pc-specs

[tight urchin]

u basically replace the existing dlss/fsr files (not a mod, rename that blabla.dll to blabla.dll.bak and you're gucci)

[gleaming berry]

frame gen off, anti aliasing maxed, global illumination maxed, still all my foliage is flickering.

[high quarry]

XESS is actually good

[jade gorge]

i agree, that even in this borderline catastrophically broken state, stalker 2 elicits more intrigue and FUN than almost every other AAA release of the decade thus far

[wraith oak]

I’ve bought over 100 games this year and yet I still just play tarkov stalker and overwatch lmao

[glass sinew]

quote from one of the comments on that mod is as follows

"folks- devs usually supply the versions they used to build the game. blindly updating these files causes problems in many games. read up on it."

hmmm maybe ill just try the optization tweaks and that 2nd thing

[tight urchin]

did u download any mods?

[high quarry]

I just wish Intel would put both feet in on a Battlemage card, like a B590

[jade gorge]

tarkov tried something new, and it garnered rightful attention as a result. it’s a great example of devs NOT following trends and creating a whole new thing that excites people

[tight urchin]

or gsc forgor 💀 yeah I dunno 🙂

[dire vessel]

i just think its insane to do any type of overhaul on launch day of any game. the first patch hasnt rolled out. pump the brakes bro

[gleaming berry]

I did this morning, but it was happening before I added these performance mods

I think I found the cause however. With DLSS off the game is very grainy but the flickering stops. Using TSR set to quality removes the flickering, but gives worse FPS gains. So the issue is with DLSS I believe

[coarse linden]

Now if only they could invent that unicorn anticheat to get rid of cheaters.

[high quarry]

It is true, swapping DLSS/FSR dlls can mismatch any tweaks gamedevs have done for it, BUT its usually fine across the same major versions.

[tight urchin]

why is stalker 2: gamma not out yet

[dire vessel]

its 80% complete

[tight urchin]

I really doubt GSC did any tweaks tbh 💀

[jade gorge]

i’m afraid it’s a bridge too far, for a dev team, that expected their game to have 3000 players max

[wraith oak]

I’ve never understood the cheating epidemic in tarkov, in 3k hours I’ve maybe died to a confirmed cheater like 5 times

[jade gorge]

you’ve died to them a lot more than that, you just don’t know it

[tight urchin]

I be cheating in stalker 2 everytime I hear a bloodsucker, I don't wanna do an involuntary stinky in this scary ahh game

[coarse linden]

Its pretty much for every company. Trying to solve problem with one hand tied behind your back is not really helping

[high quarry]

6700 hours, its not as bad for me as others say. One blatant every 15 raids or so.

[tight urchin]

I wish S2 was released with pvp, just imagine deathmatch with everyone at 20 fps with 50ms input delay 😍

[remote arrow]

Anyone else with an AMD card suffering from stuttering and long shader compile times?

[turbid jay]

half the lobby crashing every 5 mins OR THE INPUT DELAYS

[runic beacon]

Literally everyone

[high quarry]

Shader compile is pretty slow, but no stutter on a 7800XT

[remote arrow]

Yea but my friend has an Nvidia card and he has less problems

[gleaming berry]

"yo anyone else breathe air in here?"

[jade gorge]

it will be interesting to see what comes of the anti-cheat saga, whether kernel level stuff works or not, or whether the industry will just give up entirely

[tight urchin]

#pc-specs message try that and don't forget control flow guard

[runic beacon]

I have a 3070 and the game is full of problems

[honest crow]

Is there a fix for the render latency or just gotta wait for a patch?

[tight urchin]

multiplayer alife when? whole enemy team (all dogs) spawns right behind u

[coarse linden]

Tbh biggest step towards solution would be gamers forfeiting their anonymity. That would give developers lot better starting point

[glass sinew]

just to reiterate, its okay to use both ulti engine tweak AND s2 opti tweaks?

[turbid jay]

I had a team of the blue camo guys spawn in with 860's literally 30 meters from me dude I resorted to just lobbing 3/4 of my stack of frags at them because one shot would take 3/4 of my health lmao

[tight urchin]

well kinda? check pinned post set vsync to fast, low latency to on plus S2 Opti & Ulti Engi Tweaks mod did wonders for me 🙂

[high quarry]

I should prob turn on enhanced sync (AMD equiv to fast), since I have fps capped at 320

[turbid jay]

also, has anyone else just........not gotten an Emission yet? Ive gotten like 6-7 bad storms, but no emissions
is it a story-based thing that I have to do before they start, or?

[jade gorge]

hard to get the herd on board with that plan. though they did willingly fork over their phone number for games like call of duty

[tight urchin]

it's just ini tweaks so stuff can't really break (S2 changes stuff in WindowsEngine.ini and Ulti in Engine.ini so might not even conflict)

[high quarry]

3 in a couple of hours

[velvet needle]

if i play with my monitor off the game runs fine

[honest crow]

Cheers I'll give it a go 🤙

[vapid vine]

Anyone using this? - https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/17?tab=posts

[tight urchin]

adding this to the guide thank you

[coarse linden]

Im not 99% certain but i think it is story based thing. Atleast things started to fry my arse after it

[high quarry]

I am using fxaa_no_dof_ca_bloom_fg.pak

[dire vessel]

did the person who created that mod reach out to the DEVS to potentially help if possible

[grizzled drift]

Yes

[glass sinew]

oh the optimize tweaks looks very similiar to the other Stalker optmizer mod, it even uses the /pak/~mod thing

[tight urchin]

well that doesn't mean much, pak files are like zip files just for unreal enginem you can unpack them with "unrealpak" from github

[vapid vine]

So that mod will just make the game more stable, less stuttering and not reduce visual quality at all?

[tight urchin]

someone said their puddles were very bright, but there's semi-frequent updates

[vapid vine]

Some people with higher end rigs seem to have commented that it reduced their performance

[coarse linden]

Cant magic fps out of thin air

[tight urchin]

yeah cuz it still had this setting r.OneFrameThreadLag=0 which trades fps for better input latency 🙂 couldn't find it anymore now, but I just copied from the description and not the download file

[late ferry]

sundibundi93 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[tight urchin]

oh crap what the heck

[neat quarry]

My CPU is at 100% while in any other game it doesn't even reach 80%

[vapid vine]

So its simple enough to try it and if it doesn't work for me I can delete it without any issues?

[coarse linden]

Very CPU heavy game

[tight urchin]

always make backups (rename the old file sth like engine.ini.bak 🙂 )

[raw latch]

What’s your specs? Very cpu and memory hungry game

[random drift]

Didn't say any bad word but okay.

I said I'm getting mint shadow of Chernobyl 2007 flashbacks trying to run it on an AMD Athlon 2500 CPU and on some ati Radeon sapphire GPU from 2004 lol

[coarse linden]

Pff you just copy it to desktop

[native lichen]

R7 5700X and RTX 2060 can run with good performance?

[gleaming berry]

[coarse linden]

Depends what you view as acceptable

[random drift]

Guys do you think my voodoo 3 2000 GPU can run stalker 2 in 4k?

[coarse linden]

Absolutely

[random drift]

Oh good I didn't want upgrade

[coarse linden]

You might even be able to push 8k with that legendary thing

[elder fiber]

Can someone tell me if my parts are good and to sell them how much for in total please

[prime pollen]

does anyone have a vanilla engine.ini and gamesettings.ini file? i dont want to verify and repair but im getting crazy artifacting from performance mods

[coarse linden]

Good lesson to back things up right there

[elder fiber]

Hey can u help me do u know a lot about pcs

[raw latch]

My integrated gfx card gets me 4k 144fps so it should work great for you

[coarse linden]

You can just delete those files and run the game and it recreates new files

[random drift]

It's laying around somewhere at my parents basement but I think if I put it under voltage it would catch fire

[supple cliff]

I am artifacting and getting graphical glitches from unmodded
could be a game engine thing

[silver scroll]

you can just delete the file

[prime pollen]

nah its only after i installed one in particular

[raw latch]

Verify and repair took my a (weirdly) short time. So I’d say just go for it

[coarse linden]

I know some stuff.

[supple cliff]

the light renders just poop themselves when distance/indoors.... looks very veird, flaky/surreal instead of proper render

[elder fiber]

ok ill send the specs

[tight urchin]

ROLEPLAY INSPO: if you really dislike the everything gets bright effect after going outside just put r.EyeAdaptationQuality=0 into your engine.ini and you will get permanently blinded (almost flashbanged) as soon as you leave the house! just like in real life! be a real gamer and add this now! https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/54 amazing mod!

[prime pollen]

gotcha

[raw latch]

Are you running any upscaling or gram generator?

[grizzled drift]

Wow, Flow Guard was the last thing I would've never thought of to affect stuttering lol, my latency is down to 6ms as well, now if we can just fix that view distance pop-in, I have mine set to Epic and still see objects pop in from afar @tight urchin

[elder fiber]

Ram: 16GB
CPU: AMD RYZEN 5 3600X 6-Core Processor
GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX 1660 Ti
Hard Drive: 2Tb
Power Supply: 650 watts
Motherboard: B450 AORUS PRO WIFI
I’m trying to sell this for 800 Canadian

[silver scroll]

bro you dont need to verify game files, just delete the engine.ini

[glass sinew]

WOW! just installed ur setep, my shaders compiled in like 1 minute lol

[supple cliff]

whats gram generator? I do nvidia dlss 2 (rtx 3070)

[tight urchin]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/57 Equalized Aim Sensitivity X-Y just released 😮

[raw latch]

Frame generation lol my bad.

[elder fiber]

Does anyone know if this is a good price

[supple cliff]

no i dont use the amd frame gen, it makes my gpu go 100% constantly and heat up +5 C than usual

[restive root]

This better not be some russian virus

[coarse linden]

I mean if i apply my local used price in euros that is overpriced by 200ish. But since i have no clue used market in canada i cant say much

[glass sinew]

and i got 50/60 frames in the village now lol

[grizzled drift]

Control Flow Guard does seem to have helped stuttering on AMD CPUs (7800X3D)

[tight urchin]

is that good or bad

[supple cliff]

aint nobody gonna buy that when people can get a prebuilt with 4060 for less

[elder fiber]

so how much should i sell it for then

[grizzled drift]

Wouldve never thought that would be something that would help lol , such an odd setting @tight urchin

[coarse linden]

Check used parts prices for each component. That gives you rough sketch

[sick magnet]

anyone find a fix with crashing every 15 to 30 minutes or am i the only one experiencing that issue

[supple cliff]

round up all parts and see how much it would cost to buy them used individually

[tight urchin]

that's what fixed dx12 on borderlands 3 for me lol

[elder fiber]

ok thx

[coarse linden]

DX13 when?

[raw latch]

What are you settings at? I turned down a lot of settings and had similar issues but I’m not sure which exact setting helped me. I initially tuned down my setting thinking my pc couldn’t handle it but in reality it’s the software (most are speculating a memory leak) so after that I bumped back up the graphics to closer what I thought my pc could handle handle and that made things look better. Also did you by any chance mess with any of the console commands like trying to turn of nanite or Lumen? That could cause some wonkiness.

(Sorry chat for the novel I just wrote😅)

[high quarry]

Not at all, someone could build this which is better for the same price, but new https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/44cr74

[grizzled drift]

Actually insane lol, thank you bro, sorry if I came off brash, I'm just like man I've been here done that

[tight urchin]

I gotchu, glad I could help 🤝

[sleek drift]

So i just loaded a save and the entire world is black...o.O

[raw latch]

Iv heard some horror stories…….

[tight urchin]

holographic sight, laser & frame gen is violently epic, 3 crosshairs for the price of one 😄

[marsh furnace]

When can we expect a patch

[coarse linden]

Framegen is disgusting

[tight urchin]

in the future! glad I could help!

[amber nexus]

if it is in a dark area just let it sit for a bit the global illumination was doing that to my game yesterday when I was in a cave

[sleek drift]

Just joined here cuz I'm at a loss at how to get this running decently, not sure what is intended or not, but mostly it seems to be cpu limited and just discovered it's using software lumen on pc?! Wouldn't that use the cpu even more!?

