Dead Space Remake PC: Months Later, The Stuttering Still Hasn't Been Fixed 

I just built a pc, and tested it with dead space. Frame drops and stuttering. I'm thinking something is wrong with my RAM. How have EA still not fixed this?

​@@poopoppy I wonder too🤔 EA Should be cancelled!

And it's still fucking broken.

The people making the art aren't the people optimizing the game, and the people optimizing the game aren't the ones to blame either if a publisher is fine with rushing out a terrible port

Because it didn't sell as well as EA expected... don't count on DS franchise coming back

They did just not for you 😂 pc master race 😂 get treated more like … slaves

@@commentingchannel9776 Who else is optimizing it if not the studio making the game? It wasn't outsourced afaik

its EA they dont give a damn

it is the goddamn Denuvo man and steam has no choice but to accept it if they want the said publisher to sell the game on their Steam platform. Game companies these days have become so lazy and greedy beyond belief and they would rather spend 30% of the budget for a crappy DRM like denuvo and 40-50% for marketing and only actually spend a small amount of time working on the actual product which is the game itself. The fact that people still but up with this anti-consumer practice is beyond me...

​@@mr.savage778jesus. Calm down

@@gavinderulo12 people like who are not bothered are the exact reason why companies like EA can get away with the same scummy anti-consumer practices again and again The moment people will decide to stand up and refuse to take the abuse, that is the moment these companies will have to change their ways and actually do right by their customers until then we will leave the mindless sheep to keep following them.

actually, it isn't denuvo since a cracker that crack denuvo and removed it said on a tweet the game still stutters even without the DRM. the issue is the poor DX12 implementation @@mr.savage778

@@mr.savage778 yea cracked version dead space remake proabably work ok but with calsito they not cracked. even newer game residen evil 4 remake cracked.

I suspect that it's Denuvo, or some form of it from EA.

​@@tanos857I suspect its an underlying engine issue that isn't as easy to fix by the game devs.

@@tanos857 why don't you use a cracked exe and test that yourself? It's been cracked

@@Smurfman256no it hasn’t

​​@@Smurfman256 it was never cracked people used an exploit in its demo to remove the time limit i bought this game and it ran like utter trash on my 2060 and now im waiting for a crack

Yep, this is the reason that they didn’t have any interest in fixing the game, other than being published by EA. It really is crazy how oblivious some are to the stutters and then tell people to upgrade their hardware when people are literally using the best GPU’s and CPU’s out there and they’re still getting the same stutters.

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Because the game itself is actually very good, probably sits at the top of remakes the likes of RE4. It's just the technical aspect of streaming assets in and out that causes problems on most pc's, that and EA dropping support by shifting the devs resources to a new project. It's really unfortunate that EA decided to ignore this issue - either that or it's something inherent with the frostbite engine that makes it unsuitable for these kinds of games.

Because most played it on console 😅

I recommended it at launch because I thought it was my gpu. I'm running it on a 6800xt now and not even 1080p gets rid of the stutter. Callisto Protocol runs like butter at maxed out 1440p because of post launch updates and I average over 100 fps in all the RE games with RT ON. Tellin me I can't get rid of stutter after waiting a year to replay this game and upgrading to a 16 gb gpu and it can't even play smooth at 1080p The launch of CP was really bad, I was there for it but that game runs great rn and has the best screen space reflections period. Its otherwise a mid game but at this point I'd rather play that because at least the devs listened to feedback and fixed the stutter. Now the combat actually works even though its mid. Dead Space isn't a mid game I hate to see the developers decide that a couple weeks of troubleshooting isn't worth fixing a clearly broken game.

I will *NEVER* play a game with stutter like that. It makes me absolutely insane. I can put up with a fair amount of stuff but stutter takes me out of a game immediately every time. Resident Evil games can be bad about it too, in my experience. I have to cap the framerate and underutilize my GPU and VRAM or it’s stutter city in RE4R

Gamers have the lowest standards of any consumer group. I'd expound on why that is but we're all gamers here, and we're all active online, so let's be real... we all know why lol.

It legally falls on the retailer to enforce quality assurance for products sold. Like steam origin gog epic to pursue the publisher and take legal action if necessary. Like Sony store with delisting Cyberpunk.

