Stuttering/freezes

[worldly yoke]

I've been having major stuttering a freezing issues with the game for the last several months, and they're getting to the point that they're making the game unplayable - especially if I'm not hosting the game. It's pretty indiscriminate when it happens, short of me just standing still. Even running the game on generic medium settings, still happens. Kept an eye on my GPU temps, never really go above 50C.

On higher settings, I get severe frame rate drops whenever I turn on a light source. Reduced shadows settings and that seemed to remedy the frame rate drop, but not the stuttering and freezes.

GPU drivers are up to date.

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
AMD RX 6700 XT
32GB DDR4 3200
Running in DX11

[silk salmon]

I also have stuttering. Game is running smooth then comes up with some stutter. I'm usually playing on dedicated servers so it's not like my PC is is overloaded.

12th Gen i7
32GB RAM
GTX 3080

[worldly yoke]

Yeah, I can close all other programs and it will still stutter, or even freeze for 5 seconds or so at a time.

Playing online, that's pretty much a guaranteed death if anything hostile is nearby. That's the part that's making it unplayable. I still play solo, but it definitely makes it more difficult and frustrating.

Which is sad, because I honestly think this game is great, when it's playable.

[vital isle]

Running from an SSD helps. Running from an even faster SSD helps a bit more. The stuttering mostly happens at points on the map where you cross from one map chunk to another (it's split up into logical pieces). Additional stuttering happens on AMD GPUs, particularly when certain light sources are in view such as torches.

[worldly yoke]

I've got the game installed on an NVMe, so hard drive read shouldn't be an issue.

Is there a known workaround or fix for the AMD GPU issues?

[vital isle]

There's no workaround. According to the devs, it's due to AMD's lack of proper support for given DirectX features. There are some old threads which you can find where even Dean was commenting about AMD's support.

[worldly yoke]

Is it different on the RTX GPUs? Not that I'd switch solely based on Icarus, but I've been debating getting a new one anyway.

[digital charm]

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