Terrifying stutters

[SickSadWorld]

So i decided to get to this masterpiece once more and met one very irritating problem: game stutters very hard after i move to next area (Not location). It runs perfectly smooth just as long as i stand in one area. But if only i go to another street or get into some building, or go to backstreet, game grants me with bunch of microstutters for 3-5 seconds. I believe it has something with loading resources yet i didn't manage to find a solution. Any ideas?

[KetoneWolf]

Originally posted by Irrapture:

Turning vsync to "fast" via Nvidia Control Panel is what solved this problem for me, forgot to come back and mention it. You go to Nvidia Control Panel, then "Manage 3D settings" then you switch from "Global Settings" to "Program Settings" , find Deus Ex: Human Revolution and click it, then scroll down on the Feature list until you get to Vertical sync, then change it to Fast.

Instantly solved the problem for me and had 0 stutter or lag for the rest of the game. Luckily I did this early on.

You sir have solved my problem! Even though I'm playing on a 3840x2160x60Hz display, setting Vsync to fast runs the game at 120Hz. But the lag is gone. The stutters are still there but very, very minor and I wouldn't notice them without the RTSS graph running. Thanks!!

Now this has got me wondering whether it feels so good because of the 120Hz. I might have to invest in a high fps display now and take a hit on display size.

[Irrapture]

Originally posted by Kalensus:

Originally posted by Irrapture:

Turning vsync to "fast" via Nvidia Control Panel is what solved this problem for me, forgot to come back and mention it. You go to Nvidia Control Panel, then "Manage 3D settings" then you switch from "Global Settings" to "Program Settings" , find Deus Ex: Human Revolution and click it, then scroll down on the Feature list until you get to Vertical sync, then change it to Fast.

Instantly solved the problem for me and had 0 stutter or lag for the rest of the game. Luckily I did this early on.

You sir have solved my problem! Even though I'm playing on a 3840x2160x60Hz display, setting Vsync to fast runs the game at 120Hz. But the lag is gone. The stutters are still there but very, very minor and I wouldn't notice them without the RTSS graph running. Thanks!!

Now this has got me wondering whether it feels so good because of the 120Hz. I might have to invest in a high fps display now and take a hit on display size.

Yay! I'm glad it helped. Yeah, this issue in general is just really odd. I also recently had the same issue but with Final Fantasy XV windows edition and the fix for that was also very similar to this one but with some minor differences. Sometimes this stuff really makes me consider buying games on console over PC but these sale prices are just too low to justify doing otherwise lmao

[wyatt]

For all you folks that are still having issues, I have a solution that is working near flawlessly for me. I'm no longer getting terrible stutters that last for whole seconds at a time and I'm even running an RTX 3080 and 9900K (1440p at 144fps constant). Try setting processor priority to 'High' while the game is running through Task Manager. Use 'Real-Time' performance if 'High' doesn't seem good enough. For reference I'm running Windows 10 although this feature is available in older Windows versions too.

[)Too fat 4 YOU(]

Originally posted by Kalensus:

Originally posted by Irrapture:

Turning vsync to "fast" via Nvidia Control Panel is what solved this problem for me, forgot to come back and mention it. You go to Nvidia Control Panel, then "Manage 3D settings" then you switch from "Global Settings" to "Program Settings" , find Deus Ex: Human Revolution and click it, then scroll down on the Feature list until you get to Vertical sync, then change it to Fast.

Instantly solved the problem for me and had 0 stutter or lag for the rest of the game. Luckily I did this early on.

You sir have solved my problem! Even though I'm playing on a 3840x2160x60Hz display, setting Vsync to fast runs the game at 120Hz. But the lag is gone. The stutters are still there but very, very minor and I wouldn't notice them without the RTSS graph running. Thanks!!

Now this has got me wondering whether it feels so good because of the 120Hz. I might have to invest in a high fps display now and take a hit on display size.

