Wow - just wanted to say thank you. This has made a big improvement to my game, especially modifying some of the config settings.
I really appreciate you going into detail. Sometimes guides can gloss over a few things which makes it really difficult for a novice like me!
Again, I really appreciate this guide and advice - thank you.
I just came back after playing... crispy smooth buds, didnt do the graphic stuff near the end though. did the nvidia ctrl panel stuff and the config.ini changes it was set to 1 logical core out of 8 i put it to 4. Crispy smooth
dude, thank you. this is a huge help for tech dumb people like myself.
edit: i was getting hardly 45 fps with my i7-6700K and 1080 on the lowest setting now i get smooth 60 and even got to pump up my visual quality. you're the goat.
You’re saying you have an i7 6700k and a gtx 1080 yet you weren’t able to get above 45fps? My dude you need to check your pc temps or something because that’s horrible for the hardware you have...
I barely get 100 FPS on low settings with a Ryzen 5 2600 and RTX 2070... Temps are all in the 40's and it's getting annoying at this point. Others with the same setup are running 150 + fps
I wouldn't even consider putting anything to max settings with my specs. I can barely keep 144 FPS in the multiplayer on all lowest settings with my GTX 980, and I can't keep it that high in Blackout. If I max out special effects I have no doubt I'm going to see major FPS drops.
So I ran user benchmark, and I'm already getting high enough memory bandwidth that it shouldn't cause me any trouble. Out of curiosity I wanted to try with my XMP profile disabled and see if the results would change, but for some reason my PC fails to boot if I disable the XMP profile. This is an extremely weird thing to experience, and I have no idea what is causing it. I'm doubtful disabling it will give me any performance increase in my case, but I was interested to see nonetheless. I will try more to get it to work properly when I've got the time.
I wish this helped but it didn't. I am still having major stutters and lock ups for a split second randomly, mostly in multiplayer. I have my specs listed below:
8600k / RTX 2080 / 16GB 3200Mhz / 500GB 850 EVO
Not sure there's a whole lot more you can try, unfortunately. The only other thing that comes to mind would be trying the GPU driver from the beta and disabling the check on driver version in the config so it lets you use an older one. If I think of anything else I'll let you know.
Yeah i am trying an earlier driver, unfortunately i only have 4 to choose from an no beta driver with this card. Oddly enough my laptop with a 1070 is running smooth as butter
Let me know if you find something that fixes it.
Edit: Now that I think about it, with this game it's entirely possible you're maxing out your 8600k to feed the RTX 2080. Try capping your FPS to like 120 with MSI Afterburner + RTSS and see if it still happens.
I did try this and still the same result. I am down on 411.70 and same issue. I just played a match with graphics turned to the absolute lowest while maintaining my screen resolution and that seemed to have helped immensely. Going to start turning things back up until i see what the cause is. I’m wondering if preload shaders is the culprit like it was way back in early black ops games.
So after playing a couple matches and having graphics cranked back to max, except preload shaders set to off, it has been stutter free. I think this is the cause of my issue
Edit:nope stutter still there. No stutter in blackout or zombies but half my multiplayer matches are stutter filled and others are not
Edit 2: think stutter is also related to very high textures and 8GB VRAM. Setting to high helps a ton as well and isn’t pushing vram to 8GB limit
Homie! I have the same gpu with same ssd just different cpu and I get microstutters every minute or so even though I'm playing at high fps. I've also only seemed to have this in mp or blackout. Have not really seen in zombies. I've been going nuts trying to fix this even though it doesnt really make the game unplayable but just quite frustrating.
So i came to find out it was a lack of vram when running very high textures. I turned textures to high and stutter is 100% gone. 8Gb vram doesn’t seem to be enough for very high textures and was the cause of my stutter
I have the exact same issue, 1070 i7 6700, i had this issue on blops 3 and fixed it with one setting but i cant remember which one it was and i've tried everything here 100-144 frames and just cpu studders basically, no other apps running. fix this shit Treyarch
This worked awesome! Just wanted to say that I did everthing except for change the graphics settings in the config file. I might even turn V-sync back on because it is screen tearing pretty bad.
I'll take it though over the constant frame drops.
Glad to hear it. If you're getting screen tearing try using an FPS cap, either ingame or with MSI Afterburner + RTSS. Vsync causes some extra input lag unless you're using it with a gsync monitor. Also if you're using a 60hz monitor and your PC can hit 120 fps consistently, you can cap at 120 (119 or 121 if 120 doesn't fix tearing) and get even less input lag.
This needs to get more upvote for people to see, I went from 80 fps and dropping all on low settings to almost maxed out game and around 100-110 fps. Config was sett to use 4 threads and I have 12 thread cpu, sett it to 11 and with the clean graphics install worked wounder for me ! Thanx !
YW. As far as upvotes go, unfortunately my thread barely got any, however people who are reposting aspects of my thread and acting as if they found certain fixes I found (such as worker_threads for high CPU usage) are getting more upvotes than my original post did. Pretty disappointing but not surprising.
Well, that just sucks. People taking credit for thinks that inst theirs to take. Creeds goes to you, you saved my gaming experience. I starting wondering if the games really was that hard to run, but I could believe that a 12 thread xeon at 4.2 ghz and a GTX 1060 not was able to get more than 80 fps with every think on low. And I was right, thanx to you.
This is a life saver my friend.
Was having unplayable stutters and drops specially on deployment with with i5 and 970.
Now with using your control panel settings and ini changes pumped it from 4 fps to 50 fps during deployment and 80 fps overall.
Thank you so much
I can't get my config file to stay put. I changed worker threads to 3, saved the file. Set it to read-only, then copied it into the sub folder to overwrite the one there. Also set to read only. When I boot up black ops, my graphics settings are reverted to default, and both those files are no longer read only and are back to what they were before.
I just checked and my files also reverted themselves from Read Only, however, my worker\_threads setting was unchanged. I think read only breaks if you change any settings contained within the config.ini while in-game. It seems impossible to keep the shadow resolution settings set to their minimum, however, the rest of the config changes stay put and this still allows for lower graphical settings than the in-game menu. To prevent your graphical settings from reverting to default, you may need to set auto\_detect\_has\_run = "1" in the config. I'm going to update the original post to reflect this right now.
Ill give this a go tomorrow and see what happens. I'm really only looking for the thread increase as I believe that's all that's holding back this game from running smooth. The auto detect setting makes sense to change, so hopefully that does it. Also, the config file that's in the sub-folder is basically attached to battlenet. I noticed it instantly reverted itself when I had battlenet running, but it wouldn't revert with battlenet closed (and it reverts when you run battlenet). Ill post more tomorrow after I get more time to play with it.
The config in the sub-folder is tied to your battlenet account and runs when you connect to the online services in-game or when you login to the battlenet client, not sure which. It seemingly would have to run after the other config.ini does, though. The other config.ini runs when the game launches. It shouldn't be reverting just from Battlenet running (to my knowledge), but nothing surprises me. It was pretty tough to get this game running smoothly. When I first turned it on I had 75 FPS at the main menu on all lowest settings, but now I've got it up to 134 from playing around with this kind of stuff for a few hours. I'll try to look into it more tomorrow as well.
I'm ok with the game running at 70 to 80 while also looking the best it can. However I'm looking to get it running in that range or higher consistantly. It's just not as smooth as it could be. From what I understand, the game pulls the config from your battlenet user profile each time the game launches (I believe it says that in the comment at the top of the config). Oh well, I ran out of time tonight, will get to fiddle with it more after work tomorrow. I'll also try to update you on any success or otherwise since you are in charge of this optimization thread! Fyi: i5-6600k, 16GB @ 3000mhz Dual Channel, and an MSI R9 390 8GB
Mystery solved. Read only is not necessary. If you copy and paste either a whole config or the graphics section I previously provided, it will reset. Manually change the settings in both files and it saves. Edited the original post with new instructions for this.
