Could this be actually related to the DX12 stuttering? Maybe the reason DX12 loads faster is simply because it loads less stuff, and more has to be streamed as you go, causing the hitches?
I have a gsync monitor as well and run with vsync turned off everywhere (in-game and control panel). 40fps is never going to feel smooth compared to 60+.
I feel like Alan Wake on PC looks really sharp compared to Quantum Break. I'd agree with the console version for its time, though.
Thank you for the info.
I know you can switch shoulders by pressing a direction on the d-pad. Down I think. Works when you're running around anyway.
I can confirm that there's something weird going on with the aim assist in this game. I think reticule slow down is working, but there is no assist in the way of bullet magnetism, snap to target, or reticule stickiness.
While this isn't an enemy, you can see how the reticule works and how it should be coloured in the first image but it isn't and if it was en enemy it'd register as a miss.
Move slightly and it turns colour.
Grain of salt since I don't have the game yet, but reshade+luma sharpen does good work for me on my RX 570 in many other games.
Is that something that is done in-game? Sorry, I can't check my preferences right now. If that's the secondary resolution thing, yes, I am.
I have a 1080ti and a 8700k. I have to lock the game to 1440p30 because I get drops from 60fps which I don't like (this is when I'm playing on my OLED). When I'm using my Gsync monitor it's 60fps+ is no problem (with drops below 60 but they don't bother because of Gsync).
It's a separate program (free) that allows you to set a framerate cap on a per game basis or for all games. When you do that, it also smooths out frametimes so that each frame is delivered more consistently, reducing jiterrines.
With a 1080 Ti and 3700x, the game drops frequently to the low 40s at max settings (without MSAA) using 3440x1440 so having something like gsync helps tremendously here. 2560x1080 plus 2x MSAA allows me to reach 60 - upper 70s so 2560x1440 will probably somewhere in the middle, closer to the 60-70fps number.
I'm not using that, no. I'll try and give it a shot. For reference, I have a 2070 Super, 16 gigs of ram and an i7 4790k.
Are you using the latest driver? Supposedly that was causing people issues with 10 series cards turning on RTX features, but when they rolled back to the previous driver everything was working correctly.
Hmm, didn't know there was a driver rollback? I installed whatever driver was available yesterday. I'll check again later, thanks
Yep, me too.
I'm on DX11, zero issues with loading. In fact, i don't even think it hits 10 seconds and that's on a HDD.
If you're ok with reconstruction from a lower resolution, you can do 720p->1080p at 60fps by turning down Volumetric Lighting to Medium and the rest of the settings maxed. If you prefer a higher res over performance, 1080p30 is very doable. Not sure if at max settings for the whole game, only tested a few parts, but at most you'll turn down Volumetric Lighting to Medium again and you should be good to go. Maybe 2xMSAA instead of 4 if you're still not hitting 30 in a particularly demanding part of the game.
Volumetric Lighting to me is the best one to turn down first to see if it's enough. Turning it down from High to Medium will give you around 10fps, and it doesn't look much worse, in my opinion.
Nice! If more people say that this fixed it for them, I think I'll switch to DX12 to enjoy faster loading times.I think I solved these!!
Looks like with the last 2 nvidia drivers when they added the low latency mode setting something got broke with DX12 and the game setting the number of prerendered frames, they rolled the old "max prerendered frames" setting into the Low latency setting in nvidia control panel. now there are no option to directly set this number. But there are three settings for low latency, off (default) app sets number of frames but this appears to be broken and it's not happening with control (and other DX12 games I have seen) if you turn this setting to on, it sets max prerendered frames to 1 and this fixed the hitches for me, just played 45 mins and running around and in heavy combat no stutters/hitches. Give it a try and let me know if it helps you both!
Don't use ultra low latency (third option) as this doesn't queue at all and pushes frame out just in time and will negatively impact smoothness for the sake of latency.,
You can either force Adaptive Vsync in Nvidia Control Panel, so it'll only tear when it would otherwise drop straight to 30, or run it in borderless mode with vsync off, that will give you triple buffering and eliminate tearing.
I think I solved these!!
Looks like with the last 2 nvidia drivers when they added the low latency mode setting something got broke with DX12 and the game setting the number of prerendered frames, they rolled the old "max prerendered frames" setting into the Low latency setting in nvidia control panel. now there are no option to directly set this number. But there are three settings for low latency, off (default) app sets number of frames but this appears to be broken and it's not happening with control (and other DX12 games I have seen) if you turn this setting to on, it sets max prerendered frames to 1 and this fixed the hitches for me, just played 45 mins and running around and in heavy combat no stutters/hitches. Give it a try and let me know if it helps you both!
Don't use ultra low latency (third option) as this doesn't queue at all and pushes frame out just in time and will negatively impact smoothness for the sake of latency.,
