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Constant stutters and frame rate drops. Seriously EA, try finishing a game before realising it just once!
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Steam version here but sadly the same issue.
This is an Unreal Engine 4 game that has been released without a pre-shader compilation stage as the game first loads or during the menu so the shaders are being generated as you play and because Unreal Engine 4 is not very well optimised for multi-threaded CPUs you get a stutter the first time a new effect is generated. Eventually all the shaders will be generated but the cache will reset once you update your graphics driver and/or if the game has a big update.
It just beggar's belief that EA released the game like this after their own Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, also a UE4 game, was released with the EXACT same issue!!! Even now Jedi: Survivor is a travesty of a PC release as the developers never bothered to fix it properly so performance, especially with ray-tracing, remains poor and it has both shader *and* traversal stutters. Lovely!!!
I expected better from an experienced and talented developer like Codemasters. I am very disappointed and will be requesting a refund from Steam where I bought the game.
It does this on Xbox and repeats at the exact same point if you restart the stage immediately so doesn't seem to cache anything here.
Just... wow... Codemasters must have worked really hard to implement stuttering on the consoles then because it shouldn't even be a thing as they use fixed hardware so the shaders are pre-compiled and included with the game download and updated via patches if required.
Maybe what you're seeing are traversal stutters, another issue that Unreal Engine 4 is notorious for and one which does affect consoles as it is caused by the engine's streaming system that will cause a momentary hitch at certain points on the map where the game loads in a lot of data. This causes the framerate to drop and you get a stutter in the game. If the stutter is repeatable and in the same place each time then it is traversal stutter. There is no fix for that as far as I am aware as it is just a limitation of the engine.
I suspect it's happening as it loads specific sectors.
