pc-specs

[olive harbor]

I am suddenly having issues with my gun being covered in odd, white lines. It appears like aliasing almost but I cannot get rid of them regardless of what I do. Any ideas?

[agile pier]

I like contributing

[smoky cave]

bro spends more time here than in the game 💀

[keen mica]

Anyone able to help out? Just trying to play as much as I can before my schedule is ruined again 😭

[tight urchin]

the real stalker 2 is the countless optimization mods we've tried along the way

[agile pier]

do I have to set it globally? setting it to STALKER 2 did...... absolutely nothing

[autumn crystal]

Even modders solved optimization and performance in 2-3 days. Can't the huge GSC handle optimization and performance in 1 week?

[visual terrace]

Man being around all these AMD GPU guys tainted my PC. My frames dropped by 20 consistently across the board and it turns to a slide show when I walk near groups of stalkers.

[smoky cave]

meanwhile me with literally only issue ingame being not working stealth and ai being messed up 💀

[tight urchin]

only to stalker 2 DON'T SET IT GLOBALLY

[agile pier]

Okay, then I'm sad to report that it did literally nothing.

I only do not get stutters if I look at the night sky

[mental wraith]

my biggest issue is subtitles stopped working and there is nothing online on how to get them working again I guess I wait for the hotfix

[tight urchin]

2 mods got released for that too,
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/62
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/100 don't know if they are compatible/work together tho

[smoky cave]

lmaooo

[tight urchin]

your game is on an ssd right

[agile pier]

NVMe m.2 yeah. not on my C drive though

[tight urchin]

then I have absolutely no clue sorry :/ usually all that pinned stuff should've gotten rid of stutters

[vocal canopy]

Best mod for old cpu amazing gpu?

[round prawn]

That does only help some hardware constellations, but frankly not all

[tight urchin]

optimization and performance isn't "solved" at all, we still have a memory leak, cpu performance is awful which is normal for unreal engine 5, we did get some performance improvements through mods yes but those come with various level of visual glitches too

[daring elm]

This game needs to be patched. Stop making urselfs crazy by turning things on and off. After a good patch its fine

[viral orbit]

does anybody expect glass flickering / glowing in the weird way ? How to counteract this ? I am playing on GF 4070

[tight urchin]

yeah why spend an hour optimizing your game and making it actually playable instead of just not playing the game and waiting for a patch that will come out in the future

[limber panther]

So I hear a lot of ppl sayin the game is very cpu bottlenecky, but my cpu is chilling at 25-30% util with my GPU goin ham at 80-90% Util, assuming it has to do with dlss and frame gen?

[willow kiln]

Hello,
Question, I've bought the game but i got HUGE lag spikes when looking the ground.

All settings are at medium and some at low.

My specs :
i7-10700
RX 7900 XT
64Go
Game on NVMe 4th gen

[daring elm]

Agreed

[restive root]

If your gpu cant max out, youre generally cpu limited. But obviously that isnt a strict rule

[limber panther]

That sounds like the global illumination or like post processing settings, I would try lowering down those settings and maybe seeing if that helps

[viral orbit]

thanks, will try playing with those

[cobalt prairie]

My fps go from 80 to 24 and I need to load an old save file and even restart the game sometimes, is this normal?

[ruby badger]

TFW go to play but instead spend another 2 hours playing with settings

[tight urchin]

stalker grindset

[agile pier]

One thing I can say, at least the framerate is stable in settlements now. 42fps but not fluctuating much

though 60fps goal would be nicer...

[tight urchin]

I've literally not started the game in 30h 😂 I really need to stop looking in here

[ruby badger]

This 2070 super ain't gunna fry itself

[visual terrace]

I noticed if you’re using a 20 series and up, if you turn on DE’s in the Nvidia control panel it’ll raise by atleast 10fps. I wonder why that’s not default?

[ruby badger]

Terrified this is a DEs Nuts joke

[agile pier]

DEs?

[tight urchin]

would be the most productive thing they said all day

[ruby badger]

I just wonder about setting vegetation quality and draw distance separately.

I would hands down select high quality with shorter distance. I feel like there are so many trees I wouldn't see full pop in as much as I see quality replacing

[sand nimbus]

I dont know what DE is tbh and i build GPUs Hardware for a living

[ruby badger]

As in, I wouldn't be able to see the trees pop in behind all the other trees I already see

[grizzled drift]

Go enjoy the atmosphere of the zone brother

[slender kettle]

What do you mean "Turn on DE's"? What is that?

[agile pier]

Well, I raised myself from 45 to 51fps by just undervolting my cpu lol

[tight urchin]

yeah I need to force myself to not look in here anymore lol

[olive harbor]

Any fixes for random white jaggies on guns all of a sudden?

[visual terrace]

How do I explain to my kids that I want to spend my weekend trolling discord 😔

You hush you just fell for a deez nuts joke 😭 what is this 2010s?

[tight urchin]

funniest crap I've ever heard, do you know that other funny joke from rick and morty? pickle rick? 🤣 🤣 🤣

[agile pier]

I haven't said anything

[hoary copper]

I need popcorn

[visual terrace]

Mhm. How did you know I was talking about you then 🤔

[lavish lark]

I5-12400F
RX 6600 Xt Saphaire
32GB RAM DDR5 6000mHz ( Reduced to 4200mHz due to cpu support)
Windows 11

i have too many performance problem.
i do whatever in #pc-specs message
said

but i have so many lag

[errant aspen]

Managed to get between 55 and 75 FPS with a 2070 and Ryzen 9 12 core 3.5ghz, using frame gen and max out dlss. I did have some mouse lag for a bit, but then I used an optimise mod from nexusmods, capped frames at 61 with Nvidia app and turned off image scaling, vsync fast. Tho not sure if the vsync fast is needed. One thing tho, if you don't max out dlss, the game looks very grainy. I am still having some big stutters tho and even freezes, but not crashing anymore.

Anyways, that's the end of my story.

[olive crest]

I put it down to just normal performance issues but the problem is persistant so i want to ask around incase im missing something.
I can run the game at Low-Medium and High settings at a consistant 50-60fps for about an hour or so and then the game will suddenly drop to 5fps for small or long moments forcing me to save and reload or go to the main menu to resolve it.
I use DLSS on Performance with all the settings but on balanced and quality the same issue persists.
Anyone encounter anything similar or got any ideas i can try?
RTX3070 1440p R7 3800X 32GB RAM

[stray crater]

Memory leak?

[rich coyote]

Yeah a lot of people seem to have this issue (me included). Apparently it's a memory leak issue and we have to wait for devs to fix it

[olive crest]

Tragic, Is there a way to monitor/diagnose this to confirm its a mem leak?

[vapid apex]

tbh kindof insane that there hasnt been a patch yet

[stray crater]

cant you just monitor memory usage

[olive crest]

Just on something like task manager?

[tight urchin]

I use Rivatuner

[tight urchin]

OMG FINALLY https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/147?tab=description 😍 😍 😍

[errant aspen]

I expect they want to create a substantial patch, or maybe whatever is causing it has more layers to the issue, so they don't want to give us a patch that will end up messing up the game even more.

[olive crest]

do you know if mods disable achievments?

[dreamy crag]

they do not

[tight urchin]

I'd rather let them cook than release a halfbaked patch that doesn't work properly

[errant aspen]

I am happy to wait, just running about enjoying what I can at the moment because I am impatient and I love the goddamn radio tunes, omg some absolute banging tracks. 🤘🕺

Wish we could have a portable radio to walk around with. Put it down when in a fight for some sick background music.

[tight urchin]

I'm pretty dumbfounded by the amount of mods that were released already, it's so sick seeing modding being such a huge thing in these early days, can't stop refreshing nexus lol https://imgur.com/a/A6DlUmq

[lilac mulch]

#pc-specs message

[errant aspen]

Yeah the modding community is the saving grace of PC gaming, think how shit our general experience would be without people giving up their time to fix games for companies for free. 🤘

[lapis niche]

Now we needs mods for our mods

[violet oxide]

Yea i really feel like the modding community is going to turn this game into something that stays nice and fresh for years if not a decade or more to come

[errant aspen]

It's gonna be a wild journey, for sure. Imagine the team behind Anomaly with a standalone mod for this.

[austere kelp]

Disabled DLSS but now my game looks like dookie, everything's fuzzy. What do

[violet oxide]

also just downloaded that ammo mod you linked lol. Just got done in the zone and taking a break for a bit

[errant aspen]

You gotta have resolution at 100 for no fuzz, max out dlss and lock your frames to 60. Also, turn your textures down and most importantly turn to 1920 x 1080

[turbid lion]

Try this commands on steam or the .exe file: -xgeshadercompile -nothreadtimeout -NoVerifyGC They did the job for me no more stutter. Better temps, no input delay, better cpu utilization.

[tight urchin]

all of my mods are getting updated twice a day too lol

[austere kelp]

Can't use DLSS, memory leak

[errant aspen]

I think going to a lower resolution has helped the most with stability

[lavish lark]

i used -xgeshadercompile -nothreadtimeout -NoVerifyGC -dx12
in my game but i nothing fixed

[tight urchin]

did u update ur dlss files yet? I don't think we have certain proof for dlss being the cause of memory leak yet no?

[errant aspen]

Can't use commands on game pass games 😦

[austere kelp]

No, but people just said turn it off to avoid memory leaks

[turbid lion]

Dx12 not needednis redundant. So if not fixed im sorry but pc is not powerful enough.

[austere kelp]

I shouldn't have to update my game's files... The devs should do that dude, I'm sorry. lol

[tight urchin]

wrong! #pc-specs message

[turbid lion]

Can you not find the .Exe file?

[lavish lark]

pc is not great but i don't think
i5 12400 with rx 6600 xt is weak

[turbid lion]

For an engine as unoptimized and pice of 💩 like UE5 it is. Sorry gamer!

[drowsy lance]

YEAHHH WOKE UP AND STILL NO UPDATE 🔥

[tight urchin]

so weird that you can't run it well on a cpu that is 2 gens newer than mine

[turbid lion]

Well, the devs don't have to if they don't want to. So, it's a ypu problem.

[errant aspen]

Yep and I created a shortcut of it, added commands to the target and it would just crash after the first loading portion

[austere kelp]

I'm just waiting for a patch to make the game playable

[pseudo gate]

my man its a saturday

[turbid lion]

It doesn't matter if its new or not, it matters how powerful it is. And also the combination of all the parts.

[tight urchin]

who would've guessed that we're not getting an update the day before sunday??? 🤯 I'd hate for the devs to have a day off (and they've been releasing stuff for future patch all day too)

[errant aspen]

I don't understand what you're suggesting with that code.

[mild eagle]

Anyone using the sensitivity mod: https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/57 it just got updated and has full compat with other mods now

[lavish lark]

i recorded my game
#📸┃screens_and_videos message

(videos are compressed)

[turbid lion]

Ok, what r u crying about it, also gamepass LOL and asking for the devs to DO IT lol.

[austere kelp]

I'm waiting for a fix to the memory leak issue a lot of people are having...? The product should be in a playable state if it's not being released as a Beta or something.

[drowsy lance]

im sorry they got slack when the delayed the shit, you released a poorly optimized game and want to take a break?

[tight urchin]

instead of making a shortcut you go into XboxGames\S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2- Heart of Chornobyl (Windows)\Content and open MicrosoftGame.config

in there on line 10 you'll find the line with <Executable Name="blabla", you replace THE WHOLE LINE with this: <Executable Name="Stalker2/Binaries/WinGDK/Stalker2-WinGDK-Shipping.exe -xgeshadercompile -nothreadtimeout -NoVerifyGC -dx12" Id="AppSTALKER2Shipping" OverrideDisplayName="ms-resource:AppDisplayName" TargetDeviceFamily="PC" />

or you overwrite the MicrosoftGame.config with the pastebin content

https://imgur.com/a/5E9l4bP or you just add the launch arguments after <Executable Name="Stalker2/Binaries/WinGDK/Stalker2-WinGDK-Shipping.exe but still inside of the quotation marks

[lavish lark]

you can see lags/ input lag and rendering problem at start of any save.

game is not playable at some places.
outside of this bunker i get around 30-40 but in this bunker i can't event shoot correctly

[tight urchin]

I really can't blame the devs 🙂

[frail mural]

lol some kid on steam made some sorta federal complaint, jesus christ the audacity of these no-lifers

[red swan]

Is the combination of dlss and fsr framegen known to cause crashes? I got 2 crashes 5 minutes into the game, or is it just the normal state of the game right now?

[errant aspen]

@tight urchin Gotcha! I will try it out, gonna remove my optimise mod and see how it fares! Do you think I can go to 1440 on a 2070 with no crashes and no lag?

