pc-specs

[untold marsh]

Yea buying a GPU nowadays feels like leasing a car almost lmao

[high quarry]

7800XT ALL Epic is GPU limited to around 140-160, only scales with upscaling/res

[next terrace]

the grind will never stop

[errant aspen]

You absolutely know it

[untold marsh]

Eh fortunatly for you, very great card you have ! 🙂

[high quarry]

Balanced and lower settings is ok for 180+

[wintry needle]

100% lol
the very first computer I cut my teeth on was the ZX Spectrum, remember that one? had a tape recorder for it that could never record any of my programs, so I left poor thing plugged in and running for weeks sometimes

[hard juniper]

oh yeah loving it, NOW i don't have to upgrade for years! and i will definitely stick to that... surely

[pliant yoke]

I can screen capture it for you tomorrow

[errant aspen]

That was wild, I do remember that. Think my grandad had one that I used a lot, use to mess around trying to code with it, making text based games.

[blazing jackal]

I have the same configuration as him except that I have an i7 of 11th generation I am on a 3060 laptop too and 16 of ram, I also manage to run the game in low or intermediate however I have big drops in fps from time to time especially at the level of the merchant camps and I wanted to know if theoretically I can run it all in intermediate or high and that these drops in fps will be corrected in the future

[untold marsh]

Stalker 2 is the first game that really want to make me upgrade since I have the card. It's basically how I have ever do, once it's too low res for me, I start saving a bit each month for the next one.
First month of saving for new rig is today 😄

[drowsy turtle]

Ya I find my cpu just stops being used I seem to have fixed that with some mods but over all i’m most likely just going to wait a bit

[signal quiver]

no....screens are too easy lol.... show a walk around video. 7900XTX cant even break 160 at 1440p ...look at Jansn video.

[wintry needle]

haha I made a game with a little robot that could shoot and jump over obstacles, but this is as far as I got, there were no enemies 🤣
the bullet left the robot body but there wasn't even collision detection or anything 😄

[high quarry]

needs upscaling, right?

[hard juniper]

one step at a time haha i can't imagine still having my first card, it lasted me a long time but age really caught up with it recently

[signal quiver]

look it up....he has all settings benched

[pliant yoke]

@high quarry i said im using fsr quality and frame gen but he dont believe me

[errant aspen]

That's awesome, I remember the feeling it gave me, it was like having magic powers of logic applied to digital wizardry

[high quarry]

Just scales with res, upscaling/lower res and fps will climb. Stick it in a 1080p windowed for example and watch it get 220-250 fps.

[blazing jackal]

I don't know if it comes from the optimization of the game or if it's just that we have a bad CPU x)

[primal sentinel]

If you can't use DLSS, FSR Q is your next best option. FrameGen is a must to keep this game smooth atm.

[high quarry]

Yeh, I actually prefer the look of XESS mixed with high settings.

[signal quiver]

bingo....1080p windowed. i get 220. ofcourse. thats where your screens come from

[untold marsh]

It's good for most games tbh still but yea, it's getting very rough now for the 10 series 😛

[drowsy turtle]

I had my Tech incline friend look at it and he said it was a game issue

[high quarry]

The 250fps ones do, yes.
You can do 1440 with tweaked settings and upscaling for 180 though. The 160 cap isnt true.

[primal sentinel]

Games CPU limited so this isnt suprising

[signal quiver]

you cant get 180 walking around....show me proof because there is not one video on youtube that shows it.

[blazing jackal]

so technically we can run the game in better quality than low without dropping fps?

[pliant yoke]

@high quarry like i said 7800x3d (OCd)
and 7800XT (Heavily OCd) give me 180-200fps at 2k Epic FSR Quality + FrameGen

[primal sentinel]

Correct. Most of the settings don't really tank performance and some are even broken atm.

[signal quiver]

4090's cant even do 180 walking around.

[high quarry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5ucsKAFWNg

even breaks 200 walking around.. its not CPU limited, its all GPU limited.

[primal sentinel]

Definitly not my dude.

[drowsy turtle]

Anyway to get it to run better?

[signal quiver]

why cant you do a straight up 1440p. what is that video even.

[high quarry]

I am not CPU limited until it hits 300fps with lower res

[primal sentinel]

I posted up a guide w/ some options to work around it. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3371934883

[austere crane]

anyone know if there's a way to successfully bind things to numpad numbers 1 through 6? they seem to have camera controls bound to them that aren't exposed in the rebinding UI

[blazing jackal]

This will be corrected in the future? (I may have the answer in front of me, but hey, English is complicated for a French person x) )

[high quarry]

I dunno, Adrenaline weirdness. That was FSR Balanced 2560x1440, lost about 20 fps while recording

[drowsy turtle]

Not really you got some mods yet?

[drowsy turtle]

Noted thank you

[signal quiver]

bottom line.... normal just gaming resolution you cant do 180fps walking around...was that 4:3? wtf

[primal sentinel]

you are running w/ a 9800x3d. Youre tanking and hit the 1% percentile bro. Your performance is vastly undermining majority of the issue with peeps

[high quarry]

my monitor is 3440x1440, game was at 2560x1440, adrenaline doesnt seem to know about aspect ratio

[primal sentinel]

Bon oui

[pliant yoke]

@signal quiver @high quarry https://imgur.com/a/RZXfzX0
Timespy 21640 score

[blazing jackal]

I have no mod and when I launched the game the first time in intermediate it ran smoothly no problem apart from the same mentioned a little more frequently

[wintry needle]

ah that's why it's pillarboxed 🤔 don't mind me carry on, was just wondering

[high quarry]

at 3440x1440 its even more GPU limited, 7900xtx would be perfect

[blazing jackal]

It's good to know that this will be fixed and that I will be able to run the game in better quality.

[signal quiver]

what im trying to say is normal 1440p in stalker 2 is impossible to stay at 180fps with any gpu unless you lookin at the sky the whole time.

[high quarry]

if it can do 1080 at 230-260, what can a 7900xtx do at 1440?

[signal quiver]

according to jensn....not much

[drowsy turtle]

Odd tbh I had problems out the gate

[wintry needle]

can each of you please define what CPU limited means to you?
and I'm asking this the friendliest way possible, not stirring the pot

[primal sentinel]

Game looks okay how it is now. Idk how many graphics settings they will update but I wouldn't be suprised if they add in "RTX" specific settings in the future. Who knows, more than likely the mod community will start to alter graphics settings faster then devs.

[pliant yoke]

@signal quiver i show you "normal" 1440p with FSR quality 180fps walking around tomorrow 👌

[high quarry]

@signal quiver I have litterally shown you video, I have dozens of screenshots at 1440 showing 170fps+ that is real scenery, not sky. I dont know why you are so fixated on saying the possible is impossible. Its rather odd.

[blazing jackal]

a little yes I will do the test again

[primal sentinel]

Please ignore Colesy. He has been in here since day 1 and is just looking to clout chase. He has a top of the line CPU that a majority of users do not have and he's repeating the same nuances he's done since day one.

The game is cpu limited. This has been addressed.

[signal quiver]

good luck...better not be a screenshot

[drowsy turtle]

I mostly just turn all my shit down when I go to the towns and even then I’m lucky to get 10fps

[blazing jackal]

i see

[pliant yoke]

Yeah a screenshot, "walking around" works well

[high quarry]

How is this, 'looking at sky', explain... https://i.imgur.com/SyNKlBz.jpeg

[primal sentinel]

^^ Again I rest my case. Look at all of his past comments. Its just trolling at this point.

[night badger]

looks like low settings. lots of foliage missing

[high quarry]

@primal sentinel its fair to say it can aggrevate people, 9800x3D is not easily available. But saying it is not possible is bizarre.

[blazing jackal]

in low in town 2/4 of the time I have no drop in fps the game is fluid

[abstract totem]

there a way to get controller working on steam version? or is it just wait for a patch to come?

[pliant yoke]

@abstract totem try enable all steam input translation options in steam, in the controller submenu

[drowsy turtle]

Lucky I get nuked I had it working with a engine mod but it murder the gun models so

[primal sentinel]

Nobody is saying its impossible but you negate the true fact that the game is CPU limited and has memory leak issues. Having a 9800x3D to showcase in here repeatedly is trolling at this point.

[high quarry]

That is exactly what @signal quiver is saying 🙂

[blazing jackal]

what is the mod you are using?

[high quarry]

I understand the game has major performance issues, and memory leaks, and its bad for most people. Even this 100fps pre frame gen is not good.

[wintry needle]

does GPU limited mean that the performance could be better if the GPU could output a bit more?
in that case I'm GPU limited (or 'bottlenecked') in S2 because my processor has like 48-50% usage but the graphics is running at 99% constantly?

[signal quiver]

im saying its impossible to do normal 1440p with frame gen and keep 180fps stable.

[primal sentinel]

CPU limited means the game does not fully utilize the performance of the CPU. IT is unrelated to the GPU. the CPU is being artificially limited even tho there is more available performance.

[pliant yoke]

Why do you keep saying "normal" 1440p? What is unnormal 1440p for you? @signal quiver

[high quarry]

Yes, if your fps keeps rising with lower resolution, its a good indicator of a GPU limit. If it does not raise at all or to a meaninful degree, there is a good chance it is a CPU limit.

[drowsy turtle]

I’ll have to get back to you on that as I’m not home rn

[wintry needle]

ah so 'limited' and 'bottlenecked' is 2 different things?

[night badger]

A bottleneck is the weakest link in your PC, the part that holds back the other parts from performing to their full potential. In Stalker 2 there are different scenarios. In some you run into CPU bottleneck (for example in settlements, villages, lots of NPCs), in others you run into gpu bottleneck. Ghost of Tsushima for example runs mostly into GPU bottleneck with my system. Currently I would say that Stalker 2 runs into CPU bottleneck most of the times. I watched a german benchmark with deeper analysis and in most scenarios all CPUs (even beefy ones) are bottlenecking

[wintry needle]

every day is a school day 👀 cheers lads! I go test some

[high quarry]

bottlenecked tends to mean a fully choked scenario where one component cannot reach any of its potential

[blazing jackal]

okayyy

[drowsy wagon]

Do yall notice any difference between gamepass pc stalker 2 vs steam? Saw some say steam ran better

[primal sentinel]

Eh. It's debatable but history shows some games run better on steam over gamepass b/c windows is ass

[drowsy wagon]

But that tends to be the case usually with gamepass pc games in general from what I saw

[wintry needle]

haha and here I am with the GOG version 😅 where does that fit?

[high quarry]

What I am saying is, not only am I not CPU bottlenecked, I am not even CPU limited (up until a point, I cant get past 300fps properly with lower res without CPU becoming a limit)

[drowsy wagon]

I wonder if I download this on my Linux drive how it’ll run, I dual boot for some games

[primal sentinel]

There's a mod to disable GOG interface on nexus. I haven't heard anything bad about GOGs gameplay so should be okay

[drowsy wagon]

Honestly based I used to have GOG they have good deals

[wintry needle]

hallo fellow LInux user!

[primal sentinel]

No idea. I've seen some posts on reddit about it but never dived in to look. the games DX12 native so should run best on Windows unfortunately

[drowsy wagon]

Yes I use arch, btw 😹

[high quarry]

You are absolutely right with the higher settings. It requires some lower settings AND upscaling before frame gen.

[wintry needle]

me too, sort of (Manjaro)
I know I know... Manjaro 👀

[drowsy wagon]

I mostly use windows because HDR just works for games on windows less hassle even tho you can tinker with HDR these days with Linux it’s just so painful

Need my HDR 😼 mah immersion

[primal sentinel]

I avoid HDR on windows like a plague. It is awful and washes everything out. I've heard positive things with peeps using it with OLED monitors tho.

[wintry needle]

I'll find that just to see the description, there is no 'interface' to disable lol

[hollow nexus]

Im downloading the game rn to test on linux. Just painful because GSC made GOG download a 40 FILE ORDEAL

[blazing jackal]

I did the test again and I'm in full intermediate and the game is really fuild outside the cities

[primal sentinel]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/186

[high quarry]

I wouldnt even bother with HDR unless you can do HDR 1000

[abstract totem]

ive been loving rtx hdr

[wintry needle]

I installed GOG Galaxy in a Bottles bottle, downloaded the files, then copied them out and used Lutris to actually install in a new Wine prefix
sorted my shader calc issues right out

[primal sentinel]

lol TFG. Gotta use a LED TV for that. No market pc monitor has 1000 nits atm. not even 10% peak.

