Topic on Talk:The Evil Within

Noticed game was stuttering despite using nVidia frame limiter to limit to 60 (and steam overlay confirming it was locked at 60), tried all the usual tips but still had awful stutter almost any time camera moved.

Looked into nvidia control panel again and some reason I had the low-latency setting as Ultra by default for all games, changed it to Off and changed "Virtual reality pre-rendered frames" to 3 (also affects non-VR titles I believe), and with that the stutter was pretty much fixed, guess the game needs to pre-render frames for some reason.

Not sure about adding this to the page, my setup of low-latency mode being defaulted to Ultra probably isn't that common & the other stutter-fixes going around are probably more likely to help people, but if this does help anyone else maybe it's worth adding a mention somewhere.

It's mentioned in the page that you have to set it to "On" and not "Ultra", to get rid of stutter. Though it looks like setting it to "Off" might have fixed it to you somehow. I don't think "Virtual reality pre-rendered frames" had anything do do with it.

Ah yeah forgot that part, I'll try it with "On" later too, maybe the issue was just with the "Ultra" setting.

I think the "VR pre-rendered frames" is NV control panels name for what NV inspector calls "Maximum pre-rendered frames", not sure why NV make it sound VR-specific. I saw a lot of guides recommending changing it to 3, but not sure if it actually had any effect or not (originally had it as 1 for some reason, maybe more likely that 1 was breaking it, rather than 3 fixing it)

E: ah actually I'm wrong, NV inspector has separate settings for VR pre-rendered & Maximum pre-rendered, so guess this probably wasn't related.

"Low Latency Mode" was previously called "Maximum pre-rendered frames". Off either means controlled by the application or up to 3 frames, On means 1 frame and Ultra means 0 frames, I think. Correct me if I'm wrong.