pc-specs

[high quarry]

Griffin Cove, to compete with Zen 7

[topaz oar]

appdata/local/Stalker2/saved/config/winGDK/input.ini
paste this:

[/script/engine.inputsettings]
bEnableMouseSmoothing=False
bViewAccelerationEnabled=False

[digital drift]

Looking forward to it.

[high quarry]

Hopefully its packaged something like 12 P-Core (12 threads), no E-Cores and around 70% faster than a 14900KS

[digital drift]

I have been disabling my e cores a lot in the past.

[severe pollen]

5600X and a 6750xt 32gb ram and run high setting with Fsr and FG at 1080p. medium and low the game looks alright but i dont get a substantial boost to fps. i get around 70 outside of town but it feels like shit with FG and you have to use an upscaler or the game is jagged asf

[high quarry]

Anything less than 120-130 with framegen is gonna feel rough. You have the input latency of < 60fps + framegen delay

When you get to 130 it starts to feel alright, and at 150-160 it starts to feel smooth, and by 180-200 its hard to notice

At 240 (120 base), I cant notice at all.

[severe pollen]

yeah im familiar with why and how it works its just a huge bummer. definitely needs some work hopefully my second play through will be better also they are using old versions of Fsr DLSS exc so maybe an update to those would help slightly as well

[high quarry]

Yeh, you can update those yourself though if you are comfortable doing it.

Even with the newer FSR though, I find the 67% scaling with the noise in the distance displeasing. At the same time I need some level of upscaling on 7800XT, so I have been using XESS Ultra Quality/Ultra Quality Plus.

XESS is a softer image overall, but I find it doesnt have that distracting noise in the distance that FSR has on trees etc.

XESS Ultra Quality + 20% sharpen works well for me.

[severe pollen]

im not knowlegable in that so i wont be touching files or modding. I shouldnt have to do that to begin with. but Yeah i agree i use native res with any up scaler the eye strain is too bad without it

[high quarry]

Ultra Quality Plus: 77%
Ultra Quality: 67%
Quality: 59%
Balanced: 50%

[severe pollen]

fsr native is what i use

[high quarry]

Yeh, I cant use native, way too GPU limited with 7800XT.
I cant play at < 80fps
I tweak to play at 160-180.

At 1440 I mean.

[severe pollen]

if i go for fps i wont be able to see anything past 5 meters for a slightly higher fps with my setup. id rather play with dogshit fps/handling but i can see/enjoy textures

[quiet wing]

I'm still getting unreal engine crashes when using frame gen

[full elbow]

are you using optimization mods?
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/133
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/7

[austere knoll]

Just repeating what i found on reddit, if it is already known sorry.

Downloading Rivatuner, setting frame cap to NVIDIA Reflex and then putting sth like 50 cut my latency with framegen to half while maintaining 70-80 fps

[last light]

If I had the cash I would definitely have a monster of a pc

[chrome wagon]

you shouldnt even need a monster of a pc to run this game tbh

[last light]

True, but I could throw anything at it, and it would be find for while before things get to crazy for pc gaming

[chrome wagon]

yea

[lavish lark]

bro how you guys please more than 50 fps 😐

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)

can't even get good fps to fight one soldier in undergrounds or in battles

[chrome wagon]

i run at like 50 fps then it drops to 30 and back up sometimes its just badly optimized

[last light]

Try frame generation, idk I don’t even have the game. Or even a decent pc to run it

[topaz oar]

Guys just be patient. Your 'fixes' will only last a couple days anyways before they do the patch to fix performance.

[pseudo blade]

1080p TSR ultra quality, try this

[silent jasper]

^

[silent jasper]

Do you play 1080p?

[frail mural]

PATIENCE? WHAT IS THAT? CAN I DOWNLOAD IT? lol

[dusk fulcrum]

10 fps в залесье 10 Аномалий из 10 Спасибо

[ember scaffold]

You’re not the only one. The game allocates 14GBs of Vram from my 7900xtx just in the compiling shaders loading screen. It also takes me 12 whole minutes to compile shaders on each launch. And if that wasn’t enough, The game starts out with nothing loaded in on the map for the first 3 seconds of gameplay

[ember scaffold]

Reducing the draw distance doesn’t impact performance that much in any video game. What helps the most is reducing the quality of global illumination, lowering the shadow resolution, and reducing the texture quality

I guess reducing reflections also helps out in the case of this game, because I can see reflections on puddles are raytraced when the objects are out of view, and fills them up with SSR once the reflective objects are in view

[rotund arch]

I get decent fps on epic settings (few things are on medium).
AMD 5800X, RTX 2080Ti, 64gb RAM. Monitor 3440x1440. About 60-100+fps.

[timber raven]

you can update optimized tweaks, there is already 1.67 version on nexusmods, but at all, i think that this mods are placebo

[high quarry]

compiling shaders on a launch without changes usually takes < 15 seconds for me

[ember scaffold]

Yeah, idk what is happening. Maybe my CPU is too weak for the game. As I have stated before, I am using a 13600k

[high quarry]

Also, I havnt noticed map loading with nothing showing unless changing foliage settings.

[nova wigeon]

This Mod worked fine for me: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Ultimate Unreal https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/17?tab=description

[ember scaffold]

Yeah. It’s weird. It loads in for me in 3 seconds. What is weird is that I don’t have loading screens like I’ve seen on other videos. When I click continue, I am put on the map immediately and everything is empty

[high quarry]

You dont have to press anything to continue?

[ember scaffold]

No.

[high quarry]

For me, if I load it actually loads the save for 2-3 seconds, then I have to press a key again to show the world.

[ember scaffold]

Same, but for me there is no loading screen. I see a black screen for a full second and then it fades to my character that is being rendered in 3 polygons

[high quarry]

that sounds like a RAM/Paging issue, hmm

I am running 48GB 6400 CL30 though

[ember scaffold]

Yeah. I have no idea how to fix it. I don’t really care though. It doesn’t affect anything in any way. Just weird that it happens

There’s another guy in here who described the same exact issue

[timber raven]

i saw yesterday your message about downgrading drivers, it really helps?

[high quarry]

Do you know if you have resizable bar on in BIOS? That could do it.

[ember scaffold]

That usually helps out in all games. I have seen people that would crash every single time trying to launch something like Just Cause 4, and then, after a driver downgrade, they can start playing. It’s more of a generic thing

[ember scaffold]

I already have both above 4GB encoding and ReBar on

[boreal widget]

Upgraded my Driver, and my Performance was worse. So yeah, I think it works.

[ember scaffold]

You also gotta watch out because both Nvidia and AMD sometimes launch drivers made specifically for one game. Like the case with the driver for Black Myth Wukong, which caused a lot of driver crashes in other games

[boreal widget]

Yeah, It's very weird how some things work. But I lowered my Resolution and now have 60 FPS.

[ember scaffold]

Generally speaking, most people that grew up with AMD run old drivers because AMD used to have so many issues back in the day

I will not defend AMD, I sometimes use PRO drivers instead of Adrenaline because the performance on PRO drivers is simply superior

[boreal widget]

Yeah, I just wanna play games. So I just try and make sure I can enjoy the game I'm playing at the time, barely had any issues with recent games.

[stable kite]

think gonna try this one today

[split lintel]

Is this one better then the rest?

Just tried it, still crashes 😄

[primal rune]

This patch is taking forever

[dull swift]

Patch will probably come Thursday or Friday

[stable kite]

It is normal that i dont have a enigne.ini file ? Want to back up the original one before putting the mod there

[split lintel]

i think you should have

[spare coral]

Are you on the steam version?

[stable kite]

yes

Ah i see have to locate GameUserSettings.ini

[spare coral]

Yeah, just copy and paste the stuff there

[visual terrace]

i have a optimization guide up on imgur if you have a 30 series or below or a AMD card. should increase by atleast 10fps in towns https://imgur.com/a/FBYLHGy

[left yacht]

is this a trend in gaming industry where developer build a hype for the game and then release a game with BS optimization lol

[slender kettle]

game wasn't cooked enough but guess they had to release due to pressure from others. Hopefully after a few patches it'll be gucci

[devout linden]

Call me an apologist, but I expected that the game would be buggy, I am just glad it came out at all after all this time

[stable kite]

Not bugs just Anomalies

[devout linden]

Yes

[slender kettle]

Have faith stalkers, the fps anomaly will be fixed

[devout linden]

Also, if I rmember it right, the wording of the original 20th november release announement and some scenes in the documentary basicly gave me a loft of the subtext impression "we wanna work more and make it better, but we can't delay it longer"
for reasons we can speculate in the best amounts of internet schizo posting

I will finish my cop playthrough and then get back to it anyway and will tweak it more, so far it has been running ok on my old ryzen 5 1400 and 2070 with 16gb ddr4 ram (running it on medium and 1080p with frames capped at 60 since my monitor won't do more anyway)

Just the shader compiling and some crashes in loading screens here and there and the one were te first artifact does not show up, nothing I not had to deal with in some mods before

[slender kettle]

Few more weeks and a couple of hotfixes and I reckon it'll be playable by the wide majority of people. Lot's of talented people already posting work arounds for the meantime. Most people have already waitied a long time, sure we can all wait just a little bit longer

[devout linden]

Exactly, fifteen years and it is finaly

[next terrace]

you lucky bastard with a 60hz monitor not being a slave of 144fps like many of us

[next terrace]

hopefully no longer than a month because i want to play the hell out of it during holiday break

[devout linden]

Yeah, I dread when my monitor finaly gives out and I get 144 xD

But so far, as long as any game runs above 30-40 FPS most of the time, I am ok xD

[next terrace]

even if i get 60fps it feels so much like sludge because im spoiled by my 144

[devout linden]

Yeah, it makes a difference definatly

[visual terrace]

@chrome wagon Do you ever goto sleep man

[chrome wagon]

Sometimes when my frames are 60 they feel like 40

[chrome wagon]

Yeah it's 11pm in Australia

[devout linden]

I am just also so very much use to nintendo consoles and handhelds, i can live with some choppyness

[next terrace]

60 now feels like 20 used to feel for me on a 60hz

[visual terrace]

11pm? Blimey!

[devout linden]

But since I startet PC gaming it has become very noticable and just not so easy to ignore xD

[slender kettle]

We're all keeping our fingers crossed

[stable kite]

I am so calm about this i am sure devs and community will give tons of patches and mods this a game for years guys

[strange quarry]

The less you have, the more you treasure it. So, you with 10 FPS have more than someone with 123 FPS. I hope this helps ❤️

[topaz oar]

This. I mean maybe not years, but theyll definitely fix it and patch everything, and modders will do a bunch too im sure. Everything is more accessible and better now than it was 15-20 years ago.

[devout linden]

Basicly.
If ones looks at what the community has been able to o over the years with the old engine I am very intrested in what they gonna be able to do with a far more accessible engine

I mean, they made a multiplayer extension for the old xray so you can play the game in coop

with a box of scraps in a cave

[split lintel]

I would be fine with 30 fps if it work work stable no drops or crashes, that can be fixed later

[crisp latch]

Do you have a guide for low end ego

[proven dagger]

Guys am I right in saying if you play stalker 2 on a 4k monitor and set dlss to balanced where the render scale is at 50- does that mean the game is rendering the textures at 2k?

The reason I’m asking is because I have an awesome 4k monitor I use for my ps5 but my 4060ti deffo can’t play games on 4k. Does the game look better on a 4k tv with dlss performance or a 1080p monitor with dlaa?

[twilit lily]

wait i have a 4060ti and i can play games fine on 4k

[wispy thistle]

DLAA at 1080P and DLSS balanced at 4k should perform about the same... internally they are rendering at exactly the same resolution i am afraid

[proven dagger]

So the only benefit I’m getting is hdr and a 4k ui then

[wispy thistle]

basically

[prime lark]

DLSS Performance at 4K is exactly 1080p internally upscaled by the DLSS algorithm to 4k, 1080p DLAA is.... 1080p, and it will be upscaled to 4k by the tv

[left yacht]

can't decide should i go for 5000 series GPU who knows it might get cook on upcoming years of games like my 3070ti after 3 years...

[prime lark]

4k DLSS Performance (1080p) looks much better than 1080p DLAA, while also being heavier to run

[twilit lily]

wait till next fall and the 5 series will be on sale

[high quarry]

4k to 1440p would be around 45.5%, 50% scale is then slightly higher

yeh, 1920x1080 is exactly 25% of 4K

[prime lark]

50% of 4k is 1080p (3840x2160 -> 1920x1080)

[proven dagger]

I’ve just tried it out on my 4k monitor the framerate is 10 lower on it but I can live with that tbh, it does look better than dlaa on my 1080p much better in fact

[gritty shuttle]

Am I wasting the potential of an RTX 4090 if I am still gaming at 1920x1080?

[novel pawn]

WHERE IS THE PATCHHH UGHHH

[prime lark]

Absolutely

[high quarry]

no, 4K is about 8,30MP, 1080p is 2.07MP

[stable kite]

Do you guys use wheel tab? i never use it

[twilit lily]

yessss

[proven dagger]

I’m on medium settings except for textures which is high, dlss performance and I’m getting 90 fps outside and down to 55-60 in town that’s surprisingly good. If I crank the dlss to ultra performance I gain an extra 20 frames

[high quarry]

4k is EXACTLY 4x 1920x1080 in a square

[grizzled bone]

It's more your CPU than your GPU that will require more resources

[prime lark]

50% is based on the axis, not the total of pixels, you are doing It wrong, check the DLSS docs

[gritty shuttle]

I have a Ryzen 7950X3D to complement my RTX 4090, as well as 64GB DDR5 memory

[grizzled bone]

Frankly with this config I would look more to change screen and go in 1440p

[gritty shuttle]

Wasn't the 4090 built for 4K gaming?

[grizzled bone]

It is. But most games are not optimized these days. It's up to you to know what you're looking for. I have an i7 10700k and rtx 3080 I play in high and I am between 50 and 70 fps it depends on the zones. my screen is 3440x1440

[high quarry]

ok yeh, if we are talking about upscaling it would be half that axis and 1080

[grizzled bone]

I did a test between high and ultra and frankly I don't really see the difference in quality. Only FPS loss

[coarse wraith]

I have a R5 2600x, 16gb ram (Dual Channel) and an RTX 2060

I have been getting 20-40 fps on all low settings + DLSS Performance in open world areas and I get 3-10 fps in the first city. (1080p)

My pc cant be this bad is it?

