FPS drops on gtx 970. Patch?

@LurkerYun

No luck with these drivers. Currently testing 387.92.

385.69

385.41

385.28

384.94

@LurkerYun

So 387 was a bust as well, no difference. Best performance by far with 388.13. Now I will test using in-game settings and editing profile if there is anything that would resolve the stuttering. I am running the game on Ultra at 1080p with absolutely everything maxed and doing the DB11 mission (intro second mission I think). Will update this thread on the go if I manage to pull something off.

I am running it on i5-3570k, stock speed; GTX 1070, 16GB DDR RAM (dont remember the speed), Windows 10 64bit

When it is not stuttering, the game is running at a solid 80fps, so my specs are totally fine for Ultra.

Yea it runs very well here too on Ultra, except when it stutters. Got i7-5280k and 1080 myself so to me it seems like the problem is game related and not on my end. Seen some mentions about the devs testing stuff that will improve overall performance but not sure if that was for PC or console, would be nice if a person from EA/this site could give a little wink about the issue being adressed or not :/

@LurkerYunOk so I think I found the main culprit for the very heavy stuttering. It is Ambient Occlusion... of all the things. It does something with soft shadows and the HBAO, AOA and AOA Full completely destroy my playing experience. SSAO is pretty much perfect, I get microsecond stutters from time to time, but those look more like lag that actual stutter. I would not suggest using OFF, there is not much difference in terms of performance and it completely removes soft shadows, making many things look... strange.

Anti-Aliasing change between FXAA and TAA did some minor changes as well, but it looked not to affect stuttering, simply FPS and therefore lag in places where there was more to render.

There is no difference in terms of performance between All Settings at LOW and All Settings at HIGH. And almost no difference in terms of quality HIGH compared to ULTRA, but there is a slight performance drop.

So what I would suggest to try is:
Everything HIGH
Fullscreen ON
Vertical Sync OFF
Motion Blur OFF
Ambient Occlusion SSAO
Anti-Aliasing TAA

Driver 388.13.

See if that makes the game playable for you.

Please note though that my test only involved the first minute of the DB11 mission until the end of first speedtrap/zone.

Tried your suggestions now @Dryminator and still stutters that affects the gameplay, think im just gonna have to put this game on the shelf for now untill they release a patch/hotfix for this.

Quite annoying tho that no official representative can give us a little info about if this issue are being adressed or not...

I have the same ;-) and on Ultra crash to windows and GFX Memory error on stock GTX 1070... Not playable at all... even high and lower settings... I want my money back...

stutter in this game is very bad, and gpu usage drop randomly especially in the city.

i7 6900k

gtx 1080ti

32 gb ram

Hi, I have update manualy my Win10 to Fall Creators Update becasue I have try Atmos on my Razer Headphones and run the NFS after update and everything is ok no stutter. Mision with DB11 all ok...

I7 6700K OC 4.5 Ghz

GTX 1070

8GB 

@RobsonikJGG good you found a fix that worked for you 🙂 Unfortunately for myself, I already had the Fall Creators Update before trying this game and still have massive stutters :/

Did you guys tried to check your CPU and GPU temperatures while playing?

I noted this game heat my CPU waaaaay more than any other game I ever played, even more that some OC torture tests, which I think is an issue btw.

Maybe some of you guys are having heat problems and the CPU/GPU is throttling.

After few hours gaming everything ok ;-)

@flep Temperatures are within what is safe for my setup so unfortunately overheating isnt the issue either :/

I also suffer heavy stuttering.  The game ruuns at 60fps most of the time at ultra, but the game freezes for a second at times.

I am running a i5-3570, 8gb of ram and a 1060 3gb.

Running windows 10 with fall update and latest Nvidia drivers

I have tried setting the game at lowest settings and the problem persist, and it is even worse than at ultra.

I also have noticed that the CPU usage is constant at 90%, DRM in the game? 

Vram is not bottle necking the game. At ultra the game uses about 75% of my Vram.

CPU and GPU temperatures are around 60-65°C after a few hours of playing.

Yeah it's definitely not a overheat problem, I bumped my fans to keep my temperatures lower and the micro-freezes still happen.

I'm playing on a 3570K @ 4.6Ghz with a 980TI at 1450Mhz on 1440p, mix of Ultra and High, FPS normally above 80/100.

The GPU usage is always at 99% (which is expected at this resolution) and it's not the problem, CPU hardly goes above 80% but as I monitor the usage with a history graph I can clearly see a CPU spike every time the micro-freeze happens. It's odd that it's even on the spike it doesn't go at 100%, but it happens.

I'll try a few things and report back here.

I dont have these issues any more (only small lag ticks because heavy rendering, the same happened in Forza Horizon 3 in the city areas), but what you could try is to disable Game Mode for Windows 10 if it is active.
Press WINDOWS Key -> Click on settings (gear symbol) -> Gaming -> Game Mode -> Disable It

Then test if that changes anything. I doubt it does, but I've heard it to be a performance culprit in some games.

There is something wrong with the game. It stutters every 3-4 sec. Even with 80-90fps. With vsync on, 60fps it's nearly unplayable.

The worst thing about it is, that even after I close the game, my Firefox and all videos stutter too. I have to reboot my PC to get rid of it.

Strange sh*t. Never seen something like this. Playing on WIndows 7 Ultimate. 

Specs:

i7 2600K (4.5Ghz)

16GB DDR3 Ram

GTX 1080

All it says for me under the Game Mode menu is that "This PC supports game mode" but nothing I can disable etc.

But I have finally gotten a response from a Ghost representative on the Reddit forums that there is a performance patch in the works so I guess its just to sit back and wait for it to go live. Hopefully that isnt too far away!

So I was looking through their tweets on twitter and they responded to a person that was talking about textures not loading and things and they said that they are working on a patch to improve performance so hopefully that means it will help the stutters and hopefully it will come out soon.

I just want to confirm that as posted above by @devdenny, we are investigating performance issues on relatively high spec hardware.

@EA_Barry Thanks for answer 🙂

You wouldnt have an estimate of when this patch will come? Atm I cant play the game cause of the heavy stutterings that affects the handling of the car and I really would love to dive properly into this game :/

@LurkerYun

I cannot provide any dates as we are still in the investigation stage. Thanks.

What information can we provide to help you find the problem?

I also have a system  running 7700k, 16GB RAM, Installed on and SSD, and 2 overclocked 970's running in SLI. the game will cant get above 20 FPS in Dx 11 with poor card utilization and only runs one card in DX12. Super glad that this hasn't been fixed from the beta.