Wow, game's performance is garbage

[Uhtred son of Uhtred]

A stuttering fest. Nice.

[s4ifyz]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Exciosta:

get a better pc

use your tiny brain and realize that other people with NASA-level PCs have complained about this game stuttering like no tomorrow 💀

[Captain Crummy]

Diposting pertama kali oleh hexaae:

Ok, let's try gradually step by step, maybe NVidia Profile Inspector is enough and the only important part to fix the huge stuttering due to bad assets loading code:

NVIDIA PROFILE INSPECTOR CHANGES (STEP 1)

Use NVidia Profile Inspector (2.4.0.4 by Orbmu2k), enable "Show unknown settings..." clicking on the gear-with-magglass-icon button, and apply these modifies to the "Hogwarts Legacy" profile:

5 - Common
Power Management - Mode: Prefer maximum performance
rBAR - Feature*: Enabled
Shadercache - Cachesize: 10GB or Unlimited
Threaded Optimization: On

with rBAR enabled please check in the Unknown section if 0x104E2A1D=0x00000004 and 0x00C09D09=0x00000002 (a green gear icon means is NVidia preset, blue = user modified for this specific profile, grey = global user settings for every profile). rBAR was disbaled for me at default, but the other two Unknown settings were correctly pre-set by NVidia (??!).

8 - Extra
SHADERMAXREGALLOWED: 0x00000400 Max
SYSTEMCACHEDCOPYBEHAVIOR: 0x00000001

Please, let me know if these NVPI changes are enough to fix the huge lags during exploration for you... if not we'll proceed with further changes... It makes a huge difference for me (i9-13980HX, 32GB DDR5 5600MHz, 4090 laptop 16GB, 2560x1600 16:10 G-Sync screen, NVMe 6000MB/s, everything Ultra including RT).

Thank you for this, it helped me a bit with performance, I still have stutter from time to time running around Hogwarts, but the 'hard freeze' every 150m/scenery change seems to be (mostly) gone.

Its kinda strange how I have this game running on a 1070 without stutter but my 4070 Super seems to struggle with it.

Edit: I also had to turn of frame generation and turn on vsync.

[hexaae]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Captain Crummy:

Thank you for this, it helped me a bit with performance, I still have stutter from time to time running around Hogwarts, but the 'hard freeze' every 150m/scenery change seems to be (mostly) gone.

Its kinda strange how I have this game running on a 1070 without stutter but my 4070 Super seems to struggle with it.

Edit: I also had to turn of frame generation and turn on vsync.

Did you try steps 1, 2, 3 combined? Step 3 is also important...

[Captain Crummy]

Diposting pertama kali oleh hexaae:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Captain Crummy:

Thank you for this, it helped me a bit with performance, I still have stutter from time to time running around Hogwarts, but the 'hard freeze' every 150m/scenery change seems to be (mostly) gone.

Its kinda strange how I have this game running on a 1070 without stutter but my 4070 Super seems to struggle with it.

Edit: I also had to turn of frame generation and turn on vsync.

Did you try steps 1, 2, 3 combined? Step 3 is also important...

Nope, so far has only tried step 1, now I have the game running for about 10 minutes it seems absolutely perfect!

Would you recommend to do the others as well? Or just step 3? Willing to test some stuff for you if you want.

Edit; also transitioning between areas is alot smoother now.

[yoshi]

garbage performance, also no nvidia DLAA + frame gen ruins it for me

[hexaae]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Captain Crummy:

Diposting pertama kali oleh hexaae:

Did you try steps 1, 2, 3 combined? Step 3 is also important...

Nope, so far has only tried step 1, now I have the game running for about 10 minutes it seems absolutely perfect!

Would you recommend to do the others as well? Or just step 3? Willing to test some stuff for you if you want.

Edit; also transitioning between areas is alot smoother now.

Read Step 3 and look at the example pics at the bottom: on my PC this game was using the 8+8 P-cores + 16 E-cores badly (actual usage was 0-1-2-4 cores without any fix)....
Yes, try them all. I've named them "steps" with a purpose ;)

However this game seems to have HW specific issues with some CPU/GPU combos... so it's expected not to work 100% reliably for all configs (and not everyone is affected). In my case those 3 steps made a huge difference and completely removed the slow texture loading and huge hiccups I had running around (especially inside Hogwarts). I'm talking about a 4090 Laptop 16GB 175W ( = a little better than a 4070ti laptop) + i9-13980HX, 32GB DDR5 5600MHz + NVMe 6000MB/s... not exactly a low-end machine. How powerful your PC is has no importance with this stuttering problem in Hogwarts Legacy... It's a code/compile issue in the game, affecting many user configs but not everyone.

