Stuttering Frame-rate While Moving

[Mori Raine Matsuko]

Since this issue is different from the issues I'm seeing in the discussions, I decided to make my own and see if anyone has found a way to fix this.

This has started since I first played the game on mission 1: as I progress on with the stage, I get this stuttering lag, as if my hard drive is loading data. This is baffling me since my computer can play other games that are a lot more resource-heavy and give pretty much zero lag or stutter, but this game gives it to me in full force. I have a video that shows it in action below.

https://youtu.be/7MZMOqADROU

I may not have an amazing computer (running with an AMD A8-3870k and a GeForce GTX 660), but at least I can play other more demanding games without any trouble. Why does this game give me more problems that it needs to give me?

[Xan]

Got the same problem. There's alot of threads about this problem from what I can tell. Most people say its a memory leak.

[Mori Raine Matsuko]

That's another thing that's confusing me. If it's a memory leak, then why does it work smoothly on my nephew's laptop and my friends desktop? My friend's computer is slightly better than mine, running an Intel i5 with a Radeon 6870, while my nephew's laptop is pretty low-end.

[Mori Raine Matsuko]

One thing I forgot to say was I'm running Windows 8.1, while my nephew and my friend's computer are running Windows 7. Could it be an issue with Windows 8?

[Rei dos Vermes]

Same problem here (FX8320, GTX 760, Win 8.1). The game runs smooth when the background is still, but when it start scrolling I get a lot of stutter and screen tearing, despite forcing v-sync through Nvidia Inspector.

[Mori Raine Matsuko]

I've noticed a connection with this glaring issue and the specs of the affected people: pretty much every person I've seen with this issue (including me) is running Windows 8 (or 8.1). There might be a bug that's only affecting those that are running Windows 8/8.1

[Mori Raine Matsuko]

I believe this could be the problem because I just installed a second installation of Windows 7 on my desktop and the game runs nearly smooth. There's a bit of skipping, but not near as bad as when I was running the game under Windows 8.1

[Plaid]

Nah, I'm running Windows 7 and the frame jumping is in there, all over, when scrolling through the map.
It's pretty nasty. The actual framerates are fine, but the jumping and skipping is terrible, no matter whether v-sync is enabled.

[The Toadinator]

(SOLVED New SSD 1TB) Just upgraded. Win 7 x64, Intel core i7 7700k, 32GB ram, 1080 Ti. Stutters horribly (basically freezing and unfreezing) every time I scroll the screen left or right. When I stand still or walk straight up or straight down, I get 60 FPS.

You can't say it's because I have crappy hardware. I tried adjusting all settings in the game and nothing matters. I can't believe this is still an issue.

I was really hoping that this upgrade would fix the lag/stuttering/frame rate issue with this game, but it did nothing.

How can companies release games with bugs like this, or do we have weird and unique hardware conflicts that the game devs and other gamers don't have?

[Plaid]

Originally posted by BufoHakTix24:

Just upgraded. Win 7 x64, Intel core i7 7700k, 32GB ram, 1080 Ti. Stutters horribly (basically freezing and unfreezing) every time I scroll the screen left or right. When I stand still or walk straight up or straight down, I get 60 FPS.

You can't say it's because I have crappy hardware. I tried adjusting all settings in the game and nothing matters. I can't believe this is still an issue.

I was really hoping that this upgrade would fix the lag/stuttering/frame rate issue with this game, but it did nothing.

How can companies release games with bugs like this, or do we have weird and unique hardware conflicts that the game devs and other gamers don't have?

I guess we'll never know unless the developers miraculously decide to look into it after all this time. I'm also running an Nvidia + Intel setup on Windows 7 64, for what it's worth.

I've honestly lost a bit of trust in WayForward over the years.

[Spectrum Legacy]

I have this issue across 2 different desktops and 1 laptop, both amd/intel and radeon/geforce combos - nothing has changed over the years with this game. Constant stutters / frame skips from the very first mission whenever I move left or right on the screen and it starts to scroll. I've tried vsync on/off in fullscreen, framelimiters, physx on cpu or gpu, some compatibility bits in nvinspector, steam overlay off, etc. Nothing helped so far and I have doubts about ever having a chance to fully enjoy this game.

Fps counter reports a drop from 60 down to 58 or even 55fps in severe stutters/minifreezes. When I tried to fps limit the game to 50 fps to try how it behaves, same stutters, but game now dipped to 48fps while it stuttered. This makes me believe that the game is just unable to run at intended full speed (60fps), even if I manually disabled all power savings, c6 core parking, power states on my cpu and gpu and let it run full blast so there is no reason for a stutter to happen on an empty screen with just the player character being present.

If anyone has any idea what else to try, I would give it a shot for sure.

[The Toadinator]

I solved this for myself. I cloned my SSD 120gb onto a 1TB SSD with more free space and now i get 60 FPS solid. It appears either have more than 8-10 gb free space (which is what I had) or a failing SSD, was the reason I got horrible FPS.

[Spectrum Legacy]

Originally posted by BufoHakTix24:

I solved this for myself. I cloned my SSD 120gb onto a 1TB SSD with more free space and now i get 60 FPS solid. It appears either have more than 8-10 gb free space (which is what I had) or a failing SSD, was the reason I got horrible FPS.

Interesting find. I do have the game on SSD too (honestly I only have SSDs around for 4-5years, with just external HDD for backups in case of need). There is like 50GB free on it and it's 240GB preprovisioned model, so there shouldn't be any problem of it being slow (even filled up ssd is times faster than fastest commercialy available hdd). Don't have stutters like this in other much more demanding games, so I wonder if it's some kind of compatibility issue.

However thanks for the info, I will try to investigate what's the cause in this regard!