Yeah i think those times where most games are finished at all (not even talking about release) are over. People still pay, most people don't even notice and start to even insult you that you should go to the doctor and the games are fine "on their pcs", while you sit infront of your 2500€ pc with the newest stuff on it and know how to run shit properly and clean. Media isn't also talking about it much. We can consider being lucky if Digital Foundry points it out in their videos AT ALL, but that happens maybe once and the games are still being recommended nontheless. I wish it would be like this "hey, before we're talking about the game itself, it runs like crap... so yeah don't even consider buying it". See what Star Wars Jedi Surivor has become.... i would love to play it, but it's unplayable. Doesn't matter if High end PC or PS5, both run horrible.

Well they lost a sale in my case. I bought it just days after it's release but the stuttering issues where so bad at the times, that I simply got a refund from Steam. It's a shame, as the short bit that I played was pretty good other than the terrible stuttering. I had all intensions to repurchase the game later on when all the issues where patched and fixed. However the game was simply never fixed, so I never repurchased it and likely never will, now. It's their loss at the end of the day. If they can't be bothered to fix their broken game, then they aren't getting any of my well earned money. My advice to anyone on PC, is if a game is broken but is otherwise good, simply get a refund straight away and then wait and see if it ever get fixed. Stop putting up with this BS. Why stick it out with a broken game if there's a very good chance that it'll never be fixed. Simply get a refund, wait it out and then see if it gets fixed. If so then rebuy it and if not, then just like me shrug it off and move on. There's plenty of other games that are worth investing in, after all. It's the only way that these 'hit n' run" companies will ever learn.

Why are PC games given such shithouse treatment these days?!

most of the reviews are bought bias ones since not many people want to lose their sponsors and source of money. others choose to ignore it so they wont be the black sheep.

Probably because no one really cares about PC. Consoles is where it's at and will always be

Most buyers are NPC bots that are oblivious to any stuttering in PC games, they don't know what it is and some say it doesn't happen to them and will try to gaslight other users into saying that's their computer, despite videos like this.

I tested Dead Space with a new pc build. I thought my RAM was defective.

Most gamers are clinically dead, have the cognitive ability of bread. They don't notice stutters or think they blinked, and have the strongest opinion about how they never have issues as their system is "rock solid". IQ sub 85 for sure.

same, exept i dont have a high end pc. Bought it, played most of the first chapter with many issues (not just stutters, even bugs, like having to restart the game because the controls stop working), and when i was about to reach the end of the chapter, i got actual heavy lag for no reason like enter a small room and get 16 fps. Like the game was warning me to refund NOW. Abandoned by EA once again, Dead space has to be one of the most abused IP of all time

Glad I read the comments before buying the game. Saw 60% off on steam. Guess I wait till its free lol

Should have got it on console. Ran flawless on the series x. So much for master race... 💯

@@onepunchman4444 Nah I like playing in high refresh rates at high resolution. You can enjoy what you enjoy though.

@@onepunchman4444 Nope he did the right thing. Game should run FLAWLESS on top end pc and console. So much for your intelligence. Celebrate devs being lazy.

Oh shush. It’s still amazing and worthwhile gameplay compared to the most of mediocre video games nowadays.

Still have it on my wishlist, but I'll be removing it later this evening.

@@tavizcha But we do have the original that runs really well and has the same gameplay.

@@tavizcha You talking about the original or... because I'd agree if you were talking about the original.

Ran absolutely flawless on console...so much for a PC master race huh? 💯 Console kings

Wow. Even on top of the line specs. This is ridiculous

@mindrover777 Unfortunately, this has become the state of gaming. You buy a game like Dead Space or Cyberpunk. Due to technical issues, the game is almost unplayable. You wait six months for patches or in the case of Cyberpunk two years before it's playable. Maybe after this video, EA might commission a small team to go back and fix the microstutering. Besides the stuttering, there's still graphical issues that look low resolution, like specular highlights at extreme angles and what appears to be Z sorting issues from time to time with shadows. Anywho, uninstalled last night, I have other stuff to play, might go back to Dead Space in a few months when I'm bored.

@@hababacon provided they watch this video. We could try sending an e-mail to the concerned

​@@hababaconyikes guess i won't buy it even though it has a nice deal now on epic games

@@daffakhairy3346 Yeah, if you have Gamepass, it's on there as well if you want give it a spin. I did try the Gamepass version recently, same problem.

Yarr... I'd be sailing the high seas too.

It's not unplayable, clowns like you are just beyond help. It has some issues sure.But it's not redfall at launch by any means though. Redfall ran like horse crap when it came out. Lets not even talk about unspoken on pc and ps5. That is a real broken game.

