Game stuttering on high end machine

[sindroms]

Gents, I recently reinstalled Disco and am facing a very odd thing that I am pretty sure was not present a few years back.

I am running Win10, latest updates, on a multi-monitor rig.

I7 8700K running with a minor overclock, a GTX 2070 and 16gb of dual channel 2400mhz memory. I am using a 144hz monitor as main with a 60hz as secondary, one is connected via display port, other is running off HDMI.

I am suffering from very weird jittery and stuttery gameplay as well as some sort of very minor input lag. This becomes most noticable during fighting physically and visually when in cruise as the space dust seems to be indicating that the game is running at 30 fps or something similar. The same issue persists in both windowed and fullscreen mode and on both monitors.

However, the FPS counter is indicating that the game is running capped at around above 100fps ish. It does not FEEL that way, there is no smoothness you'd associate with a game running on a high refreshrate monitor or, hell, even a regular 60fps.

Any ideas?

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PSA: If you have been having stutter/FPS lag on Disco where it does not run as smoothly as other games, please look at the fix here: https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthrea...pid2306502
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[Kauket]

Set Affinity in task manager, all cores, it might help you.

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[Binski]

I recently also went through installing on a new computer with a similar set up. Could be Vsync you need to disable. I also noticed that the default mcafee anti virus, just being active, was driving my cpu usage up to almost 100% and all my games would have a low choppy framerate until I got rid of it. The antivirus was like having a virus ironically.

If you test on other games and get the same problem its probably something with your cpu usage or bad graphics card setting.

It also can depend on your screen resolution. The lower the resolution you use, you'll always get a better framerate. If you are trying to play in an ultra high res it may still be too much for the computer, which might cause a similar problem if you're recording.

Sidenote:

I also have been having a problem with the game jumping (minimizing, maximizing, minimizing again) when loading a character. I thought it was my old computer sucking but it does it on my new one too. For those having that problem, when you select a character, hit alt+tab, wait for the program to minimize fully as it loads, then wait a second and maximize freelancer again, and it should load the character in fine. Something weird is going on there when characters load and if you dont tab out as it loads you risk the game freezing and going black, and it sets off the anti-cheat. But when I use that trick it works like 99% of the time.

[Etaphreven]

Few things I've known to cause such problems in older games:

- having certain gfx options enabled in Nvidia CP
- having the game not run on the dedicated GPU (also Nvidia)
- and since you mentioned the dual monitor setup, certain monitor cables being connected before starting the game (so disconnect one monitor entirely before launch)

[xenomorph]

I remembered that this thread exists and that I have the same issue. @sindroms already explained it pretty well. I've had this issue for a year, and I can't find a fix. I've already tried everything I could find on the internet. However, I don't experience this in any other game.

Basically, even if I cap my fps to whatever amount that's above 60 all the way up to 155, the game feels terrible. Aiming and movement are nearly impossible, as this creates some weird kind of "stuttering." It's the most noticeable on "space dust" as it somewhat flicks in motion. My FPS is stable. vsync on does make the game playable, but the input lag is simply horrendous. I don't know if I'm the only one that experiences this everytime I play.

[pitockm]

back in the time Background Stars used to be 1 layer. Now it's 2 layer. The second Layer Causes FPS drop.(its beautiful btw)

So the Background Stars in the Options Menu has 3 effects in the game. if you choose 0% its just dull. 25% is Vanilla and 25% above triggers the second layer of Stars effect that causes fps lags.

also Do Not Alt Tab . doing it once will kill the fps until you reset the game.

and make sure you have Vertical sync Disabled .

for God sake. Dont mix 2 different hz monitors to play this game! it's not Logical.

fun fact to the wise : add RGB to your rig and you will have 200000fps for sure.

[xenomorph]

I appreciate the reply, but I hate to say it, none of it worked. Even though I’ve tried it all before, I gave it a shot. Didn't work.

I forgot to mention that I use 1 monitor only.

[Arcana]

I had this stuttering long ago when i have installed freelancer on my 5400rpm hard drive, all laptop hardware is like Syndroms, new CPU, GPU and RAM, after i reinstalled the game on the main SSD drive where the windows is, the stuttering had just gone. I keep a picture with some settings in Nvidia Control Panel

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[Backo]

Got a similar issue as well upon returning to Discovery. I have 154 FPS but it stutters to 0 for about a second or so randomly. Sometimes it does it more often, sometimes it doesn't do it. I have a feeling it is tied to game loading assets or something. Any idea how I can fix this? Didn't have this issue on the very same PC with the very same settings and drivers about 1 year ago.

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[Fab]

Got a similar issue as well upon returning to Discovery. I have 154 FPS but it stutters to 0 for about a second or so randomly. Sometimes it does it more often, sometimes it doesn't do it. I have a feeling it is tied to game loading assets or something. Any idea how I can fix this? Didn't have this issue on the very same PC with the very same settings and drivers about 1 year ago.

make sure your discovery installation is in your SSD, not HDD. I'm 99% sure this is an asset loading issue with the game itself.

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