Will a shader compilation process be implemented soon? It's the one thing that may have an immediate impact, at least with the shader cache stutters common for most DX12 games that do not have a pre-compilation. Wild to force DX12 and not ship with that sort of thing these days. Oof.Was really hoping this would be a Lies of P situation where they did the work and the DX12+UE4 combo runs silky smooth, but even when doing a solid 60fps most of the time in WRC, still getting hit with these random harsh frame time spikes which can easily ruin a run:

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.

Same for meAverage fps 90 on i5 11500k+rx 7900xtBut lots of random lagspikes

same heremedium or high, vsync or not, dlss or not, full screen or borderless : lots of stuttering in every turnvsync 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

@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!

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

Stuttering frequently on highest and lowest settings.

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bb55am
2 years ago
*SOLVED* for now... it was having too many programs in the background trying to use OVERLAYS,
RAZER being one
bb55am
2 years ago
@bb55am Solved for now, cause was having to many programs in the background with in game overlay enabled causing crashes. RAZER was main culprit i think
Sim560
2 years ago
I am using temporal to quality or balanced i think it performs better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNw9m4eA2fM
mickeeiemouse69
Seasoned Adventurer
2 years ago
Product: EA SPORTS™ WRC
Platform:PC
Summarize your bug the game is causing some kind of network traffic causing a stutter every 4 seconds, only drops 1fps but there is a noticeable hitch, its more annoying, nothing to do with new patch as looking at video footage iv done from pre patch, the issue is present.
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? use an FPS over lay, limit to 60 fps, start stage and observe, stutter every 4 seconds with a FPS drop of 1.... doesnt sound like much but its annoying ha
What happens when the bug occurs? game has a very minor stutter
What do you expect to see? some kind of fix. I have tried running in offline mode but the stutter remains
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screen shot of my network traffic, peaks accompany an in game stutter, but once stage is ended, the stutters stop, doesnt do it in he menus, and network graph flatlines.
more annoyin than anything else, its abit like the SDE in VR, once youve seen it, you cant unsee it hahaha
MM
cd1001
2 years ago
When will the screen tearing problem be resolved? The recent update (EA WRC) has definitely not fixed this problem.
Why do EA think it is acceptable to sell broken games, what is wrong with them??
Sokittoya76A
Rising Scout
2 years ago
Does it feel a little bit like E.A. are spending all their time fixing console issues and haven't even began looking at PC issues yet?
I don't know why but it seems the PC community is hated by devs in general. Its the same story every bloody time! Ive been gaming for around 35 yrs and I can tell you the gaming industry is a shadow of its former self.
It is now just a monopoly of greedy, soulless shareholders and execs who only care about the new God (money money). They hardly even make games for the sake of making a great interactive piece of entertainment. Its all gotta be full of the current socially accepted b.s. woke crapola! Whatever happened to creating something for the sake of the art itself? Not to please friggin minority groups and slack arse losers who cant pull their fingers outta their own buttholes.
Yeah so hurry up with the pc fixes Chodies cause you charged me full price for a broken product. In my country (Australia) you can go to jail for a long time for fraud!
mickeeiemouse69
Seasoned Adventurer
2 years ago
my 'bug' report was moved and buried here. from what i can gather, the stutter im experiencing is due to EA app, when the EA app is closed, the network traffic stops...... it does still stutter when offline, and oddly, my stutter was reduced when changing windows audio settings...

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