The Mad Stork
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Borderlands 2 Terrible Stutter problem
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gregomyeggo
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so did you try rolling back your video card drivers yet? or maybe even trying beta drivers?
Buck Wilicker
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It could be that your video card doesnt have enough dedicated ram. Most desktop cards have 1-2 gigs just to itself standard now. I donno it could be the problem. Im sure borderlands has some massive textures.
Ok, just wondering if there has been any progress with this issue of yet?
this has to be the first (apart from myself) logged incident of this issue that iv seen
all the other similar issues iv seen are with ppl and crap rigs trying to run this on max and wondering why they are getting fps drops.... they need to give up...
as for this issue, iv done ALOT of trouble shooting which im hoping might shed some light on the situation and help eliminate some guess work
Firstly, my system is as follows:
intel i7 920 @ 3.8GHz
6gb Corsair dominator
ati 7950
Win 7 x64 (both with and w/o SP1)
now at first i thought my GFX card died, so i upgraded to the 7950 from a GTX275, but the same issues occured,
the problem is not caused by 'inadequate hardware' and is most likely an issue caused by physx
iv tried clean formats, driver upgrade and downgraded, bios updates, virus / malware scans, updated all .net /direct x.
iv tried different physical hard drives and iv ruled out hardware failure
iv tried running the game on all different settings types from max reso max everything, to minimal everything and no change
this issue is only occuring on 2x games for me, first is borderlands 2 and the second is GTAIV,
so im hoping this might shed some light onto a few things and i hope this problem can be resolved pretty soon, cause im dying to play this game
this has to be the first (apart from myself) logged incident of this issue that iv seen
all the other similar issues iv seen are with ppl and crap rigs trying to run this on max and wondering why they are getting fps drops.... they need to give up...
as for this issue, iv done ALOT of trouble shooting which im hoping might shed some light on the situation and help eliminate some guess work
Firstly, my system is as follows:
intel i7 920 @ 3.8GHz
6gb Corsair dominator
ati 7950
Win 7 x64 (both with and w/o SP1)
now at first i thought my GFX card died, so i upgraded to the 7950 from a GTX275, but the same issues occured,
the problem is not caused by 'inadequate hardware' and is most likely an issue caused by physx
iv tried clean formats, driver upgrade and downgraded, bios updates, virus / malware scans, updated all .net /direct x.
iv tried different physical hard drives and iv ruled out hardware failure
iv tried running the game on all different settings types from max reso max everything, to minimal everything and no change
this issue is only occuring on 2x games for me, first is borderlands 2 and the second is GTAIV,
so im hoping this might shed some light onto a few things and i hope this problem can be resolved pretty soon, cause im dying to play this game
if you think its physx, you might try goining to documents>my games> borderlands 2> willowgame > config> willowengine
Ctrl+F physx then find physxlevel and set it to 0. this will disable all physx in the game
this file is the config for the game engine, lots of things you could tweak if you knew what you were doing.
although with and ati card this should be at 0 anyway as physx is a nvidia exclusive feature. I run a 7970 and setting that value to 1, 2,or 3 will give varying levels and will be hell on your cpu if you have an ati card. My i7 ivy had a hard time with it.
Ctrl+F physx then find physxlevel and set it to 0. this will disable all physx in the game
this file is the config for the game engine, lots of things you could tweak if you knew what you were doing.
although with and ati card this should be at 0 anyway as physx is a nvidia exclusive feature. I run a 7970 and setting that value to 1, 2,or 3 will give varying levels and will be hell on your cpu if you have an ati card. My i7 ivy had a hard time with it.
ok,
had a bit of a trouble shoot / play around with this over the weekend and got a few good results
firstly i formatted a spare hard drive and threw Win xp home on there and loaded up with the drivers, steam and borderlands 2 and BOOM! it worked like a boss! smooth game play, high FPS and no stutter. Only downside is that it was limited to DX9, but i can live with that.
What i did notice was that in the ingame menu, the 'physX (low)' setting was greyed out and i couldnt actually modify it, but under windows 7 you could change it.
but when i switched back to windows 7 with the game files from the XP drive, the stuttering problem remained
Was PhysX limited to Win 7+, was it available in Win xp? was it limited to DX10+?
had a bit of a trouble shoot / play around with this over the weekend and got a few good results
firstly i formatted a spare hard drive and threw Win xp home on there and loaded up with the drivers, steam and borderlands 2 and BOOM! it worked like a boss! smooth game play, high FPS and no stutter. Only downside is that it was limited to DX9, but i can live with that.
What i did notice was that in the ingame menu, the 'physX (low)' setting was greyed out and i couldnt actually modify it, but under windows 7 you could change it.
but when i switched back to windows 7 with the game files from the XP drive, the stuttering problem remained
Was PhysX limited to Win 7+, was it available in Win xp? was it limited to DX10+?
Well looks like this issues has been identified,
now it just needs to be resolved.
The issue (primarily) is because of USB modems / adapters being connected to the computer
Now i use my phone tethered for internet
as a test, i unplugged my modem, fired up steam, loaded borderlands and it worked perfectly, now as soon as i plugged in the modem, the stuttering came back (/facepalm)
this is what i was experiencing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK47zvVHcxo
and here is the gearbox thread which is attempting to cover this: http://forums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?t=157670
Hope this helps some people out, i know its helped me, now i just have to work on a fix for it
Cheers,
now it just needs to be resolved.
The issue (primarily) is because of USB modems / adapters being connected to the computer
Now i use my phone tethered for internet
as a test, i unplugged my modem, fired up steam, loaded borderlands and it worked perfectly, now as soon as i plugged in the modem, the stuttering came back (/facepalm)
this is what i was experiencing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK47zvVHcxo
and here is the gearbox thread which is attempting to cover this: http://forums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?t=157670
Hope this helps some people out, i know its helped me, now i just have to work on a fix for it
Cheers,
Thanks for sharing the solution with us!
I just happily bought this in the Steam Summer Sale! Yay me! oh wait, game stutters like a son of a bitch and is impossible to play. Spend an hour going through a multitude of settings from bare minimum to maxed out. Nothing changed the problem, I will try disconnecting my tethered SGS3. Kind of a pain in the ass and they should be able to fix this problem..
EDIT: Sure enough, disconnect my Samsung S3 and Boarderlands plays smooth as butter, sad they have done nothing in all this time to fix this bug..
EDIT: Sure enough, disconnect my Samsung S3 and Boarderlands plays smooth as butter, sad they have done nothing in all this time to fix this bug..