More Info (Will update on a regular basis): - Even more Optimized texture pack: www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/anomaly-1k-performance-textures-pack
@@AndroidFerret vsync tries to match your fps to your monitors refresh rate at the cost of performance. This can help with screen tearing but you should consider setting your max fps 3-5 fps below your refresh rate to achieve the same thing without the performance hit.
This is literally the movie I've been waiting for the most from you since installing EFP. I even considered writing to you somehow to beg a recording of it. Thanks, it will definitely help a lot of people!
My 2 cents, after well over a decade spent modding games on potato PCs: DX 11 runs noticeably faster than DX10, yes. AVX has caused crashes in storyline mission locations (ie, miracle machine) on my AVX-enabled CPU, so if you experience them try turning AVX off. Rendering distance isn't too important in Anomaly, all the models in the game are pretty low quality so not rendering that 20-polygon thing across the map from you isn't a big deal. Rendering detail is actually one of the most important sections in the settings. These eat into your VRAM (dedicated RAM on your GPU card) the higher they're set and if you exceed your VRAM, you're going to lose performance as your GPU waits for data from normal RAM instead. Biggest hit is texture detail, going to half is a good start. MIP Bias can be left at max unless you're getting desperate. Object detail matters less because objects are low quality as stated above. Antistropic Filtering should be one of the first things you lower, low quality loss for a slight performance gain. I recommend not disabling it though. SMAA is a slower version of Anti-Aliasing, disable that and use low levels of normal AA instead. Keep Detail Bump on, the other 2 check boxes are basically modern versions of detail bump that are slower but provide neat effects that look like detail bump in normal gameplay, and really only look better if you stop and stare at a wall for a couple minutes. Turning off grass sucks, yeah, but just lowering the density a bit (and keeping the other options) still looks good and nets you a nice performance boost. Why wouldn't you? Lighting: distance and shadow quality good recommendations. Specular slider isn't a performance thing really, just a preference thing best left on default. Shadows are the other big VRAM eater so athough I recommend sun shadows left on, I also recommend lowering sun shadow quality to reduce VRAM usage. Sun rays: If you're watching this video, then you don't want volumetric sun rays. Set to screen space or just turn them off, it's just eye candy. SSAO: Pick HBAO for Nvidia or HDAO for AMD, set to low quality. If you can't even handle that then you should question your decision to try and run Anomaly to begin with. Volumetric light should be off if you're watching this video. Turn off everything under Effects. They're small details you have to actively try to notice, with big performance impacts. My favorite effect to leave on out of all of them is Wet Surfaces though, which is easiest to notice missing due to how often it rains. Aside from population factor, all the options in the gameplay settings will not have a significant effect on gameplay. Increasing stalker population increases the number of people in faction bases significantly, which is the main thing that kills FPS in faction bases. Offline combat has no direct effect on performance (I've seen how it works in the source code for the engine), but indirectly lowers the stalker and mutant population which will increase performance in areas where stalkers hang out. Corpse despawning is also insignificant: The area you are in has a limited number of NPCs it can host for performance reasons. This count also includes corpses that haven't despawned yet. An area that can host 30 stalkers, which you then fill with 30 corpses, will no longer fill in more enemies until at least one of those corpses despawns. Despawning corpses faster makes it so that more NPCs enter your area which makes the potential peformance gains inconsequential. You should still leave this setting low because you don't want the game to depopulate the garbage just because you killed a couple squads of bandits.
If I can ask, what are your system specs for reference? Edit: Also a three tweaks I would suggest are: Uncheck both Cores 0 and 1 in the process affinity. As most modern processors have Hyper-threading enabled (I believe almost all Ryzen CPUs and most newer Intel chips that have 8 or more cores displayed in windows). That will fully offload Anomaly from the first physical core. We've also found enabling Prefetch Sounds in the launcher helps with stutter related to ogg-comment issues which seem to plague many Anomaly mods / modpacks. Finally in the main menu, press ~ to open the main menu, and type in: r__no_ram_textures off Then restart the game (and clear the shader cache, it will stutter a bit while recompiling shaders on the first launch.) This keeps Anomaly from eating as much vram as possible by offloading textures from VRAM to RAM. Whether or not this is a performance boost is dependent on your specific system, and the mods you are running. It can be disabled by setting r__no_ram_textures to on and restarting the game (and deleting the shader cache). Credit for this fix goes to CautionRamen of the C-Con discord.
great stuff! my 2 cents: important to distinguish between low average fps and game stutter (fps drops). in Stalker - both can happen but really on non potato machines it's the stutter that is harder to get rid of. Changing GPU settings can improve average FPS, but if you experience game stuttering - that is CPU related no GPU. The way to reduce stutter is reduce population factor in the Zone. I think that's useful because otherwise unwary gamers can tweak their graphic settings for days and still see annoying stutter. Escape from Pripyat actually does a pretty good job with this iirc - already comes somewhat optimized.
yeah EFP does a great job with it already! I ddint mention it in the video as it's not a "setting" but the biggest stutter killed for me was simply installing the game on a SSD
@@CheekiBreekiTv even on SSD (in fact even on NVME) - I still get not obvious but very annoying micro-stutter. the only way i found to get rid of it - reduce zone related settings - ie number of animals and stalkers etc.