[flat brook]

Only for the guitar

[proven dagger]

Is that in native I hope and no upscaling method?

[grizzled bone]

Nope im on dlss quality

[proven dagger]

Wow, I suddenly don’t feel so bad about my 4060ti

[high quarry]

The biggest change between High and Epic is the Clouds setting, and worth putting on Epic IMO, for the storms

[flat brook]

^ The difference in cloud detail is insane between high and epic.

[grizzled bone]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iENj1X2Dhxc&t=249s

[rare temple]

It's Unreal Engine 5. Not much you can do. I would suggest going to their support page and file a ticket explaining what you are seeing. The more people file these reports, the more chances they might fix it.

https://support.stalker2.com/

[proven dagger]

Damn, I feel like an £800 card should perform better. It’s maybe not the card but the game

[high quarry]

Clouds on Epic while stormy is a vibe: https://i.imgur.com/EMU1zAI.jpeg

[grizzled bone]

Yes that's why GSC will bring a patch

[prime lark]

Btw glass looks wrong at night with the flash light on lol

[grizzled bone]

But hey I'm waiting to see the 5000 and I'll see if I take the plunge for next gen. or not

[high quarry]

A lot of the flat surfaces look wrong while screen space reflection is on, but the raytraced reflections are nice

[slender kettle]

I just got the 9800X3D and will also be waiting for the 5000 series to see if it's worth it, my 3070ti will continue to be a work horse

[grizzled bone]

I'm rebuilding my PC from 0 and I'm going to take AMD this time hahah

[high quarry]

I have been using 9800x3D with the 7800XT, I havnt been CPU limited at all, just GPU.

[keen prairie]

Waiting to get the funds to just kit my pc out 4090,128gb ddr5 and a 7850x3d then maybe ill play :(

[slender kettle]

Not normally an AMD person but the benchmarks of their new stuff is pretty convincing to make the swap

[grizzled bone]

Me too 😄

[blissful hawk]

I am curious how a 9800x3d compares to a 7800x3d performance wise in stalker 2 with a 4090

[high quarry]

@slender kettle my 9800x3D was good for 5515mhz with PBO + override + a little BCLK, didnt seem bothered

[visual terrace]

I play 32:9 ultra wide at 7680x2160 (DLAA) and I get 60+, it’s does affect performance on my pc but not console

[blissful hawk]

The game is very poorly optimized though so I doubt it will make much of a difference. It will suffer the same drops to performance in the later areas (iykyk)

[high quarry]

I get drops in the areas with NPCs, but its still mostly because of GPU.

[blissful hawk]

How far north are you?

[slender kettle]

Think NPCs are fundamentally broken though, everyone seems to get frame drops when theres like more than 5 people around you lol

[high quarry]

fps still scales with lower res with 9800x3D, up until it hits around 300 fps, then GPU starts dropping from 100%

@blissful hawk not that far, I mean just around the Rostok NPCs etc

[visual terrace]

I can tell when A-Life spawned something in by the frame drops

[high quarry]

first town has 10-15 though, and that place is still good for 200+ fps if not GPU limited

[wispy trench]

i am always wondering how can someone be "an AMD person" or "an Nvidia person" or "an intel person"???? just buy whatever is best for your use case at the given price point at the time. I would understand(kinda) if that person worked at any of those companies

[grizzled bone]

Given the price and availability either I wait for the 9800x3d or I go for the 7800x3d telling myself that I also have a good generation afterwards

[blissful hawk]

Ah see, there's a specific few areas up north that have insane performance dips, I have a 7900xtx with a 7800x3d though not a 4090

[slender kettle]

and then there's me in the first town struggling to get anything past 30

[scenic trench]

5600x and 3080, i can get 1 fps when trying to interact with the merchant

[visual terrace]

I haven’t played much just outside the tutorial area lol. I seen the performance and was like nah… went straight to nexus for mods

[scenic trench]

walking into the bar is insta fps murder

[left yacht]

same

[visual terrace]

Before the optimization mod (the most enforced one) I was getting 30fps in 8k DLAA. I swear 30fps in this game feels like 15 tops. Was unplayable

[blissful hawk]

try walking into the bar during an Emission

[slender kettle]

three stalkers walk into a bar...

[wintry needle]

OK I was using TSR so far
just as an experiment, turned on FSR on Quality with FSR 3 framegen on + forced the 'high' performance profile for the GPU (used to be 'auto') + set the MESA_SHADER_CACHE_MAX_SIZE=10G environment variable...
boom, 95-100 fps in cordon village, 115-120 if I run out to the nearest road 😮
around 7 GB VRAM used, around 9 - 9.5 GB system RAM used
smooth as the top of grandpa's head
this is all on Linux so not sure who it will be relevant for, but I'm a happy camper so far
edit: 1% low is 42 fps

[scenic trench]

i can deal with the performance issues, the real killer is the AI

[brisk plaza]

npc components are probably not handled very well and unreal has issues with cpu function calling and cpu is calling them so performance is poor when there is npcs around you they changed how this works in the later unreal versions so its better but the game uses unreal 5.1 i belive which doesnt have any of the changes

[blissful hawk]

Later areas though with 0 NPCs I get the same performance issues as some of the towns, like I will walk into a bunker or something and get 10fps for 30 secs and then back to normal (100fps or so), then dip back down to 10 over and over.

[visual terrace]

My biggest complaint is some of the HP values on mutants 😄 I know they are going to change it but it feels intentional considering there’s a death counter. That first bloodsucker was the biggest f*** you I’ve had in a game since the werewolf at the start of Bloodborne

[blissful hawk]

My usage stays the same though..

[wintry needle]

ya I was wholly unprepared for that sucker 👀 took me much longer than I care to admit, including lowering the difficulty

[brisk plaza]

it seems like there is alot of duplicated stuff in the game world for some reason also causing performance issues dips to like 10fps can be caused by a lot of things including hardware issues cant really say much about that

[blissful hawk]

Yeah it's possible. But the way the fps drops seems specifically game related, as I never ever get those dips in any other games

[brisk plaza]

mutants hp values arent really that high imo the problem is they have armor and in the early game your armor pentration is not good enough to deal with things like blood suckers ig they can just tweak the early weapons to cause more pentration instead of messing with the mutants themselves

[blissful hawk]

I agree, I did find the early game mutant encounters were less than ideal, but it feels good when you finally kill em. Then late game you are wiping blood sucker's like nothing.

[brisk plaza]

like i said there is a lot of factors involved i just got to the sphere and almost the whole place is duplicated in its place with issues in proxy visibility causing the whole area to pop in when it shouldnt some things are pretty broken atm

[brisk plaza]

you are pretty much 100% dead when you encounter more than one in the early game yeah

[blissful hawk]

shotguns are pretty much the only way you got a chance

[wintry needle]

My only grief is that there's no way to "strafe jump", ie. jump to the side, would be amazing against any mutant that likes to charge head on, like flesh, boar, dogs etc

[brisk plaza]

mods can be used to tweak things around but i personally dont recommend modding the game when it already has a bunch of bugs going on gsc shouldnt offer any support for modded copies of the game since modders should be held accountable for causing more bugs by releasing mods that are not tested well the game can get unstable with mods

[blissful hawk]

Yeah or some sort of dodge atleast, but I'm sure there will be a mod

[wintry needle]

Or "sprint to the left" like Shift+A or stg

[brisk plaza]

implementing side stepping would be nice yeah

[wintry needle]

I can strafe but not nearly quickly enough, the flesh still connects its attack
Basically a "jump out of the way at the last moment" so I can shoot it in the back

[blissful hawk]

Yeah I just eat the attack and spray it's head with my saiga lmao

I don't bother moving since it's worthless 90% of the time it'll hit you regardless

[wintry needle]

I kinda like that when sprinting there's no medkit, no bandage, no reload... Would be too OP. When you sprint you sprint 😆

Also love that actions can be interrupted! Hit reload then hit bandage right away? Yea that reload will not complete... Had a few hairy moments due to this, and I wouldn't have it any other way, it's great

[night badger]

Since yesterday noon I have no shader compilations when I start the game. There is no mod which deactives the shader compilation, since for me it took about 10-15secs I never had a problem with it. Is taht normal?

[sand nimbus]

Will we ever get dynamic flashlight shadoes.. come on, the game in dark interiors looks like from 2010

[shy portal]

I was wondering out of curiosity (and a strong need for it to make the game more enjoyable / playable), do we have anymore infos about modding ? Are we going to be limited to PAK files changes or will we get actual mods ?

[brisk plaza]

yeah its kinda reallistic sine you cant really do those when running irl either but i guess they can enable it for bandages, drink and food but nerf your running a little and nerf their effectiveness so you cant abuse it

[unkempt juniper]

Guys, should I buy a 4090 or wait until the 5000 series? I'm currently playing with a 3070

[shy portal]

Some people have it last very long, d0 minutes to an hour long so yeh, yours is normal, mine is a couple mins

[brisk plaza]

wait for 5000 series

[night badger]

yea the question is that since yesterday when I start the game there is no shader compiling at all. the game just starts, shouldnt it be compile again atleast when I restart my laptop? cuz it doesnt

[blissful hawk]

I enjoy that as well, but I will say if I actually put the mag in but don't chamber a round and I interrupt the reload with a medkit or bandage it should resume simply by racking a shell rather than doing a whole animation again.

[shy portal]

If you see no difference and have no issues in game, it's all good

[regal owl]

I have a 3090, set to epic with AA off, resolution 2560*1440 on a 4k monitor.....it's smooth sailing.

[sand nimbus]

What kind of stupid question is this, in the next 3 months the 4090 will be obsolete compared to the entire 50 series when it comes to AI and RayTracing

[unkempt juniper]

I see, in that case should I go for the 5070 or 5080? I just want to play at 1440p

[shy portal]

Yes the fact that a 2024 game doesn't have multiple step reload animation blow my mind... battlefield and COD got it figured out long ago, same for modders on GAMMA for example... but not at GSC apparently

[blissful hawk]

What kind of answer is this 🤔 the 4090 won't magically become shit when the 5090 releases XD it's also going to be cheaper than the 5090 so HIS question is viable, your answer is awful lol

[unkempt juniper]

Wait for the 5000 series then, got it, thanks!

[brisk plaza]

you will probably be fine with a 5070 but we need to see official specs first i have a 4070ti rn it runs most games at 1440p or 4k

even if you want to go for a 4090 i'd say wait since their price will drop after 5000 series release

[shy portal]

Keep in mind that a 4090 will surely outperform or be equal to a 5060 or maybe even 5070... for the cost of the upgrade it won't be worth it as a 4090 will still be very much absolutely not obsolete

[twilit lily]

fr. bro is upset for some reason lol screw it

[flat brook]

If Nvidia doesn’t make another proper generational leap this time, you can expect the 4090 to goe toe-to-toe with the 5070-5080

[coarse linden]

Supposedly there is going to be 5070 Ti launching along with 5070

[coral token]

found a weird memory leak reason

[shy portal]

The numbers "50, 60, 70, 80, 90" are performance related, a 3090 would easily outperform a 4060, it's not a perfect rule but it applies in most cases as the jump from one gen to another is rarely enough to make the previous gen obsolete or irrelevant for gaming purposes...

[blissful hawk]

Although I do agree with waiting for the 5090 if you want the absolute best, but I mean the 4090 is going to be a great card for years to come. Don't spend an absurd amount of money when you could be just as happy with a little extra money in your pocket and a 4090, ultimately it's your decision, you know your finances better than anyone else.

[flat brook]

Sorry, I knocked over my glass of RAM sticks.

[coral token]

was for prolonged time in inventory and started to climb till hit 15gb

[brisk plaza]

yeah which is what im thinking about going for personally

[ember scaffold]

Imagine getting a 4090 now, and then seeing the 5090 at the same price or a bit more expensive

[coral token]

but that's a bit odd since I have 32gb of ram total of which 23gb is available 5.5gb is cached and committed is 16.7/43.9gb

[coarse linden]

Pretty much same for Ti. Rumored to have 16GB vram and normal 5070 12GB

[shy portal]

Yeh... better wait for the release of the 50 series... then make a move on the 4090 cheaper

[flat brook]

That’s not gonna happen, Nvidia already announced another GPU/Chip shortage. Both 40 and 50 series cards are going to expensive and hard to grab until February

[ember scaffold]

People were talking about waiting for huge price drops on the 4090s, but manufacturers aren’t allowed to manufacture 4090s anymore. Therefore, 4090s will be out of stock soon

[coral token]

I waited for AMD 7k series to snag a 6800xt lol

and 7800xt is barely better than 6800xt lol

[blissful hawk]

It literally happens every year, and people fall for the same shit

[ember scaffold]

4090s aren’t getting manufactured anymore though. Manufacturers are selling out rn

[coarse linden]

I mean it is natural to move that capacity to 50 series instead making "old" stuff

[coral token]

same thing was about CPU waited for AM5 X3Ds to get 5800X3D as had a really good AM4 motherboard already anyway

[brisk plaza]

i think this is why we will see the 5070, 5060 early this year

[flat brook]

Not me, I didn’t grab a 40 series card until they were atleast within 10% margin of MSRP

[marsh furnace]

Patch when

[brisk plaza]

same i had a amd card before

[coarse linden]

5090, 5080 January, 5070 Ti, 5070 February, 5060 March

[ember scaffold]

Manufacturers didn’t stop producing them until later on though. Rn, they are hard to find. The current best option for AM4 is 5700x3d

[brisk plaza]

i only got my 4070ti like 6 months ago

[coral token]

legit got it like 300 euro cheaper than msrp

[ember scaffold]

I know. I’m just saying it won’t work with the 4090, since it’s not getting produced anymore

[coral token]

but considering I still run 470x board it's insane increase in performance from my old 2800x

[blissful hawk]

I seriously considered it over my 7900xtx, but I figured I play 1440p and the 7900xtx is more than capable at that res, so I put the other $1000 I saved into my new desk lmao

[celest beacon]

I currently have an amd card

[coral token]

6800xt is more than enough for 1440p epic

[brisk plaza]

sadly amd seems like it wants to stray away from gaming cards

[celest beacon]

Nvidia said earlier this year they aren't a gaming company anymore and that they're a ai company lol

[coral token]

my friend runs it on 6800 non xt also same settings difference is minimal

[flat brook]

AMD market here is scuffed, managed to pick up a 4070 Ti Super for only 100 bucks more than a 7800 XT, and 350 bucks cheaper than a 7900 XTX. Same goes for X3D chips currently, they’re all nearly 200 bucks more expensive than their Intel counterparts.