[hard juniper]

HDR1000 on an oled monitor can look really good if you dial it in properly
but i don't bother most of the time

[primal sentinel]

idt any oled can do 1000 nits atm other than some high end LG or Sony OLED TV

[wintry needle]

ahh the account connection... I'm used to it, it's harmless, I can Esc it away and it doesn't even get in the way of shader compilation
by the time the window comes up, the shader compilation is only halfway through, so it doesnt' waste any time for me

[hard juniper]

oh yeah it's not 1000 whoops

[high quarry]

1000 is usually for very small parts, i.e 2%
When you get to 10-15% coverage a good monitor will do around 450

[primal sentinel]

I usually set my monitor to 100nits sustained at 100% peak and leave it. Otherwise I look like that fish from spongebob w/ the burning eye sockets

[hard juniper]

i'm so used to high brightness from my other monitors that i leave my oled on super high, probably not great

[primal sentinel]

Enjoy the burn in yeah lol

[flat brook]

That's not gonna last long....

[viscid citrus]

Does anyone know where to report bugs or glitches?

[rare temple]

https://support.stalker2.com/hc/en-us

[drowsy turtle]

Good for you

[high quarry]

managed to capture something in the correct aspect ratio at 13mbps so it doesnt drop my fps too much.
Stays 160-190, with 240fps while scoped

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M_4h9IQ4eQ

Recording hurts quite a bit, and 1% spikes looks to be around 9ms (110 fps)

[next terrace]

i envy you so much

[stable kite]

I get less fps drops with dlss balanced instead of performance

[high quarry]

Might make sense if the difference is CPU @stable kite

[next terrace]

i see these people getting 200fps, please just let me hit 120... lol

[high quarry]

@next terrace dont worry, nobody really plays at 200 fps 🙂 its too ugly on med-low balanced

[next terrace]

i know but you can cap it to 144hz and not worry about dropping below that (for the most part)

[signal quiver]

i could never play a game looking like that.

[high quarry]

Better to go med-high and less scaling for closer to 160-170. Med-Low balanced is not worth it.

[signal quiver]

then again i would never use xess

[high quarry]

or if you are happy with lower fps pre-frame gen, even higher settings

[high quarry]

XESS Ultra Quality Plus isnt bad. Just a bit softer than native but without the noise of FSR

[signal quiver]

nobody runs xess on anything but intel gpus

[high quarry]

FSR Quality is 67%, which is too low IMO.

They should have exposed something closer to 90%

[signal quiver]

like i said... i play for the visuals and dlss FG gets my 120 i need to enjoy

[high quarry]

Yeh, 120 with the visual you want sounds fine.

[signal quiver]

i would never pass 144fps because my monitor is 144hz....anything more is useless.

sunrays coming through windows and stuff....cant beat it.

[flat brook]

Hmm, strange. Riva is suddenly showing my CPU at 4.2GHz, while everything else is displaying 5.8.

I believe i've run into an anomaly

[high quarry]

and full raytraced reflections on High+

[signal quiver]

well ya

[high quarry]

not having the reflection clipping from screen space reflections is nice, makes it more immersive

I am gonna check the 7900xtx prices again in Spring once RTX 5000 and RDNA 4 has been properly announced in Jan

4080 super: 1260 EUR
7900xtx: 930 EUR

[paper kite]

has anyone found a fix on fps suddenly dropping to 5? is it related to vram?

[high quarry]

I think thats one of the suspected causes, VRAM overflow to RAM/memory leak

All of the 8GB VRAM cards have abysmal lows

[paper kite]

does it still happen with 12gb vram cards? im playing on a 1660super 6gb vram :/

[high quarry]

have a look at this: https://i.imgur.com/cwpT7be.png

3060 12GB above 3070 and 4060 ti 8GB

[paper kite]

damn, i hope they optimize it well for 6gb vram too, i've played other games with higher vram requirements with no issue

[paper kite]

not using framegen and capping fps helps with this?

[high quarry]

Some people have said its better without framegen

[sinful hare]

Kinda off topic but this the only channel that works for it. Should I build a pc before trumps tariffs kick in for 4 years since most pc parts are foreign?

[late ferry]

.dibbu has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[high quarry]

generally once a GPU crosses that 5y old mark its gonna struggle, unless its one of the higher tiers. For that generation that would be 2070 super+

[paper kite]

yeah but afaik those tariffs cant be applied instantly, they have to change stuff that takes years

[sinful hare]

I read he’s gonna executive order it though? + I don’t wanna upgrade when the tariffs are just kicking in 2-3 years. Not sure lol

[high quarry]

You can probably expect the consumer to eat up 5% more than the tarrifs actually are too 🙂

[sinful hare]

Might as well just save up for the 5090 so I don’t have to upgrade for the entirety of his presidency lmfao

Might be overkill for 1440p so maybe the 5080 otherwise idk

[abstract totem]

yeah im glad i went with 4090 (on release), im gonna sit on it for years

[sinful hare]

The rate these mf aaa games are going I highly doubt it, DLSS crutches lol

[abstract totem]

I came from a gtx 470 pc lol XD

[shadow canyon]

is there anyway to fix the flickers on walls????

[barren hound]

Hey! Just wanted to share something i found. I use the Nvidia App (BETA) and i did not notice that after updating my drivers about a week ago, the Auto OC (Tuner) turned itself on. If you got crash issues check if its on. Turn it off! Ive not crashed in hours

[atomic brook]

That’s not a hardware issue.

[topaz oar]

Frame gen as far as ive seen doesnt even work. I got the same FPS with or without it.
Still waiting for that performance patch 😒

[shadow canyon]

ive asked literally everywhere i can think of and this channel seems to be various issues so can it nerd

[atomic brook]

Geez. Cool off.

[shadow canyon]

no

[topaz oar]

Yeah wtf even was that. Someone helps you and you tell them to can it lol.

[tawny sparrow]

That's a global lighting issue if I'm not mistaken. I think GSC will fix it.

[shadow canyon]

hes saying not to ask the question here because its not hardware related, how is that help

[tawny sparrow]

Because he means YOU can't fix it, only GSC can.

[shadow canyon]

sure he did

[topaz oar]

I think you read into it too much bud.

[tawny sparrow]

You're right there is definitely a weird flickery lighting thing going on, but it's nothing to do with us. It's the Unreal Engine that is getting something wrong.

[hazy cradle]

Where do i do the increase limit to 10g thing? I'm in the nvidia control panel but no clue where that setting is

[shadow canyon]

you're looking for shader cache im assuming

[keen brook]

Does anyone solved error 87A0006 crash? I tried so many things but its keep happening. The only thing solving this is disabling frame gen but i cant do it as the game becomes unplayable.

[hazy cradle]

yeah

[flat brook]

Same error just now, Happens for me because of my OC to my GPU

[keen brook]

i dont have overclocked gpu

[flat brook]

What GPU do you have?

[royal portal]

Seems like the 3070ti is better for medium settings. Anything high tends to struggle.
Wish their specs were clearer about what settings could reach the High preset but it doesn’t look too bad on medium really

[flat brook]

8 or 12GB variant?

[royal portal]

8gb cards are not doing very well on high presets / 1440p
Mine included

[spare coral]

Check the benchmark king youtube channel
You can see what settings affect performance and which ones doesnt (apparenlty high textures are too much for 8gbs of vram for some reason)

[late ferry]

sebzerr has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[flat brook]

Fuck... He got wolfed

[hazy cradle]

Ok I found the shader cache size.

Here's hoping i stop crashing. Can't play for 5 minutes. But my FPS is solid. No FPS dips. It just freezes then crashes randomly within 5 minutes of playing

[tawny sparrow]

they'll warn you next haha

[late ferry]

themilktestingman has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[flat brook]

Oh i'm sure of it. Gotta keep the spirits up here from time to time though,

[hazy cradle]

I wonder what a "bad word" is lol. Is it curse words or legitimate bad words. Like hate words and stuff lol

[tawny sparrow]

Yeah for some reason mine stopped optimising shaders on launch after I implemented UEtools 😐

[flat brook]

Curse words, mostly.

[atomic brook]

Curse words. I called Ratslul a cnt since he wants to act like one.

[flat brook]

Now that's not very Stalker of you

[mellow egret]

this exception access violation is absolutely maddening

[flat brook]

SIRCAA questline?

[keen brook]

I have excellent performance. On my rtx3060 12 gb | 32gb ram | i5 13gen with dlss and frame gen enabled i have over 60 fps (for some reason it doesnt stay at limit 60) and everything is smooth. The gpu doesnt even overheats as it stays at 85 degrees as i locked it with msi aferburner. (and no, afterburner isnt the problem it was crashing even worse before i started to use it).
Almost everything on high.

So the performance isnt a problem. The crash is. Error 87A0006 unreal engine issue.

I tried everything, instaling mods, using 3th party software, changing nvidia control panel settings, changing in game settings. Reinstaling everything, litelary everything including drivers. C++ etc.

Crashes still happens.

[hazy cradle]

Well anyways let's hope this fixes my crashes. If it stops crashing I'll be happy cuz my frames are great.

The pinned message also says the frame gen can cause crashes? Hmmm. I don't think i saw that setting. Hopefully it's already off for me

[mellow egret]

I'm still in the Garbage. It's happened from the games release. Nothing we can do about it player side

[tawny sparrow]

I noticed V-sync doesn't work too.

[ruby badger]

Sorry to hear the visual C reinstall didn't work. I still think it's something somewhat connected to it or something is affecting it

[keen brook]

yea, even when i disabled vsync and enabled it in nvidia control panel it didnt help

[mellow egret]

Yeah I've tried quite literally everything I possibly can, nothing has worked. It's just going to have to wait until GSC fixes it on their end.

[flat brook]

87A0006 is DeviceRemoved. This means D3D12 considers your GPU absent when it happens, it's a driver/DX12 crash. The reason for this crash are extremely broad so far. You can figure out a bit more by looking at the CrashContext under status "IsStall" and "CrashType"

[ruby badger]

I'm surprised you haven't just tried doing a full reformat of your pc

[mellow egret]

You're kidding me, right?

[fluid wagon]

[ruby badger]

As in you have or you think that's crazy?

[flat brook]

For me, the only times I get that crash is when I either run my normal OC on my GPU, or let my FPS stretch without a hard limiter, like Nvidia's control panel one or through Riva

[mellow egret]

I think that's absolutely insane lmao
why would I reformat my entire PC for something that is obviously not a user end error

[topaz oar]

Bro that was beautiful. Good luck getting that good of an answer anywhere.

[ruby badger]

It isn't obviously anything, else it would have been figured out by now

[mellow egret]

it's literally in the patch notes for upcoming patch and there's a ton of people with the same issue

[flat brook]

Then imagine Nerd emoijing someone who's trying to be genuinly helpful. Some people can't be helped.

[ruby badger]

And no, I don't think full reformats are crazy at all. I used to do them regularly, almost once a year

[keen brook]

ik. just asking if some people found a trick to fix it or no.

[mellow walrus]

game is not loading anymore.... after 3 tries of loading save games.. reboot pc. still not loading save games.. anyone experienced this?

[mellow egret]

this PC is not even a full year old yet. I'm not reformatting for a single game that is currently plagued with errors.

[spare coral]

Reformatting for a game is just too much work for something that isnt your fault tho

[tawny sparrow]

skibidi toilet enjoyer behaviour

[flat brook]

I did, I mentioned both, unfortunately due to the broad range of causes, they might not work for you.

[keen brook]

yes they didnt i tried it before

[mellow egret]

it's something related to NVIDIA cards, AMD users have not reported this problem that I've seen or heard

[ruby badger]

Whomstve else is having the same vcruntime error? Iirc bones is the only person I've seen. Even searching the error only pulls up a few other games

[keen brook]

you are teling me nvidia relased drivers especially for this game and its bugged? XDD

[mellow egret]

I've had 5 people at least tell me they are having the same issue in this discord, all with NVIDIA cards.

[flat brook]

Give me a second to formulate a proper explanation as to why these types of crashes happen, maybe that will shed a fresh light on it @keen brook

[proud shoal]

It's nvidia and unreal engine, are you even surprised?

[mellow egret]

might be GSC side or NVIDIA side.

[flat brook]

Because from the first minute I ran into it in my first 2 hours, I had it solved in the next minute.

[tawny sparrow]

Yup. My buddy with a 6800 has not complained about crashes, whereas I - with my 3080 - have a string of 8-10 crashes daily which sucks when you've just got home from work and all you want to do is play Stalker 2

[keen brook]

what is gsc, can i do something about it

[atomic brook]

Brother that is the company that made the game

[mellow egret]

but no, call me a retard I guess because I won't reformat my entire PC after doing literal days of attempts to fix it

also bro

[proud shoal]

Your mutha

[keen brook]

i dont know every nickname of every company sorry

[mellow egret]

there's literally a channel in this discord called "ask-gsc"

[coarse linden]

Weird. Same card and 0 crashes so far in 40ish hours for me

[atomic brook]

It’s not a nickname 🤣 that is what the company is called.

