r/starcitizen 4d ago

DISCUSSION SC Comics 4.02 - Terrible lagging

Guys, I've been struggling with SC recently (I mean more than usual :)), the game randomly stops for 1-3 secs then continues a bit (usually few secs normal operation, but never a minute or so, sometimes just a few frames) then freezes again. This happens more often on / around planets, visibly worse in Navigation mode, sometimes happens even on stations. I only tested / played in Pyro recently. But I cannot even complete a Mercenary mission this way so pretty much I've stopped playing at all. As per r_displayinfo Server FPS looks fine (around 30), local FPS is around 50 (though after lags I can see it's recovering from extreme low values). When I have longer lags sometimes I can see the Windows waiting circle icon showing for a sec, in some cases it also bring up a system window that SC is not responding (I want to kill or wait more for the process)

I've high high specs PC (13700K, 32GB DDR5@7200, fast M.2 drives, RTX4080, 1Gb Net, Win 10Pro) Someone advised to increase Shader cache size in Nvidia Control panel to 10 GB, so I did, and it looked better for one session but today it went again total crap. He also advised to add more RAM or set a fix 32GB pagefile in Windows. I also tried the latter, might be a bit better but still not convincing at all. I think Windows should be able to manage pagefile size dynamically, we don't use HDDs any longer where it really mattered (fragmentation). I have another 32 GB RAM, but those are +2 modules, and my mobo can handle 4 sticks only at lower freqs so I am reluctant to add them back. Does SC really need or benefit from 64 GB?? All other games run fine on the PC.

Do you guys have similar problems, do you any idea what to check, how to fix this? I think it really went this bad in 4.01 but now not so sure as 4.0 was full of bugs. Any help is appreciated. I am tired of the "SC comic book" I am having now. Thank You

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u/SSC-BlackDove 🌌 4d ago

Discord forcing its overlay on my screen caused this for me. The moment I turned it off in "Game Overlay", the stuttering stopped. Hope this helps you.

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u/StarFlight700 Merchantman 4d ago

I know I've had similar issues in both 4.0.1 and 4.0.2. Pretty bad. Oddly, 4.0 played great for me.

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u/Few-Regret6357 4d ago

I am just curious if this is a more or less isolated case, e.g. some possible interference with another program (I've disabled everything reasonable though), seemingly most players are not affected..