Stuttering and Frame Rate Issues Gone

[rukenninjai]

So, I highly doubt that Bethesda designed a game for a GPU that came out years later the fact being that the game is also optimized like dog crap. But I just picked up a ASUS Strix GTX 1080 TI and every single issue I've had with FPS and Stuttering has magically disappeared. Before I was rocking the Strix 1080 in SLI, And both with SLI and on a single GPU I had issues. My 1080's should have destroyed this game, hell on firestrike I got like a 27k score on my OC with the 1080's. Any theory's other then Bethesda being a s#*! port game (Still play the s#*! outta it) and SLI going the way of the dinosaurs? That being said, in every game I've played it seems the TI is way faster then the 35% everyone says, seems 45-50% faster. Maybe I just won the bin lottery on my new GPU also by itself with the factory OC in GPU Tweak 2 I'm hitting 24k score in firestrike

[JimmyRJump]

I'm running an MSI RX470 GamingX 8GB card and don't have stuttering nor serious fps drops in 1080p... Didn't have any stuttering even with my old MSI R7970 Lighting.

[rukenninjai]

I'm running an MSI RX470 GamingX 8GB card and don't have stuttering nor serious fps drops in 1080p... Didn't have any stuttering even with my old MSI R7970 Lighting.

Hows your FPS in Downtown Boston? I have settings on Ultra and even have Godrays set to medium, I have a flat out 60FPS everywhere now. That being said, every single game besides fallout 4 with my old GPU setup ran flawlessly. I have always been a SLI Fanboy since I built my first PC back in 07 with a 8800GTX SLI Setup. I know a single more Powerful GPU is the way to go just wanted to build a powerful SLI system and I was a little dissapointed by my Firestrike scores with the GTX 1080 SLI compared to the TI

 

 

 

I should mention I tried every single Stutter/FPS fix out there and none worked. It seems like some people have the issue and others dont. I find it odd, that two people cam have a near identical setup and one can have the issue and the other wont as I've seen in threads floating around the interwebs. I guess it just might boil down to piss pour optimization and a roll of the dice

Edited December 2, 2017 by ninjai_ruken

[jones177]

Hi

 

I played the game with GTX 980 ti SLI for a while & was very disappointed. My GTX 1080 ti was an upgrade for this game but a downgrade for others.

 

I have a GTX 1080 in another rig & it is not as smooth with this game as the 1080 ti or a GTX 980 ti. It also has more driver issues with bethesda games than the 980 ti or 1080 ti.

 

I am hoping that there is a price drop on the 1080 ti when the next gen cards come out. I would like to get another to replace my 1080.

 

Boston usually has CPU drops. CPU usage is about double there compared to the rest of the game. I don't feel them with a i7 6700k but I can with my i7 2600k on older saves.

 

Boston will get I/O stutter on a HD as a save gets older. Boston will also stutter on some SSD setups as well. I have the game on SATA SSDs on both rigs but the i7 6700k rig needs ini tweaks to run smooth.

 

With the GTX 1080 ti/i7 6700k rig I play at 4k, 60fps everywhere. That is with Godrays at ultra, shadows at medium & 7X spawn rates(21 flying bugs instead of 3).

 

My GTX 1080/i7 2600k rig runs at 3440 X 1440 with 60fps everywhere with Godrays at ultra, shadows at medium & 2X spawn rates. The i7 2600k will be replaced with a i7 8700k as soon as the prices come down to msrp.

 

As far as I am concerned the game was fine(optimized) when it first came out. I could run it with a single GTX 980 ti at 4k 60fps 90% of the time. After installing Automatron I had to drop the resolution to 1440 to stay at 60fps. When I added another GTX 980 ti I could up the resolution to 4k again.

 

My game was playable on a HD up until Automatron kicks in. Then it became totally unplayable with stutter. I had to replace my WD 5tb Black HD with 1tb SSD to continue playing with my mod list.

