(Solved) Anyway to fix stutter/slowdown? - High? end pc

[Dark Essence]

Hey I'm having the most bizarre performance problem in this game, it's like micro stuttering? all over the place when I move. I'd call it more of a slowdown. Game is very unplayable, never had this issue in any other game.

Like when I'm standing still I can get good fps but if I start walking a few steps, the fps fluctuates wildly, dipping into the 30s in an instant then shooting back up to high fps wildly, every split second

Even wierder, as I walk the whole game like slows down every few steps as if the game was in slow motion, only lasts like maybe quarter or half second, but it happens literally constantly. Every few steps. It doesn't feel smooth at all even when the fps is constant 60+

Another odd thing is the fps is just weird, like low settings gives less fps?

I tried the affinity thing with battle encoder shirase at -2%
Tried reinstalling game
Tried admin
Tried performance mod user.cfg file
Tried setting vsync off
Tried borderless, windowed, and Fullscreen
Tried launching with -heapsize 2097152
Tried cpu and gpu physx setting in Nvidia control panel
Tried 1080p with low settings, nothing makes this weird stutter/slowdown stuff go away.

When standing still by forge at the start of the game and looking straight at village fps is:

Low 1080p = 51-56 fps, 19% gpu utilization, 1-3% cpu util

High 1080p = 48-73 fps 20%gpu, 1-4%cpu util

High 1080p + HD texture's= 91-105 fps 48%gpu, 2-3%cpu util

High 4k = 38-59 fps 32%gpu 1-3%cpu util

High 4k + HD texture's = 81-88fps 98%gpu 2-3%cpu util

Ulta high 4k = 31-40 fps 50%gpu, 2-3%cpu util

Ultra high 4k + HD texture's = 55-59 fps 98%gpu, 2-4%cpu util

Get more fps with HD texture's who knows why..

Core clock is same throughout, 1900mhz so not throttling at low settings.

Also cpu util sounds low as reported by Nvidia overlay, but on task manager it's hitting all cores. Bout half cores at 50% ish, other half 25ish it's not hitting a single core too hard looks very spread.
On task manager it's 27% cpu util as a whole.

Game just broke? Not sure what to make of that but all I care about is weird slowdown/stutter

Any other suggestions would be great, at wits end here

Specs
Win 11
32gb ram 3200
Ryzen 9 3900x 12 core @4.4ghz
Rtx 3080
Gpu set to high performance
Temps are good 50-60c

[PopeRigby]

I'm also interested in fixing this. Interestingly enough, I'm also on Linux, but I still have stuttering. I think it's a fault of the game.

[wjpower2003]

PopeRigby eredeti hozzászólása:

I'm also interested in fixing this. Interestingly enough, I'm also on Linux, but I still have stuttering. I think it's a fault of the game.

I have it too but I think it may be a GPU driver conflict which is possibly my fault.

When I first installed Pop!_OS I think I installed multiple GPU drivers from multiple repos and subsequently, three appear in POP Shop while only one can be used at any given time.

A number of months back on the previous Pop!_OS version before support for it ended and I had to upgrade, the other two GPU driver versions disappeared from POP Shop and KCD ran smoothlly with no stuttering...... until the next update when the entries for the two lesser GPU drivers re-appeared in POP Shop.

I'm giving some thought to overwriting Pop_OS! with DraugrOS instead because I've heard it's the better Linux gaming distro at the moment...... that's what they said about Pop_OS! last year but Pop is now down to 4th place. It still beats Windows 10 though I guess.

[WarWolf]

wjpower2003 eredeti hozzászólása:

PopeRigby eredeti hozzászólása:

I'm also interested in fixing this. Interestingly enough, I'm also on Linux, but I still have stuttering. I think it's a fault of the game.

I have it too but I think it may be a GPU driver conflict which is possibly my fault.

When I first installed Pop!_OS I think I installed multiple GPU drivers from multiple repos and subsequently, three appear in POP Shop while only one can be used at any given time.

A number of months back on the previous Pop!_OS version before support for it ended and I had to upgrade, the other two GPU driver versions disappeared from POP Shop and KCD ran smoothlly with no stuttering...... until the next update when the entries for the two lesser GPU drivers re-appeared in POP Shop.

