can someone help me with this lag please...

[Ayla]

i love the idea of this game and want to play it so bad but it's basically impossible with lag spikes every 5 seconds. i've changed the settings a million times already even gone into nvidia control panel, & still nothing. my pc isn't potato, either, i run other games perfect on high settings. this game is so smol, why is it having such a hard time?? pls help? :( did anyone find a fix that worked for them, pls..

[Lucis]

I noticed that lag happens whenever certain assets like models and sound effects are loaded in. Once they have been loaded in, the stutter/lag stops.

This is an optimization issue and there's sadly nothing we can do on our end. Even I get stutters on my rig when I shouldn't when I can run FFXV, Dragon Quest XI, and Resident Evil 2 Remake perfectly on high settings.

When you report this to the devs in the "Report A Problem" forums then the publisher's support team will just give you the same old copy and pasted response asking you to give them logs and the file you save with dxdiag.

That being said, you can try this mod https://www.nexusmods.com/mytimeatportia/mods/3 and increase the LOD distance so that low detail models aren't being swapped in whenever you move 10 steps away from a workstation. It helped a bit in my case. I do hope you have a good rig like you say, though, or this will make it worse because this mod does affect performance quite a bit depending on your settings.

[Willow Rivers]

I dont get any lag or stutters. The game runs smooth for me on my PC.

[Lucis]

Originally posted by Willow Rivers:

I dont get any lag or stutters. The game runs smooth for me on my PC.

Even when you open the handbook? That's where it lags for me and a lot of other people.

[Sabishi1985]

Yeah, lag spikes, freezes and stuttering are a thing for a lot of people after they released update v2. I really hope the developers are working on it, because it's frustrating, to say the least. -.- They sometimes ask you to send them a Dxdiag report, but even if you do, there's no further assistance from their side.

I've moved the game from a HDD drive over to a SSD drive recently. This helped quite a bit with the stuttering, but some lag spikes are still there and can be reproduced at any time. (like during attacking a monster or scanning the area during mining).

I've had an interesting conversation about this with someone over on reddit lately. He tried replacing some of the newer game files with older versions of said files, and apparently that DID help. Most of the lag was gone, after he replaced a file, that contained information about effects. It is also remarkable, that said file was only 6MB in size back then, but in the new version it is 52MB in size! Something seems off here. :-/

[Lucis]

Originally posted by Sabishi1985:

Yeah, lag spikes, freezes and stuttering are a thing for a lot of people after they released update v2. I really hope the developers are working on it, because it's frustrating, to say the least. -.- They sometimes ask you to send them a Dxdiag report, but even if you do, there's no further assistance from their side.

I've moved the game from a HDD drive over to a SSD drive recently. This helped quite a bit with the stuttering, but some lag spikes are still there and can be reproduced at any time. (like during attacking a monster or scanning the area during mining).

I've had an interesting conversation about this with someone over on reddit lately. He tried replacing some of the newer game files with older versions of said files, and apparently that DID help. Most of the lag was gone, after he replaced a file, that contained information about effects. It is also remarkable, that said file was only 6MB in size back then, but in the new version it is 52MB in size! Something seems off here. :-/

If you have a Nintendo Switch and look at the pre-order page on the eShop the game is 2.3GB in size, about half the size the game was before version 2. Now the folder Portia_Data sports a whopping more than 8GB. That isn't normal. Someone dun goofed.

[Opa]

I just came here for the first time because of this issue. I would love to play, but the lag every 5 seconds (quite literally) is driving me crazy. I wish there were a way to fix this, because it really dampers the mood of the game. Shall wait and see what happens, maybe it'll be fixed in the future? One can hope!

[Sabishi1985]

Originally posted by Tiffahbean:

I just came here for the first time because of this issue. I would love to play, but the lag every 5 seconds (quite literally) is driving me crazy. I wish there were a way to fix this, because it really dampers the mood of the game. :lunar2019deadpanpig: Shall wait and see what happens, maybe it'll be fixed in the future? One can hope!

I'm 100% sure they'll fix this in the future, but they seem to focus on fixing major bugs atm. It's a performance thing, so I guess it's not their top priority right now.

Have you played the demo version beforehand? That thing runs HORRIBLE compared to the "real" game, so they've already proven that they are quite skilled at improving performance. Just give it some time (and move the game to a SSD drive if you can). :)

[Watchful Liz]

Originally posted by Sabishi1985:

Yeah, lag spikes, freezes and stuttering are a thing for a lot of people after they released update v2. I really hope the developers are working on it, because it's frustrating, to say the least. -.- They sometimes ask you to send them a Dxdiag report, but even if you do, there's no further assistance from their side.