[tight urchin]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/130?tab=description this mod would be huge for framegen if it only removed that vignette effect that moves with ur camera, opening the pak file with notepad only shows me sleepiness vignette effect processor so idk which part I need to keep
also there's sleepiness in the game?

[lapis niche]

Apparently there is a sleep need. But its low af

Haven't experienced it myself yet, but saw someone write about it

[drowsy lance]

yk let the devs cook ig, if its taking this long might be some nice stuff they are patching

[rocky hound]

I have a Ryzen 9 3950 X running at 4.5 GHz
32 GB of RAM
7800XT
This game runs my CPU HOT more than any game I throw at it..

[fiery thorn]

i opened nexusmods and see theres like 10 different performance mods. are they really doing much, do you need more than 1, or is it all just placebo and we have to wait for devs to fix the memleak and whatever other issues may be?

[ruby badger]

I'm using a 2070 super in 1440p. I don't think anyone is having a pure crash less "no lag" without today's $1.5k PC setup

[tight urchin]

#pc-specs message u can try all of them out on their own if you want to, but some of them are absolutely worse than others (apparently Stalker Optimizer isn't totally terrible anymore lol)

[visual terrace]

Memory leak? There’s no war in Ba Sing Se 🙂

[prime pollen]

bandaid over a stab wound. it may help if youre on the edge of playable like myself, but personally that combined with AI issues are making me just wait till its playable. its a bit crazy that my hardware isnt able to run this

[round prawn]

Yikes

[tight urchin]

everyone's kinda struggling, especially around npcs, but those tweaks atleast help with input lag for FrameGen and slightly do improve ur fps, but don't expect wonders 😅

[keen copper]

has anyone been able to get any of the longer days mods to work? cant seem to find one that works.

[ruby badger]

I'm working on a couple vids just to show console-esqe performance is possible with a 2070 super at 1440p with no resolution upscaling (DLAA actually)

[visual terrace]

I can’t wait until we get mods for this game. I want to see stalkers whippin meat out

[tight urchin]

biggest difference was fixing the crazy amount of input lag even without framegen for me

[prime pollen]

my frame times are straight booty no matter what i do it seems. game isnt really any better without frame gen enabled either. r5 5600x and 4060 8g, 16gb ram

[tight urchin]

depends on which other mods you're using, in the comments I've seen a merge file between 4 other mods

can't find it quickly so u gotta look for it urself or merge the mods yourself

edit: merge here https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/75?tab=files

[scenic ore]

Anyone else having issues using a controller through pc game pass?

[hoary copper]

Good news, I made the game run good now

[arctic thicket]

anyone having the error for memory?

[hoary copper]

Of course at cost of graphics, since I installed potato graphics mod, but I made it less painful by increasing graphics to medium on settings. Tho night time looks goofy now

[violet oxide]

I myself have the 2 hour days working perfectly. Emissions happen like normal and aren't drawn out and regular storms do as well. They are a little longer but I myself prefer the stormy weather

[ruby badger]

I'm trying to not use anything 3rd party related out of avoiding possible issues with official patches

[tight urchin]

doesn't matter mods and ini files are easy to uninstall

[ruby badger]

Basic PC specs?

[arctic thicket]

system specs are " I9 10900k, 3060ti, 32g ram" and im having issue compiling shaders anyone know a fix?

[autumn crystal]

What is your graphics card?

[tight urchin]

but I'm not touching the skip shader compiling mod (I just enjoy waiting for it too much) and any longer days mods, because in my head those could mess up your saves (I am using A-Life mod tho)

[hoary copper]

Rtx 3050

[autumn crystal]

same

[violet oxide]

So far I have a 17 hour save going with the 2 hour day cycle mod on it and it hasn't messed it up any. I'm not sure about the others however.

[ruby badger]

I applaud all the modders out there going crazy rn, even if I plan to refrain from modding until the game has been out for a while.

[turbid lion]

Yeah like every major game release in the past what? 5 to 10 years... Lol "playable state".

I understand and It makes sense but lol is not gonna happen like that, the industry became lazy due to upscaling technology and BS like rtx. No major dev company care to optimize anymore, also UE5 is a great technology, but we don't have the hardware to run it properly. What we want is impossible at this point in time. Gaming is awful now a days because of that and probably many things more.

[sand nimbus]

@autumn crystal do you have a dark wood pfp

[errant aspen]

Fair play - are you also running frame gen and max DLSS?

[tight urchin]

well ue5 sounds like great technology but just isn‘t really optimised yet, it‘s known for being an fps hog

stalker 2 graphics are absolutely crazy tho, this is the first game that can visually compete with modded skyrim lol

[errant aspen]

Yeah it's an incredible looking game and some sick animations

[autumn crystal]

If you mean my profile picture, I made it myself and I remastered the protagonist.

[keen mica]

So far Ive loved the game but Im just going to wait until a patch because my outdated pc can't get past the first zone you reach 😭 4fps constantly.
(Those who react with the pin emoji, Im already aware and have done everything listed there)

[sand nimbus]

What.
What.

Dragoms dogma 2 full path tracing mod...

Cyberpunk full path Tracing...

[violet oxide]

idk why but the eye adaptation bothers me some. I managed to remove the effect completely though. Takes some of the realism away but makes things better on my eyes

[tight urchin]

haven‘t played dd2, cyberpunk kind of has a different vibe lol

[sand nimbus]

https://youtu.be/UnYOKXS_wuo?si=J21yPqWMdioOt5P3

https://youtu.be/B7DGHFtQ0A8?si=r6e2hpH14yM7uqXw @tight urchin

[tight urchin]

there‘s an ini setting u can change on nexus, I‘m not sure if I used this exact one but the one I had basically flashbanged me when I went outside until I went back inside (gamer roleplay mode)

[ivory isle]

where is the hotfix lmao entire point of hotfix is that its like… fast

[turbid lion]

see this is the kind of R-word person that make the industry awful, theey just dont understand that a game is to be PLAYED . Not to stand still and say ohhh, Shiny stuff and great photos.

[sand nimbus]

Ok pablo go escape prison

[tight urchin]

why don‘t u release it

[violet oxide]

Yep yep that's what I saw and fiddled with it to see what worked best for me I have it off currently and definitely is better for me

[turbid lion]

ad hominem

[ivory isle]

why don the devs release it on the weekend when millions of people r going to try and play the game

[sand nimbus]

Looks amazing bro

[halcyon locust]

is the i512400f just too weak for this game? it seems fine in open areas but once i get to zalissya it goes to 100% and stays there

[violet oxide]

Patience is a virtue. They want to ensure it's fully ready before releasing a half done fix that has to be fixed itself. Hopefully it is out by Thanksgiving

[tight urchin]

you really couldn‘t find another insult?

[heady ridge]

Bro you know what that means or you just yapping it

[turbid lion]

it seems you are just yapping

[sand nimbus]

Sorry to make you sad but the hoftfix won't actually fix the performance if you already have problems now.

[autumn crystal]

thank u so much man I made it up to the 8k version and this pp had me talk to the game developer for a while.

[hoary copper]

Man I missed bloodsyckers

[violet oxide]

my problems have been fixed I'm just stating be patient

[turbid lion]

it suits the situation, so I chose that. you mad little bro?

[sand nimbus]

So badass ngl

[tight urchin]

why not type it out then my big bro? u afraid huh?

[ivory isle]

i agree with you i just dont really understand why basic things as u go further into the game like textures bugging out in entire buildings cant just be fixed

[autumn crystal]

[tight urchin]

you are so incredibly based I love you unironically

[violet oxide]

Yea I did get bugged by that myself but have only noticed it horribly in one area so far. That is more than likely something that will take more than a hotfix to get to though

[autumn crystal]

I think you played for 1 hour

[ivory isle]

i think it just has two materials on it

[hollow portal]

i Agree

[violet oxide]

Yea that's what I thought also. Looked like the area was trying to pull up to materials for the same walls. That is probably some dupe code they missed somehow that wasn't deleted before release

[turbid lion]

in a day and age that people are so fragile and get deconstructed by a word, where free speech is not allowed and hate speech is defined by people that get easily mad and offended like YOU, who I wasn't even talking to, so yeah, sometimes you just have to type it like that, I mean you are smart enough right... right?

[arctic thicket]

anyone know how to increase shader cache size on nvidia?

[turbid lion]

@tight urchin left you speechless, so you started an emote response LOL. I proved my point. have a nice life !

[arctic thicket]

rofl thanks

[tight urchin]

you destroyed me bro I don't even know what to respond

[errant meadow]

Hey everyone,
I have an i7-7700k, 32Gb ddr4 and a Rtx 2070S. Running off a Sata SSD (not M.2)

I assume I have to out everything to low graphics but in terms of AA what would be best for Frames? Fxaa, txaa, dlss etc?

My game was running fine on medium but the first real fight I got into my frames flatlined and never recovered

[charred sand]

CHECK THE PINSSSSSS

[hoary copper]

Nvm it's not good, the memory leak is awful

[pure falcon]

8 fps on RTX3070 and i7 9700k. Very high settings

[hoary copper]

Lower it than

[pure falcon]

Nvm it was on high lol

[tame flare]

the fps drop of death happens on any settings

[hoary copper]

Yup, I have to wait for memory leak to stop

[pure falcon]

No point in playing it then, for now

[tame flare]

i am more than happy to play even at 30 fps but atleast make the game not shit itself at bases

[tame flare]

literally nothing helps?

[hoary copper]

Yeah, unless you want to degrade graphics like I have

[tight urchin]

it does look pretty sick, I really enjoy the framerate being similar to stalker too

[tight urchin]

u tried everything already? even the custom engine.ini didn't help?

[scarlet obsidian]

bag whith qwest >Whats goin on whith Group<, bag whth KPK 4,5 ouers plaing

[tame flare]

yeah i tried every performance mod on nexus

[novel pawn]

they mark the pin as if it were something absolutely mandatory when what is really mandatory is that the devs fix the game

[tame flare]

the game works fine, like stable 60 fps when im not in bases

[scarlet obsidian]

120-150 fps

[tight urchin]

100% sure u installed it correctly and you're not using all of them together? https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/17 this probably has the biggest effect, but yeah you're kinda forced to do dlss+framegen

[tight urchin]

well yeah of course but until we get a hotfix that's all we can use for now

[shy galleon]

drop a patch already wth

[hoary copper]

Even potato graphics mod

[tight urchin]

oh yeah sorry what's a better option until patch then? tell me c'mon

[novel pawn]

lmaoooo

[tame flare]

havent tried 2.1 version yet wont hurt to try ig

[tight urchin]

try to remove r.OneFrameThreadLag=0 too

[tame flare]

id rather wait half a year for a patch than play with no shadows

[sleek drift]

Is there any proper place for people to post links for their streams of the game? I'm gonna get hammered an play this on the hardest setting lol

[novel pawn]

the s2 helps with the input lag, its a good thing to keep it installed, try lowering the hair options too

[hoary copper]

Suit yourself, more s2 for me

[tight urchin]

s2 page says it conflicts with engine.ini files but I haven't really tested that yet
pretty sick to see that it's one of the biggest mods now, been praising it since launch

[gloomy frost]

alright so simply enough the game stutters too much for enjoyment at the current state, see you fellow stalkers in 3 weeks

[sleek drift]

Sounds like clear sky when it's mid day and cloudy lol

[bronze sundial]

At this point I think we should demand info from officials because the heck is this after all, 3 days with absolute 0 of communication

[novel pawn]

oh really? I use both and I haven't had any crashes or anything like that!! But I feel like the S2 makes the shadows on the vegetation a little weird

[tight urchin]

https://imgur.com/a/f0MqBvt I think this cute discord user wants me 🥵

[cobalt mulch]

what slap in the face, in the week to come

[tight urchin]

sad new patch coming this week already :/ I hoped for it to come later just to annoy people more

[cosmic nacelle]

how is there no mention of performance fixes in the announcement lol

[drowsy ingot]

^ this

[tight urchin]

oh yeah, I really hate seeing them work on fixing the game, big slap in our faces

[vernal spire]

what's the topic currently?

[tame flare]

RIP only crash fixes no performance fixes

[cobalt mulch]

Noted to be addressed in future updates:

Analogue sticks dead zones bugfixes.
A-Life system bugfixes.

[prime pollen]

im not exactly thrilled with that announcement. nowhere does it say performance fixes

[tight urchin]

doesn't look too good for performance, hopefully it's not like "well that's unreal engine 5 nothing we can do, cya" nothing about memory leak too

[visual terrace]

Because the game performs as expected

[cosmic nacelle]

other unreal engine 5 games dont run this bad

[drowsy ingot]

there are plenty of ways to optimize ue5

[novel pawn]

noted to be adressed never:
Performance optimization

[cobalt mulch]

theyre not even fixing alife or the controller problems in the next update lmao

[tame flare]

i think its actually gonna be like that

[prime pollen]

theres no reason for 4000 series owners like myself to not be able to play without having to restart every 25 minutes with lag drops in every npc area

[shy galleon]

A life system bug fixes, its not even implemented in the game. What bugs are to fix lol

[tight urchin]

love spreading misinformation!

