Stuttering?

mrs1986 · Jan 5, 2016

Hi all!

I'm new to GSCE, I bougth it the other day, my question is if anyone has any idea of what to do about the stutter?
The game is smooth, but has a lot of micro stuttering while playing, even playing offline, or alone...

My PC is powerfull enough (I think) to run the game, in fact the game never goes lower of the 60 fps, it is locked there with the V-Sync.

Just in case, my machine is as follows:
i5 4690k@4.0Ghz
480 SSD
16Gb ram
GTX 970
The cooling, the power, everything is up to the task, so it is not a problem about the machine, it is something I'm missing about the game.

Thanks a lot for any help I could get!

William Wester · Jan 5, 2016

"Search" is you friend

There has been so much over time on this subject that I couldn't recite word for word, I would have to do a "search" to help you.

mrs1986 · Jan 5, 2016

Thanks, but I'm talking about it in a decently powerfull machine and not playing online, that's why I asked anyway because the threads that were answered were in another hardware...

xnorb · Jan 5, 2016

There's something with the replays. They seem to not run as fluid as the racing.
(At least to me on my rig while displaying an FPS counter showing sufficient FPS)

But while driving i don't notice any stuttering.
i5 3550
R9 290
SSD

mrs1986 · Jan 5, 2016

xnorb said:
There's something with the replays. They seem to not run as fluid as the racing.
(At least to me on my rig while displaying an FPS counter showing sufficient FPS)

But while driving i don't notice any stuttering.
i5 3550
R9 290
SSD

Mmmm I didn't checked the replay, I may do it and see how does it look, but currently the issue is while driving, is like minimun, and not fps related, is like the vsync is lossing pace or something like that haha

xnorb · Jan 5, 2016

Ah well, i don't run with VSync.
Maybe try without it?
Usually i tend to suggest to turn it off and if you want to save resources to use your gfx card software or something like DxTory to limit the FPS.

Marcel Kleene · Jan 6, 2016

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=391492364

Try this...

s2173 · Jan 6, 2016

Reduce shadows to medium... It should fix it. For me, shadows on max cause stuttering even if the framerates dont budge at all.

P*Funk · Jan 6, 2016

Try turning off time scale?

robt100 · Jan 6, 2016

having V-sync on in the new radeon settings thingy caused stuttering for me. turned it off and all is well.

mrs1986 · Jan 6, 2016

Thanks a lot for the help! When in home i will give these tricks a try!

The fps are ok, like 400 or so, if v-sync is off, so all these comments come in handy

Thanks a lot! I will report back after work!

P*Funk · Jan 7, 2016

You can set the max frame rate in the game's config file without subjecting yourself to the input lag that comes from Vsync.

alexSchmurtz · Jan 7, 2016

Yep: I also noticed a big change after setting a max frame rate in the config file, especially after v1.50. I have been able to crank everything up; before I had to lower shadows to high or medium depending on the track. Now the game runs smooth as butter with a constant 59 fps (which correspond to my screen), no stuttering and everything on max.
Maybe have a look also at this post: make sure you have the value recommended by Alex Sawczuk. With the recent changes in the game, the value might be default in the Plr now but it helped a lot stuttering at that time.

MrCrowley · Jan 7, 2016

Turn off Special Effects, these tie in with dust and smoke and go from there.
For me this was the main issue with stutters set my sfx to low and now stutter free.

mrs1986 · Jan 7, 2016

I tried and with no luck, the problem persists...

@P*Funk , where do I find that file? I have to try with those files and see what i can get...

William Wester · Jan 7, 2016

mrs1986 said:
I tried and with no luck, the problem persists...

@P*Funk , where do I find that file? I have to try with those files and see what i can get...

Time scale can be enabled/disabled within SCE - I believe in Options.

A search would have found this page for you - @Patrick Giranthon has taken the time to put together this "what you need to know" thread...
http://www.racedepartment.com/threads/stock-car-extreme-all-the-tips-you-need-to-know.91704/

P*Funk · Jan 7, 2016

As said above you can change timescale in the options for the session within the game.

For setting max frame rate go into the game folder and under UserData/[playername] you'll find a config file also named after whatever your player name is, default is just player I think: [player].PLR.

In there you can find the line Max Framerate and then you enter an integer to correspond to your desired frame rate. In SCE for some reason you need to enter it as a negative integer, so for me I have mine set to -120 in order to get a steady 120 FPS in game.

mrs1986 · Jan 8, 2016

I didn't have time yesterday to test what @P*Funk said, but changing the time scale to none didn't make the trick...
Just need to test that and see what happens...

Will Mazeo · Jan 9, 2016

May worth a test: make SCE run on a single core
I don't have this problem here and everything is on max. Only AA and texture quality ("performance", but used to have it on "quality" and made no difference as it did in rF2 with fps loss) is set via video card settings (HD7850) the rest is in game

Paulo Gomes · Jan 9, 2016

With V-sync you have stuttering? I play GSC in a laptop, with a nvidea card, and with the V-sync the game is very smoth, without it I get lots of stuttering.