Stuttering on a 4080?

[Doctor Mantis Toboggan]

The game is running 100+ fps up to 165 but I get quite a bit of stutters - seems to be traversal/loading stutter? Any fix for this?

[CursedPanther]

Are you on the original version or the SC edition? I hear the SC edition breaks the performance really bad, not sure if the outsourced devs have it fixed eventually or not.

[Doctor Mantis Toboggan]

Originally posted by CursedPanther:

Are you on the original version or the SC edition? I hear the SC edition breaks the performance really bad, not sure if the outsourced devs have it fixed eventually or not.

Well, I just bought the normal version on Steam - not the SC edition, but wouldn't they run the same version? SC just gives you access to the DLC?

[crushed]

SC version is a graphical revamp of the game, including few other things, and having both DLCs together installed with your base game as well.

[Doctor Mantis Toboggan]

Originally posted by crushed:

SC version is a graphical revamp of the game, including few other things, and having both DLCs together installed with your base game as well.

is it safe to assume I have the SC version since I just bought the base game? Or do you only get the graphical revamp if you have the DLCs too?

[Hartassen]

I had the exact same issue,. high fps but also stuttering, tried every fix known to man and no dice.

Game is just trash.

[Doctor Mantis Toboggan]

Originally posted by Hartassen:

I had the exact same issue,. high fps but also stuttering, tried every fix known to man and no dice.

Game is just trash.

i refunded and got the spacer edition, its like a remaster, its much better

[Ad Victoriam]

same issue and a 4090 RTX lmao

[Doctor Mantis Toboggan]

Originally posted by Ad Victoriam:

same issue and a 4090 RTX lmao

yeah, i have a 4080... sucks man, i thought our expensive hardware would outperform bad optimization from the devs... but this & Jedi Survivor have taught me otherwise :\

[carnie2]

This is funny... i got the standard version of gamer, not the spacers edition.

No stutter at all, game settings on highest, but 1080p and 60 fps limit.
My pc. cpu 4770k, nvidia 1060 6 GB, and 16 gB DDR 3 ram :-D

Sometimes people buy the most expensive pc, and then strangle it with 4k graphics, and 12000 FPS, becourse they think they can. My gameing experience is great, with no stutter.

[Pocahawtness]

Originally posted by Hartassen:

I had the exact same issue,. high fps but also stuttering, tried every fix known to man and no dice.

Game is just trash.

Same here.

Originally posted by the Golden God:

The game is running 100+ fps up to 165 but I get quite a bit of stutters - seems to be traversal/loading stutter? Any fix for this?

I used to get the same problem on a 3070ti but recently got a 4080. I am running it a little slower than you at 90fps (deliberately limited in NVIDIA Control Panel), but I also found that it helped to run the resolution at 100% so there is no up-scaling. I might also be running at a lower resolution that you, I am at 3440x1440.

[Oriflame]

I get horrendous frame drops/stutters with this version of the game and the GoG version as well; with both Nvidia and AMD cards and both Intel and AMD CPUs; using PCIE SSD has 0 effect on the horrific stuttering. Really disappointed in the developers not fixing this and will not be buying anything else from them.

[PsychoThruster]

Two things solve this issue. First reduce mouse polling to 125hz. Then search and download DXVK and drop the contents from the zip into the game folder(C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\TheOuterWorlds) and the binaries folder(C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\TheOuterWorlds\Indiana\Binaries\Win64)

These two things will solve the stutter and frame drops, however they will be worse for the first minute or so you enter a new area. After that though its perfect. I'm running 60fps on ultra at 1080p with a weak PC sporting 8gigs ram and 4gb card.

The problem is the asset streaming and shader comp in the ue4 engine, DXVK changes that.

[Oriflame]

Originally posted by PsychoThruster:

Two things solve this issue. First reduce mouse polling to 125hz. Then search and download DXVK and drop the contents from the zip into the game folder(C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\TheOuterWorlds) and the binaries folder(C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\TheOuterWorlds\Indiana\Binaries\Win64)

These two things will solve the stutter and frame drops, however they will be worse for the first minute or so you enter a new area. After that though its perfect. I'm running 60fps on ultra at 1080p with a weak PC sporting 8gigs ram and 4gb card.

The problem is the asset streaming and shader comp in the ue4 engine, DXVK changes that.

ok, thanks I will give it a try, but kind of crazy the devs did not update the game with this fix if it works.

[Oriflame]

sadly this did not work for me; still getting 3-5 FPS 1% lows; Trepang 2 and AmidEvil; two other UE4 games give me no such issues btw

[PsychoThruster]

Hmm if you have a beefier rig you may be able to use engine.ini edits.

Try the following lines under the appropriate bracketed headers in the engine.ini(%LOCALAPPDATA%\(game name)\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\):

[/script/engine.renderersettings]
r.CreateShadersOnLoad=1
niagara.CreateShadersOnLoad=1

[SystemSettings]
r.TextureStreaming=0

If you don't have the hardware it will make things worse but if you have a decent card and higher RAM this may work for you. Fingers crossed, I'm out of ideas if this one fails.

Make sure to remove the DXVK files from both locations first.