@@AvnerSenderowicz This is a bummer. I have it installed on an NVME as well, it an seem like its running at 60fps, but the stutters are so irritating. I have stalkers@1.25 and mutants@1.00 . I don't have the greatest PC, but I figure an Intel i7-9750h, RTX2060, NVME SSD, as well as 16GB of DDR4 would be enough to play this. I can run brand new modern games at 60fps with high to max settings, but this is just giving me so many headaches this week.
@@chloewebb5526 yeah, i think some people don't notice the stutter because the FPS counters don't catch them - but they are almost always there. some levels they are very noticeable some not so much. afaik this is because the game engine is very old and even after optimizations does not perform well when it comes to utilizing modern multi-core CPUs. not much to do about it afaik, even with lower population factor and running off fast-nvme - it's still there. (Ryzen 5700, nvme, gtx1060) it doesn't make the game unplayable by any means - but it would have been nice if there was a way to completely eliminate it. EFP 2.5 iirc was the smoothest Stalker experience i ever had - 3.0 is awesome but i actually get a little more noticeable stutter with it even with low pop factors and offline combat disabled.
@@AvnerSenderowicz All this kind of games suffer from partially game engine optimization and code choices in npc ,Ai, model complexity, phyx etc (one of the reasons we like them), cpu cores stall (low %) or produce a fraction of the output ipc dew to frequently have to go to main memory to load or to write code, using the best memory cl latency and big/fast cpu caches is a way to go, but you have to spent money for server type hw that benefit little in other kind of gaming.
Thank you, I've been one of the testers for a while and can say that with all the different machines and hardware that pass through EFP 3.0 having performance tweaks is really nice to have, thx for doing this.
One more tip: try to change full-screen to borderless using in-game menu. It gave me around 30fps (not kidding) boost while playing in1080p. Now there is no more fps drop while looking to a light source and less fps when I'm npc crowded places.
regarding Process Lasso stalker engine can only use 1 core so the goal is to - find out fastet core in cpu + - assign fastest core to stalker + - let the other cores do the rest also give this core high priority amd users can identify their fastest core with ryzen master
Most excellent! I've been battling with choppy fps and bad performance and found out with this video that the Anomaly HD Models Addon 14 has a HUGE impact on performance and most importantly with lighting, anytime there was a lamp with a character my FPS would drop to 30'ish and it was choppy and render latency went through the roof. I usually played on 60fps with the HD textures and now i just removed it and i'm at 120fps+. Its a nice texture pack but its either badly optimised or has an issue with the lighting in the engine. i5-8600K/GTX 1070SC/32gb RAM @3200/ Thank you very much for taking the time to make this video it really helped!
Well, turning vsync on actually helps since the game is single-core. Maybe I’m wrong, but it helped me in balancing my performance without sacrificing graphics. But these are my 3 cents. It is good tutorial ofc
If you have a nvidia gpu I highly recommend trying the image scalling feature. Worked a little miracle here! Just remember to check "reset graphics settings" in the launcher with your native resolution and then change it in-game. No apparent graphic loss.
I followed the video and now my game has these super pixilated shadow textures everywhere and they keep popping on and off I am now troubleshooting for a while but I can't get it back to normal any ideas which setting it is?
Whenever a lit campfire is on screen the game drops to 20-15 fps instantly, does anybody have any idea what mod adds this seriously taxing effect to fire so I can turn it off?
I run at 2k on a 3700x, 1080, 32gb ram. EFP reshade. With all the settings in fame similar as in this video, texture and view distance = 50fps to start. Turning off all anti aliasing, sso, and ssr in game brought back 20-25fps. Reshade ppfxssdo is on, lowers 5-10. The most fps was recovered by disabling the HD models in MO2 according to the EFP discord's instructions. I run at a consistent 95+ fps now. I figured this might help someone.
Cheeki I love your videos bro, but its sooo important to include system specs so we can gauge which direction to go with the information you have provided. You said you have a potato? What is a potatoe? Is it a 1060? A RX560? The differences between these two potatoes are significant and drastically alter the choices we should make in regard to graphic settings. Ty though for this video.
In my experience I've found that disconnecting your computer from the internet adds about 5-7 FPS. If you're desperate enough (like myself) it's a nice little way to squeeze out some extra performance. Just thought others would want to know.
Hmm that sounds weird for an offline game no? Could it not be some background processes that can't run anymore with internet off so that leaves some room for Stalker to run better? I should try xD
Thank you for this video another excellent one and most needed. My 6 year old potato is now running EFP 3.0 much better and looks much better at a higher frame rate...
Efp on my stalker is practically vanilla stalker anomaly with a few tweaks, since my pc go stolen when i was at work so now i play on a shitty pc i used to study, and even stalker without any mods is already quite heavy for my pc.
I'm thinking about disabling the HD Models and would rather use Fixed Vanilla Models if possible. However, I'm having a hard time figuring out exactly how to do this without creating mod conflicts with other parts of EFP that have a hand in animations, models, and NPC scripts. Anyone know how to get FVM working within this? Or could I just swap it with HDM with no issue?