Don't blame Motive. Blame EA. EA forced Motive to abandon the game and move on. Remember, dev studios have no real power. It's the publisher calling all the shots.

Resident Evil is always popular with many people, but Deadspace doesn't seem to be.. I don't think Dead Space episode 2 will come out

well you missed alot. espicaly for star wars ea games. think battlefront 2015 for example graphicly that game superior you dont need to wait unreal engine 5 nanite or ray tracing that game was next gen look. battlefeild 3 stil lbest fps ever made. the ea hate is bullshit. battlefield 1 also such historical game to experience. ea battlefront games also ton of mods battlefront 2 for example clsoe amount of mods to skyrim on pc. they even have split screen mod. dont know you play first mirror edge that was also something else. unravel game also most the most underated indie game with superior graphics.

@@MrStrangermoon I guess DeadPixel doesn't care about multiplayer games. We want great single player experiences and EA failed big in that regard and got the Top 3 worst PC ports of 2023.

played it with the 1$ gamepass and never bought it. my war with EA will never ends after what they did with visceral games, bioware and many more beloved studios.

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When i played, also had lot stuttering, from 7900xt/5800x3d.

@@watterson777 yeah,it is due to the goddamn Denuvo DRM and their shit implementation of it in the game. You could try running this at 720p with a 4090 and cap the FPS while using an i9 14900k and gen 5 SSD and it will still stutter. This port has been abandoned by EA and is a lost cause at this point. No more fixes coming in the near future. You will have to wait 2-3 more years until Denuvo is removed and hopefully that will be enough to fix some of the current issues because it is sure as hell that EA will not make any special effort to fix this port. If they wanted to do so, they would have done it by now.

It really is concerning how some people are oblivious to the stuttering and tell people that their hardware just isn’t good enough. 4090/7800X3D, first playthrough had tons of stuttering but I pushed through it. Started second playthrough recently and nothing has changed. Wanted to test HDR on my new monitor which was completely washed out. Had to do HDR through Special K to get actual working HDR. The game is also prone to crashing with an undervolt/tweaks from afterburner for example which I didn’t notice on the first playthrough because I was using stock settings.

Has nothing to do with DRM@@mr.savage778

Had no idea this was on PC Game Pass. I just bought it on sale earlier on PS5. Oh well, when I saw that it made Alex's list for one of the worst PC ports of 2023 I decided to to get it on console.

Can you describe it? Ive noticed traversal stutters in just about every game Ive played, but it's never bothered me that much because it's not often. There's a lot of time that goes by before I have to put up with the 2 second stutter, and then a lot of time of smooth gameplay before the next stutter. Specifically this game runs very smooth with no frame drops and just the occasional traversal stutter. Is it worse for you? Just trying to figure out if optimizing my PC is the reason for games running good. Because I've worked on optimizing performance for a long time.

@@SmoothSportsGaming yes those traversal stutters are what I am talking about. I believe my settings are optimized since I can run the game with 70-80fps, even reaching 100+ fps on spaces without much happening. Also I noticed that every time I die, there’s a quick shader loading that is happening and all those stuttering is gone on the paths I have previously taken, but will reoccur once I restart the game. It really is annoying to be honest. Also, if those shader loading are still happening from time to time, then why did they bother preload the shaders when you first start the game/when the game decide to preload it for the very first time/when you try to clear the shader cache manually? I managed to finish the game but because of that experience, I probably wont replay this game.

@@armand5870 Im noticing it more often now but it's not always very noticeable. In other games the stutters don't happen as often though. You combine the stutters not being that noticeable and the graphics looking so nice. It's not ruining my experience, but it's unfortunate considering how well the game performs otherwise. I locked at 60 fps (riva) , 1440 p native + DLDSR for 4K, FSR Quality (no ghosting), Ultra settings and Ray Tracing on and it never dips. I'm actually pretty shocked considering I'm on a 3060 t.i / I7 10700k Maybe it's s combination of my PC optimization and me playing games months after release. Yeah man this game would look perfect if it wasn't for the traversal stutters. Compiling shaders is pointless if you're still loading them in game.

how is your review with the stuttering?

