pc-specs

[coral token]

AMD

[tawny thicket]

have you tried clearing the shader cache in the driver?

[coral token]

I did it already

gonna see if that compile works now

[tawny thicket]

it will take longer than usual

if it doesnt work you can also clear your cache manually : https://gist.github.com/ColesyM/f4ae33a70a3916643ab0860cdb5ed4ba

[coral token]

but why was it offloaded to gpu drivers so

[tawny thicket]

IHNI

[coral token]

so basically game at 1.1.3 was running on 1.0.0 shaders

[tawny thicket]

yeah probably

[coral token]

or somewhere between that

[tawny thicket]

but uhhh, did it work?

[coral token]

it loading

[tawny thicket]

will take a bit

[coral token]

slowly

[toxic lance]

Has the game received update 1.1.3 yet?*

[tawny thicket]

glad you edited it

[tawny thicket]

but yes it has

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1643320/STALKER_2_Heart_of_Chornobyl/

[toxic lance]

Google Translate... Sorry..

[tawny thicket]

ohhh ok,sorry

[toxic lance]

ty.
Can you tell me if there is a channel here in the Discord group that shows all the updates made to the game? Like a changelog.

[tawny thicket]

i dont think there is

[wintry needle]

they should all be here, read through the announcements
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1643320

[coral token]

game broke too much now ig

[quiet trellis]

Thank you I appreciate that ill try them this morning wish me luck😊

[grizzled drift]

Yeah it’s not perfect but should help iirc

[tawny thicket]

do you have an RTX card?

because that tweak includes Ray Reconstruction from DLSS

[quiet trellis]

No it's radeon

Yeah i don't have dlss or dlaa;-;

[tawny thicket]

then at least part of that tweak wont work

[grizzled drift]

Remove the NGX tweaks then

[tawny thicket]

and i dont know how much of a difference the rest of it makes

[quiet trellis]

Im currently using Xess as its doesn't having any ghosting and looks pretty good. It isn't the problem thou as no matter what upscaling I use its always there

[grizzled drift]

Yeah none of the upscalers will fix the noise

Even no upscaling won’t fix it

[tawny thicket]

(i prefer FSR but your choice (it comes down to personal prefrence))

[tawny thicket]

no upscaling = no AA in this game

[grizzled drift]

Yeah looks like poo

[tawny thicket]

and since LUMENs denoiser = TAA.............

[grizzled drift]

We get noisy shadows and reflections

[quiet trellis]

Issue with frs and taa is the ghosting I get, it's insane

[tawny thicket]

with FSR i find the ghosting to be fine but TAA ? NO NO NOO NO

[grizzled drift]

I prefer FSR NativeAA or DLAA personally but all depends on what you can run

[tawny thicket]

take a look : #📸┃screenshots_and_videos

when i'm playing the game with FSR i have to activly look for ghosting

[quiet trellis]

Yeah i will agree it's not nearly as bad as taa

[tawny thicket]

like with TAA even the grass has ghosting

and remember FSR,XeSS are at quality TSR is at 65% res scale (same as the quality preset) and TAA is at 100% AND LOOKS THE WORST

[quiet trellis]

Damn that sucks, maybe someday we'll get a massive upsacling patch

[late ferry]

brassy942 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[quiet trellis]

Also frame generation sucks, lags inventory and input delay plus ghosting to aiming down sights

[tawny thicket]

@faint musk my theory is its caused by the shader cache of the games previous version and as far as i know it only pops up for NVIDIA cards (i could be wrong) one possible solution is clearing the shader cache (in reaction to #📸┃screenshots_and_videos )

[tawny thicket]

it does depend on who you ask

if you ask me its great but i do get where you are coming from

[faint musk]

oh, srry i didnt notice the msg, im actually using AMD, i barely know this, im new at pc settings

[tawny thicket]

and i think it means that if you launch the game it will comile you shaders while you are playing

[tawny thicket]

oh, ok (so AMD)

try clearing the shader cache : open your GPU driver then Gaming-graphics-scroll down-reset shader cache

this will reset the shader cache of all your games (unfortunately)

[grizzled drift]

Yeah, I don’t have an issue with frame Gen either but I think it does feel rough if you’re not already getting above 60+ fps

[spare coral]

I read on reddit that someone caps the framerate at 30fps and uses frame gen to make the game feel smooth

[tawny thicket]

for me FG feels fine even when going 45-40 to 80 90

[grizzled drift]

Ah fair enough, just what I heard from others, haven’t tested myself

[tawny thicket]

it is smooth but it doesnt feel good

[agile harbor]

might be smooth but smooth like your mouse surface is coated in honey

[flat brook]

That’s… not how it works

[tawny thicket]

and thats with FSR FG

[spare coral]

Depends on how much you care about input lag or not
I feel like it gets decent enough if you are over 45 frames for frame gen
Anything below it feels like playing red dead redemption 2 on ps4

[spare coral]

It was a good laugh for me too

[tawny thicket]

LOL

[tawny thicket]

honey??? NOOOOO thats too sweet. more like VASALINE

[grizzled drift]

Yeah basically what I heard from my buddy who runs a 12600k/3070ti, the latency felt rough under 60 fps with frame gen

[agile harbor]

I might do another playthrough sooner if they drop hardware RT and ray reconstruction updates.

[flat brook]

Can’t vouch for FSR FG, but if you’re below 60fps native, that means without use of upscaling, input latency can and will be rough when you turn on DLSS FG. It gets even worse if you also have to use DLSS in conjunction to get near 60 FPS “native”

[tawny thicket]

i think FSR FG (i call it FS FG ) would have less latency since it doesnt cost as many base FPS as DL-FG

(but i havent tried DL-FG so im just speculating)

[high quarry]

All we really know is that its a game threadtimeout, waiting for RHIThread, and the GPU is involved.

RHI is just render hardware interface, in this case the DX12 one.

Something it is doing that is GPU specific takes so long/hangs in the GPU driver, that the main game thread gives up and throws an exception.

You may have seen the term PSO.
PSO isnt exactly shaders, shaders is just one of the biggest parts of it.
A pipeline state object is all the parameters and state needed to draw something, including the shader needed to do that. So its either something specific in a shader/s that causes it, or the combo of state + shader that causes it in a multithread env.

[hearty pollen]

This. 100% this. However, a fun little thing I stumbled upon here. 2077 fully maxed with rt, pt all bells and whistles gives ~25-30 fps @1440p with my rtx 4070. However, slapping on fg gives me ~60 fps and honest to god input latency is barely changed, fully playable. Completely different to the vast majority of games I've tested in a similar matter.

[flat brook]

Concur, Cyberpunk has the best implementation of FG and Reflex I’ve seen so far, I’m at all ultra + ultra RT, no PT, DLAA + FG at 120 FPS locked @ 3440x1440, 7.8ms render time and just under 10ms system/input latency, which is bonkers

[coral token]

Thanks for explanation

[hearty pollen]

yeah thats my experience so far too. So it is possible to make a solid package out of DLSS FG

[quiet trellis]

So where do I paste them, I've pasted them in a engine file on their own no other text and it didnt seem to work;-;

[high quarry]

Put this at the top
[/Script/Engine.RendererSettings]

[grizzled drift]

^

[pure kite]

I got questions what good settings for stalker 2 my I got MSI GeForce RTX 3060 VENTUS 2X 12G OC and Intel Core i5 10600KF processor I tried all on epic game running oke but I just want check its my first time doing this kind thing

[quiet trellis]

Are there any settings I need turned on or off in game? It still doesn't work sorry🙏

[high quarry]

Where did you put it?

[quiet trellis]

In config windows

[high quarry]

If you right click the file and go to properties, what does it say for Type of file:

[quiet trellis]

Engine.ini opens with notepad

Config settings

[grizzled drift]

Does it say it’s a text file or - okay

[high quarry]

config settings is correct

[grizzled drift]

Yeah

[quiet trellis]

Damn never mind, might just have to bite the bullet

[grizzled drift]

Still noisy?

[quiet trellis]

Yeah it's just noisy on the gun and windows/relfections it seems

Ill make a bug report to the devs

[pure kite]

Is it normal if I walk in town my game freeze for bit then back Normal ?

[high quarry]

Could be multiple things.
The mostly likely is compiling shader for the first time.
The next is its swapping textures into VRAM, and you have a CPU/RAM bottleneck.

Although if its a full freeze, you are very likely overflowing your VRAM or RAM and its waiting for disk.

[pure kite]

Oh I’m not sure I don’t know much about pc tech my friend told me put my settings all to epic and don’t worry about 😅

[tawny thicket]

"but I just want check its my first time doing this kind thing" first time doing what?

[pure kite]

It’s my first time playing on pc and stalker 2 I don’t know what right settings or graphics to put on so that why I’m asking

[high quarry]

In short, 3060 is a previous generation entry level card, and all Epic settings is rather optimistic.

[tawny thicket]

there is probably nothing the devs can do to fix an extremly noisy lighting system

[grizzled drift]

Yeah it’s a lumen/ray tracing issue

[quiet trellis]

I just wish they stuck with UE4, it sucks so much they switched to UE5

[pure kite]

Oh u didn’t know that my friend got me this told me it’s can run stalker 2 very well

[high quarry]

On top of that, the CPU is approaching the 5y old mark at which point it starts to struggle with newest demanding games at the highest settings, even though it can handle most games fine. There also an assumption in there you have 16GB of not very fast memory.

[quiet trellis]

Your friend might be a little bit of a Muppet😅

[pure kite]

I’m getting the feeling about as well but I just trust him because I don’t know nothing about pc tech

[high quarry]

its old entry level hardware, perhaps he was specifically talking about having 12GB card so it doesnt crawl to a stop completely.

[snow torrent]

https://imgur.com/a/c1iEtvY Updated Tweaks working great 😄

[pure kite]

Oh well I made at garbage but I want play game little better so yeah so there no setting for my pc spec?

[high quarry]

In case you didnt know, your GPU is from 2021, your CPU is from 2020.

[tawny thicket]

this is what i use http://pastie.org/p/3QyhNgrkcDIoQDoltzngN1 on my RX6600 build (about 20% slower) i get 30-45fps with FSR AA (native) 1080P

[high quarry]

Considering you have 12GB VRAM, you arent in an awful position, with lower settings and upscaling you could do ok.

[tawny thicket]

these completly override the settings in game and go into the engine.INI fille

[high quarry]

Try medium or low settings, and use DLSS quality at 1920x1080

[tawny thicket]

and i think you would be hard pressed to see the difference between this and EPIC preset

[tawny thicket]

i really dont think that is nescesarry

[pure kite]

I try epic at first time it went well but I should probably not be doing that with this pc build of the looks of it I’m going try medium

[high quarry]

Well, depends on expectations, its not gonna maintain 60 in high geometry environments.

