I Reduced the Stutter in Silent Hill 2 Remake! (it was sorta obvious)

Yup, just keep V-Sync on and set a 60 FPS frame rate limit. I usually turn V-Sync off. Why? Because I have a FreeSync monitor. V-Sync slows the game engine down so the frame rate matches your displays refresh rate. Often this means it slows the game down to 60 FPS but it also must maintain this frame timing when the game drops below 60 FPS. This means when the game drops even just slightly below 60 FPS it will drop WAY down to 45 FPS and then 30 FPS and then 15 FPS etc. You can typically feel the input latency increase as this happens. So why does it exist? Well, mainly it helps eliminate screen tearing. But if you have a VRR display (FreeSync, G-Sync etc) you won't have screen tearing as long as your game runs within the VRR window. With most FreeSync monitors like mine that's 45-170 FPS. This means the game can run wild and there typically won't be any screen tearing! The game also doesn't have to drop to 45 FPS if it can't quite hit 60 FPS like it would with V-Sync on. The game can run at 58 or 59 FPS and the monitor will adjust its refresh rate to match. Again, this can greatly improve input latency and make the game feel instantly responsive! So many of us PC gamers just disable V-Sync and let our frame rates run free! But we're starting to see more and more games with traversal stutter (or shader compilation stutter) and often these types of stutters can be worse at higher frame rates. So here, with this game at least we might want to keep the frame rate under control. I have heard mixed results here to be honest. People with low end machines trying to squeeze this big game out of tiny hardware (ie handheld gaming PC's) are saying the game runs worse with the frame rate cap in place. But I think many of us with mid to high end gaming PC's will find it runs better with the frame rate cap on. I couldn't help notice people with really high end PC's (Ryzen 7 7800X3D, Core i9 13th gen, RTX 4080 Super, 4090 etc) were getting the most and worst of these stutters. So for me this all makes sense but of course your results may vary. My optimized settings here...    • Silent Hill 2 Optimized Settings (Ryz...   (AMD Ryzen 7 5800X, Radeon RX 6750XT 12GB GPU, 32GB DDR4 3,600 RAM)