It sucks.

[brisk plaza]

maybe i should buy a gpu thats as big as my room

[dapper zealot]

6600xt medium 50-60fps

[celest beacon]

The a7000 aucks at gaming

[blissful hawk]

I'm in canada, I got my 7900xtx for $850 cad so I got it for a steal lol

[brisk plaza]

who said i was gonna gaem

[flat brook]

Damn. Guess I oughta move to Canada

[celest beacon]

I'm getting about 80fps while running fsr at native(the game needs upscale or it gets weird)

[coral token]

really good deal ngl

[celest beacon]

I got my 6950xt for free

[coral token]

wait how ye got coloured names

[brisk plaza]

stalker magik

[high quarry]

FSR native isnt upscale, its native res, but FSR antialiasing

[celest beacon]

Thanks for explaining it for me

[blissful hawk]

it was "Open Box" but when I got it home the gpu itself was still factory sealed, ran all my tests on it to make sure it was in line with other 7900xtx's and no issues other than the shit drivers at the time lol

[shy galleon]

Patch droppin today?

[high quarry]

like DLAA, native res, but DLSS antialiasing

[flat brook]

DLAA + Frame gen currently is pretty good, not gonna lie. Expected it to perform worse than it actually does.

[coral token]

it's how I snagged years ago Corsair HX1200i it was open box factory sealed all original just no outer shell of box got it for 160euro with shipping and imports from amazon.com while in Europe it cost 400 euro

[celest beacon]

I was pleasantly surprised but it still felt worse than the lower framerste

[coral token]

contacted corsair and they sent me country specific PSU lead as well lmao

[iron rose]

nobody know

[blissful hawk]

Oh yeah you guys are lucky out there though don't you guys have 220 everywhere instead of 110 outlets?

[coral token]

that cable is beefy tho considering am on 240v european electricity

[mint patrol]

holy christ, game runs smoothly now
did they do something to the game?

[blissful hawk]

I guess your electricity rates are more expensive than Canada though

[coral token]

actually idek I don't think so lemme check rate

[visual terrace]

It mopped the floor with me on stalker diff 8 times before I went to nexus and got a mod to lower their hp 😰

[iron rose]

Nope
I still have random drops to 5-20 fps

[blissful hawk]

I guess the EU is massive lol I thought I heard somewhere in the EU was insanely expensive for electricity, to the point where upgrading a PC you have to factor in your power consumption, for me it's not even a thought, although I do trip my breaker at times when I use my Direct Drive wheel with my pc

[coral token]

@blissful hawk tbh I pay both for house which is on three phase and apartment in capital and it's less than 100 euro a month

[stable kite]

wdym patch is not out yet

[coral token]

most of what I pay for is the distribution network not electricity itself

[rare temple]

I just found this mod on Nexus that appears to fiddle with the Lumen settings via the Engine.ini file. There is one for "potato" PCs. I tried this out first and I can say, in the Garbage settlement, my frame drops have disappeared. Sure, the inside looks very bright, but I also see my VRAM allocation stays under 5gb. Try it out and see if it works. I can forego the Lumen lighting inside buildings for now if it means stability and might be a solution for now until a patch hopefully comes to address the allocation issues.

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/133?tab=files

[mint patrol]

i was getting jitters but now it works fine. i dont remember tinkering with the settings or nothing

[blissful hawk]

Okay that's not too bad, it's definitely more expensive than here, but not by much, I pay maybe $60-$80 cad at the high end

[coral token]

But I have lived in multiple EU countries

[coral token]

to be more specific I use basically every week multiple times a week clothes dryer

[wintry needle]

Oh I just lowered the diff to rookie 😅 not even ashamed, I'm no masochist and have nothing to prove to anyone 😆 if folks out there like the challenge, great, we have options, I don't so I pick the easy mode

[coral token]

but overall this pc doesn't eat more than rough estimate all together 650w

[stable kite]

So many mod fixes will wait for the patch

[blissful hawk]

That'll do it for sure lol, but your rate seems pretty similar, my pc consumes a lot of power, I have a 1300w psu but my gpu alone will consume 410w which is insane for any gpu imo.

[mint patrol]

based tbh

play on a difficulty where the game feels fun for you. sometimes i go for rookie if i just want to explore, then higher diff if i go for the quests

[visual terrace]

The first mod for performance is definitely the most endorsed one. I forgot the name but it increased my fps by like 20

[mint patrol]

sometimes, you just want to take in the zone

[blissful hawk]

Yeah I've been playing through on stalker so I'm committed at this point but I low-key wish I would've started out at rookie

[coral token]

I mean it depends also on how efficient said PSU is mine at 50% load doesn't even kick in fan and is 95.6% efficient lol

[mint patrol]

I do want more gameplay immersing features, though. like sleep, camping out, etc, etc

[sand nimbus]

According to my sources (friend has contacts to gsc) its most likely not comming today. Tomorrow or the day after is possible

[coral token]

also it's more efficient on 230v compared to 115v

[blissful hawk]

Yeah tbf my psu is old lol I bought it back in like 2016 it is Gold Certified, I trip my breaker too often lmao.

[mint patrol]

is it this one?
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/7

[coral token]

this also please binocs nvgs and ability to repair our own gear

[high quarry]

Having a patch with fixes, assembled and tested in the first 2 days of the week is uncommon anyway, unless its a very specific targetted hotfix.

[split lintel]

this one sucks

[wintry needle]

Was the repair kit an Anomaly invention, or it was in the base games too? Can't recall
Shame on my head, some stalker I am... 👀

[coral token]

mine isn't new either it's the og blue letter Corsair HX1200i with corsair link digital I'd say I snagged it around time when a lot of these got returned to corsair as faulty due to fan not kicking in

[high quarry]

Pretty sure that was anomaly

[coral token]

that was definitely already in Call of Pripyat as that's the one I played the most and still remember

[high quarry]

repair vs repair kit

[coral token]

I remember could have field repair items in it didn't need to find technician

[vital magnet]

any tips on performance for someone with 4060, ryzen 5 3600 and 16gb ddr4?

cpu & ram are both at 80. While ram is at 98%

[celest beacon]

you on windows 10 or 11

[vital magnet]

11

[celest beacon]

i have something that will help out quite a bit not in just stalker but in all games, however its quite sketchy and youre gonna have to trust me (ill demonstrate doing it first if you like)

[vital magnet]

Yea sure, let me see 🙂

[celest beacon]

go ahead and call me and ill show you

[dreamy forge]

Any tips? RTX 3060 12GB , i5 12400F , 16GB Ram, Windows 11

[celest beacon]

ill show this guy first so he can vouch then ill help you out

[dreamy forge]

Yeah, that game kinda eats me alive tho. FPS drops are insane

[coral token]

increase page file?

[celest beacon]

unironically turning mine off helped quite a bit, but i have more ram than they do

[serene meteor]

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[wintry needle]

That, and make the page file a fixed size! Age old tip tho, not sure if still applicable

[gloomy vault]

Hello, just for instance :
Ryzen 7 5700x3d
2x8GB ram
RTX 4070 ti super
SSD sata 1to
Win 10

Run like a charm with 120fps with dlss/dlaa & frame gen nvidia (without 60-ish)

[celest beacon]

i do sound sketch af cuz i need you to trust me and run something in command prompt as an admin for my help lmfao (its just grabbing a tool from the internet to debloat windows 11 a bit, i got my processes down to around 100 on launch)

[serene meteor]

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[celest beacon]

yep

[coral token]

always set it static non dynamic lmao

[serene meteor]

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[serene meteor]

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[wintry needle]

Learned this when trying to play the original Far Cry on an Athlon 64 laptop 😅

[coral token]

like how I been taught is set it to half your ram usually and set it static but I have done double ram as well I still remember using also AMD ramdisk thing on early SSDs too

just got like 32GB or 64GB sata ssd and chug in on ramdisk worked pretty good usually better than page file

also just saying but making DT-12 into 12"x76MM slug chugging monster is pretty great mag dumping most things to the dome does the trick pretty well only downside those slugs are costly lol

[sharp ember]

COOL2: None Selected
CPU: (Pre-Order) AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D - 8-Core 4.70GHz, 5.20GHz Turbo - 96MB L3 Cache Processor, Pro OC Compatible w/ Radeon Graphics, MEMORY: 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5/6400mhz Kingston Fury Renegade RGB Black/Silver Memory, VIDEO: MSI GeForce RTX™ 4090 - 24GB GDDR6X - HDMI, DP - Real-Time Ray Tracing, NVIDIA DLSS 3 [+1231] (Single Card) - after best in game settings dlss or FSR etc not to sure what my whole graphic settings should be

[celest beacon]

friendly reminder, windows will always try to save on ram where it can, so windows can also decide to use your pagefile instead of your ram when it can, which will hurt performance. If you have 32gb+ of ram, i suggest turning off pagefile

[coral token]

that's why I advise it for those on 16gb

[serene meteor]

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[coral token]

bro running mixup of ram?

[celest beacon]

yes, if youre on 16gb or less, set the pagefile to either 8192 or 16384 (if you have a fast ssd this will work, if oyu have a harddrive, pray)

[dreamy forge]

i got 2TB SSD from Samsung so i hope it will work tho

[coral token]

I advise to run dual channel or if on intel and it lets you run quad use that don't do 3 sticks

it can sometimes mess up controller and ram in general is usually the most fussy things of a PC

[wintry needle]

Especially since S2 is not that heavy, admittedly I'm on Linux which is a completely different memory mgmt and system footprint (650 MB base ram usage lol), but the game itself doesn't really use more than 10 GB ram when it works well. If this upcoming patch works out a lot of folks will be happy

[serene meteor]

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[coral token]

my game actually uses only 6.5gb

vram at 8.5gb

[late ferry]

nekrin3896 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[celest beacon]

for anyone on windows 11 standard pc (do not do this on a handheld or steam deck or something like that, youve been warned) open powershell as an admin and copy and paste this qithout the quotations "iwr -useb https://christitus.com/win | iex" after that, give it a moment, and when the new interface pops up, at the top hit tweaks, and standard, click disable background tasks, then let it run. Optionally, you can click extra buttons and things, but you may break your pc or disable something that you may want to stay enabled - dont worry though, this tool will also make a restore point for windows before it applies any other tweaks so you can always roll it back if you want. if you have a beefy pc, this will help with stuttering and 1% lows a LOT, if you have a weaker pc, this will help out quite a bit in general. This isnt for only stalker btw, it helps everything, not just games. In task manager, also disable anything in the startup tab that you dont need to run with your pc, and then check the processes you have running in your cpu tab, then restart. If you have nothing opening on startup, then you should have around 100-120 processes, which will save a LOT of cpu overhead while playing.

[slender kettle]

you could always just... wait for the game to be patched?

[wintry needle]

I'm in Cordon village rn, Sidorovich's place, and it's around 9 - 9.5 GB, once I saw it go up to 10.2

[split lintel]

Try it in geforce now, it has input lag but doesnt crash

[coral token]

surprisingly decent pc as it uses 60% cpu 60% ram and 98% GPU as all things should be

[celest beacon]

actually its lying to you. if you turn off the pagefile then youll be using up an additional 10gb or so but youll be running with your 1% lows only about 10 below average framerate, but while it uses more it still only claims to use about 6-8, when its secretly using much more

[serene meteor]

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[coral token]

hey fair I do that with cars lmao

[serene meteor]

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[coral token]

now am planning to get another preferably rear ended one so I can do rhd to lhd swap on the other I currently use as parts for the lhd

[celest beacon]

i strongly suggest everyone do this btw, jon already vouched for me and homie from earlier just did it and he isnt saccrificed to the noosphere, if you do it and it helps leave a thumbs up or something, maybe the mods will pin it

[coral token]

since that RHD only thing that is rusted is front sub frame frame itself and chassis is perfect

[split lintel]

Is there no linux for stalker?

[wintry needle]

Your favorite monitoring app should have an option to show pagefile usage, mangohud on linux does

[serene meteor]

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[celest beacon]

with pagefile disabled i go slightly over 24gb usage during gaming, so i wouldnt suggest it

[coral token]

nah I have Vauxhall Insignia VXR estate lol

[sturdy spoke]

Sup, any of yall fix the "low level fatal error" crashes?

[dreamy forge]

So im trying to turn off my pagefile tho but im kinda nontech guy so how much v-ram should i type in when im on 16GB ram

[celest beacon]

barra swapped the 79 charger and put a stututututu on it

[serene meteor]

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[wintry needle]

It's not really recommended to turn it off on 16gb

[coral token]

I want Holden ute ngl but am european so rough to get one

[celest beacon]

dont turn it off with only 16gb, only try turning it off if you have at least 32

[dreamy forge]

So i should keep it on automatic

[serene meteor]

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[coral token]

set static to 16,384

[serene meteor]

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[dreamy forge]

well my static is sett on 15872 dunno why

[celest beacon]

my aunt blew two pistons outta the old block and the family had the barra sitting dead already so why not

[coral token]

honestly I just like that I can haul so much shit in this car

[serene meteor]

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[coral token]

I packed it with 4 rims 4 wheels at same time fine

[celest beacon]

she put the 109 unleaded into it cuz she wanted to slam into a speedbump or something

[dreamy forge]

i got 3 disks on which one i should set that static?