[pure kite]

To be honest I just want game look nice and play nice my friend also told me turn on V-sync or something

[high quarry]

The things that affect visual most are:
Textures
Global Illumination
Post Processing
Anti Aliasing

Foliage too, but thats mostly density and pop in distance
Epic clouds are nice, but not ncessary

I would try with Textures High, Global Illumination High, Post Processing Medium, Anti Aliasing Medium, the rest low

[pure kite]

Oke im going try that see how it goes

[high quarry]

Further than that, its down to more customized rendering settings like people here are suggesting.

[pure kite]

Oh oké thanks for the help me with this so I should leave V-sync of

[tawny thicket]

depends

[high quarry]

Since lightning is on a 6600, I would take that Engine.ini as a first try at custom settings.

[pure kite]

Ok

[tawny thicket]

if you see screen tearing then turn it on otherwise leave it off

[tawny thicket]

(which is about 37% slower)

[high quarry]

and with 12GB VRAM, so unlikely to leak quickly/at all

[pure kite]

Ok

I’m now load my game with settings that you recommend @high quarry

[tawny thicket]

my tweak mostly focuses on lowering VRAM usage so the leaks dont destroy my FPS in a short period of time

though on a 12gb card there shouldnt be any major problems with VRAM

so the textures section can be deleted

[tawny thicket]

oh wait i was looking at the 3060TIE not the regular : https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-rx-6600.c3696 so its just 7% faster

[pure kite]

I just try the setting I got into fight it run Oke but everything else look like it’s beta testing 😅

[high quarry]

The biggest thing you will have noticed is Foliage, a lot less grass/bushes, and trees popping in.

[tawny thicket]

the one Colesy recomended?

[pure kite]

Yea

[high quarry]

Yeh, foliage would have been on low, so find a balance for that

[pure kite]

Yea character looks good my weapons as well but the world looks meh

[high quarry]

Low is:
Close pop in range
80% level of detail
60% tree distance
60% grass distance
50% grass density

[tawny thicket]

i'm kinda curious to see what my tweaks change in terms of visuals

[high quarry]

Medium is
Double the apparent range
90% level of detail
80% grass distance
70% tree distance
60% grass density

[pure kite]

What would happen if I put all my settings on high?

[tawny thicket]

also @pure kite if you are going to test my tweaks note that they also disable the shader compilation

[high quarry]

You will choke the 4060 fill rate

[tawny thicket]

HIGH preset 1080p FSR Q FG:OFF

wilderness
50 avg
34 1%
30 0.1%

first settlement
43 avg
22 1%
17 0.1%

pretty much maybe increase the all by 5 fps (at least)

[pure kite]

I never try or now how to do that I’m scary to break something

[high quarry]

Put Folaige to medium
Sky to High
Clouds to Epic
Fog to Medium
Reflections to High

see if it that is acceptable perf for you

[pure kite]

Oke I will see how that goes

[tawny thicket]

so you want to find an empty INI file in the config files (appdata-local-stalker2-saved-config-windows)

[high quarry]

Shadows to Medium too, if they are too jaggy/jittery

[pure kite]

I would does as my last resort

[tawny thicket]

duplicate it rename it to " Engine.INI " then isnert the tweaks

[high quarry]

The in game presets are kind of a wide general change that cant give you the peformance boost that custom .ini can

[pure kite]

Oh well let me first try recommendation you told me if that no go I try Engine.INI

[tawny thicket]

*my INI does have some poppin

[pure kite]

??

[tawny thicket]

what?

[pure kite]

Sorry I was confused for bit

[tawny thicket]

oh ok

[high quarry]

Reference:

GSC 1.1.3 Low Preset: https://gist.github.com/ColesyM/d3497f6d891b0eac1f73b1d093edfb14

GSC 1.1.3 Medium Preset: https://gist.github.com/ColesyM/85ba67411694ab0ca61bdaa051413c76

GSC 1.1.3 High Preset:
https://gist.github.com/ColesyM/f83d6e8a324d44a86fb1d0feb762bcbb

[tawny thicket]

ooffff there is a bigger difference than i thought... #📸┃screenshots_and_videos

[pure kite]

I try recommendation u think I should try tweaking that ini is that better option?

[tawny thicket]

you would get more FPS but..... after seeing what the high preset looks for the firs time in like 3 weeks...i would try something else first

[pure kite]

What that be ? Or should I wait for update or something

[tawny thicket]

DLSS Q high preset with maybe FG

but i do intend on trying out new tweaks

[pure kite]

I’m going try in bit

[high quarry]

you can try my 1.1.3 balanced with FSR Q

https://gist.github.com/ColesyM/4c9f699d65ab25e12e058b2db5b470b1

[tawny thicket]

i like my tweaks, they work well for me

but i might try them out

[high quarry]

side by side
https://imgsli.com/MzMwODUw

[tawny thicket]

FSR ultra quality = ?

[high quarry]

77%

instead of 67%

Thats 90fps -> 160fps on a 7800XT

[tawny thicket]

i'm thinking on buying a card like that

(but i'm gonna wait for RDNA4)

[spare coral]

Wait for the 9070 xt

[tawny thicket]

that will launch first (apparantly)

[high quarry]

You can generally get them for $480 / £500 / €520

So hopefully they drop if stock stays up

[tawny thicket]

the cheapest i found was for 181 000 HUF

(new)

[high quarry]

Thats already pretty cheap

[tawny thicket]

440 EUR

[high quarry]

The competitor is 4070 super, which is closer to 300k

[tawny thicket]

+shipping

[high quarry]

you pay shipping inside hungary?

ugh.

[tawny thicket]

i think the non super would be closer

[tawny thicket]

last time (when i bought my RX6600) i did

[high quarry]

I have this in my Emag basket still..
https://www.emag.hu/xfx-speedster-merc-310-amd-radeontm-rx-7900-xtx-black-edition-videokartya-24gb-gddr6-384-bit-rx-79xmercb9/pd/D0NJ1PYBM/

but .ro, where its 370k HUF

[tawny thicket]

it might be worth over the 4080 S (assuming the 4080 S costs 440K)

[high quarry]

we generally dont pay any delivery on stuff inside Romania with prices like that

4080 supers are closer to 500k here

[tawny thicket]

OH

[high quarry]

so cost 25% more than 7900xtx

[tawny thicket]

JEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZ would NEVER pay that much more for DLSS/DLAA

[high quarry]

nope 🙂

[tawny thicket]

(i guess there is better RT on that too but still not worth it)

i found it extremly ridiculos when hardware unboxed said : "the 4080 is better value than the RX 7900XTX because DLSS/DLAA + RT/PT" (well not the word by word thing they said but they said stuff like this all the time)

even though the price gap was 200 USD

[high quarry]

They take things like path tracing into account

where 7900xtx would need 1080 upscaled to even hit 60

[agile harbor]

Just what you value. Seeing real time PT in person is incredible in a game that does it well (playing Indiana Jones right now), having access to dual high quality encoders, DLSS, HDR for all online browser based video content. I'd pay $200 more in a heartbeat because those things are important to me.

[tawny thicket]

@high quarry what is the "high" setting for shading and global illumination?

[high quarry]

I hope AMD show some Indiana Jones numbers so it can actually be compared to 7900GRE with RT

https://gist.github.com/ColesyM/f83d6e8a324d44a86fb1d0feb762bcbb

Thats all the high defaults

[tawny thicket]

if they are confident about it i think they will

[tawny thicket]

thanks

[tawny thicket]

yeah AMD's RT cores HATE PT

[pure ibex]

5090 pcb just dropped

[glass vault]

16 gddr chips it seems makes sense for the 32gb total

Big ass die tho

[pure ibex]

the size alone confirms 512bit mem bus

[flint spoke]

@high quarry have any idea what engine setting would cause textures to go invisible randomly? happens if I mix your high settings with my current engine settings lol. def not running out of vram as even on low textures there is no difference.

[pure ibex]

its like double the size of the 4090 die almost

[high quarry]

Try increasing r.Streaming.PoolSize

and r.VT.PoolSizeScale.Group0

[flint spoke]

weird no luck

its strange, like it only happens if I look a particular direction lol

[cobalt scroll]

I am ready

[flint spoke]

mainly happens to gun but this one rock does it, one particular tree does it. lol, i tried nanite settings but nah

[high quarry]

if its happening to meshes (not textures), then it would be nanite

especially if you changed any of these:
r.Nanite.MaxCandidateClusters
r.Nanite.MaxVisibleClusters
r.Nanite.MaxNodes
r.Nanite.Streaming.NumInitialRootPages

[flint spoke]

ive changed those, but without your settings, it doesn't happen, so I don't think its those?

hmm

it might be those, weird.

[high quarry]

The thing affecting gun would mainly be r.Nanite.ViewMeshLODBias.* though

[flint spoke]

yeah i think ive almost narrowed it down here lets see

[high quarry]

but the above ones are global and affect everything

and if you set them too low, you will cause a crash

4am, off to bed, but would be interested to know

[flint spoke]

yup that was it

r.Nanite.MaxCandidateClusters
r.Nanite.MaxVisibleClusters
r.Nanite.MaxNodes these

whats happening is your settings allow higher nanite detail so I'm reaching the limit I had.

thanks for the help!

[hearty pollen]

Uggh, my game crashes in the duga sewers. Anyone experienced something similar?

[pure ibex]

just got a qd oled for christmas so im thinking maybe i need one too

[cobalt scroll]

I’ll be upgrading from my 4090

[grizzled drift]

Which one?

[grizzled drift]

Same, will be easy to sell (if you’re selling it)

[pure ibex]

alienware 3440x1440p one

hdr g sync ultimate

[grizzled drift]

Oh the DWF one, yeah I have that same panel but the Samsung one

Solid panels

[pure ibex]

nah

just DW

none F

[grizzled drift]

Oh okay

You get it on sale ?

[pure ibex]

yes

replaced my old alienware 3440x1440

[grizzled drift]

Nice! Yeah I got mine on Black Friday last year for $799

[pure ibex]

massive upgrade

[pure ibex]

im still praying they make a qd oled 3840x1600p monitor

[grizzled drift]

Right, I’m personally waiting for QD-OLED 34” or 39” 4K 240Hz with 1800R curve and preferably glossy or at least semi-gloss

[pure ibex]

nah 3840x1600 is better

way easier to run

and its the same number of pixels as 4k 16:9

[grizzled drift]

Yeah that’s true, the panels I was looking at are 5120 x 2160 lol

[pure ibex]

which is coll on paper till you realize even a 4090 is only driving that thing at 60hz

[grizzled drift]

Yeah exactly

Not wrong lol

[pure ibex]

3840x1600 is like the perfect middle resolution

5090 could totally drive that at 175hz or more

[grizzled drift]

Definitely

Are there any scheduled releases for a QD-OLED with that res?

