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  1. #11
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    Still getting horrible performance, My actual fps are nice and high but the stuttering is getting stupid now.

    Ubisoft please for the love of gaming, Fix it, You charged me £50 for a game that should not of been released for another few months, It should of stayed in development for at least 2 more months to sort out the performance issues for the people with mid to higher end machines.

    GPU usage is going up and down sporadically, I've tested 30+ games and FC3+4 are the only ones that do this, guessing it's a problem with the engines used.

    Graph showing GPU usage in FC4 -


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  2. #12
    Hi there!

    I as well experience very bad frametimes (jumping from 20ms to 600ms) in FC4 as well. Seems like a Texture streaming issue.

    This should be fixed in the upcomming patch please.

    Best regards

    phila
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  3. #13
    Same issue for me as well. It's giving me a headache after only a few minutes playing.

    I reported this to Ubisoft already but I'm not hopeful of a response.... They never seem to reply to game breaking issues.
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  4. #14
    Originally Posted by Dicehunter-OC3D Go to original post
    Still getting horrible performance, My actual fps are nice and high but the stuttering is getting stupid now.

    Ubisoft please for the love of gaming, Fix it, You charged me £50 for a game that should not of been released for another few months, It should of stayed in development for at least 2 more months to sort out the performance issues for the people with mid to higher end machines.

    GPU usage is going up and down sporadically, I've tested 30+ games and FC3+4 are the only ones that do this, guessing it's a problem with the engines used.

    Graph showing GPU usage in FC4 -



    I have tried this game across three nvidia cards. A gtx 970, 770 and 760oc 4gb. Funny enough it runs like crap on all of em.
    I really hope they address the major issues with this game soon. Crossing my fingers..

    Running around and driving is nauseating as hell as textures load in your face, pop in just from turning your back. The little black square fade in looks worse than the blood dragon/fc3 fade in.. and it happens all over.

    Some anti aliasing settings give a pink one pixel tall line around the screen when staring at the ground/dirt textures. Goes back to normal if you look at any thing else!

    The textures popping in are killing the fps so much, it is as if there is zero anisotropic filtering... why no 16x why no option at all in these games.

    I also feel most the settings either do nothing at all (except textures and godrays) or the textures streaming in are impacting performance more than any of the gfx settings!

    It is so disgusting that even on a mid range 660 FC3 runs maxxed out with a faint stutter on some areas loading in and this FC4 on low runs like a fast slideshow every 30 sec.
    I have tried messing with every setting and can't find a decent frame rate on 3 different machines 2 of which should really have no issues running this on very high/ultra settings.

    I
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  5. #15
    I found the solution; "Texture" setting to "Middle", no stupid stuttering while driving.
    But... it really doesn't enough for "High" setting even GTX780Ti 3GB?
    What a very poor optimizing for PC!
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  6. #16
    Originally Posted by nebura84 Go to original post
    I found the solution; "Texture" setting to "Middle", no stupid stuttering while driving.
    But... it really doesn't enough for "High" setting even GTX780Ti 3GB?
    What a very poor optimizing for PC!
    Sadly
    that is not a good solution as it does not work for all. I have this on 3 machines, 3 different cards (post above you is mine).
    No matter what settings even on low or all medium there is terrible texture streaming and performance.

    Yeah it is like they didn't bother to test it past turning on the main menu (which most people can't get past).
    After all the years they really do show how much they appreciate customers, investigating feedback and communication.. They really have dropped the ball on the last two lol.

    I really like the game but it needs some major hands on work.
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  7. #17

    Stuttering

    Glad I'm not alone with this issue, I never had any trouble running Far Cry 3 though, it used to run very well on my system.

    Far Cry 4 however is a different animal. It's horrible, I've tried it on all settings now and the stuttering is a game breaker. Even on Low settings with everything turned off it still stutters .

