Stuttering every 10-15s

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Rubyeyed
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Hi, i have these like frame skips/stutters every 10-15s and in mission 3 (HoG) they get more severe. What i mean is they are longer more like a second long which makes it very annoying and distracting. It happens regardless of the settings and what happens in the game. I can start a mission and move camera in circles around my core and it will still stutter every 10-15s. Although, in skirmish when the map is small and nothing much happening on it the stutters are so brief it is hard to notice them. On big maps with units etc. already on them (like HoG lvl 3) the stutters are longer and are a real pain.


Windows 7 x64

12gb RAM

i5 2500k @ 4.2

gtx 970

game version 1.4.0f4

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Windows
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second to last mission unplayable due extreme lag

Every second or so the game just freezes/lags a bit. Its unpossible to finish the campaing. Im running I7-4770K @ 3.5GHz and GTX970 and 16GB ram.

Stuttering during play
I haven't played this in a while so with the release of the new DLC I decided to give it another bash, I've never completed it since low fps on later levels caused the game to become unplayable for me, less than 1fps.


I've built a completely new system since last time, wasn't expecting any issues but I've just completed the level to Defile Uthors Tomb and the last half of the level I kept stuttering every few seconds, I wouldn't think this should be an issue on my system at all but perhaps there is a fix?

My System:
i7-5820K
24GB DDR4 2666MHz
AMD R9 Fury-X

Windows 10

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Please fix the constant stuttering

I have a really powerful computer, i5, Gtx 970, 32 GB RAM and the game constantly stutters for a fraction of a second. This is really annoying and also often causes miss-clicks, or clicks not working, and is really immesion breaking.

I read that this is due to the engine you use and the garbage collection of that engine. I also read that you are wrapping up extra content for this game in the next patch. I bought this game twice. Once on steam and once from GOG because I really loved DK2 and I really love this game. You guys have done an amazing job and I wanted to support you. I also like my games DRM free. However please don't leave this game with such an annoying bug on an otherwise amazing game. This bug literally affects all campaign levels, skirmish, multiplayer etc.

Please fix this issue soon.

Freezes after 5-10min each 5-10 seconds getting worse overtime
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    • OS Windows
    • Version 10
    • 64bit
      • Ram 16GB
      • CPU FX8350
      • GPU GTX 760
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        1.6.4

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        After about 5 to 10 minutes, a small freeze starts appearing every 5 or so seconds. This freeze gets progressively worse the longer you play. I have no issues in between those time frames, the game runs smooth.
There seems to be little to no effect if I change the graphical options from the highest to the lowest possible settings (while keeping it 1080p though). The map size does seem to matter on how fast the freezes start appearing, under 100x100 it can take up to 10minutes. On the larger ones, it'll start after ~5 minutes.


I feel like the main thread or game ticks are not getting enough resources. I see 2 cores basically at a 100% while the other 6 are mainly idling.


I've been struggling with the performance since for ever now. In the past I was able to play the smaller maps decently, now I can't comfortably play this game at all.



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       I did a search, didn't seem to find anything related to this.

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anonymous

I would strongly recommend not playing on Ultra, put it to low and the lag should be much better. A lower amount of Pixel light counts would also help


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Antti

But as mentioned it only started happening on this level so something is propably up anyhow.
...some time later...


Well here is video with the lowest settings and the same chopping still occurs :(

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anonymous

Have you disabled your paging file?

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Antti

Makes no change to game performance in eather situation sadly. :/

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anonymous

Well then we're just going to have to wait until the next major patch

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drivetheory

i hope migration to the newer unity engine release and the problems of garbage collection is of the utmost importance...


i love this game but the hitching that starts to occur every 3 seconds after you're 45 minutes into a dungeon makes the game unplayable.


to this day i still haven't completed the heart of gold campaign because of this problem...

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anonymous

Hey drivetheory,


Unfortunately we are still waiting for Unity to upgrade their garbage collector. This is something that is completely out of our hands, we will keep everyone up to date with any information we receive from Unity themselves.


I would recommend in the meantime for you to save the game and reload.

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drivetheory

i know it's out of your hands, i've been following this issue for a while now, thank for the reply though!

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anonymous

We have released a patch today that gives a small performance bump, it likely won't solve the issue but may make it more bearable

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anonymous

We have released a patch today that gives a small performance bump, it likely won't solve the issue but may make it more bearable, please let us know if it helps