Anyone getting frame skipping?

[lemans23]

Hey all, I've been playing TDU2 since the 8th (I think I'm level 17 or 18 now), and it was working buttery smooth in all conditions: cities, weather, night, races, whatever. Now, however, it's as though my framerates have plummeted significantly (seemed to start as soon as I hit level 15). I'm running at 1920x1080, everything maxed but AA (set to 2x, doesn't make much difference). Relevant rig specs:

 

Vista Ultimate x64

GTX 480 Superclocked (1/18/2011 driver update)

6GB Corsair Dominator RAM

i7 920 CPU

 

Ideas? Even turning everything down makes zero difference whatsoever, and if I can play Metro 2033 maxed out without a hitch, I'm pretty sure that this game shouldn't magically become a hog as soon as you reach a certain level...

[Rai06]

I'm pretty sure that this game shouldn't magically become a hog as soon as you reach a certain level...

 

 

Eden made this. How do you know?

[Ichibu]

probly cuz no game shud do that?

 

any ways i get this too for some reason if winamp is running before i run the game

if i run the game then open winamp it works ok

if u dont use winamp, maybe something else running?

hope this helps

[Ryzza5]

Mine's still fine at level 20, except for when I'm recording in FRAPS and in a city.

 

Is it still laggy when you turn off 'online interactions' - TDU1 would sometimes manifest game lag when the problem was really internet lag (possibly on someone else's end). Problems can also be caused by new programs, antivirus, updates, drivers, etc. It at least gives you a few things to check anyway.

[lemans23]

I haven't used Winamp since high school, so that's not the problem there. Nothing new was installed: I was driving my R8, talking to somebody from Russia in a Koenigsegg, then the next time I started the game it was all jittery. I will try the online interactions thing though. How do I access that option in game? I can't seem to find it :(

[lemans23]

Turned off online interactions: no dice. THe game is still very much playable, but it was silky smooth before and now it's not. Interestingly enough, my card doesn't even get as hot now. It used to run into the 90s, but now it's only getting into the 80s and GPU usage is around 50-60% whereas it was in the 90s beforehand. Wonder if they're related...

[RazorX63]

Switch to DirectAudio.

[lemans23]

Not only do I not know what DirectAudio is, I'm just trying to figure out why my video card seems to be underperforming.

[Ichibu]

i wouldnt but found it by accident if u click config or options or so in launcher the only option is like directsound or xaudio, sth like that

[lemans23]

Made no difference whatsoever. Am going to just call them.

[Ryzza5]

If the graphics card isn't working as hard, then your graphics quality obviously isn't going to be as nice. Did you recently install Windows Update (sometimes includes graphics driver updates if you tick everything without checking).

 

If you save everything you download, you could uninstall the graphics drivers, reboot, then install them again and reboot.

[DJSalajutsu]

I get the same thing, and I'm lead to believe it was a GAME update.

Before I got the new patch, I noticed one time, when opening TDU2, my file checker downloaded a very small file.

After that, it seems the game skips ahead a few frames here n there.

Same thing, playable, but was definately smoother.

I have not had any new updates to my system before this happened.

I actually AFTERWORDS updated my ati drivers, hoping maybe they'd help, but the game still seems to skip a little, more so when my avatar's head moves when you turn your car.

:confused:

[Ryzza5]

Try going into the video options of the game and turning on VSYNC.

[The Queen]

I get this issue now too. Never used to get it but ever since the patch I have been getting frame drops and such. I've also tried turning on Vsync and also switching SLI off, to no avail.

[lemans23]

Whew, I'm not the only one! I will try turning Vsync on. :)

[lemans23]

Vsync on: no change.

[Ryzza5]

Fair enough. I've sometimes found that VSYNC turns off by itself, and that produces a few tears in the cutscenes mostly.

[eXile]

Okay after playing last night on Ibiza I have no problems what so ever, maybe a bit glitchy in the cities.

 

But in Hawaii ohh goddd from usual 40 fps down to 15 - 20 most of the time wtf :/

[lemans23]

Yep, it's like 25fps constantly no matter what. That's what makes me think it isn't a computer issue at all because the performance is exactly the same no matter what kind of load there is.

[lemans23]

Anybody else?

[GTAMADDOG]

Runs OK for me, smooth as silk out of the cities, go in to a city and the FPS drops to 30-40 and I can tell, but other than that and the occasional stutter when I get connected to someone laggy it's fine.

 

I did just get a stupid amount of slow down when I went to enter a club though. Clicked to enter it from the map, FPS took a nose dive, probably 10 at most and the sound became distorted as well, then the screen went blank. Instant thought was "Oh no, ATI drivers" because my mouse cursor looked like it was doing 10fps on the desktop after I'd ALT + TABd, then TDU2 came back up but the screen was still blank. Then I pressed Ctrl + Alt + Delete and waited 10 seconds, Task Manager came up, decided to see if TDU2 was still going to brought it back up and I was back in the club with normal FPS again.

[Lenman]

I had problems after the first patch that disappeared after the second patch. I'm just now downloading the next patch (v086 build 5), let's see how that works.

[lemans23]

I think that did it. No more frame rate drops, my video card doesn't get too hot either and that's with everything maxed out!