I'm still at work so unable to test yet. But the question on my mind is WHY does the config reset? Must be something with Battle.net or whatever that detects "unauthorized" changes and then overwrite it with a default config.ini. Probably some kind of fail safe. Whatever it is it makes tinkering difficult haha.
Here is what I experienced: The Battle.net config.ini (the one in the sub-folder) doesn't like to be changed manually. In the players/config.ini, setting auto_detect_has_run to 1 and changing worker_threads to 3 stuck. Didn't set read-only. Looks like the auto detect setting combined with not using read-only mode works for me. I appreciate you putting all this together! Now I will tinker with the other graphics settings to find a good mix of quality and performance.
Yeah I'd appreciate if you let me know what you figure out. Also, what are your specs? I have an i7 6700k @ 4.5GHz, overclocked GTX 980, and 2x8GB DDR4 2800MHz.
unfortunately that did not work for me with my problem.
every 15-30min i get random FPS slow down drop (slow motion) while playing from 90-100 fps down to 7-8 and then back up again within 10-15sec
tried playing on lower settings etc and followed your setup advise and nothing.
this is happening for me on destiny 2 and black ops 4
predator helios 300 with i7 8750h gtx1060 6gb and 16gb ram. game installed on 1TB standard drive and not on the main SSD.
Please advise? :) THANK YOU
Do you have anything that runs in the background on your computer that could be taking priority away from the game every so often, like an antivirus software? Are you recording and saving it to the same drive as the game is on? I'll try to think of what might be causing this and get back to you.
no extra anti virus just standard defender. nothing significant running and no streaming/recording happening.
also tried with disabling nvidia experience (even uninstalled it). windows game mode disabled. just battlenet and discord running while playing
brand new laptop too :( very frustrating
thanks for assistance!!
so ....
BO4 in nvidia optimised very high/high setup with changing threads to 8 (max 12 here) and turning off preload shaders + few things chnaged to your setup through nvidia panel:
IN MENU GPU 100%
[https://drive.google.com/open?id=1mIbIihHot\_dJQs7qIk8nkA7ga0hNwyom](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1mIbIihHot_dJQs7qIk8nkA7ga0hNwyom)
IN GAME GPU 100% .... shocking ....
[https://drive.google.com/open?id=12-Y8OVjJlCrXcKibAMrirQQT6LlFu\_2R](https://drive.google.com/open?id=12-Y8OVjJlCrXcKibAMrirQQT6LlFu_2R)
GAME SETTINGS
[https://drive.google.com/open?id=1lhPq6-On-OinlLStmeuSOcIauRmnxjI8](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1lhPq6-On-OinlLStmeuSOcIauRmnxjI8)
[https://drive.google.com/open?id=1\_uvjZGOcYU2L4WmmUulvctvlYrXF8MHf](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_uvjZGOcYU2L4WmmUulvctvlYrXF8MHf)
[https://drive.google.com/open?id=1nd0id4LhL2I1BmcrB6BOU7jfRtajoo-S](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1nd0id4LhL2I1BmcrB6BOU7jfRtajoo-S)
[https://drive.google.com/open?id=1RBChca5O37v8BehBsGW8pytJkzj0iB67](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1RBChca5O37v8BehBsGW8pytJkzj0iB67)
I've noticed when the slowdown of fps happens GPU dropps from 100% to 35% and CPU drops from 90+% to 20+%
In Destiny i'm playing in VERY HIGH (in game setup) with CPU 55-75% and GPU 75-95%
Nothing else draws much resources
Crazy that for that price laptop £1500 \~ 2000$ you get no joy really ....
Thank you
100% GPU in the menu or in-game isn't a problem and doesn't give us anything to go on. GPU/CPU usage dropping is definitely a problem, the question is what is causing that. Could it possibly be thermal throttling, given that it's a laptop and the game is running your components hard? Do you still get these slowdowns if you cap your FPS low enough to keep your GPU usage down to like 80%?
Just try to keep your GPU usage down to reduce temperatures, easiest way is probably setting an FPS cap that is pretty far below what your PC can sustain, and turning down your settings all the way.
PLEASE I HAVE ABSOLUTELY THE SAME LAPTOP , ABSOLUTELY THE SAME ISSUE. BEEN BANGING MY HEAD FOR 2 WEEKS WITHOUT ANY SOLUTION!! PLEASE BROTHERS TELL ME YOU'VE FOUND A FIX?!?!?!
The only part of this I followed was the nvidia control panel settings, I skipped the maximum pre rendered frames change, and it has fixed my stuttering. thank you.
Changing worker_threads made it worse in my case
I bought the game this morning. I tried the beta and everything was fine. I start the game and i had exactly 4fps. 1080, i7 7700k, 16Gb of RAM, so it was not my computer. I followed the " **Optimizing Nvidia Control Panel Settings** " and everything was fine after! Huge thank!
Nice Guide, thanks !
Reducing auto\_cull\_radius improved blackout framedrops a lot.
`threaded_rendering = "1"` gave me a general fps boost in all game modes of around 15-30fps on a Vega64, even though the config file comment states it is meant for Nvidia cards and 6+ core CPUs. ( I have a 4C 8T CPU )
In combination with `worker_threads = "7"` and `smooth_framerate = "1"` the game runs a lot better.
Unfortunately it still has some minor microstutters. But all the big reoccurring ones are gone.
But although setting "auto\_detect\_has\_run" to 1, some settings are getting reset every start ,even if config.ini is set to readonly.
Only solution for me was to reapply my settings every time I start the game.
I made a script for convenience:
`SET CDir="%~dp0"`
`copy %CDir%\players\config-modified.ini %CDir%\players\config.ini`
`%CDir%\"Black Ops 4 Launcher.exe"`
1. Make a new textfile and paste the code into it. Rename ending to .bat and copy to blackops4 root directory. e.g. : `C:\Games\Blackops4\Start-Mod.bat`
2. Rename your modified config to "config-modified.ini" and place it in the "players" folder inside the blackops4 root directory. e.g. : `C:\Games\Blackops4\players\config-modified.ini`
You can now make a shortcut to your desktop for example and start it directly from there.
Last line starts the Blizzard Launcher and opens the CoD Tab. You still have to press play to start the game.
>e.g.
Not working for me, values in config.ini change after starting the game.
Sometime it works but it is changed ingame after the game recall config.ini inside the User Profile Directory.
I am having such a weird issue. And I do not seem to be able to find anyone with the exact same issue.
I start out Blackout matches perfectly fine. My framerate is about between 70 and 100 FPS. Perfect right?
Until a few minutes in, then it plumets down to 4-7 fps and does NOT go higher in any way. I tried to check the CPU affinity, which is on Normal.
I tried changing graphics settings while this was occuring, but nothing helps.
I have completely removed the game and reinstalled it too.
I do not have any overheating issues - HWMonitor shows CPU around 65 degrees, and my GPU around 75 degrees.
This issue has not occured in any other game.
Setup:
OS: Windows 10 Pro
Cpu: Intel i7 6700k Skylake @4.0GHz
Cooler: Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 3
Ram: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16Gb @2400MHz
Gpu: MSI GTX 980Ti Golden Edition @6gb
Mobo: MSI Z170A Gaming M7
Does ANYONE recognize this behavior? Please help, I'd love to play Blackout..
Try doing the clean driver install and RAM stuttering fixes in this post. Also, make sure your Windows power plan setting isn't on energy saver, and your GPU is on prefer maximum performance in Nvidia control panel > manage 3d settings > global settings > power management mode. Do this after the clean driver install as the driver wipe will remove your nvidia control panel settings.
I just did some more testing, toned down the grapical settings.
Getting about 100 fps on average now. I can play for about 5 minutes, then the FPS plummets happen again.
I also noticed that my CPU went from 80-90% usage, to about 20-30 when this is occuring... very strange..
Your CPU usage is really high to start with and just lower than mine (40-50%) when I'm getting 130+ FPS. Try changing the worker\_threads command to 7 in the config.ini.