[sleek drift]

I tried, but it had no effect. I've seen this happen before but only when using a dlss mod for elden ring lol

[coarse linden]

AND it uses UE 5.1

[tight urchin]

I don't think this works Can confirm that this works! 10/10, must have mod! HUH

[haughty bluff]

same, unreal engine crash

[raw latch]

Welcome to the UE5 shit show 🍿

[coarse linden]

Supposedly Lumen and Nanite performance issues have been somewhat "fixed" on later UE 5 versions

[sick magnet]

i was in the crash logs and saw something mentioning a gpu crash

[sleek drift]

Just seems like a really wierd choice that would have nothing but negative consequences using software lumen on pc or am I misunderstanding it?

[supple cliff]

No, I have pretty much stock medium settings with motiion blur turned off and depth of field tuned lower.
Running RTX 3070 & Ryzen 5600x with 32GB RAM. I get 70-80 avg fps with dlss, dips down to 45 fps in stalker hubs.
Also light in general has a lot of issues indoors, the flashligh has like 10m range which applies to me but NPCs perfectly aim at me and shoot etc when to me they are pitch black on screen even with high gamma/lowered contast.
The light glitches are dependant on the area(mainly indoors with windows/doorways to outdoors). Same with flaky/blurry light renders.

[still whale]

Frame gen did that for me

[steady tree]

do you happen to have the console cammands for nanite and lumen?

[haughty bluff]

it could be, i use 6800xt undervolted

[coarse linden]

Now how realistic it is for devs to upgrade Unreal Engine is quite the question

[still whale]

Still need to try to
update

[sleek drift]

...what...then why....anytime I've tried to inquire about stuff people would attack me saying I shouldn't complain becuase they had to flee a war

[haughty bluff]

i can't bear 60fps on high refreshrate anymore

[high quarry]

its UE 5.1.1 I think

[crimson ether]

any tricks to get a smoother experience?
im on a 1660 super with 16gb ram, 60 fps majority of the time but dips to single digits randomly and when in the first town

[winter locust]

Hye, does 60 fps weird for you guys?

[sleek drift]

I'm just trying to figure out what's a game issue an what might be my fault lol.

[coarse linden]

I mean Engine is customized so its not really plug and play to upgrade anymore. Same reason why ARK was stuck in ancient Unreal version lol

[raw latch]

Pretty sure the flashlight issue is universal for all players. But you fps seems similar to what I’m getting when not in a city hub. I’m on a 3060ti with a slightly worse CPU. The insane stutters aren’t your fault. That we sadly just have to wait to be fixed

[glass sinew]

I had 9 frames before

TO BE FAIR i couldve had memory leak I had game on for a while

[winter locust]

Even at locked 60fps it feels like the game is running at around 40, never feels smooth, unless I turn frame gen on, but then the latency is too high

[sleek drift]

Also had one wierd instance where I had to restart my entire pc becuase anytime I loaded the game it would he at below 10 fps

[tight urchin]

yay glad to hear makes me very happy being able to help

[still whale]

Mood but it is what it is :D, um trying to ge it to work @tight urchin has a link for update files, maybe try that, i didnt have the time so far

[high quarry]

A lot of people have that

[upper quail]

have the same problem.

[coarse linden]

Very CPU heavy. Might take month or 2 to iron out kinks

[high quarry]

Framegen wont feel good until 80-90 base fps

[raw latch]

I do not but you can find it here in this channel. Lots of people posted it yesterday when the fire started🤣

[sleek drift]

Really? I've never had that happen on any game...how the shit did they pull this off? I played all the original games at launch but never had so many extreme issues like this

[winter locust]

I know, but I mean without framegen FPS still feels weird, even at 60

[high quarry]

I dont have any issues, no crashes, no stutters, playing at 170fps

[sleek drift]

On an rtx 3080 with an i9 overclocked to 5.29ghz and running the game at 1080p on epic settings

[upper quail]

Whats your rigs spec?

[still whale]

From 60 to 120 but unstable, but snappy with the pinned settings innthe control panel

[high quarry]

9800x3D, 48GB 6300 CL30, 7800XT

[sleek drift]

Frame gen improves fps for me but increases lag to the point where it's unplayable

[winter locust]

Oh wow, I wonder why it's running fine

[coarse linden]

You gotta be more specific with the CPU. i9 is not the automatic " oh the best" anymore

[sick magnet]

<CrashType>GPUCrash</CrashType>
<ErrorMessage>LowLevelFatalError [File:D:\STALKER2\s2editor\Engine\Source\Runtime\D3D12RHI\Private\D3D12Util.cpp] [Line: 880] CurrentQueue.Device->GetDevice()->GetDeviceRemovedReason() failed at D:\STALKER2\s2editor\Engine\Source\Runtime\D3D12RHI\Private\D3D12Submission.cpp:910 with error 887A0006</ErrorMessage>
dont know if this is too important but this is what i found in the logs

[high quarry]

That is a driver stall

[sleek drift]

10900kf dunno how I left that out lol

[winter locust]

60fps is so bad here that I prefer framegen with the high latency as it is a lot smoother

[sick magnet]

fix?

[high quarry]

Nothing specific, your graphics driver likely crashed

[upper quail]

Wow. Nice build bro. Is the bug only affected nvidia users?

[sleek drift]

Latest drivers too. Lower settings doesn't seem to solve anything

[high quarry]

Lower settings for me = more fps

[haughty bluff]

what driver ver you're running on 7800xt

[sleek drift]

That indoor cutscene when you first get to the bar drops from 60 to 30

[prime pollen]

any have especially bad visual bugs at the third story mission location (entry code)

[sick magnet]

might try to do a clean reinstall of my drivers, even though i already have it

[raw latch]

Just turns my game to poo…..and the performance…..still…..poo

[high quarry]

170 mostly, 130 in town, 220 inside other buildings (not in town)
@haughty bluff latest driver

[sleek drift]

I'm on a 60hz monitor too so I'm not trying to get more than 60fps

[high quarry]

7800XT struggles with 3440x1440, so I have FSR Balanced + Framegen

[sleek drift]

A mod did help my performance alot but still not where it feels like it should be.

[raw latch]

Iv had more enjoyment by playing at what my pc “should” handle and just reset my pc whenever the heavy stutter hits/memory leaks

[mellow egret]

the method I mentioned yesterday has continued to work well for me.

[ruby lava]

lumen

[spare coral]

The input lag isnt bad for me with framegen on for some reason i cant even feel it in this game unlike others where is clearly super annoying

[steady tree]

I just found it along with a few other useful ones.

r.VolumetricCloud 0
r.Lumen.DiffuseIndirect.Allow 0

[tight urchin]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/57 please tag me if this works for anybody that uses the same mods as in the guide

[stuck thistle]

downloaded Ultimate Engine Tweaks and wow the performance boost has been massive

[boreal owl]

im running the game with a 2070 and a ryzen 5 3600 whenver I flick my mouse 45 degrees to left or right the game basically freezes until I stop moving my mouse. Is this just DLSS + fsr frame gen?

[sleek drift]

This mod https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/2?tab=files

[haughty bluff]

that's pretty high fps, but im curious what driver version (amd software) you're playing on, i use latest beta 24.20.19.05 currently and crashing with UE5 error on 6800xt, seems like 7800xt handles this game lot better

[sleek drift]

Why no? It actually helped mine alot

[mellow egret]

I had to install, verify integrity, restart my pc, re-verify integrity for steam files, if you get the corrupt update data then uninstall and do a fresh new installation. That got it to boot up for me after hella UE errors. I've only crashed once since then and all I had to do was restart my PC and try again.

[high quarry]

24.10.1

[raw latch]

That mod mines bitcoin on your pc bro

Jkjk

[spare coral]

I read dlss + frame gen is pretty janky on this game so maybe?

[tight urchin]

it works wonders if you want invisible anomalies + bloodsuckers, frequent crashes and stutters

[boreal owl]

Heard thank you sir 👍

[quiet trellis]

Id try a reinstall but 144GB, nah fam

[upper quail]

anyone knows when is the next patch?

[mellow egret]

based on...?

[raw latch]

“Soon”😘

[high quarry]

You def noticed the FSR Balanced, but I prefer the higher fps, and it looks good enough to me https://i.imgur.com/IW2CyJQ.jpeg

[quiet trellis]

2035

[sleek drift]

Havnt had anything like that happen yet...also crashing is the one thing I havnt had happen

[stuck thistle]

i stayed away because i kept seeing people report fps drops rather than increases, Ultimate Engine Tweaks gave me some massive boosts, game looks a lil better with no film grain or chrom abbrv, havent had an unreal crash yet either knock on wood

[raw latch]

Jokes! I edited that post so nobody gets the wrong idea

[high quarry]

Town with the 15+ AI in it drops my fps to around 130 https://i.imgur.com/HCOuGZF.jpeg

[haughty bluff]

town drops cuz of npcs

[high quarry]

yeh

[safe prawn]

Ey !! anyone else having this annoying light effect ? where if you indoors you cant see sh*t and when u walk in its insanely dark and takes rly long to adjust and samew hen u walk outside. I know its supposed to mimic realism but never in life had my eyes trouble adjusting this hardcore and this long. and its super annoying.

I wanna know if any of the settings is causing this i can tone down or turn off, or is this just how the game is and will be forever?

Using:
Operating system: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
DirectX runtime version: DirectX 12
Driver: Game Ready Driver - 566.14 - Tue Nov 12, 2024
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core Processor
RAM: 64.0 GB
GPU processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
Resolution: 2560 x 1440 (recommended)
Refresh rate: 120 Hz
Display technology: G-SYNC

[sleek drift]

Also heart broken that flashlight doesn't cast shadows, and gunfire doesn't light up the world...thats always been a crucial element of the atmosphere

[stoic vortex]

Me too bro hopefully they can do implement that

[high quarry]

Outside if there isnt much geometry, like this water, its good for 200+ https://i.imgur.com/mWTqSUM.jpeg

Inside its good for 220+

[restive root]

FSR balanced? da fuq is that shit

[sleek drift]

I remember it vividly becuase the original stalker beat doom 3 to market i believe and had the same sort of lighting features when using flashlights

[raw latch]

Some sort of replication of eyes dilating I’m guessing. It’s pretty common in UE5 games I feel. At least for those realistic looking games

[haughty bluff]

i run tsr 80%, fsr implementation is kinda meh for quality, let alone balanced, but we just need to wait for a proper patch

[high quarry]

yeh 😄 3440x1440 at 59% or something

[stoic vortex]

Yeah it was one of the first to implement it, miles ahead of other developments at that time so why it isn’t in just yet idk but hopefully they can implement it in soon

[safe prawn]

yea but its like overly exxagerated, to the point that its super annoying

[sleek drift]

And what's up with the performance in that first town?! It's nonsensically bad. Especially for a small indoor area to have the fps drops instead of go up

[raw latch]

100000%

[high quarry]

lower res raises fps to 230-300, but its too fuzzy

[restive root]

game is cpu limited.

[faint patio]

yo my 3080 without fram gen gets like 55 fps in some area lmaooooooo

[serene meteor]

Presumanly to do with the amount of NPCs?

[sleek drift]

Then why use software lumen!?

[raw latch]

Cuz pretty😨

[stoic vortex]

The npcs have so much grip on the cpu everything’s working overtime

[restive root]

why male models? hell if I know. nanite and lumen is for lazy devs

[sleek drift]

.< prettier than hardware?! Thats never been the case lol

[high quarry]

I think memory helps too, running this for now: https://i.imgur.com/36wE7NI.png

[raw latch]

Just for them to be standing in a circle talking nonsense lmao.

[sleek drift]

I was hoping there would be a mod for it but I guess not yet. Anyone tried enabling Ray reconstruction in config?

[high quarry]

indoors fps is more like this: https://i.imgur.com/97be1k3.jpeg

[restive root]

ColesyM. what settings? looks like that FSR and framegen is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

[high quarry]

yeh, its doing most of the lifting, but the 9800x3D OC is helping with the rest

[sleek drift]

How can anyone stand to use framegen? Mabye it just works worse on nvidoa 3000 series?

[heady ridge]

How to overclock Intel Core cpu from 2006?

