I was wondering if anyone with this or a similar setup has had a good experience with Grim Dawn? Particularly with lots of enemies on the screen and lots of spells flying around. I am a developer by trade so I recently swapped out my i5-2500K (OCd to 4.3) for the 8 core / 16 thread Ryzen.
When I had my i5 I noticed that I had significant stuttering in some areas. I haven’t gotten into the parts of the game with lots of enemies yet on my Ryzen 1700. If it’s going to be a stutterfest then I might not even bother.
I have the maxResourceThreads set to what my Ryzen has (16) so we’ll see if that helps.
The game still stutters on my 8GB 1070 / i7 7700k setup. I didn’t notice a big increase in performance in GD compared to my old i5 3750k / GTX 660 setup.
Would you mind sharing your options.txt with me? Also, do you have any special settings setup with your GTX card? Just curious if you have any suggestions, I mean, I should be able to achieve butter based on your specs.
B350 Motherboard
GTX 1070 Card
850 EVO Hard Drive
Ryzen 1700 (OC’d with a Noctua Cooler to 4.0 GHZ)
The RAM brand I don’t recall and can’t remember how to find that out.
Case = Fractal Define R2 XL (Amazing case)
I find that on default settings the stuttering in Grim Dawn is unbearable. I’m not sure what I can do. I’ve tried changing the number of cores it uses but it makes it jolt every 10 seconds or so. The SSD is in fine shape. Not sure what’s up.
Disable Vsync if you have it enabled in-game. Open the Nvidia CP. Create a GD game profile. Enable Fast Sync there. Or configure Gsync properly if you use a monitor that supports it. Any stuttering (in normal, lower density areas) should be gone.
Stuttering in high density situations boils down to a (single) core on your CPU maxing out aka bottlenecking, thus causing frame drops aka stuttering, in those situations. If you use a system monitor to keep tabs on core-by-core usage you can see this is so and coincides with frame drops and has next to nothing to do with the GPU. Unfortunately GD doesn’t handle multicore in an even fashion and many (if not most) systems will encounter this in heavy on-screen activity (or areas that feature heavy particle counts, ie. some rifts, fires etc). This is related to the aged engine in use and I’m assuming that there isn’t much that can be done for it anymore tho the eventual upgrade to DX11 we will be receiving may have at least some gains (we hope). Tweaking some settings, particularly AA, Lighting, and Particles, can alleviate the impact somewhat. Shadows and Shaders would rank next in importance. There are various Nvidia settings as well that can be tweaked to help, especially if you are familiar with tweaking and/or use of Nvidia Profile Inspector and have a firm grasp of how various settings relate to and interact with each other.
For the above mentioned (lower density) areas, Fast Sync should smooth everything (else) out to acceptable levels.
yeah your system should be screaming, with that setup. I have a much older system 13 3770k @4.5 Ghz and a regular 980 and I am having very stable non stuttering performance. Powbam is right i use Nvidia Profile Inspector, there is a great walk through for it on these forums i cant find right now. I am using a 980 and by turing off vsync in the game and turning on fastsync in Nvidia Profile Inspector and the grim dawn preset and setting the frame rate limiter to 60.7 frames i have none of those stuttering problems i used to have. It really helps out a tremendous amount.
Avyctes i have a 980 and i don’t think it’s in Nvidias regular control panel. I have to use the Nvidia Profile Inspector to force fast sync and use the frame rate limiter.
You should defiantly have the option in the control panel. I have a GTX 950 and have the ability to set vsync to fast through it. Go to Manage 3D settings, then choose Program settings, choose GD and then switch vsync to fast.
If that doesn’t work, then maybe outdated drivers? I’ve had the option for at least a year now and you guys have better GPUs than i do.
I upgraded to a 960 (from a 760) about a month or so ago.
Ensure you have latest/recent drivers? Don’t use whatever Windows Update feeds you. Go to the Nvidia site and download. It’s possible if you aren’t on 10 you may not have access to the Fast option.
im curious that after applying all these setup if you guys manage to solve fps drops during clustersuck moments of max particles effects, lighting and hordes of mobs…
That I doubt. There are of course some who claim they never get drops, alluding to even these situations. Not quite sure if I believe them tho. We’d need to know strong details of their hardware setups/tweaks etc.
Educated myself, profile inspector is very nice, why did I not know of it before. There’s a little bit of tearing to get used to, but it’s barely there I bet in a few days. Certainly stutters less.
Besides it giving you fine-tune access to everything under the hood one of the best features (for me) is being able to save various game profiles easily. Comes in very handy when you do complete driver or OS reinstalls.
Thanks for the suggestions guys. I’m going to give them a try and see how I fair. I found the Fast Sync option with relative ease. The NVidia Profiler looks like a hobby so I’m hoping I can skirt having to dig too deep into it for now.
I’ll let you know the state of things and if I can get to a playable point. Like, this system should be able to do it. I play Battlefield 1 sometimes on everything on the ‘Ultra’ preset with almost no dips and it seems like Grim Dawn is a lot less demanding.
