Stuttering on Far Cry 4

Justice2K

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Good people,

Built my first gaming rig last week, so much of the technical stuff is still new to me. Anyhow, I am playing three games: Shadow of Mordor, Far Cry 4 and the graphics-intensive Crysis 3. Mordor and Crysis play on Ultra settings like a beaut, with no problems whatsoever. Far Cry is a different story...when I first booted it up, it has severe screen tearing, so I enabled Adaptive V-Sync which made that go away completely, BUT it still stutters a bit in fast-moving sequences.

I'm surprised that this game would do that and Crysis 3 plays great. Anyone have any ideas how to make FC4 a butter-smooth experience? Is it true that some games simply aren't optimized to play stellar on any PC?

My build:

CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K Processor (8M Cache, up to 4.40 Ghz)

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD3H LGA 1150 Z97 Ultra Durable UEFI DualBIOS ATX Motherboard

Optical: LG Electronics Optical DVD Drive GH24NSB0B

SSD: Crucial MX100 512GB SATA 2.5" 7mm (with 9.5mm adapter) Internal Solid State Drive CT512MX100SSD1

Power Supply: Corsair CX750 Builder Series ATX 80 PLUS Bronze Certified Power Supply

Graphics Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 G1 Gaming 4GB GDDR5 PCiE Video Graphics Card GV-N970G1 GAMING-4GD

HDD: Seagate Desktop 3 TB HDD SATA 6 Gb/s NCQ 64MB Cache 7200 RPM 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive ST3000DM001

RAM: Patriot 8GB(2x4GB) Viper III DDR3 1866MHz (PC3 15000) CL9 Desktop Memory With Red Gaming Heatsink- PV38G186C9KRD

Case: Corsair Carbide Series Black 300R Windowed Computer Case (CC-9011017-WW)

OS: Windows 8.1
 
Solution
Far Cry 4 has/had a few optimization problems that can cause stuttering, that may or may not fixed during the recent patches:

1) The game doesn't like HT. i5s perform better than i7s from the same generation.

2) The game is maxing out only one CPU core and doesn't spread the load evenly on all the threads.

3) VRAM usage is limited to 2.5GB @ 1080p ultra settings. Unlike other next-gen games that are using the full 4GB VRAM for texture files caching, FC4 may cache the textures on the RAM instead, so moving the texture files back and forth between the two memories may cause stuttering.
crysis 3 is with the best of the best as far as cpu/gpu optimization. far cry 4 is absolutely not. there is not much you can do expect follow a few performance guides, make sure your running the latest nvidia drivers, and cross your fingers and hope they patch the game.
 
Far Cry 4 has/had a few optimization problems that can cause stuttering, that may or may not fixed during the recent patches:

1) The game doesn't like HT. i5s perform better than i7s from the same generation.

2) The game is maxing out only one CPU core and doesn't spread the load evenly on all the threads.

3) VRAM usage is limited to 2.5GB @ 1080p ultra settings. Unlike other next-gen games that are using the full 4GB VRAM for texture files caching, FC4 may cache the textures on the RAM instead, so moving the texture files back and forth between the two memories may cause stuttering.
 
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