[proud shoal]

Sebzer brain the consistency of warm milk

[mellow egret]

it is incredibly inconsistent which is the biggest issue. it can be caused by so many things and none of the crash logs really help lmao

[keen brook]

after 3 days of fixing crashes in a game i paid 230pln for, it might be

[coarse linden]

I mean every PC is individual even with identical hardware so its pain regardless lol

[proud shoal]

Seems like it

[mellow egret]

right, but what I'm saying is that there doesn't seem to be any specific thing causing it for anyone, it seems to happen just whenever it feels like. your game will work for hours after this error and suddenly appear again and then it won't work for a day and then suddenly it will.

[tawny sparrow]

Yeah I dunno if it's the card or the game

[flat brook]

It’s just inconsistent, as long as I don’t push my hardware too hard I can have my 4-5 hour sessions without crashes, whereas the lovely folks on the EFP server with AMD cards have been nagging me non-stop for solutions to the crashes they’re having

At this point it’s not the card, it’s GSC’s current UE5.1 build.

[tawny sparrow]

At first I thought it was my 3080 maxing out and just noping out, but now I have serious doubts about that.

[coarse linden]

Heh would be quite helpful if i encountered the problem myself. Im too old for broken phone experiments

[fluid wagon]

current UE5.6 or whatever is way better internally optimized, but it still stutters like stalker 2

[flat brook]

It’s not, your 3080 is doing fine. DX12 has always been unstable or unreliable, and it shows.

[proud shoal]

I remember when unreal stated that nanite and lumin would come with no performance lost and if anything performance boosts! That didn't age well.

[mellow egret]

yeah my 4060 is handling it fine, generally about 120FPS at High in 1080

[flat brook]

It wouldn’t if GSC actually forced it onto hardware, not software. Currently it’s just another CPU hog thrown onto the pile.

[mellow egret]

yeah currently the game seems to be far more CPU intensive than GPU intensive

[tawny sparrow]

I remember someone saying you could turn nanite off. Is that true?

[proud shoal]

Yeah, I suppose a lot people don't understand that a cpu will bottleneck their gpu in a cpu intensive game. Along with the myriad of other technical problems the game currently has.

[flat brook]

My RT/Tensor cores are being neglected and my 13700K is constantly being pushed, it’s like having a 6L V8 with only 2 cilinders actually running.

[mellow egret]

I still remember bro coming in here asking how is gameplay would be on a GTX 650 Ti

[flat brook]

You can, it messes up models and textures however.

[tawny sparrow]

Thank God for my 5800X3D. Hopefully it'll really shine once they unf*ck the game.

[coarse linden]

Well the biggest question is how feasible it would be for them to update the engine. How far have they "forked" it

[fluid wagon]

pretty decently since my FModel doesnt like it

[spare coral]

The pc from the stalker 2's minimun requirements can barely run the game at 20 fps

[flat brook]

Hopefully you’ll see a major difference soon, X3D chips are performing sub-par compared to what I would expect of them. A 7800X3D loses to the 13600K currently in CPU benchmarks for S2. It’s crazy.

[tawny sparrow]

Yup, I had high hopes and high confidence. Give it time 🙏

[coarse linden]

I doubt devs will enable hardware rt support on Lumen. Thought ironically its just a check box as far as i remember

[flat brook]

Im not even sure they can on 5.1. They’re threading down the same path that BSG is on with EFT and Unity currently, I have my concerns.

[rare temple]

I can get it running at 30 fps pretty consistently with my GTX-1660 with 6gb of RAM. My CPU is not the bare minimum (Ryzen 5 3600). Only issue is eventually, all 6gb of VRAM are completely used and the GPU goes to 98% utilization and FPS tanks to 3 to 5 fps. It will usually go away after a minute or two. Definitely something I have seen across all UE5 games (Silent Hill 2 Remake, Hellblade 2, and now this game).

[vapid apex]

how come the game wount let me turn on Dlss frame gen

[rare temple]

I wish they'd give us an option to disable it.

[sturdy spoke]

any fellow 2060 stalkers?

[flat brook]

For reference, Ready Or Not recently moved onto UE5.4, all the way from UE4. Of course a much smaller games with less assets and tiny maps compared to S2. But Ready Or Not runs great. Hardware is being properly utilized, and it looks identical to S2 in terms of graphical fidelity

[tawny sparrow]

ouch. I started out with a 2060 ROG Strix on my first PC build in 2020. Godspeed to you.

[mellow egret]

also still recommending ProcessLasso for anyone who's experiencing memory leak issues. download it, enable SmartTrim and set the settings to your preference. it clears allocated memory via trimming and will prevent the massive frame drops you get after playing for a long period.

[viral plover]

yeah it really does look like RON in a way

[sturdy spoke]

weird flex

[tawny sparrow]

I'd recommend BenchmarKing's Stalker 2 optimisation vid

[viral plover]

Downloaded mod for less latency and it acually worked

[rare temple]

Is that ProjectLasso or ProcessLasso? I found a ProcessLasso.

[flat brook]

Process Lasso.

[mellow egret]

Process, sorry long day.

[flat brook]

Tip : Set CPU priority to High (Not Realtime) and if you have 8 cores or more, try unchecking core 0 CPU affinity. Stems from the old days where windows chooses Core 0 for most of it processes (Still does), it can help slightly in 1% lows and stutters.

Specifically for Stalker2 Win Shipping 64 process, just have to RMB on it.

[mellow egret]

unrelated but I have to vent this real quick

I'm a loan officer and the amount of people who come in and apply for loans who are on SSI and /or cannot read has got me questioning society lmao

[flat brook]

SSI? Like government support?

[mellow egret]

yes, social security income

they will come in and get a loan at insane interest rates and it's just government money going into the toilet.

it's not bad to be on SSI, but it's terrible to go out and get loans for stupid stuff and just throw that away while you're perfectly capable of not beign on it

[coarse linden]

Folk dont even read patch notes

[flat brook]

Ah yeah, i'm on that too unfortunately. Wife is chronically ill, requires neigh 24/7 care

Wish I could just go out there and wrench on motorcycles fulltime again, but alas.

[ripe furnace]

well i just upgraded my PC and now this runs perfectly at 1080/60 on epic settings. good hunting stalkers

[mellow egret]

Nah, it's not a bad thing in general. It's just the people that you can tell don't need it whatsoever that just go blow it on slots or with massive loans to make stupid decisions, just had to complain about it for a moment since I don't really complain about stuff irl

[flat brook]

Yeah, i'll never understand loaning money for addictions like gambling or drugs/booze. Bad decisions.

[tawny sparrow]

what upgrades?

[coarse linden]

Tbh i have never taken a loan. Interest rates are a scam imo lol

[ripe furnace]

new motherboard and went from i9 9900k to an i7 13700k. had a 4070 ti/s first but was bottlenecking hard so just went for it

[abstract totem]

ive taken a loan, to buy a home lol

[mellow egret]

depends, our loans are designed to be short term with high interest, but we even explain to people the best way to pay it off and talk with them over the payment options. If someone decides to go above their head when I explain it to them fully and express that they need to heavily consider if things go wrong even for one month, they need to understand how to get back on track.

not all of us are out to get people, but people tend to make bad decisions no matter how much we try to get them not to

[flat brook]

Good stuff, you should eventually be able to push out a bit more once the patches come around. Identical setup, happy hunting Stalker.

[tawny sparrow]

hell yes dude

[ripe furnace]

[topaz oar]

Im running a 4070 with a 12700kf no bottleneck. Or were you saying the i9 was bottlenecking or something?

[mellow egret]

it's really for emergencies, not something to just do because you need crack money

[tawny sparrow]

Also @ripe furnace you should go to 1440p 😄

[ripe furnace]

yeah the i9 was bottlenecking hard cause it was 9th gen 8 cores. booty. was time to move on

[flat brook]

Make sure you're on the latest microcode patch for your motherboard's BIOS however, if you are then nothing to worry about.

[ripe furnace]

i plan on it but these came first of course lmao

[topaz oar]

Ahhh ok i was gonna be like what you get your 13700 off temu or something? 🤣

[wintry needle]

alright, I'm running around in the game just to observe the resource usage
the highest system RAM usage was in cordon stalker village, 10.1 GB, leaving it drops RAM usage down to 9.5 - 9.7 😆
VRAM hovers around 7.1 - 7.4 GB
I'm on Linux with the open source amdgpu drivers
so the memory leaks may actually be a driver issue !?

[mellow egret]

would not surprise me, drivers causing exception access violation errors too from what I can tell

[ripe furnace]

nah that would be all bad 😂 theres some real nice sales on amazon rn so i could not resist, got it as a bundle with the mobo

[coarse linden]

Devs have acknowledged memory allocation issues as far as i remember

[tawny sparrow]

literally the last question answered in gsc-answers channel

[mellow egret]

they have indeed, same with the EAV error too

[topaz oar]

Acknowlege and Fix are different though lol. I cant wait for the fix im gettin antsy to play finally. Im sure as shiz not playing on a 4070 on low for 90fps lol.

[mellow egret]

supposed to be coming with upcoming patch

[ripe furnace]

i think they said its included in the first patch

[tawny sparrow]

due this week afaik

[topaz oar]

Yeah i saw. I doubt itll fix everything, but hopefully most!

[mellow egret]

patch is scheduled for this week, yes.

[coarse linden]

Its still beyond me why its called hotfix

[mellow egret]

if they fix the exception access violation issue I'll be golden

[vernal spire]

But when….Wednesday?

[coarse linden]

If its week after release that is a patch in my books and not hotfix

[coarse linden]

Ask magic 8 ball

[flat brook]

Molit mentioned Midweek, our guesses have been wednesday so far. Just going off Depot changes for the release candidate, as they're still happening. Unlikely to be tomorrow

[topaz oar]

It says patch not hotfix. Where you see hotfix?

[honest dagger]

has anyone ran into crashes when loaidng saves in the cordon during/after "the light at the end of the tunnel" quest???

[mellow egret]

sad, tomorrow is my day off

[coarse linden]

Think some dev said at some point

[flat brook]

I could very well be wrong, i'll check back in on the release candidate in an hour or so, see if they've stopped pushing commits

[coarse linden]

Its 4am so sue me if i remember wrong

[mellow egret]

this would make me expand dong

[topaz oar]

Oh, well maybe they initially hoped for a hotfix, but decided to go for a bigger patch? I mean thats good though!

[honest dagger]

did you get this crash in the cordon? and if so were you able to resolve it?

[mellow egret]

nothing can really be done about this currently, has to be patched unfortunately.

[honest dagger]

so Himokid and I aren't not the only ones having this problem then?

[mellow egret]

nope, issue with NVIDIA cards or drivers. It's coming with the upcoming patch this week.

[honest dagger]

Here’s hoping 😦 I only lost about an hour and a half since I never died but that’s nothing compared to my 90 hour elden ring save getting corrupted during it’s launch

[coarse linden]

That area crashes?

[mellow egret]

I still can't believe bro told me I should reformat my PC for this extremely buggy game lmao

[flat brook]

Defragment your NVME drive

(Please for the love of god people don't do this.)

[mellow egret]

ill get right on that lmao

[coarse linden]

Too late. You owe me new M.2

[flat brook]

Aaayyyy mlyaaaaat

[honest dagger]

it seems to be a problem with the "light at the end of the tunnel quest", i'm not sure when the crashes start but i loaded a save before I entered the tunnel and it was fine, then after I loaded a save within the tunnel and it crashed

[mellow egret]

no but I constantly run scans and cleaning, this crash is known and not uncommon. I'm not going to reformat my PC just for it to crash again. there's logic jumping and then there is this.

[midnight maple]

anyone knows how i can add stalker 2 (Game Pass Version) to my AMD Software to setup some amd settings for it ?

[coarse linden]

Ah ive been running around there and no crashes. But im kind of pleb that just runs around without doing much quests first lol

[leaden orbit]

okay so i have tried all mods all diffrent combinations of settings and i still cant get rid of this annoying stutter i make good frames on medium high but even on low its a problem

[midnight maple]

because it tells me i cant add the Stalker2-WinGDK-Shipping.exe in amd Adrenalin

[leaden orbit]

does anyone know how to fix the stutter

[tawny sparrow]

what gpu do you have

[leaden orbit]

rtx 4060

[tawny sparrow]

What's your texture quality set to?

[leaden orbit]

even on the lowest of the low i get this stutter but usually medium

[tawny sparrow]

8GB cards are having a tough time right now so it might just be a case of waiting for GSC to further optimise the game.

[honest dagger]

Yeah hold off on that quest for now. ||you don’t get much out of it aside from some cool exploration, a suit and diet roubles||

[leaden orbit]

i hope your right man

[tawny sparrow]

What do you have DLSS set to?

