raven tusk
I for the life of me cannot figure out why my game stutters. No mods installed, solo mode, GPU usage is at 35% and CPU usage is at 15%.
I was able to run this game previously at a locked 60 fps but it intermittently stutters every 10 seconds or so and I do not know why. Anyone have any ideas?
I have an Intel i5-14400f, Nvidia RTX 3050, 16GB of ram and 8GB of VRAM.
Please help.
last meteor
Can you try disabling steam and discord overlays?
raven tusk
Sure can, I'll go do that and test. I've also heard it might be a good idea to allocate more ram to the game, so I tried that as well.
gentle perch
@raven tusk did it work (plz ping me)
daring oxide
Sure can, I'll go do that and test. I've also heard it might be a good idea to a...
6gb should be enough
raven tusk
Yeah, that didn't seem to do it. I upped the ram in the json up to 4gb, disabled the steam and discord overlays, as well as my steelseries overlay (didn't even think about that at first) but it still happens. I could try bumping it up to 6gb, not sure what default typically is though
@gentle perch
gentle perch
I was under the impression that too much ram could also lead to poor performance
raven tusk
It was happening with the default setting as well as the increased allocation
raven tusk
Yup, definitely still happening. It's dropped as low as 36fps.
unkempt robin
I was running the game at 55 fps before this update. And now it’s around 28, dips to 10 when I zoom out even after allocating more ram to the game. Not sure what happened there
raven tusk
Yeah, it's driving me crazy cuz I know for a fact my hardware can definitely run it higher than 60 without issue, with all settings at the highest.
last meteor
Can you try going to NVIDIA Control Panel and changing "Vulkan/OpenGL present method" to "Prefer layered on DXGI swapchain" in "Manage 3D settings"?
raven tusk
Can you try going to NVIDIA Control Panel and changing "Vulkan/OpenGL present me...
for the Project Zomboid program?
last meteor
You can set it globally if you wish, it will help any Vulkan/OpenGL app.
raven tusk
Gotcha. Just changed it, testing it now.
raven tusk
You can set it globally if you wish, it will help any Vulkan/OpenGL app.
Negative, ghost rider. Didn't seem to do anything for me.
last meteor
Can you take a screen recording of the game with the FPS logger on screen (default key: K)
raven tusk
Sure thing. Working on it; it's so random so it's hard to tell when it's gonna happen.
Only entirely on foot
Of course now that I'm trying to record it, it doesn't seem to wanna happen; but it looks like this stuttering the scene gets when you're driving.
I got a bit of it! Gonna send it now. Now that I caught it, it seems to MAYBE correlate with the view and stuff loading in that I can see through the rooms I pass by?
You can see it happen from 2:39 and on till the end. Now that I rewatched it that doesn't seem to be the case, not to mention it's happened outside as well.
last meteor
Are you playing in fullscreen or borderless window?
raven tusk
Fullscreen. I was on borderless previously, same issue both ways.
last meteor
Are your graphics drivers up to date?
raven tusk
Yeah, that was the first thing I checked when I noticed the issue.
raven tusk
New development: My game suddenly locked to a hard 30 fps while playing and nothing I do changes it. I was literally just playing through like I have been most of the day today and while breaking into a storage unit an alarm went off. Horde came through, nothing happened out of the ordinary; I began fighting them off, killed a good 10-15 of them, and then it locked to 30 and won't change back; I've tried restarting, changing settings, nothing.
Earlier in the save, I killed at least 150 zombies in the street in front of my base, so there's literally zero reason this should be happening.