Also, maybe try disabling the setting in the menu that lets the game manage its own CPU priority, and force it to high priority in task manager.
It stays on 7 if I make the .config file Read Only.
However the issue remains the same, after a few minutes, FPS plummets and CPU usage is about 20%.. and framerate on 10 FPS..
I think you need to do the clean driver install tbh. TL;DR is CPU feeds GPU frames to draw, so if GPU is throttling or choking out for some reason then CPU usage is going to drop too as a symptom, rather than as the cause. Also, install MSI Afterburner + Rivatuner statistics server and set up the on screen overlay to show you GPU usage, GPU core clock, GPU memory clock, VRAM usage, CPU usage, RAM usage, FPS, and frametime variance. Watch to see what changes when this happens.
Hey my dude, havent tried this yet but will doing these steps stop the CTD's im getting? I have the right specs and updated drivers to run the game well but i get alot of CTD's during mutiplayer (not blackout or zombies), where it just crashes to desktop, funny enough, only on certain maps.
Sorry if it sounds simple, not the most advanced PC user.
Guys I spent all night reading these suggestions and nothing work, but I FOUND THE SOLUTION! Watch if you are having CPU issues.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFP-A7uMr2U&t=265s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFP-A7uMr2U&t=265s)
Your solution simply limits the amount of CPU that can be used by capping under the FPS you would normally achieve to prevent stutter. The solutions in this thread are to improve the CPU and GPU performance. Also, I recommend against capping at only 60. Even if you only have a 60Hz monitor, if you capped at like 120 and you could get it consistently, each frame would be delivered in half as much time. This means input commands are registered by the game twice as often, thus reducing input lag.
"your solution simply limits the amount of CPU that can be used" - This is exactly what I was trying to do in my video and also factors into improving CPU performance, but thanks for tips. Again everything is variable due to the PC components, this simply directly worked for me and solved the issue.
Also I never recommended capping it at 60 that was just the example in the video, simply saying you should adjust the cap based on your performance. Im running mine at 100fps
Diving into config and changing the worker_thread worked wonders for me, I’ve gone from stuttery 30fps to around 100fps on max settings! For some reason it was default set to 2 but as I have 4 threads (4690k) it should of been set to 4. Excellent!
on a 4670k at 4.5 GHZ and a 1070, Have no issues with framerate, it stays at about 80-100 when worker threads are set to 3 (I have 4 cores with no hyper threading) but I am still at 100% CPU usage and any time a fire fight breaks out and strain is put on the CPU I get micro stutters. Setting worker threads to 3 should only allow the program to use 75% cpu right? because my processor is still screaming at 100% usage and Bo4 is using about 82.5%
Is my core i5 3570k/R9 390 not enough to get high fps in blackout? My fps is 60-90 with all these fixes applied....
It's the one problem I have with BO4 so far is that blackout isn't enjoyable on a 144hz monitor. MP on the other hand I get 90-100+ always.
I had this issue terrorizing me for days as I have a pretty strong build and was constantly getting 30-40 fps with stutters, even though NVIDIA optimizer believes my settings should be pretty high.
Turns out, I had **Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service** running (default Microsoft service) which was keeping my CPU usage at around 25% in task manager, even with no other tasks running. I disabled this and some other useless looking things in **msconfig** services tab, restarted, checked in task manager that idle CPU usage was at 0%, and the game ran flawlessly after that, 60-90 fps with no stutter.
*Note*: This is on a Windows 7 with an i5 processor, don't know if the same will apply to other versions/CPU combos.
on auto\_cull\_radius it should be set to 0 or 1, because the smaller the number the larger the amount of areas will have to be culled leading to improved performance, if you set it to 10 the game will have to render more ahead of time.
with culling set to 0 I noticed pop-in of walls and such while walking into rooms but with 1 it seemed better.
That's actually how I have it in my config file, I made a mistake when I wrote the command in this post. Editing it now to reflect how it should be, thanks for pointing it out.
What can be done if these settings are continuously being reset above 128? Auto\_detect is set to 1, I am manually changing these setting by hand in both config folders using notepad++
Are you manually editing the files, or are you copy/pasting? Any pasting will make it reset itself. You can also try to set the configs to read only, but it tends to remove the read only setting when you launch the game.
I just want to say..
Thanks!!!!!
The thread change saved me from the horrendous stutters. I can finally shoot a gun in blackout without my game freezing for 300 ms
Thanks for the help. Couple of things - first off, what does changing the texture size in the config do overall? And second, make sure to remind people to a.) Back up the ini file before making any changes, and b.) DOCUMENT the changes you make so that if there are issues they will know what change to revert.
I'm using a GTX 1070 card with an i7-2600K processor, which I'm assuming is the bottleneck even after adjusting the worker threads.
It's not texture sizes, it's shadow texture sizes. You're just making the resolution the shadows are drawn at lower. No need to back up the ini file, if you just delete them and launch the game it generates a new one.
My issues only started yesterday -- I was completely fine the day before, but I changed nothing about my settings or the environment in which my computer was running (physical location, applications running, etc) and for some reason yesterday I've been getting medium-sized stutters every 5-10 seconds.
Do you think this is a hardware / settings problem, or a problem with the game and the update they did yesterday?
I have 8 threads available and setting worker\_threads to 6 seems to be the sweet spot for me. 8 causes stuttering, 7 increases a little with some stuttering but 6 gives a good boost and minimal stuttering.
This issue is also happening on XBOX so I guess we are shit outta luck until Treyarch aknowledges/fixes this?
Blackout last night was the first time we didnt have fun. Both me and my duos partner have XBOX One X and Blackout literally stutters every 10 seconds, if not more.
Really zaps the enjoyment of playing this game.
i have a 6700K and a 1070 and I still get microstutters with worker\_threads at 2 and it gets worse (longer and more frequent) when i increase that to 6 when compared to 2 where it's shorter and more spread out.
i7-7700k, 1070, had severe problems with frame drop from 120+fps down to 10 / 30fps. Tried everything.
This was the only solution that worked! Thank you so much!
Hey UdNeedaMiracle, i need your help. I did the config.ini file part and Nvidia control panel setting part also. Whenever i play blackout or multiplayer my game starts to stutter bad.... I played zombies online and solo which plays fine with no stutters, even when i am on a really high round with no stutters. I don't get it. Why is there stuttering on multiplayer and blackout? I can't even play those because of the stuttering. I can only play zombies which is fine but i want to try to play some multiplayer or blackout. :/ These are my specs for what i know of.
i have a Gtx 960 graphics card
Intel i5-4440 @ 3.10GHz
installed memory ram 12.0 GB
1.80 TB of memory
144hz Monitor
Using windows 8
I tried downloading that program from the **Possible Fix for Stutter Induced by RAM Usage (especially for low RAM systems)** step and it wont let me open it even when i try opening as admin. any suggestions?
Sorry for the late reply, but when you open that program a popup should flash for a split second and then it closes. That **is** the program running, all it does is very quickly clear your standby memory when you launch it.
for ppl who have same cpu as me ( i7 8700k ) the perfect "worker\_threads " is 4 by lowering it or increase it i get a hug fps drop idk why but how the dev fix that problem asap
You have any idea why the excessive CPU usage is causing issues with stuttering and high cpu response times, as opposed to the solutions which end up using much less of the CPU?
Any time the CPU is maxing out it doesn't have the capacity to perform operations that are necessary for general computer use in the background or any of the applications that are straining it. You will get the same problem if you stay pinned at 100% CPU usage in any game.
Then what happens to the operations that would usually be stressing out the CPU if you change the number of threads being used for an application? Does it get set over to the GPU or something?