    AMD user I'm afraid, looks like they didn't bother testing any AMD cards as I've seen many forum threads regarding this issue with AMD hardware.
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  8. #18
    Originally Posted by mwelling12 Go to original post
    My specs:

    i7 2600k OC'd to 4.5GHz
    8GB RAM
    GTX 980 4GB OC'd to 1265MHz, 1510MHz boost
    250GB SSD
    144Hz VG248QE Asus monitor
    Windows 7 x64
    Running MSI Afterburner with OSD for framerate and GPU information

    I am someone who likes a very smooth gaming experience. Far Cry 4 is a demanding title on the GPU. That's good news. PC has needed titles to push its increasingly powerful hardware over the last few years. I usually run games at 120 fps locked, because this is what feels most smooth to me. In Far Cry 4, I can't manage 120 fps constantly with the graphic options turned up to where I want them. But that's fine with me. I've capped the framerate myself with Afterburner to 95 fps. I can run it at 95 fps constantly, and for the most part, it looks and feels great. I was running most settings on High, with Textures and Post Processing set to Ultra. AO to HBAO+ and God Rays to volumetric fog.

    That is, until I started driving around on a vehicle. I noticed that as you move around the environment rapidly, there is severe stuttering. My framerate often suddenly plummets from 95 down to 65 or 70, before recovering. For those who will say "well it's still above 60, so what?" a sudden drop like this is VERY noticeable. It's as if the screen freezes for a split second. This is not tolerable, especially when it's occurring while traveling all over the environment while on a vehicle.

    I noticed that, if I turn Textures all the way down to Medium, these stutters are mostly gone. All other settings can remain at High, Very High, or Ultra. I can even turn all settings (except Textures, of course) up to their highest, and this stuttering does not occur, as long as Textures is at Medium or Low.

    This, of course, points to a problem with Far Cry 4's Texture Streaming. My video card has 4GB of VRAM. It is not nearly maxing it out. Additionally, my game is on an SSD. My system RAM usage is barely over 50% while the game is running. This is not a hardware problem. The game simply cannot stream the large High/Very High/Ultra textures in on the fly fast enough to keep up with the player traveling around the environment quickly.

    I am assuming the solution needed is a patch. Because if I can't run the game smoothly with high end hardware, I'm assuming those with middle or low end hardware are having the same issues. Ubisoft needs to dedicate some time to making sure the game can run well enough on PC, because these types of issues (i.e. issues that users cannot fix by tweaking or upgrading their hardware) are not acceptable.

    Welcome to the new generation of ubi games where you need 20GB-Vram lol... Same issues with all of ubi next gen games watch dogs ring a bell, textures streaming ubi can't seem to figure out on pc at least high quality textures.. Anyway i am running into the same issue as you gtx 980 sli , 4770k Asus Rog swift g-sync monitor.
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  9. #19
    Been pouring through this thread (stuttering) and trying to get a game plan together.. is this a good summary of what to try?

    System:
    i7 3770k/4ghz
    GTX 970
    NVIDIA presets
    1920x1080p
    16GB RAM

    Stutters horribly in first scene riding in truck. Stutters on foot. Seems "smooth" and then stutters (200ms pauses etc)

    1. Move game to SSD first. I saw this on another thread... not sure why this would help with my 16GB ram
    2. Try GEFOREC experience settings?
    3. Enable VSYNC
    ? Which VSYNC mode?
    ? Force it in game or control panel?
    4. "CAP " FPS. As I understand it you need RIVATUNER for that?

    I don't understand how this can be so smooth on my new 970 and then just literally "pause".
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  10. #20
    Originally Posted by sjchmura Go to original post
    Been pouring through this thread (stuttering) and trying to get a game plan together.. is this a good summary of what to try?

    System:
    i7 3770k/4ghz
    GTX 970
    NVIDIA presets
    1920x1080p
    16GB RAM

    Stutters horribly in first scene riding in truck. Stutters on foot. Seems "smooth" and then stutters (200ms pauses etc)

    1. Move game to SSD first. I saw this on another thread... not sure why this would help with my 16GB ram
    2. Try GEFOREC experience settings?
    3. Enable VSYNC
    ? Which VSYNC mode?
    ? Force it in game or control panel?
    4. "CAP " FPS. As I understand it you need RIVATUNER for that?

    I don't understand how this can be so smooth on my new 970 and then just literally "pause".

    It's the texture streaming issue , only thing you can do it drop textures to med and it reduces stuttering a lot.
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