.

[TaliesinWI]

Try turning on VSync. Chances are good that the framerate is SO high on modern gear that it's freaking out the engine.

[mike.stirton]

I was struggling with this myself, in a very similar situation with a Ryzen 9 5950. It would run fine for a few seconds and then stall/stutter for a long time, and resume for a few more and repeat the stall. Some discussions mention that the cutscenes kept disabling the affinity you set manually.

There are a couple fixes I found out there. One involves power shell and the other is a standalone that you run in the background...both set affinity to maximum and keep it there. I haven't tried the shell command, but the application one DOES WORK...

This one provides the background app that watches it and works for me. Run it in command line window and keep that active while you play the game.

https://github.com/Gallardo994/SplinterCellBlacklistFpsFix/releases/tag/v2

It also needs an older "dotnet" installed to work. If you don't have it, you will see it complain about this in the command line window. The link for that is here, but it also shows this in hte window.

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/thank-you/runtime-desktop-7.0.20-windows-x64-installer

OR

Open Powershell and run that command before starting the game

`while($true){(Get-Process Blacklist_*_game).ProcessorAffinity = 255; Sleep 1}`

[꧁El care Larry ꧂]

this game is now abandonware and is it ethically correct to obtain by other means, especially bnecause it's "ubisoft connect"

[mike.stirton]

Originally posted by ꧁El care Larry ꧂:

this game is now abandonware and is it ethically correct to obtain by other means, especially bnecause it's "ubisoft connect"

It IS a consideration worthy of taking the time to peruse DODI or Fitgirl...

Usually that is where I go first to try out a game and decide if I want to actually buy it...many titles I own today are from this process...a great many others failed the grade and are distant memories...just means I am unable to play the games when they are first released...which is ok, since the first release is just a "beta test" to work out the bugs....