I'm giving some thought to overwriting Pop_OS! with DraugrOS instead because I've heard it's the better Linux gaming distro at the moment...... that's what they said about Pop_OS! last year but Pop is now down to 4th place. It still beats Windows 10 though I guess.

you guys have got me thinking about using linux again but god i got to relearn all the command lines

[PopeRigby]

wjpower2003 eredeti hozzászólása:

PopeRigby eredeti hozzászólása:

I'm also interested in fixing this. Interestingly enough, I'm also on Linux, but I still have stuttering. I think it's a fault of the game.

I have it too but I think it may be a GPU driver conflict which is possibly my fault.

When I first installed Pop!_OS I think I installed multiple GPU drivers from multiple repos and subsequently, three appear in POP Shop while only one can be used at any given time.

A number of months back on the previous Pop!_OS version before support for it ended and I had to upgrade, the other two GPU driver versions disappeared from POP Shop and KCD ran smoothlly with no stuttering...... until the next update when the entries for the two lesser GPU drivers re-appeared in POP Shop.

I'm giving some thought to overwriting Pop_OS! with DraugrOS instead because I've heard it's the better Linux gaming distro at the moment...... that's what they said about Pop_OS! last year but Pop is now down to 4th place. It still beats Windows 10 though I guess.

Do you have an AMD card? It might be using the amdvlk Vulkan driver instead of the radeon one. Radeon runs much much better.

[PopeRigby]

WarWolf eredeti hozzászólása:

wjpower2003 eredeti hozzászólása:

I have it too but I think it may be a GPU driver conflict which is possibly my fault.

When I first installed Pop!_OS I think I installed multiple GPU drivers from multiple repos and subsequently, three appear in POP Shop while only one can be used at any given time.

A number of months back on the previous Pop!_OS version before support for it ended and I had to upgrade, the other two GPU driver versions disappeared from POP Shop and KCD ran smoothlly with no stuttering...... until the next update when the entries for the two lesser GPU drivers re-appeared in POP Shop.

I'm giving some thought to overwriting Pop_OS! with DraugrOS instead because I've heard it's the better Linux gaming distro at the moment...... that's what they said about Pop_OS! last year but Pop is now down to 4th place. It still beats Windows 10 though I guess.

you guys have got me thinking about using linux again but god i got to relearn all the command lines

Give it a go! It's come a long way in recent years, and it's a really comfortable gaming OS imo. Most stuff doesn't require the terminal, but it's probably a good idea to at least learn the basics.

[Mr.I]

PopeRigby eredeti hozzászólása:

Do you have an AMD card? It might be using the amdvlk Vulkan driver instead of the radeon one. Radeon runs much much better.

You need Mesa. RADV beats everthing, it's the single best Linux Vulkan implementation so far. And it has Valve's AOC shader compiler which massively speeds up shader compilation.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=radv-amdvlk-mid22&num=1

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux515-mesa213-pro&num=1

The second article is a bit outdated but the test results remain true.

[PopeRigby]

Yeah that's what I meant. The RADV package on Arch Linux is called vulkan-radeon.

[Bandy]

First, turn off all overlays (think you mentioned running at least one) and all other background processes.

Are you monitoring system temps? If you have not already done so set your own cooling fan curves in case the system is experiencing thermal throttling, though I doubt this is the issue here, though maybe you are <trying> to run KCD on a laptop?

As you may know KCD uses Cryengine, so search/look to other posts that try to optimize similar games using that engine. I also had a hell of a time getting KCD to run at acceptable fps, spent the most time ever on game tweaking but it was worth it, KCD is very good game. Even once acceptable fps achieved the game had wild swings especially in the big battle sequences which turned into slide shows for me. You will have to adjust as you go along.

If memory serves, the worst performance hogs are settings named something like: game physics, and shaders, and of course shadows and reflections, but the first two are by far the worst. HD textures are nice but really not worth it so leave off until you can test that by itself later on.

Need to take it step-by-step and suggest start with turn to lowest/off the game shader setting and 'game physics' (or something similarly called) and see a baseline.

[Dark Essence]

Disabled overlays, no joy. It's not a laptop and temps are fine. No matter the settings it happens.

[Noeat]

Dark Essence eredeti hozzászólása:

Disabled overlays, no joy. It's not a laptop and temps are fine. No matter the settings it happens.

what about this?
https://www.nexusmods.com/kingdomcomedeliverance/mods/133

[Dark Essence]

Actually I just did some more testing. It turns out it WAS the geforce experience overlay, I had to restart the PC after disabling the overlay for the game to actually be fixed. Problem solved! Thanks folks.

[Bandy]

Glad to hear!