[coral token]

ssd or one that doesn't have the game

[celest beacon]

yeah this tool is a god tier thing along with O%O and park control

[tepid steppe]

pf is usually good to keep around 1x-2,5x (you can set that as the limit) of RAM - you check out guru3d for DECADES old discussion about " I have 512mb of RAM can i disable pagefile"

[coral token]

don't want more disk usage on same drive game is unless it's nvme ssd

[celest beacon]

pf becomes irrelevant once you have enough ram, since its just substituting storage space to act as ram, when you can just tell it to be held in ram instead (32gb seems like the minimum for pf disabled gaming)

[serene meteor]

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[tepid steppe]

I suggest you headover to guru3d and join the discussion as its still going on

[dreamy forge]

so i set it for 16384 but system says actual is 32256 is that right? as i said im absolutly dumb at tecch

[celest beacon]

mate of mine bought a crashed out aventador and took the engine outta it before putting an inline 6 into it and reselling it for more than he bought it for

[dreamy forge]

I am kinda confused now FR

[celest beacon]

the discussion probably isnt ever going to end, since it mostly revolves around "well, i get better fps when i disable it since i have enough ram" "okay, what are you going to do when a situation comes where you need the pagefile and dont have it enabled?" (some games try to page a LOT)

[sand nimbus]

Opel you mean

[coral token]

did I stutter?

[celest beacon]

its talking about your pagefile size + physical ram amount, since the pagefile is storage that acts like ram

[wispy thistle]

Vauxhall and opel are the same brand... its kinda like lexus and toyota iirc

[serene meteor]

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[dreamy forge]

Oh ok so it means it worked, nice thanks for you help guyz im bout to restart my PC now

[celest beacon]

i got an es350 that has no issues besides the power steering gotta be replaced but i cant find a buyer (i got the damn thing for free but i only want like 2k)

[sand nimbus]

Yes but opel sounds better

[serene meteor]

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[celest beacon]

i already have a focus rs and i dont need it plus my landlord wants the parkingspot to be freed up, im just tryna get rid of the es350 i want it GONE

[coral token]

vauxhall badges look better than opel lol

[dreamy forge]

bout to test it up, wish me luck fellas

[tepid steppe]

you nailed it, but as common advice disabling it should not be given as its VERY niche use; aka common user is asking for trouble.

[sand nimbus]

Agreed

[celest beacon]

which is why i keep doubling down that no one should try it unless they have at least 32gb since i havent found any games that require more yet personally, but situations where its disabled and you need it arent gonna brick your pc or even crash you anyway, just crash the application once it gets shunted outta random access

[coral token]

good thing is I snagged a lhd opel for like 1.3k euro with damaged engine

so can just replace what I need on my vauxhall for lhd on my rhd

[stable kite]

ty i have 32 so disabled it will test later

[sand nimbus]

Peak

[celest beacon]

this isnt a guarenteed solution but do feel free to give it a try, it helped my system personally so it may for you aswell, but your milage may vary

[visual terrace]

Yup that’s the one I use. Night and day difference in fps. Without it DLAA runs at a smooth 30 and below. With it, 60+ fps

[lofty nymph]

anyone else's hud flickering with frame gen on?

[dreamy forge]

WARD NPCs are unkillable...

[celest beacon]

framegen doesnt understand static elements in a moving game

[celest beacon]

use a weapon with higher penetration and aim for the head (as far as i can tell, where in the head you shoot them matters!!! if you shoot the top of a helmet it will sometimes spark and will also do less damage than if you shoot them in the glass visor!!!! I could be wrong, but if im wrong, then why does the glass on the front of the mask shatter when i shoot it?)

[sleek widget]

i had it too. was really annoying

[stable kite]

it should help indeed, no way windows should use my sdd as ram if i have enough ram avaiable

[naive shoal]

FSR understands HUD

[celest beacon]

FSR and framegen are different, fsr is upscaling, framegen uses a software to determine what to do between two frames to make it into three frames, and has been known to sometimes not handle doing HUDs well

[sleek widget]

for me only one mod fixed the flickering

[naive shoal]

I meant the FSR frame gen component, sorry

Although it seems to flicker in S2

[celest beacon]

like i said, it sometimes doesnt handle it well

[proven dagger]

I’ve got 16gb ram and I’m using a Samsung pro 990 nvme, should I increase my page file?

[wispy thistle]

16gigs is the bare minimum for a "modern" gaming PC yes some more pagefile size might be beneficial

[celest beacon]

you can try, it might help, but generally speaking increasing it vs the windows managed size will offer margin of error improvements except in niche cases

[proven dagger]

Thanks guys!

[dreamy forge]

Thanks for you help my FPS are much better now.

[proven dagger]

What would you recommend I set the size to?

[celest beacon]

8192 or 16384 (i suggest the second)

[dreamy forge]

i used 16384 and it works fine now

[coral token]

You're welcome on that it's an ancient trick tbh since windows 98 days

[dreamy forge]

yeah as i said im such a non tech guy so it looks like miracle for me 😄

[celest beacon]

vax, click this and follow my advice itll also help -> #pc-specs message

[lofty nymph]

what was the mod? its really annoying me lol

[celest beacon]

follow what i said and then report back to me on how it goes, same for anyone else who wants to improve performance, just follow the advice

[sleek widget]

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

[wispy thistle]

ngl i dont really trust powershell scripts

[sleek widget]

i tried all of them and this is the only one that helped me

[celest beacon]

its a chris titus tool, so you can just go to the website and download the .exe and do it manually instead if you want.

[torpid fox]

Anyone got any graphics settings recommendations for a PC with a Ryzen 7 5800X / RX 7700XT / 32GB DDR4 @ 3600mhz / m.2 SSD, im running the game on a 1440p monitor. FPS is all over the place and whilst the ingame frame gen setting helps a little, it is causing some crazy mouse input delay as well as when using red dots, it ghosts pretty badly.

[errant aspen]

I thought the scope ghosting was intentional? Is it not?

[celest beacon]

everything on medium and try turning off your pagefile

[wispy thistle]

i'd try a combination of Medium and high settings, Anti alias on low and NativeAA with global illumination on medium

[torpid fox]

Anything to change on upscaling options?

[wispy thistle]

turn the antialias settings to low and then run FSR NativeAA

[celest beacon]

see what your fps is after doing what i said, and if its still not good enough run TAA on like 80

[torpid fox]

ty will try those and get back to you

[celest beacon]

yknow i never thought my hobby of chasing every additional frame would come in handy but here i am

now i can run 250watts through my cpu at have it maintain a nice ballin 84c max 😎

[golden lichen]

I fixed this by turning off FSR frame gen

[sturdy spoke]

Yeah, that didn't work for me. Nor much of anything else

[split lintel]

jeleous of those whos game is working, mine now just keeps rebooting the PC

[sleek widget]

not wanna sound like a idiot but here goes anyway. i always thought that goin over 80c was too much for a cpu

[golden lichen]

Don't be too jealous. I'm soft locked in a story quest now 😂

[errant aspen]

Yeah my CPU never really goes past 60c

[wispy thistle]

i mean 80C is hot... dont get me wrong... but to be 100% honest... laptops operate in the 90c range... PCs dont thermal shutdown until 100C and generally most CPUS start throttling themselves at 90C

[celest beacon]

yes and no, if youre averaging above 80 then you should be a tad concerned, but if youre using a test to absolutely crank it and it only goes above 80 and not 90, youre doing something right. maxing out in the 80s means that when im gaming i should barely see temps above 70, if youre maxing out in the 90s then you might see 80s temps during gaming. Tldr, 80s are safe for the cpu but will make it age a bit faster. might take a few months to a year off the 7+ year lifespan, if you average it above 90c tho you might take as much as 3 years off.

[split lintel]

At least when you restart you will know how to do the other quests and can do it quicker 😄

[sleek widget]

ahhh ok thx for clarifing. i always went for max 80c when stress testing new cpus

[wispy thistle]

oh 80C during stress test scenarios is 100% fine like if you're getting 80C running prime95 you're pretty much golden

[hard juniper]

it is hot, but it's not damaging

[sleek widget]

yea cause i get around 60 to 70 in games. thats why i asked

[celest beacon]

i max out at 84c running good ol cbench

[hard juniper]

80 for a gpu is pretty toasty though
not harmful but your fans won't be happy

[sleek widget]

yea i undervolted it cause in original voltage i got over 80

[wispy thistle]

80C is modern temp target for nvidia cards what are you on about?

[errant aspen]

Yeah 90 is not ideal for long gaming sessions

[hard juniper]

lol hotter than i'd like at least, don't need it running that hot or with fans that loud

[celest beacon]

80c is perfectly fine for gpu temps but due to silicone softening i wouldnt let it go above 60c if you care about every single frame (going above 60c lowers the performance of the graphics card while its above, but its normally less than 2% and sometimes less than 1%)

[wispy thistle]

oh sure i mean if i could afford a waterblock i'd slap it on my 2080TI and enjoy cooler temps but im that psychopath that runs like a 92c temp limit and ups his power limit to like 118% to get the maximum out of GPUboost lmao

[hard juniper]

my 6800xt could casually go up to 90c, struggled to keep it below 80c even

[celest beacon]

we talking hotspot 92c or outerdie 92c

[rare temple]

Just got this response back from GSC support about the constant FPS drops in settlements, etc. This definitely turns off the Lumen effect which of course makes things bright when you're inside buildings, etc. Can possibly kill the atmosphere, but if you're experiencing horrendous FPS drops, this might be the only solution until they hopefully patch the memory allocation issues. Definitely has helped me inside the Garbage settlement and other areas. Just edit your Engine.ini file so that the [/Script/Engine.RendererSettings] section has the following entries:

[/Script/Engine.RendererSettings] r.DynamicGlobalIlluminationMethod=0 r.GraphicsAdapter=0 r.Nanite.MaxPixelsPerEdge=4 r.Lumen.ScreenProbeGather.RadianceCache.ProbeResolution=16 r.Lumen.DiffuseIndirect.Allow=0 r.Lumen.Reflections.Allow=0

Also, this mod uses some of these settings, especially the potato version of the mod. It has reduced my VRAM allocated from over 5gb to under 5gb which is key for my since my GTX-1660 only has 6gb of VRAM. FPS drops seem to have disappeared after playing over 30+ minutes.

I'm using XeSS with Quality mode, and overall graphics is set to medium. All on a GTX-1660.

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/133?tab=files

Mods, it might be worth pinning this as a possible temporary solution since it came straight from GSC support from a ticket I filed with them?

[wispy thistle]

outerdie is what afterburner targets... i've already conceded to the fact that RTX 2080TIs have hotspots in the 100s

[hard juniper]

jesus lmao i try to keep my 4080s below 70c no matter what

[celest beacon]

i really hope your fans are maxed out with it that high

[hard juniper]

amd gave me some nasty ptsd, thermal paste was applied like ass out of the box so it would easily hit 100c while playing, needed a super aggressive undervolt and eventually i just repasted it myself
in comparison my 4080 runs like a fridge

[celest beacon]

also just saying you can technically buy a 5090 literally right now. (theres a company taking preorders for serverstacks with 5090s built into them, which is funny cuz the 5090 hasnt been officially announced yet, but this company is legit and has been doing business like this for over a decade) but their cheapest option has 8 5090s in it and will run you like 30 thousand usd

[wispy thistle]

AMD had some nasty stock coolers on the 6000 series on their founder cards like they were straight up defective

[hard juniper]

explains a lot
but i had a sapphire nitro+

[celest beacon]

ive got quite a bit of ptm7950 in my freezer and have been thinking about repastingn my 6950xt but its the nitro+ sapphire one so i seriously doubt it needs it, im running it quite a bit hotter than it should and i cant even get the hotspot to 90c lol

[wispy thistle]

Nitro+ shoudl've been fine iirc that was one of the better coolers for the 6800xt

[hard juniper]

yeah that's why i was so shocked, when i took it apart only like half the die had a good amount of paste on it

[errant aspen]

So about £2984.81 for one.

[celest beacon]

do you mean 28,564 euro?

[errant aspen]

Nah, I converted that price from dollar, did you mean 30k euros?

[wispy thistle]

im gonna be dead honest... i hope AMD/RTG gets their shit together... they already said that RX8000 line is doing the same thing they did with polaris/navi 1 and they;re not targetting the upper high end sticking with just the midrange...

[celest beacon]

30k usd is 28564 euro

[wispy thistle]

this means any 50 series gpu above tthe 5070 is gonna be unobtanium for the average person

[errant aspen]

I just divided the 30k in USD then converted the price for one into pounds

[celest beacon]

i feel like an idiot thats the pound logo not euro aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
ahem,, its 23,866 pounds

[errant aspen]

I mean, if you're getting a 5090, you are generally going to be using it to work and make money, but still.. it's a crazy price.

[hard juniper]

yeah 90 cards were always kinda a joke for the average person

[celest beacon]

oh you mean the base cost of the 5090? no there is no official base cost, but the only company that is offering them rn is doing so at that price, but you get 8 of them plus a fully functional server and 32tb of gen 3 nand

[hard juniper]

if you spent money on them you probably used them to make money back anyway

[errant aspen]

For 8, and then £3133.34 for one

[celest beacon]

i assume the 5090 is going to be 2k out of the box from nvidia (in usd)

[wispy thistle]

i find it funny how they killed the titan name only to bring back the 90 and now the 90 isnt even a dual GPU

[errant aspen]

Oh okay, fair. I think it'll probably be around 3k for one tho, maybe like 2.7 to 3k.

[vernal echo]

They are going to be £2200-£2500 in the uk

[pseudo blade]

3k€?

[wispy thistle]

because the GTX 590 used to be SLI GTX 580s on a single board - who remembers those days?

[errant aspen]

2.2 to 2.5 would be more reasonable than 3k. 🥂

[past lynx]

has anyone tried the game on 5700x3d i would like to know what the performance is like

[vernal echo]

I am basing this off the £2200 my 4090 cost and the fact they said the 5090 wont cost much more than the 4090 but we wont fully know until we see it being sold.

[wispy thistle]

Generally fine, 5700x3d/5800x3d still are within like the top 10 gaming processors out on the market

[celest beacon]

also, 9900x3d and 9950x3d going to have one 3d chip and one non 3d chip, big :(((((

[past lynx]

yeah i got 32gb of ram 4070 super and an 5700x3d so the game should run fine?

[celest beacon]

for now itll be a little rocky but its playable

[wispy thistle]

bro yes ofc... dude thats like a 1300 dollar pc right there i might hope to GOD that it'll run stalker 2 - i'd even go as far to say that that pc should run anything under the sun and if it doesnt it isnt the hardware's fault but troglodyte programmers

[celest beacon]

how it go

[past lynx]

i mean yeah but i have seen that the game is very cpu heavy

[celest beacon]

gonna tap the sign again for chat -> #pc-specs message

[wispy thistle]

sure it is cpu heavy... but not to the point where like the 6th fastest gaming CPU out on the market (only superseded by the 7800/x3d and 13th/14th gen I7 cpus that havent degraded yet and ofc the big daddy 9800x3d) cant run it properly

[celest beacon]

dont forget about the 12900k >:(

[wispy thistle]

my bad - but my point still stands - also didnt 12th gen and ryzen 5000x3d cpus basically trade blows?