 

This game can really heat up a CPU. As I have added content(mods) my CPU temps have climbed about 15C. I had to replace my Intel cooler with a Noctua NH-D15 to keep temps under control. If you are overclocking or us multicore enhancement check your temps. I only noticed when my CPU started throttling & throttling means stutter.

 

Later

[JimmyRJump]

I run the game from a Seagate Constellation SAS drive. I do drop to 40fps when getting around downtown Boston and the Freedom Trail up to Goodneighbor, but that's it. Ultra Settings with godrays off and shadows medium. Mostly 2k textures with a few 4K ones.

 

i7-3770 on an AsRock eXtreme11 Z77 board with 4x4GB KHX Genesis @1600MHz and the aformentioned MSI RX470 GamingX 8GB GPU.

 

I'm using ENBoost set at 12256MB. MSI Afterburner shows a use of around 4.5 to 5GB of system RAM (including 2.7GB for OS and stuff) and 7.5GB of V-RAM with CPU1 use and temps going up and down like a yo-yo in areas like Downtown Boston.

[rukenninjai]

Hi

 

I played the game with GTX 980 ti SLI for a while & was very disappointed. My GTX 1080 ti was an upgrade for this game but a downgrade for others.

 

I have a GTX 1080 in another rig & it is not as smooth with this game as the 1080 ti or a GTX 980 ti. It also has more driver issues with bethesda games than the 980 ti or 1080 ti.

 

I am hoping that there is a price drop on the 1080 ti when the next gen cards come out. I would like to get another to replace my 1080.

 

Boston usually has CPU drops. CPU usage is about double there compared to the rest of the game. I don't feel them with a i7 6700k but I can with my i7 2600k on older saves.

 

Boston will get I/O stutter on a HD as a save gets older. Boston will also stutter on some SSD setups as well. I have the game on SATA SSDs on both rigs but the i7 6700k rig needs ini tweaks to run smooth.

 

With the GTX 1080 ti/i7 6700k rig I play at 4k, 60fps everywhere. That is with Godrays at ultra, shadows at medium & 7X spawn rates(21 flying bugs instead of 3).

 

My GTX 1080/i7 2600k rig runs at 3440 X 1440 with 60fps everywhere with Godrays at ultra, shadows at medium & 2X spawn rates. The i7 2600k will be replaced with a i7 8700k as soon as the prices come down to msrp.

 

As far as I am concerned the game was fine(optimized) when it first came out. I could run it with a single GTX 980 ti at 4k 60fps 90% of the time. After installing Automatron I had to drop the resolution to 1440 to stay at 60fps. When I added another GTX 980 ti I could up the resolution to 4k again.

 

My game was playable on a HD up until Automatron kicks in. Then it became totally unplayable with stutter. I had to replace my WD 5tb Black HD with 1tb SSD to continue playing with my mod list.

 

This game can really heat up a CPU. As I have added content(mods) my CPU temps have climbed about 15C. I had to replace my Intel cooler with a Noctua NH-D15 to keep temps under control. If you are overclocking or us multicore enhancement check your temps. I only noticed when my CPU started throttling & throttling means stutter.

 

Later

Nice rig, yeah Im running a TT 3.0 AIO Triple Rad at the moment. I have a View 71T glass case with a pretty neutral air flow so my temps don't get out of hand. I do plan to upgrade to a EKWB kit here pretty soon. I was rocking the I5 7600K and surprisingly my I7 7700k handles the game a lot better it seems like. Im still running two 1TB HHD right now, but ill be upgrading to a M.2 for my OS and SSDs for games and storage sometime in the near future.

 

I run the game from a Seagate Constellation SAS drive. I do drop to 40fps when getting around downtown Boston and the Freedom Trail up to Goodneighbor, but that's it. Ultra Settings with godrays off and shadows medium. Mostly 2k textures with a few 4K ones.

 

i7-3770 on an AsRock eXtreme11 Z77 board with 4x4GB KHX Genesis @1600MHz and the aformentioned MSI RX470 GamingX 8GB GPU.

