Issue Description:
Game ran about as well as it always has after the Traitor Curse 2 Update. But after updating my AMD Adrenaline from 23.11.1 to 23.12.1, performance tanked - average frame rate, frame time consistency, and stability (I became plagued by crashes-as frequently as 3-4 times per mission! Thanks to having a fast computer, I kept rejoining the mission in progress).
MIN/MAX FPS:
Before AMD update - Min FPS typically around 80 (but infrequently so low)/Max FPS typically around 150
After AMD update - Min FPS around 74 (and often pegged there consistently)/Max FPS 14 (but very seldomly with lots of stutters and frame rates all over the place when not pegged around 74). Simply standing in the mission hub would bring my FPS down from 140’s to 80’s simply by changing the direction I was looking in (looking in the direction of the city hologram seemed to give me the worst performance).
Attempted Solutions:
Uninstalled 23.12.1; reinstalled 23.11.1 - DID NOT HELP
Restored Windows 10 to pre-23.12.1 Adrenaline - WORKED LIKE MAGIC
Platform:
[Steam/Microsoft Store/Xbox]
Microsoft store (GamePass)
[PC] PC Specifications:
CPU - Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core Processor 4.70 GHz
32 Gig RAM
GPU - PowerColor RedDevil Radeon 7900 XTX
PSU - EVGA SuperNova 1000W
Disk - WD Black SSD
just created an account to confirm this. Got an Ryzen 7600x + Radeon 6700XT and the new driver tanked my framerate from 80-100 to around 60FPS (including horrible stuttering).
Didn’t need to use a Restore Point though. Driver uninstall with AMDs Cleanup Utility and rolling back to 23.11.1 fixed the problem.
Kinda “happy” to see, I’m not alone with this.
The game ran great on the new drivers until the shader cache was rebuilt.
I was able to play quite a few games with the new drivers with even better performance than before, then I did some other stuff and upon launching the game again, the shader cache was entirely rebuilt and this triggered constant and massive stuttering.
And no other game exhibits the same issues and stuttering that darktide does.
So I will have to rollback as well, unfortunate really since this new driver improved things for my other games.
Yes, it ran smoother than my previous , which I believe was one of the 23.10 builds.
So before the shader rebuilding, it was great, then shaders rebuilt, tanked performance and stuttered.
rolling back to 23.11.1 it runs decent again, not the best, but little to no stutter again. Pretty much exactly what it was before.
I will add, when the shaders rebuilt on the 23.12.1 drivers it took a LONG TIME to rebuild. This time on 23.11.1 it was extremely short. So there is some strange inconsistencies with the shader building.
Did a comparison just for fun. Logged the Metrics for one Mission played on each driver (same mission, same class, same difficulty to make it somewhat comparable)
As this is a very limited dataset I’d take this with a grain of salt. Still interesting to see the 99th% FPS and especially the Stutter Rate. Though it looks like AMD did some changes to the logging, as the old driver only records a Stutter Rate and the new one a Micro Stutter Rate and a Heavy Stutter Rate. I’d assume the Micro Stutter Rate is what the old driver recorded and “Heavy Stutter Rate” is a new value.
About to DDU and rollback, been having horrible stuttering since 23.12.1 I hope it does help, thanks for posting about this I’d have just assumed it was a bad patch otherwise
edit: can confirm this was my exact issue, driver rollback fixed the stutters and I am back to smooth gameplay, thanks OP
Well, as much as I’d appreciate a response or some kind of acknowledgement in this subforum, but it looks like Fatshark is aware of the issues with the new AMD driver:
7800 XT here, (with an i5-13600k,) and same. It ran normal for a few games after I updated, and then suddenly it was running anywhere from 75 to 15FPs. Normally it runs flawlessly.
Clearing the direct x cache and resetting my graphics settings seems to have possibly helped minorly, but it’s still not playable. Probably won’t bother with the hassle of reverting my drivers unless my BF wants to play though, so. . .
I’ve had this too, after updating to 23.12.1 three days ago. Stutter, more like 0,25-1s screen freezes almost every time something moved. Tried lots of things, also just deleting the Darktide-folder in appdata did not help.
But something among the last stuff I’ve tried have solved it for me (without rolling back the driver.)
deleting \AppData\Local\AMD\DxcCache + shader_cache.hans
and/or running a few games fullscreen instead of borderless
and/or enabling the metrics overlay (in AMD Adrenaline) and having it shown while playing (!)
just want to confirm that you aren’t alone. 7900xtx here with ryzen 9 7900x and the stutters have been awful ever since updating my drivers. glad to see people have had success with rolling back to a previous version, im going to give that a shot
Can confirm. Took frame hits and consistent frame stutters in 23.12.1, but uninstalling via AMD’s uninstall tool triggered from the Win11 “Uninstall” button under Settings → Apps, and reinstalling 23.11.1 (after restart) from AMD’s website resolved the issue.
Rolled back to 23.11.1 drivers and although traversal stutter still occurs it is actually playable now. Wish it would be fine on the AFMF drivers since that works quite well on this game since then I can hit 144 FPS properly on my 7800 XT on 1440p ultrawide
It’s a bit confusing at first what is what on that website.
The Navi drivers were the correct ones for me ( AMD 6700 XT ).
And then there is a separate download for the catalyst control center.
They have a version of the nov 9th AFMF driver.
They seem to work pretty well.
Although I have to say I was also using the default AFMF drivers without a problem.
Additionally at some point I found this video:
I know … judging by the thumbnail this looks like nonsense immediately.
And in fact you can skip most of the video really … but there are some registry optimizations here that seem to increase my performance.
There’s an archive to download with a bunch of registry tweaks and a program called “MSI mode utility”.
In that MSI utility you can change the priority of your graphics card and this seems to make a huge difference on my system.
No idea if you need an MSI mainboard for this or not. I have MSI.
Up to 140 FPS in the hub with AFMF, 1080p, “high” graphics preset.
Although I have to say usually I lower the graphics.
It’s probably not playable smoothly during a mission like this.
And like this it should actually be playable now. XP
I know slightly off-topic.
But I figured I’m not gonna open a new thread for these infos anyway.
Might as well just put it here while mentioning that custom driver. XP