[celest beacon]

12900k w ddr5 outperforms the 5700x3d and 5800x3d in gaming, depends if its the ddr4 or ddr5 version if the 12900k wins or not (also the 13th and 14th gen chips are literally the same as the 12th but have more E cores and a much higher voltage, the P cores are the exact same excluding additional cache)

[wispy thistle]

ah so basically 12th gen is the only intel cpu you want at the minute because they dont harikiri - got ya

[high quarry]

latest bios and sane power limits and its probably fine

[wispy thistle]

got cha - ngl im probably living on AM4 for the forseeable future... i dont see a real compelling reason to upgrade just yet... ill maybe consider upgrading in 2028

[late ferry]

mylph has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[celest beacon]

i mean, if youre willing to manually tune the chip it performs just fine, i got my wife's 13900k running perfectly fine, 5.2ghz locked on the P cores and the E cores disabled so i can get the cache running at 5ghz since the cache and E cores share voltage between them
i have my 12900k also locked at 5.2ghz on the P cores, but i just turned 2 of the E cores back on since windows 11 got better at choosing which cores to run games on as long as you have windows game mode enabled (IF YOURE RUNNING A CHIPLET OR SPLIT CCD CPU PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD ENABLE GAME MODE IN YOUR WINDOWS SETTINGS) - took out the f word forgot no swearing

[hard juniper]

yes just grab one of the performance mods from nexus and use frame gen

[wispy thistle]

100% if you can keep your processes from bouncing around different numa clusters (for lack of better wording) it saves you SOOO Much latency due to not having to copy cache back and forth

[celest beacon]

what cpu you on?

[hard juniper]

AM4 gang

[wispy thistle]

the only noteworthy chip left on the platform for gaming workloads (the 5800x3d)

[high quarry]

I run the 9800x3D at 5.5ghz, I generally know its fine, the thing that kills/killed the x3D CPUs was excessive vsoc voltage at 1.35-14v+
Now they are all limited to 1.3v

[celest beacon]

if you were on like a 3700x or something i was gonna suggest the microcenter bundle deal mfor the 7600x, its like 250usd for 16gb of ram and a motherboard + the cpu

[wispy thistle]

oh yeah but id also argue against that bundle and spending the 150 bucks more to get the 7600x3d with 32gb ram bundle its such an insanely good deal

[celest beacon]

get your foot in the door on am5 and then upgrade in 2030 onto the 13800x3d lmao

[high quarry]

doesnt microcenter have the 7600x3d?

[blazing siren]

anyone knows how to resolve the fatal error trailing magic number when trying to unpak a mod? want to merge some but i cant unpack the pak

[wispy thistle]

currently in a 400 dollar bundle with a b650 asus board w/ wifi and 32 gb ram yes

[hard juniper]

wish we had microcenter, the deals i hear about sound magical

[celest beacon]

wasnt aware they had that one, i havent looked in close to a year since i built a pc for my buddy (i build computor for peopole and then they pay me the money for put it goether, i play expensive lego and make green)

[celest beacon]

wait for 400usd why not just spend the extra 80 on top of that and get the 7800x3d bundle then lol

[blazing siren]

https://imgur.com/a/yaTW54W this is the error i get ):
happened to like 4-5 mods, all others worked fine

[wispy thistle]

im not even american but i had to spec out a PC for my guild leader's wife - they paid 1100USD for a 7600x3d 32gb ram b650 w/ wifi and an RX 6800XT which imo is a perfectly fine and balanced build (probably could;ve shaved off another 100 or so bucks by going air cooled and a cheaper case but he wanted to spoil his wife with something that looked pretty)

[high quarry]

7600x3D paired with a 7800XT/4070 super doesnt sound bad

[celest beacon]

my homie got a 7800x3d 32gb of 6000 cl30 ram and a 4080 super (we got the 4080 super for 640usd because my friend works at the microcenter and he marked it down 6 days early for us since it was a return and they mark it down each month it doesnt sell)

[shy galleon]

Incoming patch https://steamdb.info/app/1643320/history/

[wispy thistle]

lucky snipe on that gpu my dude

[wispy thistle]

sick snipe my dude

[celest beacon]

along with 10 of the lian li fancy mirror connecting fans and a 360aio, and a 4tb 990 pro, and finally as 1000w platinum psu from corsair, we spent about 2400

[high quarry]

With those microcenter bundles though, you can build the entire PC for 900-1100

[wispy thistle]

ah we went with an NZXT case (flow h6) a LianLI AIO and a 850W superflower psu (i mean superflower is one of the big OEMS so i generally trust their stuff)

[coral token]

not too bad but damn not cheap at all

[wispy thistle]

also 10 of those lianli fans is like 300 bucks by itself lmao

[celest beacon]

if we bought each of the parts at msrp on amazon it wouldve been 4100 at the time of purchase

[coral token]

I hate how expensive pc market has become tbh

back in day could build good pc for 1k now 1k is like entry to gaming if at all inflation isn't helping tbh

[high quarry]

mostly just main 3 parts, CPU, Mobo and GPU
CPU and Mobo at least have cheaper options that dont fall off in performance too much.

[wispy thistle]

bro back when the HD3850 was new you could get like a multiGPU setup for sub 1k

[coral token]

I remember I paid for Ryzen 7 2800x asus rog strix x470f board 32gb ram and bequiet dark rock pro 4 cooler 800 quid

[celest beacon]

I am blind, but it is you who cannot see

[coral token]

january of year when 3rd gen cpus came out

[high quarry]

3850, 2008 $1k is $1470 already by inflation 🙂

[coral token]

I still use same cooler ram and mobo

[stable kite]

patch me daddy

[wispy thistle]

i bought my Ryzen 1700 with an x370 board on the day of release lmao... ive had this motherboard for like 7 years now O.o

[high quarry]

I got a B350 Mortar arctic

[coral token]

how is x370 holding up tbh

[high quarry]

I no longer have the 1700 around, but its still being using with a 3900x in it by my 12y old

[wispy thistle]

just as well as x470 is... slightly worse than x570 and b550 but still perfectly adequate

[coral token]

x470 especially the one I got is still touted as one of best am4 motherboards

[celest beacon]

shoutout my gti760, did me well until 2019

[wispy thistle]

the only thing x470 has over high end x370 is StoreMI

[high quarry]

I went B350 -> X570 -> X870 (which is really *50 tier with some guarantees)

[coral token]

shout out my old R9 295x2 lasted till June 2022

[wispy thistle]

a friend of mine is still using one of my R9 290x's to this day... 11 years and still going strong

[celest beacon]

guys i only have 3 more achievements to go until i have them all, wish me luck

[high quarry]

Then the patch resets your achievements...

[civic heath]

"pc-specs" bro

[coral token]

I had an r9 290x in secondary system but I since have replaced it with RX 6600xt

[celest beacon]

homie i have been giving nonstop tech support, relax

[wispy thistle]

oooh the 6600xt is a nice upgrade from the old 290x

[coral token]

yeah it's a really good upgrade and honestly not too pricy

[lilac knot]

Hello, just wanted to let people know I have a 13th gen cpu and RTX 4090, and kept crashing when I opened the game. The fix was to update BIOS. Actually worked lol.

[wispy thistle]

nah 6600xt is probably the last gpu that actually launched at a price that makes sense

[wintry needle]

I still have a perfectly working RX 480 8GB
I just don't use it anymore 🤣

[high quarry]

Daughter:
3900x, rx 6600, 16GB 3200

Son:
5800x3D, 3070, 32GB 3733

Me:
9800x3D, 7800XT, 48GB 6400

[celest beacon]

i went from the gti760 to a 1660super, then to a 3080ftw3(for a month before reselling it for 100 more than i spent on it) then i got my 6950xt for free

[coral token]

what I've tested it can handle most games 1440p over 100fps

[wispy thistle]

i have like 2 1070s 3 1080s a vega 64, rtx 2070 and 3060 LHR laying around all catching dust untill i find cases to put them in so i can sell them things

[wispy thistle]

good hustle

[coral token]

I have somewhere a case b450 board and also my old ryzen 7 2800x sitting in my house

so just need to get some decent ram psu and some ssd/hdd

[high quarry]

I have a spare B550 and 5900x, might end up as a NAS or Streaming PC

[coral token]

I will need to make basically a storage server for offline backup as redundancy system and security

[wispy thistle]

oh yeah i would 100% make a nas/stream rig out of that... run sickbeard n stuff and have it download all kinds of movies and series to stream via DLNA

[high quarry]

Ill consider it once I do my next GPU upgrade

[wintry needle]

I wish I could buy that 5900x off ya 👀

My sole regret with my current pc is not going for a 8-core or more

[high quarry]

https://de.pcpartpicker.com/list/HtVzMC 🙂

[wispy thistle]

Honestly - for 90% of cases a 6c12T cpu should serve anyone that isnt doing serious work just fine... 6c12T is the new 4c8T

[celest beacon]

imo i think 8c16t is superior, feels like the golden standard

i really really hate intels E core direction, just make p cores bro

[high quarry]

im curious how 12 core x3D will be this time though if its really cache on both CCDs and unlocked

[wispy thistle]

oh for sure.... i hear ya... lets say 6c12T is like what used to be the I5 2500K - perfectly adequate and 8c16T is the i7 2600K - a hair short from being overkill for 90% of the population

[celest beacon]

the 9900x3dd and 9950x3d have been confirmed to only have 3dvcore on one of the CCDs

[high quarry]

AH, then meh.

[coral token]

honestly now I will never return to non x3d type chips lmao

[wispy thistle]

oh i hoped they moved the 3dvcache to underneath the die instead of on top and have it on both... 9950x at this point doesnt make any more sense than the 7950x3d then...

[civic heath]

Sorry, i'm just jealous because i'm at work

[celest beacon]

imma be real, the only situation where you would want the extra 8 3dvcore cores is for rendering, everything else you wouldnt care since i cant think of any games besides cityskylines 2 that can make use of more than 16 threads

[high quarry]

x3D just indicated how the L3 is packaged.
If it was a monolith with a massive amount of L3 it could do it.
Intel wont do it though..

[wispy thistle]

intel 100% moved away from monolithic design with the core ultra stuff tho

[celest beacon]

i remember watching someone test the new 192 thread behemoth threadripper on it and they managed to saturate all 192 threads and paired it with a 4090 and the game still barely ran at maxed out in 4k

[wispy thistle]

also the only reason why i want 3dvcache on both CCDS is so i dont have to process lasso

[hard juniper]

stalker reference

[celest beacon]

the cpubenchmark guy is hating on the new intel chips the same as he hates on anything amd, so maybe he doesnt hate amd and just hates chiplet design

[high quarry]

Yeh, and we will be stuck with them learning how to do it properly until 2027 😦

[wispy thistle]

ORRRR they could pay amd and license the infinity fabric styled interconnect...

[celest beacon]

process lasso isnt really required anymore because windows finally managed to get game mode to properly assign cores to things

[high quarry]

AMD have had 8 years to refine what they have now.

[torpid fox]

all medium TAA 80 without frame gen has me at 55-60fps at the slag heap if thats anything to go off of

[celest beacon]

is that better than before?

[wispy thistle]

looking back at AMD fx - i find it funny how amd started doing chiplet based CPUS back in 2012 and now its basically the industry standard

[wintry needle]

That's.... seriously considerable. 🤔
For the low low price of 4 stalker games there's the foundation of a new architecture, the jump into AM5...
But, wtf is with their naming? F at the end, they trying to monkey intel again?

[forest basin]

Hello. Does anyone else get consistent GPU crashes near bodies of water? I pretty much can't play in any swamp/marshland areas without getting the GetDeviceRemoved crash.

Also happens a lot while crossing the bridge to the Garbage. Right now I'm trying to go start the mission where you first go to Noontide and I pretty much can because that area is near water.

My guess is that the water shader disagrees strongly with some GPUs. If anyone's found a solution, I'd appreciate some help.

[torpid fox]

I'd use frame gen if it didnt cause the optics to ghost and yeah its better but I dont know if its just due to me opening the game. Forgot to mention that I did turn light shafts off

[wispy thistle]

Reflections might verywell be broken patch is incomming though

[celest beacon]

did you disable your pagefile? also if you havent yet, try doing this and let me know the performance difference -> #pc-specs message

[wintry needle]

That clown is not to be taken seriously tbh

[celest beacon]

yeah i just wanted to point it out cuz the guy is a glue consumer and its funny

[torpid fox]

pagefile is disabled yeah. Also im on win 10

[wispy thistle]

i mean in all fairness the Core ultra CPUs in their current state are kinda dissapointing - they are great for power efficiency though

[celest beacon]

itll still work on windows 10 but itll be a much smaller improvement, its up to you if you wanna do it at that point

[torpid fox]

I'll take a look

[celest beacon]

hey i mean, 11900k performance at 11900k wattage, not ba-wait why are the investors leaving? i need their money!

[south finch]

Anyone else having audio glitches?

My audio just cuts out everything 1-2 seconds no matter where I am or what I'm doing in-game.

Running a GOXLR, SHURE SM78 & some hefty headphones

[wispy thistle]

11900K single thread performance at 11900K wattage but with like 3x the core count right? nvm.... still 8-16 P and the rest is E

[vital oyster]

Still not patch? Wild

[celest beacon]

yeah but only 8 p cores, of which perform the same as the 11900k, the 16 e cores perform similarly to the 5000 series intel cores, so in gaming is about the same as the 11900k if it was on ddr5. the e cores only matter for non gaming stuff

[wispy thistle]

oof thats... rough

[celest beacon]

the 295k is actually pretty good for productivity tasks, but is garbage for its price for gaming.

