Hello!

I just got to back to playing the game after a couple of months or so of break.

What I noticed is that the game now often starts to lag and stutter unusually slowing down to very uncomfortable framerates.

Sometimes just restarting the game helps and sometimes it does not or the issue does not occur at all.

Before the mentioned break in playing I was running the game on a specially created english Windows account as was required after the release. After completing the whole story mode nothing like this was ever observed at all and everything was fine.

Now I am playing on my native language system account and with the latest patches to date. These two points are the only differences.

Why could that be happening and how to fix it?

I heard that one of the newer patches accidentally introduced a couple of bugs including a memory leak.

Could that be the reason in this case?

It is just ruining a big part of immersion and it was not there before!

Thank you!

Edited June 19, 201510 yr by Cop1980

Can you please post your system specs just so we can get an idea of what might be slowing down your computer based on what it can handle?

 

So far, after reading your post, I can tell you that on mostly lower-end computers and even some higher-end computers, stuttering occurred after some time playing, which was supposed to be fixed in the latest update. A lot of the time, the stuttering happened whenever the memory (RAM) usage reached 100% after the game progressively used more and more memory (the memory leak). Personally, this was mostly fixed by upgrading from 6GB of RAM to 8GB of RAM.

However, your story is different, because you presumably played for long periods of time several months ago without experiencing any stuttering, and only now experience stuttering from the moment you begin playing. I don't believe changing your account was the issue, although I would like to know more about this. You mean your Windows account as in your Microsoft account, on Windows 8/8.1?

Thank you for a quick answer!

It does not seem to be an out of memory situation because sometimes it lags after five minutes of playing on a freshly rebooted system and sometimes it does not lag after hours of playing.

I have many hours of experience with the game and indeed there was no lag on the older patches after the initial release.

Yes by saying account I mean my Windows user account. But it is Windows 7.

So just a classic system account without anything regarding the Microsoft account or their website or anything else. In fact I do not have a Microsoft account.

My computer rig is as follows.

i7-4790 3.60GHz with turboboost ability

GTX 780 2GB

16GB RAM

750W Power

Windows 7-64 Home Premium

I am updating the video drivers periodically as they release.

Also not sure if it matters but the game is Steam version and was verified by the check tool after installing the latest patch. I thought it would probably fix it if something was messed in the game folder somehow.

Also there were never any kinds of mods in the game.

Could it be related to disk fragmentation or something?

Maybe it is worth attempting a defragmentation?

Please tell me if you need to know anything else.

I hope it can be fixed somehow.

Edited June 20, 201510 yr by Cop1980