From the discord: To remove HD Models, do the following: ○ Disable the following mods: ► [Raito-x-Ray] HDModels Full ► [Compat] THAP & HD Models ► [Flashbangz] Sin Redux - HD Models ► [DNPCAV] HD Variety ○ Enable the following mods: ► [Gwub] LLTZ & Mysteries of the Zone - Vanilla ► [Compat] Vanilla Models & THAP & HD Icons ○ Note, you must do this before starting a new game, doing this during an existing save will crash your game, no way around it. Hope it helps!
@@CheekiBreekiTv lol, I was just coming back to this video to check around the comments for this info, and here you already replied and answered my question in complete detail =D tysm! One of the things that had been giving me issues was finding the actual HDModels Full mod, due to me looking under the label that says "HDModelsFull & THAP". Don't know what would possibly make me think it would be placed there.... But Once I saw you type out the name, I facepalmed and alphabetized the loadout to find the mod. Hopefully this can get me back to solid 60+fps.
Good tutorial but not using vert sync AND keeping the fps limiter at 0 will make the videocard attempt to display several thousand fps at once which can lead to videocard failure. I'd know, that's how I burned my last videocard.
Do you have a video on how to place the mods in the proper category in m02? I’m still a novice on m02 I know if all mods are placed correctly they will all work and I have over 250 active so far, but not all of them that came with the download.
Salut Cheeki Breeki (en espérant que tu parles vraiment le français :p ). Merci beaucoup pour toutes les vidéos de ta chaîne que je suis depuis 2 ans. J'en suis déjà à 2 sessions terminés d'Anomaly bourrés de mods. Je suis tes instructions à la lettre. Mais hélas, j'ai beaucoup de mal avec mes derniers chipotages (merci Expedition). Mes graphismes sont devenus immondes. Je me demandais si il existe un forum francophone pour trouver de l'aide en modding, ou un discord... J'ai besoin qu'on me prenne par la main. Merci
Oui malheureusement il y a très peu de ressources en français, sur le discord de GAMMA il y a une section FR un peu active même si c'est pour un mod différent, tu peux peut etre essayer la bas. Mais de manière générale c'est pour ça que je bidouille pas trop ahahh c'est facile de tout casser, perso ma solution c'est toujours faire un backup de mes sauvegardes, tout supprimer et reinstaller.
@@CheekiBreekiTv Merci beaucoup ;) J'essaie de faire mon propre modpack. Un mélange d'Anomaly, Expedition avec plein d'autres trucs injectés (88 mods) mais, c'est plus compliqué que prévu. Je vais faire un tour du côté du Discord. MErci ;)
My problem is that when ever i hit an object with a knife or bullet hits a surface, it casts a dust cloud that is coloured blue. Idk how to deal with that. Other than that great video, performance increased without messing up the games looks. That damn blue smoke is an eye sore though, i really need help with that one.
Oh yeah, the leaves around whilrigig anomaly are blue squares aswell. No idea what modpack is causing this, i have EFP installed and pretty much all the default mods on. I really need to figure this one out because the game is pretty much uunplayable at this point due to these. Cant find help on google either since idk what to search for.
First time I opened the game, I poped shadows to 4096 and I was getting 25FPS, for sure diminushing shadow resolution isn't much noticiable (1080p screen), and with your settings I get 120fps.
Your first tutorial on Anomaly best graphics settings was a go to. In every computer I installed anomaly on I would open your video and carefully adjust everything. I am sure this is just as well done as the first video, so thumbs up, thanks for making these tutorials. I have a 1050ti in my current rig, what kind of performance do you reckon I should expect? Or should I just trash this idea of getting EFP? I have already added so many mods, about 50 to my modlist and was considering giving this new mod a go, what are your thoughts? Thanks :)
I've been playing EFP on a 1060 and it's running perfectly fine. Settings are not maxed out ofc but game looks great and runs smoothly. You should be good on a 1050ti!
My issue with EFP is the FPS drop when too many NPCs are in a level, there are too many of them, and any attempt of changing the number of NPCs in settings doesn't change anything. I'm playing on EFP 4.2 and i want to ask you how to change the NPCs settings?
I have downloaded the game and I have followed all the steps to install the mods correctly in addition to your graphic configuration, but when I start a game I end up choosing faction, equipment and etc. When I hit start as soon as the loading screen ends, it takes me to the desktop without No reason and I don't get any error messages either. If you had the solution to this I would really appreciate it because it is one of my favorite games and it hurts not being able to play with all these addons and having to settle for playing the normal anomaly version.
@@Cynical_Giro Thanks for the speedy assistance friend! I was foolish and thought EFP was a singular item in the load order like Provak's mod [even tho they both add alot] thanks again! I'll have to re arrange my mods for anomoly lol
personally, 2.5 was WAYYY better for me, whereas now the mods and visuals seem off and performance is very bad on default settings unlike last time on 2.5. I might just switch back.
