Frame drops, stuttering, jittering After 1.0.4 update.

  • I used to have a fairly stable frame rate of about 60fps at 1440p on max everything. I would have to drop a couple of settings to Legendary, the shadows and models, to make the game run almost rock solid and butter smooth with Vsync on. With Vsync off, i would get a range of 60-70fps that would dip once or twice when at an outpost.

    Now I am having an issue where the frame rate doesn't match what I'm seeing. Every 10-20 frames, I get a stutter, like there's a missing frame or the game micro-freezes for a frame or two. Even with all settings on Cursed, and at the lowest resolution I can run, the frame rate counter claims to be 180fps but it still stutters and jitters like crazy, even with Vsync on.

    I've tried updating the graphics drivers, but that did nothing. I tried reinstalling the graphics drivers with a clean install, but that did nothing. I tried disabling SLI, different cards, reverting to default settings, nothing has helped.

    I loaded up my Windows 7 drive and played several other games: smooth as butter. So I'm pretty sure it's not a hardware problem. Normally I would blame Windows 10, but it doesn't look like anything new was installed before SoT was updated.

    Is anyone else having this problem? Anyone have a solution?

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  • Last night I was playing for a few hours and I normally get 140+ FPS at 1080p with a 1080ti but last night my FPS was dropping to around 25-30 at times and even as low as 16 at one point, the game has gone from butter smooth to more or less unplayable.

  • same issue here. i was surprised that noone has reported that.
    i used to play on 1080p all mythical except shadows smoothly with my 1050 ti,
    now i even tried going 900p, 720p cursed shadows but still huge fps drop since the patch.
    i hope they'll hotfix it quickly.

  • I did notice something similar during combat on another ship, I probably wouldn't even have noticed if up until yesterday my experience hadn't been flawless. I just took it as a temporary hiccup, but will monitor it over the next few days and raise a support ticket if it continues.

  • Yep... same here. Happens especially when a skelly fortress is happening.
    Its pretty much made the game unplayable since the last update. That and the constant lagging out of the game. Between that and bumping into players that cant be killed who always seem to know exactly where I am.....I might go back to playing sid myres pirates for a while. It may be 20 years old, but at least its stable

  • Same here. Had to go down from mythic/legendary settings to rare settings. Most of my frame drops when approaching the larger islands.

  • I had an issue when alt tabbing just now. I was at my normal 144+FPS, tabbed out, then after tabbing back in my game seemed to be capped at 30FPS for some reason and would dip down to as low as 10FPS.

    I would suggest playing on Windowed mode, or not alt tabbing if thats really the issue.

  • Same here instead of rock solid 60fps I got temporary dips into the 30-40fps range last night.

    Settings
    Resolution: 1680x1050
    Shadow Detail: Legendary
    Model Detail: Mythical
    Texture Detal: Legendary
    Water Detail: Mythical
    Lighting Detail: Mythical

    PC
    CPU: i5 2500K 4.3Ghz
    GPU: Geforce GTX 970 1466Mhz
    RAM: 16GB DDR3-2133
    SSD: Samsung 840 Evo

    Suggestions?

  • @sanni Lower your graphics settings. i5 2500k is a really old cpu. It's not the magical cpu it used to be.

  • yeah something is off

  • I did notice yesterday that my screen started shaking back and forth alot like it was lagging.

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