[pure ibex]

sadly no but lg who made the qd oleds in my monitor

also made the 3840x1600 ones

[grizzled drift]

Ooo so they could possibly be working on a new one then hopefully

[pure ibex]

im just afraid they were not popular enough

[grizzled drift]

Yeah you’re probably right about that

Well I’ll try one out if one drops and add to the popularity, thanks for sharing that tid bit of info

[pure ibex]

yah no problem

here ill show you the one that does exist now

[grizzled drift]

Bet thanks

[pure ibex]

https://www.amazon.com/LG-38WN95C-W-Inch-Curved-Connectivity/dp/B0892MHG9H

there is also a 34in version

same res

let me find it

dang i guess not

seems i imagined it

bummer

[glass vault]

@pure ibex There is also a rumor that the 50 series will have hdmi 2.2 along side the announcement

[pure ibex]

hdmi 2.2 i sleep dp 2.1 real shit

[grizzled drift]

Damn that is nice, too bad not qdoled and higher refresh

[glass vault]

In theory it's gonna match/be better than do 2.1

[grizzled drift]

Facts

[glass vault]

Something 8k or 10k crap that barely anyone will use.

[pure ibex]

dp 2.1 can do like 8k at 120hz

or i think its even mroe

[glass vault]

Getting 4k240hz without compression is perfect

[pure ibex]

not that it actually matters

[glass vault]

Its 16k at 60

Obviously we need 16k gaming today

[pure ibex]

duh

of course

[grizzled drift]

Just get 4x4K monitors

Boom 16K

Has that whole cable length issue been addressed or is that still gonna be an issue?

[pure ibex]

not to my knowledge no

my current set up

uses 2 dp cables

connected together using an adapter

to get to 16.5 feet

[glass vault]

Never really had cable quality be an issue for me yet. Could be cheap cables being cheap cables

[grizzled drift]

Not so much quality, there was a Hardware Unboxed video about cable length issues with bandwidth for DP 2.1 iirc

Might be thinking of something else

[glass vault]

Not sure then

[grizzled drift]

https://youtu.be/WS5CAb6s5j8?si=xay-ElHSfGuUmhq7

Found it

[glass vault]

It might just be time to go to fiber optic cables. Similar to networking how getting high bandwidth must be on fiber optic for distance

[grizzled drift]

Yeah cause basically they can only make the cables certain lengths for specific bandwidth’s

[glass vault]

Guess it's the copper being the problem for these speeds

Yippie arc a380 for the homelab

[grizzled drift]

Damn there were more of those panels like 3 years ago but they definitely did not take off, that’s a bummer

[pure ibex]

yah...

[grizzled drift]

Seems like companies just opted for the more popular 3440x1440

But damn 160 vertical pixels would’ve been nice in the current market

And if it was at least 175hz or higher

[glass vault]

Why must every standard naming be so aids. We got usb 3.2 2x3 or 2x1 and gen 3.1 2x2 or 2x1. Just make it say dp2.1 80Gbps certified or 40gbps certified.

Too many optionals for the certification to be allowed like usb how it can have some but not all of the features

[hearty pollen]

https://imgur.com/a/457ucWM Sooo i get this evertime i touch a anamoly. Never seen this issue before. Gotta alt - f4 the game everytime. Also googling for blue screen anamoly gives a lot of hits, but not the correct type of blue screen sadly. Any ideas?

[flint spoke]

same

they broke something last patch i think

[hearty pollen]

F*ck

[summer pewter]

well I've been stuck turning the emitters to a certain npc for quite some time now. 😦

I have not gotten your issue though , is this with any anomaly?

[hearty pollen]

At least any in Duga.

[summer pewter]

I will go there tomorrow and see if this happens.

[ancient cedar]

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[summer pewter]

lock to 30fps

[hearty pollen]

eh, just graphical settings and maaaybe mods, but those are wonky in my opinion

[ancient cedar]

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[summer pewter]

I play with a 3060ti and a 11th gen i7 just fine but i gotta lock it to 30fps for a smooth experience.

[flint spoke]

stalker 2 optimized base is good, i'd avoid everything else imo

some engine ini settings can be really useful too

but yeah it can be sketch lol. a lot of these perf mods actually lower perf

[flint spoke]

i think just a specific grav anomaly

[summer pewter]

I also have hair + effects like explosions and gun fire on medium , the rest on high. which might help you aswell.

[hearty pollen]

I honestly assumed that setup could do like 60 fps with low med ish

[summer pewter]

@hearty pollen Maybe but id rather have a stutterless experience during big gun battles or visitings towns.

@hearty pollen Also plays mostly on high settings besides the 2 just fine, I think it went to 44 fps before the lock.

If someone could message me the location or tell me I would like to see if i get this with that anomaly.

[hearty pollen]

Seemingly any in duga currently. But it started with the gravi one in the quest tunnel, if that makes sense?

[hollow kettle]

I see a lot of folks talking about latest patches messing with performance pretty heavily. But I just logged in for first time in a week or so and the game is running great for me (knock on wood) sorry to hear others have issues. The game is using more of my cpu now and without frame Gen I am getting 60 fps in populated areas (: med/high settings dlss quality*

[flint perch]

can you go to rostok and see if your performance dip or not?

[hollow kettle]

I’m only just now leaving garbage I haven’t got that far in the game yet sorry :/ haven’t been playing very long

[flint perch]

ye, you'll feel it

[viral oyster]

I found my settings file (I was initially looking in the Xbox game folder) and it looks like all settings are low with a 720p resolution. While running the game hwmonitor said my 4060Ti GPU usage was 99% with 82% vram usage. CPU usage was fairly low though.

[ionic coral]

So... any fixes for memory leak at Rostok?
now its kernel32 constant crashes.
bruh.... this game is just unplayable

[tawny thicket]

aand what are the framerates?

( hope they are good bc 4060TIE should be more than enough for 720p)

[viral oyster]

Single digits, didn’t get a frame rate to display because my nvidia app can’t find the game I guess, and that’s what I use for figuring out what my frame rate is, but it was so low that the game was not playable.

[opal moss]

Hey guys!
I just redownloaded the game but i still can't play...
When i want to launch a steam window pops up saying:

STALKER 2 HoC is attempting to launch with optional parameters shown below:

Stalker2

If you did not request this launch, or do not understand these options, select Cancel
(Pressing cancel closes the launch attempt and puts me back to my library)

And when i press Continue:

An another error window pops up saying:

An error occurred while launching this game: Game alredy running

Any idea guys?

[tawny thicket]

oh

DAMMM

that is crazy

[opal moss]

India cluches again!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXxK25i89mo

(For others who have the same issue)

[viral oyster]

Right, I’d really like to be able to play this game, but I have no idea why my machine doesn’t get along with it when games like Dying Light 2, Cyberpunk, and Black Ops 6 run just fine in 1080p resolution with ray tracing enabled.

[tawny thicket]

yeah

there is most definatly wrong there

have you tried reinstalling GPU drivers?

[viral oyster]

I didn’t try reinstalling, but I did try playing the game both before and after installing the latest driver.

[opal moss]

No STALKER2 for me it seems, i can't press any buttons when the Shader compiling gets the error... oh well

[tawny thicket]

why do i never get these issues? well i guess im just lucky

[tawny thicket]

NVIDIA or AMD? (so far i have only seen this happen on NVIDIA cards)

[opal moss]

Nvidia RTX 2060

[tawny thicket]

hmmmm tinfoil hat tell me what do you think? hold on its back at the cave so it might not hear me

[tawny thicket]

do you have mods installed? (while i wait for my funny hat)

[grizzled drift]

This happened to me when I had the game running as Admin, once I disabled that it was all good

[grizzled drift]

Yeah I don’t experience most issues people have

[blazing barn]

hey had a quick question my fps drops from 140 to 1 i would move around for a couple mins then my fps goes to one and the game freezes then after a couple minutes the game goes back to normal my specs are 4080 super ryzen 7 7800x3d 32gb ram is there anyways to fix that or do i wait for a update?

[tawny thicket]

another anomaly i never heard of before

[tawny thicket]

does it happen even if you are standing still?

[blazing barn]

bro its so weird it would run normally i walk for a couple minutes game goes to 1 fps

[blazing barn]

yea at some times

[tawny thicket]

so its not just a really borked traversal stutter...

[blazing barn]

and its obv not my specs and this only happens in this game so idk what it is i would stand still at times and my game just drops to 1 fps

[tawny thicket]

SSD ˛/ HDD?

[blazing barn]

ssd

[tawny thicket]

i got no clue

[blazing barn]

i saw another person on steam community hub with my issue too but didnt really say much about it

[tawny thicket]

ooooohhhh hatty mc hatsting has just arrived and its telling me something

[blazing barn]

no mods installed or anything

[tawny thicket]

asfazgzksuhgaufd ...... "NVIDIA driver issue" my hat said (tinfoil hat conspiracy)

[blazing barn]

maybe that could be it but idk im on latest drivers

but the thing is this issue only happens on this game

[tawny thicket]

yeah i dont really think so either

but that is also in response to something else not your specific issue

[blazing barn]

ohhh ok

[tawny thicket]

i've seen that other thing happen to quite a few other people and i cant remember anyone on AMD having that issue

[grizzled drift]

That’s an odd one

It’s gotta be some settings somewhere, cause I have a 7800X3D and 4090 and have never once had my fps drop like that or any freezes

[blazing barn]

im playing on all max settings i got from 140 fps to just 1 randomly

[grizzled drift]

Yeah same, all epic, DLAA , and I get around 140 as well

Lemme look into it a bit for ya if I can

[blazing barn]

thank you!

[agile harbor]

Its not setting related

its the game being broken related

@blazing barn if they were looking, likely would see a correlation of VRAM or system RAM being fully utilized when this occurs.

[blazing barn]

so basically i just have to wait for a update

[grizzled drift]

Yeah I was gonna see if they had HWinfo64 installed to see what happens when his game freezes/drops fps

[blazing barn]

actually when this happens my gpu utilization goes to 0

[agile harbor]

Yes, but watch VRAM usage.

[grizzled drift]

and I mean I know the game breaks in ways that don't always make sense but pretty odd for him to have a similar PC as me and I've never had that issue

[blazing barn]

so basically i just have to wait for the game to be fixed or is there a mod on nexus that’ll fix it?

