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Ohmz

13 Aug @ 4:27pm

I give up

I love Sandstorm but the performance does my head in. I spend hours tweaking settings to get the game to run beautifully, and it's a joy for weeks. I put the game down, and when I come back to it a month later it's a stuttery mess again. and I just can't be bothered with it anymore.

I have an i9 9900k with an RTX5080. Used to have a 3090 before, and a 1080 before that - this cycle of having to tweak config has always been the case for me since release, and I'm so so so sick of it.

I have the hardware to run the game at high FPS - but even when I get there it's really stuttery and feels awful, and I shed frames like mad just swinging the mouse around. I've gotten it to run amazingly many times, smooth as silk with no drops - but this never seems to hold.

Don't get it, and at this point I don't care to, it's just too frustrating. I feel like I've tried everything at this point, every single suggestion to improve/fix stutter, and have just been at it for another several hours - utter waste of time and energy.

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Eminent Demon has Insurgency: Sandstorm

13 Aug @ 6:13pm

Originally posted by Ohmz:
I love Sandstorm but the performance does my head in. I spend hours tweaking settings to get the game to run beautifully, and it's a joy for weeks. I put the game down, and when I come back to it a month later it's a stuttery mess again. and I just can't be bothered with it anymore.

I have an i9 9900k with an RTX5080. Used to have a 3090 before, and a 1080 before that - this cycle of having to tweak config has always been the case for me since release, and I'm so so so sick of it.

I have the hardware to run the game at high FPS - but even when I get there it's really stuttery and feels awful, and I shed frames like mad just swinging the mouse around. I've gotten it to run amazingly many times, smooth as silk with no drops - but this never seems to hold.

Don't get it, and at this point I don't care to, it's just too frustrating. I feel like I've tried everything at this point, every single suggestion to improve/fix stutter, and have just been at it for another several hours - utter waste of time and energy.

If you are running anything above the resolution 1920 x 1080, it will run like garbage no matter how powerful your system is

Ohmz

21 hours ago

I've got a 32" 4k panel, even 1440p scaled up doesn't look great, so I opted to run at some custom 16:9 resolutions just south of 4k, 1800p / 1872p etc, and use lossless scaling to scale back to 4k and this was fine for the most part.

When LSFG 3.0 dropped I barely felt any input lag from FG, and for a while I was happily playing Sandstorm at 4k locked to 60FPS with LSFG bumping up to 160FPS. Depending on bot count I would drop resolution a notch or two but it was perfectly smooth without a hitch with everything maxed - this was on the 3090 last month.

I was trying to play last night and just couldn't get it to run smoothly, with or without LSFG. Kinda gave up when I stopped using LS and was getting stable 100+ FPS but it was still hitching and stuttering, not smooth at all when looking around - tried all sorts of launch commands, config tweaks etc but had the same performance.

[57th] AngryHatter has Insurgency: Sandstorm

10 hours ago

Nvidia supports lossless scaling natively.

Ohmz

8 hours ago

Originally posted by 57th AngryHatter:
Nvidia supports lossless scaling natively.

nVidia's "version" is actually awful in every way compared to LS tbh, assuming you're referring to Smooth Motion. It's locked within the game filter system which is clunky, and I find it artifacts far worse than LSFG, and is also far less customizable - and it crashes Sandstorm for me haha. LS has a NIS algorithm for scaling, nVidia's driver-level one is surely better though, but LS lets you use it much easier, and again it's more customizable.

Got my game running nicely again :)
Turning down mouse polling rate from 1k to 125 has it smooth again. It's a shame 1k leads to loads of stutter for me but atleast I can play again now.