pc-specs

[ember scaffold]

That’s not it. AMD’s 5000 series didn’t support mesh shaders natively either

[verbal sage]

@tawdry heron you can pm me, i might provide some help.

[grizzled drift]

We ever figure out what that update was yesterday?

[ember scaffold]

Probably a quick bug fix, idk

[tame imp]

anyone here i7 7700K, what's ur settings to reach stable 60fps xD

[sand nimbus]

Nothing game related

Lately ive been Feeling brainwashed

[misty hearth]

Theres probably a controller in your closet then, or under your bed

anyone else lose frames when opening your pda?

[sand nimbus]

Single digit when you open the map and leave it?

[lime shuttle]

is there any ways to mitigate the lag spike everytime the game loads a new chunk

[misty hearth]

no but when walking around i get 50-100 usually stays in 70-90 range though, but when i open it, itll drop to 39-49 , its not a big issue just thought anyone knew how to deal with it?

[umbral drum]

anyone having this issue. after several hours of playing and going into places were its heavy with anomaly's my pc starts to reboot after awhile playing.

Debugchannel
Microsoft-RMS-MSIPC/Debug is the error I am getting with event viewer

The GameInput Service service terminated with the following error:
The compound file GameInput Service was produced with a newer version of storage.
The event logging service encountered an error while initializing publishing resources for channel Microsoft-RMS-MSIPC/Debug. If channel type is Analytic or Debug, then this could mean there was an error initializing logging resources as well.

[white trench]

moment of truth time yall

not sure if anyone here was here when i was initially having this problem but it persists

[pastel coral]

Hey guys this might be both things but is there something I can do about the lagging and freezing while I'm in combat or just loading? My PC is kind of a potato so maybe that's the problem

[white trench]

https://imgur.com/a/sRmYHBi im still having issues with launching stalker, uninstalling the xbox app, and every gamepass game and reinstalling the app and stalker have done nothing. the link is the screens i recieve when i try to launch it

[sleek stream]

Potato would explain, maybe if would run better if they optimize a bit better cpu usage and memory leaks. If your rig is not strong all the problems in the game will be 10 times worse

[pastel coral]

It's alright planning on getting a new PC anyway although I would love if they do something about the random lags and freezings.

Btw what do you guys think about the combat in the game? Personally I feel it weird don't know why like there's something missing

[white trench]

can someone with gamepass pc launch the game and tell me what windows open?

[sleek stream]

Haven tried lower difficulty but veteran difficulty puts obscenely high HP on all enemies that makes it feel like you're shooting peas. Definitely not very stalger

Might lower to less difficulty with deadly NPCs mod to balance it out better

[white trench]

i feel like this shouldnt be a blank window and may be whats wrong https://imgur.com/a/sRmYHBi

[pastel coral]

To me it's not the difficulty I think it's how you receive damage even with a good Armour a lot of times you get the bleeding icon

[sleek stream]

You receive very minimal damage even on veteran. OG stalker you get shot maybe 2 or 3 times in the body and you're dead, seems in S2 you tank headshots

[pastel coral]

Sure doesn't look that way to me the NPCS empty the magazines and run up to me braindead but it works I'll give them that

[pastel coral]

Sorry dude I don't play on Xbox or have gamepass

[sleek stream]

I have some AI mods installed cause I couldn't take the vanilla system

[tight bison]

I don't have a high end pc -
R9 7900x, RX7600XT, 32GB 6600mhz

The game runs really smoothly on this PC.

But I prefer to play on the TV with the Series X and it doesn't run smoothly at all. Anyone having similar problems?

[pastel coral]

I can't handle mods the one time I tried nexus and although pretty good I had to set up a lot of stuff just for me to not even enjoy it

Well I did enjoy it, it just didn't last long

[sleek stream]

Have to pick and choose for a while. Pretty much all of my 70 hours playtime so far is trying different mod configurations

[pastel coral]

All of my hours are trying different methods for the game to run smoothly

[sleek stream]

What resolution and frames you getting and upscaling?

[sleek stream]

U and me both its a damn shame I just wanna enjoy the game

[sleek stream]

Also that build is relatively high end lol

[pastel coral]

Yk what would be cool and ik they are working on this but for the NPCs to take cover and actually react as if their life depend on it

[sleek stream]

The og games AI was unmatched. No idea why it was nerfed according to gsc their behavior is bugged, but come on how can the basic combat ai be bugged so hard

[pastel coral]

Yk I have no idea why this is or maybe it's just because of how the game is but when I played sons of the forest with max settings it ran smoothly and beautifully I wonder if stalker 2 it's just not optimized well yet

[sleek stream]

It's not. Game shouldn't run as poorly as it is that's what we're waiting to be fixed.

[pastel coral]

Well my potato PC has a chance after all

[sleek stream]

Wonder if optimization will come before a life. Either way hopefully the next patch will include one or both

[white trench]

ive leveled up twice in this discord just trying to get into the damn game

[pastel coral]

Didn't they updated Alife?

[sleek stream]

Have you tried logging in on some other device? You use VPN or something I'm aware of your situation it is weird

[sleek stream]

No. They fixed some small bugs on NPC behavior but it had nothing to do with combat or a life.

[pastel coral]

Maybe that's what the combat is missing

Because when I'm in combat the NPCs they either stand still or walk slowly to me

Not missing any shots apparently

[sleek stream]

Idk. A life is more of a broader offline simulation of roaming squads and NPCs. Combat AI would be an independent system from it but maybe a life is in the game and is so bugged it wrecks their combat as well who knows

[white trench]

no vpns no other device was FINALLY able to find something online that matched and im going through the same steps. this one was for atomic hearts (which i havent tried in a while but i didnt have this issue back then)

[sleek stream]

The original games were very dynamic enemies. Different enemy types has different levels of accuracy and combat style so far S2 all enemies are super dumb

[white trench]

oi9p;QA3WEUSJ4RDzfgv xhnbl

[pastel coral]

I'm dumb too since I'm new to the STALKER games I'm basically dying every 10 minutes because of my dumb ahh discovering new anomalies

[late ferry]

smolpete has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[sleek stream]

Pro tip play the older games, to keep busy. Stalker 2 isn't ready to play yet until more patches and the first three games are unforgettable experiences

[white trench]

last step (with zero confirmation as to whether or not it worked) was to format the pc....

[sleek stream]

Reformat your drive???

That's extreme

[pastel coral]

Try close forcing xbox from the task manager maybe that helps

[white trench]

https://imgur.com/a/Uvixyht

[pastel coral]

Yeah even tho stalker 2 it's not that good rn I like it

[white trench]

ive completely uninstalled the xbox app several times now

[ebon epoch]

is anyone using the latest version of https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/9?

[pastel coral]

As in optimized well.

[sleek stream]

If they fix the problems in the game and give it a life and stuff, stalker 2 could easily be one of the best stalker games if not the best but it's far from finished for now

[pastel coral]

You seem like you have been around in the zone a good amount of time can you help me with this thing I found

Or he found me that's a better way to say it

[opal moss]

Why can't i post pics here about my problem? bruh

[sleek stream]

What does it look like and what does it do

[pastel coral]

I went to pick up the Journalist Stash near the Duga Radar and this anomaly followed me

It was a fire anomaly couldn't get rid of it

[sleek stream]

I haven't been there yet do u have vid or pic?

[pastel coral]

I think i have a vid

Man I tell you going to the duga radar was scary

[white trench]

resetting gaming services rn

[ebon epoch]

it now includes a file to install on S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2\Stalker2\Plugins\ChromaSDKPlugin\ThirdParty\Win64, which is absolutely a path that doesn't exist on a standard install, I just wanted to double check with someone if you can just plop that path or if you need to do something else. There's 0 instructions in the mod page or the readme beyond just "put it there"

('sides the fact that the pathing on my gamepass install is slightly different, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2\Content\Stalker2\Plugins\ChromaSDKPlugin\ThirdParty\Win64)

[pastel coral]

But im not sure if I still have it but for some reason it started to follow me once I picked up a artifact

[sleek stream]

Stalker 2 has many new anomalies and I have not encountered so unsure for now if u find a video let me know tho lol

[white trench]

its wild how much i can do with literally zero changes actually made

[sleek stream]

It's in my game

[pastel coral]

Do you know how to counter the radiation from the artifacts?

Got good ones but they have strong or medium radiation

[white trench]

i was so excited i got a new gpu i was gonna play stalker and its only been grief the past 15 hours i do not want to reset my pc

[sleek stream]

That path exists for me are you in gamepass? I'm steam version and @pastel coral you will find other artifacts that have counter radiation effect so you need those to effectively use most of the artefacts

[sleek stream]

Have a backup drive?

[pastel coral]

I thought the suit was supposed to help with that

[white trench]

wouldnt that be counterproductive? if a file somewhere is the problem and i dont know which wouldnt i just end up in the same place?

https://imgur.com/a/4XkQz65 could do without this....

[pastel coral]

I know this might be dumb but have you tried running it as an administrator?

For me when steam didn't open like normal followed by the game I closed the program using the task manager

[white trench]

no luck same shit different wipe

[pastel coral]

Mmm don't know much of PC but if everything else you tried hasn't work then just reset the pc even tho you don't want to

[ebon epoch]

I'm in gamepass, yes. The pathing doesn't 100% match but I just sorta put it there. The bolded section I had to just create:

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2\Content\Stalker2\Plugins\ ChromaSDKPlugin\ThirdParty\Win64

[white trench]

gonna burn down an orphanage

[ebon epoch]

I might be seeing things but I think it just took care of the stuttering in zalissia which huge if true, and would add points to the luma being the culprit for those slowdowns theory

[pastel coral]

Relax everything has it's fix maybe your gamepass folder is somewhere wrong?

[pastel coral]

I went to zalissia today and I can confirm it wasn't fixed or my PC didn't handle it or you are talking about mods

[ebon epoch]

#pc-specs message

[pastel coral]

Oh actually I know this is very very early but is it true stalker 2 it's gonna have a co-op?

[pastel coral]

Mb thx

[ebon epoch]

hope not, at least until they sort the technical side of things.

[white trench]

backing up via cloud says i need to verify identity on device to back up credentials, click verify i get the same, obviously broken blank empty white window

[ebon epoch]

I mean I need to try this out but I think this absolutely has sorted out the hitching in zalissia for me which hot dang

[pastel coral]

I hope yeah you know how cool it would be playing with friends dying to anomalies and seen one friend get torn apart by snorks

[ebon epoch]

who could've thought lumen would be the culprit on a badly performing UE5 game unlike like 2 in 3 UE5 games I've had the displeasure to tangle with

[pastel coral]

Well with the technical issue I agree with that one but still multiplayer or co op would be fun

[ebon epoch]

I couldn't care less about multiplayer personally but it's a popular interest among humans as far as I can see yes.

[pastel coral]

I'm saying it would be fun having a coop even tho I have no friends that play on PC

[sleek stream]

Nah suits can protect from external radiation but the artefacts application belt are diff systems

[pastel coral]

Your character have those highly radiated rocks in his belt?

[sleek stream]

I have a medium radiation, with another medium anti rad artefact

[pastel coral]

Yeah he's not having any kids

[sleek stream]

Lmao stalker life span probably not even long enough to develop cancer any ways

[pastel coral]

Makes sense

I was in the slog and wanted to explore went up the mountain died from radiation sickness in 5 seconds

[sleek stream]

It makes me sad. UE5 is plagued with such technical vomit

Even the most optimized UE5 product, the engines systems are built ground up around TAA and stuff

[sleek stream]

I don't enjoy that in stalker 2. In original games there were radiating zones that you basically could not stay in without dying but you didn't die as soon as your radiation meter was all the way. You just started losing health rapidly

[pastel coral]

It doesn't make sense but me being new to the series not knowing anything + new stuff that not even experienced stalkers have encounter makes you have that paranoid feeling

[ebon epoch]

lmao yeah happened to me as well, I was trying to go around slag heap and I guess I got a little too close because it was like geiger went off, 2 seconds, I'm dead

[sleek stream]

If you like the horror aspect of stalker 2 you will love the original games. Shadow of Chernobyl and call of pripyat have very scary moments and atmosphere, and the zone was much more surreal and uncanny

[ebon epoch]

it didn't even sound stronger or anything, just like it normally does, but it maxes out your rads in the blink of an eye

[sleek stream]

Iove clear sky too but clear sky is divisive, filters a lot of people because it has some BS balancing issues lol

[pastel coral]

What STALKER should I play first to understand the storyline if they are connected

[ebon epoch]

I think the furthest I've made it on a stalker game was the first one, and only up to the first bloodsucker, then I just noped out

[sleek stream]

Play in order of release so shadow of Chernobyl, clear sky, then call of pripyat.