[high quarry]

A mix of Epic (for the settings that need restart), and low for the ones that don't

[sleek drift]

Its a full half second of input latency for me when using it...literally unusable at 60hz

[turbid jay]

@tight urchin When you get the chance, add another item to the Solutions list lol.

• Intel/Nvidia users, if experiencing Unreal(DX12) crashes often (every 1-5 minutes) while using XESS Upscaling, check to see if getting Error 153 in Event Viewer (likely under System), relating to nvlddmkm.sys. If getting these errors, its likely due to running FSR 3 Frame Gen while running XESS Upscaling, disable the FSR and it should work without crashing.

[restive root]

Yeah framegen is for casuals on controller.

[tight urchin]

that's why u do all of the stuff in pinned post 🙂 my frametime is at 7-10ms

[mental mural]

its either use frame gen or have 50-60 fps

[high quarry]

Feels ok when the result is 160 fps+

[sleek drift]

I'm just trying to get 60fps consistently at 1080p

[heady ridge]

Brother do you play comp fps games on PC? Pros use controller a lot because of aim assist. There's nothing wrong with it.

[tight urchin]

I'm running out of message space :>

[high quarry]

While in a firefight it was 185, which prob means base was 90+ https://i.imgur.com/vj96rBM.jpeg

[grim kestrel]

VRAM leak on 4070 Ti. Any info on that? Can play for 1 hour and than it get unplayable and tanks to 15 FPS and stays there.

[restive root]

I havent played comp in almost 20 years. but yeah aim assist is broken.

[mental mural]

there is if i had aim assist on my pc it would be called cheats lol

[turbid jay]

Lmao, yeah might have to make another post and get that one pinned too

[kindred reef]

I know im below minimum, but a little help regarding cpu usage would be great:
Ryzen 7 5800x
GTX 1650
16 RAM
Win10
1980x1080 res, 60hz

My game is just using like 17% of my cpu. Running everything at low of course, but still getting insane stuttering and moments of actual fluid fps.

[heady ridge]

Some games have aim assist for mouse but it's marginal compared to controller.

[high quarry]

1650 is never gonna have a good time

[sleek drift]

There's everything wrong with it lol. Especially when controllers could be using a touchpad and having the same level of capability as a mouse but OH NO we might have to adjust to something different! so devs just implement aim assist and ruin it for everyone lol

[wispy sigil]

do you have to keep compiling shaders every time you boot the game up or is it just me?

[kindred reef]

yeah i know 🥲

[high quarry]

only supposed to be when primary graphics settings change

[sleek drift]

Mine does

[heady ridge]

But there's an even playing field. If you wanna use controller or mouse it's your choice. If you end up doing bad afterward, then the issue is the user.

[kindred reef]

But sometimes it runs pretty fluid, at least 30fps so idk if that inconsistency can be fixed

[high quarry]

The settings at the top (except textures) required a restart and recompile. so I just left them on Epic

[sleek drift]

Having to implement aim assist is the definition of uneven,otherwise they wouldn't have needed to implement it

[restive root]

There isnt any reason to play any shooter at high levels anymore. Half the players are cheating nowadays. and aim assist raises the skill floor for anyone with a controller. Games arent fun anymore

[wispy sigil]

ah ok. just been fidgeting around with the graphics so thats why

[sleek drift]

And there would be no incentive to use an inferior control method just to gain an advantage that other people have from just practicing

[heady ridge]

If you think a company is going to alienate a player base due to the player's preferences on mouse or controller...you need to wake up.

[high quarry]

I have Hair, Object Details, Effect Details, Materials all on Epic

[restive root]

its only even if there isnt aim assist. the controller players can use a mouse. if they want to use a controller and purposely make themselves at a disadvantage, thats their choice.

[mental mural]

nah aim assist is straight up unfair, in COD controls can jump and hit with insane precision if i try that with mnk its very hard to do and they do it with perfect tracking its kinda broken

[high quarry]

Hair like on this dog doesnt really seem to affect fps https://i.imgur.com/nWmr337.jpeg

[sleek drift]

I'm blaming console manufacturers for not trying to solve a problem at all and just keep on giving everyone the same control method that literally doesn't work well with the most popular genre of game on consoles lol

[bitter charm]

I was doing some performance tests when I closed msi afterburner and s2 decided to crash XD

[heady ridge]

The point is if you play comp fps and can't do well, blaming the issue on an object that has no self conscious is absurd.

[stoic vortex]

I’m on pc

but I heard a few people having issues when you can’t change the quality of the motion blur

even though it lets you it just resets.

[sleek drift]

Steam controller was a step in the right direction,but alas here we are...still stuck in the early 2000s

[restive root]

I was 3KD COD player,top 500 Masters overwatch player, I played 1.6 CS in the CPL and CAL-i. I can tell you. controller players who are in the top 10% bracket in COD feel like playing against F4tality in quake3 (who i played against at a lan back in like the year 2000)

[sleek drift]

Not to mention no stick drift or similar issues will occur with touchpads

[restive root]

you literally cannot miss a SINGLE shot. or the aim assist will grab you and you are dead within 50m

[heady ridge]

It's a matter of using whatever tools are available to you to rank up. If you can't adapt or use advantages provided, tough luck.

[sleek drift]

I wonder of thats how car nerds feel about people using automatic transmissions

[stoic vortex]

Aim assist and sbmm ruined any fps I prefer killing other stalkers now too many sweats 🤦‍♂️

[restive root]

but youre using a worse tool and then having a computer aim for you? dafaq?

[tight urchin]

sbmm is better than skill cringed matchmaking I guess

[restive root]

Anyways, we are off topic. lets go back to the guy who is taking 200fps screen shots with FSR balanced, low settings and framegen. lol

[heady ridge]

The goal is to rank up against people. Doesn't matter if you use aim assist or not. If you win the match then you're moving up.

[high quarry]

I can give you a lower fps screenshot if that helps..

[tight urchin]

this actually says so much about our society and yet we live in it...

[restive root]

I get it, you need crutch. dont care.

[late ferry]

sexcopterrul has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[heady ridge]

"Anyways, we are off topic. lets go back to the guy who is taking 200fps screen shots with FSR balanced, low settings and framegen. lol"

So you wanted to continue this or not? You suddenly don't care?

[restive root]

whats your PBO settings for your overclock? Ive got a 9800x3d too but I havent played with it much

[sleek drift]

What.........this is a mature rated game and I got that from saying f#ck?!

[high quarry]

motherboard PBO, -15 curve

[tight urchin]

YOU CANT SAY STUFF LIKE THAT!

[sleek drift]

That makes.....no sense...it was such a long messsage.....

[high quarry]

It will do +200 and a bit of BCLK too for 5515mhz, will try that tomorrow in game

[heady ridge]

Do you understand what competitions are?

[sleek drift]

Nah he's the only person in a gaming discord who doesnt...seriously man lol

[high quarry]

here you go, lower fps, only 172: https://i.imgur.com/BYQCSNq.jpeg

[tight urchin]

what the frick dude, what the heck...mother trucker dude, fudge man, next time shut the front door! flippin heck

[high quarry]

FSR really struggles on noisy grass above water

[sleek drift]

Hell console makers won't even make back buttons standard so that you can play a shooter without taking your thumbs off the sticks

[tight urchin]

what is that "a competition"? sorry I grew up alone inmidst of monkeys deep in the amazon rainforest, I actually just left 2 days ago after 47 years

[sleek drift]

Or make gyroscopic aiming a standard feature, that alone helps drastically with aiming and let's you actually aim properly instead of the usual "just strafe left or right" to adjust aim method

[stoic vortex]

Bro that’s sick I bet you have webbed feet now

[sleek drift]

Too bad xbox lacks that features entirely....

[tight urchin]

I'm built like a frog bruv

[high quarry]

Anyway, 3am. Will be back around tomorrow evening for some more OC and tweaking.

[fallen anvil]

hey yall. im on a 5800x3d with a RX7800XT, 1440p :)

[sleek drift]

Just boggles the mind that noone complains about that on console when there are most definitely solutions to it that would no longer require aim assist to be needed and thus make cross platform play ALOT easier to implement

[tight urchin]

I'll block you if you don't have more fps on even less quality graphic settings tmrw

[high quarry]

Ill take 250+ fps SS then..

[quartz prism]

So is it just the game or is it my pc?

[high quarry]

yes..

[ruby badger]

Probably both

[raw sleet]

i blame Tim Sweeny

[sleek drift]

Sigh, guess it's time for more tweaking and hoping something good happens....btw anyone figure out how the bug occurs that requires a full pc restart?

[quartz prism]

Thought so

[ruby badger]

??? What bug? The frame rate drop and no recover?

[sleek drift]

To below 10fps. Full game restart an still it happens....had to do a full restart

[tight urchin]

I recently found a guide for that kinda stuff that I can recommend to you

[sleek drift]

Usually I'm at 60fps but with huge stutters when traversing and of course the town runs like turd.

[ruby badger]

Hmm when the drop has happened to me (only in first town so far) I just had to exit to the main menu and reload and it was fine

[sleek drift]

Yeah thays par for the course with any game with that sort of issue or at the worst a full game restart

[short loom]

is there anything you can do to midigate the input lag that frame gen has on Stalker 2?

[tight urchin]

#pc-specs message most impact geforce control panel and the 2 mods

[sleek drift]

Next time it happens I'm gonna load up another game and see if it affected it's performance just out of curiousity

[ruby badger]

Well luckily no full game restarts needed here so far. Main menu and back is only about 30-45 seconds of that. Tbh I never timed it

[sleek drift]

I also have to do shader compilation EVERY time I start the game.....is that not happening for everyone else?

[ruby badger]

That is normal hence why I just go to the main menu

[mental mural]

bro the most annoying thing about this game is being forced to use frame gen and having unresponsive aim, any other game i would flick from head to head on everyone this game i can barely aim in a straight line cause frame gen tank input latency

[tight urchin]

as a wise man once said (phaz0r): "Are ya winning son?" i'm compiling shaders

[heady ridge]

I think your pc is trying to tell you something bro.

[mental mural]

yeah the game is not optimised lol

[ruby badger]

Have you tried XeSS at like 68% res and low to mid settings? 10% sharpness as well

[tight urchin]

I'm outta here compiling my shaders like crazy dude, like u wouldn't believe it how I be compilin those

[mental mural]

7800x3d 32gb ddr5 3070ti and can barely pull 60 without frame gen

[short loom]

i dont see what you're talking about

[ruby badger]

Oh I'm ok rn with 50ish out and about with mid 30s in town

Sure the bar drops hard but I don't spend much time there lol

[mental mural]

no but i can try it

[tight urchin]

@short loom use Nvidia Control Panel (rightlick desktop) to get rid of weird mouse smoothing/lag, also fixes frame gen horrible input delay too!!! MASSIVE IMPACT!!! DO THIS!
manage 3d settings > program settings (if you can't find stalker2 there, add the executable manually, it should show you recently opened programs) > vsync to fast, low latency mode to on (ultra causes stutters), power management to maximum performance. Global settings > shader cache to 10gb/unlimited
possible launch options for optimization and stutter reduction: -xgeshadercompile -nothreadtimeout -NoVerifyGC -dx12

S2 Optimized Tweaks 01 Basic 1.01 https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/7 to install mods create a folder called ~mods (yes it's written exactly like that) in Stalker2\Content\Paks\ https://imgur.com/a/CSybbAP
Ultimate Engine Tweaks CRAZY INPUT LAG REDUCTION https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/17 reduced my input delay by a whole 5ms!

[sleek drift]

Yeah it's unusable for me but I assumed it was due to me using an rtx 3080

[celest owl]

could be something with your hardware im getting better perf with 6700 xt and 14700k at 1440p

[sleek drift]

I was thinking about un-installed drivers and reinstalling them clean. I did express this time but before that was a clean install

[mental mural]

nah i can play anygame i want high to ultra settings at 100+ fps this game just blows

[heady ridge]

holy yap chatgpt

[turbid jay]

bruh, check the pinned messages. its a fix

[tight urchin]

no ai in this 🙂

[sleek drift]

Anyone else get that extremly gross looking bug when exiting the bar where the ground looks insanely blurry as the lighting changes?

