constantly micro stuttering

[Nebuchadnezzar II]

I don't know if this game is poorly optimized or just doesn't like my pc but this game stutters all the time, is this a known bug? is there any way of fixing it or doing something about it?

[llama steve]

same, i have a 5700xt ryzen 5 3600 and i struggle to play on anything past 1080p

[Prism]

Same bro, 5700 + r5 3600, ♥♥♥♥♥♥ performance, nothing worked to solve this

[CableTongue]

It's been an issue ever since launch, and there doesn't seem to be a reliable fix for it; it's more down to luck, though you could try fiddling around with the config file inside your savegame folder (userprofile/savegames/Arkane Studios ... or something like that). I did that and it improved a little, though there's still stuttering.

[Drifter]

it has to be locked to 30 or 60 fps

[DavidRubes]

Set the in-game frame limiter to 30 or 60 fps. I have set it to 60fps + no vsync + double buffering only, but you can try triple. GTX 1080, R5 2600 at 1440p ultra/high mixed settings.

[Xengre]

Lower the settings a bit and DISABLE or the variable resolution setting. I forget which setting it is but it is extremely poorly implemented in this game and when it tries to lower your resolution to boost performance, or increase it when you can spare the performance, it can cause performance issues like this. If you disable it then your game wont try to compensate for scenes/action that is more demanding so you will need to lower your settings a bit to put it at a more consistent point. However, if you lower your settings while leaving this on it will likely still cause micro-stuttering for many people so... disable it.

This will hopefully be sufficient to help your issue.

[John Webfishing]

That's just how the game runs, it's very badly optimised.

[ParasiteX]

I used to have serious stuttering issues way back when i first played, and this was when it still had Denuvo. Which made the game completely unplayable. And i had an overclocked Intel i7 2700K with a Vega 56 and 1600Mhz DDR3 memory.
Since then i upgraded upgraded CPU, MB and RAM. And now have a Ryzen 7 3700X and same graphics card, but now watercooled and overclocked. And running 3600Mhz DDR4 memory.
And i recently played through the entire game without a single stutter this time. With maxed out graphics settings. And 2560x1080 resolution. And framerate is capped at maximum setting with no variable framerate.

[simonhobnob]

Very odd.

Currently running a 7600k and 1070... no issues at all. What specs do you have?

[Nebuchadnezzar II]

Originally posted by simonhobnob:

Very odd.

Currently running a 7600k and 1070... no issues at all. What specs do you have?

I5 3.4GHZ
RTX 2060
8GB RAM

[Nebuchadnezzar II]

Originally posted by Grober:

Originally posted by Nebuchadnezzar II:

I5 3.4GHZ
RTX 2060
8GB RAM

Very poor specs.

what's poor about it lol

[John Webfishing]

Originally posted by Nebuchadnezzar II:

Originally posted by Grober:

Very poor specs.

what's poor about it lol

Probably the type of person that thinks anything below an i9, 100+gb of ram and 2080 ti sli is a low end build

[ParasiteX]

Originally posted by Nebuchadnezzar II:

Originally posted by Grober:

Very poor specs.

what's poor about it lol

I'm curious what the exact model on the CPU is? There is a huge difference between say an i5 2500K and for instance an i5 8600K. Just listing the clock speed says absolutely nothing. And if it of the older gens, then it is indeed very poor spec and may be the cause of why the game stutters. Otherwise your GPU should be fine for this game. But from my own experience, upgrading CPU, MB and RAM made a massive difference in performance.

[ParasiteX]

Just did a lil test. I went into BIOS and lowered my CPU core count down to 4 cores, memory clock speed down to 1600MHz and PCIe from 8 to 16x. To simulate my old systems specs. And man the fps pretty much dropped by half when i tested it in Karnaka mission 2 after you pass by the wall of light. This was same spot where it heavily lagged and stuttered for me on m,y old rig.

So my best guess is that for those getting lag. It's either because your CPU is too old and not enough cores. game probably needs 6 cores. Or you're memory is too slow or possibly not configured correctly. Had a similar issue where my nephew had installed his RAM incorrectly so it was only running single channel, and running with the default SPD profile instead of XMP. This can severely tank your systems performance.

EDIT: did another quick test by just lowering core count. This did not hurt performance in any noticeable way. So that leaves likely culprit being either RAM being too slow or possibly running such an old CPU that it runs PCIe 2.0 instead of PCIe 3.0, which can limit the performance potential of your GPU.

[Nebuchadnezzar II]

Originally posted by Corona-Chan:

Just did a lil test. I went into BIOS and lowered my CPU core count down to 4 cores, memory clock speed down to 1600MHz and PCIe from 8 to 16x. To simulate my old systems specs. And man the fps pretty much dropped by half when i tested it in Karnaka mission 2 after you pass by the wall of light. This was same spot where it heavily lagged and stuttered for me on m,y old rig.

So my best guess is that for those getting lag. It's either because your CPU is too old and not enough cores. game probably needs 6 cores. Or you're memory is too slow or possibly not configured correctly. Had a similar issue where my nephew had installed his RAM incorrectly so it was only running single channel, and running with the default SPD profile instead of XMP. This can severely tank your systems performance.

EDIT: did another quick test by just lowering core count. This did not hurt performance in any noticeable way. So that leaves likely culprit being either RAM being too slow or possibly running such an old CPU that it runs PCIe 2.0 instead of PCIe 3.0, which can limit the performance potential of your GPU.

Guess it's my time to change the CPU than