I haven't experienced any stutters so far, but it could be related to my system. I disabled C-states in the BIOS, turned off the High Precision Event Timer in Windows, and performed debloating using the Bloatynosy app with checkboxes. Additionally, I utilized the Bloatpilot option inside the app, checking the "most hated" items. After implementing these changes, my Windows 11 system now runs games that would typically stutter flawlessly, and high polling rates on mice remain stable. One peculiar observation is that initially, I didn't use the Bloatpilot option in Bloatynosy, causing issues with launching MWII and III. However, once I enabled Bloatpilot, the games launched immediately. This leads me to believe that a seemingly unnecessary Windows program might be causing significant issues, but it has now been removed. @@ravisingh9953

You bought two games with stutter problem. Enjoy.

@@kanedup6669 Not stuttering on my system. I am debloated and tweaked so most games people have issues with , I don't.

​@dmannion81 Yeah, that's a lie or denial. The stuttering isn't dependent on hardware or your OS and the tweaks you've made. The stuttering is a problem not addressed in the games code. Everyone experiences it, their set up is irrelevant.

What can be fixed, will be fixed. And what cannot be fixed, won´t be fixed. Never.

same glad I didn't as well.

Pick up a ps5 its 450 and plays games better not just old games like cs go etc

U can also try play on pc game pass if u dont want pay for it.

@@watterson777 Microsoft Store, meh. Thanks for the suggestion though.

Na you just broke lol 😅

@@fabolousjada5070 hilarious 😂

Denuvo impacts lower end hardware but on the high end the consistent thing is the traversal stutters, there is simply nothing anyone can do for it.

You almost always just literally delete the d3d11/12 DLL file and replace it with the DXVK.dll in each specific games folder, did it a lot on Linux and it helps a lot with Borderlands 2, only way to get that game at a high refresh rate in my experience (on an all AMD system maybe borderlands doesn’t like that) Also- idk about VKD3D but with DXVK you get some absolutely disgusting shader compilation and hanging for the first few minutes so just hang in there. It should improve some games if you’re having a lot of issues , but yeah it’s hit or miss especially depending on your rig

@@opticalsalt2306 what if u run the game as DX12, compile the shaders (a game like dead space compiles its shaders in a seperate folder for some reason than the normal cache). Technically all shaders r compiled already then u convert to vulkan after? VKD3D as far as Ik is just DXVK for DX12 games whiles DX11 games use DXVK.

DirectX and Vulkan use totally different shaders, so you will have to compile new Vulkan shaders regardless if using DXVK.

@@stealthhunter6998 Yeah, what Orion said You could make your own shader cache - I’ve done this for emulation because I really hate sitting around, but yeah I’m sure if you changed your driver version or something you’d probably have to recompile, or if you changed your gpu? I’m not a huge System operator type guy I just build pc for fun yknow

I don't understand why they wouldn't mention Denuvo, it's clearly the reason for the stuttering on PC

It's not, they already showed most of the stuttering comes from asset loading, and what they showed aligned exactly with the same spots I noticed the stuttering issue. I'm not sure if Denuvo casues any extra one in this particular game (it's been quite some time since Denuvo caused stutters, it god bad rep but by now it's almost never the real problem) but there is no evidence supporting the Denuvo theory so far@@bob-g3e3x

Is EA....

Many PC players will claim "The game runs perfectly fine on my PC, no stutters at all", yet they never seem to want to provide gameplay footage PROVING it. They literally NEVER prove it. Funny how that works.

@@DeadPixel1105 Well in some cases they might not be sensitive enough to these kind of stutters? Or perhaps they're just okay with it.

@@mhjmstultiens This is right. Many people are not looking for these imperfections like you and me are. They may actually be SEEING it, but they don't register that it's actually a bad thing/something that *shouldn't* be happening. The same thing happens believe it or not even with display refresh rates. Try showing your grandparents the different between a 60Hz and 120Hz iPhone screen. Me and you can immediately tell the difference, but they might genuinely not understand the difference in what you're showing them. When people don't see it as an issue, they won't speak out about it as an issue. The truth is, I experienced stuttering in this remake and I believe its absolutely horrific that it has not been fixed and support for the game dropped immediately, but at the same time, it was one of the best games I played in 2023, and if I am being honest, the stuttering didn't really get in the way of that. As much as I hate the stuttering, I think I would have been at a bigger net negative having not played the game at all due to the stuttering rather than powering through it and experiencing the great work Motive did with this remake (so long as it didn't interfere with actually playing the game, like during combat, which 99% of the time it did not for me). If even I, someone who has an eye for these things, noticed it but still had a great experience playing the game, someone who doesn't see these things as an issue will almost certainly not throw up any red flags about their experience.