[ebon epoch]

tried anomaly but a boar dabbed on me like 10 minutes into it and I was like "alright" uninstall

[pastel coral]

Man I love horror games from Outlas to The forest to cry of fear to resident evil to now stalker

[sleek stream]

Shadow of Chernobyl and call of pripyat run well despite what others say, clear sky needs SRP mods to fix its bugs

[pastel coral]

Aww man I didn't want to do nun with mods

[sleek stream]

Then you could skip clear sky lol. Clear sky is a prequel and many consider it the "worst " in series. But it will tell you the story of Scar

[pastel coral]

I read somewhere in one of the stalker games the anomalies effects or deaths? Are not the same for every player or something like that

[white trench]

Taking a look at what's running for that it seems to be Microsoft Account that's the issue. Digging deeper it's either Microsoft WWA Host or Runtime Broker

[pastel coral]

So that means you fixed it or you are close to fixing it?

[late ferry]

smolpete has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[white trench]

Running the lesser reset since those are both Sys 32

[pastel coral]

I just realized we have a little stalker beside our name i though it was a sloth lol

[worn carbon]

Rx 7900 XT - 1440p Ultra 60fps no upscalling?

[unborn coyote]

That gets really bad around Pripyat

Lots of alleys that can insta kill you

[bleak adder]

Guys can someone told me is there any setting for stalker 2 steam deck windows gamepass

[white trench]

How does a repair fail...

[unborn coyote]

I doubt this can run on steam deck

[worn carbon]

?

[pastel coral]

Tell me about it I went there as a newbie somehow made it there with an anomaly following me killed the mutant protecting the Journalist stash made it back to a safe place overweight and with low health

[unborn coyote]

A lot of the city is blocked off by radiation and if you walk up to the barriers you can instantly die

[pastel coral]

I used my beginners luck getting inside and outside pripyat

I'm telling you man that place is scary no friendly there just everything wanting to kill you

[ebon epoch]

Hm, lossless scaling's framegen still less laggy than the game's fsr3

[worn carbon]

Yep...

[slender kettle]

pretty sure you'll get input lag on lossless or fsr if you're natively getting under 60fps

[ebon epoch]

yes, but way less severe with LS. At least for me.

[worn carbon]

So 7900 xt 1440p ultra no frame gen and upscalling will get me 60fps?

[ebon epoch]

my ping was originally to ask you more info on your "question" since you just stated the specs. The game is technically too wonky right now to give you a figure based on a given GPU.

[worn carbon]

I've seen people get 59-72fps with this gpu

[ebon epoch]

I can say with 100% certainty that regardless of the GPU you aren't going to get 60 stable FPS everywhere regardless of the setting.

but you can just sign up for a month of gamepass and try it yourself

[steel geyser]

we need UE 5.4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29ZZTlJt9K8

[ebon epoch]

that being said, yes, you should be able to get way more than 60 fps on ultra and no upscaling if the game worked like it should.

hell, I should be getting 60@4k and I have a 3070 if the game worked like it should

[tawny thicket]

even if thats true it looks worse

[ebon epoch]

(not on epic without assists but regardless)

[ebon epoch]

having my character not handle like a concussion victim is higher on my personal totem pole

still I always end up turning framegen off, at some point my game will start to hitch and framegen only makes it worse.

[raw sleet]

yeah, the input lag and fake frames f my accuracy up too, i can get it to sit at 120 but it just doesn't play/feel right

[steel geyser]

i think it because cpu bottleneck. When out in the wild i can get 120+ fps and it feels okay. But when in the first Hub, even tho i can get around 100-110 i can still feel the struggle

[raw sleet]

in my case the gpu (2080ti) is just too old.. (can't teach this old dog new tricks) In order for me to get that 120 i gotta run it in a 1080p window on my 1440 display with dlss/balanced + framegen + everything med. or less cept textures on high (it's pretty ass-tastic with UE5 anyway)

[ebon epoch]

I mean I'm on a 3070 and on those settings I can barely get 60 at 4k so

I think 60 would be fairly attainable with no SS at 2k however.

[raw sleet]

i can do 60, but my display doesn't do 60hz accelerated.. response time goes to shit; so best I can do is 100hz at native res and it's too jarring for my old eyes to focus on (the 40fps difference is jarring)

[steel geyser]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViDILolphuU
We need UE4 back 😄

[stable kite]

I dont see a engine version migration possible, is this port possible or have to rewrite the entire game?

[steel geyser]

well, going back for UE4 is not possible, but maybe going for a newer 5.5 is.

[white walrus]

Ue 5.5 improve so much the performance, but is hard a company specially big company update the engine at last version…

[steel geyser]

just look at that, 160 fps on Ue4 and -100 fps on Ue5, and it dosen't even look that much better

[raw sleet]

looks worse imho

[white walrus]

Ue5 is shit, every other engine is better but need more work from developers for graphic, ue5 have a tool that cut your work of 50%, for that many companies are using it, and they save also money

[stable kite]

Please ask GSC about lets see if they respond something

[steel geyser]

i already did, but i doubt they will give answer to such questions

[white walrus]

They don’t, I sent a message 1 week ago in pm and they didn’t care nothing, and was a help for their

[raw sleet]

ask them how much we need to chip in so they can send some Epic engine devs to Prague

[stable kite]

I see so thats a no from them

[steel geyser]

i asked if "upgrading the engine the a newer version is possible" to be exact

[stable kite]

Our hope will be the our good modders, i am confident they will make the game looks better and run better just like Gamma or Anomaly Custom

[steel geyser]

modders cant do shit about cpu bottlenecks

[stable kite]

Xray was a shit engine look at what they did with it

[steel geyser]

after 10 year 😄

[stable kite]

true but hey its possible lol

[white walrus]

All the gsc you see in this discord are community manager, anyway I sent 1 week ago a pm asking if is possible they check my settings because with my settings you do 10 fps more with sharper image and remove the stutters, and they didn’t care, no answer, I also ask why they don’t enable Vulkan, dx12 rhi on ue5.1 is break, epic started to fix from 5.4, vulkan is full compatible to ue 5 and to build they just have to flag a option nothing else, and they don’t care, if you see yesterday they posted a announcement saying to don’t pm and ping anymore or they ban or mute you from discord

[white walrus]

Bro just use my mod and your game become smooth

[steel geyser]

Well PM-in community managers are never adviseble

[white walrus]

I’m posting my mods 10000 times and still there are these questions or still you use s2

[raw sleet]

pretty sad that most Ubisoft games run better than this on a wider variety of configurations

[stable kite]

link me it please

[steel geyser]

i tried a lot of magical performance "mods", the only thing i noticed, that the cpu bottleneck is still there, and my game runs and feels worse. So yeah

[white walrus]

There is a search on discord, find my posts or stalker 2 ultimate

[white walrus]

Try my that is real, there are benches in my page, and the difference is that I know what I’m doing, instead the other just add settings to try…

[white walrus]

You can find also on Google with “Stalker 2 Ultimate Toriga Nexus”

[stable kite]

found it i think i tried this already will give another shot

[white walrus]

With 1.6 I posted yesterday remove also the stutters with npc, just check bench to see the differences, from 1.5 changed so much for me

[stable kite]

ty for your time will try for sure

[steel geyser]

"...60 fps but fixed is better than 120 with fluctuations.."
after reading this, i get the yikes

[white walrus]

@vague siren how is been your game experience in the end?

[sleek stream]

Look up potato mod on Nexus. Bet it would work pretty good

[white walrus]

For single player I repeat , yes, you should change your perspective if you don’t agree that, if you do 120 and you have in one hour 10 stutters because from 120 you go to 90, is not better instead a experience without stutters but with lowers fps?

[raw sleet]

wait until your 50yrs old with shit eyesight and get back to me on that

[white walrus]

Yes the only way is that, a setting to go under low setting in game trololol

[steel geyser]

I litterally cant play with 60 fps bc it feels so much worse then anything 100+, litterally unplayable for me, so no, its not better at all 😄

[sleek stream]

I'd rather play at 120fps with occasional traversal stutters than rock solid 60fps. I like playing games with high dpi on my mouse. 60fps is literally unplayable to my eyes in action centric fps games

[sleek stream]

Makes your hands look like crab claws. Nintendo DS stalker 2

[stable kite]

I am happy with 50-60 i hate the 6 fps drops

[tawny thicket]

it would be great if they updated the engine

[quaint palm]

Regarding the Vulkan - I don’t think checking the flag in UE would be enough - you have to test the game thoroughly if the rendering is still working as before. In such a complex game, knowing GSC have modded the engine itself (heard that in some interview), the Vulkan support is more effort than just clicking the checkbox and release it.

[sleek stream]

Even if gsc perfectly optimizes the game to the best of their human ability there would still be issues. UE5.5 is plagued with TAA centric lumen artifact hiding smear stuff and isn't even optimized yet for real time rendering with the tech it has

[white walrus]

Vulkan js full compatible, they have just build and sure test, how much work is for you? Some day to test? If there are problems ue return error already in build

[steel geyser]

So explain me this, i use your mods. I get in the first area with DLSS + FG around 80-90 fps. Without it, i get around 100-110 how is that better?

[sleek stream]

Also apparently stalker 2 is built on a UE5 fork would be interesting to know more about it

[bleak adder]

Can i dm you by any chance?

[white walrus]

There are bench, just check it, and my mod improve graphic not only optimize

[quaint palm]

Do you have G-Sync/Freesync support on your monitor? This really helps with screen tearing and makes the frames feel more stable.
Alternatively you can turn on V-Sync, did you tried that? But it will bring more input lag.

[steel geyser]

im testing it right now, in game. With your mod, i get 20 less fps.

[raw sleet]

I force vsync on at the driver level with triple buffer, monitor is fixed refresh. 2080ti just isn't enough for 1440p native (in UE5)

[quaint palm]

I mean yeah, it should work as you say. The thing is we don’t know how deeply GSC has modded the engine, but yeah they could do that.
I just believe there must be more reasons than the devs just being that lazy.

[white walrus]

If you chose the graphic ultimate yea, there are 2 versions… anyway if you think that the frame you do in moment measure your gaming experience, happy with your disinformation and don’t use nothing mod, there are benches from other users in nexus mod page, don’t need I talk about it, benchs speak clear

[steel geyser]

okay then, i guess my MSI Afterburner is just broken then

[white walrus]

Yes or the pm just is focusing about other things now and not optimization

[white walrus]

Do attention because overclock the gpu just give problem and max give you 1-3 fps more if you did good over clock

[steel geyser]

what are you even talking about? Afterburner is a complex program for monitoring your system, not an overclocker

[white walrus]

And every time you add these type of mods is better you delete your files like shaders in app data local

[white walrus]

You can overclock with afterburner, many users use for it, because is easy

[quaint palm]

It IS for overclocking also. You literally have sliders for voltage and clocks when you open it man

[steel geyser]

And many more using it for measuring fps and gpu cpu usage

[raw sleet]

does afterburner work with evga cards too? Evga Precision hasn't been updated in a dogs age

[white walrus]

Bro he doubt about every thing we say so just leave him is his things 🤣🤣

[quaint palm]

If you use a car only for buying groceries does it make it a shopping cart?

It’s both

[steel geyser]

never said, you cant overclock with MSI, is just said its not the primary funtion of the program. i use it too, for undervolting my gpu...

[white walrus]

I prefer don’t use it, because like I said don’t need overclock your gpu, It’s not worth it

[spare coral]

Undervolting is nice especially for amd gpus

[raw sleet]

i only use for monitoring and evga's precision overlay doesn't seem to work anymore in win11

[white walrus]

Also undervolt your gpu have contro…

[steel geyser]

dude, stop 😄 its not the reason for your mod to not work.
As i said, for me it makes thing worse, if for other it works, great.

[sand nimbus]

Its known to mine bitcoin ,no joke

[sleek stream]

If ya want sure

[white walrus]

Gpu are created to work at max performance , don’t need do these things, for example with undervolt can create situations where the gpu work less or the normal and you don’t notice it

[sleek stream]

I'll go with not true 😭 UE5 has enough performance issues that in sure it has no memory to spare to mine coin with your PC bro

[white walrus]

My mod work so I don’t understand what you are speaking about, there are proof and 5000 users tested it and told me the same, is not one guy that change the result

[flat brook]

That’s RivaTuner, it comes with Afterburner, can also be used seperately.

[steel geyser]

yes, thats the whole point, of undervolting imo.
You get 1-5 fps less, for a significant improvement on Temps, and noise and powerdraw

[sleek stream]

I can't balance out pop in engine files with performance mods, they either clash and cancel one or the other or mix to get back performance sigh

[steel geyser]

as i said, my afterburner has a bad day probaly and your mod is great

[white walrus]

And there are also benchs to prove it, because you reject help and you are stubborn, you can remain in your disinformation and your stutter game

[spare coral]

Its usually barely 1 to 3 frames unless you do some heavy undervolting

[errant aspen]

I don't think benchmarks are going to solve that person's issues with your mod.

[white walrus]

The fixed number you see in the moment don’t show you the state of a game, is the frametime that can give you a opinion about your experience

[steel geyser]

yeah, but i also did underclock a bit

[errant aspen]

Surely having someone that has an issue is a good opportunity to stress test the mod further.