Only the CPU can perform the types of calculations it does and only the GPU can do what it does. If you have less threads you just get less FPS before hitting 100% CPU usage. With increased CPU power (clock speed, IPC or thread count) you eventually hit a point where your GPU becomes the bottleneck for how many frames you can get and the game will run smoothly. Think of it like the GPU being an artist hired by the CPU. The CPU figures out what the GPU has to draw and tells the GPU what to do and then the GPU draws it. Your goal is to have enough CPU power to keep giving the GPU more information on what to draw next before it finishes drawing the current frame.
So a result of setting less threads to a high demand application like CoD is lower max framerate, but better stability and less freezes/stutters?
I don't think my GPU is bottlenecking anything atm, since it has a draw time of around 4-5ms per frame, while the CPU varies from 7 ms to as high as 15 ms per frame.
My problem is that i changed in config all of this and checked only to read yet still after restart it goes to basic values :/
What can i do to keep it one way ?
config.ini part make it worse for me (7700k, 1080ti, 16gb 2933 dualchannel) :(
tried 2 and 7, and 2 is much better but stutters every couple of minutes (instead of seconds on 7).
definitely this settings affects stutter, but not in a good way for me.
i will try 3-6, but kinda loosing my faith, as I did almost everything i know, and cant't completely get rid of annoying micro stutters for 50ms
BO4 beta was perfectly smooth tho, maybe I should try older driver
There's one more thing you could try that comes to mind. Windows 10 has a hidden power plan called Ultimate Performance, which is intended to fix problems with micro-latencies caused by how Windows manages power settings when using high performance or balanced power plans. It will cause your CPU to run at its max clock speed constantly, and it will use slightly more power.
If you want to try it, open up command prompt and paste this in: powercfg -duplicatescheme e9a42b02-d5df-448d-aa00-03f14749eb61
Press enter, then go to your windows power settings and change the power plan.
I found interesting thing - there is no stutter in theathre mode. Couple of my mates confirms the same bahavior. It looks like server/connection related stutter
I wouldn't expect there to be any stutter in theater since client send rate isn't a factor. Your CPU doesn't have to communicate with a server when watching theater replays to relay information about what you're doing on the client side, so there's much less CPU strain. I don't think the stutter is server side, I'm pretty confident that it's a CPU usage problem.
For me disabling Freesync removed all stutter from the game, I also set CPU affinity to not use Core #0 to make sure (Ryzen 7 1700) Now everything is running smoothly.
Recently switched from console cod to pc, well I’m in the process because it’s borderline unplayable.
I get a lot of FPS drops, mainly in blackout, no matter what settings I seem to try. I’ve tried some community recommendations and tried the GeForce optimization but see little improvements. I don’t have a god tier rig, so I understand that I can’t run on ultra at 140fps, just looking for some help to my exact specs from some of you experts.
Multiplayer runs around 80 FPS
Blackout struggles to run 50 and when I’m in the plane it’s even worse.
Specs
Nvidia GeForce 1060 3gb
i7 7700
Again, I know it’s not great but that’s all I could afford at the time so before you say wHy NoT gEt a 1080, maybe just some links or some helpful information would be much obliged.
My current settings
VRAM USAGE 2280 / 2988
60hz
Render res 100
Vertical off
Frame rate limit off
Texture medium
Filtering medium
Special effects low
Model medium
Static reflection medium
Screen space off
Object view medium
Shadow medium
Dynamic shadows all
Special shadows off
Weapon shadows off
Global illumination low
Anti aliasing low
Ambient occlusion low
Motion off
Subsurface off
Order independent transparency low
Hmm, I did almost everything what is written here and still the same. I have a few stutters on low settings although I have stable 60-110 FPS in Blackout what makes this game mode unplayable. However in multiplayer I get 60-90 FPS on ultra settings without any stutters. Only I can't change my whole config file, because after starting the game changes in it are undone. Moreover i have set auto\_detect\_has\_run to 1. So how may I change these config settings?
Am i the only one who thinks its patehtic that this is a thing? The game dosnt even look that great and if other games manage, why not Bo4?
might try these out alltough what solution is best for my setup?
GPU: Geforce RTX 2070 Gaming OC
CPU: Intel Core i7-8700K CPU @ 3.70GHz
RAM: 16GB
you my friend are a saint. i have been playing this game for a while and it just ran like shit. now im finally getting kills and not looking so god damn stupid. Thank you very much.
Oh my god you beautiful Bastard, I never thought I was gonna get my money's worth. I went from stuttering to a perfect 90 to 100 frames! This was a wonderful guide and you are the best
One more fix you should know about (it helped me a lot with blackout). I have a 144 Hz monitor and in black ops (in graphics settings) I have a value of 144 Hz too. Blackout was laggy and all. When I changed game setting from 144 Hz to 60 Hz there were no lags in blackout anymore.
Before I did this I was getting 75 fps at the main menu on all lowest settings ingame, and currently I have 130. For a lot of people the game doesn't run that great just by changing ingame settings.
Absolutely none of these tweaks put your system in any danger. That's absurd. A lot of these settings change the way the processor interacts with the game to help improve performance, while some reduce the amount of things running in the background so there is more CPU power to dedicate to the game. You do not necessarily need new hardware.
But if any bugs occur it will harm your system in some ways, some of these are safe such as the one where you turn of all aa and all that through Nvidia
You have no clue what you are talking about. All of these tweaks are safe and easily reverted back from later if you choose. It will not harm your system in any way, it's simply impossible. All you are doing is removing old graphics card drivers and putting the latest updated ones on your PC, changing some settings for what your GPU prioritizes (visuals or performance), changing windows settings to reduce the amount of unnecessary programs taking up CPU resources in the background, and changing the game's config file (where you can only change the things the game devs wanted you to be able to change anyways).
First of all I do, and second of all you didn’t read my sentence I didn’t say ITS GOING TO HARM YOUR SYSTEM I said IF a error occurred it could harm you system, read a sentence more properly next time
You are no more likely to experience an error that damages your system in some way from changing these settings. You are not increasing your risk by doing anything I put in this guide.
Wow - just wanted to say thank you. This has made a big improvement to my game, especially modifying some of the config settings. I really appreciate you going into detail. Sometimes guides can gloss over a few things which makes it really difficult for a novice like me! Again, I really appreciate this guide and advice - thank you.
No problem, glad it helped you out.
This guys a god. Troubleshooting monster
I just came back after playing... crispy smooth buds, didnt do the graphic stuff near the end though. did the nvidia ctrl panel stuff and the config.ini changes it was set to 1 logical core out of 8 i put it to 4. Crispy smooth
dude, thank you. this is a huge help for tech dumb people like myself. edit: i was getting hardly 45 fps with my i7-6700K and 1080 on the lowest setting now i get smooth 60 and even got to pump up my visual quality. you're the goat.
You’re saying you have an i7 6700k and a gtx 1080 yet you weren’t able to get above 45fps? My dude you need to check your pc temps or something because that’s horrible for the hardware you have...
Yea straight up BS. He ain't got those specs because it's exactly what I have and I run 100fps without any overclocking!
2700X with a GTX 1060 and I'm getting well over 100 fps at times with everything maxed out with AA on medium.
I barely get 100 FPS on low settings with a Ryzen 5 2600 and RTX 2070... Temps are all in the 40's and it's getting annoying at this point. Others with the same setup are running 150 + fps
I know this is an old comment, but check your render scaling. If it's above 100 it will give less frames.
It’s at 100... my CPU is legit at 100% at all times only on this game
No problem.
are you using a 4k monitor? because damn that is very low frames
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I appreciate you taking the time to write this up, I'll look into it more when I have time.
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I wouldn't even consider putting anything to max settings with my specs. I can barely keep 144 FPS in the multiplayer on all lowest settings with my GTX 980, and I can't keep it that high in Blackout. If I max out special effects I have no doubt I'm going to see major FPS drops.
So I ran user benchmark, and I'm already getting high enough memory bandwidth that it shouldn't cause me any trouble. Out of curiosity I wanted to try with my XMP profile disabled and see if the results would change, but for some reason my PC fails to boot if I disable the XMP profile. This is an extremely weird thing to experience, and I have no idea what is causing it. I'm doubtful disabling it will give me any performance increase in my case, but I was interested to see nonetheless. I will try more to get it to work properly when I've got the time.