[prime pollen]

@tight urchin you think a r5 5600x isnt adequate? its recommended for medium specs dude. im playing on medium

[sleek drift]

Oh great a life won't even be fixxed in the next update which means probobly next year if at all

[drowsy ingot]

as a game developer. no.

[tight urchin]

tbh I have absolutely no idea about amd cpus sorry

[shy galleon]

Its not misinfo you weasel, this has already been said and investigated

[prime lark]

GSC support answered me with a bot response that doesn't resemble in any way what i asked initially

[cobalt mulch]

time to refund on steam and pirate the game when they fix it. No controller fix? no alife fix? not even working on it it seems? yeah lemme get my 100 back KEK

[bronze sundial]

Where is the point mentioning OPTIMIZATION FIXES, what the actual hell

[old hatch]

I wish they would fix 150gb game with one hotfix 🥵

[tight urchin]

ah yeah you're the weaseldude 😂 why did they just yesterday(?) say it does exist? wouldn't be the smartest move to just lie about something that doesn't exist

[cosmic nacelle]

i'm using a 4070 and 7900x3d and the framerates are fine.. but the stuttering is bad, and it feels like refresh is like locked low. other ue5 games feel fine and dont have this problem

[prime pollen]

two of the biggest issues are performance and a life, and neither will be addressed

[neat cipher]

They literally just announced the patch during the week

[novel pawn]

Although we are being very silly to think that in 1 week they would fix A-Life and the performance, which they didn't fix for years in development

[sleek drift]

Its the one bug that affects the most of the game so yeah, considering we don't even know HOW it should be working its sorts a big deal

[cobalt mulch]

read the bottom part

Noted to be addressed in future updates:

Analogue sticks dead zones bugfixes.
A-Life system bugfixes.

[cloud night]

is the not smooth moving shadow from the rising sun my pc or the current state of the game?

[shy galleon]

Its been investigated and said already maybe go check urself. A life files are non existent

[craggy river]

OMG NO MENTION OF PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS WHAAATTTT

[neat cipher]

Yeah, good advice, try to follow it

[cobalt mulch]

theyre not fixing any alife or controller or preformance issues lmao. they dont know how, they cant do it.

[cobalt mulch]

Noted to be addressed in future updates:

Analogue sticks dead zones bugfixes.
A-Life system bugfixes.

not this update this week

[sleek drift]

I wouldn't expect any huge performance boosts or fixxes....ever. if past performance is anything to go off of, it's pretty much always gonna be like this.

[tight urchin]

maybe it's time for another reddit post about a-life

[mystic token]

I'm asking for a refund. No controller fix. have to wait until another update. That might be weeks from now.

[cobalt mulch]

noted to be addressed instead of fixing the main problem people have

[sleek drift]

Specifically regarding performance that is.

[shy galleon]

Maybe you should try to get a life

[lapis niche]

Hmm, not a single word about performance optimization in the patch announcement. That's worrisome.

[vernal spire]

i'm not a developer nor do i have experience as a coder. what types of "optimizations" can they make in order to increase the performance of this game?

[warm timber]

i went from no problems in 15 hours to now three CTD this AM

[cobalt mulch]

same, im also pirating it and not paying for this shit again lmao

[vernal spire]

Soon

[sleek drift]

Why not use steam to adjust the deadzone?

[tight urchin]

schrodingers a-life, maybe a-life is the stalkers we made along the way
at this point nobody knows what's going on, one side is screaming "aahhhh it doesn't exist we got ripped off" and other side is saying "well it's in the files so uh"

[novel pawn]

the performance optimization is the advice to update your gpu and windows lmao

[lapis niche]

What do you mean soon? In a week that patch will drop and then we will have to wait another week or two

[dry lynx]

But but...I like my Windows 7

[lapis niche]

Windows 3.11 gang ❤️

[blazing siren]

win7 isnt even supported by steam anymore ):

[cobalt mulch]

it doesnt work

[sleek drift]

Do you have steam input enabled or disabled?

[cobalt mulch]

theres no fix for the controller, no 3rd party programs work, no steam input works, even with adjusted deadzones and it was enabled.

[vernal spire]

in a week? so next wednesday or another full week?

[sleek drift]

So its the first game ever that uses steam input yet ignores it's own settings....that doesn't make any sense

[hoary copper]

They promised performance fix for first patch

[cobalt mulch]

yes its also the first game ive ever seen cause virtual stick drift. go try it yourself it doesnt work at all

[sleek drift]

Either someone is confused or gsc is gonna gove bethesda a run for their money In terms of impressive jankiness

[quartz sluice]

I am running 5600x, I cant find 5800x3d anywhere… So I should just get 5900x ?

[hollow nexus]

#📰┃announcement message

[drifting magnet]

they will fix the game when the patch is ready

[cobalt mulch]

no they wont lmao

[limber panther]

This game is more playable than cyberpunk on release tho

[old hatch]

Game is crashing. In terms of fixing priority: crashes>performance

[tight urchin]

Quality and stability improvements of the visual effects during cutscenes. is a performance improvement theoretically

[cobalt mulch]

the 3 main problems most people have are either planned for future updates or not mentioned at all

[bronze sundial]

Guys, go to #📜┃ask-gsc and demand the fix to include optimization

[drifting magnet]

this is very true :D

[cobalt mulch]

the only thing they care about is the 1m coppies sold. who cares if its broken yall already paid

[hoary copper]

Maybe at least memory leaks will be fixed fully and performance will do better

[sleek drift]

Virtual stick drift? Now that really doesn't make sense. Sounds more like deadzone wasn't applied and your just becoming aware to the level of drift

[limber panther]

So it seems a little silly to demand everything all at once from a company that is smaller than cd project rd lol

[cosmic nacelle]

this is not true at all lol

[cobalt mulch]

lmao like i said. go try it yourself and tell me how it works out. i spent 3 hours trying every possible setting to fix it.

[drifting magnet]

still much better tho

[sleek drift]

Cd project red is huge lol

[visual terrace]

They should hire me. I have some ideas that’ll keep them on track with what the players really want. Forget A-Life 2.0 and optimizing the game we want hookers in the zone STAT

[late ferry]

awwexx has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[cobalt mulch]

seems a little silly for a game to be released broken huh?

[tight urchin]

you don't understand dude, these bad greedy devs just took our hard earned money to scam us!! they are lying and the sheeple here believe everything they say!!!!

[sleek drift]

Yeah I'm not calling you a liar by any means but you do gotta understand this sounds utterly insane...but at this point I wouldn't be thay surprised

[limber panther]

Exactly and they messed up CP2077 harder.

[rancid owl]

Yup its a fun game but I get 40mins of gameplay before we drop to single digit fps.

[tight urchin]

and still they were able to fix it and it's great now 🙂

[late ferry]

mydogjason has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[coarse linden]

Eh either release product semi broken or shut down studio. Seems logical which to choose. Aint cheap developing games for years without any income coming in

[bronze sundial]

I didn't play c77, but s2, at least for me, is the worst AAA game I have ever played in terms of performance and optimization

[tight urchin]

ofc we can demand a working game, but the game's clearly unfinished so you can either get angery at the devs or just wait for them to fix stuff (and it's not unplayable)

[limber panther]

It’s not triple A……

[cobalt mulch]

yeah it doesnt make any sense to me at all, ive never seen anything messed up this bad in terms of controller support. most stuff is fixable by some means but theres not even any mods out fixing it yet so you know its gotta be a bad problem if modders cant fix it

[sleek drift]

"About us. CD PROJEKT RED is home to over 1000 game-making professionals from all over the globe." Yeah that sure is small lmao"

[cobalt mulch]

if it was just deadzone input problems it would be an ez fix

[cosmic nacelle]

yeah, i would agree, i cant even drop down to a lower resolution to play due to stuttering. i'm able to play other UE5 games on higher resolution + settings on my setup just fine lol

[visual terrace]

It’s as triple A as redfall was. I just chalk it up to a game pass title.

[sleek drift]

I have alot of experience with steam input cuz i was an early adopter of both steam controller and the htc vive, my ps5 pad has some drift so I'll test it

[cobalt mulch]

if you're able to get it working some how please dm me and let me know lol

[tight urchin]

I don't know what to tell you but I don't think the devs are chilling rn, they probably do have a slight idea on what's going on rn and might even be willing to work as fast as they can

[sleek drift]

Even as frustrated as we all are, we can at least agree they are the one game company that has a good excuse for the issues

I mean how many game companies have had to escape what might be the start of world War 3 and continued development? Bethesda sure can't say that and that keep messing up their own games even a decade after launch

[tight urchin]

and if you're extremely angery about it just refund the game, completely understandable and fine to do
but writing the 400th reddit post about "this game unfinished grrr" is probably not gonna do much (maybe it's time to do the classic gamer move and go on twitter to harass them)

[late ferry]

0x61475634 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[sleek drift]

If you aren't familiar with what they managed to do to fallout 4 recently....look it up. It's rather impressive how deaf they are to their own community. Sucks cuz I was a huge bethesda fan since morrowind....

[vital warren]

can anyone help me?
got stuck in missiongood old dayswhich after the cg Richter didn't say anything but to smoking and i lost mission mark had nowhere to go with
mission describes is talk to prof.

[hoary copper]

Well I guess I'll see performance patch some month maybe

[tight urchin]

wolf really making sure this is a safe space

[sleek drift]

Lmao you can't get a refund for a game if you played for over 2 hours. Unfortunately time spent trying to get the game to work counts as time played

[cobalt mulch]

you email steam and tell them your kid stole your credit card and bought it. they refund real fast.

[lilac mulch]

quick question, is it frame gen causing the terrible 4fps lag spikes after an hour or is it the upscaling

[sleek drift]

Sometimes you can end up playing for an hour and only then discover the extent of the issues.

[old hatch]

Trapped with what? This is a huge and ambitious game, people aware it would be fixed and it's impossible to fix performance with one hotfix within even month, lol.

[cobalt mulch]

m rated game, no cussing in server.

[tight urchin]

yeah for sure, I get you
but I think we should keep in mind that the devs are human too so it will take a while for them to fix all of the issues and I'm pretty sure they want to fix this game too 🙂

[old hatch]

It's not a microsoft flight simulator 2024.

[hoary copper]

Like every game tbh

[sleek drift]

I paid 39.99 for into the radius 2 only to find out vive wands aren't supported and spent over 2 hours trying to get my controllers working with the game.
I almost had it working then found out they didn't even have weapon maintenance in the game yet...a main feature of the original. They refused to refund it despite me having only actually played the game about 10 min. The rest was spent just trying to get the controls to work

Point being its not a foolproof system by any means

[past knoll]

There is almost no excuse that isn't enough for steam to give you a refund. I played 8 hours of a game one night and refunded the next day through email because I was intoxicated.

[sleek drift]

Its so dumb an needlessly frustrating to have your whole post nuked and not even know what the badword was

[cobalt mulch]

this is why i pirate games. stop releasing broken shit and i wont be scared to spend my money. this is what i get or supporting a studio KEKW

[coarse linden]

Funny cycle aint it? Buy game -> broken -> complain and be victim -> repeat

[shy galleon]

Weasel white knight shhh

[sleek drift]

I wish that were true but if your over that 2 hours or god forbid play it 5 min and wait for a patch that never comes then refund 3 weeks later you still get denied

[hoary copper]

That's why it's better to pirate and try it out

[cobalt mulch]

not to mention controller and alife fixes arent even planned untill future updates

[frail mural]

i bet yall will play the patch though

[wicked oasis]

Gamepass bis

[coarse linden]

Nah. Better to just keep to old games. Even if product releases in broken state doesnt entitle you to pirate it

[cobalt mulch]

yeah after i use fitgirl to download the game again once i refund this copy.

[restive root]

Watching the hardware unboxed video: https://youtu.be/g03qYhzifd4?si=c2Ui1OZK_P2OcR3i - it seems pretty obvious you cant run this game on an 8gb card. Maybe if you run it on low.

[sleek drift]

Well duh, peep wouldn't be complaining if they didn't want to play it....

[past knoll]

Brother it happened. I probably still have the email.

[frail mural]

always nice to piggy back off others who support devs

[cobalt mulch]

i supported the dev, they didnt provide what i paid for

[hoary copper]

Eh everyone does different

[tight urchin]

I think this is the 10th time you're telling us you'll be cracking the game which is cool for u but I think we get it

[lyric crag]

What’s the best place / channel to report specific bug reports for devs?

[frail mural]

and they’ve communicated, how about yall just go outside OR

PLAY ANOTHER GAME?

