Major LagStutter at the start of New Areas - any fixes?

Post » Fri Nov 16, 2012 3:34 am

I registered just to +1 this thread. Im having the exact issue with a 7950 with 2GB RAM, i5 2500K, 8GB DDR3. Have the devs acknowledged this issue? Its really anoying.
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Tina Tupou
 
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Post » Fri Nov 16, 2012 12:48 am

Same here and the transition between new game and the menu screen is less than smooth as well.
12.8 WHQL

Edit: Found this credit to Corungan

Try the following:

Open the folder "My Documents\My Games\Dishonored\DishonoredGame\Config"

Open the file "DishonoredEngine.ini" with Notepad.exe




Find the following section:
bSmoothFrameRate=TRUE
MinSmoothedFrameRate=30
MaxSmoothedFrameRate=130

Change the last line to your native monitor refresh rate (probably 60), so:
MaxSmoothedFrameRate=60

And save the file!

What SmoothFrameRate actually does, is smoothing out the framerate by decreasing framerate spikes (which for the viewer look like stutter/frame skipping). If you change it to 60 (for some reason the default value is 130), if that's also your monitor's refresh rate the game will appear much smoother. At least it did it for me (on a dual-gpu Radeon 6990). You probably might have to enable VSync as well (I have it on by standard but not everyone does), but I don't know for sure...
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Trent Theriot
 
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Post » Fri Nov 16, 2012 9:17 am

Same here and the transition between new game and the menu screen is less than smooth as well.
12.8 WHQL

Edit: Found this credit to Corungan

Try the following:

Open the folder "My Documents\My Games\Dishonored\DishonoredGame\Config"

Open the file "DishonoredEngine.ini" with Notepad.exe




Find the following section:
bSmoothFrameRate=TRUE
MinSmoothedFrameRate=30
MaxSmoothedFrameRate=130

Change the last line to your native monitor refresh rate (probably 60), so:
MaxSmoothedFrameRate=60

And save the file!

What SmoothFrameRate actually does, is smoothing out the framerate by decreasing framerate spikes (which for the viewer look like stutter/frame skipping). If you change it to 60 (for some reason the default value is 130), if that's also your monitor's refresh rate the game will appear much smoother. At least it did it for me (on a dual-gpu Radeon 6990). You probably might have to enable VSync as well (I have it on by standard but not everyone does), but I don't know for sure...
Hey dude.

That helps a lot when i load a new area :D
But the menu have the same problem (but i don′t care about that)

Thanks :)
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kirsty joanne hines
 
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Post » Fri Nov 16, 2012 4:02 am

Hey dude.

That helps a lot when i load a new area :biggrin:
But the menu have the same problem (but i don′t care about that)

Thanks :smile:

Yep same here...I figure a patch is coming eventually seems to be a very common problem.
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Zosia Cetnar
 
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