[agile harbor]

I have a 7800x3D/4090 system as well. In 115 hours that happened a handful of times.

[grizzled drift]

Your fps drops to 1 and freezes?

[agile harbor]

But I watch VRAM (and other stats) in realtime on another display so I can see it happening

[grizzled drift]

I've yet to have that happen in my 300 hrs

[agile harbor]

That was really early on, prior to a modified Engine.ini and and some tweaks with Special K.

[grizzled drift]

Very interesting

[agile harbor]

The game is just messy. I finished my S2 playthrough and now on to Indiana Jones and my god, what a polished and slick running game. And looks insane!

[grizzled drift]

Yeah that IDTech is nice

[blazing barn]

did you ever find a fix for it or no?

[grizzled drift]

I'm still looking, just yappin

[blazing barn]

ok thank you

[agile harbor]

There is no fix, and again it only occured 3-4 times in a 115 hour play through so it wasn't that much of an issue

[blazing barn]

it started happening after one of the updates couldn’t tell u which one tbh

[blazing barn]

for me it’s about every 3 minutes or so😭😭😭

[agile harbor]

Its a well documented issue here, btw. VRAM usage hits the limit, FPS drops to single digits, have to restart game.

[grizzled drift]

Yeah pretty much

[agile harbor]

I presumed it was so infrequent compared to others as I had a lot more VRAM to suck up

Every 3 minutes.. I'd be going for the full nuclear option. DDU as a start.

[grizzled drift]

Lol yeah same, 3 mins would piss me off

[grizzled drift]

Sent you a couple DMs

[past escarp]

So how much VRAM do u have? Cause i never had issue with VRAM

[agile harbor]

24GB. Its not an "issue with VRAM" in general terms, if you follow the conversation.

I don't have VRAM issues in anything.

However, this specific game has a well known and well documented bug that at random, FPS may drop to single digits out of no where and VRAM usage ( no matter how much you have) will be pegged to the maximum. This isn't normal gameplay, its a bug, but a widespread one.

Some, more often than others. First half of my playthrough it was every 3-4 hours of playtime

Second half it happened maybe once.

@past escarp

[past escarp]

Oh so thats what u've been talking abt. My friend has this issue, and its really annoying. And i'd like to add that when this bug happens - not only fps drops to single didgits, but his cpu usage is 100%, and gpu maybe 30-60%

[agile harbor]

I usually say to watch for what normal VRAM usage is when the game is running normally, then compare it to when this occurs. However, I realize that with 8GB card owners, its basically full all the time anyway.

So its a bit harder to tell for sure

[coral token]

stupid shader issue is back

[agile harbor]

TBH I don't think it ever went away

[coral token]

never had it before 1.1.3

[uneven portal]

welcome to the stalker 2 experience

[late ferry]

kerensk has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[coral token]

ah well

[past escarp]

He has 6Gb 2060

[glass vault]

Guess he didn't say shit

[glass vault]

https://youtu.be/aXnhKix16UQ?si=kGTTZNi41izbrMXf

The new megalights for UE5.5 looking like a major increase in performance

[silent jasper]

I think game is not on 5.5 version

iirc

[glass vault]

Nope it's 5.1 I believe

[slim nova]

I currently have the base version on Steam, does anyone know if purchasing the Ultimate version now will the additional content be added correctly?

[full charm]

Does anyone have the same issue when you open the inventory in the malachite building I get always an unlimited soundissue. After a short time this always causes my pc to freeze because my memory is 99% full.

[kindred galleon]

it's linked to a quest, I had like "weapon loading sounds" when I opened my inventory and it disappeared after I completed the quest with Scar

[full charm]

yes exactly this sound

[kindred galleon]

you need to complete the quest*

[full charm]

alright thanks!

[kindred galleon]

np^^

btw I've a lot of crashs around Rostok not sure why...

[slim nova]

me too

[grizzled drift]

Yeah its great and yes it's on 5.1

[slim nova]

its game bug they need fix this

[agile harbor]

I really want to see what happens when we get proper hardware RT support

[edgy oriole]

anyone have problems with pre 1.1 saves after the update? I'm not too far in the game but it would suck if I had to restart it tbh

[agile harbor]

Not personally, but some certainly have

[edgy oriole]

what are the circumstances that some had to restart?

[uneven portal]

major?

Is the same "optimization" technique of "lower the resolution/sample/rays, and accumulate a ton of past frames to stabilize

same shit whit ghosting and blury img

[edgy oriole]

how big is the performance boost from 1.1?

[uneven portal]

The demos are always slow or static, they never demonstrate the problems of using these technologies in games, in motion.

[uneven portal]

little to say, most of the improvements are in stability, for the people who had a poor performance the game will continue to have a poor performance.

[tawny thicket]

if we are talking GPU performance very little

but performance in settlements is way better

(for me its an extra 10fps

[uneven portal]

in my case it was 6 or so, ZALISSYA is still below 60 fps with 4080

[edgy oriole]

so the cpu bottleneck was allieviated a bit?

[uneven portal]

it would be interesting to see the point of view of the developers about the problems concerning the use of unreal engine, and above all if there really will be a clear improvement in performance, because there is no doubt that they have many things to fix and that a-life 2.0 is the main problem to solve. But they can't expect people to accept less than 60 fps in some areas with graphics like 4080 for a visual quality that is not worth it.

[grizzled drift]

Yeah same, it'd be really nice if they can/will update the UE version they're currently on (5.1), may be asking for a lot who knows but sure would be nice

[glass vault]

Its a doubling in the example. So yeah major. But who knows how it will transfer to a gaming scenario rather than a demo

I think it also had Hardware lumen. Which was still slower. It just seems likea improvement in the calculations

Doubling in some of the clips otherwise it was like a 25% improvement.

[tawny thicket]

waht CPU?

[uneven portal]

i7 13700k

[tawny thicket]

i pinned the wrong comment

[uneven portal]

XD

[tawny thicket]

sry ( i was going to pin this one)

[tawny thicket]

well good to note

[uneven portal]

around 60/70, in benchmarks with Ryzen 9 7950X3D about the same.

[agile harbor]

resolution?

[uneven portal]

1080p

only on zalissya

[agile harbor]

with a 13700k and 4080? Shoot, my man.

[uneven portal]

40/46 fps 4k aprox

[slim nova]

wht?

i have 14900K + 4090 and is there that much difference between 4080?

i got around 70FPS 4K

[uneven portal]

really just a demonstration of how badly zalissya is optimized. see for yourself and you will live it in the flesh

[agile harbor]

tbh there are a lot of variables to that not being mentioned

Once tuned, I was playing at 4K between 85 and 115fps.

[slim nova]

when playing in 4K I try to achieve 120FPS, luckily for me with DLSS Q + FG it is possible in S2

[uneven portal]

at least before the patch
zWORMz Gaming couldn't get much above 70 fps in zalissya at 1080p. whit a 4090

[agile harbor]

Custom Engine.ini, DLSS Quality, Frame gen

[slim nova]

same for me around 117 FPS max (RTSS lock) in 4K DLSS Q + FG

[silk pendant]

https://medal.tv/games/s-t-a-l-k-e-r-2-heart-of-chornobyl/clips/jmD2JbqYnpb6w99CN?invite=cr-MSxnM0IsMjQ5MDc0OTEs

anyone know whats causing this weird box effect around the edges?

[uneven portal]

is not a problem for me, but it clearly denotes many optimization problems, the average person is not going to pay thousands of euros to play a game.

[lucid basalt]

Does anyone feel that the memory leaks are in some way correlated to Discord streaming?

[agile harbor]

Nope

[slim nova]

Of course I completely agree with you here. I'm especially annoyed by the trees in the background that are loading and the stalkers' corpses that suddenly appear

[agile harbor]

I'll tell you what, throwing on an Ultra engine.ini from ColseyM's generator, all the pop-in went away.

[uneven portal]

apart from the trees many times the lighting does not render well, and everything looks blurry if you do not play in 1440p upwards

[slim nova]

By the way, have you seen how tragic Stalker looks in 4K without DLSS in full resolution? Even with AA on Epic the game looks like there is no AA at all xD

[uneven portal]

unreal engine be like

[glass vault]

Most games now days rely on AA sadly.

[slim nova]

I think it's because of Nanite

[agile harbor]

This specific game just needs work, all there is to say. No hate, I put in my 115 hours and completed it. Excited to do another playthrough after some updates.

[slim nova]

I feel exactly the same way

[agile harbor]

Its clear so far they've been primarily focusing on story/gamebreaking bugs which is fine

they'll get to performance at some point

[slim nova]

This game simply had to be released, because without the players' help, it would probably take another year or more to fix everything.

[agile harbor]

sad reality of AAA games at the moment

[uneven portal]

this technology would not improve the performance in a game like stalker 2, given how they have the lighting set up, it would simply improve the quality of the shadows, which is a good thing but nothing that would fix the real problem of the title.

[uneven portal]

I also think that if they wanted to do that, they could have given notice, been transparent and sold the game as if it were a pre-release, things that companies like the one that developed sons of the forest did.

[agile harbor]

I think its easier said than done when you're a AAA release that's also destined for consoles

and not a "relatively" small indie studio

[uneven portal]

As far as we know they released the game halfway because they didn't want to stress the developers and to take advantage of Christmas sales, that's all we have

[silk pendant]

i mean yeah its tough to develop a game when youre being bombed

def exusable imo

[glass vault]

im not speaking of quality mainly focused on performance. that would be the only selling point i would care about

[agile harbor]

In case not aware, GSC Game World relocted to Prague in 2022

[silk pendant]

oh thats good
havent kept up on the news very much

[uneven portal]

my bad I said quality and I meant performance.

[glass vault]

still probably hard to focus on game development when their homeland was being attacked.

[agile harbor]

For sure, just throwing that out there.

[silk pendant]

i wouldnt have any complaints about performance if it werent for upscaling being so awful
its blurry and grainy but i cant run native aa and still get good frames

[glass vault]

i mean it won't instantly fix the performance issues but it can still be a way to allow people who have worse hardware to still enjoy the game

[flat brook]

Stress and fear of losing your home and loved ones stays with you, no matter where you go

[uneven portal]

And that doesn't make it crueler? that a multi-million dollar industry forced to finish a game in such a hurry, they lengthen the game every 2 months.

[silk pendant]

i mean to be fair it doesnt make sense to continuously delay a game

youll get duke nukem-itis

[uneven portal]

I find it curious that they say they are releasing the game earlier so as not to stress the developers, delaying it more than 2 months is not realistic?

