Re: Traversal stutter on PC

Platform: Windows (Steam)
PSN ID/Xbox GT: SteamID: AlfaOneSeven
Region: USA/NA
Are you using an internal or external drive? Internal
Are you using an HDD or SSD? WD Black SN770 M2 NVMe SSD Gen4
Date this issue started (is it still happening?)? Since launch, still happening as of 16:55:00 2/2/2023 Traversal stutters and frame drops while panning camera while stationary.
Is anything else happening? No
If possible, share a Screenshot or Clip... Links below

 DXDIAG included below as well.

https://youtu.be/RRKfk6Hc_Gs <--- Example no. 1

https://youtu.be/xC3G-Xq094Q <--- Example no. 2

Platform: Playstation 5

PSN ID/Xbox GT: PedroHrd1

Region: Brazil

Are you using an internal or external drive?

A:Internal

Are you using an HDD or SSD?

A:SSD

Date this issue started (is it still happening?)?

A: Every day since launch it's still happening 

Is anything else happening? A:

No, only this

If possible, share a Screenshot or Clip...

A: it's not as bad as on pc but still annoying

I am also seeing bad traversal stuttering on PC. This is with the latest patch as 02/02/2023.

Platform: Windows (Steam)
PSN ID/Xbox GT: SteamID: h3llf1re
Region: UK
Are you using an internal or external drive? Internal
Are you using an HDD or SSD? PCIE Gen4 SSD: Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus Gaming
Date this issue started (is it still happening?)? Since launch, still happening as of 02/02/2023.
Is anything else happening? No

DXDIAG included.

I don't have a video clip available at the moment, but the clips posted above by user AlfaOneSeven demonstrate the problem I am seeing very clearly.

EDIT: short clip uploaded showing two significant traversal stutters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocroT2loggE

Platform: PC, EA App
Region: EU
Storage: Internal M.2 SSD. Sabrent Rocket Q 2TB NVMe
Issue been here Since Release, and it is still happening as of 03rd of February 2023
Is anything else happening? : No

Platform: Windows 10
PSN ID/Xbox GT: TafferKing (Steam)
Region: US
Are you using an internal or external drive? Internal
Are you using an HDD or SSD? SSD 
Date this issue started (is it still happening?)? Since launch, and it's still happening after the 2/2/2023 patch.
Is anything else happening? Nothing noticeable
If possible, share a Screenshot or Clip:
Uploaded a clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5BabJHn35w 
If on PC, please share a DxDiag:
Attached!

I appreciate that you all are continuing to help with this issue. I hope it can get resolved.

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@EA_Illium wrote:

Hey everyone I wanted to check if this is still happening for anyone?

If so please let us know the following. 

Platform:
PSN ID/Xbox GT:
Region:
Are you using an internal or external drive?
Are you using an HDD or SSD?
Date this issue started (is it still happening?)?
Is anything else happening?
If possible, share a Screenshot or Clip...
If on PC, please share a DxDiag

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Steam

EU

NVMe SSD

Since launch

Nope

https://streamable.com/ga6zlg

https://streamable.com/nidkoh

https://streamable.com/n4r04m

The traversal stutter is unchanged, it's still as prominent as it was on launch. It happens so frequently that it really ruins the experience.

Platform: Steam

PSN ID/Xbox GT: NA

Region: Australia

Are you using an internal or external drive? Internal

Are you using an HDD or SSD? M.2 NVME Gen 3 500GB SSD

Date this issue started (is it still happening?)? Launch day/yes

Is anything else happening? nope

If possible, share a Screenshot or Clip... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65MEoHFXdzY

Yes this is happening and will probably continue to happen unless you guys figure out a way to stream the assets dramatically more efficiently or use DirectStorage, unless the game already utilizes DS.

Anyway,

Platform: Steam (Windows 11)

Xbob42

Region: NA

Drive: Internal

Drive: SSD

Happening: Since launch (yes, still happening)

Anything else? No, aside from traversal stutters it runs absolutely incredibly well

I really hope this can be fixed. It's a bummer when it happens because like someone else said, it's like 99% perfect but the 1% we're seeing here only becomes more and more glaring because of that.

just looking through all the DxDiag's posted in this thread they all list nvidia gpu's, coincidence ?