[tawdry falcon]

re-installing drivers fixed a host of issues for me it really shouldn't have. There's def a bug with the initial shader caching not working properly sometimes

[heady ridge]

I need a fix

[celest owl]

that doesn't mean you're not having a hardware issue, especially if others with your same specs or worse are having a better experience. but feel free to keep complaining instead of accepting feedback

[short loom]

appreciate you!

[sleek drift]

Thays enough to get me to try it lol

[heady ridge]

It's almost 2025. Welcome to a reality check where you learn your pc isn't the boss you think it is.

[sleek drift]

Now to restart my pc 5 times in a row....sigh.

[amber spade]

just install a performance mod. I installed one of nexus and get good frames med settings

[heady ridge]

Want to know my specs?

[tawdry falcon]

after reinstalling drivers and rebuilding the cache and installing the stickied optimizations mod I went from literally unplayable to a solid 70-80 with frame gen on a mid spec machine

[sleek drift]

You wanna uninstall all the nvidia things at once? Nope sorry gotta do each one then restart just like the 90s

[mental mural]

bro if people with 4090's are experiencing what i am its the game not hardware something is broken in the games settings hence why so many people are messing with config files and fixeing them before the devs do

[sleek drift]

Thays 2 restarts. Still gotta do frame something an physx

[heady ridge]

Nahhh bro u cooked. Rip 3070gpu

[mental mural]

3070 only till 5090 comes out

[haughty bluff]

• alife is non existant

[placid locust]

what do you mean by rebuilding cache?

[tight urchin]

WRONG! it's just different, never had 30 dogs spawn behind u irl before?

[keen pumice]

is there a reason it keeps building shaders when ever I luanch?

[tawdry falcon]

reinstalling drivers should trigger the game to rebuild its shader cache like it does on first launch

[sleek drift]

Too many people defend devs for some reason as if that helps anyone lol. Simple truth is this just isn't Good and not complaining just ensures the game won't ever be fixxed. Complaining at least has a chance of changing the situation.

[amber spade]

dude install a perf mod its not hard. also Dont go into the game expecting 100fps. If you so worried about performance buy a console, the games are often tailored to the hardware of those. Unfortuanately pc games suffer more performance problems cuz poor optimization and developers having to make sure it can run on a variety of machines with different hardware.

[tight urchin]

probably to annoy us tbh

[keen pumice]

ight and im guessing crashing off rip is also a "feature"

[haughty bluff]

ah yes they cooked this time, it's a feature

[tawdry falcon]

it isn't building shaders after first launch it's loading/compiling them so it doesn't happen while you're playing causing stutters. UE5 being UE5.

[heady ridge]

Nvidia titan

[amber spade]

hopefully we do get an a life patch either tonight or tmrw cuz the zone feels dead

[tight urchin]

imagine the amount of money gsc could make if there were ads during shader compiling 😍 gonna write them this idea via support ticket 😊

[keen pumice]

3060 ti D:

[mental mural]

bro i have them enabled do you think i have 0 braincells lol

[light gull]

Sameee just running it on 60 fps and on high

[amber spade]

what fps you get? I get like 60-70 fps on a 3060ti

[tight urchin]

https://discord.com/channels/504587323577729024/1272487713614073886 they on it

[mental mural]

50-60 without frame gen 130+ with it

[keen pumice]

I get liek 110-120 on low like 50-60 on med

[haughty bluff]

you really wanted to play ue5 in reasonable performance on launch, what are you nuts?

[sleek drift]

Oh god no don't even think about it bethesda,ea or ubisoft might hear about it

[tight urchin]

sent! ✅

[amber spade]

that isn't terrible. Play with frame gen on or get one of the amd fsr3 frame gen mods or the nvidia ones

[keen pumice]

what frame gen should I use liek dlss or?

[late ferry]

sexcopterrul has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[amber spade]

use dlss if 40 series. FSR for everything else

[open fossil]

i hadnt been on since last night, have they done any fix updates for the data hemorrhaging issue?

[mental mural]

brother i cant play games at less than 100fps 60 is not fine its so laggy, and frame gen the input lag is killing me

[keen pumice]

frame gen anit that bad if you play slowpased

[tight urchin]

imagine writing this even tho the human eye can only see up to 24 fps lmao

[sleek drift]

What.....in the.....this is absurd. It's like a little kid saying "I'm telling moooom you said a bad!" Now let's all get back to murdering virtual people

[amber spade]

than womp womp yo. I get like virtually no input lag with frame gen and I have a worst system you be aight

[mental mural]

imagine thinking that

[glossy flame]

that has to be ragebait 😭

[proven dagger]

im using an rtx 4060ti ryzen 5 5600x and the game is unplayable at 1080p, 30 seconds into the game it stutters down to 5 fps and it never recovers

[keen pumice]

uuuhhh yeah thats fr rage bait

[spare coral]

Same i get almost no input lag with framegen on

[sleek drift]

I refuse to believe anyone is that dumb and a fan of stalker and able to use discord

[heady ridge]

I can see 900 fps. Military Pilot

[mental mural]

so your telling me you cant see the difference betweenm 60 fps and 200??

[tight urchin]

if we could see more than 24fps why wouldn't comics or movies be in 24+ then? why would gsc release a game that doesn't run over 30 without tweaking for hours?

[wooden monolith]

can u disblae the radiations crene effect thing ?

[keen pumice]

huh werid issue im running it off a stock 3060 ti and an i7 cpu and get decent frames

[worldly raven]

I can see 1200 FPS, astronaut

[glossy flame]

cinematic direction + costs

[open fossil]

The human eye can see between 30 and 60 frames per second arguably

[amber spade]

I can but id rather play 60 fps with better graphics than doodoo graphics and high frame rate. You dont need super high fps this is a singleplayer story game

[dark crane]

I have been waiting for 35 minutes for the shaders to compile. I thought this was suppose to take 7-10 minutes, wtf.

[light gull]

I can see 1 fps, sperm

[tight urchin]

does this mean the human eye can't see anything that's not a minimum of 30fps?

[glossy flame]

yes bro that's why we got 500 hz monitors

[keen pumice]

game looks stunning even on low its worth it fr fr

[mental mural]

60 fps is legit unplayable i didnt spend all this money to get 60 fps i would of bought an ps5 if i wanted poor performance lol

[open fossil]

While some experts believe that the human eye can't process visual data faster than 60 fps, others think that some people may be able to see more than that. For example, an MIT study suggests that the brain can process visual information as fast as 13 milliseconds for basic shapes and colors. However, it can take up to 170 milliseconds to fully interpret all features of complex stimuli like faces.

[dark crane]

So I should just leave it running?

[tight urchin]

what a nice exercise in mindfulness eh

[keen pumice]

yeah

[open fossil]

so basically fps for a human has variables we cant particularly calculate to a specific amount.

[amber spade]

once again womp womp. Either wait for optimization patches or suck it up and play with what you got. Welcome to modern gaming

[glossy flame]

if you can see the difference between 60 hz and 144hz then what's there to prove

[sleek drift]

Actually humans can't perceive things that are extremely slow but that's a brain thing lol

[dark crane]

It’s what I was told, forgive me if my expectations are wrong based on advice from a person on this server

[mental mural]

nobodys crying bro im just stating what im getting and your just spewing console plebonian at me

[keen pumice]

bro im having a blast on like 45 fps low settings game ngl still looks fanstaticle

[amber spade]

0/10 ragebait

[tight urchin]

my little gamers stop being mean to each other in this wholesome tech channel! 😠 I don't want to see another womp womp or passive agressive text, stop and make out or sth

[sleek drift]

Wish I could be happy with that,but I'm cursed with knowledge and experience

[glossy flame]

then stop posting ragebait bro

[amber spade]

games fun as well my only gripes is the ui is meh and the a-life is broken. Otherwise really fun game

[tight urchin]

change ur graphic settings once

[keen pumice]

ngl I am running it off the lowest end i7 cpu and a 3060 ti thats why im happy with it

[warped echo]

Does anyone know where the shaders that are compiled are saved at?

[sleek drift]

Alright finally reinstalled drivers cleanly...let's see if it helped....course I'm sure it didn't but fingers crossed

[astral spruce]

Hey, am I the only one experiencing a huge drop in FPS when I go to specific places, like the house in the middle of the poppy field or the starter town? The game runs perfectly fine when I leave those areas. I know it's not because of the particles in the poppy field because the game is fine when I'm right next to it.

[glossy flame]

it's normal

[sleek drift]

It apparently is intentional....sigh.

[tight urchin]

are u using my performance mods? if no there's some resources on shader comp crashes #pc-specs message

[astral spruce]

so there is nothing to do we need to wait for it to be fix?

[keen pumice]

was happing to me I jsut kept luanching t and it work eventualy

[tight urchin]

#pc-specs message

[proven dagger]

its unplayable for me, stutters constantly and never recovers

[glossy flame]

nah we cope and play the game

[sleek drift]

Not for that apparently. Even rtx 4090 with best cpu tanks in the town

[spare coral]

I tried all the performance mods and they didnt fix the stutters or low framerates so i just deleted them all lmao

[mellow egret]

I tend to agree that 60FPS in 1080 is perfect, maybe it was growing up on early consoles.

[open fossil]

there were tests done by the military on Hz frequencies to cause vision blur and disorientation

[glossy flame]

maybe u just stuck on a 60hz monitor

[tight urchin]

did u know they did surgery, heckin surgery on a flippin grape?

[open fossil]

yeah, grape skin is great practice

[mellow egret]

stuck
is this cope

[sleek drift]

60hz is the sweet spot for performance and visuals. Anything higher is nice but unessessary. Much rather have better visuals than above 60hz,unless we are talking about vr then it's a whole different story

[glossy flame]

think so

[glossy flame]

60 fps in this game looks ass

[open fossil]

Fun Facts: the resonant frequency of the human eyeball to be around 19 Hz

[tight urchin]

this is me on my 24hz monitor: I actually print out ever S2 frame and play it as a flipbook

[heady ridge]

60hz on uwqhd monitor looks like 💩

[sleek drift]

I put shader cache to unlimited and its still compilation shades everytime

[wraith drum]

Anyone else getting a unreal error at start? Worked fine just an hour ago

[glossy flame]

nope

[heady ridge]

1980s sonic?

[haughty bluff]

not at start but throughout the game, probably driver error

[sleek drift]

Any hz in this game looks like ass lol

[spare coral]

60 fps doesnt feel smooth

[keen pumice]

mmmmhhh I love when it freeezes but refuses to crash

[mellow egret]

I have other hobbies i spend money on besides gaming. 60FPS at QHD looks good and performs good without spending absorbent amounts for negligible gain.

[warped echo]

I tried that and it just used 5 gigs of drive space then crashed. I don't even know where it saves them so I can't delete if off

[tight urchin]

yeah cuz of horrible input lag, check this out #pc-specs message

[astral spruce]

do you know what cause this fps drop?

[wraith drum]

Thought that too, update nvidia and amd chipset and still no fix

[heady ridge]

You must be smoking that good shit if you think 100% of video games in history all look bad at 60fps.

[sleek drift]

Well it definitely seems smoother now.....but I'm nowhere near the town

[dusk hedge]

Le caca

[tight urchin]

unreal engine 5 is an unoptimized cpu hog, a lot of npcs = a lot of cpu usage

[mellow egret]

right, i dont get this mindset

[haughty bluff]

best is just to wait till proper fix from devs tbh

[open fossil]

just gonna go play doom on my fridge or something

[glossy flame]

i'm playing wuthering waves in 60 fps and i gotta say it's one of the best looking games capped at 60fps

[sleek drift]

Thays assuming they ever do....plenty of games never do. Like vr performance on Microsoft flight sim

[mellow egret]

this man shivers at the thought of an N64 on CRT

[late ferry]

thepresidentoftheunitedirak has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[glossy flame]

same with amnesia the bunker it also looks good on 60

[heady ridge]

Let's revisit the 1980s and 90s where I'd bet my entire pc rig you couldn't tell the difference between 60hz vs 30hz on an old CRT.

[haughty bluff]

ik shit's ferocious these days

[sleek drift]

Yeah you can lmao.

