Stuttering and FPS drops

[The Spudinator]

Hello everyone and Happy New Year!

I bought Kovaak's about a year ago and was able to play it successfully without any issues. I stopped playing FPS games for a while once WoW Classic came out and recently just got back into them. I wanted to practice and work on my aiming again, so I re-downloaded KovaaK's (Now 2.0) and opened up the Aimer7 guide that I followed.

After about 5 minutes of sitting there waiting for all of the workshops to load, I was finally able to look around and start shooting. First thing for me to note, is that I downloaded all of the scenarios that I use and saved them on my HD. I really don't like Steam as I've had nothing but problems with the platform in the past, so is it possible to play the game standalone using only the scenarios that I've downloaded?

Second, every time I fire a gun in any scenario, my FPS drops about 80+ frames from 120 to mid 30's. Someone else posted a similar issue that was solved by downloading Windows Updates to .NET frameworks. I checked and already have those downloaded and installed. My mouse input lag is set to 0. I tried turning off all the weapon and shooting related sounds in the game and surprisingly it stopped the FPS drops whenever I was shooting. I tried changing scenarios and the same thing happened. I would get FPS drops whenever I shot. I tried turning off all the sounds again and they are all off inside the settings, however I'm still hearing all of the sounds that I have set to off. I tried one suggestion that recommended uninstalling and reinstalling the game, so I moved it from an old 10k RPM HDD to an SSD but I still get the same issue.

Any help (aside from the obvious troll response of "upgrade your system" to which I will simply reply, "Are YOU paying for it?) would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Windows 10
AMD FX-8320
8 GB RAM
GeForce GTX 960

[BarDocK]

the game doesnt need steam to run so if you just create a shortcut of the exe to the desktop you can always launch it from there, for your performance issues maybe that can help ?

[The Spudinator]

Oh, my apologies. I created a shortcut on the desktop when I re-installed it and the shortcut had a steamid so it launched steam every time. Went into the install folder and just made a shortcut to the .exe and it loads incredibly fast now. Thank you for that.

I think I've narrowed down the problem though, it only appears to lag if there's any sound. I tried 1 wall 6 targets (small), which loaded from the last time with no sound and it played smoothly at a constant 119 fps. I enabled the killconfirmed sound for the targets just to test, and after every kill I would get like a .5-1 second delay before my cursor would then catch up.

[BarDocK]

Originally posted by Homologongus Maximus:

Oh, my apologies. I created a shortcut on the desktop when I re-installed it and the shortcut had a steamid so it launched steam every time. Went into the install folder and just made a shortcut to the .exe and it loads incredibly fast now. Thank you for that.

I think I've narrowed down the problem though, it only appears to lag if there's any sound. I tried 1 wall 6 targets (small), which loaded from the last time with no sound and it played smoothly at a constant 119 fps. I enabled the killconfirmed sound for the targets just to test, and after every kill I would get like a .5-1 second delay before my cursor would then catch up.

I had your cpu before and i gotta say its not the best lol, your issue is either cpu or gpu related cuz sound gets processed through cpu and gpu, did you have a similar issue in any other games or just kovaaks ? i think its motly likely cpu related cuz steam uses extra cpu but still kovaaks shouldnt be enough alone to push that cpu so i cant tell. And maybe try overclocking the 8320 for better perfomance, it will help in other games as well (not kovaaks related but i thought it may help) :D

[ckap =]]

Originally posted by Homologongus Maximus:

Oh, my apologies. I created a shortcut on the desktop when I re-installed it and the shortcut had a steamid so it launched steam every time. Went into the install folder and just made a shortcut to the .exe and it loads incredibly fast now. Thank you for that.

I think I've narrowed down the problem though, it only appears to lag if there's any sound. I tried 1 wall 6 targets (small), which loaded from the last time with no sound and it played smoothly at a constant 119 fps. I enabled the killconfirmed sound for the targets just to test, and after every kill I would get like a .5-1 second delay before my cursor would then catch up.

Huh. That's a bug I don't think I've ever seen before. Good catch, I'll pass that one on.

Just to clarify: this issue was not present in earlier versions?

[The Spudinator]

Originally posted by ckap =:

Huh. That's a bug I don't think I've ever seen before. Good catch, I'll pass that one on.

Just to clarify: this issue was not present in earlier versions?

Correct, I did not have this issue in any other version that I've played. Although strangely enough, since I created a new shortcut to run the game without having to launch steam, it also seems like it's playing smoother, even with sound on in other scenarios like cata IC long strafes and 1 wall9000 targets.

Originally posted by BarDocK:

I had your cpu before and i gotta say its not the best lol, your issue is either cpu or gpu related cuz sound gets processed through cpu and gpu, did you have a similar issue in any other games or just kovaaks ? i think its motly likely cpu related cuz steam uses extra cpu but still kovaaks shouldnt be enough alone to push that cpu so i cant tell. And maybe try overclocking the 8320 for better perfomance, it will help in other games as well (not kovaaks related but i thought it may help) :D

Lol yes, it is an old CPU and a relatively old GPU, however the GPU still outperforms newer 1000 series GTX (minus the 1080 and 1070) and the CPU, well... If I could afford a new PC, I would certainly build a new one lol. But in order to play the games that I've been playing (Apex, formerly Overwatch, formerly WoW Classic, Quake Live, Starcraft 2, etc.) I haven't had any issues playing them at all, even with a 2mbps download speed (thank you ethernet over power technology). The only issue I used to have was in Overwatch where I couldn't connect to the voice chat or my microphone would just randomly stop working, however that seems to have stopped once I got a new sound card.