While my game was running fine before, now its running even smoother. Thank you for that, but is there a way to stop BaS intergrated long range scopes from tanking my FPS. Thanks.
Hello, I really like this build, but I can't figure out the mods, could you please make a video about what mods you use in the original build, thanks in advance (it will help a lot)
For educational purposes, what is your rig? One thing that worked nicely to me is fiddling with nvidia control panel especially with antialiasing. Saved me some good fps!
@@CheekiBreekiTv Mainly AF and AA and texture detail, as an EFP discord mod suggested. Turned these in-game options off as well. Gonna try your AO setting when I come home, Agressor AO is pretty ugly imo. Btw, my rig is gtx 1660, ryzen 7 and 16mb ram.
i'm missing the ui at the bottom left...stamina man.. had it at start.. now have to press a key for it to show in the middle of the screen... can't find the option... help ok i found! i pressed big ui..... so many options
Ok so at the beggining - you're life saver with this video, i'm strugling to get my game run smooth, Definetly gonna try yours options later today, but the biggest ill for me is the jagged edges mostly on tress and stairs, it's killin g me :( i was thinking that you can't get rid of them on 1080p but seeing, that you too play on that resolution maybe you know whats the deal here? I tried setting fxaa on 8x and supersampling 8x in nvidia control pannel, it helped, but very slighty.
That's a problem old as the game. However there are ways to combat it. One would be DLDSR in Nvidia CP which is quite resource demanding. Though my best personal method is to set x4 and SMAA on High. Then type this in the console "r3_msaa_alphatest st_opt_atest_msaa_dx10_1" Hit enter and restart the game. This command fixes the aliasing on trees, it was introduced a long time ago in Clear Sky :)
@@err404or The DLDSR is not a option for me i think i have just 1050ti 4gb lol :D Set x4 to what? i have SMAA on high i will sure test that command options later today, but do i need to type them everytime i load a save?
The anti-aliasing to x4 but you could set it to x2 as well. I’ve just noticed it looks the best on x4 for me but it impacts performance the higher you go. The command stays activated so you don’t have to type it every time :) This mainly helps with the trees. Unfortunately other objects are still going to have more or less aliasing. But personally for me that’s acceptable.
@@err404or I heard from various sources on efp discord that aa option is not working in anomaly, but yeah i tried your command and it did nothing ;/ maybe bcs im using dx11, and there's something about dx10 in this command idk. Anyway i managed to get it looks not that bad with reshade effects, do you know maybe some tricks about cpu optimization i think i done all of them, but still getting drops of fps when there's bigger combat. i7 4790 on my side
@@DarekkoZZ Do you have aa enabled at least by x2? If you don’t then the command won’t help much with the trees and foliage :) Yeah, aa is sort of broken but setting it to x2 or x4, paired with the command and SMAA on High or Very High will improve the image quality for sure. Works on DX11 as well. It won’t be 100% smooth but the foliage will look better. The command is meant for foliage especially.
Sorry for asking this but I was looking for a installation guide video for HD models for EFP since the note inside the file was confusing for me personally so anyone has guide for the mod ?
4:48 lol I always go the opposite way with corpse despawn settings, it just bothers me when I'm shooting a bunch of dudes and a corpse despawns before I can loot it
Ahahahh same here! I want corpses around as long as i can! But it is a huge fps sink after a couple bodies and important to know if you have performance issues :)
For some reason campfires and some anomalies cause extreme stuttering (God forbid I get a campfire&anomaly combo) Sure my rig is a few years old but I've got no problem running most games on high/ultra. What gives??
Warfare is a nightmare in terms or performance tho, even with a very, very good rig. Stalker population has a huge impact and well, in warfare... Disabling HD models would be my priority tbh
can someone please point me in the right direction to even obtain this game so i can get this mod? ive had tons of trouble finding the correct download, i definitely want to play this mod too
I get constant stutters and mini freezes that refuse to go away. I don't know what happen because i've played through this game and have done everything. this is my favorite game. Everything was fine. then after i beat it its been randomly downhill since then. This is my favorite game and i cant even play it. i played before using JSGME and multiple mods including boomsticks and sharpsticks. My game stutters regardless of any mods installed and and i can reinstall and nothing changes. My pc runs every other game fine and when i play this game my pc is beyond quiet. I don't understand anymore... i cant find anyone to help
In order of importance: - Running the game on a SSD - Reducing Stalker/mutant population (takes a couple in game days to get effect) - Getting optimized texture packs Thats the 3 main factors in min-freezes / stutters
@@CheekiBreekiTv yeah man idk I put it back on my SSD. Even without mods it stutters. Population is mutants .75 stalkers .5 Same as it's always been. I don't know. Guess I'm just not allowed any type of fun lmao
@@RxL3gEnD I should be ran if possible from a SSD (solid state drive). They're much faster than the regular spiining hard-drives and it makes a huge difference. If your computer is not too old, chances are your C is a SSD (to run applications from) and D is for storage. Just check if your C is a SSD and if yes make sure Stalker is installed on it!
To be fair, Using DX9 does not necesarily means your PC is a potato... It can also means the game runs in a AMD GPU... I have a 5700xt, and if I use DX10 or 11, I have frequent driver timeout crashes. I've done extensive researches and found that is a common problem.