​@@DeadPixel1105to be fair, whether the issue was or wasn't happening, I wouldn't take the time to record footage to prove anything to some random on the internet.

@@mhjmstultiens If they can't see an obvious freeze and hitch that happens at EVERY DOOR in the game then a LOT of people need to get to the optometrist as soon as possible.

Callisto protocol was unfairly hated, just showed me how absolutely cringe and toxic the dead space fanbase is. At least callisto actually functions on my PC over crashing and stuttering simulator of a cash grab remake

@@GMOTP5738 hard to disagree w that!

Yup 🎉

and yet your a pc video bragging about your shitty box

PC cannot do same stuff which PS/Xbox does, sir. You aren´t smart enough. You don´t know how it works. No magic "develop asset streaming pipeline" will work to magically fix stutters. Your hardwre is simply insufficient. This shouldn´t be surprising as more and more PC-games today run like ass. and this is because you want to handle more than your "Superhighend-Superduper"-PCc can handle. PCs will only have the problem they rely on old, outdated components. It doens´t matter if you clock them at 5 or 10 Ghz. The issue persists. PC is simply outdated and requires supporting hundreds of GPUs. Consoles (aka PS/Xbox (or even WiiU if you haven´t heard about this yet) don´t have to support so many GPUs. Though if they use same or similar types of GPUs you will (sooner or later) run into similar issues on PS, Xbox and WiiU as well. so there is no magic.

@@SmartZero-f8e Ah yes, a 4090 and a 13th gen i9 is "outdated." If top of the line PC hardware is insufficient for this game then maybe it shouldn't be made to begin with. Of course that's not the case, we have more demanding games like Avatar and the new Horizon that run without stutters because the proper care was taken with the quality of those ports. The fact that you're mentioning the WiiU in 2024 makes me think this is a bot comment so I don't even know why I'm replying. Honestly though you can find comments just as moronic as this on the steam forums surrounding this game.

@@ninjabeann WiiU´s processor is faster. That´s why i mentioned it. No PC can even fully emulate a WiiU until this day. And it will allways remain like this, since PC processor´s performance is insufficient to do this. Meanwhile WiiU begins emulating first PC-games (it can actually fully emulate "Steam"`s libraries itself = all Source-engine-games). lol You can fully run Half LIfe 2 and even G-Mod on a WiiU today sir. Since WiiU can emulate it in Unity. and Unity is nothing else, than a giant Virtual Machine (which most people today dont´even know). And yes, AMD/Intels ARE outdated. You can give them 5 or 10 ghz or add hundred instructions, but that won´t change their giant input- and output-latency or how outdated their design is (from early 1970s). Huge latency in a modern AMD/Intel is bad for handling AI-tasks. and even bad for physics calculating on a cpu. it´s also bad for timing-instructions (such as Java). Why do you think Java was discontinued? Which is why more games today try running physics on the GPU instead, since modern multicore-processors are bad in this. With more or less success. This is called "GPGPU" (running physics-tasks on the GPU on the shaders). Also remember. This game isn´t the first to run like ass on PC now. ALL unity-engine-games will soon run like that as well on PC. Because Unity doesn´t support running games on multiple cores. And because multiple cores dont´allow you to run AI-tasks well (because of high latency). The more cores you have, the worse your latency will be = the worse Unity will run as well. Remember "Cities Skylines 2"? It also stutters heavily on PC. And even "Kerbal Space Program 2" runs bad because of insufficient performance on PC´s processors now (because Java runs bad/slow on modern processors) and KSP requires this a lot). The games you mentioned aren´t demanding for the processor. They are simple graphics-shooter-games in Openworlds. Avatar is a graphics-shooter. And Horizon is even a graphics-shooter coming from Playstation, right? It´s quite funny, but. The more OPENWORLD your game is, the less demanding on the cpu it is. Quite interesting, isn´t it? and this is also the reason 95% of modern games are taking place in an empty Openworld. Because it saves ressources. In an Openworld you don´t need as many collission-detections (timed instructions). IN an empty Openworld, few NPCs are required. Btw. First people have started building WiiU-multi-clusters. They are smart. WiiU does true Raytracing after all. and first people have understood how to use that. Since you aren´t limited to run Raytracing on the processor. You can run all sorts of TIMED Instructions there (Python, Java, ec). Python is a language, which is also being used by AIs. WiiU´s processor is good to run endless loops (Such as required to run an AI, a sound-calculation, a weather-/climate-prediction, a space-collission-dection etc).

