Issue Type (Required):
Performance
Issue Description (Required):
I started playing Darktide again after the arbites update but game is hardly enjoyable with new performance issue i never had before this time. Every few minutes (like 3-5) my game stutters/freezes momentarilly 2 or 3 times and then proceeds to go on normally except i loose from 20 to 50 fps varied on unknown reason and i get huge input and mouse movement delay. I used to play on fluctuating 60fps without frame generation and 120 with. If i run frame generation (2x available to me) after the stutter the AI generates very noticable artifacts in frames but that’s probably due to the original sampling being 5-11 fps.
Never had this issue before and it is persistent.
Changing any graphical settings - even texture quality which cant change mid game - as this is happening resolves the issue quickly but then it also comes back much quicker. If i wait it out in unplayable low fps then whenever it stops it lasts longer on normal performance.
If fps falls low enough it even warrants mission disconnects or crashes alltogether. If i crash during the stutter or quit the game my screen goes black and i cant do anything with my pc except force-shut it down.
I do play with mods but i have ensured they are not the issue.
I tried multiple ways to resolve this over past 3 days but i am at a dead end now.
Reinstalling the game resolved nothing;
Reinstalling the game with deleted appdata files and steamfiles resolved nothing;
modifying ini script for mesh rendering values to be divisible by 6 also changed nothing but it did make my game run even smoother when it wasnt stuttering.
manually increasing 3d settings shader cashe size resolved nothing,
deleting the shader cache resolved nothing
updating drivers resolved nothing
When i was operating a different window with the game running minimized and the game would stutter then everything else would loose responsiveness fur up to 2 minutes.
By this i mean discord being stuck on seen screen during the stutter, even tho i can still hear pings and theoritically type i dont see anything. Youtube or internet browsers in general would behave the same way, in case of youtube specifically the media player would freeze mroe often than the entire website etc.
I worry that my cpu may be the issue here.
As much as there are somewhat simmilar occurances in other new games like Elden Ring: Nightreing or Dune: Awakening it doesnt happen in older titles like Fortnite, Team Fortress 2 and even Helldivers 2 i dont have anything like that.
In case of Nightreign it’s almost certainly tied to networking issues as normal elden ring never stuttered for me and it is pretty much same graphics fidelity between both. Dune Awakening is vast open world and photorealistic so i understand it can be jumpy sometimes and it is sporadic, not constant like in Darktide.
I pray to the machine spirits for it to be resolved as i was having a blast with the new content with my friends but somehow only i have this issue even considering my specs are way higher than theirs.
Picture attached of my detected hardware, i choose not to use RTX features for better constant performance during havoc missions
[PC] Do You Use Mods? (Optional):
Yes, and I’ve tried disabling them
Reproduction Rate (Required):
Constant (100%)
Platform (Required):
PC - Steam