[leaden orbit]

its usually on balanced but ive tried every combo of settings its hell dealing with this

[wintry needle]

shot up a few Flesh right at the cordon broken rail bridge, then watched a firefight between the usual 3-stalker group and some... soldiers I guess? I looted some sergeant or another 😆
vram usage actually dropped to 6.8 GB now 😮

[topaz oar]

||"diet" 🤣 Ive heard the cash economy is a bit....broken right now. ||

[mighty hatch]

Save and load simulator just to keep performance running right

[lime haven]

any work around for the memory leaks? 😦

[coarse linden]

More ram

[lime haven]

I have 32 gbs, and max usage was at 23 gbs. So I think Ram is not the solution

[crisp latch]

<this is very interesting, i've never use it, can you suggest me some settings to use with 32gb of ram to play stalker 2?

[mellow egret]

I set trim at 65%. I also am running 32GB DDR4 RAM

[crisp latch]

should i use default settings? the trim is at 65 by default, now i wonder about the other options

[mellow egret]

ProcessLasso is a fix for memory leak

[mighty hatch]

The further I get into the game the more the cutscenes run at 10fps

[hollow yacht]

does the main quest ever take me to cordon or will i miss it entirely if i dont go there by myself?

[crisp latch]

thanks!

[mellow egret]

no problem!

[lime haven]

I'll give it a try. thank you for the information 🙂

[rare temple]

Well, I finished a mission and Diode was taken upstairs. I met with the SIRRCA scientist and the colonel, and now the game has tanked completely in performance. I cannot maintain 30 fps anymore at all. It tanks whenever I approach any NPC. Has anyone experienced this? I've rebooted, reset all settings to low, etc.

[crisp latch]

game has some moments that make fps go down, for me are the blowout, when those blowout ends my fps go to hell i guess probably due to my 9900k trying to not die

[lusty wren]

Is there any idea why Stalker keeps crashing ? It happened the second time now. Suddenly my frames drop down to 40fps and then it crashes.

[mighty hatch]

With framegen off the fps won't tank, hope a fix comes soon, my game runs 90% of the time at 100-130fps until certain times it just tanks to 20fps and below, and it ruins the moment when it's during a cutscene

[restive root]

bruh, the AI in this game has hilarious wallhacks.

[mighty hatch]

Yup aimbot and wall hacks

[lusty wren]

Ye i have a rtx3070 and a I7 11700F, the game also runs pretty smoothly 80%& of the time. Sometimes it just drops heavily to 30-40fps

[mighty hatch]

Enemy aim is worse than alien rage

[lusty wren]

framegen actually helps my rig a lot tho, together with dlss it runs pretty enjoyable

[mighty hatch]

AI grenade work is spot on too, sometimes you can't even hear the grenade landing and boom you're dead

[lusty wren]

do yall ever get spotted through walls ? ive had many situations where a npc on a roof just spots me eventho im behind walls, he cant see me and i cant see him

[serene meteor]

has your fps ever dropped to 5-10?

[mighty hatch]

I've done missions where nobody is around and I go to a room to silent kill someone and I go back to the main person empty handed and his guards start attacking me

[rare temple]

Well, after the reboot, it crashed when I tried to load my game. I tried again and now it seems to be okay. Maybe I played the game too long and Windows was like "ENOUGH!". lol! I used a guide to go back to Zaliyssa and I can say, the performance there is definitely better than back at Slag Heap. Ever since I got the Combatant shotgun, performance at Slag has been atrocious. Not sure if it's because of all the soldiers there now or what. I really hope they can address this issue.

[thorny rune]

Hey guys anyone having this issue:

GPU don't get over 80% usage CPU at 50% too but I get around 25 FPS

RTX3060 and i5 10400f should be at 85% or above I think

[ebon lichen]

For those with 4 gb vram, dropping to 5 fps after 5 minutes is normal due to memory leak

[mighty hatch]

I'm sure frame Gen causes the memory leaks, I played all day once this week with it disabled and the game did not lose its fps down to 20 and below fps but I like having it on so I just deal with it and just save and load to get it back to normal, I have 8gb vram and only 7.2gb has been used consistent with or without frame gen

[primal sentinel]

See if my steam guide helps
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3371934883

[primal sentinel]

Use medium or low texture quality. You will also have to avoid using any upscalers besides TAA as DLSS FSR use Vram. Also no frame gen

[gray sage]

Which file do I need to get rid of to completely reset my graphics settings?

[primal sentinel]

gameusersettings.ini

[ebon lichen]

Stalker 2 in local appdata

[primal sentinel]

Do not delete the whole file. That is unnecessary.

[ebon lichen]

Delete the full folder for complete reset

[gray sage]

Is it possible that something might break mods?

[ebon lichen]

Oh that’s what I do my bad

[primal sentinel]

Deleting the whole folder yes. You only need to delete GameUserSettings.ini

[gray sage]

I've been trying out different mods and I've been having save files disappearing (luckingly I backed up before) and then for some reason reading the files that were gone again idk
But thank you

[chrome wagon]

I'd backup gameusersettings if ur changing them then replace it

[thorny rune]

Did it and will try now

[flat brook]

That is also where your saves are, please do not delete the Stalker2 folder inside AppData>Local

[gray sage]

Gamepass, sadly

[chrome wagon]

I only have 3 mods installed luckily no save files deleted yet

[ebon lichen]

Steam cloud keeps em

[flat brook]

Steam cloud is finicky at best, you’re far better off making manual backups of saves.

[ebon lichen]

I’m 5 hrs into a save and deleted the file 30 times nothing happened

[left yacht]

anyone's game running right now ?

[flat brook]

Yes, I know people who were 40 hours into their saves, never deleted them, and lost everything due to corruption, including the cloud saves.

It’s just not good practice, and with the game being so incredibly unstable for a lot of people, I would never recommend just deleting the entire folder where the game stores its data, including your progress.

Please manually backup your saves if you are adamant on doing it, it’s going to save you a lot of grief later down the road.

[gray sage]

Yeah its really a lot easier to just ctrl+c and ctrl+v the folders in case the game just stops working, I've already had to replay about 5 hours that I've lost earlier :/

[primal sentinel]

Graphics editor got updated on NM. One of the best mods out right now hell yes

[quiet trellis]

Anyone got any tips to get rid of glowing water. It's really bugging me indoors

[primal sentinel]

Screenshot. May have to turn down Post FX to low to reduce blooming

[quiet trellis]

I can't send screenshots in this chat thou?

[primal sentinel]

host it

[flat brook]

CTRL+V on Imgur, copy link, paste here

[midnight maple]

i would hear some thoughts about contrast..what someone of u use for a realistic fealing ? atm i have it on default by 50 and also what you use in sharpness

[primal sentinel]

What does "realistic" mean to you? More contrast or like movie style?

[quiet trellis]

https://imgur.com/a/xS5Reeo

[flat brook]

Does that pipe lead to outside?

[midnight maple]

i try out 75..its more colorful but i think its also to much...i would have a dark and cold experience..like stalker is...so maybe 50 is the best? but i have also the problem..when i put the contrast to high..and i move the head a bit left and right..that the textures flicker a bit...maybe my monitor sharpness to high ? idk

[primal sentinel]

Do you have any mods on? Reflections can be set to low, and post fx low to try and reduce blooming.

[quiet trellis]

i dont think so, pretty sure im going more inside

[flat brook]

What V mentioned in that case. Might be light leaking from outside, eye adaption is beyond broken currently

[quiet trellis]

thank you ill try that and yeah i do have mods on

Ill disable the mod im using to see if that does anything

[primal sentinel]

Gotcha. This is because of the monitor you are using. is it an LED and not IPS? Increasing contrast increases your black intensity causing sharp dark scenes. Best to leave sharpness at say 40%-50% and tinker with gamma. I have gamma at 65% to increase night but it also creates greying in indoor scenes like at the bar. You can try and reduce brightness a bit to say 45% to lower the overal brightness and leave contrast around 55%-60%. See how that is. I wish they added a saturation option but if you have nvidia overlay you can create a custom one.

[flat brook]

I have been betrayed by my own sense of Stalker.

Yantar is not safe.

Help.

[midnight maple]

i use amd but i try out what you say thx

[chrome wagon]

whats the best up scaling method for this game for nvidia rtx 3060

[quiet trellis]

Its fixed thank you i think it was my mod so ill mention it to them

[primal sentinel]

DLSS Q but you would want to try and use DLSS B.

[midnight maple]

and its led i mean its a samsung g5

[primal sentinel]

I think your mod tinkered with Lumen and switched it to SSR. It's causing some graphical issues

[flat brook]

For reference, which mod was it?

[primal sentinel]

Yeah. I figured it was LED. LED monitors have a "smearing" effect b/c of its refresh rate methods. Cant really correct it unless you increase gamma in-game or on the monitor although you will get blacks to become grey.

IPS and OLED do not have said issues.

[quiet trellis]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/60

[midnight maple]

ah ok thx 🙂

[primal sentinel]

Yeah. I've been in discussion w/ this guy. He had a really good version (1.3 i believe) under quality that worked great. Every update he has pushed out keeps breaking something so we keep stated to keep older versions up lol

[flat brook]

Im glad my VA panel still holds up true after all these years.

[sturdy spoke]

bro wtf is LOW LEVEL FATAL ERROR crash? i cant play tf game

[quiet trellis]

Yeah i was using 1.14

[primal sentinel]

I prefer better contrast w/ LED. I use one myself. IPS doesnt have the contrast I like.

[primal sentinel]

Check out my steam guide to help with fixes/ crashes.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3371934883

[flat brook]

DX12/GPU driver crash, reasons are not limited to : OC on GPU, MSI Afterburner overlay, Overloaded driver caused by VRAM leakage. There’s many more reasons, too much to name at this point

[primal sentinel]

Yeah. If you have any OC/ Overlays disable them for the game right now. Way to many issues come from them right now.

[flat brook]

I gotta say, for a VA panel the CD is great, and true colors helps a lot whenever I’m doing video editing

[sturdy spoke]

so its just the fact that this game is poorly optimized then...? i dont usually get that

[flat brook]

One of the reasons, UE5.1 just doesn’t want to play nice with some configurations currently, overclocked cards seemingly one of them, statistics overlays being the other

[sturdy spoke]

ok

[sturdy spoke]

yeah, but I've gone through and tinkered with it enough and its still the only crash i get every couple of minutes

[left yacht]

new patch coming this week right ?

[flat brook]

Things that have fixed it for me ;

FPS hard limit set to just under my average maintained FPS through Nvidia control panel
Disabling my GPU overclock
Not running MSI afterburner
Making sure S2 doesn’t want to eat all of my 16GB of VRAM.

[sturdy spoke]

how do you do the last thing, im literally just past the tutorial after 3 days. im pretty hopeless rn sadge

[flat brook]

Also ;

I run borderless windowed
Vsync set to fast in Nvidia control panel
Shader cache size set to unlimited in control panel
DLAA, Frame Gen on, but most recommend setting frame gen to off.

[fluid shell]

Surely this weeks update will fix the memory leak issue? Or will that be a while?

[flat brook]

You can try setting textures to low. I spend the tutorial phase with RivaTuner statistics overlay running to keep an eye on what S2 was doing, at the end of the tutorial phase I encounter my first DX12 crash. Setting my FPS limiter to 135 fixed it for me for multiple days, until I threw MSI afterburner into the mix, that’s when it started crashing consistently

[left yacht]

i hope they do if they didn't fix the memory leak I'm uninstalling the game and never touching it ever....

[flat brook]

Upcoming patch this Midweek will address the memory leak issue

[primal sentinel]

Hopefully. If it doesnt introduce new issues

[fluid shell]

Sweet cheers!

[sturdy spoke]

yeah but im trying everything on low with stuff turned off just to try and run the game and i cant even do that. I really just feel like i got the short end of a stick

[brave socket]

idk if still relevant. i have 10400, 32 ddr4. 2080super was unplayable, drops below 10fps every 5 mins. bought 7800xt and now getting 60-70fps mixed high-epic. cpu is at 80-100%. game runs well though.

[flat brook]

We both know how it works and how it’s gonna go. You fix one thing, 2 more break

[primal sentinel]

You can try and reduce texture resolution and try to reduce your Vram load using TAA, and no frame gen. Try Medium Texture quality and give it a reboot.

[fluid shell]

I have a fix for it atm but not sure if I want to keep playing tbh. Feels off

[flat brook]

If you’re on steam, add launch option -dx12

Set frame rate limiter to 30FPS in Nvidia control panel

Make sure your GPU is running at stock core and memory clock speeds

Run DLSS on performance, no frame gen. See if any of that helps

[left yacht]

i'm pretty sure it's not my hardware because i was frustrated of the constant 3-4 fps lock after 3-5 mins i just turned all my setting to low 1080p and still same issue with fps stuck at 3-4fps it

[primal sentinel]

Honestly. I just want them to fix the cpu limitations. Memory leak is a nice one but the frame pacing is a killer and FPS drops.

[sturdy spoke]

xbox game pass, a downside that i cant modify the launch

[left yacht]

maybe it will fix it i would love to know...

[flat brook]

Agreed, even my 13700K is trying to push out more but it simply can’t.

