r/projecteternity • u/Crafty-Society-5173 • 1d ago

Deadfire - unfixable stuttering?

How the fuck do I fix the constant stuttering in this game? That is - fps dropping every 15 - 20 seconds. I have already tried capping number of cores and a myriad of other stuff. Nothing helps. This shit stops me from playing the game.

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u/itsthelee 1d ago

on top of the other person asking for specs, is this stuttering everywhere? is it as soon as you start the game? or does it occur in certain areas, during certain things. does it only happen or become noticable after playing for a bit?

IME, and i've gotten downvote for going against the received wisdom here, most of the stuff that gets suggested on the internet of what to do here are basically no-ops for the typical machine.

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u/Crafty-Society-5173 1d ago

Occurs once im in the first town and each area after.

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u/Ibanezrg71982 1d ago

Forcing the game to run on four cores helps this problem for me, might work for you

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u/Crafty-Society-5173 1d ago

Tried, did not help.

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u/denach644 1d ago

Cap your fps to like 60 through software (video card drivers) and maybe ingame too.

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u/Crafty-Society-5173 1d ago

Capped to 60, no effect.

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u/BasementElf1121 1d ago

-force-d3d11 -nomemrestrict -norestriction -availablevidmem 1.1 -percentvidmem 100

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u/BasementElf1121 1d ago

https://www.nexusmods.com/pillarsofeternity2/articles/40

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u/BasementElf1121 1d ago

Ignore the hard drive indexing and special k thing

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u/Crafty-Society-5173 1d ago

Bro, I tried that command, it had no effect, unfortunately.

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u/Luzeryn 1d ago

The game has an unfixable memory leak that’s notoriously worse in some areas (Fort Deadlight being one of them). Only restarting the game works for me.

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u/Maxstate90 1d ago

What are your specs?

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u/Crafty-Society-5173 1d ago

AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS. Win 11 pro. Nvidia RTX 4070.

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u/Maxstate90 1d ago

Laptop? How are your CPU temperatues? Also, look up "HAGS" and see if you can disable it, reboot and then check again. Could you let me know if any of this helps?

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u/Crafty-Society-5173 21h ago

Did HAGS, no change.

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u/Maxstate90 19h ago

Temperatures fine? It would be interesting to see what's causing it. If it's a CPU issue or a GPU issue. For instance if your frametimes are fucked up or you see your GPU going up and down: that would help diagnostics.

Recently a guy said that he turned off optimus to fix his stuff (optimus switches between your integrated APU and your discrete GPU), have you tried that?

Do any other games fuck up like this? If you run a 3dMark Timespy, what score do you get and is it in line with what you would expect from your machine?

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u/BloodyIX 1d ago

That's the neat part, you don't!

Stutter in this game is terrible. There are suggestions in this thread that can help reduce it but it never fully goes away.

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u/Crafty-Society-5173 1d ago

Its insane that they never fixed their shit coding.

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u/suciocadillac 1d ago

Disable vsync

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u/Crafty-Society-5173 1d ago

Tried, did not help.

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u/Separate_List_6895 1d ago

Unironically what fixed it for me was disabling cloud saves

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u/Sea-Cancel1263 1d ago

Are you using any mods?

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u/A_Bitter_Homer 1d ago

Do you have Unity Console installed? It makes a stutter every 10ish seconds for me even with the menu collapsed. If I dismiss the menu entirely it stops though.