Constant hiccups/lag on laptop

[tursel]

Playing with my girlfriend on LAN, me on my desktop and girlfriend on her laptop.

Laptop works as a host machine, since I wanted her to own the farm if I get bored or there's something that only farm owner can do.

The laptop has constant small hitches. Every ~10 second or so, the game stops for very brief moment and continues.

- Laptop is i7 + 8gb ram + GTX 555m so should have absolutely no issues
- Hiccups mostly noticeable when walking
- The small lag spikes can not be heard in music/sounds
- No matter if co-op or not
- No matter if player in farm, city, mines, the same issue happens everywhere
- Resolution does not matter, external screen does not matter, lightning effects etc. do not matter

Our first gaming session we had no problem (almost through Spring), and the issue began after that.


Suggestions for fixing the issue are welcome.

[Jonathan J. O'Neill]

Question...

What are you doing when it happens?

I've found that using bombs in the mines causes everyone on the game to do exactly what you're describing, no matter where they are.

Likely because the host machine is trying to calculate the explosion and damge to objects within the balst radius.

Also, I'd have the host machine disable anything running in the background such as scheduled virus scans, superfetching, the GeForce experience folder scans, etc.

[tursel]

Does not matter, I might be just walking, watering plants, killing monsters... or completely gone.

As I said, it does not matter if the farm is being hosted in co-op, or just loaded in singleplayer, so it should not be due to any networking problem.

[Jonathan J. O'Neill]

Like I said, check background services that I mentioned. A laptop is not very powerful, in general. If you have something making your hard drive run, it's affecting your laptop's ability to dedicate the drive to Stardew.

I recommend opening Resource Monitor from the task manager's Performance tab when the hiccups are happening. Switch to the Disk tab and see what programs are reading/writing. If you've got a ton of small programs or fewer large programs reading or writing to the disk, it will adversely affect performance.

[tursel]

Will look into that, thanks.

[ScytheRider]

I have a decent system, GTX 1070, 32GB RAM, and the game used to run fine. After the 1.3 update, I've been getting constant stuttering all throughout gameplay.

[TTVShadowVat]

i was going to say, not being Rude, maybe a better PC, But as Ctrl said he is running a 1070 and having issues. so no idea here. im a i7 7700 1060 Gtx 16gig DDR4 Ram, no issues here for me yet . knock on wood

[Jonathan J. O'Neill]

Same. I've had no issues with a similar setup.

I'm running:

Windows 10 Pro 64 Bit
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti w 8 GB GDDR5
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8400 CPU @ 2.80GHz
16 GB DDR4 RAM @ 2666 MHz
128 GB M.2 SATA SSD
2 TB 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s

It's the main reason I'm thinking the hard drive is the culprit as many people don't consider that as anything more than storage, when your game performance can be affected by its performance.

[tursel]

I might have resolved the issue at least partially by closing some background programs and disabling different startup programs. At least testing for a few minutes, I did not see noticeable hiccups anymore.

I think SSD might help a lot with this game, but the laptop does not have one.

And as said, we are playing co-op, and only the laptop is suffering from lag, no problems with my desktop (apart from one crash to desktop and one disconnect mid game).

We'll see if disabling extra programs helps in long-term. Though yes, computer upgrade has been in talks several times already, since eg. the laptop can't hold battery power anymore and thus is a bit more cumbersome to use.

[ScytheRider]

I should note that I'm only playing singleplayer, no mods, *and* I'm running the game from SSD.

I just tried reinstalling the Stardew Valley and that has not fixed the problem.

Next I will try it on different systems.

[SenMithrarin85]

I have the same problem. the game stutters occasionally on an ssd and very frequently on a hdd. fullscreen instead of borderless helps somewhat, but doesn't get rid of the problem. try to avoid running it on a hdd.

[RowlBrandywine]

Has anyone found what causes this stutter? I have a quite powerful computer, all SSD, and this is the only game I run into this sort of stuttering with. Seems if I play right after a reboot I am good, but if I quit and start game again later without a reboot the stuttering starts.

[Daz]

Same issue. Running from a really fast SSD, strong computer.

Are you getting the lags inside the menus/Intro too or just during gameplay?

[RowlBrandywine]

I can see the problem now on the start screen before I even start the game. Just drag the mouse back and forth a few times and I will see the lag. The weird thing is, if I reboot, and don't launch any other program before Stardew, it works fine. Played the 1.4 update and still have the problem.

[628brian]

Any update? Is there a common problem? Is there a fix?

[RowlBrandywine]

I have not had this problem with 1.5