[primal sentinel]

You can correct it by changing your upscaling method when it happens. It has something to do with the redraw of all the textures/ geometry. Yeah, its frustrating tho.

[flat brook]

That sucks, I’d still try out the other recommendations however. Otherwise not much else you can do besides backing up your saves and waiting.

[primal sentinel]

Same CPU. I have the game running well now but it's still there. No mods can fix it atm. Don't care who claimes it.

[sturdy spoke]

yup yup, thank u for the convo

[primal sentinel]

You can add the variables in a engine.ini file to force it if thats an issue. Even on Gamepass version

[fluid shell]

• delete nvidia shaders cache
• set scaling method to TSR Ultra 100% resolution scale at 1440p, hair LOW, light shafts OFF, reflections LOW. Textures HIGH, other settings MEDIUM.

Also get the Stalker Optimizer on nexus mods

[sturdy spoke]

roger, I'll keep that in mind

[lime shuttle]

thats strange i have a weaker cpu than the i5 and ive never drop under 20

[flat brook]

Im currently running a whole plethora of “fix” mods and engine tweaks, manually glazed over them to see if they even had a chance of benefitting. CPU running at 5.8GHz, can manage between 100-110 FPS in Rostok with sub 15ms frame times, DLAA and Frame gen on. Still some small hiccups here and there, but keen to X-ray Monolith stutters, it’s manageable.

[midnight maple]

what does -dx12 command do ? is it not normal that the game starts on dx12 or am i lost yet ?^^

[lime shuttle]

i was hoping the i5 could get me over the 60 fps mark since thats the only thing i can afford

[primal sentinel]

The game will run DX12 native. I do not believe this is your issue

[brave socket]

yeah my fps drops so low because 2080super gpu runs out of vram, if i understand it right

[lime shuttle]

memory leak?

[coarse linden]

Pointless for Stalker 2

[primal sentinel]

Reduce your texture filtering to medium or low to help w/ the Vram. Also turn off any upscaler other than TAA and do not use Frame Gen as it uses Vram.

[brave socket]

you probably want to have more than 8gb vram

[midnight maple]

ok^^

[primal sentinel]

The game uses a lot of tricks to get the FPS up but it comes at Vram cost. Only way to help midigate it is if you turn down texture quality, upscalers, frame gen

[brave socket]

i already got a 7800xt so should be fine i hope

[midnight maple]

i have another problem i have also atm the gamepass version and i would add it to my amd control panel because its not there to change amd settings for it. but i cant add it...anyone had maybe the same problem but a solution for it?

[lime shuttle]

do you think the i5 can get 60+ tho? since the vram is the only thing causing frame drops

[brave socket]

totally. youll be fine

[primal sentinel]

Try my steam guide. Just gotta search for the NVCP alternatives.

[lime shuttle]

ty

[brave socket]

assuming were still talking about 10400. if you can stretch for a 13600 youll be set for years to come. not sure where will you buy a 10400 these days

[lime shuttle]

im only doing a small upgrade since ill be leaving home for awhile in about 2 years

[lime shuttle]

ill make sure to check that out thx

[left yacht]

as far as I know this game is extremely CPU intensive

[coarse linden]

Would not say extremely but heavily

[sturdy spoke]

btw this made me crash even faster

[rough gale]

100 FPS for an hour, all is good. Suddenly, 25 FPS out of nowhere. The game makes no sense...

[flat brook]

As is usually with AI, it’s also just horrible optimized regarding CPU utilization at this point, as can be seen with the X3D chips performing way below what they are capable of

[sour nacelle]

Memory leak

[primal sentinel]

What did you change? Did you try any of the mods?

[coarse linden]

Subject to chance hopefully with patchies

[sturdy spoke]

i tweaked the nvidia settings

[primal sentinel]

Did you modify the in game settings from the guide?

[lime shuttle]

ive seen some benchmarks on the i5 and it seems to be able to run 60+ but idk if theyre running in ideal conditions or not

[sturdy spoke]

brother i have everything as low as possible, i said im just tryna run the game before i think about making it look good

[primal sentinel]

You can get it to 60fps+ with framegen fosh just a latency hell hole

[primal sentinel]

What crash is it specifically? Do you have anything running in background? Any OCs, any overlays while playing?

[left yacht]

latency won't be an issue in a single player title at least not for me

[coarse linden]

Still some smart cookie explain to me wtf is the point of antialiasing option ingame when you run on DLAA, NativeAA or upscaler anyway

[primal sentinel]

Yeah, worst case using a controller helps with the latency. Game is actually fun with rumble

[lime shuttle]

as long as the latency is under 50ms its alright for most people

[primal sentinel]

It downsamples your resolution and uses their "AI/ Machine engine learning" to correct the aliasing. It reduces the GPU load by pixel reduction and essentially rebuilds it. IT comes w/ some latency and extra VRAM usage but it helps w/ lower teir hardware. Since the game is using UE AA is caked in so not using an upscaler breaks a lot of geometry causing it to shimmer like christmas in july.

[coarse linden]

I mean i know what these features are an all that but why is that antialiasing option there? Its quite pointless

[left yacht]

people with 1660 or rx 580 exist it's for them

[coarse linden]

Like no sane person would run game on vanilla TAA

Being that default TAA on unreal is absolutely abysmal

[flat brook]

Temporal anything is whack.

[primal sentinel]

I prefer TSR but yeah TAA is a mess w/ this game. No way around it tho the game cakes in having to use an upscaler.

[coarse linden]

You have DLAA and NativeAA as better options for it so why would anyone choose to shove vaseline in their eyes and use TAA lol

[primal sentinel]

DLAA is supersampling. It is a chug

[coarse linden]

I mean generally selection of Upscaler or those 2 overwrites AA so there is just no point to that option

[signal osprey]

Can someone help me with a question, not really pc specs but pc related

what is the small case under the pc in the back for, want to remove it because my aio wont fit

[paper kite]

does anyone know how to reduce foliage render distance? i realised that is one of the things that affect fps a lot

[flat brook]

What PC case do you have?

[primal sentinel]

Set it to low or medium in game.

[signal osprey]

Powerspec matx205, technically lian li, i can send a pic of what im talking about in dm

[paper kite]

i changed both render distance and foliage to low and medium, no difference at all in fps...

[coarse linden]

Fairly positive those dont come off

[primal sentinel]

Render distance is broken right now so it doesnt change much. Foilage is most taxing

[flat brook]

The case at the bottom you mean?

[signal osprey]

A small case under my pc, there is screws beneath

[flat brook]

That’s your PSU shroud, that is probably riveted to the frame

[primal sentinel]

@paper kite if you want to reduce foilage even further use this mod. https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/214

[signal osprey]

Is that necessary ?

[coarse linden]

Technically whole case is not necessary

[paper kite]

tysm

[flat brook]

I mean it helps with structural integrity of the frame, no clue how bad it’ll bend otherwise. I’m not gonna recommend drilling out rivets however, that’s your own risk to consider

But technically you could remove that plate at the bottom, yes.

[signal osprey]

Theres just rubber surrounding the screws

[primal sentinel]

Let me know if you need assistance using the mod. I was distracted by a Fn bloodsucker lol.

[flat brook]

Yes, to dampen vibrations from fans and other mechanical parts

[signal osprey]

So worst case scenario what can happen removing that

[inner plume]

Rtx 3060 - i5- 11400f - 16gb ram | I have everything on the lowest settings with dlss and im barely scratching 40 frames and in cities or when ai are close i get 20 frames. What should i do?

[flat brook]

Worst case scenario the frame of your case becomes a little less sturdy.

[hollow nexus]

Duuuuuuuuude Linux gaming is the future right now. Shader comp takes 30 seconds on game start. Im running 4k dlss balanced on a freakijg rtx 3060 laptop 30fps (framegen). 60fps locked on 1440p quality with a mix of high/epic settings

[signal osprey]

I can not find my case anywhere on the internet its mad annoying. Cant see the aio compatibility

[sturdy spoke]

low level fatal error, nothing else

[primal sentinel]

When does it happen?

[sturdy spoke]

randomly, nothing significant needs to be happening, it'll just freeze a bit then crash instantly

[primal sentinel]

What is the error number?

[merry talon]

Holy, maybe it's finally time I got serious about getting into Linux, would be nice to get off Windows

[sturdy spoke]

where is that shown?

[primal sentinel]

When UE crashes a popup should show telling you the game crashed. Should be in there

[sturdy spoke]

ill boot up again and crash rq, gimme a min

[flat brook]

870006 probably

[fluid wagon]

something is seriously wrong with the NPCs
every single time I've ever gone near a human NPC, within a minute my fps tanks like a memory leak

[hollow nexus]

Hair

[fluid wagon]

yeah ive got it on low, its not hair

[primal sentinel]

lol no. Its not hair idk people keep pushing that shit.

[fluid wagon]

apparently its a VRAM thing, not sure

so many different things could be causing the low fps drops
memory leaks, hair, draw distance

[flat brook]

What happens to your GPU usage when it does that?

[hollow nexus]

Chill daddy 😘 you can just suggest something else. It fixed the issue when i was having npc.lag

[primal sentinel]

Its the CPU tanking performance cause NPCs are causing issues with logic or something..... GFD the game crashed......... You can try one of the A-Life mods to help with NPCs or some of the Tweak mods. Otherwise nothing we can do right now to correct it.

[fluid wagon]

it blue-screened me once, but otherwise ive had 0 crashes outside of when i change graphics preset

[fluid wagon]

its consistently been above 90% the entire time, good and bad fps

[primal sentinel]

graphics settings do not effect the NPCs in a way to help with performance. Most of the graphics settings are also broken so setting them even to epic doesnt reduce FPS. Only thing you can do is try to mod the engine.ini file or find a .pak file in nexus mods to midigate the NPC issues.

[sturdy spoke]

well im on the crash report but not sure where the number is

[fluid wagon]

tried that, hasnt helped at all, uninstalling the mods has changed very little about my performance besides visual fidelity

[sturdy spoke]

this is the first line:

LowLevelFatalError [File:D:\STALKER2\s2editor\Engine\Source\Runtime\D3D12RHI\Private\D3D12Util.cpp] [Line: 880] CurrentQueue.Device

[primal sentinel]

Yeah. Thats the same one I just got. Its happening with a lot of folks

LowLevelFatalError [File:D:\STALKER2\s2editor\Engine\Source\Runtime\D3D12RHI\Private\D3D12Util.cpp] [Line: 880] CurrentQueue.Device->GetDevice()->GetDeviceRemovedReason() failed at D:\STALKER2\s2editor\Engine\Source\Runtime\D3D12RHI\Private\D3D12Submission.cpp:910 with error DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED

[sturdy spoke]

so its gonna be a no fix until the patch comes out, and even then its still not guaranteed. lovely.

[fluid wagon]

[mellow egret]

that honestly looks like GPU crash?

[primal sentinel]

DXGI i think has to do w/ global illumination

[brave socket]

hey is your cpu bottlenecking? just bought 7800xt, and hitting 100% on my i5 10400

[sturdy spoke]

well im gonna hybernate until they come out with a broken patch and then i'll spend a week trying to get a refund. gl everyone

[primal sentinel]

The game is currently CPU limited. So, yes. Lots of CPU issues atm. No way around it until devs correct w/ a patch

[mellow egret]

cope

[sturdy spoke]

indeed

[waxen cliff]

cpu is average 85% but can climb up to 100%, gpu is almost always at 100%

[primal sentinel]

@sturdy spoke Looks to be GPU related crash. Other games report it w/ UE. Reading about possible fixes now. Someone suggested to add -novid -noborder into steam to midigate?

[mellow egret]

you can try it

[primal sentinel]

Looks like its Nvidia related.

[sturdy spoke]

Roger but I'm on game pass

[mellow egret]

issues unfixable with NVIDIA related exception access violations and similar UE errors until patch this week

[sturdy spoke]

SAVEME praying I can actually play once it drops

[primal sentinel]

Added the commands. Boots fine

[mellow egret]

wait til you get an access violation, then the real fun begins

[primal sentinel]

https://tenor.com/view/stop-it-get-some-help-just-stop-please-stop-stop-it-meme-gif-26307878

[unkempt sun]

I just found a complete list of UE5 console commands, let the fun begin.

[mellow egret]

yeah I gave up until patch, I literally can't get to main menu any more and it's not due to any system resource issues or anything I can fix user end

[unkempt sun]

Access Violation sounds familiar. I think I got that on another game. Apparently GamePass (or Windows) has issues where things are installed sometimes and just nopes out.

[mellow egret]

devs have addressed it and I have tried literally everything (aside form reformatting my PC, which is a stupid suggestion), just await the patch

[unkempt sun]

I just want shadows for flashlights and muzzle flashes, better day and night transitions so shadows stop freaking out, and better reflections.

[boreal cobalt]

Q: my GPU (nvidia) is showing 0% usage in task manager. Is STALKER actually using it, or is the percent shown wrong?