I will probably change, I was thinking Ecologists but it might be too easy and boring as they're basically neutral to everyone. I'm open to suggestions!
@@CheekiBreekiTv I reccomend Duty, you can grab quests from Petrenko, Voronin, Barman, Sidorovich, Cold, Kuznetsov - a lot of money, sticking to south locations - easy fights, you can go to Army Warehouses for a harder challenge to fight with Freedom and the Mercs. Petrenko sells a lot of types of AKs and Warsaw pact guns, and some modern guns too. GL
The places where shadows fall are calculated with granularity. The finer the granularity the higher the required resolution of the texture map. If you have a low res the shadows may look blocky, but require less RAM and processing.
@@MikeRenouf thanks man much appreciated!! I have my settings at extreme 3840x2160 with the lowest shadow map and I finally maintain 30+ fps with no choppyness
sadly its the game engine ... no matter what u do u will always have small stutters ... even if they are barely noticable ... 🤷 Its not utilizing modern rigs especially not cpus .
Only works if you're using or the mod you're playing uses reshade (GAMMA, EFP etc.. do). Press home key to open the menu while in game and it's in the settings, somewhere at the bottom :)
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More Info (Will update on a regular basis):
- Even more Optimized texture pack: www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/anomaly-1k-performance-textures-pack
this pack is compatible with saved games?
@@riukimura it worked for me
Why not VSYNC ?
@@AndroidFerret because VSYNC in all games is ass
@@AndroidFerret vsync tries to match your fps to your monitors refresh rate at the cost of performance. This can help with screen tearing but you should consider setting your max fps 3-5 fps below your refresh rate to achieve the same thing without the performance hit.
This is literally the movie I've been waiting for the most from you since installing EFP. I even considered writing to you somehow to beg a recording of it. Thanks, it will definitely help a lot of people!
Nice timing eh! Hope it will be helpful!
@@CheekiBreekiTv Of course! Thanks for your effort once more ^-^
Haha, same here brother. This guy just knows.
My 2 cents, after well over a decade spent modding games on potato PCs:
DX 11 runs noticeably faster than DX10, yes. AVX has caused crashes in storyline mission locations (ie, miracle machine) on my AVX-enabled CPU, so if you experience them try turning AVX off.
Rendering distance isn't too important in Anomaly, all the models in the game are pretty low quality so not rendering that 20-polygon thing across the map from you isn't a big deal.
Rendering detail is actually one of the most important sections in the settings. These eat into your VRAM (dedicated RAM on your GPU card) the higher they're set and if you exceed your VRAM, you're going to lose performance as your GPU waits for data from normal RAM instead. Biggest hit is texture detail, going to half is a good start. MIP Bias can be left at max unless you're getting desperate. Object detail matters less because objects are low quality as stated above. Antistropic Filtering should be one of the first things you lower, low quality loss for a slight performance gain. I recommend not disabling it though. SMAA is a slower version of Anti-Aliasing, disable that and use low levels of normal AA instead. Keep Detail Bump on, the other 2 check boxes are basically modern versions of detail bump that are slower but provide neat effects that look like detail bump in normal gameplay, and really only look better if you stop and stare at a wall for a couple minutes.
Turning off grass sucks, yeah, but just lowering the density a bit (and keeping the other options) still looks good and nets you a nice performance boost. Why wouldn't you?
Lighting: distance and shadow quality good recommendations. Specular slider isn't a performance thing really, just a preference thing best left on default. Shadows are the other big VRAM eater so athough I recommend sun shadows left on, I also recommend lowering sun shadow quality to reduce VRAM usage. Sun rays: If you're watching this video, then you don't want volumetric sun rays. Set to screen space or just turn them off, it's just eye candy. SSAO: Pick HBAO for Nvidia or HDAO for AMD, set to low quality. If you can't even handle that then you should question your decision to try and run Anomaly to begin with. Volumetric light should be off if you're watching this video.
Turn off everything under Effects. They're small details you have to actively try to notice, with big performance impacts. My favorite effect to leave on out of all of them is Wet Surfaces though, which is easiest to notice missing due to how often it rains.
Aside from population factor, all the options in the gameplay settings will not have a significant effect on gameplay. Increasing stalker population increases the number of people in faction bases significantly, which is the main thing that kills FPS in faction bases. Offline combat has no direct effect on performance (I've seen how it works in the source code for the engine), but indirectly lowers the stalker and mutant population which will increase performance in areas where stalkers hang out.
Corpse despawning is also insignificant: The area you are in has a limited number of NPCs it can host for performance reasons. This count also includes corpses that haven't despawned yet. An area that can host 30 stalkers, which you then fill with 30 corpses, will no longer fill in more enemies until at least one of those corpses despawns. Despawning corpses faster makes it so that more NPCs enter your area which makes the potential peformance gains inconsequential. You should still leave this setting low because you don't want the game to depopulate the garbage just because you killed a couple squads of bandits.
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If I can ask, what are your system specs for reference?