[old hatch]

Leave negative review with described problems, if you wanna be heard.

[restive root]

As someone who has gone in and out of the “scene” for almost 30 years. Whats the point of “fitgirl” yall always got these releases with zips that take 6 hours to unpack. Why not just get the iso

[tight urchin]

probably this right? https://support.stalker2.com/

[old hatch]

Provide link.

[cobalt mulch]

theyre not even addressing the 3 main problems this upcoming patch. they said future updates.

[tight urchin]

you can even get paid for leaving a negative review lmao https://preview.redd.it/here-is-another-photo-from-telegram-where-they-now-will-v0-j0salz679n2e1.png?width=300&format=png&auto=webp&s=de68a3bcc3209edb51b564c88164d7584ad67828
wild times we live in lmao

[coarse linden]

Pretty sure they are. Just not as simple fix so its not ready for the first patch

[old hatch]

I mean steam review with problems you faced while playing.

[vernal spire]

what are they?

[sleek drift]

I still don't think it justifies pirating a game though. I knew it would prolly be rough cuz its a gsc game. Only thing I'm upset about is the a life system personally becuase all I know is groups of enemies spawning right behind me or a whole group of peep 10 feet in front of me isn't how any of the games worked before....and I'm assuming it's not supposed to be this way currently but it is gsc on a new engine and in the middle of a war.....the odds are against them on this

[frail mural]

theres money in being an asshole, idk whats stopping anyone these days but people lack a sense of ethics

[cobalt mulch]

if fixing the controller issues isnt a simple fix for them then they should shutdown as a company and try another profession

[tight urchin]

I kind of think they might have a reason why they're not talking about performance fixes yet, I'm pretty sure they have heard of the issues with the game lol

[cobalt mulch]

its because they cant fix it

[steel jackal]

I have a i7-14700f and 4070 super with 32 gb of ram. Can I run this game?

[restive root]

Yeah with dlss probably about 60 in town 80-90 outside for 1440p

[old hatch]

I'm pretty sure, negative steam review have much bigger impact on dev's. You see negative review and you see problem (if you are lucky), so you can solve it and review can be changed.

[manic escarp]

Running great for me @ 2K, high, DLSS quality, frame gen on. around 100 outside, drops to 40-50 inside Zalissya.

5800X, 3080ti FE, 32gb ram

added this mod - https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/2

Well done to the dev team for getting something out in the worst circumstances going!

[cobalt mulch]

the modders have already done 100x more then the actual team has since launch.

[tight urchin]

great take, I can just make stuff up and say they'll have the game running at 1000fps in 2 weeks too, we simply do not know anything yet

[limber panther]

I hope they can make an entire sequel to stalker 2 for 20 bucks then

[sleek drift]

Most games don't get big performance boosts with an update unless they remove something or cut down on other things and just hope players don't notice.

[cosmic nacelle]

yeah you'll just be stuck with constant stuttering and performance issues regardless lol ii have siimilar specs

[cobalt mulch]

ever heard of anomaly?

[hoary copper]

Anomaly fantastic

[sleek drift]

I was using one of those performance mods and recently un-installed it to see if it could be affecting the a life system. Still gotta do more testing but seems performance boosts was negligible and mostly placebo

[cobalt mulch]

this guy alex thinks the mod team cant make an entire game out of this broken mess KEKW

[hoary copper]

Plus it's free

[restive root]

Did they say they werent fixing the mouse issues either? I gotta go download an x/y mod instead of them typing .40 coefficient into a cfg file? 😭

[hoary copper]

It seems it more hot fix part 1, more parts to go

[coarse linden]

Tbh why waste time on broken mess when they could build one from the ground up?

[tepid steppe]

Damn, was hoping for hot fix sooner Like now

[sleek drift]

I tried anomaly....it reminded me of how old the stalker games feel an look lol

[cobalt mulch]

nope, and not fixing controller issues, alife issues or preformance issues untill future updates. not this upcoming one.

[tight urchin]

I really don't understand people saying "they can't fix performance", "there's no a-life never has been", "they'll abandon this game" even tho we literally don't know anything
nobody here knows what kinda stuff they have lying around that might have gotten removed or what's up with the performance
I don't think it'd be a smart move of them telling us they're fixing stuff like A-life and straight up lying about it
might be hard copium but it's not ubisoft lol

[cobalt mulch]

theyve done it before

[sleek drift]

I'd be happy if they would just tell us specifically what a life is doing wrong and what it SHOULD be doing...but they probobly wont

[restive root]

Yeah. Im patient. Id just like to play next week. I gotta get in the attic and do some electrical to prep for a bathroom reno this weekend. Would be nice to hop in before bed

[shy galleon]

It was a smart move, they made their sales, thats about all

[sleek drift]

Then I could decide if I should wait to play or keep playing

[hoary copper]

Bet second hot fix in few weeks

[tight urchin]

we need to do a professional psychoanalysis on gsc frfr but personally I think we should just spread non-confirmed reddit talk, rumours and/or lies

[sleek drift]

Your easily one of the most helpful peep here. Totally not making the problem your complaining about much worse by antagonizing frustrated gamers

[serene meteor]

im frustrated and horny

[coarse linden]

Apparently its fun to rant nonstop

[spice orchid]

just in case somebody reads this who has rather high or normal performance usually, but sudden frame spikes into the sub 10 fps for several seconds every 5-10mins: set hair detail to low and restart the game. completely fixed it for me (been without any frame spikes for ~15 hours now since I made the change)

[sleek drift]

That just means your alive

[hoary copper]

Rant brings chat to life

[tight urchin]

had a guy in here saying that hair only affects animals and not npcs so nobody really knows what's exactly going on

[spice orchid]

ah man, that's sad ... i hoped it would work for others too

[sleek drift]

Your comparing it to an ancient game so that sounds about right...

[robust holly]

an "ancient" game t hat still holds up graphically today

[tight urchin]

I wonder if modders will be able to do some performance magic in the near future, game's been out for like 4 days and we have seen small to huge improvements already
hopefully someone just forgot to disable performance=bad somewhere in the game files (incredibly realistic scenario trust me)

[restive root]

Rolypolies?

[sleek drift]

Alyx can't be seen in that game cuz that's who you play as. In hl2 she has 8,323 polygons

[robust holly]

This is very true

[restive root]

Hl2 actually launched with a sound bug where you would just lose audio in random parts of the game. It took awhile to fix. Rebooting didnt resolve the issue.

[tight urchin]

#pc-specs message

[spice orchid]

oh and maybe something else, that i found a workaround for that might be worth sharing: in the mission 'A light in the end of the tunnel', when leaving the bunker through a set of stairs, the game 'crashed' for me, again and again after reloading my save a few times. but actually it does not crash, it's just frozen for several minutes. If you keep on waiting it goes back to normal at some point.

[sleek drift]

I've played half life alyx several times, alyx is pretty much the only one that can't be seen in game lol. And even then the models in alyx are nothing to slouch at

[restive root]

Yall gotta get more vram in the mean time. Thats absolutely wild

[flat brook]

Well, time to consume a reasonable amount of alcohol (atleast 3 liters of rum)

And murder some bandits for their 12x70 00 buck (stab them 37 times in the back)

[sleek drift]

I just opened a bottle of whisky and plan to drink the whole thing while streaming stalker 2 on veteran lol

[restive root]

That game was so good. My indexes left eye went out and im procrastinating ever tearing it apart to replace the sensor. Its insanely fragile to repair

[flat brook]

Good hunting Sdalger, may the odds be ever in your favor

[spice orchid]

interestingly i have a 4090 and zero issues so far besides the random frame drops which started after a certain main mission and the one in this staircase haha, so i'm not sure what the error might have been but i found a few others who had the same 'crash' on reddit

[restive root]

You have a 4090 and its completely freezing like that? Lol there is no hope.

[tight urchin]

the reason is probably more that ur cpu is good, 4090 doesn't matter much

[sleek drift]

It was an incredible play the first time, but subsequent plays made me realize how linear it was an how it lacks any replayability. Visually still one of the most incredible gaming experiences though

[chilly relic]

All you have to do is google half life alyx alyx model, that's the one they're talking about

[tight urchin]

never stop! ❤️

[spice orchid]

yup, not sure. was just mentioning the gpu because they meant it might have been VRAM 😅

[grizzled drift]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/17

P40LOX just updated this mod and I gained about 20+ average fps increase

[ivory isle]

soooo the patch has no performance improvements

[sleek drift]

Actually just remembered she does appear at the VERY end for like...10 seconds lol

[broken canopy]

I’ve had nothing but a positive experience on both my pcs. All I changed was the hair to low & it was good to go.

[restive root]

Yeah because 3 days sitting in here the correlation with most of the insane slow down ane freezes is people with low vram gpus. Now people obviously crash, but the extreme slowdown usually is hardware related from bad optimization

[hollow nexus]

we need a "make everyone bald" mod

[tight urchin]

r.OneFrameThreadLag=0 ; you running it with this enabled?

[hoary copper]

Did they at least mention memory leak to fixed in this patch?

[restive root]

Ive never gone below like 50fps on my 3090. But ive never left the first map area. Im waiting for more fixes. The dudes spawning when I 180 my aim back and forth is a deal breaker for me

[hollow nexus]

no they didnt 💀

[grizzled drift]

Yessir!

[hoary copper]

Dang, issues gonna continue for me then lol

[hollow nexus]

what does this setting do?

[flat brook]

Make sure you run a frame limiter, I’ve also heard turning Global illumination and render distance down to medium and high respectively tends to help.

I’m able to run GI and render distance both at high without issues, but see what works for you!

[tight urchin]

decrease input lag, might decrease fps too (had heavy impact on 2 versions ago)

[hoary copper]

Cause sometimes it drops FPS so bad and I have to wait paused for half minute

[grizzled drift]

r.OneFrameThreadLag=0 ; This will noticeably reduce input latency, but if you experience drastically lower FPS after using this, delete this line

[sleek drift]

Actually it seems pretty light on vram usage compared to other games like say resident evil 4 remake

[old hatch]

Issues and memory allocation failures (с)

[spice orchid]

true, that's usually the case in those scenarios.

it was just this exact scenario where i had it happen. i could fix the random frame drops via the hair low setting. but besides that the game runs pretty well with a 117fps limit (4k, dlss quality)

[sleek drift]

Resident evil 2,3 and 4 remakes can easily chew through twice as much vram as stalker 2

[hearty yacht]

not a flagship system i would say

[hollow nexus]

I was using that engine.ini but haven't tried without that line

[novel pawn]

oh no

[sleek drift]

Also it doesn't have anywhere near the slowdowns that stalker 2 has when you run out. You'll get a stutter here an there but once it's loaded in it's fine....provided you don't crash. Stalker 2 however just dies when more than 10 characters are nearby

[hollow nexus]

I hope it works well for you

[true wagon]

Sup everyone, I'm rockin 7800X3D, 3070Ti, 32GB RAM at 1080p all settings at high(render at epic)/DLSS-Quality, getting 55-70fps in safe zones, around 100 outside. My only issue was random crashes after 1-2hours reason: d3d12utill.cpp line 880- basically gpu removed 🤣 i had fps cap at 60, since i raised it to 120 no issues! If you have same problem, try that out. Happy hunting Stalkers🫡

[restive root]

This would tell me otherwise: https://youtu.be/g03qYhzifd4?si=3RJ3cKQxDLi6rOoW

[hearty yacht]

Should help yeah, wouldn't expect more than 1080p though 🙂

[tight urchin]

sorry can you elaborate a bit? 😅 what does that line do, where have u found that info? what do you mean with gpu removed?

[restive root]

Probably going to unfortunately be a bad choice for this game. Most of these new titles almost require dlss to function

[true wagon]

What exactly😁

[tame flare]

you didnt say what we should try out

[heady ridge]

See this channel is nice and peaceful, unlike #⭐┃nospoilers_general, and our cooldown time is way lower here.

[tame flare]

nvm cant read

[tight urchin]

I don't even have that file in my d3d12 folder if it's in there

[true wagon]

Crash report is saying that basically

[sleek drift]

I'm running at 1080p an it uses around 6gb of vram on average

[full latch]

I can barely keep 35 fps on a 3060 ti, ill be mad if you get 100fps, fsr or not

[tight urchin]

can you give me the path to that file?

[restive root]

Are you on low? Because something out there tanks fps if you turn some settings up on those gpus

[full latch]

thats what im on, buddy 🙂

[sleek drift]

Nope. Max settings

[restive root]

Thats probably with framegen (which will feel like absolute aids) 200 fps in this game with frame gen on my pc feels like 25

[broken canopy]

My friend gets around double that.

[flint harbor]

So no performance update or I read that wrong?