[unkempt sun]

If it isn't dying when you're trying to run it, I'd say that it's wrong.

[primal sentinel]

It's a known bug. Windows may prevent proper GPU usage in some monitors

[wet sun]

still cant even launch the game, have played about 3 minutes of it since launch, anyone know when an update is coming?

[flat brook]

Most likely Wednesday.

[wet sun]

awesome thnx cant wait, wanna play it so bad

[unkempt sun]

Keen as to see some patch notes.

[proven dagger]

Anyone know when the patch is dropping this week

[mellow egret]

bro could not read 2 messages above his lmao

[proven dagger]

Ahh tomorrow that’s good

[flat brook]

[proven dagger]

I hope they fix the memory issue the game runs locked 144 fps for me then Tanks to like 6 after a few mins it runs like ass

[flat brook]

Again, “Most likely”. Based on the workflow I’ve seen done to the release candidate. Could be entirely wrong however, it’s just an educated guess.

[mellow egret]

memory leak can be fixed with ProcessLasso with SmartTrim enabled in it's settings

[proven dagger]

I’ve tried everything nothings worked

I’ll just wait for the patch I got other games I can play

[mellow egret]

ProcessLasso works..

[tepid steppe]

Took a. Hance on engine.ini that grok suggested in hes mod. …no nanite shadows or clouds, but everything else almost maxed out; its decent looking, bu 120 fps stable with fg 80ish in towns without drops. 3060 6gb 5600h 32gb. No crashes either or vram leaks.

[proven dagger]

Then you’ve one of the lucky few brother I’m glad it runs well for you

[flat brook]

Cherish it, we are beyond lucky

[proven dagger]

I’ve out roughly 10 hours in so far but most of that has been trying fixes and mods. Once they patch it this week I think I’m gonna start a fresh game at the weekend

[mellow egret]

I will put it in bold print for you my dude,

Go get Process Lasso, it is free. Install it. Turn it on and enable SmartTrim under the main settings tab. It will free up the allocated memory caused by the leak. This will solve any memory related issues.

[proven dagger]

Dude I’m not that desperate to play that I’m gonna go out of my way to install a third party software, like I said above I’ll wait for a patch. I’m working all week anyways I won’t get a chance to play till Friday

[alpine pebble]

Wow the game's crash and i lost 4 hours of my playtime save 🥲

[mellow egret]

"i've tried everything!"

"here is a less than 80MB program that will make it work that you can easily uninstall later"

"im not THAT desperate!"

[flat brook]

Regardless of the potential temporary fix, Process Lasso is a godsend program. Can’t imagine managing my rig’s day to day tasks without it

[steep hatch]

Wait .. Really?

[mellow egret]

I cannot understand thinking that absolutely any "third party" tools are bad. You mfers will use anything and everything for overclock and to boost performance, but god no, not a program that is reputable and fixes the one issue that you're currently facing.

[steep hatch]

^ I love it haha

Well....in my defense...I cant overclock my 5700x3d, and probably glad I can't with as badly as s2 beats it into a pulp no way it would stay cool enough lmao

[chrome wagon]

whats the official process lasso website?

[mellow egret]

https://bitsum.com

[chrome wagon]

thanks

[mellow egret]

turn on SmartTrim in main settings tab, you can leave the settings as they are.

[flat brook]

Hell, Lasso is the first thing to go on my drive. Discord doesn’t need to use all 16 of my cores, eat my E-cores and enjoy. Same goes for the servers I run.

[chrome wagon]

will smarttrim affect any of my other games?

[mellow egret]

I learned long ago working in IT and customer service that some people are beyond help

[full elbow]

real

[mellow egret]

I mean, it just clears allocated memory. anything else with a memory leak would also ideally be fixed by this.

[full elbow]

if this works i love you. does this fix the 4000 series gpu issue specifically? i use rammap and that does not fix it

[mellow egret]

this is just for memory related crashes. I'm not sure what it will do for other specific issues, but it will prevent the game from allocating all available memory and crashing itself.

still worth a shot though, it can only do good for your system.

[mellow egret]

this will also not fix access violation errors unfortunately. I am still stuck on that one and to my knowledge there is no user side fix. They will address this issue with the coming patch though.

[woven copper]

i have an rtx 3060 with i5 9600k 32gb ddr4. is it worth buying the game and holding out for an optimization update or will my card just not be good enough for this game

[mellow egret]

if you're okay with 60FPS at med-high then you'll be fine. this coming patch is supposed to fix nvidia compatability errors.
memory leak is also fixable user-end.

[steep hatch]

Do you mean that error in general or specifically the 0x00000000000 one?

[woven copper]

im completely fine with 60 fps. will it be 60 fps in settlements too?

[mellow egret]

to my knowledge all access violation errors are this way.

[woven copper]

when is the upcoming patch coming bones?

[mellow egret]

you'll get dips for sure in some settlement areas (especially the bar and Rostok), but you should be fine

[elder viper]

about to test process lasso, thank you guys for a new tool though this looks good. question: Any tidbit tricks on process lasso i should know about? (Admin, Other settings etc.)

[steep hatch]

Okay, I was wondering about that because I just assumed it was vram related because the game launches on my 5700xt but my laptop with a 2060 gets all the way to the very last part of level loading when it saturates your vram and dies with that error

[mellow egret]

admin wouldn't hurt, leaving regular settings in smarttrim will get you by fine, but if you're comfortable I would explore it to its full extent. It can't really do any harm.

[elder viper]

dope, what about the other default option enabled?(Probalance)

[mellow egret]

probalance is also good, I keep it enabled personally

[woven copper]

i tried process lasso with other games and it doesnt really help a whole bunch no reason you would need it unless you want to take full reign of your cpu

[lavish lark]

bro you have 60 fps??

[elder viper]

im getting constant 5fps stutters randomly, yet i run 100fps on med-low settings with DLSS Quality. i havent even tested high settings as of late, so if this actually fixes my stutter, you guys are great fr

[mellow egret]

keeps non-essential memory and cpu usage down and prevents crashes for your system as well as games. no harm, but I wouldn't expect major performance changes because of it, not really what it's for.

[mellow egret]

use it, watch your memory use. some people have to adjust the check time, I personally set check time for trim to 5 minutes since I have 32GB. I never really go above 65% memory load with this configuration. Aside from that, the biggest thing this fixes is framerate decrease due to time spent in game (allocated RAM not being unallocated) and memory related crashes.

[steep hatch]

With one single .pak file optimization mod I can easily hit over 70 on a 5700xt. Med to medium high settings. Framegen, fsr enabled....outside of towns now

[lavish lark]

bro i do most of pinned messages
how?

[flat brook]

If you know how to manipulate Lasso, you can actually squeeze some decent performance out of your rig. CPU intensive applications like Discord etc can be slowed down on purpose to allow the processor more breathing room for games. As goes with any other application

[lavish lark]

I5-12400F
RX 6600 Xt Saphaire
32GB RAM DDR5 6000mHz ( Reduced to 4200mHz due to cpu support)
Windows 11
Optimized Tweaks BASE 1.31 (for VRAM issue) ( yeah i got vram problem in compiling shaders in optimizeds tweaks base)

it's my pc and my mod

[steep hatch]

That's the exact mod I'm using

The only one too.. I was getting vram with his others and had to use the one for AMD vram problems as well.

[woven copper]

what about inside towns

[mellow egret]

I need to play around with it more. I was suggested it by someone in here on launch day and haven't looked back. I've also been busy trying to get the game to work though and find fixes for whatever errors I come across.

[steep hatch]

It goes down to around 55-60

Not that bad at all

[woven copper]

alr ima buy the game. can u dm me the mod link?

[steep hatch]

I am on a 5700x3d tho which this game heavily depends on

[chrome wagon]

i recommend just using gamepass

[woven copper]

i have $60 on my steam ima just buy it, it helps the devs more

[chrome wagon]

ah alr fair enough

[mellow egret]

yeah, I would personally rather support the game that I've been waiting for since like 2007

[woven copper]

i have i5 9600k and rtx 3060 we have nearly the same specs can u dm the mod link

[steep hatch]

I was so happy when I read they broke a million sales outside game pass in like 24hr

[woven copper]

thats 60m USD at least that isnt including the ultimate edition purchases

[mellow egret]

GSC is slept on. I know the release is rough but I have faith, espceially with the massive boost in funding that this has laid out.

[steep hatch]

Yeah hang on

[woven copper]

i just hope it gets better optimization, from the videos ive watched the game is massive. im really looking forward to playing

[lavish lark]

it's so intersting and so strange

[storm nymph]

Anybody have any info systems getting single digit fps? I have a 9800x3d, 3070ti 8GB and 32GB RAM DDR5 6000mHz

[mellow egret]

it's great. it's really not as bad as people are making it out to be. rough around some of the more not noticeable edges, espcially to anomaly players, but to everyone who is used to the trilogy, it's what you'd expect.

[storm nymph]

I cant get past the tutorial... it's so frustrating

[meager lion]

there is def smth wrong with your game, not the rig. i have a 5 1600x and 3050 with 16gigs and i’m running 60 fps on medium with FSR

[steep hatch]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/2

That's the only mod I use, make a folder inside the directory he says make sure the folder is called (~mods). Drop the second file under downloads there.... Have fun

[storm nymph]

I've reinstalled the game twice now :/

[steep hatch]

Just called ~mods no bracket's

[meager lion]

try everything in the stalker 2 help desk website

[steep hatch]

That folder should be located inside your pak files folder for your game

[steep hatch]

I hope your not going above stock med settings with 8gb vram

If so, that is your problem... blame Nvidia for purposely limiting their ram

A 3070ti with 8gb vram is unfathomable anti consumer asf

[storm nymph]

I have tried on low settings

[topaz oar]

GSC and 4A Games (Edit: And CDPR, really) are the only 2 devs i will happily pay whatever named amount of money to. Therye the only devs i know that actually do what they love and put all of their heart into both the game and community. It takes some time due to them being in a rough part of the world, but they suffer though it all and still stick to the goals they have. And thats worth everything in todays game economy.

[steep hatch]

Yeah bro then something is terribly wrong there...

[storm nymph]

no matter what I do the fps stays between 1-5

[steep hatch]

What is your CPU usage during this?

And GPU usage,

[storm nymph]

I am reinstalling the game atm but it's never been at 100%. I'd like to say around 60%.

[steep hatch]

That's correct then really

[mellow egret]

When I like a product, I like a product. If you're expecting a perfect launch day for any modern game anymore, sorry. It just isn't going to happen. Devs are damned if they do damned if they don't when it comes to release time versus polish. Personally, I'd rather they release and get the feedback to get things working for everyone rather than sitting on it for awhile longer to likely still have bugs. It's not Cyberpunk and anyone who thinks that it is really needs to go back and revisit that debacle.

[storm nymph]

gpu has been over 95% at all times

[steep hatch]

The only time it should go to 100 is a few moments during shader comp

What about GPU usage? Do you know?

[untold axle]

Posting data would be helpful as above poster indicated. Like CPU, GPU, memory utilization, temps. I'd expect bad performance on any 8 GB card but not single digit. Get everything on 1 graph and see what story that tells.

[mellow egret]

Your GPU usage should be at 100% unless you're experiencing CPU bottleneck.

[steep hatch]

Even on low

[mellow egret]

100% usage = 100% utilization. not overload.

[steep hatch]

This sounds more like driver problems or game install problems more than anything.

[topaz oar]

Im still glad i stuck with Cyberpunk through it all. It was bad, but they committed to fixing it. We rarely see that.

[mellow egret]

which can cause bottleneck. and yes, you're likely correct. that being said though, this patch should address these specific issues.

[steep hatch]

CP turned out absolutely amazing.

[mellow egret]

I forsee this being a similar situation, just not quite as rough.

[raw latch]

Does anyone else think skiff sounds like V sometimes? Throws me off lmao

[steep hatch]

This game isn't even in the same realm of reality as how broken cyberpunk was

[mellow egret]

imagine playing with the english voice actors

[ivory sandal]

I've never been on more helpful friendly group 😁

[ivory sandal]

Yeah it's not the best 🤣

[mellow egret]

do ukrainian voice, english subs. it is far better, I promise you and is how it should be played.

[steep hatch]

This ^^

[raw latch]

lol I tried but I was just reading subtitles and not even looking at the characters during cutscenes and stuff. Definitely will change it on my second playthrough

[steep hatch]

I have that same damn problem 😭 I know the pain

[mellow egret]

I guess I read fast idk

[quiet trellis]

alright i switch to ukraine voices

[topaz oar]

No Mans Sky, Cyberpunk, S.T.A.L.K.E.R....All comeback stories. Just gotta be patient.

[steep hatch]

Yeah anyone that's played the first games know the launch wasnt great either. But I have 100% faith

[mellow egret]

also lmao to anyone expecting Alife to be working perfectly on launch. Alife has always been a buggy intensive mess. I'm just glad it's getting some attention again.

