Surviving Mars - Game stuttering when on fastest speed

[Chaon]

Description
Game stuttering when on fastest speed


Windows


Steam

What is your game version?


Please explain your issue is in as much detail as possible.
When I speed up my game to the fastest speed, I see the drones and shuttles stuttering as they are moving around.
They are doing their jobs properly but the seem to freeze about every half second and then jump to a new location.

Can you replicate the issue?
Yes. I just start the game and speed up the game.

Attachments

 

[AndrewT]

Please attach here the game logs:
C:\Users\{Username}\AppData\Roaming\Surviving Mars\logs\

DXDIAG is a program you run from a command prompt or the Windows start menu 'run' dialog box (or 'search programs' in Windows 7 or later). After running it will open a window and start collecting info with a progress bar in the lower-left corner. When it completes click the 'save all information' button and save it to a file then attach that file here.


Please report the temperatures of your CPU and video (GPU)
1/ before starting the game up and
2/ after say 30 minutes' play.
If your PC's vendor has given you no way of reading temperatures, install
SPEEDFAN http://www.almico.com/sfdownload.php

 

[Chaon]

Installed Speedfan to give me the recordings.

Okay before playing my CPU was 34C and my GPU was 36C.
After 25 mins of playing max temps were CPU 39C and GPU 49C.

No stuttering was detected in this game time.

20180421-17.19.50 is no stuttering.
20180420-19.45.52 is stuttering log.

 

[AndrewT]

DXDIAG is a program you run from a command prompt or the Windows start menu 'run' dialog box (or 'search programs' in Windows 7 or later). After running it will open a window and start collecting info with a progress bar in the lower-left corner. When it completes click the 'save all information' button and save it to a file then attach that file here.

And if we can get temps taken while stuttering is occurring, that would be great. But it seems unlikely from what you've seen that is the issue.

 

[Chaon]

Here is my dxdiag info.

 

[kyunshir]

Are you using any mods ? Some mods can cause this, it happened to me, try disabling them to see if anything changes.

 

[Chaon]

No mods at all. I haven't used any in this savegame.

 

[AndrewT]

I suspect this is the industry-wide problem we are seeing with many of our games at the moment, on Windows 10 January Creator's Update and nVidia 10xx cards only. It's been worst on HOI4 but I've seen it in Stellaris, EU4, and Cities:Skylines too - so on three unrelated game engines.

Rather your problem is almost certainly one that is being experienced across the industry, which affects Windows 10 users who have installed the January Creators Update and have nVidia 10xx video cards. We have seen this in several of our games now.

There is at present no known fix or workaround for this issue, unless you have a Windows Restore Point from before the application of that update. Any fix would have to come from nVidia or more likely Microsoft; perhaps the next major Windows update, whenever that may be.

Here's one user report (for Stellaris this was, so I've edited it to reflect this game) that might help though:

So, just as many of you, after the Creators Update for Win 10 I had the stuttering that made the game unplayable for me. I tried different solutions - and none helped.

But just an hour ago I googled for "windows 10 creators update stuttering". I scrolled down a little bit and checked this video

1) While the guy talks about the "Anniversary Update" and stuttering it caused for him in the games he played, I still decided to check the solution he used to get rid of the stuttering and used the program he reviewed to disable everything related to Privacy in Win 10.

2) Second thing I did was something I found while searching for fix today too:
Go to steam\steamapps\common\Surviving Mars. Right-click the MarsSteam.exe > advanced > compatibility and there's a new option called "Disable full-screen optimizations” and tick the box.

3) I disabled XBox GameDVR and the new Game Mode thing.

So these were 3 things I tried today and found out that the stuttering and frametimes spikes were gone for both Stellaris and Hearts of Iron 4! I'm not sure which suggested "fix" worked.

Please let me know if that helps at all!

 

[Chaon]

Yes it is very helpful and unhelpful at the same time.

Knowing it is a known problem and where it comes from, is the helpful part but relying on Microsoft to issue a fix for it is the unhelpful part.

Thank you for the info and we will all just have to wait and hope they fix it.

Thanks.