Edit:
Also a three tweaks I would suggest are: Uncheck both Cores 0 and 1 in the process affinity. As most modern processors have Hyper-threading enabled (I believe almost all Ryzen CPUs and most newer Intel chips that have 8 or more cores displayed in windows). That will fully offload Anomaly from the first physical core.
We've also found enabling Prefetch Sounds in the launcher helps with stutter related to ogg-comment issues which seem to plague many Anomaly mods / modpacks.
Finally in the main menu, press ~ to open the main menu, and type in: r__no_ram_textures off
Then restart the game (and clear the shader cache, it will stutter a bit while recompiling shaders on the first launch.)
This keeps Anomaly from eating as much vram as possible by offloading textures from VRAM to RAM. Whether or not this is a performance boost is dependent on your specific system, and the mods you are running. It can be disabled by setting r__no_ram_textures to on and restarting the game (and deleting the shader cache). Credit for this fix goes to CautionRamen of the C-Con discord.
great stuff!
my 2 cents:
important to distinguish between low average fps and game stutter (fps drops).
in Stalker - both can happen but really on non potato machines it's the stutter that is harder to get rid of.
Changing GPU settings can improve average FPS, but if you experience game stuttering - that is CPU related no GPU.
The way to reduce stutter is reduce population factor in the Zone.
I think that's useful because otherwise unwary gamers can tweak their graphic settings for days and still see annoying stutter.
Escape from Pripyat actually does a pretty good job with this iirc - already comes somewhat optimized.
yeah EFP does a great job with it already!
I ddint mention it in the video as it's not a "setting" but the biggest stutter killed for me was simply installing the game on a SSD
@@CheekiBreekiTv even on SSD (in fact even on NVME) - I still get not obvious but very annoying micro-stutter.
the only way i found to get rid of it - reduce zone related settings - ie number of animals and stalkers etc.
@@AvnerSenderowicz This is a bummer. I have it installed on an NVME as well, it an seem like its running at 60fps, but the stutters are so irritating. I have stalkers@1.25 and mutants@1.00 . I don't have the greatest PC, but I figure an Intel i7-9750h, RTX2060, NVME SSD, as well as 16GB of DDR4 would be enough to play this. I can run brand new modern games at 60fps with high to max settings, but this is just giving me so many headaches this week.
@@chloewebb5526 yeah, i think some people don't notice the stutter because the FPS counters don't catch them - but they are almost always there. some levels they are very noticeable some not so much.
afaik this is because the game engine is very old and even after optimizations does not perform well when it comes to utilizing modern multi-core CPUs.
not much to do about it afaik, even with lower population factor and running off fast-nvme - it's still there.
(Ryzen 5700, nvme, gtx1060)
it doesn't make the game unplayable by any means - but it would have been nice if there was a way to completely eliminate it.
EFP 2.5 iirc was the smoothest Stalker experience i ever had - 3.0 is awesome but i actually get a little more noticeable stutter with it even with low pop factors and offline combat disabled.
@@AvnerSenderowicz All this kind of games suffer from partially game engine optimization and code choices in npc ,Ai, model complexity, phyx etc (one of the reasons we like them),
cpu cores stall (low %) or produce a fraction of the output ipc dew to frequently have to go to main memory to load or to write code, using the best memory cl latency and big/fast cpu caches is a way to go,
but you have to spent money for server type hw that benefit little in other kind of gaming.
Thank you, I've been one of the testers for a while and can say that with all the different machines and hardware that pass through EFP 3.0 having performance tweaks is really nice to have, thx for doing this.
Glad to help!
Thank you Cheeki Breeki, can’t wait to get home and tweak the settings.
thank you so much!!! I discovered the game this year, and im playing it non stop! Keep making video dude, you are awesome.
Wow, your timing is perfectl, was just adjusting my settings :)
One more tip: try to change full-screen to borderless using in-game menu. It gave me around 30fps (not kidding) boost while playing in1080p.
Now there is no more fps drop while looking to a light source and less fps when I'm npc crowded places.
Those optimized textures in the discord completely got rid of my stuttering problem!
regarding Process Lasso
stalker engine can only use 1 core so the goal is to
- find out fastet core in cpu
+
- assign fastest core to stalker
+
- let the other cores do the rest
also give this core high priority
amd users can identify their fastest core with ryzen master
Intel xtu for ... well intel ^^
Great video, some settings I was unsure about in their, cheers Cheeki
a video for EFP 4.2 maybe?
I'm enjoying the 3.0 release and this type of guide is always very helpful, many thanks.
Most excellent! I've been battling with choppy fps and bad performance and found out with this video that the Anomaly HD Models Addon 14 has a HUGE impact on performance and most importantly with lighting, anytime there was a lamp with a character my FPS would drop to 30'ish and it was choppy and render latency went through the roof. I usually played on 60fps with the HD textures and now i just removed it and i'm at 120fps+. Its a nice texture pack but its either badly optimised or has an issue with the lighting in the engine. i5-8600K/GTX 1070SC/32gb RAM @3200/ Thank you very much for taking the time to make this video it really helped!
