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PC version: Issue with stuttering

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Hi guys,

I'm looking for solutions at this point. I've tried with high, med, low or very low graphics and I dont think its an issue having to do with my rig not being good enough. The benchmark gives me a minimum of 95 or so FPS on Monaco/heavy rain/cycle views with an avg of like 115-120 or so.

I turned motion blur strenght to 0, Vsync OFF, Anti-aliasing OFF, Anisotropic Filtering OFF and it seems to help.

For a while it'll be fine, then it begins stuttering again. Its especially worst when braking/cornering.

I have the following:
Win 10
I5-4440, 3.1, 4-cores
GTX 970 SSC ACX 2.0 4GB
16gigs RAM
SSD Sandisk Extreme Pro with 100+ gigs left of space

I dont have viruses on my computer, no malware, registry's clean, no issue playing other games. I just dont get why I'm having stutter playing this one. I tried moving the game on my HDD, same result.

I had GeForce experience at first that was recording. I had a fresh instead of drivers not long ago and had forgot to turn it off recording off. Well, I even unistalled GEForce Experience and nope, still the same issues.

I had no clue what could be the issue by now.

Any idea guys?

Thanks, Mark

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I'm having pretty much the same issue. FPS Counter is 60fps+ all the time, but the gameplay is definitely not 60. I tried to mess with all kinds of settings, but without results. 
Tagging @F1Support for some advises.

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Good Morning Camio.

I had the exactly the same issue as you and my PC is slightly higher spec but have solved it on my Rig.

Win10
i5 6600k @ 4.2
GTX 1060, 6Gb
16Gb Ram, DDR4
SSD M.2, 275Gb
HDD SATA III, 1Tb

At first I did the same tests as you but still had stutter (nothing at first then stutter would start).  I continued testing and the following has solved it for me (I moved the game first and tested then did the other two at the same time).

Moved the game to the HDD via move within Steam - (This got rid of the stutter when I wasn't recording but still stuttered when recording).
Turned ShaderCache Off in Nvidia Control Panel - (This did not notice any difference but the folder was increasing in size and SDD access reduced.)
Moved my user temp folder to my HDD - (this game uses it for the replay's which seems to be a 1.8Gb file)
Changed from Windows mode to Full Screen mode - (As this is the easiest to test I would do this first)

With VSync off I get 100fps but screen tearing and  "micro stutters" which is a different issue is not for me.

My in game settings are:

I will get back to Anisotropic Filtering a little later


Vehicle Reflections gave me a 20fps hit so I turned it down to High, I could not see a difference with Mirrors at medium so I left it.

I Use Nvidia Inspector so I have the following settings for Anisotropic Filtering (I had the same performance with the in-game AF but I prefer to do it this way)




I am now recording using Geforce Experience @ 130Mbps in every mode (career, Multiplayer, etc) and I am yet to experience stutter been two days and have recorded over 300Gb of data on my HDD.

Hope this helps you :)

(Just so you are aware I have not reverted back the other way to see if the issue comes back but as it works I don't want to touch it)

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Download MSI Afterburner, it comes with Rivatuner.. use that to Lock this game only to 100fps exactly, all stuttering will disappear.

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Good Morning Camio.

I had the exactly the same issue as you and my PC is slightly higher spec but have solved it on my Rig.

Win10
i5 6600k @ 4.2
GTX 1060, 6Gb
16Gb Ram, DDR4
SSD M.2, 275Gb
HDD SATA III, 1Tb

At first I did the same tests as you but still had stutter (nothing at first then stutter would start).  I continued testing and the following has solved it for me (I moved the game first and tested then did the other two at the same time).

Moved the game to the HDD via move within Steam - (This got rid of the stutter when I wasn't recording but still stuttered when recording).
Turned ShaderCache Off in Nvidia Control Panel - (This did not notice any difference but the folder was increasing in size and SDD access reduced.)
Moved my user temp folder to my HDD - (this game uses it for the replay's which seems to be a 1.8Gb file)
Changed from Windows mode to Full Screen mode - (As this is the easiest to test I would do this first)

With VSync off I get 100fps but screen tearing and  "micro stutters" which is a different issue is not for me.

My in game settings are:

I will get back to Anisotropic Filtering a little later


Vehicle Reflections gave me a 20fps hit so I turned it down to High, I could not see a difference with Mirrors at medium so I left it.

