Posted December 11, 2017
EDIT: Sorry, I'm new here and didn't notice the "this is a question" box.
I played a bit of Witcher 3 on PS4. In enjoyed it, but the low framerate made the game harder to enjoy for me. However I recently got a laptop powerful enough to play the game at 60fps with a mix of medium and high settings (shadows low). One problem, though, is the almost constant micro stutter, which as I have gathered from all the research I've done, has been a big problem ever since the game's release. To my dismay, however, even after applying pretty much any fix under the sun to try and fix it, it still stutters. I have tried:
1. Playing around with and lowering graphical settings
2. Lowering the resolution; I play at 900p and 720p actually has worse stutter, even lower res has even worse stutter etc.
3. Disabling in-game V sync and applying Nvidia Control Panel V sync; the game seems to outright ignore any changes I make in the control panel. With in-game V sync off I get screen-tearing regardless of control panel settings.
4. Disabling V-sync altogether; micro stutter actually reduces significantly, though not completely, and who wants to play with screen tearing anyway? Not me.
5. Capping the framerate at 61, 60 and 59 with Rivatuna; again, the game refuces to abide by this change.
6. Running the game as administrator
7. Setting task manager priority to high
8. Disabling GOG overlay
9. Closing Malwarebytes, removing Malwarebytes, removing Bitdefender (only have Windows Defender at this moment)
10. Toying with the mouse settings; I disabled hardware cursor, no dice. Reduced in-game sensitivity to 0.10, re-enabled hardware mouse and adjusted dpi, no dice
11. Plugged in a dualshock 4, which works natively with the game; might be placebo, but panning the camera feels ever so slightly smoother (I heard they patched controller stutter back in the day), but enough stutter is still present enough to cause annoyance
12. Launching the game from .exe and not via GOG Galaxy
13. Launching as non-steam game through Steam
14. Increased TextureMemoryBudget to 1024, half of my card's vram. I was very hopeful that this would do the trick, as a similar fix in DOOM 2016 helped fix that game for me, which I can now run well at 60fps, high settings at 900p
15. Deleted APEX_ClothingGPU_x64.dll from the x64 folder. I was similarly hopeful for this one, but no cigar
16. Setting maxiumum pre-rendered frames to 1; this seems to have been the most widely succesfull fix, however it was already set to this in my control panel, and control panel changes don't seem to do anything anyway
17. Setting power management mode to prefer maximum performance
18. Turn on Lenovo Nerve Sense's "Extreme Cooling" feature while playing; the temperature is only around 60 degrees celsius anyway, and stuttering is the same with this on
19. Updating to the latest Nvidia drivers
And that's about it. The only things I haven't tried yet that I can think of are a re-install of the game, re-formatting my system, and adding an SSD. I'm not gonna do the first two, and I have a 500 gb SSD ready to be inserted into my laptop, but I will do it with a family member with more computer know-how later this week hopefully (because I'm a noob and afraid of breaking something)
I really love this game, but man, the stutter. The game runs at 60fps most of the time, with some dips into the 55s and occasionally 50, and there will be stutter regardless. On some occasions I can stand still on a field during sunny weather and panning will feel smooth, but as soon as it starts raining or there are a lot of people I get stutter while panning and running, and especially riding, at the same time, regardless of the framerate, which is mostly 60fps. If anyone has any idea what I can do to fix it: I beg you. Help. Me. Please. Otherwise, seeing as though nothing seems to work, I will assume it's a feature or that the game is simply broken and play the game regardless and enjoy it as much as possible. It's still better than playing on PS4 for me.
Lenovo Legion y520
Nvidia GTX 1050 2gb
i5 7300 HQ 2.50 GHZ
8gb DDR4 ram
I played a bit of Witcher 3 on PS4. In enjoyed it, but the low framerate made the game harder to enjoy for me. However I recently got a laptop powerful enough to play the game at 60fps with a mix of medium and high settings (shadows low). One problem, though, is the almost constant micro stutter, which as I have gathered from all the research I've done, has been a big problem ever since the game's release. To my dismay, however, even after applying pretty much any fix under the sun to try and fix it, it still stutters. I have tried:
1. Playing around with and lowering graphical settings
2. Lowering the resolution; I play at 900p and 720p actually has worse stutter, even lower res has even worse stutter etc.
3. Disabling in-game V sync and applying Nvidia Control Panel V sync; the game seems to outright ignore any changes I make in the control panel. With in-game V sync off I get screen-tearing regardless of control panel settings.
4. Disabling V-sync altogether; micro stutter actually reduces significantly, though not completely, and who wants to play with screen tearing anyway? Not me.
5. Capping the framerate at 61, 60 and 59 with Rivatuna; again, the game refuces to abide by this change.
6. Running the game as administrator
7. Setting task manager priority to high
8. Disabling GOG overlay
9. Closing Malwarebytes, removing Malwarebytes, removing Bitdefender (only have Windows Defender at this moment)
10. Toying with the mouse settings; I disabled hardware cursor, no dice. Reduced in-game sensitivity to 0.10, re-enabled hardware mouse and adjusted dpi, no dice
11. Plugged in a dualshock 4, which works natively with the game; might be placebo, but panning the camera feels ever so slightly smoother (I heard they patched controller stutter back in the day), but enough stutter is still present enough to cause annoyance
12. Launching the game from .exe and not via GOG Galaxy
13. Launching as non-steam game through Steam
14. Increased TextureMemoryBudget to 1024, half of my card's vram. I was very hopeful that this would do the trick, as a similar fix in DOOM 2016 helped fix that game for me, which I can now run well at 60fps, high settings at 900p
15. Deleted APEX_ClothingGPU_x64.dll from the x64 folder. I was similarly hopeful for this one, but no cigar
16. Setting maxiumum pre-rendered frames to 1; this seems to have been the most widely succesfull fix, however it was already set to this in my control panel, and control panel changes don't seem to do anything anyway
17. Setting power management mode to prefer maximum performance
18. Turn on Lenovo Nerve Sense's "Extreme Cooling" feature while playing; the temperature is only around 60 degrees celsius anyway, and stuttering is the same with this on
19. Updating to the latest Nvidia drivers
And that's about it. The only things I haven't tried yet that I can think of are a re-install of the game, re-formatting my system, and adding an SSD. I'm not gonna do the first two, and I have a 500 gb SSD ready to be inserted into my laptop, but I will do it with a family member with more computer know-how later this week hopefully (because I'm a noob and afraid of breaking something)
I really love this game, but man, the stutter. The game runs at 60fps most of the time, with some dips into the 55s and occasionally 50, and there will be stutter regardless. On some occasions I can stand still on a field during sunny weather and panning will feel smooth, but as soon as it starts raining or there are a lot of people I get stutter while panning and running, and especially riding, at the same time, regardless of the framerate, which is mostly 60fps. If anyone has any idea what I can do to fix it: I beg you. Help. Me. Please. Otherwise, seeing as though nothing seems to work, I will assume it's a feature or that the game is simply broken and play the game regardless and enjoy it as much as possible. It's still better than playing on PS4 for me.
Lenovo Legion y520
Nvidia GTX 1050 2gb
i5 7300 HQ 2.50 GHZ
8gb DDR4 ram
Post edited December 11, 2017 by Errol246