[white walrus]

In that case why everybody use dlss frame gen instead of fsr frame gen, fsr can do more fps of Nvidia frame gen but the quality of the frame is worst and stability is worst too…

[sleek stream]

Dlss is better quality except for the shimmering effect on performance mode. FSR has more frames but slightly less quality

[steel geyser]

I mean, he thinks fix 60 fps is better then 90-120 VRR. So if it works for him, i guess. I prefer 90-120 fps.

[errant aspen]

Yeah it's definitely not as good as dlss, which is a shame. In fact all options look worse for me.

[ebon epoch]

personally I think tsr is the absolute goat, but it does have ghosting issues

[sand nimbus]

Nothing is ever gonna be better than dlss. Nvidia is the leading AI company

[white walrus]

I’m trying to help him but if he is stubborn and don’t give me informations and listen me, he don’t give me the opportunity, so just he can’t delete it and play vanilla, also because 10 minute and I have back work

[sleek stream]

It's weird I can get like 50fps solid running 1440 native at epic settings, but have to run dlss at performance or balanced with less quality settings to hit 100fps with frame gen

[errant aspen]

I think it's a good idea to take a step back and try another approach.

[white walrus]

I didn’t say it, minor fixed frame is better of your high fps if frame rate is unstable and is objective, you can’t say me 2+2=5, stalker 2 have big problem because from 120 you go to 80 and this make your game freeze for 1 sec

[steel geyser]

also, my main issue is cpu bottleneck, it dont think any mod can make cpu run better

[errant aspen]

I think only bios settings can help with CPU, but even that might not be enough.

[spare coral]

Same, my cpu is just dying with this game and mostly at 100%

[errant aspen]

Ouch that's not healthy

[raw sleet]

my cpu has its foot squarely up this 2080ti's ass (and it's ready to run excel and browse the web with the other foot)

[spare coral]

Temps are fine tho
Max are 65c

[solemn island]

What cpu do you? A core 2 duo lmao

[white walrus]

100% cpu for long time do attention

[errant aspen]

My CPU goes up to 75c for cpu at 30-40%

[spare coral]

I5 11400

[white walrus]

You reduce the health

[errant aspen]

CPU shouldn't be 100, only GPU is allowed to go that high

[sleek stream]

What processor and GPU combo would be the best possible option for stalker 2 for epic settings native and crazy frames

[white walrus]

Nothing

[errant aspen]

I9 / 4090 24gig

[steel geyser]

there is no optimal CPU at the moment that can run the game good

[sleek stream]

Not a 7800x3d?

[grizzled drift]

How does one get their PDA zoomed out like this? https://imgur.com/a/MlTz0C2
I know it's a modded PDA skin, I have the mod, but it doesn't zoom out like that. I also play on an Ultrawide (21:9). Just wondering if anyone knows by chance

[errant aspen]

That would also work.

[white walrus]

Atm the game vanilla have stutters also with top hardware

[solemn island]

F intel go amd 9800x3d

[plucky quail]

Not in that game

[spare coral]

Only in settlements
Exploring goes back to normal usage

[sleek stream]

How come

[plucky quail]

Well the 9800X3D is the best

[steel geyser]

UE5.4 double the cpu performance i think

[errant aspen]

Yes and no, not everyone is experiencing that. But one thing is true, that maxing settings would need top end cores.

[rapid hare]

We got any technician mfs in here willing to dm bout some tech stuff related to performance!?

[white walrus]

And ALIFe is not in game guys, think if they will add that, this is the reason why there isn’t

[sleek stream]

I heard the 7800 is better despite being slight lower spec

[plucky quail]

Some games Run better with more Cache other with higher clocks

[white walrus]

Right

[solemn island]

Nah 9800x3d is better across the board

[white walrus]

200 eur more for a 5%

[steel geyser]

but still, every cpu runs like shit in this engine version

[errant aspen]

Just wait for the next gen to come out early next year and then decide, that's what I'm going to do. Most likely going AMD.

[solemn island]

Yea we are not talking about price or if it's worth upgrading

[rapid hare]

Oi, yous recomend a ryzen 7 series would work alright with a 3070? On stalker

[errant aspen]

3070 you should be able to do high/medium settings.

[white walrus]

Stalker 2 have problem with rendering pipeline, the settings are wrong too, for this I’m saying you can have also the nasa pc the game will have problem still they don’t fix the leaks

[spare coral]

Which one

[sleek stream]

But how much will 50 series cost man

[plucky quail]

Well From a German benchmark it says 1. 9800X3D 2. I9 Ultra and 14900K 3. 14700K 4. 7800X3D

[ebon epoch]

I swear I don't get it. Game looks and runs better in 4k with tsr at 50 than in 1440 with DLAA

[rapid hare]

Oh for sure but my current cpu a 5 3600x runs horrible on bigger demanding games like tarkov and stalker 2

[sleek stream]

My end goal is to play the game eventually. Once they fix the game and optimize it will still need a strong PC to run at epic

[solemn island]

More than 40 series msrp

[errant aspen]

Unsure about that, plenty of people claim to run the game smooth and have shown screens to prove it.

[plucky quail]

Well i have a 7900XTX and it runs 60FPS at 1440P

[rapid hare]

Whichever fits into an am4 slot

[spare coral]

The leaks said that a 5090 will cost 2000 bucks

[errant aspen]

Yeah 2k at least

[spare coral]

Get a 5700x3d i think the 5800x3d cant be bought anymore

[white walrus]

They can fix the stutters like I did but I think will be hard instead improve your fps, now you do 60 don’t expect in next months one patch will make you do 90, only way is update the engine or lower the graphic

[plucky quail]

Bro the 5060 Gonna be the Biggest scam in 20 Years of GPU making

[rapid hare]

Ill have a look into it, cpus are oretty inflated in aus

[steel geyser]

if they can fix cpu bottlenecks that would be a huge fps boost

[spare coral]

What about the 4060

[steel geyser]

its the biggest scam till 5060

[errant aspen]

One thing is true though, games are going to get more demanding and if you're on a 2070 or less like myself, then upgrading is needed to get the benefit of the latest game engines. Tho UE5 seems to be pretty broken.

[bleak adder]

answer on dm bro

[rapid hare]

Ue5 seems unoptimised

[plucky quail]

The 4060 is fine but it already shows in some games like very few the Vram limit like in stalker. If we say you use FG and such tings

[steel geyser]

but how are we to keep up? 😄 4090 has abiymal performance in this game, not to mention top of the line cpus

[white walrus]

When they will do they will add alife and you will have same performance or worst

[steel geyser]

and cpus are worse, bc no matter if you play at 720p lowest settings

[errant aspen]

As I said before, many have shown screenshots to prove that's not always true. Some people don't have their systems setup incorrectly and that's why they have issues, even with high end systems.

[plucky quail]

Any 8gb or 10 if they do such thing will be bad value.

[white walrus]

Epic started fix from 5.4, stalker 2 is 5.1

[steel geyser]

So you say, not eveyone drops below 60 fps in the first village?

[plucky quail]

I would go with Intel rather least you get 12GB with a 250$ GPU cheaper than 4060

[errant aspen]

Though unsure after the patches as my performance has gotten worse since.

[rapid hare]

Jeez hopefully stalker updates soon

[sleek stream]

I have rtx 3060 I'm mainly looking for more memory than 12gb

[rapid hare]

Would having 32 gb iver 16 helo alot

[plucky quail]

Well then it would be time to look towards the other GPU manu.

[errant aspen]

You should only need more than 12 if you're going to be rendering. Games shouldn't need more than that really, but if you have the money, why not eh.

[steel geyser]

Casue i have a i5 13600 which is not the best, but there are many worse one, and i drop to 35 fps sometime in Zallisya if i sprint around

[solemn island]

Engine update is not gonna happen anytime soon

[plucky quail]

sad thing they do if you are paying extra for RT.

[rapid hare]

So what then?

[errant aspen]

Yep, same for me. But others with top end systems have no issues.

[steel geyser]

show me one 😄

[sleek stream]

How about refurb 4080

[errant aspen]

I'm not going to dig through this entire forum of 100s of thousands of posts. One will pop up at some point, guaranteed.

[steel geyser]

i show you one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZavB2Kjv5KA

[sleek stream]

Just go on YouTube thousands of popilar YouTubers have stable playthroughs by some weird chance

[plucky quail]

Well comes to Price right. The normal 4080 was really bad placed at 1200$

Like 800$ would be good price

[steel geyser]

in the video from 10:30 with a 4090 and Ryzen 9 7950 (halfcores disabled) he goes below 50 fps in the first area

[sleek stream]

I basically just need something 16-24gb that would pull it's own weight

[errant aspen]

Anyways, I am not just upgrading my rig for one game, there is many reasons to get a new rig.

[full shard]

It also kinda depends where you are

[plucky quail]

But i would just wait for Intel and AMD. Intel gonna launch maybe this year and AMD right in January

[full shard]

I got a 4090, ryzen 5 5800x 32 gb ram and i still dip in performance albeit on max settings

[rapid hare]

Bottlenecking perhaps?

[errant aspen]

Could be the CPU

[sleek stream]

How long until even getting more news about next GSC update feel like we should at least get some information soon

[errant aspen]

Would be nice to have a roadmap, Helldivers 2 team are a good team to take influence from in how they interact with their community.

[plucky quail]

we already got 2

[steel geyser]

CPU bottleneck don't care about settings, you would get the same low fps on the lowest settings in 720p resolution.

[sleek stream]

Technically I count it as one. The second patch was obviously an extension of all the fixes they were rolling out to finish up that batch of things

[clever seal]

its not looking really well right here lmao

[errant aspen]

The 2nd one was the one that killed my settings, forced me to lower everything one step to avoid crashing from main menu to game.

[sleek stream]

For me it was opposite 1.0.1 killed my performance but 1.0.2 made it better than before LOL

[plucky quail]

Lol i get crashes also after the 2nd

[sleek stream]

I've never heard of a game that effect so many different PCs in such differing ways it's almost random

[errant aspen]

PC gaming is just absolutely wild, glad I have a console also. But PC gaming, there is just nothing like m+k FPS gaming.

[plucky quail]

You mean like a Anomaly?

👀

[sleek stream]

Yeah the most fun kind anomaly, the can't have fun in game anomaly

[plucky quail]

The Bsod Anomaly

[bleak adder]

@sleek stream bro u didnt answer my dm

[clever seal]

Ok so 1% lows are on the high 40 low 50s what do you guys think ( on the first settlement) will the game be ok to play or will any other patch help my performance or should i try later maybe end of this year or start of 2025 pretty sure the struggle is from my 16 gigs of ram too

[plucky quail]

90% OK

[errant aspen]

You should get over 60 when you leave the frame sucking village of doom

[plucky quail]

Sometimes Maybe so sometimes maybe so

[errant aspen]

I'll go from 70-80 to 30-40 when I get into a base area

[clever seal]

is this for me ?
ok then let me check rq

[errant aspen]

Strangely though, my frames get better with most bases, but the village is special as it doesn't ever seem to get better.

[clever seal]

on all high my 1 % lows in the setll rn are 40-60 if i leave the setll i get like 70 -100 on the 1% lows

[full shard]

More then likely

[errant aspen]

And it'll happen in every base most likely, up to you if that's a deal-breaker or not.

[clever seal]

you think its gonna get better a bit with time like rn i am on dlss ballanced with fg but prob the ram is the problem

[errant aspen]

I hope so, but the last patches made it worse for me, so I dunno who they're targeting with the patches. It seems random who gets a boost and who gets a hit.

[clever seal]

hmmmmm interesting

i am playing around with graphic setting rn but i think its bearable

[errant aspen]

I mean, I can deal with it... You're not going to be spending tonnes of time in a base compared to the wasteland. Cut scenes will tank your FPS also, especially if you're pushing to the limit.

[clever seal]

any options that i can lower without a hit on graphics

[errant aspen]

Not really, lowering textures will give you the most stability, though it doesn't hurt to use an optimising mod, custom engine ini file, locking frames and such..

Switching to 1080 helped me a lot with frame stability also.

[clever seal]

what specs do you have and are you running any mods

[errant aspen]

Ryzen 9 12 core 3.5ghz, 2070 Super 8gig. 32gig ram. Custom engine.ini and some gameplay mods.

[clever seal]

oh nice i mean the 2070 is prob the thing holding you back but yeah 32 g of ram is needed

hopefully they are able to make the recomended 16 soon with some patches cause if not its gonna be sad lol also the cooldown on texts is SOOOOOOO ANNOYING :))))

[errant aspen]

Yeah if it comes down to system ram, that is a pain... But it's an easier fix than me getting a new GPU. I'm at the point where it's pointless to get a 30x card, because I'd have to get it used which I'm not a fan of and I'll have to upgrade again pretty soon as 30x will be the low end set of cards, if it's not already.

