Game seems to hate 144hz and g-sync

[Afro¹]

Just bought this in the Winter sale.

Game looks juddery at 144hz, but perfectly smooth at 60hz.

Game also seems to hate g-sync. I was getting a very slight hitch occasionally while spinning the camera around the first room with it enabled. Turned it off, enabled normal v-sync via Nvidia Control Panel and no more stutter/hitch. Only game I've had to do that with. Strange.

Time to play I guess. Seems to be okay now. Just wanted to let the devs know.

[IsenoAlpha]

I'm running at 60 fps but seem to be having the issue that you are. About half the time the game is smooth like 60 fps should be but the other half of the time it looks like the framerate drops to like 30 fps. I'm monitoring the framerate with Afterburner and it stays more or less at 60 fps so I don't know what could be causing the feeling of it stuttering. If I change the refresh rate in the options to 59Hz rather than 60Hz the game stays all the time stuttering like it does sometimes with it set at 60Hz.

Reminds me of Dead Island where I would be getting 60 fps all the time but it never felt like it, except this seems to happen at random. It's apparently not supposed to be like that so I have no idea what could be going on. I've tried changing the amount of prerendered frames in the Nvidia control panel but that didn't help. Also tried using its vsync instead of the games but that also isn't helping.

Would like help with this because it's kind of annoying.

[G]

Han solo dies

[East]

I get a loooooooot of screen tearing in this game

[Sparhawk122]

G-Sync enabled here. Capped at 60hz. Smooth as hell. Also got a GTX Titan X.

My monitor is a ASUS ROG SWIFT, 1440p, 144hz G-Sync 27inch gaming monitor.

[IsenoAlpha]

Seems like my stuttering issue was caused by Afterburner's OSD. Turning it off and getting solid 60 fps with no stuttering or anything like that. Shame I can't have it on so I can't take screenshots. All games should have a built in screenshot function.

[Sparhawk122]

Originally posted by Zona:

Seems like my stuttering issue was caused by Afterburner's OSD. Turning it off and getting solid 60 fps with no stuttering or anything like that. Shame I can't have it on so I can't take screenshots. All games should have a built in screenshot function.

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You're running it through Steam yeah. Just hit F12....

[IsenoAlpha]

Yeah I forgot that. I have the overlay turned off because I can usually take screenshots with Afterburner.

In any case I got a 144Hz monitor recently and at 60 fps it runs fine but it has the same issue at anything above that. It seems like above 60 fps it just duplicates frames rather than rendering new ones, which is causing the choppiness. I can just lock it at 60 fps and be fine but it would be nice if the devs would somehow fix this.

[Hadley]

I tried everything, I can't get it to run at 144FPS. It runs at 144FPS but then I get Screentearing with ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ GSYNC! I never have seen Tearing since I use GSYNC ever, no ide how they managed to do that.

In 60FPS it runs decent, but 60FPS feels very bad when you are used to 144 ._.

[PlanPony]

I fixed it by going to nvidia control panel then "Manage 3D settings" then select "Program settings" and add a Soma profile by pressing add and selecting it, thats it now run the game with g sync and set the ingame setting to what you want. Some reason the profile is missing but once you add it it should work

[Afro¹]

Originally posted by Hadley:

I tried everything, I can't get it to run at 144FPS. It runs at 144FPS but then I get Screentearing with ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ GSYNC! I never have seen Tearing since I use GSYNC ever, no ide how they managed to do that.

In 60FPS it runs decent, but 60FPS feels very bad when you are used to 144 ._.

There's actually a glitch w/ G-Sync with the latest Windows Creator's Update and I don't believe Nvidia fixed it yet via drivers. The solution is easy though - I've linked it at the bottom. I was getting tearing in Overwatch w/ G-sync right after updating Windows, but this fixed it instantly.

Oh, and I'm not saying this will fix the stutter in SOMA, specifically. I'm just replying here because I got a notification haha. I refunded this game a while ago because of the unfixable micro stutter.

http://news.thewindowsclub.com/creators-update-breaks-windowed-g-sync-here-is-the-fix-89392/

Hope this helps.

[shankly1985]

OpenGL is the reason.

[Nite69]

must be gsync only, I am on a 144hz monitor without gsync and it works fine.

[announcer]

Originally posted by =EGC= _Nite_:

must be gsync only, I am on a 144hz monitor without gsync and it works fine.

Are you sure you're getting above 60fps?
I have a 144fps monitor, my steam FPS counter shows 110-140 fps.... but the screen says otherwise.... it looks like it's running at 60fps with tearing. And i'm not using a gsync monitor.
Can't find a fix :/

[Rares]

Guys, the solution is really simple. I posted this for other games too.
It's not the game that's the culprit. It's Windows 10, specifically Creator's Update.
All you need to do is right click the game icon -> Properties. Go to Compatibility tab and make sure to check "Disable fullscreen optimizations" then hit OK.
Your game will run perfectly smooth afterwards.