How I solved the stuttering issues

I had stuttering from about October onwards. I did a lot of digging.

I ran up the perf monitor from task manager and configured it up. During the stalls in res sites I noticed a blue peak on the disk access at the same point the stall occurred. You can also see the disk accesses of files occurring during the gameplay.

it was running on a raid 1 hard disk with Avg allowed to scan the folders.

So I rebuilt, moved the game to the ssd, and told Avg not to scan the folders.

Now it does not jump at all. Not sure if its Avg or the disk.

The moral is, it may not be the game, or the video card. It may be the fact the game constantly is reading files which is causing a stall.

Hope this helps

Rob
 
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+1 rep. I already have an SSD, so it doesn't apply to me, but it could help others. All of my games run super smooth with the SSD and I even did a test to compare performance with a RAMDisk. The SSD was only slightly slower by the numbers and the difference wasn't humanly detectable.

My only issue with SSDs is the potential longevity. I have a spare for when my main one goes out. In fact, I better take an image of my old one soon, just in case.

:)
 
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I had stuttering from about October onwards. I did a lot of digging.

I ran up the perf monitor from task manager and configured it up. During the stalls in res sites I noticed a blue peak on the disk access at the same point the stall occurred. You can also see the disk accesses of files occurring during the gameplay.

it was running on a raid 1 hard disk with Avg allowed to scan the folders.

So I rebuilt, moved the game to the ssd, and told Avg not to scan the folders.

Now it does not jump at all. Not sure if its Avg or the disk.

The moral is, it may not be the game, or the video card. It may be the fact the game constantly is reading files which is causing a stall.

Hope this helps

Rob

+1 rep Nice job of troubleshooting

I tried AVG multiple times in the past and learned that it is a resource hog.

I now only use MS SE and malwarebytes Pro in conjunction with MVPS Hosts file blocker that kills known bad sites. Since moving to this configuration, I never get any malware problems and have no performance issues. Malware Bytes free version is also effective and MWB specifically states that it is designed to co-exist peacefully with MS Security Essentials.

HTH others.
 

Jenner

I wish I was English like my hero Tj.
My only issue with SSDs is the potential longevity. I have a spare for when my main one goes out. In fact, I better take an image of my old one soon, just in case.

:)

Nice troubleshooting, OP.

And my SSD better not bite the dust. I have no plan B. lol.
 
So basically the Cobra engine is allowing texture load to stall the rendering pipeline. That sounds like something FDEV should fix...
 
Had horrendous stuttering all throughout 1.3-1.4 well documented here on these forums. 2.0 has cured the stuttering for me. As to your troubleshooting, I have always believed it was a load issue that caused the stuttering, never had anything to do with the GPU...
 
+1 rep. I already have an SSD, so it doesn't apply to me, but it could help others. All of my games run super smooth with the SSD and I even did a test to compare performance with a RAMDisk. The SSD was only slightly slower by the numbers and the difference wasn't humanly detectable.

My only issue with SSDs is the potential longevity. I have a spare for when my main one goes out. In fact, I better take an image of my old one soon, just in case.

:)



The SSD longevity thing is more of a myth than anything else tbh, for the average user.
 
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It was that pesky blue peak on the perf monitor which pointed up the problem. I never thought a HDD (in RAID 1) would have caused that stall.. But it was clear. The AVG turn off was mostly for insurance, not sure it actually made a difference.

I had less but still suffered stuttering in 2.0. I rebuilt just after christmas.

I did not think that the game was constantly loading files even when you were situated in a static location such as a RES site. But it does.

Anyway, it works now much more smoothly. Yeah!
 
I had a SSD die after 1 year of use, but it works for 5 mins then seems to overheat and stops working.
I was able to recover everything I wanted using 5min copy intervals.
Current SSD is over 1 year old still going strong.
Also I never turn off the PC.
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