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Stuttering and Blinking.
The new patch totally broke the game for me.
Every time the game loads between missions or in the menu the screen blinks black rapidly like crazy.
Also now my game freezes/stutters every 10 seconds.
Terrible experience. Every time I want to play it now, it just stops me with all the freezing.
Sad sad situation for a game I barely even started playing properly and one that just launched.
Every time the game loads between missions or in the menu the screen blinks black rapidly like crazy.
Also now my game freezes/stutters every 10 seconds.
Terrible experience. Every time I want to play it now, it just stops me with all the freezing.
Sad sad situation for a game I barely even started playing properly and one that just launched.
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I play on keyboard+mouse. Stutters like mad.
Yup. This is the worst launch problems in a video I have seen in my life.
Great game for the first few hours but too bad I haven't touched it since. So waiting for it to be fixed.
How did this even happen. Unbelievable.
Someone stated on PCGW to fix it by setting 60Hz on monitor but that's just backwards approach with high refresh rate monitors.
Tried on and off.
No difference. Still broken.
I think my specs should run this just fine. Can max out most games at 60fps.
i7 4720HQ quad core at 3.6ghz
24B RAM
PCIE SSD
GTX 980m
I played the beta at almost maxed settings (before hyper) and was around the 65fps mark. The beta ran like butter smooth. Something since the beta screwed up the game. Even the textures were good in the beta.
Having high FPS isn't an indicator of good performance in this game. It's designed specifically to maintain good framerates, at the expense of image quality, to ensure your runs aren't ruined by hitching.
Go back to Ultra, put memory limit on. A 980m can't run Hyper. (Neither can a full 980, for that matter.) You have the cutdown, mobile version of a 2014, two year old graphics card. Don't expect it to be able to run 2016 games the way it did 2014 ones.
The point is more that the game ran much better before the patch. I was OK with the textures being Medium quality (because I just happen to not have much VRAM so I didn't expect else). But now the game forces me to use GPU memory restriction and it makes the shadows and textures much worse. I also noticed that in the areas with the pink/purple trees, the game starts lagging unless I set my resolution scale to 0.85, only then it runs smooth everywhere.
The 980m can play most games close to max or high and get 60fps. I play witcher 3 at 60fps at one setting lower than max.
I also played the game just fine before the patch. I was getting somewehere around 75+fps at high. Its not a very graphics heavy game. Only HBAO would drop it a bit.
Its the freezing thats the problem. The game runs 60fps+ easily when its not freezing. The freeze is for a second every 10 seconds or so. If you read my first post you would understand and not rant about gpu's. I know my computers well and I clearly know the difference between dekstop and laptop performance.
In fact look at this so you understand that my comp should be playing it just fine. Look at the game benchmarks on that article. Its quite close. In fact the bench on the site is lower in most games but thats still pretty good. For example the doom one is wrong. I get 60fps easy maxed out. On that it says 51.2. Nevertheless that is generally close.
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-980M.126692.0.html
What I am getting at is to be put simply, even if i lower my graphics the game will stutter. There are others also who face this problem. If you dont know, refrain from assumptions. Also I dont play on hyper at all. In fact I tested on High and Ultra.
Kudos to the guy who figured it out in EA support forums.
My main problem is with forcing me to update drivers when I was having no problems at all just to play the game. I'd continue to play if I didn't have these problems, it's a lot of fun, but I now just have an excuse to free up the space it consumes.