Stuttering??

[Agony]

I keep this great game close to my heart but all of a sudden it begun to stutter horribly! I made no hardware changes and my PC is free from viruses and malware. The only change i did was that i recently updated to the latest Nvidia Drivers version 364.72, as i always do when a new version is released. My PC is more than capable to run this game so its not a matter of resources. I never had this problem before. For the record, i already verified the game files through Steam to no avail. Please help me.

[TailBit]

Whenever I get stutters in game / videos, then I go into the Device Manager just to disable and re-enable the graphic card, everything runs smooth after that ..

Or one can keep on going til it get really bad so the computer notices it and restarts the driver for you :P

Mostly needed for me if I leave the computer on for a loooong time, so if it stutters after a fresh restart then I dunno.

[Agony]

Thanks for the reply but i think i just found the problem. The recent Nvidia drivers 364.72 are causing major malfunctions to Nvidia cards and the Nvidia forums are full of people having strange issues to various games after upgrading. I rolled back to the 362.00 driver and the issue is gone. Now it sometimes lag for a few seconds when i open a facility at the Hamlet but it does not happen all the time. I will investigate further and report back.

[Agony]

Stuttering in the corridors is back unfortunately :( I hope the next patch fixes this.

[Hazuki-chan]

I'm getting this too, right off the bat, whenever I run it within steam; I click a button, the game freezes for a second, I click again, it freezes for another second, then at some point five or twelve clicks later maybe the button realizes it's been clicked. Never even got past the tutorial in that state, which is pretty far short of the potential fun time this game has to offer overall. In non-steam mode it seems to work just fine. When I tried running the non-steam version as a non-steam game within steam, though, I had the exact same issue again. So if it's not too much trouble, fix the apparent steam conflict there, please, devs. Running the game in a window on the side is getting seriously old.

[Spectrum Legacy]

I had stutters only once. I've started to curse because I dislike variable frames, but soon afterwards it occured to me, that I previously forced framelimiter via nvinspector to 58fps for different game ... after disabling framelimiter, it was back to normal (apparently the game doesn't use prerendered frames). Try to check options in your gpu controls, just to make sure that drivers are not forcing something ridiculous. Also in some games, windows aero might cause hiccups (esp.in any kind of windowed mode - even borderless "fullscreen", because the game/app is not in focus and possibly utilizes half-refresh then), depending on your hardware and state of your os/drivers.

P.S. I've checked that I'm running driver v364.51 on this machine without issue in DD.

[Agony]

After many days of troubleshooting i still can't find the source of the problem. Might worth to mention that the game has been always running smoothly from purchase since after a few days post Antiquarian patch. I even checked my Nvidia driver settings with Nvidia Inspector to ensure everything proper. The lag is still there, slithering in the lagging corridors like an invisible enemy that i cannot fight! Damn i miss playing this game but because of the recent stuttering problem i cannot because it ruins the atmospehere :(.

[Agony]

Ok. I went out of my mind and i bought a legit copy of Esset NOD32 antivirus licence. Up until now i was using Avast free antivirus. NOD detected a nasty trojan in my PC which Avast couldn't detect after multiple scans in the past. After fixing the problem, my Darkest Dungeon is running SMOOTH AS BUTTER and i am extremely happy that i can play this game once more as it was intended!! Sorry if i caused to the devs any frustration trying to fix something that didn't wanted fixing. I cross my fingers that everything will be fine from now on.

[redhookjohn]

Glad to hear the issue is resolved!

[Hazuki-chan]

Hasn't been resolved. I'm still getting it. You click, or press any key, and it lags/pauses -and only when run through Steam.

[Agony]

Originally posted by Hazukichan:

Hasn't been resolved. I'm still getting it. You click, or press any key, and it lags/pauses -and only when run through Steam.

Check your PC with a good antivirus my man. It worked for me. Also, if you have an Nvidia card, make sure that in Nvidia Control Panel > Manage 3D settings > Threaded Optimization is on "Auto" and NOT on "On".

[Hazuki-chan]

Originally posted by Flying ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥:

Originally posted by Hazukichan:

Hasn't been resolved. I'm still getting it. You click, or press any key, and it lags/pauses -and only when run through Steam.

Check your PC with a good antivirus my man. It worked for me. Also, if you have an Nvidia card, make sure that in Nvidia Control Panel > Manage 3D settings > Threaded Optimization is on "Auto" and NOT on "On".

Check, check, and still having issues.

[Hazuki-chan]

@The Leper: Found the problem. The real one, I mean; the one you completely missed in the process of making three or four faulty assumptions and then broadcasting them as truth.

Apparently, Ad-Aware (and possibly other antivirus/anti-malware software) interacts poorly with Darkest Dungeon when the latter is running under Steam. I noticed this when I turned Ad-Aware off in order to avoid some fairly disastrous conflicts when I ran a free trial of that NOD32 thing you recommended -which, by the way, turned up 0 threats out of 2,000,000 or so files scanned, meaning Ad-Aware, at least in this case, worked just as well on the actual intended function front -it regularly finds and removes threats, and apparently didn't miss any here. NOD32's main selling point seems to be that it doesn't cause -this- particular issue...

Adding the steam/windows version of Darkest Dungeon's exe file to Ad-Aware's exceptions doesn't seem to do anything, nor does, say, disabling its real-time protection feature. Only current solution seems to be manually deactivating Ad-Aware altogether, which when I tried it just now, indeed removed the "click paralyze" effect when launching Darkest Dungeon in Steam which otherwise makes the game virtually unplayable.


@redhookjohn(&co.): Your game, Ad-Aware and Steam walk into a bar, and your game keeps hanging for a second or two every time the bartender clicks on it, but only while the other two are both there.

I have no idea what the punchline to that is, but I'm hoping you'll figure it out.

Well done making an awesome game, by the way -unsarcastically. I wouldn't have obsessed about all this for this long if the off-steam version didn't make me want to play it -and- talk to my friends. Kudos if you can pull that off; otherwise, we'll see if I get around to finishing it in window-on-the-side mode...

[Martial.Lore]

I just bought the game in the winter sale and my antivirus program System Mechanic Pro Realtime Protection flagged the Darkest Dungeon executable file as an infection "W32/FakeAlert.FY.gen!Eldorado."

I set up a file exception in SMP Realtime Protection and was able to reaquire the file by verifying the integrity of the game cache, and the game finally started for me with Realtime Protection still running in the background. Phew!

The pschological stress of this game is already taking a toll before I even started my first campaign!