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  1. #21

    What about DisableLoadingMip0="0"

    It worked for me, I changed the value to 1, stutter almost completely gone here even with textures set on Very High.
    I saw it on neogaf I think.
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  2. #22
    Originally Posted by squidler80 Go to original post
    It's the texture streaming issue , only thing you can do it drop textures to med and it reduces stuttering a lot.
    BUt with 4GB VRAM what is this happening?? So is UBISOFT not using more than 2GB?
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  3. #23
    Originally Posted by Shiiimmy Go to original post
    It worked for me, I changed the value to 1, stutter almost completely gone here even with textures set on Very High.
    I saw it on neogaf I think.
    Sorry, which value did you change?
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  4. #24
    Originally Posted by sjchmura Go to original post
    Sorry, which value did you change?
    I changed the value on DisableLoadingMip0="0" to DisableLoadingMip0="1" under GamerProfile.xml.
    Just change it from "0" to "1".
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  5. #25
    Originally Posted by Shiiimmy Go to original post
    I changed the value on DisableLoadingMip0="0" to DisableLoadingMip0="1" under GamerProfile.xml.
    Just change it from "0" to "1".

    All ready tried this doesn't work for me
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  6. #26

    Possible Bottleneck?

    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.
    Just wondering how you're able to even reach that FPS as mine is nowhere near.

    Maxed out, I get roughly 59FPS. However the main difference between Me & You is I don't overclock anything, never have done.
    Even dropping the graphics quality, it rarely changes any FPS for me. I'm using G-Sync as well on an Asus ROG Swift PG278Q

    Specs;

    CPU: Intel i7 4820k @ 3.7Ghz
    GPU: EVGA GTX 980 - Reference Design, so normally lower clocks than ACX coolers/aftermarkets.
    Mobo: Gigabye X79-UP4
    RAM: Corsair XMS3 16GB 1600Mhz

    Do you think perhaps, albeit crazy to think, that a possible Bottleneck is happening between the CPU & GPU? Especially with it being clocked at stock 3.7Ghz?
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  7. #27

    AMD users - read this

    ASUS Radeon ROG R9 290X, 4GB GDDR5 (512 Bit) and Intel Core i7-4960X Extreme Edition. Tons of RAM and SSD disk. Havent tried newest AC, but FC4 is the first game I couldnt just set everything to ultra and play. Microstuttering all the way. I will not play with textures set to medium, so I tried everything to have good picture quality. Finally I found out that beta radeon drivers helps a lot.
    http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-arti...easeNotes.aspx
    Its not a final solution, but game become playable. Try this if you suffer from performance issues on FC4.
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  8. #28
    This disableMip option KILLS texture quality.

    We need to pressure Ubisoft to oficially recognize this stuttering issue. This is unacceptable.
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  9. #29
    Funny, I didnt have this issue in FC3 at all.
    Now, I have it in FC4.
    BUT, I didnt have the stuttering when I had the old 341 nvidia 780gtx drivers installed, and now I do with the 344 nvidia drivers, and going back now does not fix the issue.


    Intell 990X @ 4.0ghz (no hyperthreading on, just straight 6 real cores)
    12GB memory
    GTX780 3GB memory

    EDIT:
    WOOHOO!!!
    ]quote]
    I changed the value on DisableLoadingMip0="0" to DisableLoadingMip0="1" under GamerProfile.xml.
    [/quote]

    This fixed the stuttering issue for me!
    344 nvidia whql driver, some setting modified, like blur=off, shadows=medium, AA/MSAA/MSAO/ETC/ETC/ETC disabled.

    Totally stutter free.
    Doesnt look as good, but can at least play the game.


    Thanks to Shiiimmy for the workaround!
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  10. #30
    Yes, the streaming stutter is awful in this game. Very strange, because Far Cry 3 runs supersmooth on my machine. SSD or HDD, it doesn't matter, Far Cry 4 has stutters on both. And I don't think it's a VRAM issue, because the game only uses 3GB and I have a 4GB 970.
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