Thank you I was wondering why I always had low fps no matter what I do and then I saw this and removed hd models and it's fixed.
noooo :( I knew it now I have to disable it just to run well damnit
thanks for the tip though
Well, turning vsync on actually helps since the game is single-core. Maybe I’m wrong, but it helped me in balancing my performance without sacrificing graphics. But these are my 3 cents. It is good tutorial ofc
Ive noticed throughout the years Ive always had to test Vsync because like you said sometime I get a boost.
If you have a nvidia gpu I highly recommend trying the image scalling feature. Worked a little miracle here!
Just remember to check "reset graphics settings" in the launcher with your native resolution and then change it in-game. No apparent graphic loss.
yep me too, were talking +25 fps for me leaving me at a healthy 85fps 👀 Even took care of the god awful anti aliasing
I couldnt get it to work.. it always reset back to Aspect ratio settings instead of no scaling
can confirm draw distance having little effect on performance. even on large maps
Also mount shrine some very nice music choices, a man of culture.
I followed the video and now my game has these super pixilated shadow textures everywhere and they keep popping on and off I am now troubleshooting for a while but I can't get it back to normal any ideas which setting it is?
Found the solution
r2_gloss_factor set it to min 0.35
Whenever a lit campfire is on screen the game drops to 20-15 fps instantly, does anybody have any idea what mod adds this seriously taxing effect to fire so I can turn it off?
I run at 2k on a 3700x, 1080, 32gb ram. EFP reshade. With all the settings in fame similar as in this video, texture and view distance = 50fps to start. Turning off all anti aliasing, sso, and ssr in game brought back 20-25fps. Reshade ppfxssdo is on, lowers 5-10. The most fps was recovered by disabling the HD models in MO2 according to the EFP discord's instructions. I run at a consistent 95+ fps now.
I figured this might help someone.
Definitely, thanks for sharing!
Now use image upscaling for full sauce
love your videos. I hope you'll get your spot once STALKER 2 launches!
oh that didnt age well
Such difference in settings from me. Gonna test this out after work!
what's your pc specs?? you should have listed it so that it is a baseline others can use as well, based from the settings you used in the video
Cheeki I love your videos bro, but its sooo important to include system specs so we can gauge which direction to go with the information you have provided. You said you have a potato? What is a potatoe? Is it a 1060? A RX560? The differences between these two potatoes are significant and drastically alter the choices we should make in regard to graphic settings. Ty though for this video.
Thanks! This helped a lot! Now I can enyoj efp on my potato laptop!
background music : mount shrine - empty slopes
Anyone know how to fix gun idle not working when yoy stand stiill but the sound of the gun idle works but no animation.
In my experience I've found that disconnecting your computer from the internet adds about 5-7 FPS. If you're desperate enough (like myself) it's a nice little way to squeeze out some extra performance. Just thought others would want to know.
Hmm that sounds weird for an offline game no? Could it not be some background processes that can't run anymore with internet off so that leaves some room for Stalker to run better? I should try xD
@@CheekiBreekiTv I honestly have no idea, probably something along those lines? Windows 10 has a lot of unnecessary bloat so I wouldn't be surprised.
@@juvenilia_in_hell Yeah I has to do with the stuff windows has connected to the internet running in the backround.
Great video, thanks!
biggest fps killer in imo is the the grass size. im usually going for grass size 0.9 or 1 and grass density on full 😎
Thank you for this video another excellent one and most needed. My 6 year old potato is now running EFP 3.0 much better and looks much better at a higher frame rate...
Great to hear ahahh!
Efp on my stalker is practically vanilla stalker anomaly with a few tweaks, since my pc go stolen when i was at work so now i play on a shitty pc i used to study, and even stalker without any mods is already quite heavy for my pc.
I'm thinking about disabling the HD Models and would rather use Fixed Vanilla Models if possible. However, I'm having a hard time figuring out exactly how to do this without creating mod conflicts with other parts of EFP that have a hand in animations, models, and NPC scripts. Anyone know how to get FVM working within this? Or could I just swap it with HDM with no issue?
From the discord:
To remove HD Models, do the following:
○ Disable the following mods:
► [Raito-x-Ray] HDModels Full
► [Compat] THAP & HD Models
► [Flashbangz] Sin Redux - HD Models
► [DNPCAV] HD Variety
○ Enable the following mods:
► [Gwub] LLTZ & Mysteries of the Zone - Vanilla
► [Compat] Vanilla Models & THAP & HD Icons
○ Note, you must do this before starting a new game, doing this during an existing save will crash your game, no way around it.
Hope it helps!
@@CheekiBreekiTv lol, I was just coming back to this video to check around the comments for this info, and here you already replied and answered my question in complete detail =D tysm! One of the things that had been giving me issues was finding the actual HDModels Full mod, due to me looking under the label that says "HDModelsFull & THAP". Don't know what would possibly make me think it would be placed there.... But Once I saw you type out the name, I facepalmed and alphabetized the loadout to find the mod. Hopefully this can get me back to solid 60+fps.
Whatever you do, don't set your Mutant/Stalker population to 3-4, that will cause problems for you lol!
