Stutters / Framedrops

[Alex]

I played through the demo with no problems, but having finally started the full game, I'm constantly running into 1 second stutters? I've tried MetaphorFix, changing affinities etc, turning off/on vsync, AO, and so on and nothing has helped - the game simply drops from from whatever the current framerate is to about 50-60% of it before returning to full.

Doesn't matter what the cap is, if it's 144, it'll drop to about 75, if it's set to 60 it'll drop to about 38.

To note, I'm on a RTX 3070, Ryzen 5 5600X, game's installed on an SSD.

I really don't understand what's happening here, so am I just stuck waiting for a patch or something?

[SenMithrarin85]

game seems to run worse in borderless. try fullscreen if you haven't already

[Alex]

appreciate the suggestion, but I have indeed tried fullscreen, borderline and windowed to no effect.

[DoButterflyDream]

did you find a fix?

[vault2049]

I have an 13700k and a 4090. I had something similar happen to me with GranBlue Fantasy Relink. The solution was to disable my E-Cores in the BIOS. This solution has worked as well in this case. I don't if Ryzen CPUs have E-Cores or an equivalent to that, but try disabling them and see what happens.

[Xbob42]

If it's every 1 second, it might be from software polling your system for temps or the like.

Try disabling hardware monitoring if you're running Afterburner, don't have stuff like HWinfo or HWmonitor running. My case has a little display on the side to display temps, but the software to display that info causes stutters every 1 second even if the software isn't running, I had to completely uninstall it.

Software more sensitive to this stuff seems to stutter more from it. For example the UFO animation sync test website... with any of the software above open, I would get massive animation frame spikes every second without fail, and often more frequently than that.

After removing any hardware monitoring software, the test works perfectly and produces no stutters, even if I have 50 Chrome tabs open and a game running in the background. Before removing hardware monitoring software, I'd get those massive stutters with NOTHING AT ALL running except the single test Chrome tab.

And the worst part is only a few games and such are affected, so I wasted time thinking "Yeah, that's probably not it, other games run fine and are way more demanding," but I was wrong.