[tight urchin]

check out the pinned post, helps with reducing input latency/lag

[heady ridge]

Just get a stronger power supply to charge up your gpu and cpu

[sleek drift]

But yeah 8gbs sounds brutal...mine has 10gb and the only game I've noticed exceeding that was the resident evil remakes and re village.

[restive root]

You will care, because it stutters and is impossible to aim. 🤷‍♂️

[sleek drift]

8gb is just too little for modern pc gaming unless you just want garbage visuals or you play indie games more than anything

[flint harbor]

I played village no problem with 3060 6gb

[true wagon]

Would love to, will try to search for it

[full latch]

i got a MSI MAG X570S TOMAHAWK MAX WIFI ATX AM4 Motherboard, Ryzen 5 5600x CPU, EVGA 3060ti, 32gb ram. Even on low I can barely sqeeze out 40 fps when standing still. FSR give me 40 while moving, but with horrible input lag

[sleek drift]

Textures that low isn't what I would call fine but I'm a graphic tech snob

[restive root]

STutTErS MeMoRy iSsUe. Im sorry man. Ive got a 9800x3d @ 5.4ghz and it stutters.

[flint harbor]

Who said they were low 🐔

[heady ridge]

The issues people have in here are 1000x more relevant and important than that A-Life BS.

[tight urchin]

can't find any d3d12utill.cpp in the main files nor in the %localappdata%

[fresh plover]

yeah

[sleek drift]

Well if you had them on high then your def using more than 6gb lol

[tight urchin]

did u disable Control Flow Guard exclusively for stalker 2 yet?

[flint harbor]

Medium, dlss on

[tight urchin]

#pc-specs message

[sand nimbus]

I never used Gsync/FreeSync VRR. Is it worth it?

[full latch]

fsr barely gives me 10 more frames at the cost of horrid input lag. Im running latest drivers. I get 80+ fps on almost every other game i play. This game is just not optimized for pc

[tight urchin]

#pc-specs message this does reduce input lag by a ton

[restive root]

You basically cant remove the traversal stutter out of UE5. Its in fortnite… their flagship title. Im just trying to let you know of the things you need to be aware of. You can cope all you want, but framegen is NOT a solution to make a game feel better. It will always just be placebo when you look at afterburner and go “yeah boi! Im maxxxing my fpsss”

[fervent yacht]

Did I miss something in the announcement this evening or did they not mention anything performance related?

Low fps, rendering?

I skimmed through it roughly.

Can anyone elaborate? Or at least mention something relevant for performance?

[sleek drift]

Easy to hit 13gb and more on those games. If I'm playing a game on medium settings then things in my life are truly going badly lol. Priorities!

[tight urchin]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-endpoint/enable-exploit-protection#enabling-exploit-protection-mitigations does this autotranslate for you, you can change language in the website footer 🙂
ah great changing to ukrainian doesn't do anything, 1 sec

[flint harbor]

13gb? We taking about ram or vram?

[sleek drift]

Vram of course. Who has that little ram nowadays?

[dusk plaza]

How would a AMD Ryzen™ 9 7950X3D Processor (16X 4.2GHz/128MB L3 Cache); 64 GB [32 GB X2] DDR5-5600MHz; and a 4070 ti 16gb, play this game?

[restive root]

Slava ukraini brother. Yall gettin fukt over there

[tame flare]

2/10 ragebait

[heady ridge]

Some of us do brother. We got some old pcs that we may want to stress test, ya know?

[sleek drift]

Rage bait? This is a fact for most pc gamers....I've had 32gb for literally years now

[strange karma]

good, i have a i7 8700k and 1080ti and can play it smooth enough

[tame flare]

there is still a massive amount of people with 16gb

[sleek drift]

Considering how cheap ram is, that just seems wierd lol

[restive root]

Dont start this. I got hiveminded in here for an hour lastnight because i tried to explain to people that 2060 is not “midtier” and was infact a lowend budget card on release. And to say in 2024 is midtier is absolutely bonkers. Some people were spamming racism at me until mods came in

[tight urchin]

open settings > click two arrows icon (update & security) > windows security shield icon > open windows security button > app&browser control (basically rectangle icon) > exploit protection at the bottom (click the blue line above learn more) -> then switch from left side system settings to right side program settings > add by program name > enter Stalker2-WinGDK-Shipping.exe then select Control Flow Guard (CFG) which is the 6th setting for me and has "ensures control flow integrity for indirect calls" as description for me > checkmark override system settings and click the slider to off beneath it -> then hit apply

[sleek drift]

No but those platforms are gonna have memory problems with modern titles lol

[valid creek]

looks like somebody doesn't look at steam hardware surveys

[restive root]

Peoples hardware choices seem to form partly their identity and it breaks their cognitive dissonance if you criticize their part choices. Its wild. I had 32gb of ram in my gaming pc in like 2008

[grizzled drift]

Yeah I was averaging 140+ in the open world (away from settlements) and after he updated it, I was getting 160+ in the open world.

[sleek drift]

Yeah, they don't apply to me. If I wanted a mid tier experience I'd buy a console lol.

[broken sage]

Is the 32gb of ram really whats tanking my performance?

[sleek drift]

Even when I bought my system with an rtx 3080 in it, I couldn't consider it truly high end after seeing the numbers for the 3090.

[unborn fable]

Because that is a code file that devs use to compile the application, you wont find them.

[sand nimbus]

Honestly at this point i just cap my fps to 30 and enjoy a locked frametime experience.

[true wagon]

Thx for clearing🙃

[surreal yew]

still no one cares

[sleek drift]

Right? Ram is one of the cheapest if not the cheapest part you can buy for your pc that affects performance these days

[sleek drift]

I cared enough to further that discussion so......lol

[heady ridge]

You thought you ate with this huh

[humble patio]

7800 x3d 7900xtx 32gb ram @1080p average 180fps maxxed settings

[restive root]

Here is what you are misunderstanding. You are conflating in a survey of all hardware on the steam platform. Most of those people just have steam, they dont play modern aaa titles. Id argue a giant swath of those computers are e-waste that was sent with 1999 super bowl loser t-shirts to namibia as a tax write off.

[minor dawn]

Gotta keep in mind that those results are also affected by the people that just get a pre-build and call it a day (but yeah honestly everyone should get 32gb of ram at this point, the kits are pretty cheap nowadays)

[broken sage]

Does anyone How much more frames can I expect if upgrade from 16 to 32? Considering I have an 3070ti
Ryzen 5 5600X

I use 16gb, its enough for excellent frames on rdr2, elden ring, and cyberpunk. Why does Stalker 2 require so much RAM? And hardware in general

[true wagon]

But with frame gen on mate

[humble patio]

fps is fps mate?

[true wagon]

Frame gen is bs, not raw performance

[viral plover]

I upgraded to 32gb of ram and still get horrible performance with good specs

[sleek drift]

Not nessessarily. Latency can still be a seperate issue related to it

[sand nimbus]

So many shadows missing in this game even on epic its kinda crazy. Original stalker had dynamic shadows

[vagrant pawn]

is just me or there is no way i cant rebind melee ?

[sleek drift]

I tried framegen and sure it improved performance....and added a half a second input latency at 60hz

[sleek drift]

Its not just you! It literally ignores every attempt at rebinding.

[restive root]

Makes aiming literally give me motion sickness. Ive never experience motion sickness before playing a game

[viral plover]

Does everyone for the most part havee to put on framegen?

[sleek drift]

I drove me up a wall trying to figure out how rebind melee to mouse 4....its definitely one of the wierdest issues I've seen in awhile

[dense talon]

What were you expecting 32GB of RAM to do? There is a difference between VRAM and RAM.

[surreal yew]

no

[minor dawn]

FSR or DLSS frame gen? Only wondering cuz I got dlss fg enabled and don’t really notice the latency

[flat dome]

The devs have expected Frame gen to be on for players, listed in the reconmended specs. it's just a shame.

[viral plover]

The recommend specs of the game changed to 32gb of RAM

[sleek drift]

I disable it even in vr. I can't stand it personally. But it's actually alot less noticeable visually on flatscreen than in vr surprisingly

[restive root]

Well vr you feel everrrrythingg.

[sleek drift]

I'm on an rtx 3080 so it's not the dlss one. Might even be the cause of it since the 4000 series is the only ones that can do framegend on dlss

[minor dawn]

Ah ok

[restive root]

Framegen is inherently only super useful if you already get like 100fps and want to try to max out your refresh rate and get say 200fps. If you have like 25 fps, frame gen just looks terrible and has so much input lag because the ai model doesnt have enough information to extrapolate from

[sleek drift]

Really makes me mad that it only works with 4000 series for whatever reason

[minor dawn]

Hardware, people have forced it on 30 series and it actually tanked performance

[viral plover]

Yeah, this framegen does make me sick to my stomach

[sleek drift]

Makes sense

[restive root]

Im getting a 5090 hopefully before trump tariffs and just chillin for another 4 years on gpu. I hate that they are cutting more cuda cores from the 5080 so they can keep more yields and sell expensive af quaddro carda to the enterprise segment

[drowsy lance]

bro they didnt say anything about grphics optimization...

[minor dawn]

5090 with 21k vs 5080 with 10k 💀 just call the 5080 a 5070 at this point

[sleek drift]

On one hand dlss is great but it's also easier to mislead consumers about how powerful a gpu actually is

[dense talon]

That is more the amount of RAM you need to run the game and the OS at the same time and whatever other programs you might have on. More than raw performance/fps in the game.

[sleek drift]

If you take framegen away from the 4000 series the performance comparisons between the 3000 and the 4000 series is smaller than usual

[heady ridge]

W @nimble breach noosphere

[sleek drift]

The 4080 doesn't offer the same level of comparable performance comparatively speaking as the 3080 gave at launch...and nothing has compared to the boost the 1000 series was over previous cards. That 1080 was a beast. I still use mine in my old machine

[minor dawn]

? This is just false lol 40 series was a pretty big jump for raw performance if you compare the flagships

[late ferry]

spookyboneman420 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[mellow egret]

I hope this FUDGING update drops this week, these memory access violations are AIDs.

[vocal canopy]

Any hope for 4060 with an i5 8400?

[tight urchin]

flippin heck

[mellow egret]

yes actually, I"m running an i5 with a 4060 and I get 60 FPS steady when the game actually works

[vocal canopy]

Coudl you tell me your settings/mods used / resolution? must be a 2023 i5?

[tight urchin]

which kinda i5, quite the difference between i5 14th gen and 3rd gen 😄

[lilac tundra]

Depends, is it the 8gb model or 16gb?

[mellow egret]

i5-12400F

[outer badge]

Thats what I still have. Built this pc in 2014ish. Gtx 1080, 32gb ram, m.2 ssd. I play stalker 2 on medium settings. Gets a lil laggy like 25fps after playing for awhile and Outside.

[vocal canopy]

Yeah this one is a lot stronger than mine, 4 years newer. But still curioust o know your settings

[tight urchin]

yeah this gon be rough for them, I have a 10700k and mine's not doing too great, check pinned posts tho @vocal canopy

[sleek drift]

Even this guy has 32gb of ram!

[outer badge]

Lol

[mellow egret]

I run at high settings at steady 60fps

[vocal canopy]

Pinned? Ive found a lot of settings tips if you have bad gpu but not if u have bad cpu

[mellow egret]

I usd the optimization mod but I'm not sure if it's actually doing anything tbh lmao

[vocal canopy]

Frame gen, dlss/upscaling? what resolution ?

[heady ridge]

Bro what clown is claiming that it's "bad optimization" why the game won't run on their 4gb ram computer

[tight urchin]

#pc-specs message yeah cpu is what's gonna mess ur stuff up, but you could always just try this out

[sleek drift]

Peep who play ALOT of gta online prolly

[mellow egret]

1920x1080 on a curved 27" QHD. No DLSS. Don't remember the upscale. My game wont start because of mem access violations so I can't check.

[sleek drift]

That game can run on a potatoe lol

[vocal canopy]

Damn lots to try there, thanks so much

[tight urchin]

tried to run it as administrator?

[sleek drift]

Yet still has tech features most modern games still don't have.

[lilac tundra]

I think what surprised me a lot was the 30 odd GPU test done by Hardware Unboxed, any cards with 8GB Vram os less just tanked performance like crazy rofl

[mellow egret]

Tried everything besides updating BIOS.

[vocal canopy]

Consistently im finding 60-80fps and then after 20 min of playing becomes unplayable

[restive root]

Half this sub.

[mellow egret]

im going to try now that I've increased shader cache size but I don't think that will fix the issue. I think the current issue with mem access violations needs to be patch on their end.

[tight urchin]

mh that's only needed with 13/14th gen, is it shader compiling crash? if yes try to tab out while booting

[manic sand]

I'm suffering the same issues man, I'm hoping the next patch gets me ingame

[mellow egret]

tried that too.