[Vajtekk]

buy pc

[JAIJACALO]

Opimization is trash. Never got a problem with a game. Visions of Mana, FFXVI, Witcher3. Totally garbage stutterfest

[jamhamm]

not sure if anyone will try this but... i mess around with dldsr and when you (try to) game at 5k without upscaling, you quickly find out you run out of resources. namely vram.



anyway - i was trying to see if my system can do 5760x3240 and sure enough, with every settings off or on low and all textures down. this game ran beautifully.

it wasn't stutter/load free by any means. but it was reduced dramatically.

at least 60% for me. i've had this game since launch - i've got 100+ hours in it. it stutters and i know that.

but... if there is a setting, turn it off or down to low - reflex, blur, everything. sure you can bring them back up from there but my point is, if a setting can fix your stutters, turn that MF off and put a brick on top of it and game on!

fog and a few others are on low for me, reflex and a few others are still off - but i've got textures up to max and even RT on. this game is significantly smoother for me by starting with low low low off off off and slowly and meticulously coming up from there...

now this is the caveat, my system ain't your system. so your mileage WILL vary. but if all low/off helps anyone who hasn't tried it, then that makes me happy.

[AzureLotus95]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Cavador:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Justinw303:

PC performance has always been trash, anyone who can play this at a steady 60 fps or better without stutters and drops is basically just lucky or has a top .03% system.

Or is not watching a fps counter closely like some of us are.

yeah i have been watching my 99th%fps and it is a chaotic mess jumping from 56 58 to 15 30 40 50 35 etc some areas are worse than others, but even areas where the 99th% fps is more stable if you just stand in place for a good bit and look around then stop you can watch your 99th% fps drop and hop all over for no obvious reason.

MY PC SPECS BELOW
MB: Z690 EDGE WIFI DDR4
RAM: 32GB @3600mhz
CPU: I9 13900K
GPU: RX6950XT
NVME: SABORENT 1TB GEN 4
NVME: SAMSUNG 970 EVO 1TB GEN 3
CPU COOLER: NOCTUA NH-D15
PSU: EVGA SUPERNOVA GOLD 1300W
WINDOWS 11 X64

[hexaae]

No. Has nothing to do with settings (disable RT, lower that...). It's a problem with some hardware cfgs: the game exe looks like it adjusts itself to the detected HW, but does it wrong with some configurations... Playing with gfx settings is just a workaround sacrificing game visual, but the real bug is elsewhere and this stutterfest issue happens only for some HW configs and not for others. There are users with 1070/1080 playing fine and smoothly, and people with NASA PC affected by heavy hiccups and stuttering, so it's not a performance issue due to weak HW.

Please, for those who have not resolved yet, try my 3 steps at page 3 of this thread, including the 3rd to force-enable much more cores usage (depending on your CPU).

And please... specify your HW cfg.

[Chris]

started playing yesterday with RTX4090 and i9 12900K shortly after reaching Hogwarts after the intro section being super smooth i notice theres alot of stutter and erratic FPS whilst running around the school.

After it spoiling my enjoyment for a bit i used Ascendio mod and it helps disguise the dips a fair bit but i can still see by eye its not smooth at times.
Lowered all settings to low and the the fps dips are exactly the same regardless.
Limiting FPS to 60 helps enough to the point ill stick with that since the dips are far less noticeable.

Hopefully noone actually listens to advice to buy a new PC to fix this.

[[DMRB] Kage.OS]

Specs just in case it helps someone in the future: RTX 3060, i5-10400, and 16Gb DDR4 RAM

Thank you so much Hexaae!

Game just started lagging out of nowhere right before I reached Autumn. Tried a bunch of fixes in parallel. Monitoring the GeForce overlay and the ressource monitor I had huge spikes in Average PC Latency whilst the CPU and GPU usage was dropping sub 5%.
Tried everything, then I stumbled on your [step 1]. Followed it exactly, it gave me a 25% fix let's put it this way. but still way better then before. I tried monitoring the exact disk usage, and crashed my PC whilst terminating the explorer.exe. After the reboot, games runs like before i.e. fixed 100%.

Well thank you again, I will comeback to this post if the problem arises again to keep anyone interested updated.

[Hakuna Matata]

Yeah, they fckd up somewhere. I preordered this game, and played it as soon as it got ut for us. I did the entire game, went for many achievements, etc - And it worked perfectly. No stutters, no fps drops for 81hrs, nothing. I could play the game on high res without any issues. But when I tried playing it today (like a year later or so), its stuttering as much as Jimmy from south park.

[MrSoul]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Kool Shade:

I seem to remember when I was putting this rig together that I-9 and multi-core processors like 12 core and up were like really, really great for graphics design and number crunching, and rendering 3d art and such, but that they did poorly or were not recommended for a game oriented PC.

( Not sure if that was cost effective or there were truly problems with the multi-core and game playing.)

although mine is and older CPU and lower end GPU now I run the game 4k 60FPS pretty much never see it dip except maybe in menu's or loading screen's. (Which does not effect my game play at all.)

Specs are. AMD Ryzen 7 7700 8-core, 16 gig of ram, and Nvidia Geforce RTX 4070 , My drives are all SSD a 1 terabyte OS mostly and 4 terabyte, I use for my game play.

Cost. My 5950 both bit older laptop and this desktop now after an upgrade I've had minimal problems with any games for the most part. But with the core count is a proc best utilized when multi tasking, processing rendering programs etc and yeah, is therefore a bit excessive price wise versus other AMD procs at the time for gaming alone. Irrc there was one particular AMD proc with less cores that typically beat out stuff like the 5950 too as it generally had a higher clock speed and most games don't use beyond like four cores right, unless specifically optimized to do so.