[tight urchin]

did u just use the crap word? why didn't this get deleted, dming the mods now

[mental mural]

well no you cant because they was 30hz so you couldnt possible see 60hz lol

[astral spruce]

oh so my theory was good it was the npc that cause this thx

[dusk hedge]

Anyone knows if the devs planned to look into this performance issue a lot of ppl got except ppl with a nasa config

[mellow egret]

yet it looked, played, and functioned fine

[vivid ferry]

Ive got the same Problem . Got a RTX 4080 S. And if i go to Zalissja and talk to an NPC i will get FPS drops from 130 to 6-9

[sleek drift]

Also good luck finding a game from the 90s that goes above 30fps. That didn't happen untill 3d cards first came out.

[tight urchin]

gpu doesn't really matter in this game it's all about cpu

[wraith drum]

Is the f word (not the slur one) really not allowed?

[mental mural]

cause we knew nothing better 5 fps would of been acceptable too

[glossy flame]

half life 1

[heady ridge]

Likelihood is close to zero.

[mellow egret]

but the fps really wasn't that bad

[tight urchin]

??? ofc not what do you flipping think??? heck

[dusk hedge]

Well ur lucky i personally get them as soon as bandits start shooting at me

[mental mural]

thats cause we didnt even know what fps was back then lol

[sleek drift]

Which was the late 90s. Like I said first find a game that can even reach above 30fps, that might be your issue lol

[heady ridge]

YES. I have this issue.

[mellow egret]

okay, but what about the early COD games?

[keen pumice]

game jsut crashes whenever I try to leave the area around the boiler house

[wraith drum]

I cannot sense if you are being sarcastic lmao

[mental mural]

they was 30fps but it was acceptable then cause we didnt know any better we was just happy to be playing games

[mellow egret]

COD2 on PC looked and felt great

[vivid ferry]

Do you have a Solution for this :D?

[haughty bluff]

he is, he feeling a little too silly

[heady ridge]

Wait for patch.

[mental mural]

i havent been able to accept 60fps gaming for the past 5+ years it hurts my eyes

[mellow egret]

why is that now different lmao
I can play other games at 200+ FPS, but to be honest, I don't really notice a difference.
That's perfectly fine for me.

[sleek drift]

People who were alive back then even seem to forget just how slow games were on pc back then and we all just thought it was normal becuase noone ever saw anything better. Only time you would see above 30fps on a game at all was with console hardware in the 2d era. Only the most rare exceptions had 60fps in the 90s and it was usually a huge selling point like f zero x on n64

[tight urchin]

excuse me? Firetruck can't u understand not everyone wants to see swe*rwords?? mothertrucker...

[mental mural]

its the smothness and fluidity of everything its defo noticable

[late ferry]

doot76. has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[wraith drum]

Oh im gonna drop the n word so badly

[sleek drift]

Great job protecting us from words

[mellow egret]

i've played on friends rigs much nicer than mine, again, I don't notice that much of a difference. I would consider the cost to gain negligible.

[tight urchin]

fudge dude... son of a biscuit

[vivid ferry]

I thought ive got not enough Vram for 1440P DLAA

[fickle swift]

Oi mate you havin' a friggin stroke or something

[heady ridge]

pu$$y

[haughty bluff]

bro cast a spell on devs

[sleek drift]

Ass is fine but if you type is with 2 $$ and an a it flags it as a badword

[tight urchin]

texting the mods now, enjoy getting ur ban

[mellow egret]

p enis

[wraith drum]

N/&&@

[proven dagger]

@tight urchin thanks for your guide, diabling control flow guard along with your mod has fixed the game for me

[fickle swift]

Damn wolf is retired and become profanity police now??? Damn .

[sleek drift]

Its not about wanting to see swear words its about how people talk naturally. There is a time an place for such things and a discord about a violent video game isn't the place for such prudeness

[mellow egret]

ha, get fudged moderators

[tight urchin]

yay glad to hear!

[heady ridge]

holy yap

[violet oxide]

what guide is this we speak of and what does it aid? xp

[sleek drift]

It just frustrates everyone as it nukes your message that if you typed on a phone..is REALLY annoying and serves literally only the most hypersensitive babies

[tight urchin]

#pc-specs message stalker performance bible

[shy galleon]

Woops

[tight urchin]

sorry that not everyone's completely numb to such words...

[fickle swift]

Anybody got update from the Ultimate edition exoskeleton yet?? No info about it so far.

[sleek drift]

There's alot of things to be upset about...words shouldn't be one of them lol. How they are used should matter amot more than the words themselves

[tight urchin]

isn't it possible to pin a message at the channel top too? would be kinda nice for this one

[wispy kettle]

i went to the nexus page and saw a bunch of mods for increased performance and reduced stuttering. which of them should i install?. im running witha gtx 1070, i7 7700 (non k) and 16gb ddr4 2133mhz

[fickle swift]

Its seem the shotgun and exoskeleton its nowhere to befound rn

[tight urchin]

#pc-specs message the ones in this guide but good luck with those specs

[wispy kettle]

it runs surprisingly well, i get 50-70 fps with lowest settings and fsr on quality+ fsr frame gen

[late ferry]

rawreeluvsviolet has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[tight urchin]

use Nvidia Control Panel (rightlick desktop) to get rid of weird mouse smoothing/lag, also fixes frame gen horrible input delay too!!! MASSIVE IMPACT!!! DO THIS!
manage 3d settings > program settings (if you can't find stalker2 there, add the executable manually, it should show you recently opened programs) > vsync to fast, low latency mode to on (ultra causes stutters), power management to maximum performance. Global settings > shader cache to 10gb/unlimited
possible launch options for optimization and stutter reduction: -xgeshadercompile -nothreadtimeout -NoVerifyGC -dx12

S2 Optimized Tweaks 01 Basic 1.01 https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/7 to install mods create a folder called ~mods (yes it's written exactly like that) in Stalker2\Content\Paks\ https://imgur.com/a/CSybbAP
Ultimate Engine Tweaks CRAZY INPUT LAG REDUCTION https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/17 reduced my input delay by a whole 5ms!

thank fudge we have Wolf in here, we'd be hopelessly lost without his interference

[wide river]

My game seems to have horrible performance issues whenever I'm around a lot of npcs. Anyone know what settings would be best to lower for that?

[wispy kettle]

thank you very much :D i have an 8gb card, should i still set the shader cache to 10gb? also i assume i should disable vsync and low latency mode in game, right?

[rugged wave]

i heard hair is what tanks the most fps when around NPCs performance wise

[tight urchin]

happens to everyone

[tight urchin]

yeah 10gigs will be fine, set vsync to fas and low latency to on BOTH IN nvidia control panel

[tight urchin]

that's a myth, apparently humans don't have hair, only animals have hair basically

[wide river]

Yeah I figured it wasn't just me, was just wondering if there were any settings to minimize the performance loss

[tight urchin]

#pc-specs message

[rugged wave]

ah right, my bad

[tight urchin]

no worries only found out about that a few hours ago 😄

[wide river]

I see your message about getting rid of mouse smoothing with nvidia control panel. is turning vsync to fast what turns off the mouse smoothing? or am I just dumb?

[tight urchin]

get rids of input lag basically

[wide river]

But is the vysnc setting whats causing mouse smoothing? The way you worded it just wasn't clear or maybe I'm misunderstanding

[sleek drift]

The advanced ai features were REMOVED from the game?!

Then why is the ai still talking performance?! This isn't stalker if this is true.....

[tight urchin]

vsync causes a lot of input delay rn even if it's disabled ingame, only way to get rid of that is setting it on fast, it is what u want (removed the mouse smoothing part for clarity)

[sleek drift]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1643320/STALKER_2_Heart_of_Chornobyl/ ai life was removed from the features on the steam page

[wide river]

Several faq posts about this, it was a marketing decision according to the devs to reduce redundancy and confusion

[tight urchin]

#📜┃gsc-answers message don't freak out yet 🙂

[sleek drift]

The one thing that made stalker unique comparsled to most games....

[wispy kettle]

i have a non steam copy of the game, i added it to steam through the add a non steam game function. can i add the launch options there? will they apply if i run the game through a toolbar shortcut? i added the Stalker2-Win64-Shipping exe

[gusty jacinth]

alright im finally home from work trying to fix frames before i play as best as i can

done most of those fixes previously listed, but unsure about the settings part

are some settings better to have higher than the lowest for performance?

[spare coral]

They answered that in #📜┃gsc-answers

[tight urchin]

new players wouldn't understand what a-life is that's probably why it got removed

[wispy kettle]

ue5 strikes again

[sleek drift]

How can you release the game and have THAT missing....

[tight urchin]

like cracked or gamepass or what? but yeah just add it to the shortcut

Target field
"c:\path\to\exe\program.exe" -option1 -option2

[wide river]

So did you just not read what anyone said or what?

[spare coral]

Its there supossedly they only removed it from the steam page the answer is in #📜┃gsc-answers like we said

[sleek drift]

Its becoming very concerning how literally every new game seems to be taking steps backwards in the ai department and have been for about a decade now

[candid sequoia]

how can i use my dualshock for this game,i got the game thru game pass

[spare coral]

I think this dude is just baiting at this point and ignoring us all

[sleek drift]

It literally says there are issues with it and its not in the game currently

[tight urchin]

it's crazy that they just remove stuff like a-life out of the game and it'll never come back because they just want our money..

[vagrant fox]

damn

[sleek drift]

Or it's just poorly translated

[spare coral]

It doesnt say it isnt on the game
Just that it has issues lmao

[tight urchin]

I also can't understand why they removed all of gammas features...

[sleek drift]

They need a better translator then.

[tight urchin]

can't have crap in ~~detroit ~~the zone

if u care so much about a-life why don't you get a life urself? 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 checkmate 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 trolled epic style

[wide river]

Oh you're a fan of a-life? Name every stalker

[tight urchin]

anyways I'm off to bed, remember to read the pinned message: #pc-specs message adios! ain't gettin paid enough for this helpdesk smh

[gusty jacinth]

mikael gangster is the only one that matters

[sleek drift]

Also just discovered they don't even have proper scopes. It just zooms the view in instead of only on the scope itself....jesus

[gusty jacinth]

do you seriously want picture in picture rendering with the current performance issues

[sleek drift]

Point being it shouldn't be an issue at all lol.

[wispy kettle]

took me a hot minute to figure it out but tyvm :DDDDDD

[sleek drift]

Stalker series used to be one of the few titles on the cutting edge of graphical tech, now it's just....a mess

[gusty jacinth]

i would argue this is the most graphically cutting edge game ive seen to date, its just poorly optimized

[soft stump]

fyi , i got 3060 with ryzen 5700x 32gb ram , i use medium settings with texture ultra and draw distance ultra at 1440p, only mod i added is dlss3 enabler for older gpu, stuttering and low frames are gone but the only bug now is when you load the graphics glitch and the only fix is to disable/enable from settings

[severe nest]

guys ples help
fixed the performance of the game by running the troubleshoot message, now game crashes every minute or 2....
2060rtx i7 10785

[sleek drift]

You've never played cyberpunk with pathtracing then

[gusty jacinth]

whats cyberpunk?

[sleek drift]

I run that at 60fps max settings with path tracing and dlss on balanced yet this game can't even manage hardware lumen?!

I'm ontop of the water tower near the town and I'm watching the entire factory dissappear and reappear when rotating fast

[wispy kettle]

https://ds4-windows.com/

[dark crane]

Is it weird that when compiling shaders it’s been at a full bar this entire time? Should there be empty space or?

[unborn otter]

should i be concerned performance wise? i'm using an omen 16 b0013dx gaming laptop

[drowsy lance]

Games unplayable on laptops for now

[modest kelp]

Is anyone else crashing on compiling shaders?

[unborn otter]

i do have the game

[dark crane]

For me compiling shaders have been loading forever and I run a decent pc

[inner dew]

I've a 4090 and first village average 40 fps lol

[outer pivot]

ive put over 12 hours in on my laptop, i get memory leaks and have to restart every 1-3 hours is my only issue

[unborn otter]

i've been able to get a couple hours in on low settings, averaging about 40-50 fps

[dark crane]

Full bar for compiling shaders been like 30 min, is it suppose to be like that?