[rare temple]

Okay, after much testing on my GTX-1660 with 6gb of RAM, I can attest that this mod could be temporary solution. It disables lumen so lighting in dark areas won't be as dark. I'm using the mid version of the Engine.ini and my allocated VRAM is under 5gb, keeping the FPS drops from happening. I also have graphical settings set to high, and using XeSS with native AA. I'm keeping 30 fps pretty consistently with minimal frame drops. I would highly suggest using this if you keep dropping into 5 fps territory for long periods of time. This is just an engine.ini tweak. No paks.

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/133?tab=files

[celest beacon]

unironically i think the only gaming edge it has over the 11900k is that it has 2.2x the cache amount, even the cache speed/core speed is the same, just more cache

[wispy thistle]

so it runs flight sim somewhat okay

[celest beacon]

sorta, the 12900k has 30mb of L3 and the 295k has 36mb of it, nowhere near the 100mb of L3 that the 7800x3d has tho (idk how much the 9800x3d has and i dont care to check atm)

[wintry needle]

It's not that, it's the years of spewing unwarranted bullsht against AMD, mostly without reason, bro finds it hard to stomach that intel is not king anymore

[celest beacon]

they havent been for years, however i think its funny he is spewing some hate at intel for once since they adopted chiplet design too

[torpid fox]

Okay completed the tweaks, gonna restart PC and will let you know of any FPS difference

[celest beacon]

good boy

[torpid fox]

Just waiting for shaders to compile now...

[celest beacon]

did you compare how many processes you had before in task manager compared to now

[torpid fox]

No butr from the looks, theres a lot less now than before

[celest beacon]

also you have to restart after the tweaks, hope you did that

[torpid fox]

Yeah I did

[celest beacon]

neato, lemme know how the game runs, should run better now

[torpid fox]

In the same location, the FPS is pretty much identical

Changed from TAA 80 to FSR - Quality and its better and tbh it doesnt look all that bad

[celest beacon]

if you have a way to see 1% lows or 99th percentile framerate it shouldve gone up quite a bit, and also the game should in general be smoother

[torpid fox]

can check that with adrenalin overlay no?

[wintry needle]

Looked into the 8700f, wel it's cheap for a reason... 👀 only 16 usable pcie 4.0 lanes which will be promptly gobbled up by the GPU, no lanes for nvme drive... All the nvme advantages go in the bin?

[celest beacon]

si

[torpid fox]

99% FPS says 34 (idk what any of this means)

[wispy thistle]

Intel lost the crown right around the ryzen 3000 line... lost the value crown the moment ryzen dropped if you ask me but i might be an AMD shareholder

[celest beacon]

id personally argue the 5000 series but yeah its been a while

[celest beacon]

99%fps is your 1% lows, when those get too far below your average framerate it makes it feel choppy and stuttery

[torpid fox]

Ah right well its at 45ish outside of the trader area

[wintry needle]

Not all frames are made equal
Some of the time, the pc can only push out 34 frames
Most of the time its more 🙂

[celest beacon]

generally speaking a good 1% low would be within 15% of the average framerate

[torpid fox]

Well it feels better, will have to play a little before actually saying it is better. Just gotta figure out something to help with input/mouse delay

[celest beacon]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/17 <- try using this mod

[wispy thistle]

im not 100% sure if this mod is actually 100% lossless - either that OR filmgrain helped cover up some imperfections

[high quarry]

Is there a simple unpak to look those config files?

[celest beacon]

it helps with input latency

[high quarry]

Just repak?

[flat canyon]

same lmfao

oh wait nvm, mine was RX 580.. 4 gigs as well 😩

[crimson lark]

does anyone know if there is a xgp import like a program to transfer my save from steam to the game from xbox game pass version ?

[torpid fox]

trying this now and have read the comment lines too/tweaked/removed the ones I didnt need

[celest beacon]

:>

[wintry needle]

Mine being 8GB contributed a lot to its longevity
Used it for 11 years!
Wait that can't be right, I got it in 2016...

[torpid fox]

Okay that mod helped with the input delay quite a bit

[desert bay]

Anyone here good with undervolting/ overclocking gpus? I'm trying to figure out what to do with my ROG Strix RTX3070. I use MSI AB.

[sturdy spoke]

when tf is this patch dropping?

[celest beacon]

im quite good at it, but from a personal standpoint just let the nvidia app do its auto overclock and youll be fine

[desert bay]

So I shouldn't undervolt?

[celest beacon]

undervolting is normally how you maintain performance while lowering heat(some situations this can actually slightly improve performance while maintaining the power and heat draw, depends on the situation) but if you have an nvidia gpu, just use task manager to turn off everything you can and then run the nvidia app auto overclock feature

[desert bay]

ok I'll try it

[celest beacon]

the auto overclock will perform worse than a manual one, but the difference is small and the manual one can cause crashing or even potentially break things

[wispy thistle]

Just uhmm run a benchmark like unigine heaven and shave off a few milivolts at a time... see where performance degrades and then add a few mV back rinse repeat run 3dmark and see if it doesnt crash if it doesnt crash bobs your mother's brother

[desert bay]

I wish I wasn't terrified to do this stuff.

[celest beacon]

this is good advice, but will only net you a 2% fps increase over the auto OC stuff at max

[wispy thistle]

True and very fair - modern GPUS (and cpus tbh) have been optimized to the point where there's no real gains left to be had by the consumer

[celest beacon]

the only real benefits to come from manual overclocking at this point, is bringing up 1% lows and frametiming, average framerate wont change much

[wintry needle]

Even better, with the invention of boost, it runs at top flight when I need it, but not all the time like my manual overclock would

[desert bay]

I heard undervolting can actually decrease temps and increase fps (although slightly)

[wintry needle]

Yes, same principle as better cooling, less heat means the chip can be pushed harder without breaking

[wispy thistle]

yes because you'll be further removed from your power limits so GPU boost stays active for longer but its really a negligible gain

[celest beacon]

yeah, but this doesnt really matter. you can run it at top speed 24/7 and it wont be taking wattage. my 12900k is running at 5.2 around the clock since i have c states disabled, but at idle while im reading on my pc and using discord and maybe some music, im using only 20 or so watts

[desert bay]

I have an i7 10700k and honestly I have throttlestop program for it but have no idea what I'm looking atr

[dreamy stone]

R5 3600
GTX 1660 Super
32 GB DDR4 3200MHz

What do you think?

[wispy thistle]

in complete honesty the C0 state is just a reduced clock and voltage state its really not that much of a power saving... turns out when you run your PC and make it do work itll start sucking down power lmao

[wintry needle]

Amazing stuff really, who would have thought in 1991 that we'd be here, with the C64 chip running at 0.98 MHz... 🤣

[desert bay]

So while playing a game like Arena Breakout, my gpu gets to like 110 Degrees Fahrenheit. Is that ok?

[wispy thistle]

110F is fiiiiiiine when we're talking about numbers above 80 its always in celsius

[celest beacon]

yeah thats my point lmao, locking the clockspeed actually nets you so much stability in terms of gaming since it wont change. also ptm7950 my beloved, keeping 250watts at or below 80s in temps is ridiculous

[wispy thistle]

i used to run my Ryzen 1700 at a fixed 1.25v (1.135vSOC) and it never went over 70c at 3.8ghz constant

[coral token]

btw can I dm you since you've done almost all of the achievements already?

[wintry needle]

There was someone in here with a 1660, he was happy in the end, do a search in this channel for "1660"

[celest beacon]

Dm me what? Also I was goofing slightly I'm only like 70% done them

[granite adder]

AMD Ryzen 7 7950X3D (with 3D cache tuned correctly)
Aorus RTX 4090
64 GB DDR5 6000hz

I thiiiink I’m good

[coral token]

have a question about techs

[desert bay]

Ok one more thing, is there a program that will identify all unnecessary processes and end them?

[kindred thunder]

Got DLSS running on my Steam deck. 35-40fps gang, spikes to 50

[celest beacon]

Sure go for it

[coral token]

should be ok but there have been errors with 3k and 4k series cards on this game

[granite adder]

Stuttering still happens

[coral token]

surprisingly with amd cards there's less issues than with nvidia

[granite adder]

Well that’s some BS

[celest beacon]

No, but if you follow these instructions it'll help out quite a lot ->#pc-specs message

[kindred thunder]

idk man my AMD based steam deck with DLSS is running pretty smoothly

[coral token]

somehow it isn't since I run RX6800XT and it's not having much issues

[wispy thistle]

im not suprised at all... they targetted an Xbox release... which basically is an all AMD x86 PC running a modified version of windows

[granite adder]

Unacceptable

[flat brook]

Patch soon stalkers!

https://steamdb.info/patchnotes/16539264/

[vapid wigeon]

Honestly, for a lot of games lately this has been the case for Nvidia. I've noticed it becoming a trend but very slowly.

Friends and my wifes own system, Nvidia.. and its been nothing but bug reports and issues for several new titles. Mean while, AMD is chugging along better and better. lol

[wintry needle]

Hope that patch filters through GOG's systems quickly...

[sharp sluice]

patch better let me play the game now lmao

[vapid wigeon]

7900 XT here, epic and ultra wide res, no fg or fsr and i mean.. its been solid and haven't crashed once or had isues, so. Despite it being an Nvidia title, they for sure went the AMD route lol

[flat brook]

Agreed. Hopefully arrives tomorrow, otherwise Thursday if I had to guess!

[wispy thistle]

Fine wine my friends fine wine... we used to meme how GCN cards seemed to get better with age... turns out now that amd has another generation of consoles running their hardware its almost asif we're moving away from Nvidia being "the way its meant to be played"

[desert bay]

Should I prefer ipv4 over ipv6?

[vapid wigeon]

Literally that... lol this whole year alone I've seen more issues from Nvidia drivers when AMD used to be the "OH MY GOD THEIR DRIVERS SUCK" team.

[vernal spire]

no updates on when patch will release right? no updates on whether or not performance increases will be a feature of this patch?

[wintry needle]

GOG was funny, at the time of me buying they had version 436, I downloaded the offline installer, then GOG rolled back the version to 424... I haven't even tried that yet, as I can't find any change logs

[celest beacon]

its fine

[desert bay]

Ok because this christitustech programs has it checked under tweaks

[celest beacon]

yeah hit standard and let it run

[wintry needle]

Totally unrelated to game performance

[desert bay]

I know I just don't want to mess my pc up

[celest beacon]

you can also check the box below that says disable background processes

i have only 112 processes atm, and with the game open about 140

[rare temple]

In response to my previous post above about a mod that disables Lumen (or at least decreases it's amount), I have recorded gameplay footage in the Garbage settlement. GTX-1660 w/6gb VRAM, AMD Ryzen 5 3600, 32gb DDR4-3200 (2x16). I am running with medium graphic settings with TSR Quality upscaling (it doesn't do the funky shimmer effect I see with the other upscalers). No frame gen. I'm running on average 60 fps. Inside the Garbage settlement it drops to the mid-40s but averages out to the mid-50s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y58WLrPCuOM

[hollow nexus]

One day the game works fine... The next its back to being a slideshow.

[plucky epoch]

No issue with my nvidia either

[wintry needle]

@dreamy stone

[serene meteor]

my 1080ti sc has seen less than 5 notable bugs or glitches in 35 hours of playing (also have not updated the drivers in a couple months, but i dont touch drivers if things are working :D)

[winter shadow]

Can you play stalker 2 on an rx470 and an i3-7100?

[wispy thistle]

probably? like it will 100% be a slideshow

[rare temple]

"play" is subjective. You need at least 6gb VRAM on your GPU to even hope to play it. I mean, if playing a slideshow is what you consider playing, then I guess you could. 🙂

[sly flicker]

CPU: Ryzen 5600
GPU: RX 6600 8gb
RAM: 2x 8GB 3200 DRR4
Game runs like slideshow randomly, sometimes its bricks itself from 80fps to 12. Ive tried low to high, TSR and FSR and it runs almost same on all those settings. I have up to date drivers. Not a single game on my pc runs like this. This is mid range setup, most players will use something like I do on 1080p for them its unplayable.

[night sphinx]

Drop is probably caused by the memory leak bug.

[rare temple]

Check my previous post above that provides a modified Engine.ini file. it removes Lumen and on my GTX-1660, I'm getting avg 60 fps without frame gen using medium graphical settings and TSA upscaling with Quality mode.

[dull wasp]

14900kf and 4090. Game keeps crashing saying user access violation etc etc etc. Is it an unreal engine issue or a issue i can fix?

[winter shadow]

Will it explode?

[wintry needle]

I do believe we are getting trolled sir 🙂

[sly flicker]

I think so, after drop happens I need to restart game, then it will work for a while. But after drop game acts weird like it didnt terminated itself properly, steam thinks its still running.

[night sphinx]

Just go to the menu and wait a while, it works most of the times and saves you waiting for the shader to compile.

[desert bay]

I should probably upgrade from my i7 10700k

[granite adder]

https://tenor.com/view/disappointed-hercules-gif-22417674

[desert bay]

do I need to restart after running the christitustech tweaks?

[sand nimbus]

Gratz you just got a virus @desert bay

@sly flicker i can tell you are one hell of an OG with this profile pic. Kids these days have no idea

[solid coral]

oh my Radeon HD 7310 epic 200 fps 4k!

[nimble bluff]

game is randomly unplayable , lesser zone was perfect no crashes then i get to garbage and my game turns into garbage with LowLevelFatalError Line:880 every 5-30 min

[errant aspen]

Anybody managing to solve screen flickering when having frame gen on with a low end card? On 2070. I turned it off but the sacrifice is massive frame loss and much worse visuals. Almost feel like I'll just go back to having screen flickering over this horrible 90s visuals.

[sly flicker]

Thanks Ill try it, altrough compiling is fast it takes maximum 30s

[sly flicker]

Thanks, private Klinger reporting for paragraph 8. Only one who stayed in Korea, but for real reason so I guess he would pass 8 even after that...

[teal ginkgo]

the game is brocken i lost almost 50h of play time because of the fkn save game i delete all the save game and start again and still i got the same issue
is there is any thing that i can do to get back the old save game or to avoid the save file corruption ?

PC-XBOX

[sand nimbus]

🤣🤣🤣

[coral token]

if it didn't save can't do anything

[somber jasper]

how is everyone finding the game?