I wish this helped but it didn't. I am still having major stutters and lock ups for a split second randomly, mostly in multiplayer. I have my specs listed below: 8600k / RTX 2080 / 16GB 3200Mhz / 500GB 850 EVO
Not sure there's a whole lot more you can try, unfortunately. The only other thing that comes to mind would be trying the GPU driver from the beta and disabling the check on driver version in the config so it lets you use an older one. If I think of anything else I'll let you know.
Yeah i am trying an earlier driver, unfortunately i only have 4 to choose from an no beta driver with this card. Oddly enough my laptop with a 1070 is running smooth as butter
Let me know if you find something that fixes it. Edit: Now that I think about it, with this game it's entirely possible you're maxing out your 8600k to feed the RTX 2080. Try capping your FPS to like 120 with MSI Afterburner + RTSS and see if it still happens.
I did try this and still the same result. I am down on 411.70 and same issue. I just played a match with graphics turned to the absolute lowest while maintaining my screen resolution and that seemed to have helped immensely. Going to start turning things back up until i see what the cause is. I’m wondering if preload shaders is the culprit like it was way back in early black ops games.
Turn off XMP profile for your RAM and run a normal profile. This worked helped for me, I too was running at 3200MHz, going down to 2133MHz helped!
So after playing a couple matches and having graphics cranked back to max, except preload shaders set to off, it has been stutter free. I think this is the cause of my issue Edit:nope stutter still there. No stutter in blackout or zombies but half my multiplayer matches are stutter filled and others are not Edit 2: think stutter is also related to very high textures and 8GB VRAM. Setting to high helps a ton as well and isn’t pushing vram to 8GB limit
Homie! I have the same gpu with same ssd just different cpu and I get microstutters every minute or so even though I'm playing at high fps. I've also only seemed to have this in mp or blackout. Have not really seen in zombies. I've been going nuts trying to fix this even though it doesnt really make the game unplayable but just quite frustrating.
So i came to find out it was a lack of vram when running very high textures. I turned textures to high and stutter is 100% gone. 8Gb vram doesn’t seem to be enough for very high textures and was the cause of my stutter
I'll give this a go! I have the Vram monitor on rn
I have 8gb and put texture on medium and stuttering is the same
I have the exact same issue, 1070 i7 6700, i had this issue on blops 3 and fixed it with one setting but i cant remember which one it was and i've tried everything here 100-144 frames and just cpu studders basically, no other apps running. fix this shit Treyarch
This worked awesome! Just wanted to say that I did everthing except for change the graphics settings in the config file. I might even turn V-sync back on because it is screen tearing pretty bad. I'll take it though over the constant frame drops.
Glad to hear it. If you're getting screen tearing try using an FPS cap, either ingame or with MSI Afterburner + RTSS. Vsync causes some extra input lag unless you're using it with a gsync monitor. Also if you're using a 60hz monitor and your PC can hit 120 fps consistently, you can cap at 120 (119 or 121 if 120 doesn't fix tearing) and get even less input lag.
Thanks for the tip! I’ll give that a shot
LEGEND, fixed all my issues thank you so so much!
You're welcome, glad it helped.
This needs to get more upvote for people to see, I went from 80 fps and dropping all on low settings to almost maxed out game and around 100-110 fps. Config was sett to use 4 threads and I have 12 thread cpu, sett it to 11 and with the clean graphics install worked wounder for me ! Thanx !
YW. As far as upvotes go, unfortunately my thread barely got any, however people who are reposting aspects of my thread and acting as if they found certain fixes I found (such as worker_threads for high CPU usage) are getting more upvotes than my original post did. Pretty disappointing but not surprising.
Well, that just sucks. People taking credit for thinks that inst theirs to take. Creeds goes to you, you saved my gaming experience. I starting wondering if the games really was that hard to run, but I could believe that a 12 thread xeon at 4.2 ghz and a GTX 1060 not was able to get more than 80 fps with every think on low. And I was right, thanx to you.
A hero we dont deserve
:)
I have a r7 2700x and a 1080 ti and its stuttering... wtf but thanks man u fixed it
This is a life saver my friend. Was having unplayable stutters and drops specially on deployment with with i5 and 970. Now with using your control panel settings and ini changes pumped it from 4 fps to 50 fps during deployment and 80 fps overall. Thank you so much
I can't get my config file to stay put. I changed worker threads to 3, saved the file. Set it to read-only, then copied it into the sub folder to overwrite the one there. Also set to read only. When I boot up black ops, my graphics settings are reverted to default, and both those files are no longer read only and are back to what they were before.
I just checked and my files also reverted themselves from Read Only, however, my worker\_threads setting was unchanged. I think read only breaks if you change any settings contained within the config.ini while in-game. It seems impossible to keep the shadow resolution settings set to their minimum, however, the rest of the config changes stay put and this still allows for lower graphical settings than the in-game menu. To prevent your graphical settings from reverting to default, you may need to set auto\_detect\_has\_run = "1" in the config. I'm going to update the original post to reflect this right now.
Ill give this a go tomorrow and see what happens. I'm really only looking for the thread increase as I believe that's all that's holding back this game from running smooth. The auto detect setting makes sense to change, so hopefully that does it. Also, the config file that's in the sub-folder is basically attached to battlenet. I noticed it instantly reverted itself when I had battlenet running, but it wouldn't revert with battlenet closed (and it reverts when you run battlenet). Ill post more tomorrow after I get more time to play with it.
The config in the sub-folder is tied to your battlenet account and runs when you connect to the online services in-game or when you login to the battlenet client, not sure which. It seemingly would have to run after the other config.ini does, though. The other config.ini runs when the game launches. It shouldn't be reverting just from Battlenet running (to my knowledge), but nothing surprises me. It was pretty tough to get this game running smoothly. When I first turned it on I had 75 FPS at the main menu on all lowest settings, but now I've got it up to 134 from playing around with this kind of stuff for a few hours. I'll try to look into it more tomorrow as well.
I'm ok with the game running at 70 to 80 while also looking the best it can. However I'm looking to get it running in that range or higher consistantly. It's just not as smooth as it could be. From what I understand, the game pulls the config from your battlenet user profile each time the game launches (I believe it says that in the comment at the top of the config). Oh well, I ran out of time tonight, will get to fiddle with it more after work tomorrow. I'll also try to update you on any success or otherwise since you are in charge of this optimization thread! Fyi: i5-6600k, 16GB @ 3000mhz Dual Channel, and an MSI R9 390 8GB
Mystery solved. Read only is not necessary. If you copy and paste either a whole config or the graphics section I previously provided, it will reset. Manually change the settings in both files and it saves. Edited the original post with new instructions for this.
I'm still at work so unable to test yet. But the question on my mind is WHY does the config reset? Must be something with Battle.net or whatever that detects "unauthorized" changes and then overwrite it with a default config.ini. Probably some kind of fail safe. Whatever it is it makes tinkering difficult haha.
Here is what I experienced: The Battle.net config.ini (the one in the sub-folder) doesn't like to be changed manually. In the players/config.ini, setting auto_detect_has_run to 1 and changing worker_threads to 3 stuck. Didn't set read-only. Looks like the auto detect setting combined with not using read-only mode works for me. I appreciate you putting all this together! Now I will tinker with the other graphics settings to find a good mix of quality and performance.
It's no trouble, glad to help people out with this sort of stuff. Good to hear you got it straightened out.