 

I'm using ENBoost set at 12256MB. MSI Afterburner shows a use of around 4.5 to 5GB of system RAM (including 2.7GB for OS and stuff) and 7.5GB of V-RAM with CPU1 use and temps going up and down like a yo-yo in areas like Downtown Boston.

 

 

That sounds about how I was at first, jones177 pretty much validated what I thought in the back of my mind. That over time, there is a degradation of data and possibly more and more files become "Lose" so to speak. I was looking at GPU Tweak 2 today after playing. My temps for the TI stayed in the upper 50's but my memory usage on the GPU hit 6gb at one point. (Take into consideration I have a crap on of texture mods.) I didnt catch what my main system RAM hit, but ill take a look next time

[JimmyRJump]

 

I run the game from a Seagate Constellation SAS drive. I do drop to 40fps when getting around downtown Boston and the Freedom Trail up to Goodneighbor, but that's it. Ultra Settings with godrays off and shadows medium. Mostly 2k textures with a few 4K ones.

 

i7-3770 on an AsRock eXtreme11 Z77 board with 4x4GB KHX Genesis @1600MHz and the aformentioned MSI RX470 GamingX 8GB GPU.

 

I'm using ENBoost set at 12256MB. MSI Afterburner shows a use of around 4.5 to 5GB of system RAM (including 2.7GB for OS and stuff) and 7.5GB of V-RAM with CPU1 use and temps going up and down like a yo-yo in areas like Downtown Boston.

 

 

 

That sounds about how I was at first, jones177 pretty much validated what I thought in the back of my mind. That over time, there is a degradation of data and possibly more and more files become "Lose" so to speak. I was looking at GPU Tweak 2 today after playing. My temps for the TI stayed in the upper 50's but my memory usage on the GPU hit 6gb at one point. (Take into consideration I have a crap on of texture mods.) I didnt catch what my main system RAM hit, but ill take a look next time

 

I too ran a lot of texture mods. Must add that for my last run I was at 460 mods/255 plug-ins.

 

For comparison: with more or less the same load (347 mods/252 plug-ins with even more 2 and 4k texture mods) I use exactly half of system and V-RAM in Skyrim SE from what I use in FO4, with an almost constant 59 fps.

[rukenninjai]

 

 

I run the game from a Seagate Constellation SAS drive. I do drop to 40fps when getting around downtown Boston and the Freedom Trail up to Goodneighbor, but that's it. Ultra Settings with godrays off and shadows medium. Mostly 2k textures with a few 4K ones.

 

i7-3770 on an AsRock eXtreme11 Z77 board with 4x4GB KHX Genesis @1600MHz and the aformentioned MSI RX470 GamingX 8GB GPU.

 

I'm using ENBoost set at 12256MB. MSI Afterburner shows a use of around 4.5 to 5GB of system RAM (including 2.7GB for OS and stuff) and 7.5GB of V-RAM with CPU1 use and temps going up and down like a yo-yo in areas like Downtown Boston.

 

 

 

That sounds about how I was at first, jones177 pretty much validated what I thought in the back of my mind. That over time, there is a degradation of data and possibly more and more files become "Lose" so to speak. I was looking at GPU Tweak 2 today after playing. My temps for the TI stayed in the upper 50's but my memory usage on the GPU hit 6gb at one point. (Take into consideration I have a crap on of texture mods.) I didnt catch what my main system RAM hit, but ill take a look next time

 

I too ran a lot of texture mods. Must add that for my last run I was at 460 mods/255 plug-ins.

 

For comparison: with more or less the same load (347 mods/252 plug-ins with even more 2 and 4k texture mods) I use exactly half of system and V-RAM in Skyrim SE from what I use in FO4, with an almost constant 59 fps.

 

Nice, I still cant merge mods for s#*!. Wish I had the time to get better at it. But life has me running flat out right now. Im lucky I even got to game this weekend, nothing like pushing things I should do this weekend up to next weekend. lol I perform better under pressure anyways.