[lapis niche]

https://tenor.com/view/pretty-good-curb-your-enthusiasm-gif-10554063

[somber jasper]

i'll wait for the patch i think, already logged 69 hours

[prime lark]

Vram leak, if It also happens on low settings, wait for patch or refund

[dry frigate]

I was having performance issues as well on a 2070 Super. I found this article https://deltiasgaming.com/stalker-2-pc-optimization-guide-best-settings-for-optimal-performance/ and followed reccomended for my GPU (8GB) and I've had good performance. Around 50 FPS.

[rare temple]

Or check out this engine.ini tweak. Get one of the 4 files that you want. It reduces/turns off Lumen in the game which is part of the issue. I'm using this until a patch comes out. With my GTX-1660 using the "mid" settings, I'm getting on average 60 fps with no frame gen.

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/133?tab=posts&BH=0

Further up above is a link to my video I posted showing the settings and showing how the FPS is pretty stable. Over an hour in and have not had ONE problem where the FPS tanked to 5 fps.

[teal ginkgo]

its suck with this issues
otherwise its a good game i rly enjoy it but this save game problem almost give me a worse experience i have ever had

[lapis niche]

Played the game heavy the last few days, and decided I would play something else today so I don't burn out.. And holy sh.t. I had completely forgotten how it feels to play with actual responsive and quick controls 😂

[sterile lodge]

what if your gpu wasn't good enough

[prime lark]

Doesn't it destroy graphics?

[rare temple]

Mainly lighting which is what Lumen does. So you don't get a lot of the dynamic lighting that you see. But for me, I can live with that. Otherwise, the graphics are fine. I'm running Medium settings with TSA at Quality mode. TSA to me gives the best upscaling. FSR even at the highest settings for me at 1080p gives off a shimmering effect that drives me nuts. I guess you have to pick your poison. Keep playing where it crashes or tanks your FPS, or give up some lighting effects to have more stability. I'll choose the stability and on average 60 fps with no frame gen, so no mouse or controller lag.

[ivory isle]

tbf tho u shouldnt have to do any of this to play the game quite mental to not have a patch in a week

[hard juniper]

patches take time, especially when the game is as bad as this. What matters is they're aware and working on it

[ivory isle]

the patch notes dont list anything that suggest any of these issues will be fixed

[hard juniper]

i'm certain the issues won't be in the game forever lol, point is we just have to be patient

[ivory isle]

yeah i agree with you just saying im surprised the priority hasnt been overall performance optimisation when so many people can barely even run the game

[hard juniper]

i can see that perspective, we'll have to trust they know what they're doing i suppose

[blissful hawk]

I think the main reason is because there's tons of people (who won't tinker at all) who can't even launch the game, crashes, freezing etc. Optimization Hopefully will come soon thereafter

But, I'll also add this;
You can't optimize a game that isn't 100% finished, because any tweaks you made would have to be optimized again when new content is added, the A-Life system being one of those things. Which imo is probably a main factor in the performance issues right now.

[zinc sedge]

Enable frame gen I was getting around 50 60 in the world the safe areas would tank to 18 on high in 1440p I enabled fsr or what ever it was and bam solid 90 to 120 I was a little worried about my cpu 10700k not doing well with this game but handles it great temps are normal

[devout linden]

My problem is mainly that my CPU just can't hold up anymore, I am tweaking around a bit in a minute and will see how things look for utalisation.
Anyone has some recommendations for some settings that are fairly cpu intensife?

[random lynx]

any tips/tricks to get out as much as possible from a RX 6800 + R5 7600X combo? (+ DDR5 6000 32gb RAM also)

[drowsy lance]

I just want to make it known if you are on windows 11, microsoft put out an announcement that its recent version is breaking a lot of games, i would sign up for windows 11 beta if you are experiencing issues

[blissful hawk]

There really isn't any settings that will help a cpu bottleneck, you can go to a higher resolution if you have a good enough gpu and it may help atleast shift some of the load, but I doubt, with the current state of the game, anything you do will fix it, just tbh, you can make it better, but the devs are going to have to make some fixes themselves.

[zinc sedge]

Yeah my other pc has 11 and it’s awful main rig is still win 10

[errant aspen]

Never update preview builds with windows, generally always going to cause an issue for someone, just wait until it's mandatory

[devout linden]

Oh yeah that is out of the question, but there are certain features/settings who go mor fore cpu power, i have a list somewhere which are typically more CPU demanding and what more GPU usualy depending on the engine a bit I think

[zinc sedge]

Agree modders and tinkering will only go so far

[hard juniper]

it seems that hair quality affects cpu load

[devout linden]

Just trying the swarm mind a bit since I gotta hang up the laundry in a minute and so on xD

[random lynx]

go to low or medium, anything above medium has a major impact on permoance

[hard juniper]

yep i'm on medium atm

[devout linden]

I mean, things like textures are more gpu load, hair quality and I think shadows are for example more CPU if I remember correctly

So if the cpu bottlenecks but your gpu has ressources over, decrease one and bump the other and see what works

[flat brook]

It’s the simulation load, it’s uh, sub optimal.

[blissful hawk]

I'm sure some settings slightly impact cpu, but overall if your cpu usage is through the roof it will stay that way regardless of settings, I noticed it on my 7800x3d + 7900xtx regardless of settings like Epic or low my cpu usage will stay the same, same with performance, because the game itself just requires so much from your cpu.

[ruby valve]

I adjusted some options in my GameUserSettings that help with the abrupt drop in fps, but it's still not ideal...
Game with a 4060ti 8 gb + 32ram + R7 3800X.

I can play for 1h at 80 - 120 fps on HIGH with some things on EPIC, DLSS + DLAA.

I'm using some cool mods and only 1 fix.
However, regardless of the graphic quality I use, sometimes it simply stays at 8 fps for 5 minutes and then goes back to 80, 10 minutes pass and it stays at 8 fps again...
I can play at least if this continues to happen.

What I notice on these occasions is:

When I'm at 80 - 120 fps my CPU is at 50% and my GPU is at 70-75%.
When I'm at 8 fps my CPU is at 40% and my GPU goes to 100%.

Other than minor adjustments to GameUserSettings.ini (or Engine.ini, depends on the user),** is there any other solution that solves exactly this problem? Or can we just wait for the patch?**

[raw latch]

Check out Benchmarkings video on Stalker. For the most part it seems there is little performer gain between low and max settings for most graphics settings. This is pretty wild to me and I think needs to be worked on. Only real chance in performance is changing resolution and upscaling

https://youtu.be/814y2OPLsX0?si=KwTNhhOVR1IKZ33R

[devout linden]

Okay that is a valid argument, I just noticed when I switched presets I had a noticable jump in CPU load, so trying a bit on what impacts the most

[blissful hawk]

@ruby valve you are CPU bound in that scenario. Naturally until the devs optimize the game themselves, this is how it will be unfortunately. But don't feel bad because even the 9800x3d is STRUGGLING in this game XD

[flat brook]

Biggest impact would be offloading the damn software lumen onto hardware. Please for the love of god GSC. Let my CPU breathe.

[ruby valve]

Phew, at least I'm sailing in the same boat hahaha, thanks!

[blissful hawk]

Np, a general rule of thumb is that if your cpu usage is above 50% and your gpu is less than 90% you are bottlenecked (roughly estimated based on this). Whether that be from a gpu that's too powerful for your cpu, or in this case the game is very cpu intensive currently.

[rare temple]

I can attest that Lumen is the problem. And to offload it would probably be an Unreal Engine fix, not the game itself. So Epic would have to fix UE to make it do that I would think.

Of course, without Lumen, you lose all that dynamic indirect light bouncing around you get in areas. Dark areas are more light now with no dynamic shadowing.

[blissful hawk]

That's why a setting in game would suffice. I do agree though lumen looks insane, especially on my oled at max settings XD

[flat brook]

Biggest issue ; GSC went with a proprietary UE5.1 build.

Ready or not makes heavy use of lumen but on UE5.4, and it’s not even in the slightest as intensive in terms of instructions send as it is here.

(Still taking the size of S2 into account, just simply cross referencing number of CPU instructions send)

[rare temple]

Try this engine.ini mod if you don't mind Lumen being off which means the indirect light bouncing is off and reflections aren't as nice. Otherwise, graphically, it can still look good. My GTX-1660 is doing on avg 60 fps with no frame gen. But dark areas will be lighter rather than having shadowing going on in a dark room. I'm using it as a stop-gap until they hopefully fix the performance issue. Otherwise, I get the same issue where after awhile I get a drop to 5 fps for a few minutes.

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/133?tab=posts&BH=0

[blissful hawk]

I actually forgot Ready Or Not is on UE5.4 now lol, that shit is really well optimized too, I get like 300fps at max settings 1440p in that game

[flat brook]

It used to be rough. Their first jump from 4 to 5.1 was atrocious. My 4070Ti-Super was sitting on its ass, simply because my 13700K could not keep up with the amount of rendering instructions send. And you guess the culprit. Software. Lumen.

[pearl karma]

whats average fps people are getting

[flat brook]

These days it runs like a dream however, they did an amazing job with it.

So I’m sure GSC will be able to walk the same path, just worried since they stuck with 5.1.

[blissful hawk]

Averaging about 80-120fps when I'm not dropping into the 20s in the later game areas 7900xtx 32gb ram, 7800x3d

1440p high - medium settings depending how I feel*

[pearl karma]

is that with ultra settings ? https://imgur.com/a/b65Djfz
this is what im getting just wondering

Edit seen your edit

[rare temple]

Would be nice if they would move to 5.4 if it fixes all those issues. I guess it depends on how deeply tied the game is to certain functionality that isn't available in 5.4 without major changes.

[blissful hawk]

high medium, my bad shoulda included that 🙃

That* 4090 wants to eat though that's what sucks lol you still got some gpu headroom

[quiet wing]

I seem to of fixed my unreal engine crashes by turning of XMP if any one else is having issues.

[ruby valve]

I appreciate your attempt, but I already used this mod's Engine.ini, and the situation still occurred... It was in this mod that I realized that it didn't matter what graphical quality or configuration I put in, that my problem still occurred 😦

[pearl karma]

yeah when i started was mad stuttering but the graphics drivers fixed that
I am playing ultra 2k but got DLSS on quality with frame gen on

[rare temple]

Which version did you use? I've been using the mid version and haven't experienced one drop in FPS to 5 for me.

[blissful hawk]

Honestly if you went up to 4k you'd probably get similar performance since this is so cpu heavy right now.

[edgy crest]

did the patch release?

[stark stirrup]

just to throw in something. i fixed my huge issue by taking off freesync on my monitor. maybe it might help someone in here lol still not the best fps, but playable now

[late ferry]

nutmegphoenix67 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[edgy crest]

guys do you know if they are gonna fix the fps problem

[pearl karma]

I turned G-Sync off before cuz was messing with FPS on other Games

[blissful hawk]

Yes, but it will take time, they plan on fixing whatever they can I don't see why they wouldn't.

[daring elm]

Bad news. After I died, I did Load Last Save and it didn't load. It got stuck on the loading screen.
After restarting the game it showed Corrupted Save File.

I deleted the game. Thanks for spilling my big 40 hours where I grinded for loot and money.

Bye folks!

[blissful hawk]

It also depends on your hw, if you're on a 3050 and expect 100fps you won't get that.

[elder viper]

lasso did not help my issue

[blissful hawk]

Damn that's unfortunate dude, you only had one save?

[daring elm]

3 quicksaves

None of them worked. Only a manual Save game worked but that one is very old.

[blissful hawk]

Well hey man, I know that sucks, but I would honestly take a break from the game and wait for some fixes, mods can also cause issues like corrupted saves so it's hard to say if it's a game issue or mod issue.

[pearl karma]

happed to me today lost only lost 4 hours tho

[daring elm]

I did reset files on xbox app and restarted my pc. Not worked

[daring elm]

Ye i got ya but I really don't feel like doing it all over again

[elder viper]

Just a heads up for those who are experiencing the same issue as me potentially(Mass 5fps stutter locking), i've attempted every avenue. If you have similar specs to me(Ryzen 7, RTX 3060 Mobile, 16GB RAM), I've pretty much attempted every avenue including stutter mods, engine.ini, Process Lasso, high priority for CPU and GPU performance tweaks, including global settings, running as admin, changing DLSS to FSR, etc. I Unfortunately just cant get rid of these stutters that keep happening unless there's some sort of laptop solution to the problem. Some people have worse specs than me and run the game smooth. I just can't figure it out.

[blissful hawk]

Look, you now have a bunch of knowledge about the game now correct? You can apply that to your new save, and optimize your gear even more, pickup guns earlier etc.
I'm almost done the main story and I planned on restarting so I'm with you

[hollow nexus]

I remember seeing an option in the config files that enabled (supposedly) the voice effects for Skiff (like wearing a mask). Does anyone know what file that option is in?
edit: found it. VoiceModulatorsAffectPlayer in AppliedSettings.cfg but doesn't seem to do anything when set to true

[daring elm]

Who is going to walk allll the way bro 😭 2km 1km

[tame flare]

just cope and play the game, when you leave lesser zone it gets a bit better in my case

[blissful hawk]

It definitely gets worse in the later areas (avoiding using the names of locations for spoilers)

[elder viper]

Cope? haha you're funny bud. I physically can't even play with it mass stuttering, so thanks for the top tier advice.

[stark stirrup]

there is also a huge performance gap between mobile and dedicated hardware. i can imagine it's even less optimized for that

[tame flare]

didnt mean to be mean, im coping aswell lol

[pearl karma]

might be wacky to suggest but did you update gpu drivers the stutters where happing to me till i updated but was not as low as your stutters (60fps low 99%) after updating GPU drivers worked fine. But my specs are a bit better so just a suggestion

[flat brook]

From what I can tell, with the current size of S2, it would be a pretty major undertaking.

[elder viper]

So like, for me i can run all medium-low settings on 1440p, and get about 80fps without stutters. when the stutters happen its just absolutely broken and consistent. Sometimes lasting for 30 minutes etc.

[tame flare]

go to menu and load save 70% of the time it will fix it

[blissful hawk]

State of the game in a nutshell imo. I get decent performance when it works lol

[stark stirrup]

there is also a potential memory leak which might affect it? sounds weird

[late ferry]

x.exo.productions has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[tame flare]

can anybody tell me how can i make the game fully compile shaders again

[elder viper]

im also thinking this too. It has to be a memleak of some sort.