[wise turret]

at this point I think the devs/community representives should give an ETA on the single digit fps drop
I dont expect it immediately ofc but some headsup will be appreciated, many ppl cant play rn because of that

[clever seal]

biggest pain rn is that i just got a 4060 ti and I CANT RUN THIS GAME CAUSE OF MY RAM LMAO vram NO normal ram lmao

[errant aspen]

Did you build your system yourself or did someone help you/pre build?

[plucky quail]

Yea thats what most people with 60TI are saying the same way with 3070TI

[clever seal]

when i first built it it was i think 2020 or 2019 and i got a rtx2060 for alot of money cause the crypto shit so most of my budget went to a mid gpu and then i couldnt invest on more stuff pc build was me and my uncle then the upgrades now it was just me

[clever seal]

i got the good 4060ti too the 16 g vram one

jokes on me that my vram = my normal ram lmao

[errant aspen]

Right so you got a 16gig GPU, yeah that shouldn't be happening. What is your CPU, people having the biggest issues have lower end CPU.

[clever seal]

an i7 11700k

i think it should be ok ish

[plucky quail]

Huh what 16gig Vram or RAM

[clever seal]

both 😭😭😭 🤣🤣🤣

[errant aspen]

Mmm i7 should be okay I guess, but why 16gig of system ram?

[clever seal]

i didnt have money to get then and now not enought to go to a 32

[elder viper]

@clever seal i raise you 32 Gigawatts of Stable Access Memory

[clever seal]

ALSO MY STUPID CPU COOLER IS COVERING ONE SLOT OF RAM SO I CANT JUST BUY ANOTHER 2 8 G ONES CAUSE ONE OF EM WILL NOT FIT

[errant aspen]

Ahhh man, I feel the pain. I had that with an old system, I lucked out on a finance deal and was able to get my 2070 system. Hopefully you can find a way in the future.

[stable kite]

Ordered a new ssd, a fast one SN850X WD Black something, i know it will help nothing but i am in need of more space and will move may games there so

[elder viper]

guys all the bugs you're experiencing, have you ever thought that they might just be, anomalies

[clever seal]

its not a bug its a feature ahhhhhh message

[clever seal]

so i cant just buy another 16 i need to upgrade to 32

[errant aspen]

You from UK? If so, it could be a useful idea to look into part providers that use PayPal or Klarna for 3 pay finance options with 0% APR. That's what I am going to do for each part of my new rig.

[wintry needle]

Buy the RAM and a better cooler 🫡

[errant aspen]

Yeah you could replace the cooler rather than getting a new case.

[elder viper]

that's if its relatively compatible to your board, can your mobo take a 32GB Ram stick at the same rate?

[clever seal]

i am not from the uk

[errant aspen]

If you have PayPal in your country, then the 3 pay 0% interest should be available, have a look into it.

[clever seal]

hm il think about it i mean it doesnt really matter either way

i can just wait another month and then get a 32 easily i just need to save some money rn for christmas gift for my gf thats it i cant be with 0 eu to my name lmao

[errant aspen]

Fully understand and that sounds like the right way to go about it. Stalker 2 will be waiting for you and if you can deal with the frame drops right now then you can still have some fun.

[clever seal]

i meant i dont need to rush cause the frame dropps aint even that bad its not going bellow 30 to actually be unbearable and there is a chance of it getting better so no need to rush for it hopefully it works out we will see

till then tho i will be playing like that either way i dont have enough time the only reason i bought the game rn is to support gsc so yeah with my 1-2 hours per day i aint gonna be playing alot

[errant aspen]

Good luck on your journey stalker!

[clever seal]

thank you man good luck to you too hopefully we meet again i guess il be active on this server the community seems so damn good man gotta give it some love

[errant aspen]

Absolutely, no worries at all. Come back whenever, ask as many questions as you need, everyone is super friendly here.

[clever seal]

thats what i am seeing lol i guess il be here to help others too lmao

[upper quail]

Anyone experienced game freezes after the 1.02 patch?

[errant aspen]

Yep freezes and crashes. Lowering my res and textures helped.

[sand nimbus]

Theres a possibility the game might not ever be fully fixed.

[clever seal]

is there a game that is ever trully fixxed ?

[wise turret]

yes, the performance is terrible, like 5 fps in settlements, i posted in ask-gsc to see if someone will answer to atleast give us info or ETA about that

[wintry needle]

Only one, the game (not the whole system) froze for like 20-30 seconds at a certain point, then it continued like nothing happened
Not sure how far into the main mission you are, how much spoilers I can go into

[errant aspen]

Well, some of it rests on how UE5 progresses, and if they can fix their own issues which they pass down to the games that are developed on it.

[quaint palm]

There is a possibility…. for anything to happen bro

[ebon epoch]

I (mostly) sorted this out with a mod

[wise turret]

I've tried with S2 and without it.. What mod are you using?

[flat brook]

The only freezes so far was once in the stash where S2 decided it wanted to munch on all 64GB of RAM, and twice in teleport anomalies, which un-screwed itself after like 5 seconds as if nothing happened. Both moments my CPU was screeching for the sweet mercy of death

[ebon epoch]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/9

I think what did it for me was the chromasdkplugin component of this one

Which has been added recently, in case you had tried the mod previously

[sand nimbus]

Yeah rdr2 and gta 5

[wise turret]

chromasdkplugin component - where do you see it? I downloaded the lastest experimental to try out

[ebon epoch]

I didn't download the experimental, got the performance branch

[wintry needle]

I've no idea what my CPU was doing at the time coz Mangohud overlay froze too
But I was able to Alt+Tab out and the PC worked normally otherwise

[ebon epoch]

But there should be a cchromaeditorlibrary64 archive inside the zip

Check the readme for the pathing it should go in, I had to create the path myself. In my case I'm using gamepass and had to create the bolded folders:
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2\Content\Stalker2\Plugins\ ChromaSDKPlugin\ThirdParty\Win64

[clever seal]

eh depends if you talk about single player or multiplayer

[ebon epoch]

it's not a miracle fix, but with the right supersampling it basically deleted the heavy stutter I'd get in zalissia. Slag heap's kind of in the air but I think it's holding up

[sand nimbus]

Gta 5 Online is cursed to the brim because it has 100gb of new content packed onto a 15 year old game engine

[clever seal]

yeah so most of it is online alone and the rest is story with online being a cashgrab for kids and the rest modders
sooooooooo

[errant aspen]

Mainly modders ruining the game, I only play in private solo lobbies online whenever they add new content, just not worth even trying to play in open sessions.

[sand nimbus]

That doesnt matter tho, the story mode is elite quality.

Which stalker 2 cannot currently provide. I assume the multiplayer is gonna be better though. Ue5 is doable mp wise. It will also improve on cpu performance as the enemies are others ,not running on cpu

[wintry needle]

I finally got some of the fabled Eurojank yesterday! 😆 Had to speak to a sick bay patient, who finished his piece and slowly started to levitate upwards, then he stopped in the air like half a meter above the bed

[clever seal]

we will see and tbh i never liked gta 5 s story lmao

[errant aspen]

Yeah GTA 5 SP mode is fantastic, especially with the high textures mods, it looks insane. Not that I can run them 😭🤣

[ebon epoch]

I can't with the singleplayer in gta5, I think it's the constantly switching characters

[clever seal]

you guys think the deluxe edition is worth it ?

[sand nimbus]

The graphics mods are actually good for this game lol?

[grim path]

Right now standard edition isnt worth it :/

[clever seal]

i didnt expect that answer lmao

[errant aspen]

Yep there is a dedicated team behind the high level texture mods. GTA 5 has an incredible modding scene. So much so that Rockstar has actually made it easier to mod their game for the RP scene, after take two tried to sue them 🤣

Take Two are a cancer in the gaming industry, I wish they would just get destroyed by a bigger company, anything is better than them.

[minor sun]

1080 will run 30 fps? or only 30fps outside towns

[sand nimbus]

So true

[gritty portal]

@minor sun not really..
you will get 20fps with ultra low, you need having over 16GB RAM Dual c.

[clever seal]

i have 16 g ram and i dont have any problems like this i am on the low 50 high 40s on 2560 x 1440 p

[minor sun]

what GPU

[clever seal]

gpu : rtx 4060ti (16g )
cpu : i7 11700k

[minor sun]

Yeah got 16, but with a 3050ti as I'm travelling. Getting 60+ out in the wild, 20-30 with fights and then 2-5 in towns 💀

[gritty portal]

me meanwhile with a 4070 and outside & inside 140+ fps, 32GB RAM :D
1440p res.

[clever seal]

i am planning on going for 32 g ram hopefully i can hit it hard then

[minor sun]

Was there any talk about performance or optimization updates, or it's a year for me to back to my main rig and play

[gritty portal]

yeah stalker 2 needs like 14GB ram for game...

[ebon epoch]

there's a mod that solved this for me
#pc-specs message

[dry frigate]

Changing from an 8GB to 16GB VRAM GPU really helped performance.

[clever seal]

i mean i havent tried it but have a rtx 2060 with 6 g i dont think it will even have the chance to start it lmao

[flat brook]

Same, as soon as I alt tabbed it stopped leaking but wouldn’t dump automatically, manually dumping caused the game to have a stroke. Still not sure what caused it, rebooted, launched the game only and haven’t encountered it since. The only difference that might have caused to happen in my eyes is DRP, as I usually have my status set to offline and DRP off.

[clever seal]

but i am intrigued to try it lmao

[dry frigate]

You'll be able to play but you'll get occasional dips to single digit FPS. It's what happened to me on my 2070 Super. And then you'll have to wait for it to catch up.

[clever seal]

2070 super is better than the normal 2060 lmao

[wooden garnet]

I really thought patch 1.01/1.02 would have optimized those leak moments, but it seems it didn't, not fully at least

[dry frigate]

System memory or VRAM?

[gritty portal]

system memory

[dry frigate]

Those were mostly gameplay related bugs. Like broken quests.

[flat brook]

I do believe they’ve tackled a large portion of it, just not for everyone (yet)

[gritty portal]

i run with task manager and using RTTS, and the game need like over 14 gb ram.
(mostly I see onlys 16GB RAM above)

[wooden garnet]

1.02 yes, but 1.01 was meant to performance as well

[gritty portal]

mine did fixed with memory leak, from 30GB RAM to 16GB RAM.
Oh and I use EngineTweak mod aswell, it will helps to optimize game!

[wooden garnet]

I'm trying it on a laptop 3060 6GB, 64GBram, i7 10º, with DLSS enabled on balanced and Frame Gen also enabled, most of the other things on medium seems to run almost smoothly, but I know my setup can run better than that, so I'm still expecting that they can fix it more

[flat brook]

Performance issues in correlation to memory leaks and optimization regarding NPC hubs, not performance/optimization across the board

[wooden garnet]

when the fps dips I also save and wait, or alt tab and alt tab back, sometimes it works

[flat brook]

They still have plenty of performance to gain, even on UE5.1. Hopefully once they’ve fully addressed the memory leaks happening to people and crashes they’ll focus more on the proper optimization l

[wooden garnet]

once the performance is fixed, and the A-Life is properly working in the game, it will be a true sequel to the franchise. Also bothers me that mutants not related to quest are just there to make you lose some ammo (those are better you just run away), in previous ones you could at least loot them and had a chance to make money out of it... still a really awesome game to add to the franchise!

[random drift]

Holy shit Skadovks TANKS on my 4060 ti on medium setting without frame generation enabled. god damn

[errant aspen]

That was always a mod apparently, never in vanilla. And you can get the mutant loot mod from nexus for this one, I use it and it's great.

[dry frigate]

Anyway to fix the lumen ghosting?

[flat brook]

Funnily enough the Sultansk is the least intensive NPC hub in the zone

[flat brook]

Exorcism.

[wooden garnet]

maybe for soc, I don't remember cuz of the time, but I'm almost sure it was on vanilla cs and cop, no?

[flat brook]

SoC definitely had mutant loot, but I think that was quest related?

[errant aspen]

I don't remember it being in the OG games, but then I did play with mods to get it to run, so I may have had a mod for it also.

[flat brook]

SoC had mutant loot, CoP didn’t. Don’t remember CS enough to make a statement on it

(SoC drop rate was 20%)

[wooden garnet]

I never played them with mods that's why I'm almost sure it was on vanilla 😂 but as said I don't remember if it was on all of them, like emissions and weapon upgrading being something introduced on CS

[errant aspen]

Fair play, it was ages ago I played them. Strange decision to not include mutant loot TBF.

