Is it normal to get a lot of stuttering with a GTX 1070?

[Bruno]

My system: GTX 1070, i7 12700k, 32GB of RAM, the game is installed on a M2 SSD.

Is it normal to have to play on lowest graphic settings? Otherwise, I get some crazy stuttering when I walk around.

I plan on changing my graphic card next month for a RTX 4070 Ti (Amazon shipped the wrong card, waiting for a refund or a replacement... ), but I thought this game was more demanding on the CPU than the GPU? Will a better GPU even make any difference?

Edit: replacing my GTX 1070 with a RTX 4070 Ti seems to have fixed the issue. I almost get no stuttering, and when I do it's barely noticeable.

[cswiger]

Nope. I play using a GTX 1080 Ti, i7 4790k, 16 GB RAM with all settings on Ultra and the game runs well-- usually a flat 60 fps, except for planet-to-space transitions.

Are you using Win 11 with a gaming mouse using a high report rate?

[Hawkeye]

I started playing with a GTX 1080 and the game stuttered so...
I upgraded to an RTX 2080 and the game stuttered so...
I upgraded to an RXT 3080ti and guess what? It still stuttered.
Are you seeing a trend here?

[Raven]

Originally posted by Hawkeye:

I started playing with a GTX 1080 and the game stuttered so...
I upgraded to an RTX 2080 and the game stuttered so...
I upgraded to an RXT 3080ti and guess what? It still stuttered.
Are you seeing a trend here?

I have an RTX 3080ti, and guess what, no stutter.

[Zes]

Do what i do, buy a console ;) That solved my problems with new released games. Gpus are expensive

[Bruno]

Originally posted by cswiger:

Nope. I play using a GTX 1080 Ti, i7 4790k, 16 GB RAM with all settings on Ultra and the game runs well-- usually a flat 60 fps, except for planet-to-space transitions.

Are you using Win 11 with a gaming mouse using a high report rate?

I am on Win 11 now, but I had the same problem on Win 10. I use a normal razer mouse, with no custom setting.

A friend of mine on Steam used to run that game flawlessly on a 10 years old computer. That's very strange. I guess I'm just doomed, whatever system I build.

[cswiger]

Originally posted by Bruno:

I am on Win 11 now, but I had the same problem on Win 10. I use a normal razer mouse, with no custom setting.

A razer mouse probably defaults to 500 fps report rate, so yes, that is a gaming mouse with a high report rate. This appears to cause stuttering problems with Win 11 in particular, but also might have had some impact on older flavors of Windows as well:

https://www.pcgamer.com/julys-windows-11-update-could-be-the-solution-to-your-game-stuttering-woes/

You might try changing the report rate down to 250 and see whether that makes a difference.

[MechWarden]

I got a GTX 1080 back when the GPU and game were new, and never had stuttering. On SSD or HDD I never had that kind of stuttering. After all these years, I get some FPS drops from still having the settings fairly high (not max), but those are still mostly acceptable. I know a 1070 is different from 1080, but it shouldn't be different by much.

It sounds like some sort of issue elsewhere, especially when some people still have stuttering regardless of their graphics card. Somehow with a 6th Gen 4 GHz Core i7 and 16 GB of RAM, and constantly having Chrome in the background, NMS still runs well for me on a 1440p monitor.

Like with any issue, you might need to ask the right questions, and far as I can tell asking if it is normal for a GTX 1070 to cause stuttering in NMS doesn't seem like the right question.

[Krash Megiddo]

Originally posted by Hawkeye:

I started playing with a GTX 1080 and the game stuttered so...
I upgraded to an RTX 2080 and the game stuttered so...
I upgraded to an RXT 3080ti and guess what? It still stuttered.
Are you seeing a trend here?

Yes. You're video card is not the problem.

[Guyver8]

lowering the screen resolution can certainly help with the stuttering and might even allow you to move the gfx settings up from the lowest profile

[Sean]

If you have a G-Sync capable monitor check out this Nvidia settings guide infograph. It can certainly help eliminate any stuttering.

https://i.imgur.com/2PRbj4P.png

[RustyNail]

Originally posted by Peregrinus:

Originally posted by Hawkeye:

I started playing with a GTX 1080 and the game stuttered so...
I upgraded to an RTX 2080 and the game stuttered so...
I upgraded to an RXT 3080ti and guess what? It still stuttered.
Are you seeing a trend here?

I have an RTX 3080ti, and guess what, no stutter.

Same here.

[Bruno]

How could my mouse cause fps losses? And why wouldn't I experience the same issue with other games? I don't get it. I mean, it's an entirely new PC I'm using right now, built from scratch. The only part I salvaged from my former PC is the GTX 1070. If a RTX 4070 Ti doesn't fix the issue next month, I give up.

[Bruno]

Originally posted by cswiger:

https://www.pcgamer.com/julys-windows-11-update-could-be-the-solution-to-your-game-stuttering-woes/

I did get all the updates available for Windows yesterday, I suppose it was part of them?

[Guh~hey~hey~♫]

If you're talking about the stutter you experience when getting out of the atmospher of a planet.... it's an exclusive feature on the PC version and has nothing to do with your set-up.
It has always been here.

[Bruno]

Originally posted by Guh~hey~hey~♫:

If you're talking about the stutter you experience when getting out of the atmospher of a planet.... it's an exclusive feature on the PC version and has nothing to do with your set-up.
It has always been here.

No, I simply mean walking around, on the planet you start on. It's like some assets cause FPS losses when they are loading or something. I thought 32GB of RAM would have been enough?