[blissful hawk]

Change graphics drivers maybe? Idk mine compile every single time

[wintry needle]

You on Steam? There should be an option to delete the shader cache

[blissful hawk]

Unless you are using that mod that bypasses the shader compilation it should do it automatically.

[untold marsh]

Someone there told me to remove hair quality and disable reflections. Was really really great advice

[tame flare]

i meant the full compilation, the one that you get on the first startup and lasts several minutes

[wintry needle]

Hey Ninja, how's the game behaving now?

[rare temple]

The Mirror is guessing the patch will release Wednesday, November 27 at 4pm GMT / 11 am EST / 8 am PST. So tomorrow possibly. Again, this is their guess which is a good as any of ours. 🙂

https://www.mirror.co.uk/gaming/stalker-2-patch-release-date-34189751

Update: Wait. They say Wednesday, November 26th! LOL! That's a Tuesday. I think they meant the 27th. So I'm going with that.

[nimble bluff]

Literally no point to play at the moment , the game is broken hopefully patch helps

[untold marsh]

Managed to unlock my save by resaving at the same spot and this time it worked.
I sent both save to GSC support I hope it will help them find the issue but I think it's not very high priority 😄

[elder viper]

GSC Recommendation:

``Optimize Engine.ini Configuration:
Add the following lines to your Engine.ini file to improve performance:

ini Copy code
[/Script/Engine.RendererSettings]
r.DynamicGlobalIlluminationMethod=0
r.GraphicsAdapter=0
r.Nanite.MaxPixelsPerEdge=4
r.Lumen.ScreenProbeGather.RadianceCache.ProbeResolution=16
r.Lumen.DiffuseIndirect.Allow=0
r.Lumen.Reflections.Allow=0

You can find the Engine.ini file in:
C:\Users[YourUsername]\AppData\Local\Stalker2\Saved\Config\WinGDK.
General Optimizations:
Close any background apps and game overlays. Check Task Manager for unexpected activity.
Ensure your GPU driver is updated to the latest version.
Connect your monitor directly to the GPU using the HDMI port on your video card.
Enable a suitable upscaling mode (e.g., DLSS or TSR) in the game settings.``

[untold marsh]

And for you how it is so far ?

[blissful hawk]

Can you put that in a code block please?

[elder viper]

yeah whats the command to do so?

[feral dome]

hey guys i have a 4070 super and 7900x3d, when im loading shaders my game just crashes, i cant even get to the main menu.. any ideas please?

[rare temple]

That's what they gave me. It sort of works, but you lose the dynamic lighting and reflections that Lumen provides. I still had issues with FPS tanking eventually to 5 fps, but it recovered a lot quicker. I pref the qmqz mod that I posted above a lot eariler. Haven't had one issue yet.

[blissful hawk]

you put 3 of these ( ` ) in front and behind

[rare temple]

Best bet is go to the Stalker support page and report your issues. The more time's people post the issues they have, the more likely it will get on their "to do" list.

[wintry needle]

Great, I only have quest related complaints. Used to run 46 fps town, 60 outside, with upscaling only... Turned on framegen and boom, 90 town 110 outside, happy bunny here

[feral dome]

ok cool is that on their website?

[coral token]

is it really mandatory to run hdmi everything for me runs fine through dp

[rare temple]

Here's the support page. Posting here is fine too, but sending in tickets explaining your issue is good too so it gets on their "to do" list.

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

[feral dome]

i verified my game files and it did the trick, strange

[blissful hawk]

Optimize Engine.ini Configuration:
Add the following lines to your Engine.ini file to improve performance:
[/Script/Engine.RendererSettings] r.DynamicGlobalIlluminationMethod=0 r.GraphicsAdapter=0 r.Nanite.MaxPixelsPerEdge=4 r.Lumen.ScreenProbeGather.RadianceCache.ProbeResolution=16 r.Lumen.DiffuseIndirect.Allow=0 r.Lumen.Reflections.Allow=0
You can find the Engine.ini file in:
C:\Users[YourUsername]\AppData\Local\Stalker2\Saved\Config\WinGDK.
General Optimizations:
Close any background apps and game overlays. Check Task Manager for unexpected activity.
Ensure your GPU driver is updated to the latest version.
Connect your monitor directly to the GPU using the HDMI port on your video card.
Enable a suitable upscaling mode (e.g., DLSS or TSR) in the game settings.

I just made it so someone can easily copy the code for the ini specifically

[untold marsh]

Neat ! Btw nothing related, but my website no longer is a 404... Still not a proper website but there is progress 😄

[elder viper]

i re-edited it too

[feral dome]

thankyou for ur help

[blissful hawk]

If you want to learn more, Google: markdown formatting
there's a ton of cool shit lol

[latent lagoon]

You can't disable lumen that easily.

[gaunt seal]

How well does this work?

[onyx dome]

Im using my rog ally and game runs very poorly any advices

[blissful hawk]

I wasn't the original poster, I just edited to make the config easily copy-able @gaunt seal @latent lagoon

[latent lagoon]

We will only can if the developers add such an option within the game. otherwise you can't disable lumen.

[onyx dome]

Stalker 2 runs poorly my asus rog ally

[hard juniper]

you're brave for even trying to run it on that lol

[onyx dome]

But what should i do ? Im kinda New this stuff

[hard juniper]

not much you can do honestly, just wait for performance patches

[onyx dome]

So they Will fix it on rog ally

[rancid sedge]

Damn it! The game is truly unplayable and incredibly frustrating!!! I bought it twice to show my support, an ultra-collector physical version and an ultra Steam edition, but I won't change my opinion on Steam as long as these memory leaks keep happening for no reason. It's really unbearable and infuriating not being able to play in good conditions. I hope it gets fixed soon.

[hard juniper]

handhelds aren't a good choice, they're already just about "ok" for performance, but the low resolution will make the cpu issues even worse

[onyx dome]

Yes but Will they fix??

[hard juniper]

just pray that when pc performance improves so does rog ally performance

[gaunt seal]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2: Either poor framerates or insane input delay. Even after I had Nvidia automatically undervolt

[quartz sluice]

radeon got gpu drivers for S2 ?

[untold marsh]

Your system is sadly below minimum requirements. Probably will run better in the future while they improve performance but wether you will be able to play it with everything set to low one day we don't know because your system is below the target for low at 30FPS

[gaunt seal]

I will say having the Nvidia app do that made Dead Space remake a LOT more stable though

[onyx dome]

So what setting should i use

[blissful hawk]

efficiency is key lol

[untold marsh]

Try everything on low and see if it is bearable. If it is not there is not much more you can't do. Can't make a river flow in a pipe

[gaunt seal]

Is an RTX3050 too far below recommended? I know the recommended is 3060

[onyx dome]

Will i have 30 fps it works but then lags

[hard juniper]

brother there is no recommendation for you, try all low but there's no guarantee for anything below minimum specs

[onyx dome]

I have 30 fps

[blissful hawk]

I mean technically if my 7900xtx is struggling (100fps for this gpu at 1440p is rare) I doubt a 3050 will perform well.

[gaunt seal]

True. Helps I switched my gpu to dedicated. For whatever stupid reason Acer decided to set my laptop to automatically use integrated. Explains the awful stuttering in so many games I experienced for months

[onyx dome]

But they said they Will fix performance

[vale adder]

They're using Unreal Engine 5.1 I believe

[hard juniper]

it's quite a bit below in performance, tbh just give it a try and refund if it's bad

[blissful hawk]

It's like when people buy a high refresh monitor and don't realize they need to set the refresh in windows lmao

[gaunt seal]

I'm asking cause I have managed to get the game up to 60fps it just refuses to he consistently 60 lmfao

[vale adder]

5.5 I think it is? I could be wrong. That improves the performance, it would take a while if they were to ever update to the newer UE version

[untold marsh]

Some improvements are to be expected but fixing performance does not mean supporting everything. If you had a minimal requirement system it is guaranteed almost because this is what they test on.
But wether your specific system will be supported no one knows. Fixing performance in any game won't make it run on a 20 years old PC or make a PS4 game work on PS2

[onyx dome]

It works okay 30 fps but then starts lags so those are perfomance issue

[blissful hawk]

Oh yeah the game itself is the problem in that case lol, I dip into the 20s in the later game areas if that gives you any indication

[vale adder]

Take the "performance improvements" with a pinch of salt

[gaunt seal]

I used rivatuner to cap it at 30 and there are some areas where it will go well past that.

[rancid sedge]

When the game doesn't crash on me, with my setup, I run on epic settings without any problem at 50 FPS. My setup is (it's a Legion 4 laptop)
i7-13700HX
32 Gb RAM
RTX 4070 Laptop (with last drivers)
Windows 10

But sometimes, I don't know why, suddenly game become unplayable, with 3 or 4 FPS

[onyx dome]

I use 30 turbo Mode too and game is 30 fps and my fps locker is not locked and 120 hz

[blissful hawk]

Yep, just how it is currently unfortunately, there are some issues that we have to wait on a fix from the devs and this is one of those things.

[gaunt seal]

Huh. I am managing to get a consistent 15fps. Not great but at least it's consistent

[onyx dome]

I use 30 turbo Mode too and game is 30 fps and my fps locker is not locked and 120 hz

[flat brook]

[small coral]

Anyone getting BSOD’ when crashing? Seems like a memory leak

[blissful hawk]

See to me, 60fps is unplayable, not to be elitist or anything I just genuinely feel that difference, it's why I got a 7900xtx at 1440p is to play at the high refresh of my monitor. 100fps to me should be the standard, I'd rather play on low and get 100+ rather than play on epic and get 60fps locked but that could just be me.

[rancid sedge]

Yes, but this is exactly to illustrate that, in reality, apart from these unexplained slowdowns, the game is very well optimized when these unnecessary slowdowns don't occur. When it works well, no matter the situation or the number of enemies, the FPS are stable and it's perfectly playable. That's what's crazy.

And I often have these frame rate drops right after dying when reloading the game.

[onyx dome]

So is it good to use this

I use 30 turbo Mode too and game is 30 fps and my fps locker is not locked and 120 hz

[untold marsh]

Yea but I don't know if the further performance fixes will help you because

• I do not yet read the future, and don't know what will be improved
• I don't know what is bottlenecking your experience
  All I can tell you is that, sure it will probably help you but in a meaningful way I don't know

[gaunt seal]

Oh my god. Dying is about the worst thing in this game just because of those frame drops

[rancid sedge]

So I am not alone with THIS bug ? 🙂

[gaunt seal]

Nope. Every time I die and reload, frames drop DRASTICALLY

[blissful hawk]

That's probably one of the most mentioned issues here the frame drops during any scenario is people's main issue. So no definitely not alone, me personally I don't get them when dying, but I get them randomly and sporadically af lol

[rancid sedge]

So you both reassure me, I thought I was the only one in this case, so the likelihood of a savior patch for this issue seemed to be getting further away in my eyes.

[gaunt seal]

Given I can get my game's fps to stabilize itself sometimes I definitely don't think it's my hardware

[onyx dome]

But do you recomend me use fps locker too on 30 fp

[scenic rapids]

i may be late to this conversation, but i read online the first patch is coming out today or already came out?

[rare temple]

Hasn't released yet. Might release tomorrow around 4 pm GMT / 11 AM EST

[rancid sedge]

same here

[untold marsh]

wont hurt

[gaunt seal]

That said I have been considering saving up for a desktop pc for awhile

[late dust]

guys gog edition not support ~mods on game folder ?

because statters and bad performance ruined my game(

[onyx dome]

Or 60 fps?

[stable kite]

yep me too, loading again fixes sometimes

[onyx dome]

What resoluution should i use 900p?

[hard juniper]

30

[onyx dome]

What resolution then

[hard juniper]

native, you won't get any benefit going lower

tbf i haven't tried but i'm assuming you'll be cpu bottlenecked anyway

[wintry needle]

It does, I use a mod to skip intro logos

[onyx dome]

Why the fuckim take ages start

Game

[flat brook]

Compiling shaders can take a while if you don’t have 16 cores going at Mach Jesus.

[pliant terrace]

is 12 cores enough

[rare temple]

You're on a Zen 1 Ryzen CPU. That doesn't help.

[flat brook]

It’s less about cores to a certain extend and currently more about raw speed. Which CPU do you have?

[hybrid shoal]

Ryzen 5 5600x
GTX 1660s
32gb RAM 3200Mhz
Game installed on SSD

25/45 fps practically independent of graphic quality (except in epic, it is 5 fps)

• Bugs where out of nowhere the game has very low fps and I have to alt tab to solve it
• Visual bugs in the reflection part, they turn white, I don't know why...

However, I had a lot of fun! These things are nothing more than anomalies.

[pliant terrace]

9 7900x

I think its more for productivity

[gaunt seal]

I have an Intel core i5

8 cores I believe

[flat brook]

You’ll be fine

[full latch]

I have the same except a 3060ti. With everything on Low and 0 mods, I get 20-35fps. Using Stalker Ultimate by Toriga and Ultimate Engine Tweaks (Anti-Stutters - Lower Latency - No Film Grain - No Chromatic Aberration - Lossless) I get nearly 60fps outside of settlements and around 30 in settlements. Changes the lighting system of the game so it doesnt look as good, but at least its playable. Give one or both of those a try

[sand nimbus]

DONT USE PERFORMANCE MODS

Wait for official patch.
Please Pin

[serene meteor]

got i9 9900kf, rtx 2060s 16gb 3200 ram, getting less than 60 fps in bases on MEDIUM. are there any plans for optimizing this game or will we have to suffer forever?

[high quarry]

I just removed all ini tweaks, set High-Medium (clouds epic). Still plays 160-170 at 1440.

[full latch]

So your recommendation is to not play the game that you paid for in the hopes that a patch comes(at some point) that makes the game playable?

[sand nimbus]

Patch coming out this weak fixing vram related allocation issues...

[high quarry]

Recording at 100 Mb/s, so tanks my fps a bit but: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGT4g-W5Pik

[austere fractal]

I only got the one that disabled the weird acceleration and mouse behavior because I couldn't play otherwise. Are the others or is even this one bad? I get "enough" fps without them

The rx5700xt is medium settings recommend but pulls 45-50 in cities, and 75-80 everywhere else 😭

[sand nimbus]

Well you wont be enjoying the benefits for Long as everything is gonna be different this week with the upcoming patch. You dont know how mods will handle the patch