[glass vault]

this wasn't built by ubisoft or any big name its by GSC game world which i don't believe is owned by any big name which could help via money/experience

[silk pendant]

if you delay too long you have to keep updating your code to accomodate new tech, plus you cant make much income without the game being released. the workload piles up exponentially the longer the release is delayed

[uneven portal]

I'm quite skeptical about that especially when they delayed the game with unrealistic dates more than 4 times.

[glass vault]

i feel like one of the reasons didn't delay the game again was because fear it may never come out as a result. im glad it came out even in its unpolished state. rather have the game be in this state than never recieve it ever

[uneven portal]

every time I think the creator of baldurs gate is more and more right, in his speech at the game awards.

[glass vault]

I'm more giving towards GSC game world. But if it was rockstar,Unisoft, Activision there would be no reason since they are giants

[uneven portal]

I think they've been backed by xbox for a while, maybe that gives clues, and I tend to doubt them given the 2005 employee history and the 2011 shutdown

[raw sleet]

GTA6 might have released next year, like all the other pubs, they probably didn't want to release at same time and lose potential sales

[glass vault]

There is also that. That's why borderlands 4 is releasing when they are scared of other big names

[uneven portal]

yes, but in that case you think in numbers not in people and there the criticism

it's all about market shares

[raw sleet]

Yeah, not so much about the audience outside of the shareholders.. meh, that's partially why Ubi is in the tank, that and their games went from ok to suck

[grizzled drift]

https://imgur.com/a/RED5CQT
At least 70 class cards are getting more VRAM

everyone knew 5060 would still be 8gb

[uneven portal]

according to some leaked info it seems that amd will screw up again with the prices, at this point it seems that they are in agreement with nvidia, they take out garbage prices and lower them when nobody wants to buy graphics cards anymore

[tawny thicket]

like the "9070 XT " which is a STUPID name BTW is going to cost 650 REALLY???? so all its gonna be is a relaunch of the GRE with a bit better RT perf and AI upscaling (which they might even port back to RDNA3)

[uneven portal]

it feels like they screwed up on purpose at this point, that's why I trust 0 in all companies, in the end even intel will bring better graphics if they continue with this nonsense.

[tawny thicket]

intel will become a GPU company

[lucid basalt]

anyone else struggling with a 4070 super? ):

[uneven portal]

dw all the people

[lucid basalt]

gotcha

I wish everybody all the best

[glass vault]

They will become a copy of AMD how they are in both markets but their CPUs are left behind

[broken sage]

Please say your lying 😭
I was hoping for 500 so I could lowball people with 40 series on facebook marketplace after the 9k series comes out

[tawny thicket]

the leaks say soooo

but right now i DEARLY HOPE that the leaks are inacurate

[snow torrent]

i am using the even longer days mod in the 4hours variant. Its only raining the whole day. Is someone else experiencing this?

[tawny thicket]

and that the leakers are full of SH.T

which they ususally are

[glass vault]

spec wise they usually are pretty close pricing in always ballpark. i would say 650$ as a worst case scenario

[plucky quail]

That would be ass but where did you hear that?

650? Really?

Also the name is not really Ass its even better. The ones before where sounding like the CPUs.

[late ferry]

vladmihail has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[uneven portal]

it is going to happen as it happened with the 7000 series, they come out with ***** prices, they lower them too late and already lost sales

[snow torrent]

game runs better at 4k for me then at 1440p. I think because the fps are more stable. Frametimes feel much smoother

[snow torrent]

@opaque grail I'm not joking 😂

[opaque grail]

i believe in you. thats crazy mate. i tested with and without frame gen - without frame gen on 2k but with dlss on (quality) the game is unstable and fps/99perc fps/gpu usage in % - all of those three are jumping all around everywhere. unstable really much. with frame gen on the fps is pretty stable but then there are crashes due memory leaks and ofc the input lag.

[snow torrent]

absolutely! same for me. on 4k I'm hovering around 70-90fps with just Dlss quality. frametimes are like 6-10. feels very good

[opaque grail]

lol i need to buy 4k monitor just for stalker then i guess haha. what is your gpu by the way?

[snow torrent]

I just use DSR from the nvidia control panel. Do have a nvidia?

I'm on a 4080 founders edition

7800x3d

[opaque grail]

yeah i have 3070 tho. makes sense why you are getting good stable fps then, your gpu is really strong enough for that. mine sadly now 😄

[snow torrent]

ah ok I see. but maybe give it a try with the DSR factors in the control panel in global settings. game is mostly cpu bound so at least you could try

[old crescent]

Hey a friend has a 3060 ti and bought Stalker 2 today and it went relativ smoth until he got to the village and at this moment everything got south has someone some tips?

[plucky quail]

Yea he has 8Gb He needs to play on Low

[snow torrent]

@plucky quail what's the problem?

[plucky quail]

?

[old crescent]

Yes he has theres is also a pop up about a shader warm up

[snow torrent]

Ur reaction

[plucky quail]

Bruh

The 4080 FE is bad deal if you bought it for 1200$ or you bought it 2nd hand what makes it better.

[fathom nest]

yea shiping keeps crashing

[plucky quail]

Shiping?

[snow torrent]

what are you talking about? 🤣 it's a great card and I don't want AMD cards. Got it since realase

[plucky quail]

Ok its till bad value

Either buy 4090 or anything else

[snow torrent]

what should I have get instead?

4090 was about 700 Euro more and I'm not Richie rich buddy

[plucky quail]

Least the 4090 gives not the best Price to performance but it will be the fastest card. And if you are not Richie sounds even worst to buy the 4080

[snow torrent]

then tell me what I I should have bought

[plucky quail]

Either 7900XTX which is Faster and 200$ cheaper anything else would have been bad the 4070TI you could also not buy cus it had also bad value.

Maybe 4070

If you really need Nvidia

Else like i said 4090 Would even had been a better option cus you get the best card out of all.

But at the end no card is bad just bad value

[snow torrent]

no thanks to bad drivers. friend has a 7800xt and always crashed drivers. Not gonna talk about Ray Tracing performance and fsr quality. 4080 is way faster than the 4070. I'm aware that the 4090 is the best card 🤣 payed around 1080 Euro for the 4080 and selled my 3080ti before so it wasn't that bad for me

what's your system btw?

Glaube du bist deutscher oder?

[plucky quail]

Dont know what your bud is doing but if he has problems its on him. AMD is same with Nvidia with drivers. If you play RT games good but there are only handfull of games that are good looking with RT (RT that your 4080 can run. Not like Pathtracing.) If you play with 4K with FSR its really not bad. Good that you got it for 1080€ its not bad pricing but sounds more that you got it later then first launch. No way you got a 4080 FE that low. Even the 4080Super MSRP 1000€ cost sill over 1000€

[plucky quail]

Sí, señor

[plucky quail]

Außerdem dein freund kann mal DDU machen wenn es da immer noch Probleme gibt wenn es nicht hilft dann liegt das woanders

[snow torrent]

Alles schon mehrmals gemacht. Auch im safemode. System ist komplett neu. Benchmark scores sind absolut normal, Temps sind in Ordnung. kriegt halt immer mal wieder Treiber timeouts. Ist aber kein unbekanntes Problem.. Naja nach 2 Jahren ist mir ein schlechter Deal auch relativ egal 🤣 ich hab spaß und fertig.

[plucky quail]

hat er eine Intel CPU oder AMD?

[snow torrent]

7700x

tuf b650 gaming plus, 32gb 6000 c32

[plucky quail]

Habt ihr auch alter "sicherere" treiber geladen?

[snow torrent]

Jo

[plucky quail]

Und immer noch nix?

[agile cipher]

im buying 4K 200+ Hz monitors soon

[snow torrent]

haben alles durch. bios updates, Cmos reset, system neu aufgesetzt

[agile cipher]

For my 4080 SUPER

[plucky quail]

Z.B. ich hatte mit meine I9 13900K auch treiber timeouts aber es war am ende nicht die GPU sondern CPU.

[snow torrent]

einzige ist mal anderen RAM probieren.. Auch wenn der nicht direkt mit der gpu zutun hat

achso

[plucky quail]

Aber intel hatte problem gemacht war schlechte CPU.

[snow torrent]

temps?

[plucky quail]

Hat er es selber gebaut?

[snow torrent]

ich habe gebaut. mach das auch schon einige Tage 😅

[plucky quail]

"Normale intel Bereich"

[plucky quail]

Kein Kable oder irgendwas vergessen. z.b. Kable zur CPU. Passieren halt immer Fehler, auch den besten von uns

[snow torrent]

das ist mir einmal passiert dass ich beim Strom für cpu einen vergessen habe danach nie wieder 🤣

[plucky quail]

Habt ihr stresstest gemacht? Kam da was? CPU GPU RAM? Wenn was gefunden wird kann man es wieder zurück senden. Besser solange man es kann. Passiert das manche Sachen trotzdem fehlerhaft sind.

[plucky quail]

Ja habe auch bei meinem 3 bau mal vergessen drann zu machen nach dem es fertig war. Leider war es schwer ans Anschluss zu kommen dann musste ich alles wieder rausnehmen.

[snow torrent]

Ja furmark und prime95

[plucky quail]

Nix?

[snow torrent]

nope Leider nicht

[plucky quail]

Wenn ihr 2 Stunden getestet habt dann habe ich auch keine Ahnung. Seltsam. Ich muss selbe jetzt meine CPU wieder zurück senden weil es aussieht als hat die wieder probleme.

[opaque grail]

this dude is a troll and everything he wrote in this chat was just pure nonsense lol.

[opaque grail]

im jealous lol

[opaque grail]

jealoussss

[plucky quail]

?

Much that you are adding here

[hollow kettle]

Compiling shaders loads so much faster for me after recent patches it’s insane. Used to take 45s - 60s or so. Took like 20s this time

[sand nimbus]

Deutsche omfg

[snow torrent]

any problem with that?

[sand nimbus]

Cringe bruder, richtig cringe

[wet laurel]

beerdigt.

[snow torrent]

Was zur Hölle willst du von mir? 🤣 Ganze Sätze schreiben scheint nicht so dein Ding zu sein?

[sand nimbus]

Ja das glaub ich dir gerne, so leude, stalker 2 is fertig runtergeladne, wolln wir ne runde startne?

[opaque grail]

yo pradekim visi kalbet savo gimtosiom kalbom

[robust ember]

So, after updating to 1.1.3, shader compiling is a pain in the neck. Does this happen to everyone?

I boot the game, shaders compile, it gets to the end and stays there for a bit, then I get an error message saying shaders couldn't compile all the way and that I might experience stutters when playing the game. I say ok, then game prompts to press any key to continue, but no matter what I press, nothing happens :v

I kill the process and restart the game. Several times. 1/5 times it'll just boot into the menu and let me play. The other times it's the same as before

wtf lol

[snow torrent]

Kai kurie žmonės tiesiog negali padaryti daugiau.