[crude atlas]

looking for some free performance gains on a GTX3070 so I can put more processing into render distance. Outside I get 60 FPS on medium default with FSR on, DLSS max, vsync off, frame cap set to 60 to prevent frame drops (reported from a youtube video)
NVIDIA Reflex: on

[inner dew]

I would wait till more optimisation updates release

[crude atlas]

I would prefer to find a way to have max render distance with no FSR, if I can swap out some other stuff, and of course optimizations are coming

[restive root]

does eating actually do anything? i feel like im always hungry. i eat . nothing changes. im hungry again in 5 minutes

[inner dew]

The game runs poor on unreal engine 5

[drowsy lance]

Everyone should be patient and wait for the upcoming hotfix coming soon, unless the hotfix is dog ass and doesnt fix anything

[inner dew]

Follow the recommendations from the devs for your system.

[normal fulcrum]

The hotfix is not going to be the cure all fix. The fixes needed take time

[drowsy lance]

for hot fixes being hot fixes the games been out for 24 hours now with no hot fixes whatsoever

[normal fulcrum]

The game just came out. Theres no magic fix button chill

[restive root]

what cpu? if youre getting 60fps with FSR youre actually getting like 30ish.

[inner dew]

They have said its hard to work on a game when you have a keyboard in one hand and a gun in the other so id give them time to release updates.

[lofty totem]

Waiting is the hardest thing to do but ironically the best thing to do

[normal fulcrum]

Hey I give the devs props for releasing the game considering everything thats happened and whats going on. Im fine with being patient in the meantime.

[crude atlas]

um, I mean when its uncapped it goes up pretty high, but I capped it to 60 because a youtube video demonstrated that dropping frames below your target FPS will happen when you have uncapped FPS, but remains constant if you set a target FPS

So when I say its running solid 60, I mean with the cap at 60, beacuse I can get up to 120 in some areas

[restive root]

The game kicks everyones systems ass. so there really isnt a fix other than buying 9800x3d and a 4090. and even then its not gonna run super great.

[signal quiver]

not kickin my ass.

[dark crane]

How long does compiling shaders take? I’ve been at a full bar for at least 30min. I’m running a 4060, I7-14700f and 32gb.

[acoustic vale]

so looking at reddit the people running AMD cpu's are getting the error and are usually getting hard restarts/bluescreens or screen freezes instead of the actual error message while compiling

[lofty totem]

Cos you're not playing it, good choice, wait for patches lmao. I dont want to ruin my first impression either

[restive root]

I mean you really only need to cap your fps to like not go over your monitors refresh rate and cause tearing... it can still drop way below 60 if your computer cant keep 60

[signal quiver]

not playin it?.....my save says 9 hours 56 minutes lol

[indigo cargo]

Is anyone else getting scope ghosting with FSR 3 Frame Generation? If I turn it off it goes away but at the cost of some frames.
5900X/3080 TI, Ultrawide monitor, 32 GB ram. Game runs fine 95% of the time besides the above.
https://imgur.com/a/fvmLzVE

[boreal ravine]

interesting I've not had a single crash 5800x3d

[midnight maple]

i use a not so good amd cpu r5 5600 without x, its overclocked with PBO, 32gb ddr4 and a 7700xt i have no problems to play in 2k...no stutter..only visual or sometimes audio bugs from npc and a bit laggy mouse..i have also no crashes till yet i play about 13 hours. so not everything is shit atm. I play on fsr3 quality with FG and most of epic..only shading section is on high and 1440p

[dark crane]

Is it weird that when compiling shaders it’s been at a full bar this entire time? Should there be empty space or?

[acoustic vale]

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1gvunnn/anyone_getting_this_error_out_of_video_memory/ consider yourself lucky lol

[restive root]

Its mostly fine for me. The frame times are absolute dogshit. The stutter is annoying af. Mouse input has crazy lag (and feels buggy with smooth+accel fix) and the game is going to be very ukranianly buggy, but it actually still fun

[boreal ravine]

second comment says intel 13/14

[acoustic vale]

i think the shader compile error isn't even real, since if I don't press the message box it will compile anyway

[modest kelp]

Anyone crashing at shader compiling?

[restive root]

You most definitely have traversal stutter, you cant get rid of it.

[acoustic vale]

if you look through the thread 90% of people who are chrashing on amd are doing with hard pc restarts during the shader compiling

[boreal ravine]

infact a majority of these comments are Intel not AMD

[restive root]

my 9800x3d with a 3090 has traversal stutter, its built into the damn engine. Its even in the nvidia marketing videos lol

[strong rapids]

Is there a known fix for the memory leak issue?

[boreal ravine]

idk about this cherry pickin business, but I don't need cherries.

[acoustic vale]

yes but at least with the intel one you can just click the message box away, not get a hard restart

[lofty totem]

Yeah it's still the same stalker as before, that much i really appreciate gsc for. I just want to immerse myself without the performance issues

[midnight maple]

i have no stutter i have caped it to 60 fps like another one said ...no stutter what i really feel...only when i uncaped it i see it in the rivatuner graph but thats it

[acoustic vale]

I'm running the game with solid 100+ fps with a 4090 and an unpatched/no bios update 13900k, it's great

[turbid lion]

good for you I guess!

[olive notch]

does anyone know where the location for the stalker graphics ini for with the xbox gamepass version?

[acoustic vale]

I'm running this 13900k for all it has, btw, I have one of those non oxidized ones produced in the first 2 weeks when it went into production, Vcore is under 1.41, the damaged ones pull 1.5+

[midnight maple]

the mouse is a bit laggy but not so much when you turn off mouse smoothing..then its get a bit better

[restive root]

but who tf plays at 60fps in 2024? I havent played a pc game at 60fps since like the 90s... and maybe when crysis came out because even an 8800gtx could only get like 24fps

[serene meteor]

I’ve got a 3070 but I’m unable to get 60fps at 1440p even with medium settings anyone have tips

[flat brook]

Welcome to the healthy 13th lottery club

[turbid lion]

people that cant affor better hardware. not everyuone is blessed with money and maybe zero responsabilities!

[midnight maple]

i will only play the game because i wait a long time...the time will bring fixes and then maybe i can play better...but why i must play uncaped and have a shit experiance when its worked caped for me ?

[acoustic vale]

update drivers and wait for a patch

[fallow pivot]

I have found a fix for the pc turning off during shader compile

[velvet needle]

if you get less than 60 fps i got a fix

close pc, go sleep

[serene meteor]

Updated already

[lime shuttle]

bait used to be believable

[acoustic vale]

do you have an AMD cpu just to confirm?

[fallow pivot]

AMD 5950x

[restive root]

I am sorry that you cant afford a better machine. Have you looked into perhaps working a job?

[serene meteor]

Anyone here run a 3070 or a 3070 equivalent

[acoustic vale]

thank you, this confirms that AMD cpu's do throw hard resets/bluescreens/hardfreezes as opposed to intel ones just throwing the odd error box

[granite bramble]

dont know what problems you guys have, i get 60 fps at all epic settings native 4k, 100 fps with frame gen, maybe just upgrade your pcs 🤷‍♂️

[serene meteor]

What’s your gpu?

[midnight maple]

that answer tells me everything about you..i have seen all today 😄

[restive root]

EVERYONE JUST GET 5090 PROBLEM SOLVED

[granite bramble]

Asus ROG Strix 4090 OC

[velvet needle]

congrats man you got a good pc, while i can run all games at over 100 fps i will buy a 2000$ gpu to play a 70$ poorly optimized game

[turbid lion]

Lol, how is it there, to live in delutional land? In that tiny head of yours? Lol

[acoustic vale]

2000$ on the card alone

[granite bramble]

i was just rage baiting, the fact that it is still cpu bound/bottlenecked with a 7800x3d proves that the game is poorly optimized

[restive root]

yes. I live in "delutional" land. LD

[visual terrace]

this game runs fine on a 4090 OC, Ryzen 9 7950x3d, 96GB 6400 i dont see what all the fuss is about optimization issues

[midnight maple]

most of the ppl who write in the internet they play with 4090 have maybe a 2070 ..look at steam reviews...so many ppl fake

[granite bramble]

see he gets it

[flat brook]

How the hell are you CPU bound

[fallow pivot]

its cpu temp related. for some reason compiling shaders pushes amd cpus to 100% constantly no matter what and making the temps rise to 113C and causing your pc to shut off to prevent damage. The fix to this is to download latest chipset drivers for your mobo and to go into bios and go to advanced settings and set thermal throttling to manual and set it to like 85C

[granite bramble]

when i go into cities i drop into 40 fps or so and gpu usage drops to like 95 percent from 99

[late ferry]

tipmaster has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[midnight maple]

i think this game works very well when yyou have an optimized system.

[acoustic vale]

modern CPU's are designed to hit and stay at 100% and 100 celcius but not above, not sure if there's a different issue that was never addressed by AMD

[flat brook]

Fair enough, but I still wouldn’t consider 95% usage CPU bound

[median wharf]

3070ti with 9th gen 13900k went from 45 fps with major dips in frames to getting consistent 140 fps after pc bluescreened 3 hours ago wtf is up with this game

[plush ledge]

Nah. 4080S and 7800x3d and game runs terribly

[serene meteor]

I’ve got a 3070 and a i7-11700k what’s and I can’t even hit 60fps what am I doing spent

[granite bramble]

that is true, but its the fact it drops when there are a lot of npcs proves something is wrong no?

[hazy briar]

guys good morning , just woke up , did the devs do anything for the constant crashing ? like is there a solution yet ?

[fallow pivot]

stalker 2 is like the only game I have ever had this happen to lmao buuut I watched my temps during shader compile and they hovered around 100-104 at most then droppd down to 60 once it was done

[median wharf]

have u tried FSR frame gen yet?

[visual terrace]

i have the game set to 8k and locked at 120fps, works just fine i think its a hardware issue

[serene meteor]

Yes it is on

[sweet raptor]

They won’t do we have to find the solution by ourselves

[acoustic vale]

if they go over 100celcius and your cpu doesnt throttle to maintain 100C then there's an issue

[granite bramble]

thats weird, my cpu is usually 60-70c but was only 85 during compile shaders, what cooler u running lol

[velvet needle]

unreal engine 5 why not use a real engine

[serene meteor]

Obviously once you had a 4k dollar pc your pretty immune to most optimization

[median wharf]

wuts ur upscal;ing method

[restive root]

I was trying to help homie. Even if you make like $20 an hour at some shit job. you can probably work OT for like 2-3 weeks and make enough money to buy a really good PC. Gaming is basically the cheapest hobby there is.

[hazy briar]

so how am i gonna find the solution lol do you have any idea please recommend something

[serene meteor]

Dlss balanced

[granite bramble]

sadly you are still vulnerable to optimization even with a high end system if you try running high graphics

[velvet needle]

the game runs great if you close your pc

[median wharf]

light shafts on?

[acoustic vale]

btw, that bios update you guys are doing on 13 and 14 gen CPUS, you are letting intel steal 10%+ of your performance, you should be upset ngl

[sweet raptor]

Don’t play this game

[fallow pivot]

NZXT Kraken Z AIO and yeah I did all the hardware checks and even ran cpu stress testing, Stalker 2 literally just causes it to overheat LOL

[visual terrace]

i play on a 32:9 ultrawide at 8k. the game runs fine and im surprised they included 32:9 support at launch tbh

[velvet needle]

i play on 480p i get 400 fps omg

[midnight maple]

some trolls are here..wtf..no hobbys some kids 😄

[restive root]

Yeah my 9800x3d went up to 95C during compile. Its all good, its like a stress tester.

[open fossil]

same, generally runs fine but then crashes from mem leaks

[median wharf]

anyone else get insane lag spikes when talking to Lens? Like my game borderline closes

[fallow pivot]

nah cause even the cpu Z stress testing didnt make it go above 101. Stalker 2 made it go to 113C lol

[late ferry]

tipmaster has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[open fossil]

anytime i get insane lag spikes it doesnt make it past the spike and crashes lol

[granite bramble]

rather lose 10% performance than lose a 500 dollar cpu 🤣

[visual terrace]

wow thats pretty bad. i wouldnt even continue playing if temps were that high. you're killing your chip

[compact stone]

Can you guys share your ingame HDR calibration settings?

