How to fix FPS dips, 60fps cap & stuttering on AC: Valhalla

[GamerBlake]

Hey guys, I’ve been playing AC: Valhalla for a few hours and it was really frustrating because I have an 8700K & 2080 Ti and the game installed on a Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVMe SSD and even with that it kept dipping down from 85ish FPS down to 8-10 FPS and then going back up to 85ish FPS again causing stuttering.

 

I couldn’t figure it out but I went into graphics and by default the game is run in “borderless” mode. If you change that to “full screen” it really helps smooth things out. Not to mention in “borderless” the FPS is capped at 60fps, whereas in “full screen” you can set it at 30, 60, 120 or 144fps.

 

I hope this helps! It would’ve helped me.

 

- Blake

[Helpful Tech Witch]

boarder less is bad, just use normal fullscreen lol.

 

What are temps, CPU and gpu (and ram)  usuage? is anything else running? Similar problems in other games?

[Alex Atkin UK]

12 minutes ago, GamerBlake said:

Hey guys, I’ve been playing AC: Valhalla for a few hours and it was really frustrating because I have an 8700K & 2080 Ti and the game installed on a Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVMe SSD and even with that it kept dipping down from 85ish FPS down to 8-10 FPS and then going back up to 85ish FPS again causing stuttering.

 

I couldn’t figure it out but I went into graphics and by default the game is run in “borderless” mode. If you change that to “full screen” it really helps smooth things out. Not to mention in “borderless” the FPS is capped at 60fps, whereas in “full screen” you can set it at 30, 60, 120 or 144fps.

 

I hope this helps! It would’ve helped me.

 

- Blake

Yeah I hate how Microsoft are pushing all games to use borderless mode, its has huge drawbacks like this.

 

Although getting an Assassins Creed game to run at 60fps is often a challenge in itself, almost always CPU bottlenecks.  Same goes for Watch Dogs, I'm having to run it at 50fps/50Hz because no matter what I try it lingers around 55 - on a 9900k and 2080.

Actually pleased to hear Valhalla is running so well for you, I might actually be able to get a stable 60.

[GamerBlake]

41 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

boarder less is bad, just use normal fullscreen lol.

 

What are temps, CPU and gpu (and ram)  usuage? is anything else running? Similar problems in other games?

All my hardware is fine. It was the game.

 

My 8700K was in the 60s C
(65-70% usage)

My 2080 Ti was 65-68C

(90% usage)

My DDR4 3600 RAM was 9GB/32GB used.

 

No all my other games run fine. So does this one once I switched from borderless to full screen.

 

I made this post for people who might not know that’s the issue like I didn’t know until I found it.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

Just now, GamerBlake said:

y DDR4 3600 RAM was 9GB/32GB used.

is it running at 3600mhz? If you have a 3200 kit and a 3600 kit, then they are probably running at 2133 or 2400, since the 3200 kit would need to be oced (past xmp) to get to 3600 (or did you do that?)

[GamerBlake]

43 minutes ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

Yeah I hate how Microsoft are pushing all games to use borderless mode, its has huge drawbacks like this.

 

Although getting an Assassins Creed game to run at 60fps is often a challenge in itself, almost always CPU bottlenecks.  Same goes for Watch Dogs, I'm having to run it at 50fps/50Hz because no matter what I try it lingers around 55 - on a 9900k and 2080.

Actually pleased to hear Valhalla is running so well for you, I might actually be able to get a stable 60.

I can assure you this one isn’t very CPU intensive compared to Odyssey.

 

I have an 8700K OC’ed @ 5GHZ all core and this game was “only” using 60-70% utilization compared to Odyssey’s 97-98% utilization.

 

However playing at 1440p Max settings still seems to be tough for it and I definitely can’t get the full 144hz even with a 2080 Ti. 
 

I read people with 3090s are having trouble with 4K/60 FPS.

[GamerBlake]

Just now, HelpfulTechWizard said:

is it running at 3600mhz? If you have a 3200 kit and a 3600 kit, then they are probably running at 2133 or 2400, since the 3200 kit would need to be oced (past xmp) to get to 3600 (or did you do that?)

Yes I do have XMP enabled. The problem isn’t me or my PC. The problem is the game being defaulted to borderless instead of full screen. Once I changed it the problem was gone.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

Just now, GamerBlake said:

I can assure you this one isn’t very CPU intensive compared to Odyssey.

 

I have an 8700K OC’ed @ 5GHZ all core and this game was “only” using 60-70% utilization compared to Odyssey’s 97-98% utilization.

 

However playing at 1440p Max settings still seems to be tough for it and I definitely can’t get the full 144hz even with a 2080 Ti. 
 

I read people with 3090s are having trouble with 4K/60 FPS.

disregard my last post please, I had 2 threads running and mixxed them up. sorry.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

Just now, GamerBlake said:

Yes I do have XMP enabled. The problem isn’t me or my PC. The problem is the game being defaulted to borderless instead of full screen. Once I changed it the problem was gone.

sorry i mixxed up 2 threads with similar issues.