Choppy gameplay.

[seanwc101]

The gameplay is choppy from the start, even when I set everything to low in 720p. I got GTX960m , 8GB RAM, and i7-6700HQ. I change the game to use high performance Nvidia processor in the Nvidia setting but still having the same problem. I use the latest Nvidia driver, Windows 10.

[argoon]

That is not a problem of the game, why, because i have a pretty normal gaming machine and it was silky smooth to me at 1080p with everything at max.

You are playing on a laptop, for obvious reasons those are diferent from desktops, specially on heat and energy management, so perhaps your laptop is overheating and so making the hardware run slower to prevent problems or you are playing on battery power and it is not giving the necessary juice to the hardware, see the temperatures of your hardware with something like OpenHardwareMonitor and see if they are high or try to plug the laptop and turn off the power saving features, see if that helps.

Btw my pc (desktop) in case you wonder:

Intel i7 860 2.8ghz (old compared to yours)
8GB RAM
AMD R9 270X (faster GPU then yours but don't know by how much)

[seanwc101]

Originally posted by argoon:

That is not a problem of the game, why, because i have a pretty normal gaming machine and it was silky smooth to me at 1080p with everything at max.

You are playing on a laptop, for obvious reasons those are diferent from desktops, specially on heat and energy management, so perhaps your laptop is overheating and so making the hardware run slower to prevent problems or you are playing on battery power and it is not giving the necessary juice to the hardware, see the temperatures of your hardware with something like OpenHardwareMonitor and see if they are high or try to plug the laptop and turn off the power saving features, see if that helps.

Btw my pc (desktop) in case you wonder:

Intel i7 860 2.8ghz (old compared to yours)
8GB RAM
AMD R9 270X (faster GPU then yours but don't know by how much)

Plugged in, high performance, 70 C. I've no idea even the lowest setting at 720p, this game is extremely choppy. I've just tested other games (GTA V, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Alien Isolation, Kholat) and they run more than 30fps at medium-high settings.

[argoon]

Hum, what i can tell you is that i'm not experiencing the same has you, btw is it 70º in the desktop? If so imo that is a litle high, but also not that strange for a laptop.

Are you certain the game is using your Nvidia card? Are you certain the drivers for it are the latest on your laptop maker?

I don't know if you know but Nvidia makes generic drivers for laptop users so you could try them, but is always best to use the ones given by the laptop maker, some power saving features only work with them.
Sorry for not giving you better advice but like i said i'm not experiencing this problem so i can't really help you better.

[Easy_Dougie]

Eh game is choppy. It's Unity, it's bound to happen, first time I launchd it was buttery smooth after some minor stuttering after load, second time, it's stuttering constantly. It'll run smoothly at 60 for a few seconds, briefly pause then continue.

If you have issues with stuttering, I suggest setting the game to High CPU Priority in the Task Manager, got rid of 'em for the most part. I did also disable Core 0, but dunno if that had any effect. But worth mentioning


Edit: Actually, just disable the in-game vsync lol. Consistently get 200+ with it off, I'd suggest just forcing vsync through drivers, dxtory or just capping the framerate with RTSS instead.

[seanwc101]

Originally posted by argoon:

Hum, what i can tell you is that i'm not experiencing the same has you, btw is it 70º in the desktop? If so imo that is a litle high, but also not that strange for a laptop.

Are you certain the game is using your Nvidia card? Are you certain the drivers for it are the latest on your laptop maker?

I don't know if you know but Nvidia makes generic drivers for laptop users so you could try them, but is always best to use the ones given by the laptop maker, some power saving features only work with them.
Sorry for not giving you better advice but like i said i'm not experiencing this problem so i can't really help you better.

It's normal for a laptop to get that hot when playing games. Around 60-80 C.

Yes, absolutely certain Nvidia card is selected, latest driver released on 14.02.2017. I installed through GeForce Experience. Other games run fine, except for this one. The original Dear Esther runs fine too.

No problem, at least you're trying to help. Appreciate it.

Originally posted by Easy_D:

Eh game is choppy. It's Unity, it's bound to happen, first time I launchd it was buttery smooth after some minor stuttering after load, second time, it's stuttering constantly. It'll run smoothly at 60 for a few seconds, briefly pause then continue.

If you have issues with stuttering, I suggest setting the game to High CPU Priority in the Task Manager, got rid of 'em for the most part. I did also disable Core 0, but dunno if that had any effect. But worth mentioning


Edit: Actually, just disable the in-game vsync lol. Consistently get 200+ with it off, I'd suggest just forcing vsync through drivers, dxtory or just capping the framerate with RTSS instead.

Not working. The game runs at 10-15fps in 720p low settings. That can't be right. Not sure what settings were not properly set or perhaps the Landmark Edition is not optimized for laptop GPU.

[Dragunov]

On my rig it seems of the game is choppy, Intel Core i7 4770k, 8GB, 780Ti

[Stheo]

I had no noticable framedrops at all playing through the game, ran at 120fps vsynced in 1080p. i7 3770k and GTX 970.

Your GTX960m is not THAT much worse, so getting bad performance even in 720p sounds very strange. Only thing I can think of is that the game is using the crappy intel GPU even though you set it to force the 960. You could use a monitoring tool like MSI Afterburner to check if the correct GPU is actually in use.

[Dragunov]

Here I use G-sync and it's choppy! No v-sync used!

[VeilStrider]

5200u, 16 GB RAM, 840m, maxed setting - 60 fps flat.

[seanwc101]

Originally posted by Stheo:

I had no noticable framedrops at all playing through the game, ran at 120fps vsynced in 1080p. i7 3770k and GTX 970.

Your GTX960m is not THAT much worse, so getting bad performance even in 720p sounds very strange. Only thing I can think of is that the game is using the crappy intel GPU even though you set it to force the 960. You could use a monitoring tool like MSI Afterburner to check if the correct GPU is actually in use.

I think so. Because it was preset to run on Intel when I first run it. I quitted the game and forced the game to run on Nvidia GTX 960m, yet it still runs poorly similar to the Intel.

[Munkhee]

Hi seanwc101, are you still having problems with performance? If so, would you be able to post your log file for us to investigate please?

You can find it here: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Dear Esther Landmark Edition\DearEsther_Data\output_log.txt

Many thanks.

[Baldrickk]

Originally posted by Munkhee:

Hi seanwc101, are you still having problems with performance? If so, would you be able to post your log file for us to investigate please?

You can find it here: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Dear Esther Landmark Edition\DearEsther_Data\output_log.txt

Many thanks.

Just saw this and thought to try it. Really terrible performance. The Nvidia GeForce Experience fps counter doesn't want to display with the game, but it feels like 15fps at most.

My log is here:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/95247514/output_log.txt

Bit disappointed as the original always ran fine on my 9 year old machine, and this is my new machine with i7 6700K, 32GB DDR4 and GTX 1070...

[Isthatyoudave?]

choppy and stuttery here too, gsync with vsync on forced off in game. original is fine.

[ssb]

I'm stuck at around 23fps, very choppy and stuttery. System is an i7 6700k @4.7ghz, 16GB RAM, graphics is EVGA GTX 1080 Superclocked.

[Morgan Bernhardt]

Maybe a windows update running in the background? I hate that ♥♥♥♥!