Need for speed payback stuttering
Need for speed payback stuttering and freezing especially in the city. Gpu usage drop to 70%. Frostbite engine is a joke when it comes to racing games. This will be my last nfs game promes. I7 690...
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I agree with you my friend. I paid 1000 ( hard earned ) Canadian dollars for my zotac amp gtx 1080 ti . Bought a new WD blue 1 TB ssd and put all my games on it including payback, heck even got a new EVGA Gold 850 watt psu and the game still dips below 60 fps right down to 48 fps in the city areas @ 2569 x 1600p resolution. I can run Crysis 3 maxed with 2 x saa and it never drops below 70 fps. I cant accept that we have to turn down setting to run payback on PC rigs like ours. Thats just not right at all.
I did some testing and the shadows on ultra is what is killing the frame rate. Even high causes the game to struggle. Sure is frustrating to have all this high end stuff and watch it go to waste . The game isn't even using full gpu when it drops to low 40s in the city. Some wrong there that's for sure. Hope we see a fix .
Hello,
I have the same issue.
I7 6700K, MSI 1080Ti, 16GB Ram
and the game is freezing and stuttering from time to time - indeed it occurs more often in the city than anywhere else.
Off-road races seems to work fine.
It's super annoying because game was working better wheh I had Radeon R9. Just lower fps but without freezing.
Need for speed payback optimization seems to be very bad ...
Also this is THE ONLY GAME I have in my library which is freezing and stuttering.
Need for Speed Payback is really good racing game, but ...
PLEASE PATCH IT GOD DAMN IT'S DAMN ANNOYING WHEN IT FREEZE!
Best wishes.
I carried out tests, which graphics setting (in my case) causes the problem described above and came up with an interesting conclusions.
Initially, I lowered all the details. On the lowered details the game worked without freezing and stuttering, so I knew that I would definitely find a faulty setting and some solution.
After restoring all settings to "ultra", ambient occlusion etc. the game continued to work without freezing and stuttering...
Like suddenly the problem disappeared.
I turned the game off and on again to see how it works and the freezing and stuttering occurred again.
So by the elimination I discovered that when I turn off the V-sync for a moment the game starts to work without any problems - and what's better, you can turn it on again and the game will continue to run without freezing and stuttering.
PS. UNFORTUNATELY NOT FIXED
After a sever or so minutes of playing freezing and stuttering occurs again.
Do I have to say how many times I crashed my car because of that???
...
I won't play this game until it's fixed.
EA Patch it please.
Best wishes.
Hello,
as I wrote here: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/Thank-you-EA-Please-EA-topic-about-1080-Ti-NFS-Payback-Issues/m-p/6579096#M3186
"After disabling Vertical Sync, Motion Blur and setting 'High' Shadows quality the game seems to works fluently and smooth!"
You may want to check out doing the same until EA will release a good patch for the problem.
Kind regards.
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