[sand nimbus]

No, naturally bad. Also look at light bleed and light flicker. Its very horrible

Only fix, pre baked lighting or proper ray tracing implementation

[wooden garnet]

there's even a line stalkers can shout to you, don't know if it was quest related, but I got one shouting to me: "don't fight mutants, you just lose yout ammo since you cant loot them" or something like that

[north swift]

FYI, maby this will help someone:

From patch 1.0.1 i have problem with large amount or crashes with message “D3D12Submission.cpp:910 with error 887A0006”.
Game crash constantly every few minutes and becoume unplayable (GOG Version)
I have AMD 5900X and RTX3080 and 32GB RAM etc…
So maby not ‘brand new pc’ but should handle Stalker well enough. 
I believe this is releated to UE in some way, becouse from 1.0 version game crash my PC, i must unvervoltage my GPU to make game work (diffrent games, stress tests or gpu test was OK, so this is not hardware problem)

After week of investigation i probably figure our “workaround” of this problem, which maby give you clue what to fix in game code.

I go to windows Settings/Display/Graphics Settings and TURN OFF “Hardware Accelerated GPU” (im not sure that this is correct english name of this settings, i use PL Windows 10)
After turn off this one option, game stop crashing and i test it 2 days without single crash (no matter that i have FSR, DLSS or TAA) Game work OK. What i see now that game from time to time FREEZE for few frames, sometimes this FREEZE can last 10+ seconds long and then game work without any crash. Before change this setting, game crash instead freeze.

[sand nimbus]

Ue5 is known to break pcs due to a allocation glitch deep inside the Engine. Everything above 5.1 is performing well.

[rich coyote]

it plays very well on the 2060. but then it drops to like 5 fps after 20 mins. it seems many people have that issue if you dont have enough vram...

[clever seal]

sounds about right lmao

[dry frigate]

Sounds like they need to update to Unreal 5.5

[clever seal]

i am fighting the urge to remove my 4060 and put the 2060 on lmao

[minor sun]

Are you running no shader warmup with that?

[random drift]

it started in the slag heap or whatever that concrete monstrum is called. then again in skadovks

[ebon epoch]

I deleted all the launch arguments from the exe as they didn't seem to do anything

[flat brook]

They definitely do, I’m not sure if that’s something they can do in the near future however. They went with a custom proprietary build of 5.1. Ready Or Not had to remake a majority of their assets from the jump from 5.1 to 5.4, taking about 2-3 months to complete. Ready or Not is significantly less complex and smaller in size than S2

[fallow lodge]

i use this mod https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/17 with 5900x and 4070ti high preset bump testures to ultra, foliage to low and dlss quality+fg. and its amazing now no more crash and really fluid and high fps

[next terrace]

yeah if they want to do that i'd bet it would be like a cyberpunk 2.0 patch situation, where we'd have to wait like 2,5 years before that happens and is stable enough

and by that time there will probably be yet another ue5 version that is more stable thank 5.5... one must imagine sisyphus of game dev

[ebon epoch]

difference being stalker 2 can actually be good if they sort out all the technical issues.

[flat brook]

They just need time, and we’re just along for the ride at this point.

[white walrus]

Before to update to 5.5 they should just test the Vulkan edition because if Vulkan work many problems disappear

[ebon epoch]

honestly, it's taken me a while but once you manage to land on an okay-ish graphical setting, it's not like the game is unplayable
not many crashes, and a lot of the problems with gameplay are already being successfully addressed (imo)

[white walrus]

Ue 5 is break only with dx12

[sand nimbus]

Digital foundry said it would fix 80% of the performance issues.

Why break your head and try to fix the broken 5.1

Just upgrade to 5.5 gsc.
It makes no sense
They have Microsoft as a partner. Its not an impossible task.
Tell people you fumbled and that you switch the engines, people might lose their saves but thats it.

[flat brook]

If anything they should bake their own lights and implement DX11 as an option for the people with mid range GPUs.

[ebon epoch]

nobody's going to waste time developing for dx11 at this point if they can avoid it.

[next terrace]

its not unplayable but it should perform like 50% better or more than it does on some gear

[ebon epoch]

oh absolutely. I'm just saying that hey, at least game can be played now.

[flat brook]

Baking their own lightmaps is for more than just DX11. But if you want a stable rendering API, DX11 is still your best bet.

[ebon epoch]

but like from a technical standpoint this is far and above the most playable stalker game ever on launch lmao

like the previous games I had to stop playing because they crashed like mfs, or were unplayably stuttery regardless of the settings.

[wooden garnet]

funny enough I got a crash in like, 30min trying the game when it launched. They took immersion/nostalgia to another level 🤣

[sand nimbus]

Yes and no.. for the love of god get rid of Lumen and add raytracing

And for non rtx cards add pre baked lighting

Lumen IS insanely inconsistent especially in 5.1

[flat brook]

They likely know this, but they’re clearly booking it to get the current build stable enough so that they can slowly work on updating the engine build in the background. Which depending on how much of their assets they have to rework, can take many many months, if RoN is anything to go off of

[ebon epoch]

lumen is the bane of my existance, yes.

[flat brook]

This is exactly what I’m getting at

Bake your own maps, add DX11 for the older cards, enable Hardware Lumen detection for AMD cards (if they choose to use it in settings) and Hardware RT for RTX 30/40 cards. Otherwise default to their own light maps.

[ebon epoch]

pretty sure every game that has included it has a community desperately trying to get rid of it

[spare coral]

The game is built all around lumen so it will prolly take a lot of work to add baked lighting

[sand nimbus]

Its using lumen because they were lazy

[vague siren]

lol, come on now...

[pastel steeple]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/579305732663541760/1313165474422329426/image.png?ex=674f2426&is=674dd2a6&hm=53d2654b292e174c2871a62b297d4dfee5d086ff083b207339e09fc579517bec&

[sand nimbus]

Pre baked lighting can look close to real RT - looking at you cyberpunk and rdr2

[ebon epoch]

one could say lazy, one could say undergoing an understandably strained development process

[pastel steeple]

stable as fuk now.

[flat brook]

Less likely to be lazy, as it is their own tight release schedule and other development hiccups

[sand nimbus]

Im as honest as can be, the tips we give them here are usually given by people who get paid for their work. Its on their side now to read and execute

[sleek stream]

Baked lighting not sure possible with dynamic weather and time of day. Maybe in underground levels

[sand nimbus]

Its no excuse,they have Microsoft on their side ages before release .

[flat brook]

It’s possible, just time consuming. Time they clearly didn’t have for a multitude of possible reasons

[sleek stream]

While soc had mutant loot it seemed like an unfinished and unexplored idea one of many in that game. From what I rmemeber it's only relevant for a few fetch quest missions

[dry frigate]

My understanding of the Lumen issue is that they're using software Lumen instead of hardware. I.e. emulated raytracing

[vague siren]

Sure, constructive feedback is good. But calling the devs lazy is a bit much... these guys aren't Bethesda or Ubisoft and even those games take years to make

[wintry needle]

How long would it take, theoretically, to build the lighting for every room and corridor and cave? With a day/night cycle and weather?

[sleek stream]

The state of release is most likely Microsoft's fault. They probably had no more wiggle room to delay and microsoft most likely had their final release date in contract

[spare coral]

They should just give the option to enable hardware lumen if you want

[ebon epoch]

and I don't think anyone goes for the jankier option 'cause they're lazy either.

[errant aspen]

PC gaming is open source man, don't put money in the way of a strong community ethic of stepping in when needed. This isn't any old company, there is a clear understanding of why there was always going to be some issues.

[flat brook]

I don’t see how MS plays into their development process aside from console features. If anything baked lighting would have done the Xbox series a massive favor

[sand nimbus]

I agree ive been harsh

[sleek stream]

Probably longer than it would take to just optimize ray tracing tbh.

[dry frigate]

Was there a contract about gameplay parity between platforms? Thats the only reason I can see them forcing software Lumen on everyone

[wintry needle]

Exactly! Thank you! 👍

[sand nimbus]

They could add fully functional ray Tracing in a week lol no need to care about any lumen shenaniganggnshfi

[vague siren]

I wonder if you could mod raytracing into the game, how long would it take for one of us to do it?

[ebon epoch]

I'm assuming lumen is a cost effective way to implement lighting for a wide gamut of platforms (and configurations within platforms)

[flat brook]

With the SDK, the click of a single box named “Enable Hardware Lumen/RT.

Correct me if I’m wrong but the only reason I see for them going with Software Lumen is because the Xbox consoles don’t support native Raytracing

[sand nimbus]

They both support path tracing even lol @flat brook see alan wake 2 on ps5 pro

[flat brook]

Then again, a detection method based on GPU architecture could have circumvented that, while only the RTX users would really benefit from that

[sleek stream]

What's the main difference between hardware ray tracing and lumen system

[vague siren]

Yea maybe, I mean they need that console income for the game, but once again there's that problem with optimizing for consoles getting in the way of Pc gaming

[flat brook]

I don’t see how AMD’s Lockhart GPU die supports native Raytracing

[sleek stream]

As it stands now HoC seems like it was developed primarily for Xbox, and we are stuck with a console port. Definitely Microsoft influence

[spare coral]

Tbf if it wasnt for Microsoft's support this game wouldn't have come to existence

[sand nimbus]

Lumen is screenspace + software lighting global Illumination, it has alot of flaws , such as pulsating light in barely lit areas. It looks good in big openly lit areas but completely dies inside. You might have noticed the light pulsating.

Real raytracing has none of these issues.

[vague siren]

Can't agree completely there UE5 is capable of natively making PC builds, and consoles as well. I don't think they ported anything from consoles, more like they had to make the game more console friendly

[sleek stream]

It would have, just would've come out probably 2 years from now lol. They probably would've ended up crowd funding again

[vague siren]

Anyway talking about Alan Wake 2, there's another game that kicks my PC rig's ass... especially with Raytracing enabled. The performance hit is definitely the same as in Stalker 2

[spare coral]

2 years in the best case scenario

[flat brook]

It feels more like sacrifices made to be able to run on AMD’s RDNA Lockhart dies, than it does they’ve developed it with console in mind first and foremost.

Albeit some elements really have that console feel to it, like the HUD/Inventory and Quick access.

Give me my F2 and F4 back goddamnit…

[sleek stream]

Yeah the game is a little TOO console friendly imo. F1-F4 replaced with xboxified f1-f2 and hold quick access system? Seems like something they forgot to not include in the PC version

[wintry needle]

Some GPU have specialized hardware to calculate light rays and such
Lumen is probably done via shaders so all GPUs can interpret it, even those without dedicated RT hardware - but it's slower and looks worse

[vague siren]

Yea I hope we get to edit more keybinds soon, I miss the function keys there, and to map my PDA, inventory to something more friendly. Truth be told Stalker Anomaly also has like a million keybinds

[sleek stream]

I literally spent a good 5 minutes staring at the keybinds menu like wtf is this?? Hard binds for flashlight too????

[sleek stream]

Booting up stalker 2 definitely makes me miss MCM and that beautiful insanely extensive binding mod gosh

[spare coral]

There are still people who doesnt know how to turn on the flashlight

[sand nimbus]

Alan wake is an entirely different beast

[flat brook]

I only figured out MMB also toggles the flashlight yesterday, after 90 hours of playtime….

[vague siren]

lol, I find it hilarious watching the youtubers play Stalker 2 the first time and everyone not realizing theres a flashlight button, and bumbling around in the dark.. happened to me too

[wintry needle]

Those people didn't pay any attention in the prologue lol

[sleek stream]

I can't change from L. I always have my flashlight on MMB, I just been radial menu opening it because it's the most ergonomic at the moment, gotten used to the GADOOSHHH sound effect every time I wanna turn on my torch lol

[flat brook]

I just want my NVGs man

[vague siren]

Actually, anyone know if there' a toggle for the laser pointer on weapons?

[spare coral]

I just leave it on
Problem solved

[sleek stream]

Yeah I find it crazy that there's no NVGs... No binoculars, yeah I see why.. no use for them in current build. But NVGs? Just not stalker bro

Nvg is like a pivotal progression item once you hit mid game in CS and COP

[flat brook]

All this advanced weaponry in the zone but not a single damn Gen1 monocular in sight. I call BS

[wintry needle]

Ya I was praying when I first turned on the flashlight "please don't be battery based, pleeeease" 😆

[errant aspen]

Yes if you go to an engineer you can toggle it on and off by clicking on the mod again.

[sleek stream]

For me if doesn't work. Is there a config I can go to or a mod to fix this yet

[errant aspen]

I'm having the same issue since the patches.

[wintry needle]

But they give some 20% accuracy boost or stg...?
Why would i not want one?

[fickle swift]

Well ALOT of NPC wear nods just to pissed you the f**k off

[errant aspen]

I am unsure actually, I think a small boost. The flash hider gives a small boost and can be taken off also

[spare coral]

I realized it the first couple of minutes i played the game cause i was pressing all my Mouse buttons to see what they did

[ebon epoch]

I found out because I always remap melee to mmb but you can't rebind melee 💀

[wintry needle]

Omfg lads the game literally tells y'all in the first few minutes! Why is the flashlight thing so controversial?