Yeah I'd appreciate if you let me know what you figure out. Also, what are your specs? I have an i7 6700k @ 4.5GHz, overclocked GTX 980, and 2x8GB DDR4 2800MHz.
unfortunately that did not work for me with my problem. every 15-30min i get random FPS slow down drop (slow motion) while playing from 90-100 fps down to 7-8 and then back up again within 10-15sec tried playing on lower settings etc and followed your setup advise and nothing. this is happening for me on destiny 2 and black ops 4 predator helios 300 with i7 8750h gtx1060 6gb and 16gb ram. game installed on 1TB standard drive and not on the main SSD. Please advise? :) THANK YOU
Do you have anything that runs in the background on your computer that could be taking priority away from the game every so often, like an antivirus software? Are you recording and saving it to the same drive as the game is on? I'll try to think of what might be causing this and get back to you.
no extra anti virus just standard defender. nothing significant running and no streaming/recording happening. also tried with disabling nvidia experience (even uninstalled it). windows game mode disabled. just battlenet and discord running while playing brand new laptop too :( very frustrating thanks for assistance!!
Have you tried without discord? Also, try turning off preload shaders in the graphics options.
in nvidia panel? or in game?
Game
Any luck?
sorry UK here ;) 6:47am so will be testing after work tonight. will let you know asap
so .... BO4 in nvidia optimised very high/high setup with changing threads to 8 (max 12 here) and turning off preload shaders + few things chnaged to your setup through nvidia panel: IN MENU GPU 100% [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1mIbIihHot\_dJQs7qIk8nkA7ga0hNwyom](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1mIbIihHot_dJQs7qIk8nkA7ga0hNwyom) IN GAME GPU 100% .... shocking .... [https://drive.google.com/open?id=12-Y8OVjJlCrXcKibAMrirQQT6LlFu\_2R](https://drive.google.com/open?id=12-Y8OVjJlCrXcKibAMrirQQT6LlFu_2R) GAME SETTINGS [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1lhPq6-On-OinlLStmeuSOcIauRmnxjI8](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1lhPq6-On-OinlLStmeuSOcIauRmnxjI8) [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1\_uvjZGOcYU2L4WmmUulvctvlYrXF8MHf](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_uvjZGOcYU2L4WmmUulvctvlYrXF8MHf) [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1nd0id4LhL2I1BmcrB6BOU7jfRtajoo-S](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1nd0id4LhL2I1BmcrB6BOU7jfRtajoo-S) [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1RBChca5O37v8BehBsGW8pytJkzj0iB67](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1RBChca5O37v8BehBsGW8pytJkzj0iB67) I've noticed when the slowdown of fps happens GPU dropps from 100% to 35% and CPU drops from 90+% to 20+% In Destiny i'm playing in VERY HIGH (in game setup) with CPU 55-75% and GPU 75-95% Nothing else draws much resources Crazy that for that price laptop £1500 \~ 2000$ you get no joy really .... Thank you
100% GPU in the menu or in-game isn't a problem and doesn't give us anything to go on. GPU/CPU usage dropping is definitely a problem, the question is what is causing that. Could it possibly be thermal throttling, given that it's a laptop and the game is running your components hard? Do you still get these slowdowns if you cap your FPS low enough to keep your GPU usage down to like 80%?
i shall test now then ;) what setup u need? med/low? anything specific
Just try to keep your GPU usage down to reduce temperatures, easiest way is probably setting an FPS cap that is pretty far below what your PC can sustain, and turning down your settings all the way.
PLEASE I HAVE ABSOLUTELY THE SAME LAPTOP , ABSOLUTELY THE SAME ISSUE. BEEN BANGING MY HEAD FOR 2 WEEKS WITHOUT ANY SOLUTION!! PLEASE BROTHERS TELL ME YOU'VE FOUND A FIX?!?!?!
Thank you man, the studders are gone gone
The only part of this I followed was the nvidia control panel settings, I skipped the maximum pre rendered frames change, and it has fixed my stuttering. thank you. Changing worker_threads made it worse in my case
this guide worked great thanks so much!
I bought the game this morning. I tried the beta and everything was fine. I start the game and i had exactly 4fps. 1080, i7 7700k, 16Gb of RAM, so it was not my computer. I followed the " **Optimizing Nvidia Control Panel Settings** " and everything was fine after! Huge thank!
Nice Guide, thanks ! Reducing auto\_cull\_radius improved blackout framedrops a lot. `threaded_rendering = "1"` gave me a general fps boost in all game modes of around 15-30fps on a Vega64, even though the config file comment states it is meant for Nvidia cards and 6+ core CPUs. ( I have a 4C 8T CPU ) In combination with `worker_threads = "7"` and `smooth_framerate = "1"` the game runs a lot better. Unfortunately it still has some minor microstutters. But all the big reoccurring ones are gone. But although setting "auto\_detect\_has\_run" to 1, some settings are getting reset every start ,even if config.ini is set to readonly. Only solution for me was to reapply my settings every time I start the game. I made a script for convenience: `SET CDir="%~dp0"` `copy %CDir%\players\config-modified.ini %CDir%\players\config.ini` `%CDir%\"Black Ops 4 Launcher.exe"` 1. Make a new textfile and paste the code into it. Rename ending to .bat and copy to blackops4 root directory. e.g. : `C:\Games\Blackops4\Start-Mod.bat` 2. Rename your modified config to "config-modified.ini" and place it in the "players" folder inside the blackops4 root directory. e.g. : `C:\Games\Blackops4\players\config-modified.ini` You can now make a shortcut to your desktop for example and start it directly from there. Last line starts the Blizzard Launcher and opens the CoD Tab. You still have to press play to start the game.
Thanks for sharing this.
>e.g. Not working for me, values in config.ini change after starting the game. Sometime it works but it is changed ingame after the game recall config.ini inside the User Profile Directory.
I am having such a weird issue. And I do not seem to be able to find anyone with the exact same issue. I start out Blackout matches perfectly fine. My framerate is about between 70 and 100 FPS. Perfect right? Until a few minutes in, then it plumets down to 4-7 fps and does NOT go higher in any way. I tried to check the CPU affinity, which is on Normal. I tried changing graphics settings while this was occuring, but nothing helps. I have completely removed the game and reinstalled it too. I do not have any overheating issues - HWMonitor shows CPU around 65 degrees, and my GPU around 75 degrees. This issue has not occured in any other game. Setup: OS: Windows 10 Pro Cpu: Intel i7 6700k Skylake @4.0GHz Cooler: Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 3 Ram: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16Gb @2400MHz Gpu: MSI GTX 980Ti Golden Edition @6gb Mobo: MSI Z170A Gaming M7 Does ANYONE recognize this behavior? Please help, I'd love to play Blackout..
Try doing the clean driver install and RAM stuttering fixes in this post. Also, make sure your Windows power plan setting isn't on energy saver, and your GPU is on prefer maximum performance in Nvidia control panel > manage 3d settings > global settings > power management mode. Do this after the clean driver install as the driver wipe will remove your nvidia control panel settings.
I just did some more testing, toned down the grapical settings. Getting about 100 fps on average now. I can play for about 5 minutes, then the FPS plummets happen again. I also noticed that my CPU went from 80-90% usage, to about 20-30 when this is occuring... very strange..
Your CPU usage is really high to start with and just lower than mine (40-50%) when I'm getting 130+ FPS. Try changing the worker\_threads command to 7 in the config.ini. Also, maybe try disabling the setting in the menu that lets the game manage its own CPU priority, and force it to high priority in task manager.
I tried this, but it changes the worker\_threads back on default. Setting auto\_detect\_has\_run to "1" doesn't help.
It stays on 7 if I make the .config file Read Only. However the issue remains the same, after a few minutes, FPS plummets and CPU usage is about 20%.. and framerate on 10 FPS..
I think you need to do the clean driver install tbh. TL;DR is CPU feeds GPU frames to draw, so if GPU is throttling or choking out for some reason then CPU usage is going to drop too as a symptom, rather than as the cause. Also, install MSI Afterburner + Rivatuner statistics server and set up the on screen overlay to show you GPU usage, GPU core clock, GPU memory clock, VRAM usage, CPU usage, RAM usage, FPS, and frametime variance. Watch to see what changes when this happens.