[steep hatch]

And I get why they focused more on Xbox optimization as well... I used to hate that crap but I get it really.. but I have a feeling we can think the series s for lack of Alife features

[raw latch]

Buggy and absent are 2 different things tho lol

[topaz oar]

I mean Alife is pretty advanced and ahead of its time. Of course its not gonna work great to be fair. lol

[gaunt seal]

He sounds like Aiden from Dying Light 2 to me

[mellow egret]

It is there, it has been confirmed. It's just not fully fleshed out and implemented.

[steep hatch]

They can say it's bugs I'm willing to bet it's lack of CPU overhead at the moment.

[mellow egret]

to be fair with current stability issues, if Alife was active in a super buggy state we would be suffering more for it

[steep hatch]

Doesn't mean It can't be and won't be fixed tho.

[mellow egret]

Alife even for the older games and anomaly can get pretty heavy on CPU and memory use.

[raw latch]

Yeah from what iv heard it’s in the files still but seems to be deactivated of some sorts? Idk I’m actually pretty curious to hear what exactly what was going on with the state of the game at launch. Probably won’t get that information in years in some throw away dev interview or something tho lmfao

[topaz oar]

Oh no, itll get fixed lol. Maybe not fast, and maybe not perfectly, but enough to run and be beautiful! 🤣

[ivory sandal]

13700kf 4080 playing with dlss set to dlaa and framegen (I know I know, but I'm used to the input latency now) and I've finally got the hdr settings nailed and I have to say its a beautiful looking game and I'm absolutely addicted. Never had one crash and I can live with the few bugs I've encountered. I fu##ing love this game!!!

[steep hatch]

I can assure you Alife is plentiful in the game files and .exe especially if you go back and compare the amount in the dve build to the retail one.

[mellow egret]

tons of different systems with lack of out-of-house testing. For me, when the game runs, it runs perfectly. Issue is the access violation errors that cause the game to crash on launch.

[raw latch]

Iv yet to have a crash, I’m getting the good ol fps drops to 5 and im playing a slideshow…..Iv heard of the crashes tho. Interesting how all the issues seem to vary.

[steep hatch]

^8gb GPU?

[mellow egret]

check your task manager and see if it's RAM usage. if it is, Process lasso can fix that issue.

[steep hatch]

And if it's not ram and you have an 8gb GPU. Try this https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/2

[gaunt seal]

For me it's framerates dropping

[mellow egret]

investigate why and we can possibly give you solutions

[raw latch]

It’s definitely ram usage and I’m guessing vram as well as my gpu ends up shooting to 100% when it usually sits at about 70% when the game is running smooth

[raw latch]

Yeah…..😔

[mellow egret]

use Process Lasso. Turn on SmartTrim and use default settings, may want to change check time for trim to like 5min instead of 15. This should fix memory leak related issues. GPU running at 100% is good, that mean full utilization. RAM usage should not be 100% though, PL should fix that.

[raw latch]

Thanks dude I really appreciate it I’ll give that a go here in a few.🤞🏽

[mellow egret]

no problem. so far it has worked for everyone as far as memory related errors go.

[tough sorrel]

hey guys im running stalker on 3070 and i7 10700f and my cpu is on 90+ usage most of the time and gpu like barely 10% is that normal?

[steep hatch]

Wait. I misread

[tough sorrel]

is my gpu bottlenecked hard by cpu ?

[mellow egret]

yes

[steep hatch]

10% GPU usage sounds wrong

[topaz oar]

Last time i had that happen, i found out my GPU was fubar lol.

[tough sorrel]

1 sec imma start the game and send screenshot of usage

[mellow egret]

benchmark your GPU and check to be sure all is well

[steep hatch]

Your CPU usage is always gonna be anywhere from 70-95 in this game from what I can tell and yeah that'll cause you to start bottlenecking but 10% seems lowlow

[topaz oar]

@tough sorrel Perchance, whats your 3070 GPU? Please dont tell me Gigabyte Aorus. 🫣

[raw sleet]

just curious, how many here use dedicated audio and network cards?

[tough sorrel]

ugh its gigabyte not sure which

[topaz oar]

Does it have a little screen on the side and say Aorus on it?

[steep hatch]

If you are CPU bottlenecked and have the GPU overhead and vram, turn up. Settings

If your GPU bottlenecked and have the cpu overhead turn down settings.

[tough sorrel]

nah just rgb gigabyte

[topaz oar]

Ok cause i found out Gigabyte shiped faulty GPUs over Covid. Cost me dearly.

[tough sorrel]

yeah i bought the whole setup back then

im thinking on upgrading whole build just keeping gpu

[late ferry]

cwayne1989 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[steep hatch]

-___-

[topaz oar]

I bought a 12gb 4070 for half the price my 3070 costs. 🤣 Best decision ever lol.

[mellow egret]

get fricked

[tough sorrel]

yeah well 4000 series wasnt a thing back than

[topaz oar]

Big Ooof. 🤣

[steep hatch]

Well what I was trying to say is I used to love both gigabyte and Asus until they started handling rmas like a bunch of clowns and now the brand I never thought would equal anything being asrock been absolutely killing it lately

[topaz oar]

Yeahhh i was kinda mad they came out like, 3 months later. 🤣

[mellow egret]

honestly I'm a fan of my 4060. Maybe some day I'll upgrade but for right now I think I'm good.

[tough sorrel]

how can i send screenshot here? maybe imgur

[mellow egret]

https://prnt.sc

[tough sorrel]

https://prnt.sc/xv2Ea4hdA2tb

[steep hatch]

Alright....I'ma go break my game more...I mean try and learn ue more...maybe

[tough sorrel]

here me running on 40 fps or lower cuz im in populated location on high settings full hd

[steep hatch]

If you have a 8gb GPU you can not run high settings

[tough sorrel]

i mean its not even really sweating, its like 5% usage

[steep hatch]

I'm just saying.. when you figure out this initial problem. Don't try high or your gonna have a bad time

The jump from medium to high in this game absolutely eats 8gb gpus alive. Hell medium almost does

[tough sorrel]

it doesnt make much difference tbh for me in terms of performance

[full elbow]

just jam packed my client full of mods. if i get a performance difference i will recommend my setup

[tough sorrel]

so i guess the reason for the 5% usage has gotta be the cpu bottleneck right

[mellow egret]

yes i can

my 4060 is running 120FPS in most areas, 60-65FPS in populated areas. High settings 1920x1080. No frame gen.

[topaz oar]

I wish i could do 1080. 😣 It just looks so blurry to me. I gotta have my 1440p lol.

[ember scaffold]

You can with Nvidia cards, since they use less memory for textures. You can’t with AMD cards. AMD cards use on average up to 1GB more than Nvidia cards

[tough sorrel]

no fg?

[mellow egret]

I can't stand FG. So, no. No FG.

[ember scaffold]

This is why people are experiencing the VRAM issues

[tough sorrel]

what s ur cpu?

[mellow egret]

i5-12400F

[ember scaffold]

120 fps is only achievable inside interiors and while looking at the ground or the sky

[mellow egret]

I get 120 FPS outside around the Garbage. That's not looking at the sky either. Again, set to High settings.

[tough sorrel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucZyyO8teV0

[topaz oar]

1080p just doesnt suck resources thats all.

[ember scaffold]

I don’t know the area. Lesser zone is below 60 fps on high preset RTX 4060

[tough sorrel]

is the dlss fg also crap?

[steep hatch]

I actually did not know that.

[topaz oar]

Pretty sure DLSS FG doesnt work right now.

[mellow egret]

DLSS is fine. Some people are okay with FG, I am not. FG looks like an acid trip to me and it's super disorienting.

[ember scaffold]

I mean… They deal with memory allocation and usage differently. Nvidia uses this technology, that compresses textures at no image quality cost

[tough sorrel]

i mean fsr to dlss i can only use fsr which has like half a second latency so nono

[steep hatch]

I wish amds GPU division was as good as their CPU.. I can't stand what Nvidia has done to the market...they have amazing features but jeez

[topaz oar]

I turned my FG on, and even on low, it didnt increase my fps at all. It just plain doesnt work.

[steep hatch]

And with AMD pulling outta even trying for high end it's gonna get even worse.

[ember scaffold]

AMD provide more memory on their cards, so to me, it’s a great reason to get an AMD card.

[sonic sphinx]

Nvidias pricing is insane and I heard that the 5090 might end up costing like £2500+ which is so much

[tough sorrel]

well fsr fg does wonders for me but i dont use it cuz of the lattency

[ember scaffold]

Also, you can’t use Nvidia GPUs with any Linux based OS. It just crashes a lot

[steep hatch]

And the 5070 is supposedly only shipping with 12gb vram... which is a joke

Better memory allocation or not

[tough sorrel]

i can honestly run the game on epic even with my mediocre build with fg or more like high

[sonic sphinx]

The drivers on Linux suck so much

[steep hatch]

FSR framegen is what saves my poor elderly 5700xt at this point. XD

[sonic sphinx]

Literally can't use Bazzite on my PC due to using a RTX 4090

[solar stump]

hey all im computer stupid, any chance ill ever be able to play stalker 2 on my msi katana gaming laptop?

[steep hatch]

Although I love my card. It's treated me beyond well.

[sonic sphinx]

Your 5700XT should be ok to be honest

[ember scaffold]

The 5700 and 5700XT are two of my favorite GPUs

[steep hatch]

Oh for sure.. it's aged extremely well and why I haven't felt justified in trying to upgrade.

[ember scaffold]

Literally had 0 issues with the 5700. And you can also change its vbios to gain more performance at the cost of high temps

[steep hatch]

No Raytracing but wgaf

At least it wasn't lied about like Nvidia claiming Raytracing on a 2060..lmao

[serene meteor]

yea im on a 2060 and trying to run this game with RT is a huge no-no

[sonic sphinx]

That's really the only problem with it seeing as stalker 2 uses Lumen

[steep hatch]

At least yours launches on your 2060 mine wont

[serene meteor]

i needed to install a few optimization mods from nexus to get it running smoothly, now im running mostly 40s as of rn, probably better once hotfix drops

[steep hatch]

I would just say at this point the problem is UE5 😆

[serene meteor]

honestly it might be, most of the UE5 games I've played has been laggy messes, Bodycam, Subliminal, now this. As awesome as the graphics are, it does not play nice lol (at least the gameplays good in this game lmao)

[sonic sphinx]

No it's not the thing is is that there's a difference between poor optimization and a game being really demanding because of it using cutting edge technologies

[steep hatch]

Epic needs to quit with shiny things and actually optimize their engine instead of expecting devs to do the work. Ue has been problematic since 4

[sonic sphinx]

And that is what people refuse to understand

[paper kite]

its memory leak, i "fixed" it by turning off frame gen

[steep hatch]

And instead of getting better it's getting worse.

[solar stump]

how do

[steep hatch]

Bones..you're gonna have to spam process lasso in this group every couple mins haha

[sonic sphinx]

It's perfectly optimized it's just using cutting edge technologies so of course it's performance is going to be a bit poo

[paper kite]

its in the graphics settings, i was getting the same fps drops when i stay in a base for 1min

[solar stump]

ok thanks ill try it

[steep hatch]

It's cutting edge sure, but you can't say it's optimized with the same stuttering issues in every ue game since 4 and haven't even been remotely addressed.
Sure some games are better than others but this is an underlying issue with the engine including others.

[silent void]

can u play stalker 2 with 16 gb ram if 2 gb is reserved?

[steep hatch]

Your PC will explode...kidding..not sure
. I can't launch it on my 16gb machine. But it's prolly not related to your question

[silent void]

you cant even launch it?

[paper kite]

yeah, i've seen ppl play with 8gb ram

[steep hatch]

Yeah but it's not related to memory amount im sure

[paper kite]

how do u change grass density/render distance? cant find the .ini file that changes it

[sonic sphinx]

It's very optimized for what it is it's using cutting edge technologies so of course performance is not going to be that good I just don't get how these days people think that cutting edge technologies can result in good performance because that's the trade off you make with cutting edge technologies

[steep hatch]

Dedication, I like it 💪

[sonic sphinx]

I would be curious if 24GB of shared ram is enough to be honest

[last light]

I know this is a lot but this is what I'm thinking. Case:
Lian Li Lancool 216 Mesh Front Panel RGB Gaming Case - White
Case Fans:
Default Case Fan
Processor:
AMD Ryzen™ 9 7950X3D Processor (16X 4.2GHz/128MB L3 Cache)
Processor Cooling:
iBUYPOWER AW4 240mm ARGB Liquid Cooler - Black
Memory:
32 GB [16 GB X2] DDR5-6000MHz Memory Module
Certified Major Brand Gaming Memory [Free Upgrade to 32GB DDR5-6000 TEAMGROUP T-Force Delta RGB]
Video Card:
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER - 16GB GDDR6X (DLSS 3.5 – AI-Powered Performance)
Motherboard:
ASUS Prime B650M-A AX6 II WIFI - Wifi 6, ARGB Header (3), USB 3.2 Ports (1 Type-C, 3 Type-A), M.2 Slot (3)
Power Supply:
750 Watt - High Power - 80 PLUS Gold Certified PCIe GEN 5
Primary Storage:
2TB Team Group Z44A7Q M.2 PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSD -- Gen 4 Read: 7000MB/s; Write: 6100MB/s, Gen 3 Read: 3572MB/s; Write: 3356MB/s
Sound Card:
3D Premium Surround Sound Onboard

[steep hatch]

I'm not saying not to innovate. Anyone that says UE5 isn't impressive has COVID of the eyes. I'm just saying maybe focus on optimization a little more before and then worry about innovating more

[steep hatch]

That's golden really.

