Trying to solve stutters/performance, completely lost.

[TheSixOfDiamonds]

First things first:

CPU: i7-3820 @ 3.60 GHz

16GB RAM

Win7 64bit

Nvidia Geforce GTX 460

 

Now, for a while I ran at a playable (over 30fps and steady wherever it was) framerate at High settings with a couple things turned off for preference and Local reflections off for performance. Now, I have most everything turned off or low, and somehow I keep getting massive stutters on Earth, Certain tiles with lots of light/fog/particles, but only when I'm looking in certain directions. Most tiles/maps don't have problems when I turned HDR, Volumetric Lighting and Adaptive exposure on.

 

Anyone have ideas on how to solve the stutters? Pictures of trouble spots can be provided, if needed. At this point I just want smooth semi-decent graphics.... since before Second Dream I had no problems outside the reflections.

[Tobiah]

you probably need to turn some of it down. we can't really judge anything without seeing it.

[Praxxor]

There's something fishy going on, I don't get any problems with my integrated HD 530 (which SHOULD be weaker than your GTX 460, not sure).

See if "multi-threaded rendering" is ON in the launcher settings, also check DX10 and DX11. (400 series had support for DX11 right?)

[TheSixOfDiamonds]

This tile either infested or not always gives a stutter right about where I'm pointed in this shot

 

^ This tile, as well. Time of day doesn't seem to have any effect.

Edited March 31, 2017 by TheSixOfDiamonds
added photo

[THeMooN85]

First turn off Nvidia PhysX Effects (random screen from google)

Come back if this didn't work.

[TheSixOfDiamonds]

was already turned off.

[Letter13]

I'd also recommend trying to unpark your CPU cores. Unparking your cores often yields a significant performance boost for Intel CPUs.

 

I have a rather old thread detailing how to go about unparking your CPU cores here:

 

[TheSixOfDiamonds]

22 minutes ago, Praxxor said:

There's something fishy going on, I don't get any problems with my integrated HD 530 (which SHOULD be weaker than your GTX 460, not sure).

See if "multi-threaded rendering" is ON in the launcher settings, also check DX10 and DX11. (400 series had support for DX11 right?)

All checked.

7 minutes ago, Letter13 said:

I'd also recommend trying to unpark your CPU cores. Unparking your cores often yields a significant performance boost for Intel CPUs.

 

I have a rather old thread detailing how to go about unparking your CPU cores here:

 

Will try this now.

 

EDIT: All unparked, still getting stutters, but it at least is now a few smaller stutters instead of one bigger one.

Edited March 31, 2017 by TheSixOfDiamonds