Not locked at 60 FPS and stuttering? (FIXED)

[MINI]

There seem to be some framedrops, more or less constantly.. or rather frameskipping.
Anyone else who has this issue?

UPDATE: ISSUE FIXED

Changing the affinity fixed the issue, thanks for the suggestion, Kratos.
It was however done slightly different in Windows 8.1, compared to the image guide, Kratos has posted.

In Windows 8.1:

1. Boot up NFS: HP and minimize it (ALT + TAB or CTRL + SHIFT + ESC out of the game, keep it running in the background).

2. Click on the Details tab within the Task Manager, and find NFS.

3. Right click the game and choose Set affinity

4. Turn some of the cores off (In my case, I have 7 cores, and I turned off every one but 0, 1 and 2.)

No more framedrops or stuttering.

Once again, thank you Kratos and Couchfighter.
Hope this helps other users in need.

[Lars]

Have you tried disabling cores (usually core 0) ? If you need help with it, there's some instructions here. It should run smooth but the game has issues with multi core cpu's.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=372777922

[MINI]

Thanks for the reply Couchfighter.
I have already checked that guide, and according to the description, if only one core is operating during the game, then it might be a help, but all of my cores are running according to the Performance tab in Task Manager.

I could of course try it, it is not like 15 fps or anything that low.. it is simply just minor small frameskips every fourth second.

[Lars]

Hm I see. I guess I'd still try it to see if it helps. It sounds fairly similar to how my game was running before I started fiddling with this. It'd be 60 smooth, but at random periods freeze for short periods of time. This could happen even on the main menu etc.

[MINI]

It is annoying.. but I have not experienced freezes in this title as of yet.
I did however have severe framedrops of insane proportions while I was downloading Wolfenstein - The New Order.

When that was done, the game ran normal again (for NFS HP / EA PC standards)

I could try and toy with the cores at some point, should the frame rate be too unbearable.

[King Bradley]

Why don't you just set game to run on one processor.I don't own this game but if i understand right you would be able to fix this problem if the game is running on one core and you can do that easily: http://prntscr.com/6i6p17 You need to start game first.
One question:You're getting microslu_ttering right?59fps? If so,if you have Nvidia card try enabling Adaptive Vsync in Control Panel and disable Vsync in game.Or if that doesn't help find game engine and try changing PoolSize to VRAM of your GPU or 400 MB less.Try finding MaxSmoothedFrameRate and MinSmoothedFrameRate and tell me what numbers are there.I am just talking about general things that improve perfomance in games sometimes.

[MINI]

Finding the game engine?
That's new to me, how do I do that?

[King Bradley]

Originally posted by MINI:

Finding the game engine?
That's new to me, how do I do that?

Go to Documents find that game,then find Config folder.There should be file called BaseEngine or NTFHPEngine something like that.

[Lars]

In Users\$Name\Documents\Criterion Games\Need for Speed(TM) Hot Pursuit there's a file called config.nfs11save that has some settings in it, that's the only settings file I've found for the game.

It may be useful, as you can turn off some video effects that aren't toggled in the in game video options.

There's nothing about Min/MaxSmoothedFrameRate in it, though, so Kratos probably had something else in mind.

[King Bradley]

Originally posted by BS|Couchfighter:

In Users\$Name\Documents\Criterion Games\Need for Speed(TM) Hot Pursuit there's a file called config.nfs11save that has some settings in it, that's the only settings file I've found for the game.

It may be useful, as you can turn off some video effects that aren't toggled in the in game video options.

There's nothing about Min/MaxSmoothedFrameRate in it, though, so Kratos probably had something else in mind.

Well probably not every game have it.But if you change min,max to certain numbers usually 31(59)/61(62) you can fix slu_ttering.Or turning off bUseTextureLevelStreaming.Also changing PoolSize to your VRAM memory or VRAM-400 can help,but i think you need to add: -readtexturepoolfromini to Launch options.Those are all harmless things so you can try it.That's actually fix for only few games(Bioshock Infinite,Alice:Madness Returns) but i guess it can works for others.Also like i said if you have Nvidia try enabling Adaptive Vsync in game.

[Jhobz]

Thanks! I was wondering why I'm getting those stuttering too even though my computer spec is way above the system requirement. Following your guide solved my issue!

[Lil C]-[ew C]-[ew is ☂д☂]

Originally posted by Kratos:

Originally posted by BS|Couchfighter:

In Users\$Name\Documents\Criterion Games\Need for Speed(TM) Hot Pursuit there's a file called config.nfs11save that has some settings in it, that's the only settings file I've found for the game.

It may be useful, as you can turn off some video effects that aren't toggled in the in game video options.

There's nothing about Min/MaxSmoothedFrameRate in it, though, so Kratos probably had something else in mind.

Well probably not every game have it.But if you change min,max to certain numbers usually 31(59)/61(62) you can fix slu_ttering.Or turning off bUseTextureLevelStreaming.Also changing PoolSize to your VRAM memory or VRAM-400 can help,but i think you need to add: -readtexturepoolfromini to Launch options.Those are all harmless things so you can try it.That's actually fix for only few games(Bioshock Infinite,Alice:Madness Returns) but i guess it can works for others.Also like i said if you have Nvidia try enabling Adaptive Vsync in game.

Hmm....I didn't find this command line but I have disabled Dof and I don't know why Verti.sync was true so changed to false...anyway this have positively increased my frame per second in the game when driving from 35 to 50 but I still get much less now once in a while a massive drop of fps to 9-10 but is happenning less often than before.Thanks for the tip.

[Cadim]

Well i use The Nvidia Inspector and put the framerate to 40.
The constant frame drop will stop

[Jbkabr]

Thanks, my fps was too low 15-20

[KingFurykiller]

Can confirm this still works in 2023. Running windows 10, on an i7-7700k paired with a 2070 SUPER, high details everywhere. Note, you do have to make this change every time you start the game; windows doesn't appear to remember the setting

so start the game, alt tab to task manager, right click on NFS, go to details, then right click again on NFS, set affinity. I used cores 0, 1, and 2, then clicked ok. Ran crispy smooth the rest of my session.

[Limbert]

I had been using this method to uncheck and recheck all the cores after launching and that fixed it for me.

I just found a way to set it with a shortcut using a command line and it's working for me. All you have to do is make a shortcut like this to run the game:

Target:
%windir%\system32\cmd.exe /c start /affinity F NFS11.exe

Start in:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Need for Speed Hot Pursuit"

The most important part is /affinity F, where F is a binary string of your cores in reverse order converted to hex. In my case I want all 4 of my cores to be used, so 4th, 3rd, 2nd, 1st, 1111 = F.

If you wanted the first 3 of 7 (though I would try using all of them first) it would be like 0000111, 7 converted to hex, so you would use /affinity 7.

Got it from here:
https://superuser.com/questions/1156840/how-do-i-set-the-group-and-affinity-of-a-windows-executable-from-the-command-lin