Troubleshooting

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Performance

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Hello im doing this post cause my Darktide is kinda unplayable atm, im suffering with micro stutters whenever i open menus such as crafting, melk and so on.
Even pressing esc is tedius.
Ive done it all such as tweaking my pc, limiting my frames, reinstalling, trying the beta thing in steam, nothing seems to work.
Thats crazy, its happening only in darktide since ive tried multiple games and im getting no stutters at all, i might fear its my pc but i dont think so
Ill put some of my spec below
CPU> Ryzen 5 7600X
RAM> 32GB DDR5 6000MHZ
GPU> RTX 4070 SUPER 12GB GDDR6X
And 2 ssd 1TB each
even as lowering my res to 1080p playing with nvidia image scaling im getting plus 300 fps smooth but with those stutter
I cant post a video cuz the file is too big
I really need help lmao

[PC] Do You Use Mods? (Optional):

Yes, and Iā€™ve tried disabling them

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Constant (100%)

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PC - Steam

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Hello fellow stutter sufferer.

I have managed to fix it for myself after having similar problems (among others) as detailed here; 1.5.4 breaks overlays

Long story short;

Completely uninstall Darktide and delete the files left over in the Steam and %appdata% directories.

Remove Xbox and MS Overlay systems (1.5.4 breaks overlays - #7 by styky)

Go to nVidia control panel global options and change the ā€œShader Cache sizeā€ to Disabled and Reboot the PC straight away.

Reinstall Darktide.

Turn off full screen optimizations for Darktide.exe Demystifying Fullscreen Optimizations - DirectX Developer Blog (bottom of main post)

If this works, Great!

If you have low quality texture issues following this you can turn off Mesh Streaming to improve things further Low quality assets - #12 by styky

Please let me know if this helps, apologies if you go through all of it and not much changes.

There are many people with stuttering and most of them donā€™t bother to come post about it, if we can find a definite fix maybe Fatshark will do something to fix it for everyone.

Thanks iā€™ll try it rn
even tho the cause was frame gen being on, such a strange thing
but now im stucked playing without it
Im gonna try this solution

You might benefit from this post. Vizra and I were trying to figure out why performance is so iffy for AMD GPUs but Nvidia users seem to benefit from the config file changes too.

Yes, this is the case. Iā€™ve just released another post showing and outlining that the game doesnā€™t have fullscreen optimisations enabled. You can also enable this by change a false to true in the win32_setttings.ini - post here

Hope this helps. Iā€™ve spent about 50% of my free time the last 5 weeks really digging into this all.

Thanks guys it does kinda feel better even tho ill get some stutters whenever i open menus and stuff like that, the problem seems to be frame gen being on, i guess im the only one with this problem lol

The reason menus stutter is because they are not cached at all and so get loaded off the hard drive.

If you have a system with 32gb of RAM there is a mod called DarkCache that fixes all the issues with menus. It just takes more system resources and can cause more stuttering if your PC canā€™t handle it