i'm no PC expert, but it seens this solution helped you because, you took all the load of the game away from the cpu, if that was your intention when posting the comment, if you understand what i mean? LOL, but for those playing at 1920x1080p you're all screwed, LOL, damn you could try it at 8k instead of 4k, and the stutters may totally dissapear depending on your cpu+gpu balance , LOL.
And it seens that this game is so badly optimized, that it keeps only 1 core of the cpu maxed out all the time, without using any other 3 or 4 cores available, LOL, and even worse, it seens that this is windows 10 standard wacky newest engeneered cpu utilization policy, by default, LOL.
Come on, let's give an applause to the game devs and microsoft monopoly, they just do a great job with their geniouses and brilliant ideas, like maxing out cores so you can reduce overall cpu utilization, LOL......LOL....LOL.
Ohhh, and lets not forget the geniuses from intel, they just attached a bunch of cpu's all togheter, they invented the multithread technology, and they've been just overclocking their cpu's since 2014, to say to their consumers that it is faster, instead of giving 1 core or "A" genuine cpu, that is really a "faster cpu", LOL.... LOL..... LOL..
Damm, let's all give an applause to the geniuses that invented "YOUTUBE", allowing beggars to make millions on giving tech tips to kids about overcloking, multicore and multithread optimization and stuff, they really make the computer industry a better insdustry, with slower CPU'S, LOL......

[SickSadWorld]

Originally posted by scorpgul:

This game is notorious for being horribly optimised and its "Director's Cut" suffers from the same if not more performance issues.

That's for sure. Are you playing on a laptop?

[Johnny 5]

This is quite strange because I have both versions of the game, and the original + the missing link don't stutter at all.
But this newer DC version does. They should fix it.

[ChrisAKAPiefish]

Originally posted by Irrapture:

Turning vsync to "fast" via Nvidia Control Panel is what solved this problem for me, forgot to come back and mention it. You go to Nvidia Control Panel, then "Manage 3D settings" then you switch from "Global Settings" to "Program Settings" , find Deus Ex: Human Revolution and click it, then scroll down on the Feature list until you get to Vertical sync, then change it to Fast.

Instantly solved the problem for me and had 0 stutter or lag for the rest of the game. Luckily I did this early on.

Solved the issue for me, thank you so much

[Irrapture]

Originally posted by ChrisAKAPiefish:

Originally posted by Irrapture:

Turning vsync to "fast" via Nvidia Control Panel is what solved this problem for me, forgot to come back and mention it. You go to Nvidia Control Panel, then "Manage 3D settings" then you switch from "Global Settings" to "Program Settings" , find Deus Ex: Human Revolution and click it, then scroll down on the Feature list until you get to Vertical sync, then change it to Fast.

Instantly solved the problem for me and had 0 stutter or lag for the rest of the game. Luckily I did this early on.

Solved the issue for me, thank you so much

Glad it helped! Took a ton of digging to find that originally but it solved the issue asap for me so I'm glad its still helping ppl

Edit: yes, person below me. That fix is literally what we just discussed above

[Johnny 5]

For me to fix it, it seems to be: go into the nvidia control panel and change setting vertical sync to fast.
Other settings that may help is turning off threaded optimizations and power management mode to prefer maximum performance.

[Wayfall]

Yo, i can confirm forcing the program to use 'Fast' Vysnc removes the huge lag issues. The stutter is still there but they game is way more playable now.

GTX 1080 and Dell 144hz 1440p monitor.

[Axelord]

Maxing out the FOV significantly improved game performance for me, ironically. I did notice stutters at 4K/ High on RTX 2070S.

[)Too fat 4 YOU(]

Originally posted by Axelord:

Maxing out the FOV significantly improved game performance for me, ironically. I did notice stutters at 4K/ High on RTX 2070S.

LOL........ uuhhh...........LOL.......LOL, if you think that this game is alone and the worse of it, go play a game called S.T.A.L.K.E.R, it only uses 1 core if you have an I9 11900K 8/16 core cpu, then put it on 4k, LOL....., ironically the number of cores are useless, because even in 4k the game only reads 1 core, then you have 100% cpu usage and 86% GPU USAGE, LOL..... so you see, you have an CPU bottleneck, LOL.....

[Despair]

Originally posted by AlCap0wn:

Try turning off triple buffering in the graphics menu. It may help.

Doesn't help

[MKUltra]

Guys I found a fix that worked for me. I turned off VSync and triple buffering in-game and forced VSync - Fast and restarted the game. It works almost perfectly. If you're using an AMD card you can try the same thing with AMD Enhanced Sync and see if it works. I'm just so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ happy it worked.

[Irrapture]

Originally posted by SickSadWorld:

So i decided to get to this masterpiece once more and met one very irritating problem: game stutters very hard after i move to next area (Not location). It runs perfectly smooth just as long as i stand in one area. But if only i go to another street or get into some building, or go to backstreet, game grants me with bunch of microstutters for 3-5 seconds. I believe it has something with loading resources yet i didn't manage to find a solution. Any ideas?

OP if you're still active you should mark one of us as the answer to the topic because now it's just people coming in here and relaying the same exact info haha