Stuttering frequently on highest and lowest settings.

Same for me

Average fps 90 on i5 11500k+rx 7900xt

But lots of random lagspikes

same here

medium or high, vsync or not, dlss or not, full screen or borderless : lots of stuttering in every turn

vsync on 60Hz : GPU 50% and cpu 25%

vsync off : GPU 99% and more or less 100 fps (1080p medium + dlss quality)

r7 3700x + rtx 2060

Hey there,

Could you please share a clip where we can appreciate this issue? If I have a clip I can raise it with the team so they can investigate it 

What did you expect? Its an EA game; game is not playable in this very state; its a Jedi Survivor situation, dont have high hopes that this will be fixed.

I have the Steam version and only briefly tried the game this morning on my i5-13600KF, 32 GB DDR4 3600, RTX 4080, Windows 11 Pro 23H2 PC using the latest NVIDIA 545.94 driver for my graphics card (the newer 546.01 driver is now out) at 1440p maxed out settings and was extremely disappointed to see yet ANOTHER Unreal Engine 4 game on PC that has shader compilation stutter!!!

Seriously EA, did you learn nothing from Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, another UE4 game that released earlier on this year with the EXACT same issue?!? That game is regarded as a travesty of a PC version by Digital Foundry as the developers never bothered to properly fix the poor performance, particularly with ray-tracing, or the shader and traversal stutter.

WRC has no apparent shader compilation step during loading or on the main menu screen and seems to be generating them as you play so every time you play a new track, see a new effect or drive through water for the first time then there is a stutter as the shader is compiled. Repeat the track and the stutters are gone but only because they are cached. Install a new graphics driver, like I will be doing tonight, or update/patch the game and the shaders will reset and you will get the same stutters all over again. This seems to be acceptable PC gaming as defined by EA and Codemasters!

Honestly, Unreal Engine 4 shader stutter, the so-called #StutterStruggle, is the most talked about issue on PC in the last 12-18 months so it defies belief that EA and Codemasters released the game on PC in this state. It is possible to have smooth-running Unreal Engine games as Dead Island 2, Lies of P and Robocop: Rogue City (the latter using UE5) prove but it seems too many developers are just content to release their games without considering shader compilation. Why is there no mandatory shader compilation when I load the game up for the first time (and after a driver update).

It is inexcusable to be releasing a PC game this late in 2023 with shader compilation stutter in my opinion, especially after there has been so much discussion about the poor quality of PC games this year on various PC media sites and Digital Foundry.

I will be requesting a refund from Steam later after I have tested the new graphics drivers but I am 100% sure that they will not make any difference because it is the game code not the drivers that are the problem here.

@Bernstoned - Exactly.

The problem is that the support staff with not understand what this issue is and likely blame the user or their PC for the issue. I can tell you know that the developers do but they just choose to ignore on PC for whatever reason, probably because they only really care about consoles which isn't affected by shader compilation stutter as having fixed hardware means that the shaders can be delivered as part of the game download and updated as required via patches/updates. This isn't possible on PC due to the huge variation of hardware.

That said, I have read reports of stuttering on the console versions of WRC but it seems to be Unreal Engine 4's infamous traversal stutter which happens when the game loads a huge chunk of data at certain points in the map causing a frametime spike and a stutter. You can tell if it is a traversal stutter if the issue occurs in the same place every time. Shader compilation stutters only occur once then the game runs fine the second time (but eventually the stutter will return when you install a new graphics driver or there is a big update for the game).

Unreal Engine 4 under DX12 has become notorious for both traversal and shader compilation stutter on PC and is sad to see that we still have to endure these issues at the end of 2023.

@nunaronas- I feel the same.

I play a lot of PC games and I mean a lot and the one thing that stands out to me is just how many poorly optimised games we seem to get these days, particularly Unreal Engine 4 ones running on DX12. This engine is old now and hasn't been updated by Epic for over a year, I believe, but it should be at the point where it runs great on modern PC hardware like Unreal Engine 3 did before it was superseded.

If anything, Unreal Engine 4 games have got worse with the switch from DX11 to DX12. At this point, any developer making games for Unreal Engine 4 will certainly be aware of the need to compile shaders on PC and the traversal stutter issues. If they aren't then they should not be making games for PC. Yet we still keep seeing games being released in a poor state from major publishers (this is EA's second this year after Jedi Survivor).

Why do they keep doing this? It's like quality control does not exist for the PC version!

Came here looking for answers and it's the same as everyone. Driving normally and every so often, microstutter (Frametime spikes for like 1 millisecond) and keep running smoothly.

My hardware is AMD 5800x3D + AMD 7900 XTX. PCI4.0 NVMe 1TB drive. 

I tried going from ultra settings to HIGH + FSR in Quality mode. Driving a stage at 150-180fps and Microstutters still happen. If I complete a stage and re-start, then the 2nd time I have ZERO microstutters.

Looks like Shader Caching 100%

-Aldo

Same for me, stutter everywhere, if i play  the sames stage agin after finishing it, it sttuters less ,but still stutter, no matter what rally or stage, same across the game.  

My specs: AMD ryzen 9 5900hx, 16gb ram, Radeon RX 6800M gddr6 12GB, 1TB ssd