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Vulkan Beta Driver update: smoother for some, stutter city for me??

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Accepted solution by Liv Quintero — hmmm first rule out the obviuos: on laptops, check that the game actually uses the dedicated GPU. Settings System Display Graphics , add…
  1. Ivan Ueda
    @late_works

    smths off... a racing sim feels sluggish since the Vulkan Beta Driver update and the FPS counter agrees with me.

    Fatal error

    Fatal error
The game has crashed and will now close.

DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED
The GPU device instance has been suspended.

    that crash happened once too. im on a small form factor PC. ive restarted, reinstalled teh game, and turned off recording. before i go back to the old driver, is there smth i should check first? i would also like to understand how to measure this properly, because right now i am mostly going on feel and an FPS counter in the corner of the screen. seriously need help here 😭

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  2. Nadia Alvarez
    @lambdapilot

    wait is it lower average FPS, or mainly stutter? ??

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  4. Sami Becker
    @shader_trace

    told my boss it would take 10 minutes. its been 20 minutes

    printer saw i was in a hurry and chose violence

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  5. Alba Kaur
    @cron_monk351

    told my boss it would take 10 minutes, its been 20 minutes. wait does this also apply to vulkan?

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  6. Jade V.
    @jadev248
    in reply to @cron_monk351

    lol same thing happened to me to measure properly, use a repeatable in-game benchmark or the same route, log frame times with a tool like PresentMon or CapFrameX, and compare average and 1% lows on both drivers. one run each isn't enough.

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  7. Sami Becker
    @shader_trace

    ahh classic after a driver update, games often rebuild their shader cache, which causes stutter for teh first sessions, give it a couple of runs, or clear teh driver shader cache manually in teh control panel / %LocalAppData% cache folder and let it rebuild once. hope that helps :)

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  8. Joon F.
    @joon.fontaine
    in reply to @shader_trace

    ahh classic check that teh driver install didnt reset ur control panel settings (power management mode, low latency mode, V-Sync, frame caps). A clean install resets everything to defaults, which can feel like a performance change. worked for me anyway 🤷

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  9. Liv Quintero
    @uplink_bench
    Accepted solution

    hmmm first rule out the obviuos: on laptops, check that the game actually uses the dedicated GPU. Settings > System > Display > Graphics, add the games .exe, set it to High performance. Driver updates can reset per-app GPU preferences. hope that helps :)

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  10. Zora Gill
    @zgill
    in reply to @uplink_bench

    hmmmm not sure about that shader cache rebuilds explain a lot of "driver made it slower" posts... i'd play three or four sessions before rolling back. just my 2 cents

    rgb adds +10 fps everyone knows that

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  11. Ivan Ueda
    @late_works
    in reply to @uplink_bench

    @uplink_bench omggg the game had dropped back to teh integrated GPU. Set it to High performance and a racing sim runs better than before. Wow. owe u a beer 🍺

    mindblown

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