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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guys any news about stuttering problem ????
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
hi (soorry for my english im italian ) , so i have i7 7700hq 4 core 3,8 ghz max speed
gtx 1050ti
but in the end for me the game still **** unplayable
me too in this days I thought I had solved the problem, with a similar program (Full Throttle Override ) same functions of your s .... NO WAY ! I thought I had solved yesterday disabling MSI DRAGON CENTER (with shift mode ) the game was playable all day no stuttering on ULTRA , no stuttering ,nothing !! wow ..! today with the same steps the problem back again .. isuportable, ridicolous , i tried everything , NO WAY ! ☹️
but if im going to install process lasso i need to unistall taks manager o something instead of ?? but thabks anyway fo soluction im gonna try after reinstalling the game
No problem... I'm not native English too I'm from The Netherlands. We understand each other that's what's important.
I'm using the Lasso application for days now to have just 5 cores used in Need for Speed Payback and for me it's playable all the way now.
Did you check while gaming with Alt-Tab to get back into Windows and look if your program still just uses 4 or 5 cores? For me it's working like a charm now and hope I can help others to have fun with this game again too because even if it's not the best optimized game, it's still so much fun to play.
I sure hope that it works with Lasso for you but make sure you follow the steps as I gave earlier to have the lasso application just use 5 cores when Need for Speed starts up by clicking the 'Always' under CPU affinity.
Good luck!