[tight urchin]

https://tenor.com/view/mundo-feliz-onetreehsll-world-if-gif-14071235670792471304 the world if people actually said how they fixed that crash

[mellow egret]

I give updates when something I try works, it was working on launch day and part of yesterday, but now it's just CTD on startup during compiling

[velvet ocean]

so nothing about the fps issues 😂

[lapis niche]

Anyone else suddenly experiencing weirdly colored textures? like some trees being bright pink or purple until you get close?

Wondering if it could be from the newest ini tweak version that I installed today

[mellow egret]

Latest crash:
LowLevelFatalError [File:D:\STALKER2\s2editor\Engine\Source\Runtime\RHI\Private\PipelineStateCache.cpp] [Line: 429] Shader compilation failures are Fatal.

[tight urchin]

yup might have something to do with that, u running engine tweaks?

[lapis niche]

Yeah, the one in the pinned comments.
ultimate or whatever its called

[tight urchin]

did u verify game files yet

[mellow egret]

comes back clean every time

[dry lynx]

Anyone running with a RX 7600 who can tell me their avg. fps?

[vocal canopy]

i did 2, 3, couldnt do fast v sync since i cant find the program its gamepass, but i increaed page size by 3gb from 16 to 19... and power i put to maximum... and i set the shader cache size... estimate improvement

[mellow egret]

also don't know why it's showing under :D, as my SSD is :C and I have no other drives lmao

[tight urchin]

I may be stupid and didn't back up the old engine.ini, thank flip they provide their older files as archives

[tight urchin]

hmmm there's only 4 other posts on this discord with that same error message ... lemme check on my nexus page

[kind night]

Not sure if it was mentioned here already but I also found out, at least with me, if you set the process for stalker 2 to high priority it stabilizes FPS much more. (Stabilizes, as in stutters, doesnt increase)

[mellow egret]

also tried going directly to the directory it's referencing and it does not exist

[outer badge]

Make sure you got your vsync, gsync and or that other one for amd all set up correctly. You should be turning vsync off in the game menu ect ect. Lots of guides to help. It's also possible people with high end pc's having issues isbecause they have lame monitors and running vsync ect ect.

Stuttering will happen if you don't k know how to choose and set up a monitor. It's not as simple as people think

[tight urchin]

wait so it stutters or it does not stutter anymore? 😄

[kind night]

It doesnt stutter anymore lolol

[outer badge]

High end pc, cheap over priced monitor with no real gaming options ? Yah you ain't gonna have a good time in the game. Fortnite u can get away with, not this one

My pc is from 2014 and is smoking high end pc's in this game ? Check your monitor

[pseudo blade]

Did somebody figure out how to have dark scenes with this line in Engine.ini? "r.Lumen.DiffuseIndirect.Allow=0" it runs without FPS drops, but everythink is light up even underground

[next terrace]

are they not addressing performannce in the patch? just crashes?

[mellow egret]

one may be slightly more pressing than the other lmao

[delicate hill]

how do i stop my framerate crashing down to 10~ randomly

it even happens in the bloody cutscenes.

FSR is off, vsync is off but set to fast in nvidia settings. DLSS is set to performance

[next terrace]

well idk since they’re also adjusting many othr things that don’t matter if you play the game at 5fps

[mellow egret]

if you're playing at 5FPS you may not have a good enough PC to handle it. Otherwise, turn down your graphics until they start to patch optimization. At least you can enter the game and mess with your settings my guy.

[pseudo blade]

you can change everything in setting and you will still get 5fps drop

[mellow egret]

speaking of which, deleted Engine.ini and now this works. Also what? I get 60FPS on high with an i5 and a GTX 4060.

[next terrace]

like im not saying crashes shouldn’t be fixed but maybe they should be worked on simulatenously before lesser gameplay changes?

[mellow egret]

lesser gameplay changes tend to be easier to implement than going back and optimizing everything. Optimization takes more time. Biggest thing imo should be making sure that people can actually launch it without generic UE errors.

[next terrace]

yeah but the resources still went into the lesser stuff which will make the performance patch delayed now and it should be a priority, if those gameplay changes are easier there’s nothing keeping them from just implementing them down the line and putting all resources now into the crashes and overall performance

[delicate hill]

i get 10 fps sometimes with a 2060 and i5 on low

[mellow egret]

you don't seem to realize that not everyone in their team does the same exact work. people working on optimization are likely not touching gameplay changes, it isn't their area. Resource pools for different jobs are differently sized for most companies excluding massive developers who have been around 30+ years.

[tight urchin]

i5 can mean anything we need to know what comes after that 🙂 which gen?

[delicate hill]

i5 11400f

[next terrace]

perhaps, i’ve never worked in game dev so i accept that i might be wrong, im still glad that any patch is coming

[tender solar]

you could say this in like 50 different ways and some would still ask or say the same thing - explaining it has no worth sadly

[hoary copper]

i5 11th i presume

[delicate hill]

duh

[next terrace]

i just said that i accepted being wrong so i guess it had some worth lol

[mellow egret]

It does, because I can put some actual perspective to it. I've worked a bit of gamedev with friends on multiple projects. I'm great at some things, terrible at others. Same goes for any dev for anything really.

[hoary copper]

aaand rtx 3050?

[delicate hill]

2060

[mellow egret]

also, this specific crash is fixed by deleting your engine.ini in your local/stalker 2

LowLevelFatalError [File:D:\STALKER2\s2editor\Engine\Source\Runtime\RHI\Private\PipelineStateCache.cpp] [Line: 429] Shader compilation failures are Fatal.

[tight urchin]

adding this thank you for posting

[mellow egret]

no problem, like I said I try to post any fixes I manage that work

[vernal spire]

ugh, i want to like playing it but i feel i need to wait til this next patch

[next terrace]

bro

[heady ridge]

I think your pc is trying to tell you something bro

[lapis vigil]

hi

[tight urchin]

crazy that people like this actually exist, wild bio too

[tender solar]

@pure ibex hello, you're active, remove this "citizen."

[upbeat juniper]

Is this where I can ask if my rig is ass or not

[heady ridge]

Yeah

[lapis vigil]

it's normal that every time i open the game it have to compile shaders?

[tender solar]

ye for now

[delicate hill]

im above the minimum requirements

[mellow egret]

Politics not allowed. Read server rules.

[atomic marsh]

are there any fixes for the input lag

[heady ridge]

yeah bro rip ur pc 🙏

[lapis vigil]

:((((

[mellow egret]

"The war"
Good try my guy.

[upbeat juniper]

I7 12700k 32gb ddr5 ram at 7200 nividia 3070 where should my settings be

[tight urchin]

they also have a racist bio, german edgelord time

[next terrace]

of course a russia supporter is a racist too lmao

[tender solar]

It's kind of impressive I can't ping moderator roles for these kinds of incidents.

[lapis vigil]

I have a R5 4500, 16gb of ram and a RX 6700 XT and the game (playing on medium setings) runs awful

[wintry needle]

do not feed troll, block and move on

[mellow egret]

But how dare you say a cuss word here.

[next terrace]

yep and now hes going to spell tje nword great

[orchid osprey]

@mellow egret Hello! After some time i cant load into game when i die or i reset the game. I can load into old save but after some gameplay again when i die im sutck at loading screen, any idea how to fix it?

[wintry needle]

that's automatic 😦 not actual moderation

[mellow egret]

He can't. Can't repeat letters in reacts.

Good try again, retard.

[tight urchin]

yuuuup I've heard about that before too, memory leaks might be connected to reloading saves 😅 best advice rn is to get gud and try not to reload a lot

[winged comet]

That's not the place to ask for advice and expect not to get trolled or "upgrade your PC" answers

[next terrace]

git gud

[mellow egret]

Restart your PC and run it again. Should clear the mem leak. Might have to do so once in awhile when you get the out of mem error.

[orchid osprey]

How do i clear the mem leak?

[tender solar]

@nimble jasper @pine jolt Hey guys, ya'll have a lively one here - can ya'll delete or like is this allowed? I can't imagine it is

[mellow egret]

"RESTART YOUR PC"

[nimble jasper]

thanks

[orchid osprey]

Oh i did multiple times already

[tight urchin]

my pc's just at 30gb ram now, I even reloaded an old save it's wild, something has to be happening with save loading

[mellow egret]

I'm loading saves just fine from launch day?

[tight urchin]

my ram usage has increased by 6gb since I actually played the game and not only tested stuff on the same savefile over and over (it might not be connected / i may be schtewpid)

[orchid osprey]

Oh, it happend to me after 15 hours gameplay

[mellow egret]

Yeah I'm at like 25 hours or so and my save isn't giving me any issues when I load it.

[next terrace]

just?

[autumn crystal]

wait for patch

[tight urchin]

well I only have 32gbs, oh "just" lmao

[mellow egret]

You may want to try deleting engine.ini

[wintry needle]

I had one autosave that must have happened right before a crash, because restarting and just hitting Continue crashed on load -- loading an older one worked fine tho

[tight urchin]

I love watching the funny ram number go up during shader compiling :3

[wintry needle]

I fully realise I'm one of the lucky ones

[mellow egret]

Like I just got done hunting the "Chimera"

[orchid osprey]

Where do i find that?

[tight urchin]

%localappdata% AppData\Local\Stalker2\Saved\Config\WinGDK

[mellow egret]

If you're on steam it's just windows instead of WinGDK

[wintry needle]

ah that reminds me to add more parameters to my mangohud

[tight urchin]

mangohud?

[wintry needle]

sorry 😐 the linux equivalent of the monitoring part of rivatuner

[mellow egret]

Strangely enough i didn't have an Engine.ini to begin with so I added one and then when I deleted it again my game started working again.

[tight urchin]

lmao older save uses even more ram, what's going oooon, there's nothing about this on the engine tweaks posts or anything

[wintry needle]

OK but do all saves use even more ram?

[restive root]

Its very convenient. Game saves your memory leak for you.

[mellow egret]

It makes zero sense to me either, trust me

[orchid osprey]

I have 2 folders in "config" Windows and crashreportclient, do i delete the windows folder?

[tight urchin]

I have no idea, like this 5gb ram increase literally happened over night, can't find anything on s2 or on engine tweaks

[mellow egret]

No, just remove engine.ini from windows folder

[wintry needle]

not the whole folder, just System32
(do not actually do this)

[mellow egret]

There are people who will unironically do this so idk if I'd be suggesting it

[orchid osprey]

i dont have engine.ini in there :() 😄

[mellow egret]

Download someone's engine.ini, add it, launch game, if it crashes then delete it from there again and retry.

[orchid osprey]

can u send it to me?

[tight urchin]

https://imgur.com/a/KBoOekA can xmp 1 instead of 2 cause this?

[mellow egret]

Again this doesn't make any sense but it did work for me lmao

[vital fiber]

Is there a channel like “ ask gsc “ where we can report bugs?

[tight urchin]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/17?tab=files I love slow mode so much, fits very well with stalkers input lag and waiting for shader compiling every boot

[mellow egret]

Thank you, I'm not at my desktop rn

[tight urchin]

https://discord.com/channels/504587323577729024/1272487636946386964 u won't believe this, report bugs here https://support.stalker2.com/

[rugged cedar]

In short, I managed to achieve the maximum graphics for myself without suffering from constant fps drops. I decided to combine my config with the one from Nexus, and tweak it a bit. You can already customize it for yourself. I've provided comments on everything

https://github.com/nonniks/Stalker/blob/master/En_Engine.ini

rtx3050ti laptop, i5 12500, 16gb ram
In the first village, I have 40-60 frames at medium settings, with a framerate. The quality is not crazy, and going out of town, it jumps to 80

If you have a small fps, I suggest editing the size of the texture pool, which is already known to everyone, and r.NGX.DLSS.Quality=1 can be set from 0 to 3x, where 0 is ultra performance. I made a little mistake in my comment there, my eye is already blurry. Although it's just a poke in the sky, since automatic scaling is used in the next segment.

r.DynamicRes.OperationMode=2 ; Enables GPU-based adaptive resolution scaling r.DynamicRes.TargetFPS=45 ; Target FPS r.DynamicRes.MinScreenPercentage=70 ; Minimum percentage of resolution rendering r.DynamicRes.MaxScreenPercentage=100 ; Maximum percentage of resolution rendering

But it works as they say - stay out of the way, I didn't touch it anymore)

[tight urchin]

uiiii github lesgo! any chance for this in english too?

[rugged cedar]

All comments in russian, but u can translate in any translator

[tight urchin]

gonna restart my pc real quick and change xmp 1 to 2 brb

[royal schooner]

what the current version of the game? mine is 1.6.420.0 on microsoft store

[rugged cedar]

ok, i just translate and will upload en version file

[royal schooner]

also i have a question, my cpu support 2666mhz, i cant get 3200mhz?

