Not just lag spikes....

[Opengrip]

Ok just started playing and I'm experiencing complete hangs in the game where it will freeze completely to 0 frames for a few seconds at a time. Also during cut-scenes even though they are pre-rendered at 30fps I'm still noticing small hitches even though it doesn't show my frames dropping below 30. I'm not gonna list out all my full specs as many have done that already and even top end systems are having these issues. I am running a 4080rtx though. I'm guessing its really poorly optimized or the denuvo DRM. Ironically if I have to pirate this game once its cracked because buying the official version has worse performance then your piracy protection backfired. Get rid of your DRM and fix your performance and you have my money SE.

[Stall]

Same problems here. I have a 3080.

[Otchim666]

Game is CPU heavy. Also it might be your SSD (or god forbid HDD).
RTX 4060 + Ryzen 5 5600 solid 60+ fps on high settings (that's what game defaulted me to).

[Whamarama]

The latest nVidia driver has a profile for this game, they just didnt list it in the change logs because it wasn't announced yet, if you dont have the update try that and see if it does anything.

Also, is your ssd gen 4?
Some of the older gen 3 ssd's stutter and freeze with these PS5 games.

[Opengrip]

Originally posted by Whamu:

The latest nVidia driver has a profile for this game, they just didnt list it in the change logs because it wasn't announced yet, if you dont have the update try that and see if it does anything.

Also, is your ssd gen 4?
Some of the older gen 3 ssd's stutter and freeze with these PS5 games.

I'm moving the game to my NVME SSD now to test. But i doubt my other SSD was the issue.

[Opengrip]

Different SSD did seem to fix the giant spikes of 0 frames. Just FYI for anyone else who reads with a similar issue.

[Opengrip]

Yeah didn't fix the issue completely still doing it just way less often.

[Xathlak]

The frame times are horrible, that's what causes the stutter. For some reason SE isn't good at dealing with PC rendering pipelines.

[Laguna]

The game uses Directstorage and it looks like they screwed up the implementation. Assets should load asap but instead they are causing stutter and irratic frame times during loading.

[xIHighVoltageIx]

Sometimes are FPS constant drops, after restart all works fine. i think memory leak problem

[Starcake]

Out of curiosity, did you guys try setting on NVCP Performance mode for power plan instead of Normal? For me it eliminated the stutters completely. I still have FPS variation obviously but those insanely disruptive stutters are completely gone.

I tried that after noticing something very weird on rivatuner. My stutters were rythmic they would happen in intervals of around 5 seconds each, and during each stutters the power draw would drop and then pick itself up again right after. Now with my GPU on Performance mode, it stopped this behavior completely and the game suddenly became a LOT better to play.

This is the only game where I had to use performance mode due to a problem like this. All other games I play I always have my GPU on Normal power plan in NVCP, but FF16 is one hungry lil ♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[Bliksem]

I'm gonna report you Thief

[Opengrip]

Originally posted by Bliksem:

I'm gonna report you Thief

I own the game idiot

[iameatingjam]

Originally posted by Xathlak:

The frame times are horrible, that's what causes the stutter. For some reason SE isn't good at dealing with PC rendering pipelines.

Frametimes are smooth as butter for me. Completely flat line.

[iameatingjam]

Originally posted by Bliksem:

I'm gonna report you Thief

What are you going on about now? I sure hope you aren't implying pirating, because there is no cracked version.

[aweigh]

Originally posted by iameatingjam:

Originally posted by Xathlak:

The frame times are horrible, that's what causes the stutter. For some reason SE isn't good at dealing with PC rendering pipelines.

Frametimes are smooth as butter for me. Completely flat line.

When the game is running well the frame time graph is a completely flat line, but there's a possibility he's referring to when the game overflows its VRAM and enters into a bad performance state with lots of frame drops. Someone who isn't monitoring their metrics will simply assume that the game is performing badly instead of realizing that it has exceeded their VRAM.