[sleek stream]

Speaking of obscure mechanics, who else figured out recently the dark valley electro that chases you in the building is blind if you don't have any artifacts equipped

[sleek stream]

Well many of us saw tutorial option and went nahhh I'm real stalger

[spare coral]

I only read that L was the button
But most people dont read the tutorials i guess lmao

[ebon epoch]

I literally googled that 15 minutes ago. Just did the mission on ||garbage|| and I was like "huh I didn't remember ligthning chasing you"

[spare coral]

The first thing i did was disable the yellow paint before i started my first playthrough

[sleek stream]

I learned it from a "DID U KNOW IN STALKER 2" youtube short. I'm willing to bet 99% people would ever figure this out naturally

[wintry needle]

Is the yellow paint present anywhere else but ladders?

[ebon epoch]

breakable planks

[sleek stream]

I was super hyped when I saw the setting to turn it off. I inspected tf out of every option in the menu before even loading in

[errant aspen]

I personally keep the artifacts in my body and run around giggling as I get electrocuted.

[spare coral]

Boxes, some interactable objects etc and on boxes with loot

[wintry needle]

Where is this again? The flying electric things walk (fly) a fixed route??

[sleek stream]

It's fun to have them chase you. Not fun if you don't have 15 med kids to spare

[spare coral]

Just run faster 5head

[wintry needle]

That's fair

[ebon epoch]

even with the "misery" version of grok's mode, it's frankly ridiculous how much you can accomplish by basically running around pumping stimpacks into you. You get absurd amounts of them.

[wintry needle]

Same, first thing to do in every new game: what settings are available to me?

[sleek stream]

Well I haven't explored most the map cause I'm saving it for when the game frogin works, but first one I saw is in the dark valley northern bandit hideout with the big southern catwalk. They're much similar to the floating electros in x16 in call of pripyat except intelligently go after you

[errant aspen]

https://tenor.com/view/sanic-the-hedgehob-running-gotta-go-fast-fast-gif-4964355

[brisk plaza]

embed fail

[wintry needle]

Ah I'm not that far yet, just got out of the tunnels at the southern end of the map

[errant aspen]

I tried to do that, but ended up 50hrs into the game, couldn't help myself.

[sleek stream]

Even when I did, it took me hours of playing to actually understand the F key system. I was just placing med and bandages on F1 and F2 primary cause didn't know you need to hold them for second option. Super bogus system man, I think that's definitely something to be patched out

[sleek stream]

I'm 70 hours in and only just half way thru wild island missions. Most the time I have spent in cordon and garbage testing out mods and stuff. I have to go to cordon every time I want to test "a life" mods because slag heap and zallisya apparently have zero AI nodes...

[wintry needle]

It does offer "toggle or hold" in the rebinds, so I kinda figured
OTOH I love the crouch/sprint system, short tap toggles, hold applies only as long as you hold

[sleek stream]

I'm a toggle man. Gotta save that pinky finger energy

[wintry needle]

I'm also a guitar player so my left pinky is well trained 💪

[sleek stream]

I do guitar as well lol I have spiritual strong pinky but something about depressing pinky into keyboard for many minutes just hurt

[sleek stream]

Correction; south eastern portion of garbage and most of zallisya has no AI nodes. But shays a life new version I'm using now seems to generate player centric radial spawns so it's no longer a problem, but cordon has higher density of vanilla nodes. If you haven't tried it yet guys definitely spend a few minutes with meme version warzone ai spawner mods it's hilarious

[errant aspen]

I'm a beatboxer, my pinky is for gripping mics 🤣

[sleek stream]

Like 60 NPCs fighting at once, my fps goes from 80 to 25 so worth it tho to watch bandits and stalkers have Normandy type battle while fleshes are attacking both sides, I split my sides

[wintry needle]

Sooo many times when a fight spawns behind my back...
Red bar under compass, weapons going off... I don't even care anymore, just pay attention for a second: am I getting hit? No? Then its military vs loners... Not my circus not my monkeys

[sleek stream]

Yeah I've kissed vanilla S2 goodbye in favor of AI mods. If you haven't tried them I highly recommend. While it's definitely no a life, it does a damn good job making it seem like the world is alive, hearing gunfights 300m away. Still experience some BS behind the back spawning but from much further away. Expect a performance hit of a few FPS tho nothing I've really cared to notice

[wintry needle]

They are not even worth looting, their weapons are 99% shit tier and broken, and what else they have? Vodka? Bread? Fúk that 😆 I have 213k cash I'm leaving the "drag yellow weapon to the nearest trader" business to the rookies
The patch kinda broke the economy, now that I think of it

[sleek stream]

Also I do believe GSC when they say A life is present but highly bugged. Even when I was playing vanilla, many instances I found dead NPCs and aftermath of fire fights in random locations That definitely isnt scripted I think

[sleek stream]

At least they fixed repair prices and artefact sale value. I never got around to exploiting the money glitch lol I had no interest. I was impressed when I started playing because the economy and progression of day one build felt a lot like the progression of when I played anomaly and tweaked the trader and mission reward settings to be super punishing LOL

[rich wagon]

it's all nice and good but when the patch makes the game not even launch I'd rather have day one version with steep repair prices than a game that doesnt work

[ebon epoch]

I've been playing grok's rebalance pretty much since the start

[wintry needle]

I don't even know how to do the money glitch... I just looted myself to the edge of red, prioritizing value per kg, then slow walked to the traders
Now I don't need to do it anymore, mission progression is nearly enough to keep me going, with a few suits/100% weapons sold here or there

[rich wagon]

@ebon epoch I used Maklane

[ebon epoch]

saw that one as well, the thing that enticed me about grok's the most is that it's supposed to make loot less ridiculous

I think it does it, though you end up with the same piles of bandages and stuff lol

well that, and it makes human enemies considerably less nade-happy

[wintry needle]

Well in fairness, I go through bandages/medkits like popcorn

[ebon epoch]

in fact I'd say I haven't been thrown one this entire playthrough yet lol

[wintry needle]

I like the nading, keeps me on my toes, can't just camp behind cover and have a turkey shoot
I'd like the enemies to have a bit more RNG in accuracy tho
They are all bloody marksmen with an unmodded broken red AKM

[ebon epoch]

I like the nading too yeah, it's just annoying when every firefight devolves into like 4 nades thrown your way

I'm actually looking see if I can get it a notch higher, but still lower than vanilla

[clever seal]

opinion on deluxe edition i asked again earlier but didnt get an answer exactly lmao

and would it be worth it if it was just a 10 eu diff instead of a 20

[wintry needle]

I have the ultimate on GOG but tbh I haven't even looked at the extra content yet, I bought it specifically for the future expansions/dlc

[rich wagon]

@ebon epoch Maklane has nice Gunplay rebalance with enemies not being lazer bots

[wintry needle]

Couldn't care less for skins if I tried lol

[clever seal]

the deluxe tho doesnt have the season pass so is it worth it still or no what do you think

[still vault]

does anyone have a fix for the tree pop in issue

[wintry needle]

Get the standard, and when they eventually get around to selling upgrade options, get that

[vernal spire]

what's the biggest "group" someone's encountered in A-Life 2.0 just roaming? is it only "3" SCAVs/Stalkers usually?

[ebon epoch]

I saw it yeah, just wary of piling up too many mods

[clever seal]

i am able to get a key for it thats why i am saying its just a 10 eu diff rn so yeah i dont know

[ebon epoch]

technically you could stack grok's, novichok's and maklane mods, as they affect different .cfgs, though I dunno how well they work with each other

[rich wagon]

yeah you can Maklane stuff is compatible with Novichok as far as I remember

[wintry needle]

If you reckon the extra stuff yer getting is worth it for you, go for it sure

[mint patrol]

Okay, this one has given me the best result. No crashes so far and I'm 30 minutes in lol Nevermind. Jinxed it. CTD just now lmao.
Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0xffffffffffffffff

[rich wagon]

Welcome to the club

[mint patrol]

I've done so many fixes and none have worked. My PC was running this fine before 1.02. Now it runs even smoother but I crash every 30 minutes

[ebon epoch]

the only crashes I've had have been weirdly right after cinematics

[mint patrol]

I think I'm just gonna wait for the next patch and paint my minis in the meantime.

[rich wagon]

The game stopped even launching for me after 1.0.2 before that on day 1 version no stutters no crashes

[tacit drum]

Hey guys!
Ryzen 5 5600X, Geforce 4070, 1440p Monitor, 32 RAM. In Rostok I get barely stable 60fps, actual average ~40-50fps. CPU Utilization ~80%, GPU Utilization ~80. What could be the issue? Could one increase GPU/CPU util for the game?

[edgy oriole]

cpu bottleneck, for most people is the issue

[ebon epoch]

I mean what supersampling are you running? you could probably get more performance through there

[fallow lodge]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/17 try that and customize the .ini file in notpad to your systeme

[austere crane]

x870 mobo & ram ordered, the hunt for a 9800x3d begins....

[edgy oriole]

i5 12600k OCed out the ass and a 2080 ti struggles for me

I get like 60% cpu util and 90% gpu util

[tacit drum]

makes sense, GPU busy deviation is 30% in rostok and 5% in the fields. But i was expecting CPU to be 100% utilized then, which is not the case 🤔

[ebon epoch]

I have a 5600x and a 3070 and my gpu is definitely struggling more than my CPU

1440 with quality dlss is working fine-ish, but I haven't left garbage yet. If things get dicier further ahead, TSR performance is way better. Problem is, tsr performance will cause ghosting

[austere crane]

that is because the game/engine isn't utilizing the CPU correctly. it's still CPU bound but simply because it's not coded to use what the CPU really has available

[wintry needle]

GPU: 6700xt 95-99% usage
CPU: 5600x, 60-65% usage

[cursive laurel]

Getting the same thing, i512600k and a 4070, 50% usage on both but still dropping to 40fps at times

[unborn stream]

Nvidia has a black friday sell still going on. same for intel.

[mint patrol]

4070 12gb, 7700x with a slight OC to 5ghz, 32gb DDR5 @ 6000mhz on my end. Game shouldn't even reach the 30s yet here we are 😩

[tacit drum]

maybe someone knows, if there is no CPU bottleneck, what GPU would handle 120+ fps in 2k?

[unborn stream]

Really?

[tame ermine]

Ig u have framegen off ?

[ebon epoch]

with framegen and supersampling you could probably get a 4060 to do it.

[tame ermine]

I don’t believe it either

[ebon epoch]

...in performance or ultra performance, but you could do it. Probably 3070 and up too, though idk.

[unborn stream]

I was about to say the same thing. I'm at an steady 190 FPS

[mint patrol]

Yes, really. I wish I could show you guys but it keeps crashing every >30 minutes 😩

[tacit drum]

yeahhh, have you seen the graphics comparisons between performance and DLAA mode for example?

[tame ermine]

But if he is runing 4k no framegen it’s very possible

[fallow lodge]

running 5900x and 4070ti and dlss performance i got a nice 120 150

[tame ermine]

Res ?

[ebon epoch]

I've been trying a whole heap of graphical configurations trying to have it run stable. DLAA didn't seem to be worth it.

[fallow lodge]

2560 1440

[ebon epoch]

I'm on quality dlss on 1440 and it's stable on 60, that's all I care about.

[fallow lodge]

100 150 in quality mostly limited by the cpu i think

[tame ermine]

I think u should be getting more fps but its about right if i do high texture quality epic i get 200fps dlss performance 1080p

[mint patrol]

At this point, I dont care if its poorly optimized. I just want to be able to play the game without crashing

Where's the wishgranter when you need it

[unborn stream]

Need to run Framegen.

[snow torrent]

DLAA is just a Anti-Aliasing method implemented in DLSS. It's not a upscale. Correct me if I'm wrong

[tame ermine]

It’s not

[unborn stream]

not really'

[tame ermine]

Dlaa doesn’t upscale like it does kinda but on the ai side

[snow torrent]

yeah that's what I thought

[tacit drum]

did you install any configs like people have sent here?

[sterile lodge]

i was told DLSS 3 is the way 🙂

[snow torrent]

it's just Anti-Aliasing using AI. To be honest I like it. Running a 4080 7800x3d. FG+DLAA avg fps 130

[tame ermine]

It’s kinda like how framegen works where it takes some random frame and shove it in so dlaa does that with jaggies take some upscaled image and puts it in

[mint patrol]

anyway, goodnight frens

[red radish]

not in here particularly but since stalker 2 came out the amount of awful advice from
people who know nothing about computers is pretty nuts just argued with a guy in a comment section who was spewing incorrect info about the game and optimization etc

[tame ermine]

Did he say UE5 sucks ?

[wintry needle]

"Confidently incorrect" 🤣

[snow torrent]

same people who say Metro looks better

[ebon epoch]

I strongly recommend https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/9

[red radish]

nah bro was just braindead i told another guy the only thing he probably needed to get the slightly better performance he wanted was to put the computer in game mode and optimize a few things and the guy just followed up with the dumbest shit ive ever heard

[visual terrace]

Game runs fine

[ebon epoch]

especially the lumen file that comes alongside the engine and input .inis. Make sure to install it correctly. It solved the freezing when in zalissia for me.