[tight urchin]

no clue sorry

[royal schooner]

imma upgrade to intel 13gen

[rugged cedar]

https://github.com/nonniks/Stalker/blob/master/En_Engine.ini

**EN verison comments **

[tight urchin]

adding this to the pinned post thank you!

I'm running out of characters again 😐

[autumn crystal]

yesss finally !! , they have announced that the patch is coming next week

:))))

[tight urchin]

bruh, xmp 1 profile caused the crazy increase in memory usage

[merry talon]

Does anyone else have really weird shimmering effect often visible on walls, your guns etc etc? Could it be Lumen being the culprit?

[rugged cedar]

Who has a problem with dropping fps to 6-12. This config disables the problematic Lumen, changes reflections and light to SSR and SSGI, which avoids drops in fps. I also edited the shadows, so as not to lose most of the picture quality. There is also an option to disable nanites, but the geometry of objects will be broken. As I understand it, the problem with drops is exactly in Lumen+Nanites

[pseudo blade]

Finaly! No FPS DROPS and also dark caves! https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/133?tab=files

[tight urchin]

latest engine tweaks definitely give me way worse performance

[autumn crystal]

yeaa look graphics so trash

[pseudo blade]

looks good in my opinion

how should it look like? https://www.2i.cz/images/2024/11/23/image42da90562f7ae83c.png

[autumn crystal]

patch is coming on weekdays, just hang on and stay away from the mods

[tight urchin]

time to disabler.OneFrameThreadLag=0 again and if that doesn't work it's downgrade time

[pseudo blade]

i want to play now, not after months or years

[kindred reef]

I have a 7 5800x cpu with a gtx1650 (i know im pushing it), sometimes the game runs really well at low settings but most of the time it staggers and task manager shows me that the cpu barely goes over 20% usage, gpu also has very low usage.

[winged comet]

Stay away from mods because?

[velvet ocean]

i feel you , all the hype will die out

[autumn crystal]

bro, you'll just have to wait a few days, they announced that they will release the patch this weekday

[tight urchin]

https://www.nexusmods.com/site/mods/738 anyone actually got any input on using this? any improvements over default fsr?

[pseudo blade]

i dont need to wait, mod finaly made the game playable

[winged comet]

Well, patch notes mention nothing about performance optimizations, just crashes

[rugged cedar]

Tried with your config, unfortunately I still catch drops to 12fps, I will sit on my frankinstein

[pseudo blade]

what are your specs?

[rugged cedar]

This mod makes no sense for this game, as the developers have natively added FSR3 support there in combination with DLSS. Also owners of 40 series cards can use DLSSG as well

[true grail]

useless

[tight urchin]

fair point, I've seen people say this is better than the included fsr3, but uninstalling now, I'm on a 3080

[rugged cedar]

I wrote here

[true grail]

then try to update FSR3 dll with latest one

[velvet ocean]

so will they fix performance things this week or we are just waiting for the chad mod guys to handle this?

[tight urchin]

but doesn't this just downscale resolution and will make the game look awful? also why did u choose 45 target fps?

[hard spire]

The game is using UE5. Other than the streaming hitches I'm not sure if there's more they can do to optimize it. It's by far the best performing UE5 game I own. UE5 is just a piece of shit engine and probably won't run well for 2 more generations of cpu/gpu

[proven dagger]

anyone know why the game randomly tanks fps a few mins into the game?

[rugged cedar]

Just the opposite, we use a higher percentage of resolution for DLSS, the 45fps target is the default target for adaptive resolution. It is rather a minimum value to aim for. If it's more than 45 fps, the resolution will be 90-100%

You'd be surprised, but the resolution there is much better than DLSS Quality

[tight urchin]

hmmmmm interesting

[halcyon zealot]

will they fix massive fps drops in next patch?

[hard spire]

At best I can see maybe a 10-15% increase in FPS in CPU bound areas with optimization but thinking they'll release a patch that makes it suddenly run great is unreasonable. Other than the memory leak issue obviously

[pseudo blade]

hope so

[sweet palm]

is game forcing ray tracement? can't find settings for it

[tight urchin]

can't change it ingame or in the inis, don't trust anyone saying that u can

[halcyon zealot]

its literally unplayable having 100 fps on avrage open maps and it bugs out and lock on 10 fpos

[proven dagger]

same here

[neat ermine]

slug is not spawning in tutorial can i just walk away and skip this mission. found it once died to invisible dude wont respawn, restarted game reloaded saves, made a brand new game still wont resapwn

[sweet palm]

it's playable, but I usually prefer more fps instead of raytracing ;/

[rugged cedar]

Who has a problem with dropping fps to 6-12. This config disables the problematic Lumen, changes reflections and light to SSR and SSGI, which avoids drops in fps. I also edited the shadows, so as not to lose most of the picture quality. There is also an option to disable nanites, but the geometry of objects will be broken. As I understand it, the problem with drops is exactly in Lumen+Nanites

You can disable global lighting or nanites, or use the methods I wrote above

[halcyon zealot]

@tight urchin the fixes in pins dont do anything bcs its memory leak problem

[tight urchin]

has anyone figured out how to disable vignette yet? looks rough with the framegen ghosting, there's this mod https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/130 but that removes a lot of different visual effects and I don't really understand which one is actually about the normal vignette

[hard spire]

There's no baked in shadows/lighting. Modifying the config ini you can disable all RT but the game looks like absolute trash. You're more than likely CPU bound anyways

[neat ermine]

slug is not spawning in tutorial can i just walk away and skip this mission. found it once died to invisible dude wont respawn, restarted game reloaded saves, made a brand new game still wont respawn

[sweet palm]

oh, I see..

[rugged cedar]

r.Tonemapper.VignetteIntensity=0 ; Disables the vignette effect

[neat ermine]

slug is not spawning in tutorial can i just walk away and skip this mission. found it once died to invisible dude wont respawn, restarted game reloaded saves, made a brand new game still wont resapwn

[tight urchin]

do I add this to the engine.ini?

[winged comet]

One can hope, but patch notes don't look too promising

[hard spire]

My 3070ti is definitely capable of running the game native 1440p 60fps high settings but I'm CPU bound AF with my 3800x. It's all UE5. When they fix a-life it's only going to become more CPU bound. It's all down to UE5 😔

Streaming hitching and the vram leak will prevent the huge drops we experience but y'all expecting a dramatic change are only gonna be disappointed

[proven dagger]

i dont get it, the game runs perfectly on my 4060ti 100+ fps for a few mins easy, then it randomly tanks to 7 fps and stutters until i alt f4, i dont get whats making it tank

[void storm]

Memory leak, devs are aware and we just have to wait til it's fixed

[slender kettle]

i have a 3070ti as well and it runs like ass, lmk if you find anything that improves it, done all the pinned suggestions but still running like ass

[tight urchin]

we need a port to creation engine

[proven dagger]

is it getting fixed in the upcoming patch?

[broken sage]

I have a 3070ti with a 5600x and am hitting around 40 fps on high

[winged comet]

In the open world or inside the settlements?

[tropic cosmos]

do you have fsr frame gen on and dlss?

[hard spire]

Turn your settings to medium. The game takes a few minutes to load assets to vram and gives a false impression of running nicely. Once you're out of vram any game is gonna run like ass.
There is a vram memory leak too so even on medium you'll experience issues after you move across the map for a while, but medium settings without the leak still makes out 8g in cities

[minor dawn]

What resolution? Is that also with dlss on?

[halcyon zealot]

how to contact support?

[void storm]

We can only hope atm. #📰┃announcement touches up on this subject a tiny bit, I guess?
"Issues and memory allocation failures"

[tropic cosmos]

im running on ultra with 3070ti and 3600 ryzen and getting 60 fps bc of frame gen and dlss

[tight urchin]

worked, thank you!!

[broken sage]

Open world and no FSR and DLSS.

With FSR and DLSS on I can get around 50-60 on 1440
But its inconsistent

On 1080p I can get 60-70 natively with medium settings

[hard spire]

The next patch will at best help the sudden drops in fps due to streaming and fix the memory leak but it's not going to increase average fps more than a margin of error

[rugged cedar]

Sure

[winged comet]

Frame gen doesn't ruin frame pacing and input for you? I've attempted using FG and it's just womit inducing for me

[void storm]

Honestly, as long as I don't have to ALT-F4 every now and then, and I can finally get in a solid session of STALKER 2, I'm down

[proven dagger]

stopping the memory leak will fix the issue for me then it sounds liek, cos the game runs well on my rig, just randomly tanks after a few mins and becomes unplayable. its frustrating cos the actual game is really fun

[minor dawn]

1080p, 1440p, or 4k?

[vagrant pawn]

what is the next big city after Zalissja ?

[tropic cosmos]

1440p or 1080

[cinder arch]

im just happy to play the game get to play a stalker game finally

[winged comet]

Junkyard

[halcyon zealot]

memory leak is the biggest problem atm

[void storm]

Plus the current implementation of A-Life (Ubisoft type enemy spawns)

[vagrant pawn]

is the mission with speak to Diode?

[regal gull]

is the A-Life fix that they sometimes spawn next to you?

[winged comet]

Depends on the vram amount. Never had memory leak issues and I use old rtx3060

[hard spire]

If any of you load up any other UE5 game you're gonna get similar average fps as you do in stalker. It's not GSC, it's Unreal.
They clearly did the best they can go tone down graphics as much as possible but UE5 is a next gen engine not fit for today's hardware.
We're back in the early 2000s where new games took a few years of hardware upgrades to get good fps.
If A-life gets fixed and they make the game more stable by fixing memory leaks thats the best reasonable outcome. I'll play it and have a great time at barely 60fps and dlss until I get a 6000 series card

[void storm]

Nah, it should give more of a dynamic / natural feel to the world, instead of just producing random enemy spawns in a ~100m radius around you to fill in the empty world

[cinder arch]

any way to sell broken guns?

[halcyon zealot]

its not about vram bozo

[velvet ocean]

i mean its insane that the 2 most major problems are being held back and one of them is not even mentioned to be worked on (performance issues)

[winged comet]

I feel like CPU is the issue, not GPU

[delicate hill]

is there a temporary fix for this that anyone has found?

[tight urchin]

I need a remove bloodsuckers mod asap dude 💀 can't deal with the heart attacks

[halcyon zealot]

reseting game ever 1-2h

[winged comet]

Well, maybe. But I have paltry 16 gb ram and played for about 3 hours straight

[delicate hill]

lol fr

[hard spire]

Right that's down to UE5 though. Every UE5 title is CPU heavy AF. The absolute best consumer processors out right now can manage about 100 fps in UE5.

[vocal canopy]

guys turns out turning off msi afterburner fps counter overlay gave me much better performance lol

[tight urchin]

or atleast make them always visible 💀

[rich marsh]

They announced a patch but nothing states about the performance issues? only memory issues

[hard spire]

The memory issues is why there's fps drops. Depending on your hardware it'll either crash or run like shit

[halcyon zealot]

ok we understand that it works for you but many ppl have problems with it

[alpine harbor]

i am having issues with like massive frame drops along with freezing

[proven dagger]

i think once they patch it im gonna start a fresh save game, cos the 10 hour experience ive had the past week has been choppy af

[alpine harbor]

my specs are: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Intel Core i5-10400F DDR4 SDRAM what can i do to make the game run a little smoother?

[winged comet]

I'm not saying, that it works great for me. If anything, it runs pretty meh. I'm just saying, that memory leak and a life are not the only issues, that need to be addressed

[vocal canopy]

people say geforece now with 4080 super PC and ethernet works well lol

[tight urchin]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/147 this is the best mod that's been released

[halcyon zealot]

those are main issues, this makes the game unplayable

[tight urchin]

ah well didn't actually work, I stell get that weird tv looking glass panel when moving my camera https://imgur.com/a/CdEV2Z9
the NoPostEffects mod includes all of this but I don't understand which of these settings actually affects vignette

[hard spire]

No I'm not, Run a monitor like rivatuner or mangohud and monitor your vram. Your vram caps out when the fps go to shit or you crash. It's very obvious and clear what the issue is. Memory allocation errors. Also if you only have 16gb of ram you'll need to turn everything else off. I've seen it hit 15gb usage out of my 32.

Other than stability and less hitches while transversing areas don't get your hopes up unless you upgrade your hardware. UE5 is a bitch.

[winged comet]

Yes, crashes do make the game unplayable, but subpar performance on PCs that fit the requirements is also not great, is it ? Not sure how a-life issues make the game unplayable though

[hard spire]

What's your specs?

[autumn crystal]

i still haven't even finished the intro of the game because of 5-10 fps

[hard spire]

I didn't say it will affect the fps drops due to texture streaming. I'm saying other than them potentially fixing that, don't get your hopes up for better fps

[rugged cedar]

u can send me params, i just don't want load mod

[hard spire]

That doesn't tell me anything. There's not a single consumer graphics card that will run UE5 without framegen at 70 fps 30% utilisation.