I've moved the game from a HDD drive over to a SSD drive recently. This helped quite a bit with the stuttering, but some lag spikes are still there and can be reproduced at any time. (like during attacking a monster or scanning the area during mining).

I've had an interesting conversation about this with someone over on reddit lately. He tried replacing some of the newer game files with older versions of said files, and apparently that DID help. Most of the lag was gone, after he replaced a file, that contained information about effects. It is also remarkable, that said file was only 6MB in size back then, but in the new version it is 52MB in size! Something seems off here. :-/

THAT is interesting! I hope the devs see this post so they know about the goof that occurred. When they do port the game over to consoles like the Switch *cough*ARK port*cough**cough**HACK**wheeze* sorry where did THAT come from?! Anyway, porting the game over to Switch, Xbone, PS4, they REALLY need to get to looking at the amount of data in the game's files like you said, very disheartening for people like me who should be able to play this game just fine but experiences lag like most people here on the board.

[Ayla]

great so i'm SOL basically ahhhh, well.. the game looks so fun to me. i guess i'll just wait until it's patched.

[Willow Rivers]

Originally posted by Mystic:

Originally posted by Willow Rivers:

I dont get any lag or stutters. The game runs smooth for me on my PC.

Even when you open the handbook? That's where it lags for me and a lot of other people.

Yup no problems opening the handbook.

[Sabishi1985]

Originally posted by Willow Rivers:

Originally posted by Mystic:

Even when you open the handbook? That's where it lags for me and a lot of other people.

Yup no problems opening the handbook.

Would you mind posting your specs? And is your game running on a SSD driver or on a HDD drive? :O

[Watchful Liz]

I have a SSD as well but I haven't tested the handbook lag or really paid attention to it.

[Sabishi1985]

Originally posted by l1z4rdbr34th:

I have a SSD as well but I haven't tested the handbook lag or really paid attention to it.

The handbook lag isn't really noticeable on a SSD, but try playing it on a HDD. Opening the handbook takes around 1-2 seconds to load... and then it loads all at once and every soundeffect you caused during that lag (like flipping pages, scrolling between items, etc.) plays at once at full volume. :,D

But it's not just the handbook: Even switching between your items on your hotbar causes lagspikes. And if you're using a controller, your inventory is a nightmare as well: Selecting items feels laggy and sluggish, because every tiny 3D model that shows up if you select an item causes lags while being loaded in as well.

It almost feels like they forgot to compress the textures before implementing them into the game. This would explain why the game has become so much bigger.. It would also explain, why it runs so much better on a SSD drive: A SSD drive is able to load in this giant textures in time, but a slower HDD drive isn't capable of doing that, so the game lags during loading times... I'm not a developer myself, but those are my thoughts on the topic. :)

[Lucis]

Originally posted by l1z4rdbr34th:

I have a SSD as well but I haven't tested the handbook lag or really paid attention to it.

The lag is minimal on an SSD, that's why I prefer calling it stuttering instead. It's a short, less than a second pause that you don't really notice unless you pay attention to it, but it's definitely there.

It's more than a second on HDDs, though.

[Lucis]

Originally posted by Sabishi1985:

Originally posted by l1z4rdbr34th:

I have a SSD as well but I haven't tested the handbook lag or really paid attention to it.

The handbook lag isn't really noticeable on a SSD, but try playing it on a HDD. Opening the handbook takes around 1-2 seconds to load... and then it loads all at once and every soundeffect you caused during that lag (like flipping pages, scrolling between items, etc.) plays at once at full volume. :,D

But it's not just the handbook: Even switching between your items on your hotbar causes lagspikes. And if you're using a controller, your inventory is a nightmare as well: Selecting items feels laggy and sluggish, because every tiny 3D model that shows up if you select an item causes lags while being loaded in as well.

It almost feels like they forgot to compress the textures before implementing them into the game. This would explain why the game has become so much bigger.. It would also explain, why it runs so much better on a SSD drive: A SSD drive is able to load in this giant textures in time, but a slower HDD drive isn't capable of doing that, so the game lags during loading times... I'm not a developer myself, but those are my thoughts on the topic. :)

Ah, now that's a ton more lag than I ever experienced, even when playing on a HDD. My lags were usually just a short stutter (Unless opening the handbook for the first time during a play session, then it would be a second) and on the SSD much shorter.

I saw your specs in another thread and mine are very similar, just that I have more VRAM than RAM (The 16GB model was a bit too expensive for me...)

I have a ASUS ROG GL502VM with GTX 1060 6GB VRAM with a i7 6700HQ 8GB RAM @2.60GHz by default (Overclocked to 3.25GHz)

It surprises me that your lags are longer than mine.