[opaque grail]

i wonder what translator gave you from what i said and what you were trying to respond because your lithuanian answer makes no sense xD

[snow torrent]

delete your shader cache in windows

[snow torrent]

ah men I thought deepl.com is a good thing to use 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I've written that some people's horizont doesn't allow them to write or speak different languages

[worn tapir]

Yeah, I'm using no shaderwarmup mod

[uneven portal]

I also use deepl, but only to correct some things, it tends to be quite wrong

I miss the Spanish-speaking chat

[lavish mason]

Didn't the newest patch disable the shader compliation on start up nonsense?
Yet here I am again looking at that watercolour

[wet laurel]

psssshhhhh

[late ferry]

vladmihail has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[uneven portal]

I swear it's a fu***** engine, the worst thing is that they only use it because it's cheaper and easier to find people to work on it

[proper trout]

"some people just cant do more" basically

[opaque grail]

i dont even know that one lol. but sorry no, the sentence didnt make any sense to what i said 😄

[opaque grail]

even that the game crashes often in my case, but never did while compiling tho. not before not after updates too.

[opaque grail]

what do you mean by "horizont doesnt allow?"

[opaque grail]

if yall talking about knowing only native language oh well english is really not so hard to learn it tho. if yall start speaking native, imma speak my native too for sure xD

[proper trout]

as irgi lietuvis lol

[robust ember]

yeh i just tried flushing directx shader cache through disk clean tool. Booted the game, crashed due to compilation timeout. Booted again, game skipped shader compilation and went straight to menu.

[agile harbor]

For me, it failed/stalled after 1.1.3, but the next startup you get this popup and it skips it. https://i.imgur.com/fOyg2AG.png

[lavish mason]

yeah got that, had a little chuckle to myself

so unexpected behavour they have a popup workaround!

[opaque grail]

nu tai va galesim lietuviskai bazarint jei cia kiti vokiskai prades sneket 😄

[opaque grail]

this never happened to me. yet... its enough that the game while its loaded and running crashed million times at this point , if it would start crashing on menu/loading screen like that, oh boy i would be pissed 😄

[robust ember]

Time goes on, and GSC may try to avoid it, but the slav jank never truly leaves the zone

[stable kite]

same here, almost instantly since latest patches

[midnight maple]

i must say before all patches come my game was better playable than yet, i had no compile problems, no game crashes ect. and after patches the problems are present. that sucks a bit. the compile problem is ok for now but my game crash yet i think because my program say 32gb of 32gb Ram are in use..never had this before.

[agile harbor]

It should not say that all the time

however a known issue is all system will fill up resulting in a lockup and crash

[lavish mason]

And then I come to find every time I start the game up it still does the compiling shaders attempt, hangs and then the error message when restarting. Why not just fcking fail once? Enjoyable 5 minutes of time waste every time I open this nonsense

[flat brook]

Leak from an Australian PC shop puts the purchase price of the 5080 at 2500 AUS, MSRP set at 2799 AUS, so around 1700 USD converted including tax. Jesus Christ…

[tired turret]

i don't knwo why, but IG when the game crash 4/5 times a rows, before crash i press F10 for go windowed, and again to go back to ful screen, the game doens't crash and i can play like 5/6 hours

with like 55/60 fps in 1440p high

[worthy bay]

For Gamepass, where are the game saves located? I tried in the Packages folder, found *.sav files.. replaced those with a save file pre-crash, but when I came back in it would only ever load the save files that were from pre-crash.

[plucky quail]

That’s a pre April joke from Nvidia XD

5090 3000$????

Before I was like yea 2000$ for the 5090 would make Sense but 5080 makes my guess much higher

[somber sorrel]

Wait for the tariffs in the US to add another 30-40%, EU will finally have cheaper components

[plucky quail]

Biggest question would be how much are they gonna sell the 5060 with only 8gb for.

[somber sorrel]

The reality is they can even ask 400 for it and ppl will buy it

[grizzled drift]

Nah 5090 will be around $1800 - 2100 USD

[somber sorrel]

You would be surprised how many people are not willing to budge from nvidia, and while some reasons are legit (bad driver support from AMD, upscaling still lacking etc etc) it mostly is just ppl being arrogant and stuborn

[flat brook]

Can’t speak for the credibility of course, but the leaks seem pretty accurate as it’s from shop inventory and their sales system

[little flax]

Well one thing is the MSRP but the other real retail price - very few 40xx series cards sold for the MSRP or closte to it.

In most EU countries the price in stores was 500-1000 EUR above the price. Don't think I have ever seen a 4090 under 2000 EUR in stores.

[worthy bay]

I had an AMD GPU in the past and it's the "bad driver support from AMD" bad customer service and mediocre performance compared to NVIDIA is what keeps me going to NVIDIA

[little flax]

My experience with 2080Ti was bad from driver and software support - so milage will vary. My experience with 7900XTX has been good - with drivers and all.

[grizzled drift]

Yeah a friend and I built new PCs a couple years ago and he went AMD and I went Nvidia , I had no issues, he had a plethora of issues with his GPU

Not saying AMD is bad by any means but seeing a friend go thru it first hand didn’t make me wanna go amd GPU lol

[somber sorrel]

I owned one NVIDIA gpu in my life and it managed to fry my 800W PSU somehow

[grizzled drift]

Geezus lol

[somber sorrel]

Never looked back, never had problems with AMD but I definitely see a lot of ppl complain mostly about drivers and software issues

[grizzled drift]

Yeah

I almost went AMD GPU this gen instead of Nvidia

[somber sorrel]

They also tend to be late with game ready drivers even on partnered games, but those drivers never made too much difference to me

[worthy bay]

my biggest issue right now is not knowing where STALKER 2 game save files are supposed to be for XBOX app to register/sync with them since every crash I had kept making me lose progress. So right now i either start over after 60+ hours of gameplay or figure out where to put my last backed up save file so i can continue my progression.

[uneven portal]

Nvidia really isn't what it used to be anymore, and AMD is still the same as it always was, so we're all screwed. Intel is selling a good GPU, but it's just to impress investors. That card performs like a 4060 but has a chip as big as a 4070. They're all taking advantage of us.

[plucky quail]

You would even not believe that. 5080 at 1700$ and the 5090 Will have double the cores so no way there is a 1800-2100$

[grizzled drift]

We'll see

for the record not saying anyone is right or wrong as no one literally knows, just my speculation

[uneven portal]

I only know that I will still buy an nvidia, just because the power consumption/quality when using specialized programs is better.

it's a * to have no other option, if i go with amd i pay 190 bucks more for electricity every 2 years.

[grizzled drift]

Ah where you from?

[plucky quail]

Yea was also just guess of the pricing but it does not really look like 1800$

[uneven portal]

romania but live in spain (socialism be like)

[grizzled drift]

Ah yeah lol

[grizzled drift]

Yeah I feel you, just on the more optimistic side I guess lol

[plucky quail]

No way they charge 0.80 kwh

Well not even that. Must be even more

[uneven portal]

We have paid 600 euros in a month for 4 people, and only I use the computer.

[plucky quail]

600 Extra or 600 overall

[uneven portal]

overall

we earn on average 1500 euros, it hurts a little bit

[plucky quail]

Cus here i would need to have 7900XTX for 10 Years to get in to the minus

I live in germany btw.

[uneven portal]

look all the electric companies are in collusion here with the government, they change (the price of electricity) when it suits them, honestly I would buy solar panels but the neighbors don't want to participate.

[plucky quail]

Lol sounds like germany

[uneven portal]

Europe in general I think at this point

i have to go up from catalonia to andorra (a country next to spain) to buy my gpu's

[plucky quail]

Uh? aint you living in Romania?

[uneven portal]

.

[plucky quail]

Oh no saw the massage right now

They sell GPUs there?

[uneven portal]

||i usually go to andorra because they don't pay as many taxes as in spain and ||it's only 2 hours away by car, the gasoline cost is worth it.

it is much cheaper for me to buy electronics, clothing and food.

[tired turret]

same for france

[plucky quail]

How much do you guys need to pay for 1 kwh?

[uneven portal]

€0.2 i think

[wild steeple]

Germany its 0.34 cents

Operating a grow tent is a costly operation here haha

[plucky quail]

My place cost 0.40€

[tired turret]

0.27 actually in france

[serene meteor]

intel i3220
nvidia gt 770
7 gb ram
24.6 terabyte hdd

[glass vault]

.13usd

[plucky quail]

You guys are running cheap.

[pseudo blade]

Hey Germans. Bring back your nuclear power plants!

[half pewter]

anyone know what settings to use to get 60fps on an rtx 3080? My game is running at 45fps and lower at the lowest settings w dlss at ultra performance.

[slate anvil]

+1

[paper pike]

Hmmmm I run 4070 super without any issues

[slim nova]

what CPU and what resolution?

[long vessel]

So there's other factors outside your GPU of choice.

What is your CPU and RAM, and what resolution are you running?

On an i5 10500, 32gb 3600MHz DDR4 and an RTX2080 @ 1080p, all settings on high, DLSS on balanced... I'm getting an average range of 55 to 120fps depending on location and time of day.

45fps and under with all settings on low and DLSS on Ultra Performance seems like there's something else cockblocking your performance.

[tawny thicket]

what res? what CPU ? with my GPU ( RX 6600 waaaay slower ) i can get away with 1080p qualtiy upscale (on the high preset) and get 50 or so fps and if i use my INI tweaks i get 60 or so with the same settings

[tawny thicket]

the only people that think nuclear is bad have NO clue

[covert wolf]

nuclear "power" is nothing more than a byproduct of developing nuclear weapons, pandora's box people don't know what to do about

[tawny thicket]

it is a byproduct but its a usefull one

[covert wolf]

useful to destroy ecosystems and life for centuries

[tawny thicket]

would you rather : have a few cities uninhabitable OR not be able to walk outside and BREATh in a few (30) years ?

[covert wolf]

what an idiot

[tawny thicket]

oh we agree😂

anyway i dont want to have an argument on this

[glass vault]

Scorched earth tactics for the win

I like how most power generation technologies just boils water.