[tight urchin]

https://pastebin.com/T1eJXe4k sorry didn't send the link with that

[agile pier]

I think the most recent AntiStutter mod actually got rid of the stutters I get when 180/360 flicking my mouse

[hollow nexus]

Link?

[stiff hull]

why do trees in the distance look so pixelated and fuzzy

[agile pier]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/133

I used Mid Version

[tight urchin]

DLSS

[hard spire]

What's your CPU?

[distant badger]

#📰┃announcement message
And not a word about optimisation

[minor dawn]

I checked, his specs are a ryzen 7 5800h and 3060 mobile

[tight urchin]

that's rookie numbers 😄

[frail mural]

graphics settings: the game 😄

[hard spire]

Oh no freaking crap then. He's cpu bound AF in village and more than likely CPU bound even in the zone

[pseudo blade]

what the hell is with cutscenes, they drop to 5 fps every few seconds 😄

[tight urchin]

I love the cute swearing in this channel, that bot removing anything slightly offensive is amazing, like flippin heck this is so epic

[visual terrace]

This game works just fine. I don’t understand all the performance issues people are finding. Must be old hardware

[distant badger]

4090

[rotund inlet]

3070 with Ryzen 5 and 16gb ram works fine on mid settings for me

[merry talon]

https://imgur.com/a/shimmering-8JmeGO0 Is this a Lumen issue I'll simply have to live with or can I do something on my end (Aside from removing any and all global illumination) to fix it? I'm referring to the weird shimmering that you can see on the gun and walls of the barracks

[hard spire]

Running village at 70fps with frame Gen ... You're absolutely CPU bound. You can check easily monitoring core clocks.

[tight urchin]

I'm capped at 20 frfr

[hard spire]

And if you're on mobile you're probably thermal throttling on the cores being used so your % usage is gonna seem low

[winged comet]

BTW what GPU utilization you would expect, if you're CPU bound?

[minor dawn]

I’d say it’s more the gpu then the cpu prob, 3060 mobile only has 6gb of vram if I recall

[prime pollen]

i noticed when the fps drops happen, my gpu locks at 100% and my cpu drops to like 50% usage

[hard spire]

Dudes bound in both ways and trying to run the game on anything besides all low.

[visual terrace]

Newsflash buddies: the game is optimized. Your hardware isn’t

[distant badger]

Someone kick him

[tight urchin]

I wish I could ping mods to permanently mute people from channels, it is so annoying to have people trolling in here

[prime pollen]

r5 5600x and 4060 is literally within specs ands its unplayable

[hard spire]

3060 mobile is hardly above min spec

[agile pier]

worse troll than the actual troll from Harry Potter

[distant badger]

Nope it's actually mid

[visual terrace]

No u

[winged comet]

I get that, I'm asking, which % would indicate CPU bound. The reason I'm asking is my CPU utilization in Zalisje is around 50% and GPU utilization is around 60-70

[minor dawn]

https://imgur.com/a/XVKRqAL

[solemn island]

CPU bound

[lone bluff]

Does anyone have a video they can send a link to just fix the fps drops idc about being at 60 I just need the fps drops to go away

[royal schooner]

when i get in zalyssa my fps drop from 80 to 14

[tight urchin]

analogue video (1fps): #pc-specs message

[hard spire]

If your CPU is reporting 50% you're more than likely CPU bound. The game won't use every single core you have but the cores it is using are pinged

[light coral]

bait used to be believeable

[visual terrace]

I like how I’m chalked up to be a troll just because I’m saying the game works on my pc lol. Crazy.

[light coral]

u said the game is optimized overall, not that it works on ur pc

[royal schooner]

@tight urchincan help me again? (when i get in zalyssa my fps drop from 80 to 14)

[proven dagger]

with those specs id hope it would tbh

[minor dawn]

I’d say it’s because you said the game is optimized (its def not)

[frail mural]

"but I won't go play it b/c makin ppl mad is moar fun"

[surreal crag]

when is update coming?

[fiery thorn]

i'm struggling with a 4080super, it's not good

[light coral]

soon tm

[visual terrace]

I am playing it on my other monitor

[hard spire]

Lol okay bud go have fun with your budget gaming laptop. I'm telling you man play ANY other UE5 game. Other than the memory issues were experiencing right now that will hopefully be patched you're not gonna get any kind of dramatic increase in FPS if you're CPU bound booting windows

[royal schooner]

i enter on pda ui and solve this issue, wtf

[light coral]

90+fps on high on my 4060 gaming laptop idfk what the optimization is but i swear everyone has different results

[winged comet]

That's what I've thought at first, but I do believe that it's the issue with the game, since other populated areas like novice village and junkyard run fine with ~35 CPU utilization

[tight urchin]

zalyssa is one of the worst areas you could addthis to ur engine.ini (not tested myself)

Adding Lines under [SystemSettings]:
r.TextureStreaming=1
r.DistanceFieldAO=0
r.DefaultFeature.AntiAliasing=1
r.MotionBlurQuality=0

Changes under [SystemSettings]:
r.Streaming.PoolSize=4500 ; DO NOT set this as your max VRAM - set 50-70% (for my 1660 Ti with 6GB ram i've set 4500)
r.MaxAnisotropy=4
r.TemporalAASamples=2
r.RenderTargetPoolMin=200
r.EarlyZPass=1
r.Streaming.MaxTempMemoryAllowed=50
r.IoDispatcher.CacheSize=8096 ; use +/- 50% of your RAM

Adding Lines under [/Script/Engine.RendererSettings]
DefaultGraphicsRHI=DefaultGraphicsRHI_DX12

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/133 there's also this mod which makes ur game look horrible but improves performance

[tame flare]

i can play fortnite just fine

[winged comet]

With or without frame generation?

[surreal crag]

are they gonna fix the instant fps drop?

[hard spire]

You have severely underpowered hardware to run above low medium 1080p

[light coral]

with*

[minor dawn]

He is right tho, a 1080 is actually better than a 3060 in pure performance (and that’s comparing a desktop 3060, the laptop versions are usually marginally weaker)

[hard spire]

The 3060 in particular is quite weak. The 3070ti is roughly a 2080

[light coral]

arent new 4000 RTX series quite good when in laptop form? read somewhere its only ~10% worse than desktop counterpart

[visual terrace]

Even the devs know the game is performing adequately. Not a single mention in their upcoming patch about it. What does that tell you guys?

[hard spire]

You mean 30fps because you're CPU/GPU bound and generating fake frames

[light coral]

#📜┃gsc-answers message; dont troll

[agile pier]

Yeah so I think that antistutter mod does more work than I expected lol. I'm feeling pretty smooth now even on frame gen

[minor dawn]

I’d still say that’s a big difference (but yeah they are getting better)

[steel lynx]

And? As long as it looks fine I don't care for the .25 seconds of delay

[light coral]

10% is alot less severe than previous series; most of the time i don't see sagnificant difference between my brothers desktop 4060 build vs my laptop

[minor dawn]

True, but who I was referring to has a 30 series so it applies

[hard spire]

Turn everything down to low and run 1080p and monitor your usage. I guarantee it'll go up because you'll be removing some of bounds on both ends. Also no input lag hitting 70fps with frame Gen? Absolutely lying

[visual terrace]

Yea I know but it’s not in the upcoming patch. Of course there’s a hotfix coming out there’s always a hotfix but it’s not a emergency world-ending issue like people are making it out to be is what I’m saying

[light coral]

my gaming laptop literally works abit better (sometimes more better) than my previous desktop 3060 + Ryzen 7 5800X3D

[minor dawn]

And what is your laptop specs?

[light coral]

sadly had to switch to laptop cuz i move alot n can't be constant on desktop :(

[distant badger]

It's literally 45 fps in performance mode on Xbox series x

[dreamy atlas]

hey guys can anyone assist me I had 1 crash early in the game during a cutscene then I was fine for a fair few hours now I am consistently crashing with the UE crash report Kernel 32 etc.. Ryzen 7 7800X3D, 4080 Super any advice is appreciated

[light coral]

4060 + Ryzen 7 8845HS; 16GB (which i will prolly upgrade to 32 if i really care; stuck with this machine for the next 4-6 years)

[hard spire]

Right. When you get those fps drops look at your vram. It's gonna be maxing out either due to the settings your using needing 8gb in village when you have 6gb or it's the memory leak issue they're working on

[tight urchin]

newest engine tweaks def gives me worse performance

[light coral]

4060 performs better than the desktop 3060 while the CPU is either same level or abit worse than the X3D, but thats just cuz X3D CPUs rock

[solemn island]

You said you have 40gb of memory right?

[distant badger]

It's not normal

[hard spire]

Even after they fix the memory leak issue your 3060 mobile is going to be running like trash in village because it needs more than 6gb vram above low settings

[tight urchin]

https://imgur.com/a/UeXRZY3 bruh

[minor dawn]

Yeah for modern games I would put 8gb vram as the minimum (and that’s if we are talking 1080p)

[light coral]

thats abit much for a minimum

[hollow nexus]

In about 1 week i expect to be getting 50% of blocked message

[visual terrace]

No point in telling him this. People are expecting the devs to work a miracle lol. Best to just wait it out and let them learn the hard way

[minor dawn]

I mean not really?

[tight urchin]

no way. are you okay? this is the first time you actually brought something into this converesation???

[light coral]

idk i had every game i ever play be okay GPU wise; it's always the RAM that bothered me lol
and i played stuff like spacemarine 2; dead space remake; dartkide; etc...

[distant badger]

If the game couldn't run on this system it means that game is

1. too unoptimized
2. Is next gen experience for ps6/Xbox idk next

[hard spire]

I guess arguing with people that don't even understand what to monitor on their system to narrow down issues is pretty pointless huh. Initially I was trying to help him but dudes ignorant lol

[minor dawn]

You have a 4060 tho? So you have 8gb lol

[pseudo blade]

RTX50xx comming in January, so we just have to wait and pay for new gpus

[light coral]

even w a desktop 3060 n other cars i had like a 1070

[flat brook]

Don’t forget the already announced GPU shortage by Nvidia, and thus sky high prices for the 40 and 50 series

[distant badger]

Looking at the graphics it doesn't look like next gen. More like past gen

[solemn island]

At this point for any UE5 game 8GB vram is minimum pretty much

[light coral]

idk why some here are arguing the game isnt unoptimized; the devs literally said they're trying to address it in patches lmao

[light coral]

UE5 makes me angry

[minor dawn]

Both of those would have had 8gb or more vram (for some reason the mobile version of 3060 has less vram lmao)

[merry talon]

What gives the best visuals, TAA at 100% or DLAA?

[light coral]

yeah but ig it being minimum i wouldn't be having consistent ~90-120fps idk

[low mural]

dlaa

[merry talon]

Slick, thanks mate

[hard spire]

It's more arguing what optimizations they can really do. UE5 is a killer and people expect way too much fidelity from their hardware. Guaranteed even with another few years of dev time the only thing that's going to get ironed out is consistency of frames and stability. Its not going to dramatically increase baseline performance in any way

[winged comet]

You get those frame rates with frame generation

[late ferry]

_9balling has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[minor dawn]

I mean minimum as in the minimum safe amount needed to not get frame drops

[solemn island]

Look at it this way if you had 6GB of Vram that consistent 90-120 fps would turn into a stuttery mess 🙂

[heady ridge]

I need an anime speech about pc specs

[light coral]

not on other UE5 games :P, literally only stalker

as i said i think UE5 itself needs to get optimized

[distant badger]

UE5 is bad

[frail mural]

would you consider frame generation a representation of what your system actually should be doing ?

[tight urchin]

well yeah but heck does it look good

[hard spire]

If you had a 4090 or even a 10090 from the future somehow and ran this game with less than 8gb of vram it's gonna turn to stutter mess

[light coral]

everyone and their mother is using it so idk

[graceful wolf]

This game is CPU heavy yes?

[light coral]

if u use FG and u get good consistnet framesur gonna be literally okay and u dont have to worry; UE5 is a mess and a horrible engine 4 games; don't worry abt it too much

[distant badger]

Idk. Even on ultra it looks soapy

[solemn island]

With UE5 it's easy to make a game look good but takes actual effort to make it perform well

[tight urchin]

are we playing the same game?

[raw sleet]

maybe ue5 is a good tech demo / benchmark tool but I haven't had much luck running it myself in the few games I own that use it (granted my gpu is old - 2080ti - and im gonna try to up to 5000 series next year)

[hard spire]

Very. It's the root cause of most people's complaining. But it's more UE5 than the game necessarily other than the memory leak

[distant badger]

Yep

[tight urchin]

cpu is such an annoying part to renew aswell compared to gpu
like it's usually always about gpu so everyone just neglects their cpu