Far Cry 4 stutter

[James22]

Hello, I am getting a stutter on Far Cry, which is apparently happening to many others as well.

I looked at my CPU performance and it seemed that 80% of the load was on the one core and the rest of the load on the others. Could the possibly be the problem. I am currently getting 40-50 FPS on med at 1366x768 and that is all i want, without the stutter that drops the fps down to 20 or so.

My specs are old but should still be able to run it okay

CPU: Core 2 Quad q8300
GPU: ASUS HD 6870
RAM: 6GB
blah blah

please tell if me there is a programme or Setting to spread the load evenly among the cores

 

[Alan Caldwell]

Try this, it might work.
First of all you need to TOTALLY remove all the old drivers. Use this link.
http://www.wagnardmobile.com/DDU/
Note:
Select the respective company(i.e Nvidia or ATI) drivers to be uninstalled.
Use clean and restart option.
And then install the new drivers after rebooting.

 

[blacksheep123]

far cry 4 patch update v1.5 has solved all stutter and framedrop issues

update your game patch

also make sure you have the latest drivers

 

[James22]

ok the driver remover didnt really work

 

[BavMotoWerkz]

Does your stutter occur during intense battles or when you're looking at large "Virtual Areas" with lots of stuff to render? If that is the case then you simply don't have enough power. Are you using AA? If so, then what type of AA? Which of the On/Off settings are you using? Your CPU and GPU are major bottlenecks for you. Try disabling Post FX also. Either take a picture or list down which specific graphics settings have which specific setting.

 

[James22]

I stutter on the lowest settings, and updating it didn't really help it seems.

 

[James22]

i run far cry 3 on ultra at about 50 fps

 

[James22]

Surely i should be able to play FC4 on at least medium settings without this annoying stutter

 

[blacksheep123]

his cpu could be a potential bottleneck

 

[blacksheep123]

his cpu could be a potential bottleneck

Both the CPU and GPU are to old and not powerful enough to run modern games smoothly.

true.. its an old combo

he is lucky he is getting 40-50 at 720p

 

[Moonstick2]

Your GPU just about meets the minimum requirements. Your CPU is behind the minimum requirements to the tune of 10-20%. It looks like you're just asking too much of your system, I'm afraid.

 

[blacksheep123]

his cpu could be a potential bottleneck

Both the CPU and GPU are to old and not powerful enough to run modern games smoothly.

true.. its an old combo

he is lucky he is getting 40-50 at 720p

It's a really old DDR2 platform. A full system upgrade is in order.

you need an entire new mobo,gpu,cpu,ram combo

 

[James22]

Ok thanks
The stutter seems to have gone but now it's stuck on 30 fps (Very High setting). If I turn down the quality it still stays at 30 fps. Is there any other ideas you can give me besides a PC upgrade. I'm not looking for fantastic graphics I just want to play the game enjoyably at 720p

 

[blacksheep123]

Ok thanks
The stutter seems to have gone but now it's stuck on 30 fps (Very High setting). If I turn down the quality it still stays at 30 fps. Is there any other ideas you can give me besides a PC upgrade. I'm not looking for fantastic graphics I just want to play the game enjoyably at 720p

the no change in fps even after turning down the quality clearly shows that the cpu is bottlenecking the gpu

a cpu overclock will help you free the gpu being bottlenecked by it

overclock your cpu... its free.. you will reduce some bottleneck for the gpu and make your cpu a bit faster in the process

 

[James22]

Ok, looks like the problems are never ending. Since this 1.5 update the game has started crashing with the black screen. Is there a fix?

 

[Khaleal]

Far Cry 4 Patch 1.5 solves almost all graphics issues but it raises a memory leak issue (After playing for some time you'll end up using 7GB of RAM).
For your PC specs.. Well.. I think it's old but powerful enough to run this game on 720p.. The best option now is to wait a new patch

 

[Khaleal]

Far Cry 4 Patch 1.5 solves almost all graphics issues but it raises a memory leak issue (After playing for some time you'll end up using 7GB of RAM).
For your PC specs.. Well.. I think it's old but powerful enough to run this game on 720p.. The best option now is to wait a new patch

720P will just move to bottleneck from the slow and old GPU to the slow and old CPU.

Well.. With his rig in mind I don't think he assumes getting 40fps+ in modern games.. 30fps is still fairly playable..
Far cry 4 is a poorly ported game and needs a lot of work.. I think they'll optimize it better with the time..
BTW, I've played GTA 4 (which is a CPU intensive game) with a CORE2DUO E4600 in the past without real issues so I don't think his CPU is causing these problems..

 

[Moonstick2]

But the Core2Duo E4600 is above the minimum spec for GTA IV. His processor is below the minimum spec for FC4.

Like blacksheep123 says, no increase in fps when dropping the details or resolution suggests the CPU is the bottleneck.

 

[flankerb]

For me most of the stuttering in this game happens after a few hours (2-3) of gaming. I believe it is memory leak related. At first the game works fine, then starts slightly stuttering then becomes unplayable with all my physical ram and paging file used up. (My rig is i7 870, 8GB 1600MHz ram, gtx 960 strix oc 2gb).