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by VSigda » January 31st, 2021, 12:42 am
Hi all,
I am using your setup and ATS 1.39 looks amazing, thanks so much for all your findings and hard work!!!
This next section might help others struggling with stutters as this has helped me out in ATS and might be the same for ETS (I don't have ETS).
1. In ATS, if you purchase a trailer, the stuttering starts to happen (sell the trailer and stuttering goes away), this seems to only effect certain users. I'm currently checking to see if this effects me.
2. In ATS, this error may appear in the log
<error> vegetation position pool (10240) was depleted! expect missing vegetation!
solution: set grass density to low
This was a big improvement for me. I always used a high setting but certain area's of the map would have stutters and slight freezes, AI would also stutter at certain times, looking left to right with Tobii head-tracker 5 was always jerky. Setting to low removes the error and stutters. I can now increase your findings with little negative effect and game remains smooth!!! I do have some map mods and other's but try to keep as few as possible so not sure if this is a game bug or one of my mods. I always thought it was my mirror's but no, I can increase mirror distance now. I'll put grass density back to high if another solution fixes the problem.
3. Fine-tune FPS cap
Go to an area that would normally work your system and drop your fps causing stutters. I kept my game settings on high to stress the computer. I use Riva-Tuner to cap fps and monitor FPS and Frametime using graphs.
My current machine:
i7-9700K CPU @ 4.70GHz
Game on SSD
2600mhz 16GB ram
RTX 2080 Super
34" curved Predator monitor 3440 x 1440 @120 G-Sync enabled
Game capped (50fps) to what my machine can handle as a higher value does nothing if fps is fluctuating
-so my plan is to check each individual FPS cap from 45-61 fps at this particular location that works my system. I can get smooth game play outside city limits with 60 fps, but in cities I can drop as low as 45 fps.
Results: (This was my first test before I found out about number 1 and 2 above)
45-48 was stuttering
49 started getting better
50 was smooth
51 got worse
52 - 57 was stuttering
58 started getting better
60 much better but had the drop in fluctuations
61 got worse again.
The best cap for my system is 50 fps.
These FPS numbers 61,60,59,58,57,56,55,54,53,52,51,49,48 etc. Don’t work as well
-I did try disabling G-Sync and setting monitor to 100hz, then with v-sync enabled and 1/2 refresh rate set which gives me 50 fps in game the result was the same capped or not capped at 50 fps. The results were the same as with G-Sync enabled, still smooth and no tearing.
This may or may not help others out (system dependent), just thought I'd share some findings to make game play a little smoother!!!
Cheers, Happy trucking to all
Vincent
