Still no solution for Stuttering and Hitching?

[Cloud]

After the last updates my game is running so bad.. before the Workshop everything was perfect form start to finish.

Now I get stutter every minute.. hitching like it's loading assets every minute also.

I've tried everything from memory options to vsync with nvidia control panel. Online options are off but that doesn't help either.

My GPU is barely at 60% and the game still stutters and hitches all the time. I've tried for the last time today.. I can't enjoy the game in this state.

My system:

GTX 1080 8GB stock
I7 6700k stock
16 Gigs of RAM DDR4
Win 10 64 bits
SSD Samsung Evo 850

Any way to fix this? I'm not playing anymore until SE fix this problems

[Schploopus]

There is no way to fix it. It is all on their end. Your specs dont mean anything and only they can fix it.

[Midnight Lost]

Having the same problem myself since the last patch.

[Gromak]

I also have problems. Every few minutes the game freezes for 1-2 seconds... its very game-breaking :(

[Cloud]

The game was perfect for me at least before all the Workshop an single player online stuff.. right now I just can't play anymore

[Exar kun]

Originally posted by Elysiums:

The game was perfect for me at least before all the Workshop an single player online stuff.. right now I just can't play anymore

I believe I could help you with your problem OP, friend me if you would be interested in the solution, pretty sure it will work.

[Avalanch07]

I'm using a Sapphire Pulse 580 8GB and the special K mod. No stutter or lag or anything like that for me.

[Schploopus]

Did the patch released today address and fix this issue? They have no patch notes as of right now.

[nalfylatino87]

Just downloading this 15GB patch. I also have suffered from stuttering issues, here I am hoping that somehow there is a fix in the patch to smooth out performance with DLSS off or on. I will report back when I try it.
I am sporting an RTX 2080Ti with an overclocked 8700K at 5.0ghz.

[Schploopus]

Thanks. I will check and report back here when I am able as well. 8700k 1070ti

[Anubis]

I hope this new patch will not introduce stuttering, cuz I hardly have any with 2700x and gtx 1080 ti

[loganjamesalex]

I have found that many things in this game are messed up above 30fps lock, not limited to but including; the physics of characters hair and clothes (blowing in the wind and trailing behind when you run) as well as stuttering. I have not played this in a few months but I found most of my problems were fixed with the Special K mod, and locking the FPS to 30. I have a GTX 1080, and i5-8400. I can even shut off the FPS lock in the pause screen while on the road, then look at their hair in the wind and see it is almost not moving at all, then pause again go back and set the 30FPS lock again they start flailing around like they are supposed to don't even have to reload the game or nothing. I spent a lot of time trying to get this game to run and in the end that was the only fix that actually worked for me (consequently I could turn the graphics up even higher). I am still downloading the new patch but I have a feeling they haven't fixed that.

[nalfylatino87]

Have just played around for a good hour, used DLSS option on/off with 1440p TAA/4K DLSS seem to be getting constant 60fps but the stutter/hitching is still there. It has been plaguing the game for me since forever such a shame. I will be buying a NVME M.2 drive with insane speeds so I am going to test out whether this finally somehow helps with my stutters. Both regular HDD/SSD don't seem to help much with the game.

[SaltyOneOne]

Set texture to low, only fix that works for me.

[Krios]

@nalfylatino87 Sadly, since 9 months, its not hardware problem from people, its the game.

I have RTX 2080 i7 8700k 16gb ddr 4 3000Mhz and I tested this game on my Nvme M2 970 Pro Samsung. In fact, there are ALWAYS stuttering issues. We can't do anything, this engine is poor optimized and this is game is dying anyway.

Ofc all my other game are working well without any issue...

U can try lock at 30 fps like logan said, because this game is not develloped for more than 30 fps (hair and cloth physics dont work really well with more than 30 fps in fact).

And people's saying they are playing "smoothly" ; ofc not, they just dont have the requirement we have.

[SeriousCCIE]

Hmm mine doesn't stutter. I am playing with two 1080tis in SLI.

Probably storage is too slow based on the descriptions, or that you should consider adding 3rd party caching so that frequently used graphic textures are stored in the cache as opposed to loaded when needed and swapped out when not needed. Lowering the resolution or graphical settings can reduce the performance impact when having to load from the storage volume constantly.

I've had the game use all of the available VRAM (11GB) on the 1080ti based on my settings (it's at 4K but I turned off the turfworks or whatever that is, the other nvidia specific options are enabled), and it does take a little bit to load into it--after starting the game and moving around in circles a bit to get things loaded it can be pokey, or if it is raining at night near streetlights or something. I frequently am at 10.5GB of used VRAM once I start actually playing.

The most horrendous experience I had was with a bunch of squid/cthulu type demons at night near that temple place near chapter 3 or 4 that only opens at night--anyway THAT dropped down to like 15fps but wow there was a lot going on.

Otherwise at 4k I was getting an average of 55fps on the 1080tis with occasional dips and spikes faster than that. but not any of this hitching or stuttering mentioned.

NVMe storage does help; this game has moved beyond what a traditional hard drive can accomodate. SATA based SSDs are simply not fast enough for the highest in-game graphic settings, and may struggle to keep up.

ANd of course not all NVMe drives are equal. (I have to wonder how the new optane 905p NVMe model performs; I haven't seen any reviews for it, not even consumer based. almost like retail stores that allow reviews have comments locked down for the holidays or something...)