[tawny thicket]

except oil,natural gas,wind,biomass and hydro

[glass vault]

Does oil and natural gas just burn to make steam. Hydro and wind are definitely not boiling water. Not sure about biomass

[tawny thicket]

ohh ok, natural gas and oil do just make steam

and so does biomass

[glass vault]

Boil, boil toil and trouble type power generation

[tawny thicket]

they are the deadly type

[glass vault]

I will drink the reactor water. Bonus metal taste

[tawny thicket]

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-production-per-twh

[tawny thicket]

WUT

[glass vault]

The metal flavor is the spicy water touch

[tawny thicket]

ahh Spicey

wouldnt do it though IDK why

[glass vault]

Pretty sure the worse part is the water next to the tank if you do the top of the tank it should be fine

[tawny thicket]

might do at my visit to paks in 2200

i would doit on accident though

[glass vault]

"accident"

[tawny thicket]

i probably wouldnt have much input on the situation by 2200

[glass vault]

Me either

[tawny thicket]

who would?

[rugged blade]

What have they done to the game... I can't run like any save file at all...

[tawny thicket]

not even new?

[rugged blade]

well, I'm not happy about starting the game from the scratch :/

[tawny thicket]

also while 1.1 improved CPU perf quite significantly for me i have had WAAAAAY more issues with 1.1 than past versions

[tawny thicket]

i totally understand but it would be usefull to know if that launches bc if it doesnt than we can rule out broken saves

[rugged blade]

Well, let me re-try

Now it stuck on compiling shaders... I NEVER HAD THESE KIND OF ISSUES BEFORE... like what's going on ... the game ran fine for me from the start, now apparently it does not

[hearty pollen]

Same. Especially after duga, idk if you're been there yet, but the game just breaks down

[rugged blade]

New game crashes into the same thing...

[tawny thicket]

DUGA WHAT IS THAT EVEN SOPPOSED TO BE????? (i know its that radar thing in IRL chernobyl)

[late ferry]

insaneone4627 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[tawny thicket]

and IIRC the monolith use it to stop you at some poin

[rugged blade]

A huge structure full of antenas, or at least it was before

[tawny thicket]

||now its like a brain fry thing IG||

[rugged blade]

as far as I know made to detect any flying stuff in it's radius during cold war

[tawny thicket]

yeah thats pretty much what i know about the IRL one

[rugged blade]

you lucky your game runs... mine does not 😭

these patches ruined the game for me

[tawny thicket]

i had to reset my shader cache to get the game started after the update

and i have also disabled the stupid shader compile garbage

there is absolutly NO REASON to have that run EVERY SINGLE TIME you start the game

[rugged blade]

how to do that

[tawny thicket]

you gotta put this in your engine.INI file :
[SystemSettings]
r.PSOWarmup.WarmupMaterials=0

you might have to create one

[snow torrent]

the game performance isnt going to be bad because of skipping the compilation?

[rugged blade]

I'll try

[tawny thicket]

no

as if you let it finish once the GPU driver will save it

making the performance the exact same

[snow torrent]

but for what did they implemented that? very dumb if its not necessary

[plucky quail]

Thats what i am saying but the Green party is in ruling and did what it waned to do.
Nuclear is the best option. We cant use gas cuz now of the RU war. We are the best nation of green energy but still cant make enough. Our prices are Extremely high IDK if its 1. highest but for sure in 3. for EU.

And then some dude saying here that "Its destroying the eco system😭 " is crazy. As long as you deposit it right or use it after being in the Plant for other stuff you are not harming anything.

Would be nice to have renewable energy but fact is we can do it at the moment for us to rely on it.

[plucky quail]

I would drink the heavy water in the reactor

[lavish mason]

big "as long as you" there. seeing as last time germany spent a solid decade or 2 dumping all its nuclear waste into a salt mine in saxony with little to no oversight until the 2000s

Asse 2

im pro nuclear power, but get them regs locked down tight!

[plucky quail]

Yea pretty miss managed that part.

But you dont need to dumb it anymore just underground. There are new Business that work with the stuff after use

[shrewd crane]

i have 1650 and 16 gigs of ram im barely able to run the game very laggy and single digit fps any help ive turnd graphics down and restarted thanks

[plucky quail]

Does your GPU has 4GB of Vram?

[lavish mason]

Never needed to, was just cheap. "Cheap" in the short term

[shrewd crane]

16 gb

[plucky quail]

Yea waned to say cheap not really. Short yes but oh boy does it get pricey

[plucky quail]

No your GPU Vram not Ram

[lavish mason]

Yeah, so so much more expensive doing a retroactive cleanup

[shrewd crane]

yes sry 4 gb

[plucky quail]

Nah holding the water out. You need to pump it out. Thats why there is only few places you can find where you dont need to do maintenance.

[rare temple]

4b of VRAM is too low. The game says minimum of 6gb. There are some mods on Nexus Mods that can really reduce the graphics to allow it to run on 4gb VRAM, but it won't look good and could still crash.

[dusk brook]

Honestly from what i seen on some youtube benchmark, 4gb vram is unplayable. The same card on 8gb however, will be playable (eg: rx580 4gb is unplayable, 8gb can do 30fps)
Try some mod on nexus that turn off stuff to make it playable on 4gb gpu. Though of course its a major visual downgrade.

[plucky quail]

Yea you need 8 Least to play with it. Maybe 6GB but only short term over time it will also get spilling problem.

[shrewd crane]

thx ill look into it

[rare temple]

I'm on 6gb, and with qmqz's mod (and a few tweaks), I have well over 170+ hours into the game. I can usually play well over an hour before I might see issues when returning to a Settlement, but I think I have the tweaks down pretty well where I rarely, if ever, experience the 5-10 FPS drop now. And if it does happen, I can just wait about 20 seconds or less, and it clears right up. This is on the v1.1.3 patch as well. For me, each patch reduced the chance of experiencing the "memory leak" that causes the 5-10 fps issue.

[plucky quail]

Yea. I would say they need to change the minimum on steam. Its not really true.

[dusk brook]

6gb should be fine as technically even on 8gb card, most of the time it just hover at 5.8gb something usage (50% scaling high) on 8gb card
4gb however is likely a total no go without mods

[plucky quail]

The 580 8Gb should be minimum for Stalker 1. it will give more stable 30FPS gameplay and 2. it has 8GB so you dont get the spill problem

[rare temple]

For me, without a mod, my GTX-1660 6gb would experience the memory leak when going into a Settlement, even if I lock the framerate to 30 fps via RTSS. With qmqz's peak mod, I don't get that anymore, and I still have Lumen enabled somewhat so I get the dynamic lighting. I can get 50-60 fps out in the zone, and even at Slag Heap, when first entering it might drop to 35-40, but once inside the building, I can get around 50 fps, and close to 60 fps when I get Diode. Granted, it's with low graphical settings except for materials, post processing, and anti-aliasing which I've set to medium, using FSR 3.1 Balanced, and no frame gen.

[hearty pollen]

That's pretty damn good for your card. I'm impressed. Cpu?

[rare temple]

AMD Ryzen 5 3600 with 32gb (2x16) Dual Channel DDR-3200 RAM. The card is running GPU Clock at 1845 MHz, MEM Clock at 4001 MHz.

[plucky quail]

Yea its a shame the performance. Just 60 FPS with FSR Balanced. And tweaked settings. They have time and are committed on this game so maybe they will do something to the performance. Just hope

[hearty pollen]

That's crazy! Impressed

[rare temple]

My GPU is an ASUS TUF Gaming Overclocked (out of the box) GPU. So it runs a bit faster than a normal 1660 Non-Super. Got it in 2020 for $239 at Microcenter when I rebuilt my PC back then. Only had 16gb DDR4-2400 back then, but recently upgraded to the 32GB. Otherwise, everything else is the same since I built it in 2020. Replaced my previous PC of 10+ years - AMD Phenom II X3 720BE (3 cores, but I was unable to unlock the 4th core), 8GB RAM, GTX-560. Made that sucker last for 10+ years. Then it died, so I had to rebuild which is what I'm running right now.

[hearty pollen]

Your old pc is significantly older than 10 years. I remember faffing with the core unlocking on these back in like... 2010? 2008? Thereabout. And my god, the good old 560, what good card back then.

Unlocked a lot of fond memories fiddling and cursing at making the locked core stable. I had two friends with more or less identical setups, but only one of them would work out of the box with a core unlock. Spent many hours trying to gain 15% more performance.

[rare temple]

I built it in 2010, so in 2020 so when it died in July of 2020, it was over 10 years old. I believe the Phenom II X3 720BE came out in 2009? I got it at Microcenter for $159. Same with my current Ryzen 56 3600. It was $159 when I purchased it with my mATX motherboard. The motherboard was $89. Had to get a new case, new memory, and new GPU. Altogether it was around $600 after tax.

[hearty pollen]

Yeah that makes sense. I was sure it was like a... 2007? Ish cpu. Been a bit!

[rare temple]

The Phenom II X3 720 BE came out in February of 2009 to be exact. So I might have even purchased it in 2009. I just remember researching for a good budget CPU that was still good for gaming around that time, looking at Intel and Tom's Hardware benchmarked the Phenom and the price per performance was what I wanted. Intel was too expensive and I could get comparable gaming performance at a cheaper price over the Intel chip at that time. And Tom's Hardware stated the motherboards that would allow unlocking the 4th core as it was disabled by AMD due to it not passing their QA tests. I stress tested the snot out of that CPU for 3+ hours and it never crashed or had an issue, so I paid for a 3-core CPU and got a 4-core out of it that was like $50+ cheaper than the actual X4 version of that chip. Loved that machine. I still think my most favorite build ever was back in 1994 for my college graduation gift that my wife let me have, which was to build a brand new PC. 486 DX/2 66. Oh man, that was a sweet machine back then! After that, I had a Pentium 133 that I was able to OC to 150. That was my final Intel chip. After that, I was AMD all the way. But each time, I did compare AMD to Intel and AMD always won out for me because of the price per performance factor for me. Even in 2020, I was considering Intel until I researched some more and found out that the AMD Ryzen 5 3600 was the best deal for gaming for budget minded people like me.

[rare temple]

Try this mod and choose the Potato version which is for the bottom of the barrel GPU (4 gb vram like yours). I can't guarantee it will work, but if it does, be prepared for interiors to have no dynamic lighting what-so-ever. It will have equal lighting everywhere. You won't need to turn on your flashlight at least. 🙂

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

[ancient jacinth]

this game is running constant at 20 fps

[flint spoke]

what specs

[ancient jacinth]

i updated my driver and game is runnning like choopy 10 fps, nice engine

[opaque grail]

pls no spoilers mate...

[ancient jacinth]

whoops my bad

[opaque grail]

lol shit happens no worries

[ancient jacinth]

yeah, honestly i think it's both my pc and the game

pc almost 6 years old

even i installed a mod that modifies the engine.ini file and another pak file mod to basically optimise and even then, it running on life support

[opaque grail]

2070 is a nice card, i am on a laptop which haves 2070 and it runs games like witcher 3 without any problem. but im not brave enough to even try stalker on my laptop tho, my standalone 3070 haves hard time sometimes even lol

[ancient jacinth]

yeah, this is on pc lol, but honestly i think i should just wait until more patches release

and then eventually full mod tools are released from devs

[opaque grail]

my laptop is 3-4 years old. oh and i didnt mod anything at all, i prefer clean vanilla games. did you try to play without the mods after all the recent patches?

