Frame time issues in Warhammer 2

[elvincino]

As the title says, I'm experiencing frame time issues when playing Warhammer 2.  The game runs at a relatively stable 55-60 FPS at mostly High settings with Ultra unit sizes.  However, every so often, far too common than should be normal I get frame time jumps that go up into the 40ms area.  They happen all over the place at seemingly random intervals.  Nothing on screen such as the sudden occurrence of more spell effects or lots of units smashing against each other seem to affect it.  It really is just random.  If I were to put any kind of pattern to it, it seems to happen most when I begin to move/pan the camera around the map.  It occurs both on the campaign map and in battles.  I've seen no answers to this online, and none of my adjustments and attempted fixes have worked, from adjusting virtual memory, changing to windowed mode, turning off V-SYNC have worked.  The game runs smooth, but the frame times are off, and it only appears to happen in this game.  I haven't spent enough time with other games yet to see if its a problem elsewhere.

 

My system specs are

 

MOBO: ASUS TUF-gaming x570 plus

CPU: Ryzen 7 3700x

GPU: Sapphire 5700 XT

RAM: 16gb 3200hz

SSD: Western DIgital 1tb

Monitor: BenQ GL2460 1920x1080

Mostly stock settings, I've set my gpu to overclock somewhat when playing Warhammer 2, it helped the average frames but I still get those frame time spikes.

 

Thanks in advance for help and responses.

[xAcid9]

You're using DirectX 12 renderer?

[elvincino]

No, DX11.

[xAcid9]

Use DX12. 

Also is it possible to record the frame time spike?

[elvincino]

Afraid not, I can screenshot the graph after a period of time of gameplay.

 

And DX12 made it a bit worse.

[elvincino]

First one is with DX12 on

 

This is back to DX11

 

And this is another with DX11 for comparison.

 

Every time it spikes I feel it, its this super noticeable microstutter for just a brief moment.  Its really annoying, I don't think this should be happening.  I messed with Vsync more and it does seem to stop with it off but things just aren't as smooth with it off, and using Radeon Chill to limit FPS doesn't seem to work very will and just causes weird issues (like 3 beeps in the middle of a game unprompted).  All in all, I'm getting really frustrated with this software and GPU.  I've had crashes, the display shut off the software just stop working and not able to reopen.  As well as this weird thing where the windows taskbar appears for a brief second and disappears as soon as it popped in (been in windowed mode, dunno if that has anything to do with it).

[elvincino]

Bump

 

More detailed info here

https://forums.totalwar.com/discussion/256276/random-stuttering-in-battles-and-campaign#latest

[xAcid9]

Bookmark this thread, and post all your problem there if it still persist with upcoming 19.12.3 driver.