You may be a bigger power supply tho. Don't those cards chew though power

If you can wait I would wait the 5000 series is probably dropping in the next few months if that

[sonic sphinx]

Does anyone here know if a Rog ally x is able to play stalker 2 perfectly fine

[steep hatch]

I want one of those so badly.

If it can't just use moonlight and stream it from your main system

[fathom urchin]

if they will fix memory leak, then i wont need to restart the game anymore

[steep hatch]

Process lasso is your friend, turn on Smart trim and enjoy

[last light]

that's the issue with pc gaming, always need to upgrade, well anything really

[steep hatch]

@mellow egret figured the process lasso fix out

[sonic sphinx]

If you get one I'd highly recommend replacing windows 11 with Bazzite unless you really need to play games that are purposely unsupported on Linux

[steep hatch]

Thats steam os ain't it? And yeah screw running any copy of windows on a hand held haha

[sonic sphinx]

To be honest my Rog ally x is the only machine that is consistently reliable right now because honestly the user experience of windows sucks so much ass literally my PC is a buggy ass mess

[steep hatch]

If you haven't heard of moonlight dude definitely check it out. It's so much better than steams remote play

[broken canopy]

Get a 1000w psu and you’re good to go

[last light]

that's a lot of heat. lol

[steep hatch]

For instance if I try and use steam link on my Android TV the decoding is so slow the input latency is terrible but on moonlight it runs flawlessly. And even over the net I can RDC and play games with less than 30ms latency..it's crazy

[sonic sphinx]

Bazzite is a community made Linux distro that tries to get as close to steam OS 3 as possible it uses a completely different version of Linux tho using Fedora 41 as it's base instead of arch Linux that steam OS uses

[steep hatch]

That's how I been playing stalker 2 at work because it won't launch on my actual laptop XD

Dude Valve with Proton has been a godsend to the gaming community. For real.

[broken canopy]

I have a 1200w lmao. You can always go for an 850w just to be safe

[sonic sphinx]

I would do if windows didn't make my PC so frustrating to use and if Bazzite would just work on my PC

[steep hatch]

They have distros for Linux, windows, Android and hell I think even mac os haha

Would you recommend the ally that doesn't have the Z1 extreme or is it a waste?

[sonic sphinx]

The only thing that's a shame is some companies purposely making Linux unsupported and in apex legends case they essentially accuse Linux users as cheaters which is stupid because I run Bazzite on my Rog ally x but I don't cheat in multiplayer games at all because why would I

[steep hatch]

And to me that don't even make sense since Valve will literally help devs getting their anti cheat working under proton...

[sonic sphinx]

The Rog ally x is the best one out of the 3 allys you can buy the regular Z1 ally really shouldn't exist unless the price is right

[last light]

ty for the info

[lavish lark]

Can you show your settings in AMD Adrenaline and the game later? (I mean when you have free time to play.)

Thanks!

as i say erailer
i cannot play this game with
Rx 6600 xt
and 36 gb ram and i5 12400

[abstract fiber]

I'm getting unplayable levels of FPS drop and Stutter. I've been dealing with it for almost 30hrs but after killing a moose with 6 fps I had to stop for my own sanity. What a shame.

Everytime I even glance in the direction of a character model my game tanks performance. 3080 laptop gpu with 8gb vram, intel 11800h 2.3ghv, and 32gb ram

[lavish lark]

i can't get good fps in fights
i mean 5-30 fps
and sometimes with huge input lag problem

[honest flicker]

i run it on rx570 (6GB) AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six-Core Processor with 16gb of ram

[limber panther]

Nah bros pc bouta turn into toast, into liquid rock bro 😭 nah but fr how’s the frames and stuff is it like console? 30FPS Stable?

[lavish lark]

first mission in stalker 2 is awesome
without many problems
i only got some fps drop on bloodsucker
but after that mission i got many many fps drops and problems

[honest flicker]

fuh no bru it runs fine

30 fps is fire cause it feels like im watching it on a body cam

[limber panther]

I respect it, but I could never, anyways I gotta go now, it’s good to see that older stuff can still run the game tho

[honest flicker]

alr cya pal

[brave socket]

and you getting 130fps in 1080p or 1440? cuz im getting 70fps in 1440p UW

[topaz oar]

If someone says therye getting over 110fps, its guaranteed 1080 lol.

[umbral nymph]

mine runs fine with stable 105-130 FPS

CPU: Ryzen 9 5950X
GPU: Radeon 7900 XTX 24GBVram
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 32GB 4000Mhz

Graphics preset is high with FSR3 Frame generation
And FSR NativeTAA with 100% Res Scale

Resolution on 2560 X 1440 (144Hz)

[last light]

how regularly do you need to service a aoi system? I know nothing about them. ty
The pc specs I listed will be my first water system

[topaz oar]

I dont believe that. You probably do get 105-130, but dont even say stable. Not with the current performance condition.

[umbral nymph]

Depends AIO are somewhat known for air inside them some have fillin caps on the radiator some dont i usually check on my radiator listening for water sloshing around if theres is a alot and you dont have a filling cap then change your AIO

[last light]

iBUYPOWER AW4 240mm ARGB Liquid Cooler - Black that's what it is on the website

[umbral nymph]

Fair enough not gonna asume everybody believes what they read but I've only run into gun spawning in iventory bug haven't run into a performance bug YET

[sonic sphinx]

To be honest considering it runs cyberpunk 2077 at 4FPS to 8FPS at the default settings at 720P I'm going to guess that it's a no

[umbral nymph]

looks like a fine AIO but im not familiar with ibuypower at all.

[steel mango]

I can download it on my Steam Deck, but I am not even going to try lol.

[topaz oar]

I mean..."default settings" vary PC to PC. default is just according to your specs lol.

[sonic sphinx]

Well yea I'd imagine that it's unplayable on steam deck with the steam deck having roughly half of the performance of the Rog ally x in my testing at least

[sonic sphinx]

Well default settings in cyberpunk was originally 1080p at the Ray Tracing Overdrive preset but I dropped it to 720p because I wasn't confident that 1080p would be playable but 720p isn't even playable

Cyberpunk clearly doesn't have a good hardware detection for setting default graphics settings

[topaz oar]

Most games dont really. its more of just a roundabouts starting profile lol.

[sonic sphinx]

Why would it set it to the Ray Tracing Overdrive preset by default tho wouldn't that just be way off from what it should be

[next terrace]

what cpu would be best for stalker 2 if i have a 3070? it can even be bottlenecked by my gpu for now because i’d like to leave some room for a gpu upgrade in like a year or two

[stone fractal]

Yo does anyone else runs a russian rullate each time u load in from death

The game works fine on my 5600xt i5-12f
But when u die and respawn u roll the dice either get Your normal 60~frame rate
Or u get a 15 frames

And u have to reload the game and hope to god you get your frames

[pseudo blade]

9800X3D

[umbral nymph]

i thought you meant like you spawn at a bad place according your last save xD

[next terrace]

i can only hope it comes back, it's sold out everywhere where i live lol

[stone fractal]

I which it was that simple
I’m gambling with my gpu here

[pseudo blade]

you can always buy 7800X3D 😄

[next terrace]

how future proof do you think it will be compared to 9800? and what's the performance gap?

[sonic sphinx]

There's no such thing as future proof really

[umbral nymph]

hopefully not a big gamble

[pseudo blade]

if you want to be in high end, you will pay a lot

@next terrace what cpu do you have now?

[next terrace]

i7 9700k

[split lintel]

Someone said yesterday patch is coming today?

[royal portal]

Nothin official as far as ive seen.

[topaz oar]

I mean honestly CPUs arent too big a deal unless theres a HUGE gap between your CPU and GPU models. later i5s will still be fine with a 40 series.

[fallen pond]

Last they said was its coming this week

[royal portal]

I would expect it by Thursday.

[next terrace]

only speculations, and more votes are for wednesday

[topaz oar]

Would be nice, but as long as it gets fixed, ill wait lol.

[next terrace]

mine is pretty old considering my gpu and this game is cpu heavy

[topaz oar]

all i5s are old 🤣 Whats yours though?

[next terrace]

i dont have an i5 but i meant my gen, i7 9700k thats from 2018 lol

[split lintel]

I was thinking of maybe wednesday too, we will see

[royal portal]

someone mentioned benchmarkking on youtube to me and I followed his optimization guide. Seems to work a lot better. I think a lot of my problem before hand (despite memory leak still existing), was that I was pushing my 8gb gpu too far on High settings

[topaz oar]

Oh psh should be fine.

Itll get a lot better once patches roll out. I wouldnt worry.

[next terrace]

nah its really bottlenecking my 3070

[topaz oar]

I had a 3070 with a i712700kf. Even with my 4070 now i still sit at 0-5% CPU usage during games. You really shouldnt have a bottleneck with a mid i7 and a 3070. Thats weird.

[digital drift]

What do you mean with „all i5s are old“ ?
Doesn’t really make sense in my reality

[split lintel]

I tried low settings to see if it makes difference, 15% cpu utilization, like 40% gpu, still crashes very often, sometimes does not even start

i even tried geforce now, that one is not crashing, but with that one is when i realized why people are complaining about input lag

[digital drift]

Also. Bottleneck is normal. You can have the best of the best. One of you components will always be a bottleneck. To keep it simple: it just means that the other component is waiting for the other to do its job.
It’s different from game to game.
You always wanna look out for not only upgrading one part of your pc. Keep it in the same range.

Bottleneck is still nothing bad! It’s normal.

Most people want their GPU be the bottleneck because it’s often the most expensive part in the pc.

If you are sitting on a i7 9th. Maybe look at the i5 13600k if you want to stay out of poverty.

It’s currently working great with my 7800xt. GPU is the bottleneck.

But it’s only a little upgrade. You gotta show money if you want big changes 😐

[high quarry]

It takes a LOT of money to reduce the limitedness of GPU 🙂

but then so does a new platform, with CPUs like 9800x3D actually costing 550-600 EUR for an 8 core.

[ember scaffold]

That moment when you realize the i5 13600k is faster than the i9 12900k

[digital drift]

😂

13600k is still a goat.
Wouldn’t say it’s better than 12900k. They are made for different usecases.

[ember scaffold]

Yeah. Only in gaming. The clock speed difference makes the 13600k a lot weaker than the 12900k for productivity

[digital drift]

Yeah. Still. 13600k is almost doubling the result of the 12900k in Geekbench6 and the 12900k is „only“ around 10-20% better in Cinebench Single/Multi

[high quarry]

12900k is in its 4th year now
By the time GTA6 is out it will be 4 🙂

[ember scaffold]

That’s because it doesn’t make use of the E cores on the 12900k. 8 cores on the 13600k are clocked at such a slow speed. In a case where you’d use all cores, 12900k wins by up to 35%

[digital drift]

Im only hoping that GSC will fix the input latency issues. For me it’s currently not a pleasant experience.

[topaz oar]

I think you mean it'll be in retirement. 💀

[digital drift]

No! That would still be able to run my home Minecraft server 🥺

[fossil isle]

games running fine enough on my old ass 5700xt xD

[topaz oar]

I guess i could get used to it if forced to, but yeah before i even joined here, something felt very laggy and wrong. I manually disabled mouse acceleration but still feels laggy.

Also, im assuming you did as well?

[digital drift]

Yeah! Only played around 2 hours because I’m currently working a lot but I don’t think I will get used to it. I’m just gonna wait a couple of days until the next patch. Hoping Itl change.

[steel mango]

It has set mine to High, with a 3060Ti and a 5600X. But due to the memory leak or what it might be I ended up setting everything on Medium. That's also fine for playing the game.

Wait Mouse accerelation? Is that on? I have not noticed that yet.

[fluid wagon]

its on by default in settings

sorry, .ini settings
not ingame settings

[topaz oar]

Its a hidden feature. 🤣 You have to edit a settings file.

[high quarry]

Intel will do the same +15% for Panther Lake and Nova Lake, so we might not see a genuine gaming focused CPU until 2027