Hi EA, I recently got Need for Speed Payback and have been having issues on and off. Playing the Campaign was fine but there were stuttering issues which meant I had to constantly restart the game when the stuttering to too intense and unbearable. Multiplayer however is WAY worse. I struggle to keep up with the (stupid goddamn Regera) because my game is almost constantly stuttering. My PC isn't all that great but, I'm running everything on LOW and have even got a couple of options turned off completely. I have a 3.2Ghz i5 Quad Core / GTX 970 / 8GB of RAM. And Normally the only thing running is Spotify and Need for Speed. Can you help? P.S. I really enjoy the game and loved the story.

The game in overall has major performance issues in all platforms, not only PC and the best solution is to wait for Ghost's patch to resolve these issues.I get stutters too, but mostly in the city and I managed to get the game to a pretty manageable state by reducing Ambient Occlusion to SSAO and vegetation to Medium. The rest is High and the game is mostly all good (considering its bad for most people).What I have noticed that this game burns my CPU more than other games for last few years. My watercooling solution is always at maximum power when playing NFS Payback.

this will be my last nfs game.enough waste of money. after the failure of nfs 2015 and now this, in addition of the stutters that makes the game disgusting.i7 6900k1080ti32 gbI give up from NFS game, NFS is dead.

Hey guys... After the big patch in December the stuttering was gone for me but after the new big update last month the stuttering got back and even worse... I have had contact a couple of times with EA and they can't seem to find a solution for this but.... I found one after long searching and trying a lot of different things...Most of the people i see online are on a machine using multiple cores... I have a pretty mean machine myself and i think the problem is limited to these kind of machines:Core i7 7700KAsus Maximus Formula IX32 GB 2666 HyperX memoryAsus GTX 1080 Ti OC 11 GB960 Pro NVME 5124K screenI GOT IT TO WORK NOW!!If you have a machine with more then 4 cores you will get the stuttering in some configurations and you can fix it:1. I downloaded a simple program called 'Process Lasso'2. Installed it and started Need For Speed Payback.3. Lookup NeedforSpeedpayback.exe in the processes4. Rightclick the process and click the second line: CPU affinity5. Now select Always...6. Click CPU affinity7. deselct a couple of cores but leave 5 cores checked...8. Go back to the game9. Enjoy stutter-free (but occasionally mini freezes as a little downside)Why this program you ask? Because this sets this affinity with the cores every time you start the game instead of doing it manually via Task Manager in W10.It's not a real solution of course but now it's playable without getting tears in your eyes and a headace after playing for about 10 minutes...I hope this also works for you all...If you first want to test it you can of course set the affinity in the task manager first to check if it solves the problem for you. With 2 cores it's unplayable, 3 cores is still quite bad, 4 cores it's finally playable but 5 cores is the limit of the game (so it seems).If any of the EA crew are reading with me... Please fix this issue... None of my other games have this problemwhile playing every game @ 4K ultra.Good luck to you all! Greets,Mark

do you knwo when the patch is?im having nonstop stuttring as wel. if i put everything on highest or lowest setting it makes no difference.for some reason i could play the game quite decent for about 5 hours and now its unplayable. I even tried reinstalling it but that didnt work either

i got a 1080 anf an i7 7700k 8 gig of ram and online is not playable

Need for Speed: Payback Stuttering Issues.

27 Replies

Anonymous
8 years ago
The game in overall has major performance issues in all platforms, not only PC and the best solution is to wait for Ghost's patch to resolve these issues.
I get stutters too, but mostly in the city and I managed to get the game to a pretty manageable state by reducing Ambient Occlusion to SSAO and vegetation to Medium. The rest is High and the game is mostly all good (considering its bad for most people).

What I have noticed that this game burns my CPU more than other games for last few years. My watercooling solution is always at maximum power when playing NFS Payback.
CQNZR
8 years ago
I played 2015 on Maxed settings and had no problems with it, Minus the spontaneously falling through the map some times, but that was solved by turning off video capture software.

Payback is a brilliant and gorgeous game in my oppinion, but even on LOW settings for everything I'm struggling to play properly.

When these patches happen, those goddamn Regera's are going down.

Also Occlusion has been turned completely off. & yeah the stuttering is way more intense during the City based stuff.
ELIES-EH
8 years ago
this will be my last nfs game.
enough waste of money. after the failure of nfs 2015 and now this, in addition of the stutters that makes the game disgusting.
i7 6900k
1080ti
32 gb
I give up from NFS game, NFS is dead.
ELIES-EH
8 years ago
what a bad feeling to waste 50$ on this *.
the * origin forced me to pay in EURO, and not in USD, so i bought this disaster game from cdkeys.com and now i cannot refund.
it there a way to sell this game for 1 $ ?
LepreNx
8 years ago
ill buy it
CQNZR
8 years ago
I was literally asking for advice; not your sob story lol.

They will patch it, not everything is perfect; errors like this on release are acceptable imo.
Anonymous
8 years ago
do you knwo when the patch is?
im having nonstop stuttring as wel. if i put everything on highest or lowest setting it makes no difference.
for some reason i could play the game quite decent for about 5 hours and now its unplayable. I even tried reinstalling it but that didnt work either
Anonymous
8 years ago
i got a 1080 anf an i7 7700k 8 gig of ram and online is not playable
ln5aNeGuY
8 years ago
starletboy6969 the game needs more than 8gb of ram, at least on max settings, for me the game alone takes about 8-10gb of ram + ~2gb for OS leaves me at arround 10-12Gb of ram usage.

for general it depends on where the lag/stuttering is coming from, in everthing ultra i have 4gb+vram usage which can leave some with a gtx970 (3.5gb) with some additional micro stutter, besides that the game seems to be very picky on the internet in online mode, even slightly bad internet give you lags/stutter.
the game is saved with "denuvo 4.7" which also uses some VM technique to save the game thus increasing both CPU and RAM usage i would say CPU is clear RAM is only a guess while task manager says 4gb process usage but in overall nfs adds up 8gb+ RAM usage.

I also have some micro stuttering here and there which sucks too besides that it doesnt seem that much except in city where there is significantly more stuttering.
i7 6700k, 16GB Ram ,GTX1070 8GB, SSDs
Anonymous
8 years ago
guys any news about stuttering problem ????