[median wharf]

ong me rn but im just stuck looking at lens with his eyes closed and the radio on'

[restive root]

I can say "shi*t? wtf

[velvet needle]

you didnt get the tip master

[turbid lion]

Sure thing little bud, this is why 0.91% have a 4090, 0.74% have a 4080, well you get the idea, I think you get it....

[fallow pivot]

thats only during the shader compilation that it gets that hot. I am playing the game right now and I dont even get above 80C

[open fossil]

yeah, just alt F4 that bish that one happens from time to time, it'll never get out of it. thats more like frame lock then lag spike.

[visual terrace]

ah makes sense. i thought you were playing the game at 113 lmao

[midnight maple]

he is trolling or a kid who have nothin like gaming ..sry but normal ppl put no 4k in a gaming pc 😄 they have other things in life what cost somethinh

[open fossil]

music not glitched still playing as normal but it froze on a single frame and you cant actually do anything

[visual terrace]

what chip are you using btw? my chip auto shuts off my pc at like 95. never seen one get that high and not crash/shutoff

[serene meteor]

Off

[open fossil]

never been shafted by a light before 😮

[velvet needle]

pause

[visual terrace]

i dont think 0.91% have a 4090 lol. i think the figure is more like 5% maybe 10

[fallow pivot]

AMD 5950x 16core

[turbid lion]

Well, thats the latest data from Steam Survey as of october 2024. And who doesn't play anything on steam really?

[dire vessel]

so a weird thing happened, i finished the first part of the "tutorial" map and as soon as that happened the game became more responsive any clues as to why? mouse doesnt lag as bad

[velvet needle]

hacks and cheat

[visual terrace]

ah fair enough. when you're right, you're right

[sleek drift]

While streaming just now i saw a guard in the town just peeing while holding his gun at the ready...and across from him was an invisible person peeing

[velvet needle]

can i get a small loan of a 4090 ti plus

[robust crystal]

is anyone else getting 5 fps after dying when before death i was at 60-80fps

[visual terrace]

i can give you something better than a 4090...its called Hope 🥺

[velvet needle]

dont want it

[restive root]

https://imgur.com/egk8gkn -- yeah nobody ever spends money on anything... Thats nov 2020

[upbeat zinc]

Does anyone keep getting fps drops fpr no reasons?

[restive root]

like I said. work OT. you can buy what you want. dont make excuses for yourself

[velvet needle]

you can work ot for me ill take the extra

[restive root]

Well im salary. but im guessing this kid works at mcdonalds or something

[turbid lion]

This kid thinks he is edgy and cool lol. I gave ypu the attention you wanted. Now scram kim. It's probably past your bed time!

[sturdy rover]

my game dropped to 5 fps once when I entered Zalissya, from 60+

[restive root]

seems about right. what cpu?

[granite bramble]

my fps in the wild is fine but when i enter zalyissya i get 10-15 fps on 7800x3d

[restive root]

That sounds incorrect. 7800x3d should be pretty good

[ruby badger]

Inb4 ultra everything

[visual terrace]

this game could have really took advantage of the power of the PS5 Pro. Shame really

[sturdy rover]

i9-10900k 3.70ghz, ive been running the game on high, and on gamepass yesterday it was fine - in Zalissya I was getting 70ish fps, then I went to steam and the shit hit the fan

[restive root]

https://youtu.be/QcZxQh8RfUc?si=rslZ1wGYdM1JKQ6R -- you can see him test a couple cpus and video cards and show how the town just WRECKS performance

[granite bramble]

its only when i enter a room of a house, out in the streets or talking with people its fine

[ruby badger]

Sounds about right

[turbid lion]

People try using the fsr 3 mod from nexus from Nukem, use the universal file, and use the winhttp method. Paste the files on the binaries/win64 folder. Then iside the game enable DLSS and DLSS FG (the mod bypasses that and enables a moded version of fsr 3.1) I know the game. Already supports it however, for some. Reason it works better.

I think you need an RTX card and thats it. It doesn't matter which one.

Im getting better frames with that, not on EPIC off course but just dedicate some time to tweak ypur settings.

Give it a try

[plush ledge]

is anybody else getting really bad texture flickering at the sphere base?

[restive root]

That sounds sus... I wonder if something is interfering from the dual install. I mean it shouldnt. but thats super weird

[sturdy rover]

nah i even uninstalled the gamepass one

[restive root]

Looks like the only option is a re-image. 😄

[ruby badger]

I noticed on some walls but nothing that made me nauseous

[sturdy rover]

And when I went to the poppy field I encountered a bug anomaly that crashed my game when I talked to Popor

[amber nexus]

It's not, your 4090 is too fast for a 7800x3d. Coming from a person who has a 7800x3d, my 4070ti super maintains a 98-99% utilization throughout the entire six hours I played yesterday.

[haughty rover]

anyone has issue with steam deck controller?
I have to switch controller to keyboard to scroll agreement content

[wispy sigil]

Anybody got a temporary fix for the crashing? I somewhat fixed the fps issue and now I'm consistently crashing within 15 minutes of playing 😭

[raw sleet]

just watched it run away with all of my ram (32gb) and lock up in that starting town when a lightning storm kicked up

[sturdy rover]

I managed to fix the 5 fps dip, im getting ~60-70 fps in Zalissya, same thing tho graphics on high with dlss and fsr3, my 3080 is crying rn with its 90+% gpu usage

[serene meteor]

I’ve got a 3070, i7-11700k and 40gb of ram and am unable to hit 60fps on medium can someone help me out

[visual terrace]

this could be worse. imagine if it launched how cyberpunk launched. All the NPC with their meat clippin through their pants would be crazy work

[raw sleet]

worse than that.. no mans sky launch lol

[restive root]

Yeah the town is just insanely cpu bound. Im sure in 7 years they will fix it.

[clever kindle]

If anyone is having issues with your fps tanking/crashing while talking/being near Npcs turning the hair setting down to medium and restarting the game seems to fix it (so far so good)

[visual terrace]

No Man Sky was functional garbage at launch 😭

[sturdy rover]

I downloaded a optimization mod from nexus, dont know if it would help you, but for me it got rid of some stuttering and whatnot, btw do u have fsr 3 frame generation on? that helps

[serene meteor]

I do, I get 20 fps without and 40 with it I downloaded the mod and nothing happened

[amber nexus]

Overclocked your ram, maintain CPU temperatures or get a new one. Get better CAS latency ram etc. This game is heavily CPU bound demonstrated by people who don't have an x3d cpu having issues running the game.

[sturdy rover]

idk then, I dont have any ideas

[wispy sigil]

What i did was turn frame gen on, DLSS to quality and all settings to high / epic except for shaders for which I set it to medium. Don't know how setting my graphics higher stabilized the fps issues but it did for me

[sturdy rover]

really? my cpu is only at 40% usage, its my gpu thats crying rn

[serene meteor]

Sometimes higher graphic means your pc isn’t limiting your stuff

[visual terrace]

ah yes, the ol star citizen fix

[serene meteor]

I tried and my fps is literally 0 sometimes like 2

I spent 110 dollars on a game I can’t even run this sucks

[wispy sigil]

Did you reset after changing the graphic settings?

[restive root]

You can try turning up DLSS to like perf and see if you can lower the load on your gpu and see if it will actually go up in fps

[serene haven]

40gb of RAM? Is that a laptop configuration or are you running an odd number of sticks?

I'm just curious.

Rip I forgot to reply

[sturdy rover]

my DLSS is on balanced, which seems to be ok for now

[serene meteor]

It lowered my fps so idk why restarting it would raise but I’ll try

[mild warren]

Looking at Nexus Mods I am seeing a handful of popular tweaks already for performance. Is there a consensus on which one is the best?

[serene meteor]

Odd sticks I think, 2 16s and one 8 I

[restive root]

if youre at like 1fps youre out of ram homie. either GPU or regular RAM. or your shader cache overflowed or something weird

[wispy sigil]

Usually changing those settings you need to reset the game for it to compile shaders and fully take effect i guess

[serene meteor]

That makes sense im restarting rn

[restive root]

get rid of that 8 stick, you dont need that 8 gb ram. youre not running dual channel if thats the case and it will TANK your performance

[serene haven]

I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure you'll get less performance out of a config like that

[serene meteor]

Oh damn I’ll do that rn, how do I see my stick split on my pc to make sure that this is the case

[sturdy rover]

https://gamerant.com/best-pc-settings-stalker-2-heart-of-chornobyl/ if you wanna try it, when I had my graphics settings to this i was getting 90ish fps, idk if it would work but you could give it a try

[wispy sigil]

But I do hope they fix this crashing issue sometime soon

[sturdy portal]

Anyone getting a strange glitch where upon death, your framrate tanks into single digits with zero way of recovering those frames except starting a brand new game? I've also noticed that for me, when dying my CPU usage of the game also tanks below 15% when before it was using about 60~70%?

[serene haven]

You'll also want to make sure the sticks are in the right channels. Should be mentioned in your mobo manual

[frank token]

Use the UE5 launch option -NoGamepad. Same thing happned to me and it worked thanks to somebody on the Steam Discussion

[restive root]

Open it up and see how your ram is sitting? usually the RAM sits every other slot. so you want them in slot 2 and 4 or 1 and 3. but id check your mobo manual to see which one it wants you to use. Every chipset is different

[serene haven]

Usually first slot third slot, I think.

[serene meteor]

Is the mobo manual on my pc?

[serene haven]

Probably not. But beRad has it written out more or less.

[restive root]

it came in the box with your motherboard. if you got a pre-build you can maybe google the model# thats labeled on your board when you look at it

[serene meteor]

Oh shit I’m getting 60fps after retesting my game, Well from 40-60 but turning it up helped Aton

My pc seemed to be bottlenecking my gpu/cpu cause of low my settings were so that in turn caused poor performsfr

[sturdy rover]

I alt tab for 10 seconds and my fps is at 7 now

and now its back to 60-70 in 30 seconds wtf

[serene meteor]

Is vsync good for this game or is it bad on performance

[ruby badger]

Vsync is for preventing screen tearing from frame rates that surpass your monitor's refresh rate

[serene meteor]

So for my 60 hz monitor it just limits my frames to 60fps

[restive root]

Yeah but it adds input lag. So it makes aiming feel terrible

[serene meteor]

So no vsync for this game

[ruby badger]

Yes, it will limit based on the value below the on/off setting.

[wispy kettle]

hello, how do i check if i have the day 1 patch installed?

[restive root]

You will havw only 700 bugs instead of 2300

[sturdy rover]

can anyone tell me what do you think would be good settings for a 3080?

[wispy kettle]

ok but fr is there a way to check

[cobalt mulch]

please fix the controller its all i need ffs

[spring zenith]

yea i am, and lighting in general looks... grainy? is the best way i can describe it, its starting to make it really hard to see anything in a dark space from a light area and vice versa

[ruby badger]

Too many variables. Best bet RN is to start with everything low and slowly crank up and test in multiple areas, but in particular the first town

[hazy briar]

hey i installed the game on my hdd is it necessary for it to be installed on ssd cause my ssd drive has not much space

[lime shuttle]

my situation is in reverse

[restive root]

Lumen.

[sturdy rover]

rn im on high with like 60ish fps in buildings (Zalissya) and 70ish outside roaming, but i still get frame drops to like single digits randomly that last 30ish seconds

[ruby badger]

I would not recommend using a HDD.

[spring zenith]

is this a setting?

[flat brook]

I don’t think S2 is going to run even decently on a 7200rpm mechanical drive, let alone a slower one

[restive root]

Oh my sweet summer child. I mean in theory it could be.. but No its an unreal 5 game engine feature. The only way its getting fixed is either by a good modder or the devs at this point

[spring zenith]

Dang... I feel like this was a problem on Chernobylite too

[restive root]

https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/lumen-technical-details-in-unreal-engine#softwareraytracing

[sturdy rover]

Did anyone else crash when talking to an npc, for me it was the guy at the poppy field, I crashed several times before skipping through the conversation and ran away

[calm pebble]

I only have crashed once, but it wasn't a hard crash, the games frames just dropped really quickly and it stopped responding, it was during an emission

I am using a potato pc comparative to modern specs, but it runs most games fine

[sturdy rover]

mine just dipped to 20 fps, then 10 then crash, then unreal error

[wraith oak]

Has anyone tried using Lossless scaling to improve frames?