[tacit drum]

i've installed one of the randoms ones and had very strong texture pops ://
i'll check it, thanks!

[tame ermine]

Ok Mr 4090

[vapid wigeon]

I mean im 90909034 steps behind a 4090 with a 7900 XT and its fine too lol

This all boils down to a lot of stuff on peoples PC's really not doing too great with UE5 being as picky as it is more than the game being "Trash" as people claim.

[ebon epoch]

this one imo is the best one 'cause it doesn't have any glaring quality decrease on anything, and is the only one I've seen a tangible improvement with. Just make sure to install the lumen file as per the readme instructions.

[tame ermine]

What is runing fine to you mean ? For me it’s being able to pull 120+ fps without framegen at least on dlss quality

[vapid wigeon]

Mostly low 100 to 90's since the patches without FG and FSR, epic and ultra wide. That's fine for me. lol

[fallow lodge]

i would try the https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/17 way simpler

[tame ermine]

This is the first game to make me use framegen and for what ? It’s not fricking crysis just another generic UE5 title

[tacit drum]

thanks

[vapid wigeon]

Not like we need 120+ fps in this game, come on. If its lag free and smooth who cares as long as its above 60+

[snow torrent]

cyberpunk is still running only 60fps in 4k with a 4090 but Stalker is a trash game.. Seems logical.. i mean just play the game and have fun. if you can't play it, even with FrameGen and dlss/fsr it's maybe time to upgrade..

[tame ermine]

It’s not what we need but it’s what we should be getting

[vapid wigeon]

But they praise that game with FG and crap lmao makes no sense.

[tame ermine]

Idc about cyberpunk

[vapid wigeon]

No, not sure if you're aware or not but UE5 in its current state was not intended to keep the 4090's a breathing giant for ever. Its more advanced and gpu's will ALSO need to advance which come january they are, sooooo yeah.

Just like the 3090 ti was DOA and didnt keep up, the 4090 is now in its path next to do the same for future titles if you expect 120+ on everything

[ebon epoch]

-90s are and always have been marketed directly to people with more money than common sense

[vapid wigeon]

This is why I say its a waste really because there are no such things as "future proofing" which is why most people go with 4090's and such.

[tame ermine]

What’s so advanced in turning on a settings that makes u crap software ray tracing all over the damn place ? It’s like me saying look at my engine it’s so advanced it can render any texture in 4k

[unborn stream]

My friend bought the 5000 and he didn't read the description of it saying "NOT RECOMMENDED FOR GAMING"

[tame ermine]

Space marine 2 tried it and found out

[vapid wigeon]

Nothing is top dog for ever bud. Leave at that.

[unborn stream]

https://tenor.com/view/wheeze-laugh-gif-14359545

[tame ermine]

The games weathers and all look very pretty but the thing is fps drops not on that but at some crappy village it doesn’t make sense

[vapid wigeon]

It hardly drops for me but a good 5-8 fps if that. So its odd... They got some fixing to do for Nvidia thats for sure.

[ebon epoch]

almost certain that's due to lumen.

[vapid wigeon]

Why in hell would RNDA3 do much better with Lumen this time around vs 40 series is beyond me.

[fallen heart]

dlss fg uses AI too

[tame ermine]

That’s what I’m saying there is nothing advanced about turning on a switch and make ur engine fart software ray traced lights

[tame ermine]

Who said that ?

[fallen heart]

because lumen does not uses hardware calculation, is purely software, and AMD performs better in raster performances, extra note, the much larger memory bandwidth of AMD cards plays a role too

[surreal veldt]

Video games

[ebon epoch]

well, stalker 2 has had an understandably strained development process and they've used the tools provided by UE 5 which we all know weren't the best to begin with.

[vapid wigeon]

But I thought Lumen was a mix between RT and Raster, a hyrbid if you will. At least from what I read in UE5 about it.

[ebon epoch]

I'd say to give the devs a break but honestly there's nothing wrong with not playing for a year or five and come back whenever the devs and community have propped up the game to a technically acceptable level.

[tame ermine]

@vapid wigeon so basically all the money we waste on RTX is not even being utilized properly that’s what annoys me

[ebon epoch]

I've never used ray tracing with my RTX card. It's a gimmick and it performs awful.

[vapid wigeon]

I did.. lol I dont have these drops and stutters and issues with it like Nvidia does as have several others reported using RDNA3.

But yeah, essentially RTX was not utilized properly I guess, idk whats up. As I've told others though, Nvidia forums are rampant with complaints the past few months for 40 series big time...

[surreal veldt]

Stalker 2 runs better with dlss on change my mind

[fallen heart]

negative, All the calculations of Lumen rays (and in UE 5.5 is named MegaLights) are entirely software, async, but if wanted you can add HW RT to Unreal engine, its supported

[late ferry]

xxkingedwardxx has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[ebon epoch]

of course it will run better with dlss. That's the point of supersampling.

[fringe viper]

Hey can someone help me? im running a RTX 4070 super with a Ryzen 9 7900X3D and when i run the game my gpu usage does not go above 12%, its like capped or something but only in stalker 2

[fallen heart]

double check if windows runs the game on the performance gpu rather than low power mode

[tame ermine]

Yea same but the problem is if u have a game baked with lumen in ur kinda fffd both ways if ur nvidia user

[vapid wigeon]

Ah explains that then. I ran that UE5 titanic demo and out peformed a 4090 at the same res as me and the guy was in disblief. lol Had to show him a video and all, we had no idea why.

[fringe viper]

how do i do that

[vapid wigeon]

But seriously, check the forums for Nvidia and reddit. Lots of helpful people around kinda helping out nail whats wrong with UE5 and Nvidia right now.

[fallen heart]

Windows settings> System > Display> Graphics

[fringe viper]

its disabled

[tame ermine]

Nah brah ain’t no one got time for that lol I just don’t understand why is it so difficult to turn on the switch that says “HARDWARE LUMEN” but if it’s only on the newer UE5 then they have a pass

[vapid wigeon]

If using Nvidia app/overlay GF experience check for auto tuning on (TURN THAT OFF) and if you check your power settings make sure link state is off for the PCIE when using high performance

[fallen heart]

wdym disabled?

[tame ermine]

They dumbed it down so much for these adhd devs and they still can’t get it right 🤦‍♂️

[fringe viper]

ok so different setting mb but ye i added a new desktop app went to options then high performance

[fallen heart]

the desktop app must be stalker 2, set to high performance and try to run it again

[fringe viper]

ok will try now

[fallow lodge]

did not know that windows setting

[fallen heart]

its only necessary when the CPU has an iGPU, if it doesnt, wont do anything

[fringe viper]

still flatlining at 12%

[fallen heart]

how many frames?

[fringe viper]

40-30 at high everything

[vapid wigeon]

Did you see what I said above

[fallen heart]

how much watt is the gpu pulling?

[tame ermine]

Why off

[fringe viper]

its not a matter of watts i dont think. every other game is around 60-50% with balanced settings

[vapid wigeon]

It will literally keep your GPU pegged at low power usage at random. Seen it happen A LOT.

[fallen heart]

it does matter, a lot

[fringe viper]

where can i find auto tuning?

[tame ermine]

U mean the automatic tuner ? @vapid wigeon I have my gpu set to max performance at all times settings

[vapid wigeon]

Disable the auto tuner period, dont use it. See whats up then.

[edgy oriole]

"Automatically optimize games and applications" is that what you guys are talking about?

[fallen heart]

this should always be disabled

[tame ermine]

What am I supposed to see ? Like how will I notice the benifit is there a test I can run

[fringe viper]

@vapid wigeon im in the nvidia app and i dont see auto tuning

[tame ermine]

@fringe viper go to system then performance

[fallen heart]

open the ALT + Z overlay, or ALT R, i dont remember which one

[fringe viper]

yes where in that overlay then

[vapid wigeon]

Keep an eye on power usage of the GPU. If it starts to jump around from 99/100% to say, 60-80s repeatedly, there's your problem. Its the driver its self or the app doing so.

Mine stays 100% full time and its flawless, buuuut AMD so go figure.

[fringe viper]

auto tuning is off.....

[upper quail]

Anyone got issue on red forest? || I am already in rostok and have me fixed by doctor but the hallucination still there ||

[vapid wigeon]

Full specs & Windows version?

[fallen heart]

hold on, what are we talking about here and which GPU

[fringe viper]

where do i get that

[tame ermine]

Well I have a game I can test stalker gamma for some reason my gpu is at 50% there

[vapid wigeon]

Even in gamma usage should be higher, but I mentioned power usage not gpu utilization. BUT both do matter, so.

[fringe viper]

Windows 10 22H2, 4070 Super, B650 Gaming X AX, Ryzen 9 7900X3D 12-Core, 32gb Ram

[tame ermine]

How do I check power usage in % ?

[sleek stream]

I induce my own difficulty. Every time I head to camp I sell every consumables I don't ABSOLUTELY need and stash everything except equipped weapons with a wee bit of ammo for each. Feels good to walk around the zone at like 22 kilos, lootmaxxing ftw

[vapid wigeon]

Should show up in the Nvidia overlay or other similar apps. BUT overlay does cause issues with some peoples GPU's in general, its been verified for a lot but not all, so even that could be an issue. Even discords overlay was reported to have problems with UE5 running.

[tame ermine]

We have the same gpu what’s ur issue again ?

[fallen heart]

no, gamma is strictly single threaded game, its normal to not have the GPU maxed out

[fringe viper]

It literally refuses to use anything more than 12% in resource monitor when im playing

[sleek stream]

I can't even have instant replay on with S2 lol it starts lagging every two seconds

[vapid wigeon]

it makes use of 4 cores now. They're speaking on GPU usage not CPU. The GPU should be in full usage with gammas amount of graphic mods.

[tame ermine]

lol gamma crashed typical praise gork

[fallen heart]

again, its still heavily single threaded, it is normal to have scenarios where the gpu is not maxed out. You can use all the cores you have but if game threads are pipelined for single thread only, doesnt matter, you will always have dead times in the CPU pipeline

[fringe viper]

Ive done everything in the performance guide, updated gpu drivers, bios driver update, chipset update idk why its still bugging out for me

[tame ermine]

I don’t think gpu usage should be 100% in menus that’s dumb

[vapid wigeon]

Well, put it this way. GAMMA utilized my GPU fully basically full time, same with the wifes 4070 ti super, and my previous 6950 xt and 3090 too. lol

All while paired with a 7900X and 5900X for both systems.

[vapid wigeon]

lol it'll be in 100% in menus if the FPS is uncapped typically

[tame ermine]

even in menus ? i find it hard to believe that sounds kinda dumb

[vapid wigeon]

I always set a cap for my monitors refresh rate for everything really. Its just like in some games with loading screens itll show you're getting like 800+ FPS lol

[fallen heart]

its normal, even menus are 3D rendered and unless devs put an fps cap, either vsync on or they go all max usage

[wintry needle]

even the shader compilation screen is rendered, it's like 280 fps for me rn 🤣
it completely throws off my average fps, and it takes a while until it stabilises again

[sand nimbus]

Imagine still waiting for material warmup when it does nothing. Disable it in engine ini

[wintry needle]

I'm in the main menu, 308 fps stable 👀

[wintry needle]

last time I tried to apply Engine.ini the game didn't even start up

[vapid wigeon]

Do not disable that.......... it does A LOT. lol

[wintry needle]

I aint risking it, I don't care about one fecking minute lol, it doesn't take longer than that

[hybrid veldt]

it was a big deal when the game was crashing constantly because of the drivers or frame gen issue but doesn't bother me anymore

[vapid wigeon]

People who claim it takes a good 5+ minutes have gotta and I mean GOTTA BE LYING

[hybrid veldt]

they could also be trying to run the game on a potato

[wintry needle]

well in fairness sir
I'm on linux and first I did what I do with every new game, downloaded my offline installer from GOG and created a Bottles instance for it, with Bottles' own soda-7.09 or stg as runner
it took 15-17 minutes at every game start to do the bloody shaders
reinstalled the exact same version in Lutris with wine-ge-8-26, it's only a minute now
go figure 👀

and with the wild performance differences I'm reading about just here, forget reddit steam etc., I'm ready to believe anything

[tame ermine]

@vapid wigeon nah i just checked i get around 50 -40% usage on anomaly but i get around 350 fps anyways and besides if u are cpu limited which that game is crap when it come to multithreaded cpus you will not get 100% gpu usage cause gpu usage comes after cpu

[fallen heart]

when you are in the menu you are not cpu limited

[untold marsh]

15mn each game start? 😮 I guess because ge-8-26 has shader pre cache like proton with Steam and Bottles does not ?

[wintry needle]

do I remember right that with SoC I had to use an external program that forced it to use more than 1 core?