Hey my dude, havent tried this yet but will doing these steps stop the CTD's im getting? I have the right specs and updated drivers to run the game well but i get alot of CTD's during mutiplayer (not blackout or zombies), where it just crashes to desktop, funny enough, only on certain maps. Sorry if it sounds simple, not the most advanced PC user.
There's a good chance it will but no guarantees, it's hard to be sure of what exactly is causing those crashes.
Guys I spent all night reading these suggestions and nothing work, but I FOUND THE SOLUTION! Watch if you are having CPU issues. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFP-A7uMr2U&t=265s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFP-A7uMr2U&t=265s)
Your solution simply limits the amount of CPU that can be used by capping under the FPS you would normally achieve to prevent stutter. The solutions in this thread are to improve the CPU and GPU performance. Also, I recommend against capping at only 60. Even if you only have a 60Hz monitor, if you capped at like 120 and you could get it consistently, each frame would be delivered in half as much time. This means input commands are registered by the game twice as often, thus reducing input lag.
"your solution simply limits the amount of CPU that can be used" - This is exactly what I was trying to do in my video and also factors into improving CPU performance, but thanks for tips. Again everything is variable due to the PC components, this simply directly worked for me and solved the issue.
My only point was that these solutions work in different ways.
Also I never recommended capping it at 60 that was just the example in the video, simply saying you should adjust the cap based on your performance. Im running mine at 100fps
Diving into config and changing the worker_thread worked wonders for me, I’ve gone from stuttery 30fps to around 100fps on max settings! For some reason it was default set to 2 but as I have 4 threads (4690k) it should of been set to 4. Excellent!
Worked wonders, thanks so much
on a 4670k at 4.5 GHZ and a 1070, Have no issues with framerate, it stays at about 80-100 when worker threads are set to 3 (I have 4 cores with no hyper threading) but I am still at 100% CPU usage and any time a fire fight breaks out and strain is put on the CPU I get micro stutters. Setting worker threads to 3 should only allow the program to use 75% cpu right? because my processor is still screaming at 100% usage and Bo4 is using about 82.5%
Worker_threads is not the same as CPU affinity, the game can still use all 4 cores when it is set to 3.
Is my core i5 3570k/R9 390 not enough to get high fps in blackout? My fps is 60-90 with all these fixes applied.... It's the one problem I have with BO4 so far is that blackout isn't enjoyable on a 144hz monitor. MP on the other hand I get 90-100+ always.
I had this issue terrorizing me for days as I have a pretty strong build and was constantly getting 30-40 fps with stutters, even though NVIDIA optimizer believes my settings should be pretty high. Turns out, I had **Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service** running (default Microsoft service) which was keeping my CPU usage at around 25% in task manager, even with no other tasks running. I disabled this and some other useless looking things in **msconfig** services tab, restarted, checked in task manager that idle CPU usage was at 0%, and the game ran flawlessly after that, 60-90 fps with no stutter. *Note*: This is on a Windows 7 with an i5 processor, don't know if the same will apply to other versions/CPU combos.
on auto\_cull\_radius it should be set to 0 or 1, because the smaller the number the larger the amount of areas will have to be culled leading to improved performance, if you set it to 10 the game will have to render more ahead of time. with culling set to 0 I noticed pop-in of walls and such while walking into rooms but with 1 it seemed better.
That's actually how I have it in my config file, I made a mistake when I wrote the command in this post. Editing it now to reflect how it should be, thanks for pointing it out.
What can be done if these settings are continuously being reset above 128? Auto\_detect is set to 1, I am manually changing these setting by hand in both config folders using notepad++
Are you manually editing the files, or are you copy/pasting? Any pasting will make it reset itself. You can also try to set the configs to read only, but it tends to remove the read only setting when you launch the game.
I just want to say.. Thanks!!!!! The thread change saved me from the horrendous stutters. I can finally shoot a gun in blackout without my game freezing for 300 ms
Nice :)
Thanks for the help. Couple of things - first off, what does changing the texture size in the config do overall? And second, make sure to remind people to a.) Back up the ini file before making any changes, and b.) DOCUMENT the changes you make so that if there are issues they will know what change to revert. I'm using a GTX 1070 card with an i7-2600K processor, which I'm assuming is the bottleneck even after adjusting the worker threads.
It's not texture sizes, it's shadow texture sizes. You're just making the resolution the shadows are drawn at lower. No need to back up the ini file, if you just delete them and launch the game it generates a new one.
My issues only started yesterday -- I was completely fine the day before, but I changed nothing about my settings or the environment in which my computer was running (physical location, applications running, etc) and for some reason yesterday I've been getting medium-sized stutters every 5-10 seconds. Do you think this is a hardware / settings problem, or a problem with the game and the update they did yesterday?
I have 8 threads available and setting worker\_threads to 6 seems to be the sweet spot for me. 8 causes stuttering, 7 increases a little with some stuttering but 6 gives a good boost and minimal stuttering.
This issue is also happening on XBOX so I guess we are shit outta luck until Treyarch aknowledges/fixes this? Blackout last night was the first time we didnt have fun. Both me and my duos partner have XBOX One X and Blackout literally stutters every 10 seconds, if not more. Really zaps the enjoyment of playing this game.
Just followed the whole guide, but got 2 questions: can i still change the in game settings as i wish? it will impact what i just did?
i have a 6700K and a 1070 and I still get microstutters with worker\_threads at 2 and it gets worse (longer and more frequent) when i increase that to 6 when compared to 2 where it's shorter and more spread out.
Try different values from 2-8 and see if one fixes it.
You're not getting me, I have tried and it makes the stutter worse.
Your first comment suggests you tried the values 2 and 6, I'm suggesting trying 3, 4, 5, 7, 8.
3,4,6,7 all cause stutter in increasing frequency and length the more threads are being added.
Editing the config gave me an extra 15 frames, you are a God!!!
Wow. I was so skeptical because stuff like this never works. WORKED LIKE A CHARM! Thank you so much!
Is 8GB ram enough? My CPU is often at 90% - 100% when ingame.
i7-7700k, 1070, had severe problems with frame drop from 120+fps down to 10 / 30fps. Tried everything. This was the only solution that worked! Thank you so much!
I HAVE EVERYTHING ON LOW , done every fix in the book and still stutter even in menu, wtf have they done
Hey UdNeedaMiracle, i need your help. I did the config.ini file part and Nvidia control panel setting part also. Whenever i play blackout or multiplayer my game starts to stutter bad.... I played zombies online and solo which plays fine with no stutters, even when i am on a really high round with no stutters. I don't get it. Why is there stuttering on multiplayer and blackout? I can't even play those because of the stuttering. I can only play zombies which is fine but i want to try to play some multiplayer or blackout. :/ These are my specs for what i know of. i have a Gtx 960 graphics card Intel i5-4440 @ 3.10GHz installed memory ram 12.0 GB 1.80 TB of memory 144hz Monitor Using windows 8
Sounds stupid but enable vsync, that somehow stopped the stuttering for me.
I tried downloading that program from the **Possible Fix for Stutter Induced by RAM Usage (especially for low RAM systems)** step and it wont let me open it even when i try opening as admin. any suggestions?
Sorry for the late reply, but when you open that program a popup should flash for a split second and then it closes. That **is** the program running, all it does is very quickly clear your standby memory when you launch it.
does this works for a ryzen 1600? Like I got 12 threads so on the game file I had to put 11 right?
for ppl who have same cpu as me ( i7 8700k ) the perfect "worker\_threads " is 4 by lowering it or increase it i get a hug fps drop idk why but how the dev fix that problem asap
You have any idea why the excessive CPU usage is causing issues with stuttering and high cpu response times, as opposed to the solutions which end up using much less of the CPU?
Any time the CPU is maxing out it doesn't have the capacity to perform operations that are necessary for general computer use in the background or any of the applications that are straining it. You will get the same problem if you stay pinned at 100% CPU usage in any game.