@@SmartZero-f8e Does CEMU not count as a WiiU emulator? We've been able to run WiiU games at fullspeed for several years. Unless you're talking about shader compilation which is a fair point, but with native PC games they can simply be precompiled (though this requires some level of competence from the devs so that the compilation is effective). I haven't seen anything about a WiiU running Half Life 2, G-Mod, or doing "true raytracing". That seems like it would be a feat of programming so surely there's a link you can share. Would also appreciate a link about CPU designs being outdated, it's not like we keep the same socket for decades, there's a new socket every few years. If there was really a glaring issue with these CPUs and their socketed design don't you think Intel/AMD would be working to fix that? If it could fix all these issues with PC games, or provide a great performance boost there's no reason not to. I don't even agree with open world games being less CPU demanding lol. Sure there are a lot of games that have empty open worlds but there are still hotspots with lots of NPCs where the CPU gets hammered. Lots of those games are not properly optimized for multicore CPUs still, but we can see a game like Cyberpunk with how to properly do it. So it becomes clear this is just laziness/incompetence on the Devs part rather than an inherent issue with CPUs (compare CPU performance of Starfield vs Cyberpunk to see what I mean).

This must hurt pc gamers.

​@@reyjimenzyep i stopped buying games on pc until Digital Foundry confirms It has no stutters which never happened once in 2023.

no hardware in the world can fix software issues

@@overdev1993 console been running these games amazingly. Unlike PC.

Even the consoles version got stutters lol@@reyjimenz

No PC/AMD/Nvidia-hardware is fast enough to handle these shaders. You simply run out of ressources. PC runs faster out of ressources. But PS/Xbox cannot do magic and thus can run out of ressources in this game (which is why it can stutter there too, just much less stuttering).

Even if every single person on earth signed this petition, they wouldn't give a shit.

It is the one reason which is keeping me from buying the game.

It's actually even worse. The game can run completely fine, if the shader precompile works. But the game often just doesn't detect the driver changed or that the precompile didn't get all of them, and now all (or some) your shaders are on-demand. And they don't seem to care because you can just ship baked shaders on consoles.

EA wont get rid of it, they still have it in older need for speed, burnout paradise remastered etc so defo dont see a new game dropping it

That's another major issue with the game, memory leaks causing these massive fps drops. Happened many times to me too. It's really a defective product

Can modders do this?

Ez plat

The video is about the PC version

if you played on the 60 fps mode then you are oblivious as it also stutters a little on PS5 and Xbox too in the same spots. on the 30 fps I don't think there is any stuttering though.

That's because the game stutters due to shader compilation, and with the uniformity of consoles, you can just ship them with the game there.

​@@acuteaurait's not shader compilation though that's there as well. It happens on console at 60fps. Either you're sensitive or you aren't, but they're clearly there.

Never experienced stutter in Cyberpunkt. In most of newer games, yes, but not in this one

Cyberpunk doesn't have shader or traversal stutter. If I had to make a guess without knowing your setup/settings, I'd guess you're CPU bound and experiencing the stutter caused by that. Not even VRR can smooth out CPU bound stutters.

Cyberpunk only has stutter if you are CPU limited, but no game inherent stutter

Cyberpunk doesn't have stutter. It's one of the best optimized games in recent memory. At least in it's current state on pc.

@@gavinderulo12 it doesnt stutter but calling it well optimised is wild. It is very badly optimised, it uses a lot of your hardware in a predictable way, its just wayy to heavy still

😂

How would they fix something they didn't program?​@@PhotoJohn80

....It's not THEIR product, why and how would they invest in a fix for this game?? Lol

@@ATLsF1N3ST91 It's a problem with the way Windows and PC hardware works, this is far from the only game on PC to have these types of problems and where consoles don't have them. Direct Storage goes some way in trying to address some of these problems, but it is imperfect and most developers seem not to use it yet anyway.

Blaming the wrong people... Plenty of other games have no problems with stutter and a lot that do at launch get patched and fixed by their respective dev teams. Don't blame the tool manufacturers because the people using the tools make broken things.

Denuvo

Console have different asset streaming pipeline.