[tame ermine]

idk why but in the menu it caps for me at 280 to my screen hz ig but in game it goes above

[fallen heart]

vsync enabled

[tame ermine]

its disabled but what i did just now is set fps limiter to 500 and im getting 500 but regargless in the menu i get cpu1 usage at around 90%

im telling u that game is crap when it comes to cpus

[wintry needle]

probably the shader cache yes 👀
and yes, 15 min each start... I remember thinking it's gonna be a PITA starting this game every time, I may just have to keep it running perpetually until they fix this... but I managed to accidentally fix it via different runner

[spare coral]

Gamma made my gpu drivers crash

[tame ermine]

https://imgur.com/a/2usfTVn @fallen heart @vapid wigeon

[untold marsh]

Yea 😄 I remember the first time I launched the game and saw all the shader compilation, telling to myself "I hope it's not everytime" 😄

[fallen heart]

GAMMA is single threaded, disable core 0

[wintry needle]

especially since, just before getting into S2, I just finished replaying Shadow of the Tomb Raider on the "new" GPU (last I played it I was still on my RX 480) and the shader compilation in that is a few seconds at most
and here I'm like, 17 minutes? gtfo 🤣

[untold marsh]

Yea UE shader compilation is wild and done on the CPU. Opening an UE project is sometimes longer than compiling the engine itself from sources because of that lmao

[tame ermine]

nah bruh it just moves it to another core i can try disabling all cores and leaving just one also im on anomaly

[vapid wigeon]

wuh? I didn't mention anything about CPU usage. lol Y'all keep bringing that up.

[tame ermine]

lmfao nvm now my gpu usage went from high 50's to 30

[spare prairie]

is it normal that because of patch I'm downloading 123gb?

[lusty mason]

30 secs at most after initial 1 minute first time start up, older hardware can take ages though

[tame ermine]

the point is if you are cpu limited you wont get 100% usge on gpu

[wintry needle]

that has to be steam misreporting it man
the patch itself is about 12 GB

[spare prairie]

you sure mate? It's third time that it restarts from zero and it says 2 hours of downloading estimated

[lusty mason]

Patch is small 12gb, unpacking it is big but with nvme it's quick

[tame ermine]

the way to tell is if one of the cores is doing around 90% then ur bottlenecked

[vapid wigeon]

I had 100% usage on all the modded ones was all I said lol and never had limits.

[wintry needle]

it may make changes to 123 GB worth of data, but
OK let me put it this way, I'm on the GOG version and I dl the offline installers I don't like their Galaxy thing
the patch is 4 files, with 1 MB, 4 GB, 4 GB, 3.2 GB respectively

and installing the bloody patch took almost as long as installing the game itself!

[spare prairie]

I have an NVMe SSD and it's taking forever.....

[vapid wigeon]

BUT on Anomaly and Gamma both I had 4 and 8k texture mods lol

[tame ermine]

ah thats why

[lusty mason]

Point is you aren't downloading 100+gb again

[vapid wigeon]

If steam/gog etc is on another drive vs your game drive and that drive steam is on does its thing for UE5 updates... theres the issue. It will take AGES to unpack

[tame ermine]

so like u can still be cpu capped but if u force more graphics u can get to 100% usage but with deminished fps

[spare prairie]

but the speed of completing this depends on my downloading speed

[tame ermine]

so lets say u get 130 fps with 100% gpu usage if ur cpu wasent capped you would be getting 350

[lusty mason]

Then your install messed up somehow

[spare prairie]

nice

[wintry needle]

on Steam you have 2 lines on the downloads page, green is the network usage (the actual download), blue is the disk usage
is it really the green that takes that long and downloads that much?

[cursive fossil]

Playing with a 4060 full hd on high. the game changer was disable frame gen and setting fps limmit to 60. not experiencing any lags at all anymore

[lusty mason]

You tried verifiying the files to see if it finds it all again?

[spare prairie]

two lines goes in parallel with disc speed following the speed of downloading

[spare prairie]

from steam it says that I have stalker 2 installed with 152 gb

[white walrus]

You can try stalker 2 ultimate on nexus, it remove stutters

[lusty mason]

154.35gb is the patched size

[spare prairie]

if I pause the download and start it again it starts from zero with downloading

[wintry needle]

sorry I mixed them up, blue is network green is disk

[hybrid veldt]

frame gen eats a lot of vram

[spare prairie]

If I look at real space taken on disc from my PC it says 23gb....

[lusty mason]

Then yeah your install messed up and it is redownloading the game

[cursive fossil]

do you mean epic?

[maiden current]

this is interesting, i have a 4070ti super, wonder if i would expereince any change, i just get the odd jitter here and there, i play on epic setting frame uncapped with gen on

[spare prairie]

....nice

[cursive fossil]

trust me brother. framegen off dls3 off fraphics to high and enjoy stutter free gameplay

[sand nimbus]

Do you have any idea what you are talking about, do you know what material warmup means

[lusty mason]

I'd be more concerned if my drive is dying if it's losing 100gb worth of data, it a new drive or old? check it's health ect

[maiden current]

maxing fps to 60 is a rip tho

[vapid wigeon]

stop.........

[spare prairie]

is it worth deleting it from pc and reinstalling from zero? because if I pause the downloading - it starts from zero (I'm downloading it with hotspot)

[cursive fossil]

take it rather then 90 fps but stottering at 20 fps every now and then

[maiden current]

damn, i dont go below 60 fps in the first village

[sand nimbus]

Then stop saying it does alot. Because the warmup does absolutely nothing.

This is pc specs chat, not general chat, we dont Like stupidity around these parts. I can gladly take you to the general chat if you need assistance

[cursive fossil]

at rostok i played with 8fps

[maiden current]

are we very cpu or gpu intensive game

[lusty mason]

Right click the game, properties, installed files and verify integrity of game files and it'll start downloading what is missing, no need to uninstall

[wintry needle]

OK this is Satisfactory updating on Steam just now
https://imgur.com/a/CSuPiAV
see it downloaded 2.9 GB, but it's going to update 29.4 GB ?

[tame ermine]

BOTH

[cursive fossil]

cpu not at all tbh. my i7 chilling at 35%

[maiden current]

that actuslly a w

[charred sand]

Hey man

[sand nimbus]

That means bad optimization lmfao

[tame ermine]

check per core usage

[maiden current]

i have a ryzen 5600x3d it is a power on this game

[charred sand]

You remember yesterday about my bottleneck

[white walrus]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/205?tab=posts

[tame ermine]

wasup bro ur name looks familiar lol

[sand nimbus]

Barely any game uses above 80% cpu, cyberpunk does , btw. Very optimized game these days. And gorgeous looking

[maiden current]

tarkov ?😭

[tame ermine]

oh yea just discovered that im cpu bottlenecked on stalker gamma

[charred sand]

How does going from a 5600x to a Ryzen 9 5900x sound 😂

[vapid wigeon]

Grow up and get over your self pal. Easy. Now shut up. As if anybody here is using this chat for specs or has been.

[wintry needle]

sounds like the dream 🤣 I also sport a 5600x

[charred sand]

It's literally £210 on Amazon for me

[tame ermine]

idk much about these amd lineups u gotta ask red team

[charred sand]

12 CORES THO, smashes mine out the water apparently

[wintry needle]

let me have a peek 👀

[lusty mason]

Can you get your hands on a cheap 5800x3d? that is the best gaming cpu for zen 4 boards

[grave radish]

Huh, 450kb download on steam today. Stealth hotfix?

[spare prairie]

https://imgur.com/a/bRAeE7b it started downloading this after verifying integrity

[vapid wigeon]

Easily worth it lol a 5600X will bottleneck a lot more than a 5900x would in several scenarios.

[charred sand]

AMD Ryzen 9sets 5900X Processor (12Cores/24Threads, 105W DTP, Socket AM4, 70MB Cache, up to 4.8 GHz Max Boost, no cooler) https://amzn.eu/d/6WUsbZu

[wintry needle]

if I had to put money on it, I'd put it on shader cache update

[cursive fossil]

no idea how to do it. i have this nvidia overlay there it shows general ussage and its realy not more than 30-50% i would say

[grave radish]

Plus L3 cache! Good for certain CPU heavy games!

[vapid wigeon]

Or save a LITTLE more cash and get the 5700X3D people always forget about lol

[charred sand]

Can't unfortunately

[cursive fossil]

how to increase? can it support the g pu ?

[tame ermine]

it says max boost 4.8 ghz if you can overclock it to 5.5 should be a beast

[grave radish]

Shader cache update in what sense?

[charred sand]

Mine boosts to 4.7, literally double my cores

[lusty mason]

Yeah or 5700x3d or even 5600x3d, the vcache is king in games

[grave radish]

Yup, totally worth cutting a corner when you can OC in the difference.

[tame ermine]

yea i fallen to that trap as well before on gamma for example is says 5% usage but per core i get like 90-97%

[charred sand]

I can get 5700x3d 😉

[vapid wigeon]

DO NOT ADVISE THIS lol By default, the 5900x can hit around 80+C easily on liquid cooling, good one too at that depending on the game. OC'ing would easily require a high end 360 AIO or better for those.

[lusty mason]

Looks like it is reinstalling the entire game

[wintry needle]

Steam does this thing where it distributes already calculated shaders so your PC won't have to calculate them itself, idk much about it but I get them all the time

[cursive fossil]

interessting maybe msi afterburner will give more details

[vapid wigeon]

Then there ya have it! Money easily well spent 😄

[charred sand]

My CPU usage is low in S2, around 50-60

[tame ermine]

whats the problem with 80c ? tjmax is around 95 and besides i doubt he will get that from gaming i get 95c while running the hardest stress test on occt but doing fine in gaming
@cursive fossil yea thats what i used

[hollow sun]

depends where u are, it increases in areas with lots of ai

[grave radish]

Ahh, yeah, that makes sense. I've seen downloads of similar size but with no patch notes reported all the time. Thanks!

[charred sand]

Yeah true, few people said yesterday my CPU is bottlenecking, 5600x and 4070 super

[spare prairie]

wtf.... thank you anyway...

[grave radish]

Yeah, CPU isn't being utilised as much as it could be. Mine sits around 43-45% at all times, in towns or otherwise.

[white walrus]

Makada is a stubborn guy not open in opinion, do that with everybody ahaha, we have just don’t speak with who don’t accept change opinion

[tame ermine]

higher is not better in video games

[grave radish]

Yeah, it'll be bottlenecking somewhat, not hugely, but you can definitely get more out of that 4070S with a better CPU. Just moved to AM5 myself.

[vapid wigeon]

Nah, it'll hit 80s easily especially in stalker 2. lol Wifes using my old 5900x and it even reached up to 87, UE5 pushes CPU's big time. Shes got a pretty beefy AIO too.

Thats just AM4 for ya. Sure its got a max of around 95 but regardless, do you want it near max full time? I'd advise against that.

[charred sand]

So Ryzen 7 or 9? 5700x3d or 5900x

[grave radish]

When there's lots of AI around and CPU perf is being left on the table, yeah, IMO it is.

[cursive fossil]

can anyone else reccomend this nexus mod? https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/205?tab=posts

is it aplicable on steam games?

[tame ermine]

yea but the thing is there is no ai lol this aint a strategy game where everything is being calcualted all the time

[grave radish]

Go with the X3D, for sure. The 3D Cache is tech is killer. Totally worth it.

[hollow sun]

mmh depends i guess on what res u play, but yeah you are at the limit, i have a similar combo to you 5600x with a 6700xt, 5600x is a great cpu price to performanc

[white walrus]

Read the comments on nexus

[vapid wigeon]

Depends, if you got good cooling, go for it. Not many games will push the 5900X to be as hot as I said though, just SOME. The X3D is solid though, can't go wrong with it. But games ARE beginning to use more cores depending what you play. So just research based off that.

[grave radish]

More NPC actors means more AI, even if the AI is rudimentary, like just moving around and idle anims.

[vapid wigeon]

Don't worry, blocked them lmao

[charred sand]

The 9 is tomorrow, the 7 is Saturday 😭

[hollow sun]

move to cpus with AM5, but you will have to change ur MOBO too

[grave radish]

Go with the 5700X3D and wait the extra days, it'll be worth it!

[grave radish]

And RAM too. Very expensive upgrade. the 5700X3D is a good upgrade for them for now until they're ready to move forward to AM5!

[vapid wigeon]

When I left the 5900x for a 7900x YEAH that was the best thing ever. lol it boosts to 5.6 like a pro! I gained a solid 30-40 fps in several things I play. Plus its much cooler.

[tame ermine]

gta 5 on my cpu runs at 15% avarage usage aint no way this game has more complex ai anything above 15% is bs

[cursive fossil]

yes looks good. how can a patch of the size from 10kb fix all the stutter issues??

[white walrus]

Magic

[snow torrent]

5700x3d all day long

[hollow sun]

yep

[tame ermine]

@charred sand BTW whats ur ram and hard drive like ??

[charred sand]

I see many votes for the 5700x3d

[cursive fossil]

must be

[hollow sun]

sweet