Micro Stutters Back

[bbcokeley]

i7 4690k
32gb ram
gtx 1080ti

 

No over clock apart from cpu, micro stutters are back in full force, happens generally when scavs are percieved to be in view, was in a match with a friend and we both got stutters but at different times.

Any idea what is causing this, its far worse than it was with the other patch, much more noticeable and its ruining the experience, i send reports and each crash i send the log, alhtough these stutters have never caused a crash so far .

Any one else getting this as i feel this cant be an isolated case, 

[bbcokeley]

 

Hope this gets read by those whom experience this:

Last night I too tried every guide out there, from the nvidia settings adjustments to graphics driver changes to the stupid nvidia experience adjustments (also the tarkov.exe dpi thing which did nothing).

 

BUT,  (and it is a relatively easy adjustment to the game which does not involve any s complicated game adjustments):

Success, and this may not work for every one, so i play in 4k, every game runs amazing with the 1080ti no matter the spec of the game* and found this strange thing that the GPU seems to do, it seems on average that it kind of lies to you about the fps you are getting, which also leads me to believe that the latest drivers make this even worse. It seems to give you the 75-100+ fps tick but what it doesn't tell you is that in a total second of this draw the card may drop down to 30fps or less for 0.5 or worse seconds, this gives you the stutter, and the lower the drop the more noticeable it gets. 

To cut a long story and many hours of testing short it was quite simple, having everything on AND in windowed border-less mode**** I have now reached the 10.2-3 levels of stutter, it is no way fixed (and I don't think it will ever be as its game related) but it is significantly reduced to the level of almost not noticing, and it doesn't seem to stutter when you get into combat which was my main bugbear.

 

In short try this:

Turn off full screen mode in game, and go to the settings in the launcher and activate border-less mode

Object LOD=3.5 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<You can put this even lower, I never did as the micro stutter was almost un noticeable at this level

Object visibility=2500. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<You can put this even lower, I never did as the micro stutter was almost un noticeable at this level

Shadow visibility=whatever you want, but don't put on max, i personally put this on low and kept it there as I didn't really see the difference**

All the middle options off***

May not be ideal for some of you out there, but i would much rather have a locked 60fps game with extremely reduced micro stutter+, than an open high number that drops to unbearable stutters during game play, stutters are dramatically improved and no longer trigger at very unforgivable circumstances. I had a few fantastic rounds after these adjustments, I really hope this helps a few of you out there even if its only one person that this helps, I have passed on this knowledge.

 

--Conditions--

*does not include alpha/beta/or any other iteration of an in development game.//**Playing mostly night raids as a preference//*** as recommended by everyone, although this now has little impact on FPS because its locked in window mode.//****this locks frames 60fps

+Micro stutters are now more in the 80-90% 60fps and the 10-20% drops, this is the best I got it and you hardly notice the stutters now.

[Enderhawk]

Im having heavy stuttering 10-20 minutes into raid on shoreline. Graphic changes irrelevant. Before patch it didn't happen.

I've noticed its going on mostly close to resort

 

[Zyborg]

so I just did a shoreline raid where every 3-4 seconds I got a 2 second stutter. it was absolutely insane. I pulled the console command window up and about 200 times a damn second   its like the engine was trying to update something. my specs are a 8700k 2080 ti 32gb of ram and the game is on a 970 pro ssd. this honestly made the game un playable it was insane

[bbcokeley]

OK so it seems higher tier cards have an issue with this game?

Thanks for not letting me go this alone, yes last patch was much better, im not sure whats causing this to happen, maybe its the AI's change of behaviour constantly tanking the game engine or something similar.

[ukALex93]

14 hours ago, bbcokeley said:

OK so it seems higher tier cards have an issue with this game?

Thanks for not letting me go this alone, yes last patch was much better, im not sure whats causing this to happen, maybe its the AI's change of behaviour constantly tanking the game engine or something similar.

I am getting similar stutters with my msi 1080 gaming x, but only with this patch. It ran like a dream last patch, by comparison anyway.

[COLMAC]

20 hours ago, Enderhawk said:

Im having heavy stuttering 10-20 minutes into raid on shoreline. Graphic changes irrelevant. Before patch it didn't happen.

I've noticed its going on mostly close to resort

 

Same here but, in all maps after time.

win 10 pro.

I7 8-core intel pros. 

16 gigs 4000mhz ddr4 ram.

5-480gig ssd drives.

gigabyte 1080 extreme 11 gig card. 

I have notice ram @22% gig usage at start of round, after 10 minutes its @72% after 15 minutes it @98% once it hits 99% it shutters then drops to 96% 1 minute later back to 99% shutter.

At this point even if you leave the map game it continues to still consume 95% of the ram, you have to exit game & then restart.

Game runs fine till you play map again.

Memory Leak; buffer not releasing.

BTW; if turn half your game graphics down, this is not a fix only slows the leak. 

[sYs]

After EFT hotfix have fps drops and micro stutters

RTX 2080 TI

[Stancer]

GTX 1050 Ti 4 Gb 
i7 7700HQ 3,8 GHz
16 Gb Ram

Since the 0.10.5 came out I'm experiencing heavy frame drops and constant stuttering. 
In the previous patches (since 0.8) everything was smooth (60-70+ fps  with rare drops and no stuttering), now the game runs pretty bad dropping from 60-70 fps to 30 or lower all the time. 

