Stuttering?

[mrs1986]

Hi all!

I'm new to GSCE, I bougth it the other day, my question is if anyone has any idea of what to do about the stutter?
The game is smooth, but has a lot of micro stuttering while playing, even playing offline, or alone...

My PC is powerfull enough (I think) to run the game, in fact the game never goes lower of the 60 fps, it is locked there with the V-Sync.

Just in case, my machine is as follows:
i5 4690k@4.0Ghz
480 SSD
16Gb ram
GTX 970
The cooling, the power, everything is up to the task, so it is not a problem about the machine, it is something I'm missing about the game.

Thanks a lot for any help I could get!

 

[mrs1986]

With V-sync you have stuttering? I play GSC in a laptop, with a nvidea card, and with the V-sync the game is very smoth, without it I get lots of stuttering.

Yes even when vsync is on I have stutter, it doesnt even depend on fps are they are perfectly fine in the 300-400 area...

 

[s2173]

Do you have max prerendered frames set to 1 in your GPU control panel? That's a must...also enable tripple buffer if you're gonna use Vsync.

 

[mrs1986]

Do you have max prerendered frames set to 1 in your GPU control panel? That's a must...also enable tripple buffer if you're gonna use Vsync.

I'm not using vsync because the input lag makes it dificult to save the slides, my wheel is a G27 and is know for not being great...

 

[s2173]

Triple buffer removes the lag, atleast for me. And prerendered frames is a must no matter what.

 

[Spaceman]

You do realise Triple Buffer only works with OpenGL in the NVidia control panel.
So that's placebo you're experiencing.
AMD does work in both.
You'll need third party to enable on NVidia and then it's operating system limited.
Also it third party won't enable when used in conjuction with sweetfx/reshade.

 

[mrs1986]

I have an nvidia card so it should work... Anyway, I never could get to really eliminate the lag... Is really noticeable and it makes my driving a lot worse of what it is now

 

[Spaceman]

It's never worked via using Nvidia Control panel. Nvidia used to state as much in the control panel.
It's common knowledge really.
As of note, triple buffer will introduce lag not remove it. If you require triple buffer it's because the framerate is dipping below your refresh rate. Lower your graphics to cure that.
You need to download a third party app such as D3DOverrider to use Triplebuffer. Won't work though if you use a d3d9.dll intercept such as maps or sweetfx.
Are you locking to 60 hz?
You'll always get lag locking to 60hz refresh rate. Look to invest into a new monitor if so. One that pushes 120 hz or even better a G-Sync Enabled monitor.

 

[mrs1986]

It's never worked via using Nvidia Control panel. Nvidia used to state as much in the control panel.
It's common knowledge really.
As of note, triple buffer will introduce lag not remove it. If you require triple buffer it's because the framerate is dipping below your refresh rate. Lower your graphics to cure that.
You need to download a third party app such as D3DOverrider to use Triplebuffer. Won't work though if you use a d3d9.dll intercept such as maps or sweetfx.
Are you locking to 60 hz?
You'll always get lag locking to 60hz refresh rate. Look to invest into a new monitor if so. One that pushes 120 hz or even better a G-Sync Enabled monitor.

That would be cool, but I cant spend that money now, not a chance...
I thought the triple buffer removed the lag...
Anyway, i cant use vsync now, my driving is a lot worse if vsync is enabled, the input lag is too noticeable...

 

[P*Funk]

Have you tried capping the frame rate using the game's config file?

 

[mrs1986]

Have you tried capping the frame rate using the game's config file?

Sorry not yet, I just arrived home from the weekend out (wifes birthday) so I couldnt try anything more than the none time scale...

 

[P*Funk]

Gotcha, well that'll be as good as Vsync without the input lag, even if it doesn't solve your stuttering issues.

 

[mrs1986]

Gotcha, well that'll be as good as Vsync without the input lag, even if it doesn't solve your stuttering issues.

Well, tried and it seems better now, will have to test further and see what happens!

 

[mrs1986]

Ok, I played a little more (like 5 minutes ) but it seems better, there is still some stutter but it is a lot better and the stutter happens less frequent, so I'm quite happy now

 

[Zzyzx]

Google "4GB patcher rfactor". That did wonders for me.

 

[Paulo Gomes]

Is this "4gb patcher rfactor" does anything rather than boosting ram usage ? because GSC already can use more than 2 gb of ram..

 

[Zzyzx]

I'm not too sure of the ins and outs, but I know GSC/rFactor doesn't use enough RAM. I confirmed for myself that the 4GB patcher works after I had to do a reinstall about 6 months ago. I tried to run the Formula Retro around Rouen Les Essarts and got massive stuttering as I passed the pits. I remembered the patcher (which I had used before but forgotten about), downloaded it, ran it and ... problem solved.

If you you haven't tried it yet I recommend you do.

Best of luck.

 

[Paulo Gomes]

I have the same problem when I pass the pits in some tracks, especially in open wheel cars and the super v8, im going to try the 4GB patcher. Thanks @Zzyzx

 

[Zzyzx]

I have the same problem when I pass the pits in some tracks, especially in open wheel cars and the super v8, im going to try the 4GB patcher. Thanks @Zzyzx

Did it work?

 

[Paulo Gomes]

I actually think that it help, I did a test a offline test session, in the superv8 in bathrust, 34 cars, 25 visible, and when I pass the pits I didn't get any stuttering, as sometimes I would get..So I actually think is not placebo, and the patch did really help, thanks @Zzyzx
My pc is laptop, with a nvidia 840m and i74500u, I run the game at 900p.

 

[Spinelli]

Google "4GB patcher rfactor". That did wonders for me.

I thought I read like a year or two ago that Reiza implemented the 4GB patch to SCE and FT so we don't have to do it??