Game stuttering

[Surgical]

I haven't played this game in about a year or so, and this game ran flawlessly on the same exact system a year ago. This game now stutters really bad and I have no idea why. Stutters are maybe every 30 seconds or so and seem pretty bad and long (2-3 second long stutters)

7800x3d
4090
64gb ram

Are there certain settings that should be avoided that cause these stutters?

It also asked me to install battleeye to play single player, could this the reason it stutters so bad?

[psykoteky]

Would doublecheck you aren't hitting 188fps as well - use vsync or cap fps. Hitting/getting near the engine limit is known to cause problems for many, for years. Especially shows up in menus.

Then you get into background programs, overlays, settings, clocks/bios config, other apps/os have/had updates, and so on. Grass is also a common cause. Depending what else happened on the system since then..

Can always go delete my docs / rockstar games / gtav / settings.xml and let the game recreate - and reconfig settings from there to see if that cures anything too.

/goodluck - many causes for lag/stutter ingame

edit - I'd try 140-145 before moving towards 180

As for battleye - you can uncheck it in R* launcher/settings, or slap in a -nobattleye in the launch options, or commandline.txt in the game folder - to rule that out. Some people did complain about lag around its release. Personally now, not seeing it.

[Surgical]

Originally posted by psykoteky:

Would doublecheck you aren't hitting 188fps as well - use vsync or cap fps. Hitting/getting near the engine limit is known to cause problems for many, for years. Especially shows up in menus.

Then you get into background programs, overlays, settings, clocks/bios config, other apps/os have/had updates, and so on. Grass is also a common cause.

Can always go delete my docs / rockstar games / gtav / settings.xml and let the game recreate - and reconfig settings from there to see if that cures anything too.

/goodluck - many causes for lag/stutter ingame

Is that why the game won't let me go past 180 hz in full screen mode? Should I just cap it via nvidia to 180?

And yea I was hitting exactly 188 before the stutters began

[Surgical]

Tried locking fps to 180 and turning vsync on, same stutters, rdr2 runs flawlessly, this used to as well...

[tat]

Originally posted by Surgical:

Tried locking fps to 180 and turning vsync on, same stutters, rdr2 runs flawlessly, this used to as well...

maybe try max out graphic setting, fps should go down a bit... damn, never thought a strong pc could have had problem playing games too

[cruste]

microsoft gamepass games were trouble makers in the past while they are handled as virtual drives and some games respond alergic to this while checking all the time for input devices
iam pretty sure microsoft did this intentionally to ruin performance on competing platforms

windows background slideshow caused lags for certain players, every time the picture changed, which might get happily changed against the will of the user through one of windows stupid autoupdates, just to remind you that windows has some new features

energy saving settings
make sure all devices run on max power or you get fancy lag spikes when one of your harddrives randomly switches from hibernate into active or gpu cpu throttles

steam had issues with big libraries 2000+ games and also issues with libraries used on multiple hard drives can't find the exact number for drives anymore

big steam friendlists caused stutters in certain games

that fancy id initiative with gay tpm also caused stutters for certain gamers might need firmware update of mainboard

windows defender real time protection and similiar ♥♥♥♥ in other antivirus programs
can't have it both ways 100% performance and 100% security, propably also cause more issues on weak hardware while you don't notice on powerful systems
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-endpoint/troubleshoot-performance-issues

good old suicide hardware failing before warranty expire or shortly after it
classic example suicide chips of microsoft or once upon time fancy ssd from samsung, engineers are getting paid for implementing artificial obsolescence

gamer aren't the chads on pc platform anymore there are new breeds like the crypto boys and ai dudes, so you already only getting b ware

faulty driver just look into nvidia, intel and amd forums to check how often this ♥♥♥♥ is failing
and thousand more issues

[Smokey]

Originally posted by Surgical:

Tried locking fps to 180 and turning vsync on, same stutters, rdr2 runs flawlessly, this used to as well...

Lock it lower,to something ike 120 or 140 fps and most of all set "Ultra low latency" to On + enable Vsync, from NVCPl,disable ingame Vsync. ( No matter if you have Gsync or not ). This makes it very smooth,and also gets rid of the cutscene stutter at high fps.

[RustySteaknife]

cap your fps and turn off vsync

[macatak]

as Smokey said your fps is probably still too high, capping it lower should resolve the issue completely if that is the actual cause of the stutter, i suggest 140 as well