The Witcher 1 EE & The Witcher 2 EE are both stuttering, help & solutions needed :)

[...PACMAN...]

The Witcher 3 has just been released and I wanted to play through the first two before I get my new rig in the summer, and purchase the third in the trilogy,


Important things to note -

I have tried the last 10 Nvidia drivers up to the current Witcher 3 Game ready drivers with no change in the stuttering

I have a highly stable system with no bsods or crashes for quite some months

I have 40 other games installed, including GTA V, Battlefield 4, Far Cry 4, Dying Light and none of these display any issues

I have installed both titles on SSD and HDD with the exact same issues

Both games are legitimate copies, Witcher 1 EE is on Steam and WItcher 2 EE is on my GoG account.


They both have strange stuttering issues regardless of in game settings, I have tried low to Ultra on both titles and it has no effect on the stuttering/frame latency. Even at Ultra both titles have playable fps +30, 1080p (Witcher 2 Ubersampling off) but seem to have very inconsistent frametimes.

I'm just looking for some possible solutions or fixes for these issues as I would love to play through both titles, as they were originally intended.

Thanks in advance

 

[rtwjunkie]

No idea. I'm drawing a blank, since I never had any issues, even when I had only 1.5GB VRAM (so it's obviously not an amount of VRAM issue). But it honestly sounds like the drive being accessed frequently to load game into RAM as you continue to play, and then dumping it as that encounter or area has passed.

 

[...PACMAN...]

No idea. I'm drawing a blank, since I never had any issues, even when I had only 1.5GB VRAM (so it's obviously not an amount of VRAM issue). But it honestly sounds like the drive being accessed frequently to load game into RAM as you continue to play, and then dumping it as that encounter or area has passed.

I should add to my OP that I have tried both games on my SSD and HDD with no change so I'm sure it's just an anomaly with my setup and these titles. All other titles perform flawlessly, GTA V has no stuttering whatsoever with settings exceeding my VRAM amount playing from my HDD. Crysis, Far Cry 4, opengl, DX9, DX10 and DX11 titles all of them have no issues just the bloody Witcher games lol.

Why is it, that you can have over 40 games titles installed and the only two you really want to play are the only ones with issues

 

[64K]

On the CD Project Red support site is says to make sure that AA and AF are not forced in the graphics card control panel. Set them in the game options.

http://en.cdprojektred.com/support/poor-performance/

It's worth a try.

 

[rtwjunkie]

I honestly am stumped, as I can't even point to your Pentium K Anniversary Edition, since when both games were released dual core was very common (Witcher) still quite common (Witcher 2).

 

[...PACMAN...]

I honestly am stumped, as I can't even point to your Pentium K Anniversary Edition, since when both games were released dual core was still quite common.

Here's the thing, the TI Boost seems to work wonderfully with the dual core. I get 99% usage in pretty much every title, I have heard that higher cards and some AMD cards have a lot bigger overhead with these dual cores which cause issues but I can honestly say this has been a great budget rig for playing games at good/great settings at 1080p.

Far Cry 4 which shouldn't even play on this chip is flawless which is funny cos I see people with beast 8 core hyperthreaded SLI systems having issues with it.

WoW on ultra with AA is smooth even below 60fps in crowded areas/raids

I can even have physx on in some supported games and it still feels smooth (Arkham City, Mafia 2, Metro etc)

And then it comes down to a 2007 release to show my rig up.....wtf!

@64K - I only really force AA through Nvidia Inspector with games that don't natively have any AA options so unfortunately I don't think that's the issue but thanks for the suggestion.

 

[Ferrum Master]

SSD only... any RPG is CPU heavy... that pentium is okay for single threaded game, but this one ain't such, so it pains.

For TW2 use custom ini presets... http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher2/mods/181/?

And put the texture mod too... I recommend it.

Better Texture Environment

 

[rtwjunkie]

SSD only... any RPG is CPU heavy... that pentium is okay for single threaded game, but this one ain't such, so it pains.

For TW2 use custom ini presets... http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher2/mods/181/?

And put the texture mod too... I recommend it.

Better Texture Environment

I didn't even think of the multithreaded nature of it, and sound more plausible than anything I have grasped at...but was Witcher 1 really very multithreaded in 2008?

As to SSD, not necessary IMO. I have never run any of my Witcher games from an SSD...they are all now even on a 1TB WD Black.

 

[Ferrum Master]

As to SSD, not necessary IMO. I have never run any of my Witcher games from an SSD...they are all now even on a 1TB WD Black.

TW1 wasn't, it was one core only. Albeit second used at least three and up!! And TW2 on SSD no loading time in between places, with HDD it may show the loading circle. I remember it well and hated it with passion. TW1 case may be going in GPU powersave maybe? Try VSR or gedosato to turn up the load?

 

[rtwjunkie]

Ahhh, ok. I guess I never noticed because loading screens never really bothered me.

 

[...PACMAN...]

SSD or HDD makes no difference to the issues I'm facing, dual core with Witcher 2 could be an issue I suppose but it's showing 22% on both cores and 99% gpu usage. I'm going to try disabling sound next and messing with pre rendered frames.

 

[rtwjunkie]

SSD or HDD makes no difference to the issues I'm facing, dual core with Witcher 2 could be an issue I suppose but it's showing 22% on both cores and 99% gpu usage. I'm going to try disabling sound next and messing with pre rendered frames.

What percentage of your 8GB RAM is in use prior to playing the game?

 

[Ferrum Master]

SSD or HDD makes no difference to the issues I'm facing, dual core with Witcher 2 could be an issue I suppose but it's showing 22% on both cores and 99% gpu usage. I'm going to try disabling sound next and messing with pre rendered frames.

show me your user.ini file? post the contents as code.

 

[...PACMAN...]

Witcher 2 fixed!!! Set pre rendered frames to 1 in Nvidia Inspector and the stutter has vanished

Now onto Witcher 1