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CQNZR
8 years ago

Need for Speed: Payback Stuttering Issues.

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 wh...
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Anonymous
8 years ago

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

  • ln5aNeGuY's avatar
    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
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      Anonymous
      8 years ago

      guys any news about stuttering problem ????

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        Markvvelsen
        8 years ago

        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 7700K

        Asus Maximus Formula IX

        32 GB 2666 HyperX memory

        Asus GTX 1080 Ti OC 11 GB

        960 Pro NVME 512

        4K screen

        I 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 processes

        4. Rightclick the process and click the second line: CPU affinity

        5. Now select Always...

        6. Click CPU affinity

        7. deselct a couple of cores but leave 5 cores checked...

        8. Go back to the game

        9. 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

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