Combat Stutter?

[Ryeloc]

Is it supposed to stutter between hits ? Seems like the game micro freezes everytime you do combos.

[r.linder]

What processor are you running on your PC? Multi-threaded CPUs and older Ryzen CPUs will experience stuttering because Black Desert hates two things: multi-threading technology and AMD's CoreCompleX CPU design that has latency between CCXs and CCDs (core complexes aka clusters of cores, and chiplets)

The easy solution is to disable Intel HyperThreading/AMD Simultaneous Multi-threading, but if you're using a Ryzen 1000 series, 2000 series, a Ryzen 9 or Threadripper CPU, you'll also have to limit the game to using either a single CCX (in the case of the former 2 generations) or a single CCD at most (in the case of Ryzen 9 and TR, they have more than one chiplet) using either a program like Process Lasso or a batch file command.

When I let Black Desert use any of my 3900X's cores, there's heavy frame drops and stuttering in combat, even if I disable inventory auto-sort. When I use Process Lasso to configure the game launcher (process matching will affect all processes attached to the launcher, and affects the game .exe) to only use 6 threads from my second chiplet, that stuttering is gone and framerate improves since there's no CCD latency, less CCX latency, and the game isn't being affected by SMT since it's limited to the 6 even numbered threads in the second CCD (i.e. 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22) The difference can be literally double the framerate than default in combat, since my frames outside of combat are often 120+ but it can drop to 60 and below in combat without any changes. IMO, if you're using a Ryzen 1000 series, Threadripper 1000 series, or Intel 6000 series or older, just upgrade. There's only so much you can do with CPU performance in this game when you have an old CPU, and BDO is just not well optimised, you need a really fast CPU to get the best experience.

Also setting the priority (in a similar method, EAC blocks edits through Task Manager directly on the game executable, you have to use workarounds now) to High can improve performance.

TL;DR: Read this guide on performance for Black Desert by ACanadianDude: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cyLaDiPL_B6nOZw_qPE_wOGuoeRT-qddTjevTFoFBkg/view