Performance issues

[Bebbo]

So, I just got the game because it was on sale, but no matter what settings I try the game crashes randomly both on high and low settings, and it seems to overheat my pc. I have a portable pc with Nvidia Geforce RTX 2070, and as the CPU an Intel Core i7-9750H 2.60 GHZ. I´m getting really scared that my pc is malfunctioning or something since I bought it like 2 and a half weeks ago lmao. Sonic Forces is capable of running perfectly at 60 fps without overheating too much or anything.

[Leonard]

Both these games should run fine on your pc. Maybe try to disable Vsync or something.

[Bebbo]

Originally posted by Leonard:

Both these games should run fine on your pc. Maybe try to disable Vsync or something.

Unfortunately V-sync isn´t changing anything. Even Nvidia geforce experience says my pc SHOULD run it at very high settings, since that´s what the optimal settings are telling me. And yet here we are. At this point it has to be my CPU that´s malfunctioning or something?

[Bebbo]

Update: turns out Windows made me use the integrated graphics card instead of the Nvidia one, and now it runs fine... except my pc is struggling so much running it and it overheats a lot lmao. the game crashes often

[Colgatts]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2203603863

[Bebbo]

Originally posted by Colgatts:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2203603863

It says this fix works for lower end pcs with low ram... I have 16 gb and I doubt this will actually change anything

[Colgatts]

Originally posted by Bebbo:

Originally posted by Colgatts:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2203603863

It says this fix works for lower end pcs with low ram... I have 16 gb and I doubt this will actually change anything

I got TSR yesterday and got no crash so far:

i7 4790
gtx 960 2gb
8gb ddr3
SSD(w10)
HDD1(TSR)
HDD2(pagefile.sys)

OBS: 144Hz monitor set to 120Hz(120fps average)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2528727733
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2528727764

[Colgatts]

Originally posted by Bebbo:

Originally posted by Colgatts:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2203603863

It says this fix works for lower end pcs with low ram... I have 16 gb and I doubt this will actually change anything

Are you running w10 right? To have w10, games and pagefile.sys on the same disk may cause performance issues even on specs way above game requirements.

If you have more than 1 physical disk, I still recommend you to try. I successifuly replicate TSR crash by having a browser open on background with pagefile.sys causing 100% disk usage on my secondary drive.

[Leonard]

If you have enough RAM (and 16GB is more than enough for now) I recommend not doing anything to your page file.
Putting your page file on a HDD may also slow things down.

[Bebbo]

Originally posted by Leonard:

If you have enough RAM (and 16GB is more than enough for now) I recommend not doing anything to your page file.
Putting your page file on a HDD may also slow things down.

What do you suggest then? tbh I uninstalled now because I stopped trying, but I might try again

[Danilo.ds]

I've also tried so many things and my only conclusion is that this game is a lazy port, poorly optimized to PC.
I run heavier games just fine, but the only games I have problems at the moment are Team Sonic Racing and MX vs ATV All Out, another broken game from a different developer.

And we are probably never getting a fix, since this game is 2 years old right now.

Just uninstalled this piece of junk and i'm comming back to Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed Collection.

I'm sorry for us all and good luck, guys. Thanks for sharing this suggestions.

[Leonard]

I can't really come up with anything specific.

Maybe try to look though this:
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Team_Sonic_Racing#Game_uses_incorrect_refresh_rate

Maybe also check the task manager to see what the bottleneck it.
Either GPU or CPU might be close to 100%.
Could also be RAM or your harddrive, although thats unlikely.

[Colgatts]

Originally posted by Leonard:

If you have enough RAM (and 16GB is more than enough for now) I recommend not doing anything to your page file.
Putting your page file on a HDD may also slow things down.

The is not enough RAM when you're dealing with lack of opmization + w10. Take my case for example:

Before I got a SSD about a year ago, I had to deal with that infamous "100% disk usage" causing my PC to freeze for half a minute. Once I moved pagefile.sys to my secondary HDD, I still got "100% disk usage" on taskmgr, except it stop causing my PC to freeze.

If OP have more than 1 physical units on his PC, it would't hurt to give it a try. In case of any performance issues, it's always possible to set pagefile back to previous settings.

[Bebbo]

Originally posted by Colgatts:

Originally posted by Leonard:

If you have enough RAM (and 16GB is more than enough for now) I recommend not doing anything to your page file.
Putting your page file on a HDD may also slow things down.

The is not enough RAM when you're dealing with lack of opmization + w10. Take my case for example:

Before I got a SSD about a year ago, I had to deal with that infamous "100% disk usage" causing my PC to freeze for half a minute. Once I moved pagefile.sys to my secondary HDD, I still got "100% disk usage" on taskmgr, except it stop causing my PC to freeze.

If OP have more than 1 physical units on his PC, it would't hurt to give it a try. In case of any performance issues, it's always possible to set pagefile back to previous settings.

I honestly have no idea what pagefile.sys is since I´m new to pc gaming, but I´ll say I only have one SSD on my pc at the moment, but I´m planning on gettingn a new one, so I guess that´s one thing I´ll do

[Colgatts]

Originally posted by Bebbo:

Originally posted by Colgatts:

The is not enough RAM when you're dealing with lack of opmization + w10. Take my case for example:

Before I got a SSD about a year ago, I had to deal with that infamous "100% disk usage" causing my PC to freeze for half a minute. Once I moved pagefile.sys to my secondary HDD, I still got "100% disk usage" on taskmgr, except it stop causing my PC to freeze.

If OP have more than 1 physical units on his PC, it would't hurt to give it a try. In case of any performance issues, it's always possible to set pagefile back to previous settings.

I honestly have no idea what pagefile.sys is since I´m new to pc gaming, but I´ll say I only have one SSD on my pc at the moment, but I´m planning on gettingn a new one, so I guess that´s one thing I´ll do

Whenever the system demand for free RAM exceeds the current free ram avaliable, W10 and previous version will take some data out of RAM and save it in C:\pagefile.sys. The problem with w10 is the amount of read/write on you disk(way to much compared to previous versions of windows).

If you don't have a 2nd physical disk in your PC, there is no way for you to try the procedure in that guide I posted.

[Konachibi]

Optimisation isn't the issue here. My 9 year old slab of a computer runs TSR perfectly fine.

AMD FX-4170 4.2ghz
8gb RAM
Geforce 960 SSC

Game runs perfectly fine on max settings in 1080p.

Compatability could be where the issue comes from. Try unplugging unecessary peripherals like control pads before launching, or turning off any background programs that aren't doing anything. Add the installation folder to your anti-virus exceptions, and try running the game with 'run as administrator' active. Additionally, when you launch the game, try opening Resource Monitor and take a look at the CPU, Memory and Disk usage is for the game to see if it's stable or if it's eating up a lot of one of them.
Your computer is significantly more than enough to run this game smoothly, so it shouldn't be making it run hot at all.