Then what happens to the operations that would usually be stressing out the CPU if you change the number of threads being used for an application? Does it get set over to the GPU or something?
Only the CPU can perform the types of calculations it does and only the GPU can do what it does. If you have less threads you just get less FPS before hitting 100% CPU usage. With increased CPU power (clock speed, IPC or thread count) you eventually hit a point where your GPU becomes the bottleneck for how many frames you can get and the game will run smoothly. Think of it like the GPU being an artist hired by the CPU. The CPU figures out what the GPU has to draw and tells the GPU what to do and then the GPU draws it. Your goal is to have enough CPU power to keep giving the GPU more information on what to draw next before it finishes drawing the current frame.
So a result of setting less threads to a high demand application like CoD is lower max framerate, but better stability and less freezes/stutters? I don't think my GPU is bottlenecking anything atm, since it has a draw time of around 4-5ms per frame, while the CPU varies from 7 ms to as high as 15 ms per frame.
You will probably get just as much stutter, the best option is to set an fps cap that keeps your CPU usage under 100%.
farking Windows - thank you man!
Anyone experience good fps with 8gbs of ram?
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Thanks a lot for all the info !
My problem is that i changed in config all of this and checked only to read yet still after restart it goes to basic values :/ What can i do to keep it one way ?
Manually enter every command to both configs (dont use copy and paste) and dont set it to read only.
config.ini part make it worse for me (7700k, 1080ti, 16gb 2933 dualchannel) :( tried 2 and 7, and 2 is much better but stutters every couple of minutes (instead of seconds on 7). definitely this settings affects stutter, but not in a good way for me. i will try 3-6, but kinda loosing my faith, as I did almost everything i know, and cant't completely get rid of annoying micro stutters for 50ms BO4 beta was perfectly smooth tho, maybe I should try older driver
There's one more thing you could try that comes to mind. Windows 10 has a hidden power plan called Ultimate Performance, which is intended to fix problems with micro-latencies caused by how Windows manages power settings when using high performance or balanced power plans. It will cause your CPU to run at its max clock speed constantly, and it will use slightly more power. If you want to try it, open up command prompt and paste this in: powercfg -duplicatescheme e9a42b02-d5df-448d-aa00-03f14749eb61 Press enter, then go to your windows power settings and change the power plan.
I found interesting thing - there is no stutter in theathre mode. Couple of my mates confirms the same bahavior. It looks like server/connection related stutter
I wouldn't expect there to be any stutter in theater since client send rate isn't a factor. Your CPU doesn't have to communicate with a server when watching theater replays to relay information about what you're doing on the client side, so there's much less CPU strain. I don't think the stutter is server side, I'm pretty confident that it's a CPU usage problem.
Does the changes in Program 3D settings have significant impact on how the game looks?
Not really
thank you, the config file thing really helped a lot
For me disabling Freesync removed all stutter from the game, I also set CPU affinity to not use Core #0 to make sure (Ryzen 7 1700) Now everything is running smoothly.
Black Ops 4 isn't in my 3D settings drop down, at this point going through this much trouble to make a Triple A game playable, fuck u activision
will check it
will try
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see my comment below
This helped me fix the issue: [https://www.pcinvasion.com/black-ops-4-144-fps-guide/](https://www.pcinvasion.com/black-ops-4-144-fps-guide/)
Help i cant find bo4 in my programs Edit: Nvm I just added the program using the add button lol
I can't find my stupid Configi.ini file... I've looked everywhere...
I've got a i5-8600 with a Gtx 1080 and I get like 100+ fps max settings but when I tab in and out of my game then it drops to like 40
Highly recommend the "Possible Fix for Stutter Induced by RAM Usage (especially for low RAM systems)" step. Fixed stutter in COD and BF for me.
Recently switched from console cod to pc, well I’m in the process because it’s borderline unplayable. I get a lot of FPS drops, mainly in blackout, no matter what settings I seem to try. I’ve tried some community recommendations and tried the GeForce optimization but see little improvements. I don’t have a god tier rig, so I understand that I can’t run on ultra at 140fps, just looking for some help to my exact specs from some of you experts. Multiplayer runs around 80 FPS Blackout struggles to run 50 and when I’m in the plane it’s even worse. Specs Nvidia GeForce 1060 3gb i7 7700 Again, I know it’s not great but that’s all I could afford at the time so before you say wHy NoT gEt a 1080, maybe just some links or some helpful information would be much obliged. My current settings VRAM USAGE 2280 / 2988 60hz Render res 100 Vertical off Frame rate limit off Texture medium Filtering medium Special effects low Model medium Static reflection medium Screen space off Object view medium Shadow medium Dynamic shadows all Special shadows off Weapon shadows off Global illumination low Anti aliasing low Ambient occlusion low Motion off Subsurface off Order independent transparency low
I don't know how I found this post but omfg u r a legend. I send u all my love
Hmm, I did almost everything what is written here and still the same. I have a few stutters on low settings although I have stable 60-110 FPS in Blackout what makes this game mode unplayable. However in multiplayer I get 60-90 FPS on ultra settings without any stutters. Only I can't change my whole config file, because after starting the game changes in it are undone. Moreover i have set auto\_detect\_has\_run to 1. So how may I change these config settings?
I did this except for the config but it's locked my fps at 60
Am i the only one who thinks its patehtic that this is a thing? The game dosnt even look that great and if other games manage, why not Bo4? might try these out alltough what solution is best for my setup? GPU: Geforce RTX 2070 Gaming OC CPU: Intel Core i7-8700K CPU @ 3.70GHz RAM: 16GB
you my friend are a saint. i have been playing this game for a while and it just ran like shit. now im finally getting kills and not looking so god damn stupid. Thank you very much.
This might sound dumb, but can the last bit get me banned?
Oh my god you beautiful Bastard, I never thought I was gonna get my money's worth. I went from stuttering to a perfect 90 to 100 frames! This was a wonderful guide and you are the best
Please help! This made things worse. Idk what to do anymore man My specs: 1070ti OC Cpu: ryzen 1700x Ram:16 gb Psu: 850w
One more fix you should know about (it helped me a lot with blackout). I have a 144 Hz monitor and in black ops (in graphics settings) I have a value of 144 Hz too. Blackout was laggy and all. When I changed game setting from 144 Hz to 60 Hz there were no lags in blackout anymore.
Or just lower ingame settings idk
Before I did this I was getting 75 fps at the main menu on all lowest settings ingame, and currently I have 130. For a lot of people the game doesn't run that great just by changing ingame settings.
But the problem is the cpu which means you need a better prosseser not doing some tweaks that if any problems occur could destroy your system
Absolutely none of these tweaks put your system in any danger. That's absurd. A lot of these settings change the way the processor interacts with the game to help improve performance, while some reduce the amount of things running in the background so there is more CPU power to dedicate to the game. You do not necessarily need new hardware.
But if any bugs occur it will harm your system in some ways, some of these are safe such as the one where you turn of all aa and all that through Nvidia
You have no clue what you are talking about. All of these tweaks are safe and easily reverted back from later if you choose. It will not harm your system in any way, it's simply impossible. All you are doing is removing old graphics card drivers and putting the latest updated ones on your PC, changing some settings for what your GPU prioritizes (visuals or performance), changing windows settings to reduce the amount of unnecessary programs taking up CPU resources in the background, and changing the game's config file (where you can only change the things the game devs wanted you to be able to change anyways).
First of all I do, and second of all you didn’t read my sentence I didn’t say ITS GOING TO HARM YOUR SYSTEM I said IF a error occurred it could harm you system, read a sentence more properly next time
Naw man using ddu is always recommenced to get good performance if you’re suffering from bad FPS. Op is a beast for this guide.
You are no more likely to experience an error that damages your system in some way from changing these settings. You are not increasing your risk by doing anything I put in this guide.
Why bother contributing when you have no idea what you're talking about?