Okay, no matter the settings I get hitching at around ~70mph or higher, especially in the city, doesn't matter if its 800x600 minimum settings, or 1680x1050 maximum settings, same stutter.
Any help? Any clues if there's a patch coming out to fix it? It sucks since it's a really good game, but it's pracitcally unplayable as/is. The "stutter" feels somewhat like the problem Saints Row 2 had on PC.
Set supersampling to off in the menus and turn off ambient occulsion.
Neither on as it also does it at 800x600 all minimum settings,
I checked with Fraps and at high post fx (or whatever its called) and high reflections, light scattering on and shadows medium at 1680x1050 it never dips below 30fps, averages about ~42fps. Setting lock to 30 doesn't really help either.
Core i3-2100 3.10ghz
6GB DDR3 Ram
XFX HD5670 OC GDDR5 512MB
Is this perhaps an AMD/ATi issue?
When testing low settings, did you also set textures to lower quality?
@quagmire15 wrote:Neither on as it also does it at 800x600 all minimum settings,
I checked with Fraps and at high post fx (or whatever its called) and high reflections, light scattering on and shadows medium at 1680x1050 it never dips below 30fps, averages about ~42fps. Setting lock to 30 doesn't really help either.
Core i3-2100 3.10ghz
6GB DDR3 Ram
XFX HD5670 OC GDDR5 512MB
Is this perhaps an AMD/ATi issue?
Considering your card only have 512 MB of VRAM, which is not much, and considering that Need for Speed is an open world game where the textures of the city are loaded on the fly, it is possible that your VRAM gets full and that the loading of new textures takes more time than usual, thus causing stuttering. The memory bandwidth of that card may not be that high either, which is not helping.
This sort of problem is pretty common in games like GTA, Saints Row, Burnout, Need for Speed, etc., especially if you get a pretty fast car.
To minimize the problem, be sure to select the lowest textures.
Well, memory bandwidth is 72gb/s, and it's GDDR5, which is the newest.
Wish it had more than 512MB, because it does actually have the "muscle" to run at higher settings @ native res, but the more I think, the more I would guess it's the memory being too small.
But yeah, there is no texture setting, just a on/off switch for HD textures, which is off.
No matter the settings it hovers between 503mb VRAm and 499MB VRAM usage.
Still stuttering in town, now only at around 100+mph, but unplayable, can't get past some of the Most Wanted race challenges since it'll stutter and wreck me. Frame rate never dips below 30FPS (lock to 30 is turned on) so it is not the framerate.
So, any word of a fix? Upcoming patch? A little info would be nice.
Thanks
If you're using a nvidia card, try turning off ambient occulsion, vastly improved it for me. It's more or less only shadows that are affected and I can live with that.