PS: I play with no V-Sync and now tearing is terrible as well.

I tried many different settings (NVidia Experince optimization tool, NVIdia control panel and in-game settings) and nothing changes.

Edited November 15, 2018 by Stancer

[bbcokeley]

Thank Nikkita, its not only me.....
This makes me feel alot better, looks like we will have to wait for some optimizations again, any one know when the engine will be uopdated, just read some post update news and theres a fair amount of optimization in it.

[Desmetheus]

I have a memory leak as well, game starts using about 7gb, and will increase until about 15.5gb of 16gb. It will start micro-stutter and then slowly become unstable. 

Prior to hotfix no issue.

i7 4820k 4.3ghz

16gb DDR3 2400mhz

R9 Fury 4GB HBM

SSD 

[Stancer]

I reported this issue to the game support and they told me to try to disable integrated graphics card, but this solution is not viable for me because I use video editing tools and software that don't work with dedicated GPU.

[8odycount]

Mine is disabled and I have the same problems. Even with 60 to 90 FPS the game feels like it was 30 FPS. Patch killed the performance totally.

[DiscoYak]

So I've done a lot of testing on this.I run at 1440p and I have a 7700k, GTX 1080ti and 32 GB of ddr4 running @3200. I always got micro stuttering in this game and couldnt understand why. It didnt seem to make sense but it only seemed to do it when use physical cores was ticked. But if unchecked the game lost about 15-30 fps that I wasn't really willing to sacrifice. My monitor is a g sync monitor that I typically turn off for fps games, Just because at 144hz I typically dont notice screen tearing anyways but I think this games refresh rate and your monitors refresh seem to fight eachother and I dont know why. All I do know is that the only way I have got these microstutters to go away is by turning off g sync, in the nvidia control panel telling the monitor to refresh via the application settings not highest refresh and turning off v sync in the NVCC and on in game. This is all while having the "use physical cores" option checked. Also going into process manager and changing the cpu priority to "above normal". I have done absolutely everything in my mind with any settings I could and this seemed to make the most noticeable change. I hope this helps if you are having a problem like I was.

Edited March 10, 2020 by DiscoYak
Forgot a thing

[Pandemonic]

23 minutes ago, DiscoYak said:

 I hope this helps if you are having a problem like I was.

I'm going to give this a go. The stutter has been driving me mad. I run a 8700K / 2080ti / 32gb DDR4 3200.  I've tried all the guides and stuff I could find online. I even tried disabling hyperthreading. Your suggestion is something I have not tried. I will report back with results after giving it a good go.

 

[Wulffon]

Stutters have increased since the last patch for me anyhow. Before that they became rarer and the game I believe was smoother.

[-JohnnyBoy-]

On 3/10/2020 at 9:18 AM, Pandemonic said:

I'm going to give this a go. The stutter has been driving me mad. I run a 8700K / 2080ti / 32gb DDR4 3200.  I've tried all the guides and stuff I could find online. I even tried disabling hyperthreading. Your suggestion is something I have not tried. I will report back with results after giving it a good go.

 

how it go?

[Baelnorn]

On 3/10/2020 at 5:18 AM, Pandemonic said:

I'm going to give this a go. The stutter has been driving me mad. I run a 8700K / 2080ti / 32gb DDR4 3200.  I've tried all the guides and stuff I could find online. I even tried disabling hyperthreading. Your suggestion is something I have not tried. I will report back with results after giving it a good go.

 

at least I know now why you downvoted me in the 2080ti performance thread

[Baelnorn]

On 3/10/2020 at 4:51 AM, DiscoYak said:

So I've done a lot of testing on this.I run at 1440p and I have a 7700k, GTX 1080ti and 32 GB of ddr4 running @3200. I always got micro stuttering in this game and couldnt understand why. 

So why did you necro a thread from November 2018? Why are you surprised that a bunch of guides by a bunch of people who have completely different hardware would work?

Everyone in this thread is effectively going to the Doctor and saying "I feel sick sometimes". You post no temperatures, you post no investigations, just what you googled or found on crapit and prayed that it works. Maybe you should stop believing every tool on the internet and try to do some of your own troubleshooting. Try running some monitoring while Tarkov runs. Is your CPU at max load? What are its temps? Etc etc.

Desync is definitelty an issue, but stutters are typically a CPU bottlenck and while a lot of you have decent cards if you are running air cooled CPU's from 3+ years ago you are 100% getting CPU throttled before you even hit thermal limits.

Tarkov is not even optimized yet. I would focus on getting your game running smoothly first and then worry about prettying it up.

[DiscoYak]

Check your Documents folder for a tarkov folder and file called local.ini as well... I've never realized this before but if you open that with notepad you can see if your refresh rate is incorrect. Mine was set somewhere around 23 so I changed it to 144. Also turn hdr from 1 to 0. Helped me out a lot with most stuttering. Might have honestly been my biggest problem yet. I have to check that file before every launch or it resets as well