[ancient jacinth]

hmm, i haven't tried it, mainly cause i have some QoL mods and texture mods

but i might try removing some mods

maybe too many mods could be causing fps issues

[opaque grail]

i would advice to try it without any mods at all. who knows maybe youll be surprised. the biggest issue for me is the constant or often crashing. but most of the time there is no stutter or fps lag in my case tho. just input lag and memory leak crashes sadly tho

[ancient jacinth]

suprisingly ever since these patches came out, i have not had a single crash, exccluding massive fps stutters and lag

[flint spoke]

some of those mods will make it worse. I recommend stalker 2 optimized base and none of the other ones tbh.

should give you like 5-15 fps but it kind of sounds like you might have a driver issue or something idk.

[opaque grail]

its strange how some people are experiencing different issues with same games hmm

[ancient jacinth]

Such is life in the zone

[stable kite]

Man this game is huge, Almost 120+ and still not finished, going to rush a bit more into the main quests and skip stash hunting lol

[drowsy lance]

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

this video is a bit concerning

makes me think that graphics optimization is a skill issue

[tawny thicket]

if you dumb the textures down to stutternite levels you should get playable perf on 4gb

[jade grotto]

im having issues where my draw distance is crap and trees popping up close. with max draw i shouldnt even notice the load ins right?

[fluid shell]

Having this issue as well. When scoping in the tree's changes

[spare coral]

i think you can only fix that with a custom engine.ini

also the foliage setting is for the draw distance of trees too

[grizzled drift]

It is

Look at idTech

[tawny thicket]

nah what the OG situation in that video was (what that guy had to fix) was a I DONT GIVE A F*CK issue

[grizzled drift]

Hope that kid keeps stirring it up

[grizzled drift]

https://pastebin.com/SDDS4Kcf
Can try this if you want

[tawny thicket]

i used to think that guy was going insane but the more i watch their videos the more i understand them (and like them) now i don't feel like its just some guy that decided to yell at some clouds

[left abyss]

Hi all
Can someone help with this problem?
64 gb RAM and game after 5 min playing is crashing. Event viewer: Windows successfully diagnosed a low virtual memory condition. The following programs consumed the most virtual memory: Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe (2596) consumed 140811608064 bytes, svchost.exe (7000) consumed 1924562944 bytes, and steamwebhelper.exe (16904) consumed 392335360 bytes.

[tawny thicket]

i think by "virtual memory" it more so means VRAM not system RAM. but i'm not an expert at this so i have no idea

[wispy trench]

i noticed the latest updates to the shader compilation process to be working fine on nvidia cards but be braking amd cards totally (i have a sample of 6 ppl - 3 nvidia 3 amd)

has this been confirmed/denied?

[grizzled drift]

no issues on nvidia gpu over here

[torpid portal]

VRAM is video, svchost wouldn't be using the GPU either. @left abyss, does task manager show you have the full 64G of memory?

[tawny thicket]

it has hppened to me on AMD (a poll would be a better way)

[left abyss]

Yes

[tawny thicket]

but clearing shader cache fixed it

[torpid portal]

I could be wrong on my math, but it looks like stalker is using 10G of memory. Unless it's talking about 10G of swap, idk why that would crash anything.

[tawny thicket]

typo at the NVIDIA part😭

[wispy trench]

clearing cache fixes it but next time you have to do it again 😄 at least with my friends its that way

[wintry needle]

I can't answer the poll because it was the 1.1.3 patch that broke it for me, not 1.1
I'm on AMD

[grizzled drift]

1.1 is technically 1.1.3

[wintry needle]

aye aye 🫡

still... with only 1.1 installed I had no issues 👀

[grizzled drift]

Yeah all I did was delete shaders once , and worked fine after

[wintry needle]

I'd have to do a bit of searching to figure out where the shader cache is kept on Arch Linux, and how to clear it

also I suddenly started crashing in Rostok while I haven't had any issues before 😦

[tawny thicket]

but then shouldnt you be voting for "yes" ?

just cuz you fixed the issue doesnt mean you didnt have it

[tawny thicket]

if you had the issues then fixed it that still counts. And if you had these issues with patches 1.1 or even newer then "yes" should be what you vote for

[grizzled drift]

I personally disagree because there's people who tried a ton of fixes and still have issues with shader comp

[tawny thicket]

ok, i'll make another one

[grizzled drift]

I get what you're saying don't get me wrong, like mine did stall the first time after update but I only deleted the shader cache files one time and then it never "froze" since

[grizzled drift]

Noice

[tawny thicket]

i think the updated poll should give some more data

[tawny thicket]

⬆️

[stable kite]

How to clear shade cache on nvidia? Have to try if fix insta cache load

[tawny thicket]

"Have to try if fix insta cache load" do you have a mod that disables the shader compile?

[stable kite]

no mods

since latest i got imediate load shaders

[tawny thicket]

i think the shader file should be in the save files for NVIDIA

[tawny thicket]

WUT

[stable kite]

yes, less then 1 sec lol, i7 12700h / 32gdb / 3060 gb

before latest patches was taking up to 1 min

pprobably not related but i also installed the game on a brand new fast nvme ssd

[tawny thicket]

i had to disable it manually myshelf

[wintry needle]

I sort of have that in the GOG version: once I get rid of the stupid "setting up profile" thing, the yellow bar is already at the end, but the logo just spins around and it never ends... so now I force stop the game to make it skip shader calc the next run, and it works fine then

[hollow kettle]

I am reading that rtx 4060 base clock speed is ~1800mhz. I haven’t done any OC to mine at all. It’s same as when I first got it. But my clock speed has been 2700mhz more often than not. Is this normal ? Idk much about hardware

[tawny thicket]

you are looking at boost clock

not base (i think)

[faint gust]

Clocks can boost, if the temps are ok then everything is fine.

[rugged blade]

1.1.3 update completely broke the game for me, it does not boot up now like at all

[hearty pollen]

Nuke your shader cache

[rugged blade]

how to do that, mate

[tawny thicket]

AMD / NVIIIIDIA

[raw sleet]

I think nvidia's latest drivers may be what's causing issues for some people.. I have a 2080ti and on any driver newer than 566.03 from Oct. I'm getting driver crashes and game crashes - notably CTD's from Stalker 2 (deviceremoved / nvlddmkm.sys bs) and get similar crashes in Ubi games that I never got before - (Breakpoint; Division 1) reverting to the Oct. driver and it all goes away - (except Stalker 2 has issues with the old drivers; understandably)

[clever kindle]

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\shadercache
Delete the folder 1643320 (this app id is stalker 2)

Also open Nvidia control panel
Manage 3D Settings
Shader Cache Size - Unlimited

[true echo]

Can somebody Help me Shaders Wont fully Compile WHne i load the game without them it runs fine for 1 minute then at 10 fps for the next five minutes ive tried everything im really not sure what to do

[clever kindle]

https://tenor.com/view/up-look-up-above-point-up-gif-8287011734727029414

[true echo]

bruh ive done both of those long ago

[clever kindle]

i have to delete the cache folder dang near every time i launch the game

[true echo]

hmm ill try it then thx

[clever kindle]

if it hangs on shader loading, than thats prob your issue, i just keep deleting it, lauching the game and repeat till i get in.

till the memory leak crashes my game and then i have to repeat the whole cycle 🤣

at least its consistent and i can play.

[true echo]

Yeah you are correct it is my issue, for me it just freezes 2/3 of the way through

[clever kindle]

did the folder delete work?

it doesn't work 100% every time, sometimes it takes 1-2 deletes/launches but I've done it enough to know it works lol

[cobalt scroll]

anyone having crashing/blackscreen issues while loading/reloading saves?

it's happening a lot where my computer blackscreens and does not recover. it forced me to reset with power button

[tawny thicket]

AAAAHHHH HELLL NAAAHHH MAAN (im not surprised at all) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r2iBhxDhEM&t

also MARK MY WORDS : the 5080 will be slower than the 7900 XTX when using RT (ultra) at 4K ultra*
just because of that VRAM

(and if that isnt the case then this was a joke)

[wintry needle]

no need to nuke the whole folder each time, as the shaders that the game calculates while playing are also stored there
have Task Manager running when starting the game
when the shader calc starts, switch to Task Manager and force close the game
next time you open it, it will pop up a window saying the shader compilation didn't finish so it will be skipped, OK that
it should start then

[true echo]

What im saying is when i do that and get into the game it runs pefect for 1min and then at 10fps for a while then back again etc

[ancient jacinth]

Same thing, then runs so bad I legit can’t play it or do any missions

[flat brook]

Finally an update on my 9800X3D order, should arrive January 7th

Was in stock when I ordered on the 25th, availability was unknown right after ordering

[wintry needle]

did you order straight from AMD?
GL with it anyway, fingers X'd it actually arrives 😄

[flat brook]

Local retailer, has a pretty accurate inventory system that updates 4 times a day, have a pretty good relation with them so they'll likely keep me updated with their predictions as they usually do

[plucky quail]

U mean 5-10fps Range for the 5080?

[opaque grail]

nice to see that im not the only one here who likes to create polls lol. sorry in advance, but there is no point of this poll because you have to remember the difference in user numbers how many people using Nvidia and AMD. nvidia is way much more popular one and obviously there is going to be more votes with nvidia = expectable results = no point of the poll. to really make a good statistical poll you need to find for an example 50 people with amd cards and 50 with nvidia who would vote in your poll.

[plucky quail]

What poll?

[hollow kettle]

I searched google and it says that it varies depending on brand. There are low end 4060s that boost clock ~2400mhz and high end models boost clock ~2700mhz. Idk enough about it to know if this is factual or not though

No idea how to even check base clock speed since when idling at desktop it drops to ~200mhz

[opaque grail]

i suspected of this long time ago from the very day of the release of the game actually (11.20)

[opaque grail]

if i start loading manually or quick saves more often in a short period of time, i think then there is a much bigger chance for the game to crash for me. maybe it haves to do with the memory leak linked with loading up the files/data of the game

maybe im going out of my mind but i started downloading the game on my 2070 laptop xD the laptop will explode the moment ill turn the game on. well at least the monitor is 1080p and not the 2k, im really curious how it will run

[paper pike]

Do you guys experience crashes in rovstok?

[wintry needle]

twice so far