[scarlet gulch]

my game lags so badly in the first village i can barely exit it : (((

[mighty hatch]

What setting is causing the framerate to drop to 20fps out of nowhere and have to restart game for it to go back to normal

[calm pebble]

I am thinking its the different upscaling methods, I changed it during play and my frames dropped significantly, to an unplayable level until a restart. Both modes were performance modes

[mighty hatch]

I've tried disabling frame Gen and also disabling any upscaling and it still happens, mostly after I die tho or if a anomaly or enemy is nearby sometimes

[fickle matrix]

Anyone know if there's a concise list of the settings and their frame impacts? I'm gonna mess around after work, but this would save me some time if there is.

[gloomy quest]

r7 5700x, 4060ti, and 32gb. getting sub 15fps(half the time) on low-med setting. sometimes mid firefight. pain

[mighty hatch]

I think I know what is causing it, I think upscaling isnt working right, and the game pretty much forces you to use it but it's somehow disabling itself without actually disabling idk how or why but I'm sure that's what's happening

[fickle matrix]

That's a new one. Wonder if that's truly the case. Do you notice the image quality suddenly changing?

[calm pebble]

1660 TI, 16gb ram, I5-10400k, game runs alright most of the time excluding during emissions or when loading new areas. The game also complies shader everytime its launched

I dont know why it would have to compile each time, but I dont think it should be doing this, right?

[midnight maple]

compile is by everyone who play the game atm ..so you are not alone

[calm pebble]

I see, hopefully they can smooth out what issues there are performance wise

[raw sleet]

Stalker: Shadow of Compiler

[calm pebble]

I really like the game

[midnight maple]

its not the first game where i had this issue where it compilesthe game at every start..last of us port to pc had also this issue at release

dragon age also

[next inlet]

im at 100rads bar and there was an emission the game seems to use ALL 32gb of ram now! is there any fix that someone can link to me? im having fun otherwise

[twilit tartan]

In other games (most of them) this problem was caused by a memory leak on the VRAM. Only fixed via patches, but you can try lowering the textures

[glad bridge]

i wouldnt know cause it aint starting!!!

[raw sleet]

this runs pretty much same for me as callisto protocol.. ue5 is just jank

[midnight maple]

game is really nice..atmosphere ect

[calm pebble]

I noticed this as well, but not at the rads bar, just during the emission

[visual terrace]

probably one of the better optimized games aslong as you have a decent CPU and a 4090 tbh

[calm pebble]

nice bait lol

[mighty hatch]

Yep that's what it is, the game is somehow disabling upscaling causing the framerate to go down to 15-20fps, while it was happening I turned off upscaling completely and returned to game and then back to options to turn it back on and it went back to normal

[glad bridge]

the gpu whine with this game is crazy

[midnight maple]

its also playable for ppl without 4090...not everybody want play this game in 4k or with minimum of 144 fps or so

[calm pebble]

interesting, what were you doing when it happened?

[visual terrace]

what do you mean

[calm pebble]

very true, a stable 60 at 1080 is good enoug for me

[midnight maple]

yeah but here are some trolls ..its like in steam reviews they talk 4090 ..4090 and on the end of the day they play with 2070 or so. ^^

[mighty hatch]

Always happens when I load after dying a couple times or if I play for a bit and the framerate would just all of a sudden go down to 20fps and keep going down until I restarted the game but now I know how to temporarily fix it until it's fixed with a update without having to restart game

[next inlet]

if... that is the issue that would be amazing

[visual terrace]

that wasnt really bait. i've seen worse optimized games with a 4090 like Black Myth Wukong at launch

[midnight maple]

for me i wait a long time and have fun in the game...i know my pc..i know how i can play atm and thats it..i get the stalker experience also when i not play 4k ^^

[digital hamlet]

any news from GSC about memory leak?

[midnight maple]

the rest we will see...give the devs some time and all come to a good end i think..but not in 24 hours everybod knows that

[calm pebble]

I assume the emissions are set events, as in if I save and quit, the emission that was going to happen will still happen

[next inlet]

yes actully i died before in a emission in the cordon

[calm pebble]

so how would I get through an emission if it freezes the game? just wait for patch?

[reef mural]

I got an INTEL 13th GEN i5-13400, with an GeForce RTX 4060 (8gb) and 32 gigs of ram

i gotta a feeling im gonna cook my CPU to death while running at 1440p

[calm pebble]

my pc case glass definitely warm while playing

[valid compass]

Hello, when I start the game it shows me the introductory messages and then it goes black, does anyone have a solution? :c

[calm pebble]

have you checked task manager? is stalker 2 using all of your PC resources?

[surreal crag]

are yall having same issues where its like good fps and then out of nowhere it goes to 10 fps

[midnight maple]

when you have emission ..you have game crash or fps drop ?

[mighty hatch]

Yeah that's what I was just talking about

[calm pebble]

FPS quickly drops until the application freezes and doesnt respond anymore, not a UE crash like others

[surreal crag]

i was in warlocks bar and out of nowhere my fps dropped, but before that i had over 100fps

[valid compass]

I didn't look at it

[midnight maple]

also when you are in a house or something like that ?

[calm pebble]

I would check this to make sure it isnt using all of your ram/cpu/gpu

[surreal crag]

do we now when performance patches are gonna come out

[calm pebble]

yes, I had ran inside to take shelter and as the emission intensified it dropped frames very fast before freezing

[plush ledge]

my 4080 is silent

[mighty hatch]

When it happens, go to graphic settings and disable upscale completely and return to game and then go back and enable it again and it will go back to normal framerate

[valid compass]

In fact, no, it doesn't even reach 50%.

[surreal crag]

i feel like this game gon be like cyberpunk, shit launch but after few patches its a good performance game

[glad bridge]

i got a 7900xtx

[surreal crag]

which upscale method are you using?

[calm pebble]

interesting, maybe its a menu bug, it doesnt even boot to the main menu itself to change settings?

[mighty hatch]

Fsr

[midnight maple]

what settings do you use ? such as lightning ect

[surreal crag]

on performance?

[calm pebble]

everything is low as possible, upscaling is FSR with performance mode on

[mighty hatch]

I have it on balanced for now

[drifting wren]

wonder if we will get hardware lumen, as far as I can tell all hardware RT is disabled so RTX cards don't get to use their RT hardware

[valid compass]

No, it only shows me the introductory messages, I don't even hear the music and it goes black after the messages disappear.

[surreal crag]

they also need to fix the every time you boot up the game always compiling shaders, that should be a one time and done thing not everytime

[neon thistle]

Rtx 4090 +i9-13900K + 64 RAM 7200MHz around 50 - 60 fps no dlss

[midnight maple]

i think you use also the newest geforce driver ?

[calm pebble]

yes, I consistently update all drivers to make sure performance is best as can be

[surreal crag]

thats crazy on 4k?

[next inlet]

yes i have the latest drivers also

[neon thistle]

NO, 3440 x 1440

[midnight maple]

i give sometimes older drivers a try ...maybe its a driver issue or something like that you know? sometimes a driver works well on some gpus and on some gpus not

[surreal crag]

i noticed that playing the game on xbox pc app has better fps then steam

[calm pebble]

this is true, maybe this update just made something wrong and it doesnt work as well as before, either way I hope the issues go away fast cause the crashing during emissions maybe makes it impossible to play

[raw sleet]

u getting that low level fatal error crash?

[midnight maple]

i hope so

[plush ledge]

does the game look almost too sharp without DLSS for anybody else? I can run mostly 60fps locked without DLSS but the foliage is like crazy sharp

[next inlet]

i have 32gb at 3600mhz of ddr4 a 3080 10gb of vram and a 5800x3d, it ran flawlessly till that emission happened and i experianced freezing after the emission that is

[surreal crag]

maybe set sharpness to 0 in game

[next inlet]

im also at the bar and theres alot of NPCs about

[calm pebble]

no, only the game freezing, no hard crashes like UE fatal error or anything like this

[plush ledge]

yeah that helps but it still looks kinda weird

[midnight maple]

it seems midnight moon has the same issue like you

[surreal crag]

do yall also notice that every ue engine game looks so simmilar you can tell so quick, wish they used a diff game engine

[drifting wren]

yeah all the UE5 games are underwhelming so far in terms of graphics

[surreal crag]

i rlly dont like the look of it

[calm pebble]

its an interesting style, but personally I prefer performance over realism style graphics, especially with the higher-end requirements for most games using it

[surreal crag]

its also quite a buggy engine to use i feel like

[drifting wren]

devs aren't using it's features though, for example S2 doesn't seem to use dynamic shadows much, characters don't have SSS skin shader turnned on I think, you rarely see any high poly nanite objects. Mechwarrior 5 clans was an even bigger example, it effectively looks identitcal to UE4 mechwarrior 5 mercs but has massive UE5 performance overhead

[gray matrix]

Guys the performance mods that are already out and super good

[drifting wren]

there's the RTXGI build of UE5 with near cyberpunk 2077 tier path tracing but no one offers it in games

[gray matrix]

Highly recommend giving them a try, it got rid of my latency and gained about 20 fps with same quality image

[surreal crag]

where can i find

[serene meteor]

yeah the resources spent on graphics could have been directed towards gameplay features. but ue5 makes it alot easier to make beautiful games at the cost of horrible performacne lol which is why this happend

[fickle matrix]

Which ones specifically?

[heavy parcel]

I hate UE5 bros.

[gray matrix]

Nexusmods https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl

[surreal crag]

true, its easy to make a good looking game but performance always is a miss with unreal engine. not saying that other games didnt have good performance but stalker 2 rn is having issues

[drifting wren]

atleast its not unity lol

[surreal crag]

i mea star wars jedi survivor was also ue5 and it was bad fps aswell

[late ferry]

multicamdruid has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[gray matrix]

I got stalker optimizer, optimized tweaks, and ultimate engine tweaks. Might not work for your hardware but worth a shot

[drifting wren]

that was actually modded ue4 I think

[heavy parcel]

Can't use swear words in the Stalker discord? I didn't even use a bad one lmao my message got auto-modded.

[royal portal]

Really don’t want to have to resort to performance mods from nexus.
Is there anything to fix the memory leak? Or whatever causes fps to slow down to 10fps

[surreal crag]

got the same problem hope they come with a hotfix

[gray matrix]

No clue. Devs said they are working on it though

[fickle matrix]

Welcome to discord lmao

[gray matrix]

I'm just ready for the hot fixes but in the meantime the mods are pretty good

[royal portal]

Anyone else running mods to help performance ?

[fickle matrix]

I heard you can disable meme tracing with an ini file edit so I'll be doing that when I am home from work

[surreal crag]

those should be the work of the official devs but yea what can you do..

[heavy parcel]

As I was saying, but in less colorful language I guess: I like the game a lot, they did a great job, I just wish it was in any engine other than this bloatware unoptimized every-game-looks-the-same mess that is Unreal Engine, where it can't handle any degree of persistence or more than 7 AI on screen at a time no matter what any dev at any budget tries to do with it.

All the fancy lighting techniques in the world are not worth the mess that is UE5.

[drifting wren]

has anyone managed to force hardware lumen yet?

[raw latch]

Welcome to the Monolith discord🤪

[sand pagoda]

https://gamerant.com/best-pc-settings-stalker-2-heart-of-chornobyl/ Follow this optimization guide

Download this mod: https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/9

It has worked wonders for me so far. Getting really good performance and very little stuttering now. 2080 super, Ryzen 7 5800X3D, 32gb ram

[surreal crag]

AMEN BROTHER

[gray matrix]

Anyways gn y'all, have fun in the zone

[heavy parcel]

Glad I'm not alone on that. It's been killing too many games with good potential lately.

[royal portal]

I’m tempted.
I would imagine at this point A Life and performance are their 2 top priorities