Witcher 3 Stuttering Issues

Danny207 · 6 Jun 2016 at 23:31

Hey Guys, Hope you can help me with this. I have constant 60fps no problems until a massive stutter that lasts 2 to 5 seconds then back to normal for about 2 mins.

this problem only arisen when they released an update (dunno when they released it)

Would appreciate it immensely if you could solve the issue for me guys.

TonyTurbo78 · 6 Jun 2016 at 23:53

Are you running crossfire or sli? To fix stuttering on mgpu, people including myself have stopped the stutter by removing the health bar in the video options.

Danny207 · 7 Jun 2016 at 00:09

appreciate the reply but I don't have crossfire or sli,

I got no problems for all my other games

my specs are
FX-8350
GTX 970
16gb RAM
M587AL-USB3 (apologies, not too sure the name of the motherboard)

and it's on my SSD

Limpnoodle · 7 Jun 2016 at 00:40

Sounds like they messed up patching, my guess is just wait till they patch the patch, as bad as that sounds

Reality|Bites · 7 Jun 2016 at 00:44

reinstall/update your NVidia drivers and see.

Danny207 · 7 Jun 2016 at 09:50

ok thanks guys for the help

youdsy · 7 Jun 2016 at 10:08

try changing these settings in the nvidia control panel for the witcher 3:-

power management: max power

max pre rendered frames: 1

Danny207 · 7 Jun 2016 at 11:35

might give that a try thanks!!

Gogl · 7 Jun 2016 at 12:16

If you really get desperate for your Witcher fix you can try limiting the FPS to around 45 with nvidia inspector to see if that helps (as it does for GTA V on my G3258), if not you could try limiting the Witcher.exe to ~95% (-5% usage, less might work) using something like Battle Enecoder Shirase, I have to use this to get it to run on my G3258 without pausing, though I hadn't tried this before the patch I'm not sure it was ever different with this processor.

It does say "Starting from version 1.5.x, you can tweak the sleep/awake cycle (frequency) of BES, in milliseconds. This may be handy for example when you want to throttle a game process while keeping the visual smooth. Try a smaller value like 40 in such a case, instead of the default value, 100. Notice, a 40-millisecond cycle means that the visual can be redrawn, in theory, 25 times a second, allowing a 25-fps movie to play without being jumpy. Do not use a too small value, though (the smaller it gets, the less accurate control you get)."

Though I'm sure I was getting more than 25fps with greater values. Anyway, just something to consider if you just can't wait, use at your own risk!