Yeah seems you can't do that on a desktop PC. I've already tried reinstalling and repairing the game, but none of that seems to fix the texture issue.
Ah, damn. The game is still fairly new though so I'm sure these issues will be addressed further sometime soon. At least if any laptop users come by here, my answer may be of more help. Hopefully someone does know something more to help you out though!
Community ManagerThe texture pop in you guys report sounds like a hard drive performance issue. I am willing to guess your games are installed on a fairly full spinning disk type hard drive. A defrag might not go amiss.
@EA_Barry Im having pop in issues too, often near gas stations and around the plane body that you can do jumps near thats next to the starter garage and I have the game on an SSD with 90+ gb free space.
Also have said stuttering issue that are so bad that its the only reason I haven't bought the full game yet, which I really want to do cause the game is alot of fun :/
So if you guys fix the stuttering before the weekend I'll buy the Deluxe Edition! :P
Honestly I love the game but the stuttering kills it for me. I was prepared to buy the deluxe edition without hesitation but the trial has been a awful experience due to the constant stutter .
Please fix urgently!! I know that many people like me are just waiting for a fix before they commit to purchasing this awesome game!
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