@@heksogen4788 No. They simply don´t have to handle shaders for 100 different GPUs. You only have ONE type of GPU there. Just with more/less shaders (PS4/PS4 Pro/PS5) or in case of Xbox (Xbox/Xbox Series S/X). THese "consoles" (aren´t actually consoles) work like a PC now. Without any of PC´s typical issues. You cannot use theh same asset pipeline of an Xbox/Playsation, since it wouldn´t support your GPU then. It would ONLY run on that GPU, which they use. Shaders aren´t magic. There are 2 methods to calculate shaders: One: Being calculated in game, without a shader-cache. Or being calculated in advance (Simple shaders) and stored in a cache. Then being loaded each time at start (which takes time to load and thus makes your loading-screen longer). Only simple-shader games can have shader-caches. Complex-Shaders which CHANGE each time you execute them in game, require being calculated in game-time. Not wih a shader-cache. Or in other words: For some games shader-caches are USELESS.

The game is very much enjoyable, but damn is it a poor port

I don't think there is a cracked version of this. Though i would also like to know if Denuvo is the culprit here.

There’s also traversal stutter on console as well, but not as bad

It's unlikely to be Denuvo related in Dead Space's case imo. You can tell because the stutters occur with complete consistency at precise points within each level, to the extent where you actually can run back and forward over the trigger point and basically "cause" the stutters yourself. It's traversal stutter AKA asset streaming stutter. When the player camera crosses certain thresholds placed throughout each level, the game is making a bunch of calls to the CPU and GPU to begin loading whatever assets it needs for the area ahead into memory. Most games do this, but some (like Dead Space) do it very poorly. I'm not gonna pretend to know what the actual difference is between games that use asset streaming with and without stuttering though. It just seems like a total crapshoot. Maybe the size of the files being loaded into memory? Who knows lol.

Dead Space Remake can run like butter on weak hardware (played it on release with no issues, later with stutter fixed by full shader cache delete in my windows profile, 3070 Mobile), it's weird conditional shader compliation and not detecing stale/broken shaders and the engine just falls back to "development mode" and compiles them on-demand. You can tell by backtracking, because those sections will run smoothly as long as you don't hit any new assets.

Same, bought the game on Epic, had no issues so far. I was aware that stuttering was a problem, but I had been using a bad PC for years, and only recently got a new one so bad performance wasn't a stranger to me. Thankfully, I haven't experienced any of it yet.

it does compile shaders at startup

@@brandon_nope that's the thing, sometimes it does not. I had this happen on my second plasmacutter-only playthrough (on a 3070 Mobile) and the experience went from butter smooth to unplayable. Pretty sure the game doesn't notice driver updates or game updates making the cache stale, and you have to delete the entire driver cache for a proper recompile.

This is not a shader comp issue it's a traversal stutter. The game can not load in assetts fast enough for the frame time window.

I found most people having very low awareness.

Even the console version has issues. I just played the entire game for the first time this week on PS5 and encountered many scenes in which the game stuttered or the framerate dipped. Especially Zero-G areas.

@@HeyKyle In that case the PC version is better. My 14900k + 4090 give me almost zero stutter or broken frame times - especially if I lock to 60fps console framerates. I'm already uploading a video and will post it later. My guess is, that this is in part an AMD problem - high end Intel is better for 0,1 lows and memory bandwidth.

its less noticable due to the lower framerate that you have on series x

@@wolniacha_tv stutters are more noticeable at lower framerates, its that the stutters are far worse on pc

@@wolniacha_tv no as 60 fps on pc is still much worse than 60 fps on the Xbox. there is one spot on the mining deck area that was horrible on the Xbox and PS5 when in the 60 fps mode as the fps tanked for quite a while.

DS remake is still just a port of a console game at the end of the the day. I doubt throwing the thing into a giant ram cache would help very much unfortunately. Assets would still have to be streamed into system memory. I would assume technologies like Direct storage from Microsoft/Nvidia would resolve the issue in a similar way as to that which you're proposing but it's still on the devs to implement. The state of PC gaming is terrible atm. I've been showing a lot more love to smaller/indie devs since they seem to engage with their communities more and generally support their games for much longer.

Yeah I saw a fix for a game, when forcing DX11 in Steam launch options, fixed the game stuttering. I can't recall what the game was though.

I blame Windows and the way it packs/handles things. Even on super tweaked systems, games with these issues still have them, the stutters will be "quicker", but still there regardless.

BS.

ignorance is bliss so it must be great the be that damn oblivious.

When drm is removed it will run good