I Use Nvidia Inspector so I have the following settings for Anisotropic Filtering (I had the same performance with the in-game AF but I prefer to do it this way)




I am now recording using Geforce Experience @ 130Mbps in every mode (career, Multiplayer, etc) and I am yet to experience stutter been two days and have recorded over 300Gb of data on my HDD.

Hope this helps you :)

(Just so you are aware I have not reverted back the other way to see if the issue comes back but as it works I don't want to touch it)

Hi Cheekymunkey78,

I saw a thread you made a while ago with a similar solution (moving the game to HDD). It doenst do any better for me tho. I tried playing with all kind of setts and nothing worked, until I tried what kraM1t said:
Download MSI Afterburner, it comes with Rivatuner.. use that to Lock this game only to 100fps exactly, all stuttering will disappear.
Works. Now, for some reason, it only works for dry conditions.

I just did Spain with rain and it was sluggish the whole race. It was still better than before but I tried changing the setts and frame limit and nothing ended up working. Next race was dry, its working again, no stutter.

I have no clue why the its sluggish only when its rainy now. At least dry conditions work fine. I'll keep playing with the setts and see if I can get something to work for the rain.




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Really sorry to hear that, the only other things I can think of extra was I updates my USB headset firmware (I picked up somewhere that if they unplugged the headset the game crashed), I changed the Post Processing in the Hardware config file and made DepthOfField "False" (don't think DoF is used when racing) and turned Highlights and Broadcast to off in GeForce experience (but I was getting stuttering when experience was not installed).
I have a Logitech G25 wheel which uses an older Logitech Profiler version 5.10.127 (maybe this could be it?)

Like I said moving it to the HDD removed the stuttering but not when recording, the first post I made on this thread completely removed all stuttering.

Beyond this I am out of ideas, I hope you find a solution soon as it was driving me crazy turning in to corners and stuttering.

Kind regards,

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Just remembered I have also disabled the Nvidia audio drivers (using realtek) I have read tonight that realtek drivers can cause stutter in games (maybe you could try disabling it to see)

and my cpu's are unparked.

I did these a while ago but you never know.

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Just remembered I have also disabled the Nvidia audio drivers (using realtek) I have read tonight that realtek drivers can cause stutter in games (maybe you could try disabling it to see)

and my cpu's are unparked.

I did these a while ago but you never know.
I am hoping to get a SoundBlaster to get rid of the Realtek audio. Getting rid of the Realtek network didn't cure it but made some of it better and the rest no worse.

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@Camio Could you (or someone reading this) test the following to see if it makes a difference

Setup a 50% Race in Grand Prix Mode in Spain
Make a custom weather so it changes from Heavy Rain to Clear to Heavy Rain
Set to Official Time
Set the Ai so you can "play" with them (drop back out of the slip stream/dirty air and catch back up)
Run the start of the race but do not finish it
Quit the game
shut down the PC
Reboot
Load the game
Go straight to Grand Prix and race

If this improves your stutter please let us know,

If not do the following:
Quit the game
Delete the codemasters folder in the user Temp folder
Reboot
Load the game
Go straight to the Grand Prix and race

If this improves your stutter please let us know.

My logic:
I tested Spain with the above settings and I had stutter whilst recording so I undid everything from previous comments above including moving the Temp folder and moving the game back to the SSD.
I then retested Spain and it worked smooth (30 laps then quit, I did not finish the GP so I could use the setting again).
I closed the game without rebooting and loaded the game again, I got stutter on the first 3 laps (about once per lap, It seems to happen when something happens - for example, Jeff speaks, I hit someone, A Car goes off the track but most noticeable when catching another car or they catch you - maybe when close enough to be affected by the dirty air/slipstream).
I deleted the codemasters temp folder (got the idea due to me moving the Temp folder location) and rebooted.
Re-Ran the GP and it was smooth (23 laps then quit).
Closed the game, reloaded and ran GP and it Stuttered within the first 3 laps.
Shut the PC down and rebooted (without deleting the Temp folder).
Re-Ran the GP and it was smooth until lap 16 then I had "minor" stutter (looked like only a couple of frames were dropped) 5 times till lap 30.

@F1Support - Is this something you could look in to?

Kindest Regards,


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