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@macatak wrote:

just looking through all the DxDiag's posted in this thread they all list nvidia gpu's, coincidence ?

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Maybe, but it could just be done to more people own Nvidia cards. Either way I hope the devs fix this soon, it's getting a little silly that it hasn't been fixed at this point.

I did a comparison of Dead Space and Spider Man, both games were capped to 120fps and settings were adjusted to hit that target 99% of the time.

The difference is night and day, Spider Man runs flawlessly (apart from the one massive spike in the middle, that's the only time the game has stuttered in 6 hours), while Dead Space is a stuttering mess. If I can web sling around a massive open world without stuttering I should be able to walk slowly around a ship without constantly hitching.

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@AlfaOneSeven wrote:
@MrH999It’s hard not to feel like a “second-class gamer” at this point. PS5 had a launch bug that was as serious as ours, and they communicated quite heavily and had the problem fixed within 72 hours. PC is 9 days post-launch and still suffering from the same problem, with very little communication outside of a Reddit post asking for DxDiag’s and specs.

I love this game, and desperately want to be able to enjoy it. I wish they’d at least tell us they’re working to resolve it, instead of radio silence.

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I've loved this franchise for a very long time and in general the remake is everything I wanted it to be. I spent £1200 upgrading my computer to be ready for it, only to have the experience ruined by stuttering, so I'm pretty upset honestly.

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@macatak wrote:
@AlfaOneSeveni believe it's happening on all platforms

https://imgur.com/6zCPKFd

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If Alex says so, I would 100% trust him. Digital Foundry and him especially are at the top of their field. I think we'll be getting his PC breakdown for Dead Space in the next couple of days, hopefully then we might actually get a fix (bad press from Digital Foundry always seems to magically speed up the process).

Hey everyone, I managed to figure out a workaround for a 95% stutter free experience.

Traversal stutters absolutely still exist, but he micro-stuttering is completely gone for me. The game still hangs at certain, reproducible areas (i.e. certain doorways, ramps, trams stations, etc..) but the overall stutter has been significantly reduced for me. I hope it helps you too.

1. Using Nvidia Profile Inspector, I set V-sync to "Force on" and Shader Cache to "10GB."
2. Set my refresh rate to 60hz, not a fixed refresh rate in RTSS or Nvidia Control panel, like I manually set my display refresh rate to 60hz in Windows display options.
3. Disabled G-Sync.
4. Set my in-game graphics settings to my preference, display mode to "borderless windowed" and v-sync to "On" in-game, and then saved at a save station.
   
5. Deleted my Dead Space 2023 cache folder inside of my "User/Documents/DeadSpace(2023)" folder and let the shaders rebuild on boot.

I found a post on fixing stuttering in Jedi: Fallen Order, and was inspired to try it on Dead Space since they both use Frostbite. Are traversal stutters annoying? Yes. But with this solution it feels more like a "dropped frame" instead of a "frame-time" spike. Maybe @MrH999 can test to see if that's true or not. For now it will let me enjoy the game more while we hopefully wait for a patch. Cheers.

Thanks for the workaround, but that sounds worse than just not playing at all. Dropping from 120 to 60 FPS, removing gsync, just making the entire experience dramatically worse to partially resolve an issue just isn't gonna do it for me.

Perhaps for others, especially those already on 60hz displays, this'll be great, but I'll keep holding out.

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@Xbob42 wrote:

Thanks for the workaround, but that sounds worse than just not playing at all. Dropping from 120 to 60 FPS, removing gsync, just making the entire experience dramatically worse to partially resolve an issue just isn't gonna do it for me.

Perhaps for others, especially those already on 60hz displays, this'll be great, but I'll keep holding out.

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Yeah, it's like cutting your legs off to lose weight.

Up.

Any updates EA? on the next patch, to fix the traversal stutter on pc. Because it's horrible and not plezant.

Yeah, EA's been awful quiet about this one. C'mon guys, don't leave a near-perfect game in this really poor state for no reason.