Gloss factor in some pcs do BLACK SHADOWS or PIT BLACK SPOTS on the walls and map.
Keep it 0.5
Hey! Can you do a reshade guide? Should i use EFP or agressor re-shade? When i use agressor everything becomes very dark.
Good tutorial but not using vert sync AND keeping the fps limiter at 0 will make the videocard attempt to display several thousand fps at once which can lead to videocard failure. I'd know, that's how I burned my last videocard.
Do you have a video on how to place the mods in the proper category in m02? I’m still a novice on m02 I know if all mods are placed correctly they will all work and I have over 250 active so far, but not all of them that came with the download.
Thanks will try
Salut Cheeki Breeki (en espérant que tu parles vraiment le français :p ).
Merci beaucoup pour toutes les vidéos de ta chaîne que je suis depuis 2 ans. J'en suis déjà à 2 sessions terminés d'Anomaly bourrés de mods. Je suis tes instructions à la lettre. Mais hélas, j'ai beaucoup de mal avec mes derniers chipotages (merci Expedition). Mes graphismes sont devenus immondes. Je me demandais si il existe un forum francophone pour trouver de l'aide en modding, ou un discord... J'ai besoin qu'on me prenne par la main. Merci
Oui malheureusement il y a très peu de ressources en français, sur le discord de GAMMA il y a une section FR un peu active même si c'est pour un mod différent, tu peux peut etre essayer la bas.
Mais de manière générale c'est pour ça que je bidouille pas trop ahahh c'est facile de tout casser, perso ma solution c'est toujours faire un backup de mes sauvegardes, tout supprimer et reinstaller.
@@CheekiBreekiTv Merci beaucoup ;) J'essaie de faire mon propre modpack. Un mélange d'Anomaly, Expedition avec plein d'autres trucs injectés (88 mods) mais, c'est plus compliqué que prévu. Je vais faire un tour du côté du Discord. MErci ;)
My problem is that when ever i hit an object with a knife or bullet hits a surface, it casts a dust cloud that is coloured blue. Idk how to deal with that. Other than that great video, performance increased without messing up the games looks. That damn blue smoke is an eye sore though, i really need help with that one.
Oh yeah, the leaves around whilrigig anomaly are blue squares aswell. No idea what modpack is causing this, i have EFP installed and pretty much all the default mods on. I really need to figure this one out because the game is pretty much uunplayable at this point due to these. Cant find help on google either since idk what to search for.
@@paskaalisaapaskaa5354 I think it's a corrupt file. My broken, incomplete extraction resulted in concrete textures being colored blue.
First time I opened the game, I poped shadows to 4096 and I was getting 25FPS, for sure diminushing shadow resolution isn't much noticiable (1080p screen), and with your settings I get 120fps.
Your first tutorial on Anomaly best graphics settings was a go to. In every computer I installed anomaly on I would open your video and carefully adjust everything. I am sure this is just as well done as the first video, so thumbs up, thanks for making these tutorials. I have a 1050ti in my current rig, what kind of performance do you reckon I should expect? Or should I just trash this idea of getting EFP? I have already added so many mods, about 50 to my modlist and was considering giving this new mod a go, what are your thoughts? Thanks :)
I've been playing EFP on a 1060 and it's running perfectly fine. Settings are not maxed out ofc but game looks great and runs smoothly. You should be good on a 1050ti!
@@CheekiBreekiTv Thanks man, keep up the great work, love :)
My issue with EFP is the FPS drop when too many NPCs are in a level, there are too many of them, and any attempt of changing the number of NPCs in settings doesn't change anything. I'm playing on EFP 4.2 and i want to ask you how to change the NPCs settings?
I have downloaded the game and I have followed all the steps to install the mods correctly in addition to your graphic configuration, but when I start a game I end up choosing faction, equipment and etc. When I hit start as soon as the loading screen ends, it takes me to the desktop without No reason and I don't get any error messages either.
If you had the solution to this I would really appreciate it because it is one of my favorite games and it hurts not being able to play with all these addons and having to settle for playing the normal anomaly version.
Hmm did you try to go in the troubleshooting section on the discord? Maybe other ppl had this issue already and have a fix for it!
@@CheekiBreekiTv ok i'll take a look at it , thanks
Ah I do have process lasso install for better performance, overall this is helpful
I'd ask for a list of the mods you use but I noticed your Mod manager had like 200 active lol
i dont know if he installed others mods on top but he’s using efp 3.0 wich is a modpack of over 200 mods adding tarkov mechanics to stalker anonaly
@@Cynical_Giro Thanks for the speedy assistance friend! I was foolish and thought EFP was a singular item in the load order like Provak's mod [even tho they both add alot] thanks again! I'll have to re arrange my mods for anomoly lol
@@7SFAmerica no problem wish u luck and fun
3:38, What is the aggressor shader mentioned here, and is it worth using it? Thanks :)
personally, 2.5 was WAYYY better for me, whereas now the mods and visuals seem off and performance is very bad on default settings unlike last time on 2.5. I might just switch back.
While my game was running fine before, now its running even smoother. Thank you for that, but is there a way to stop BaS intergrated long range scopes from tanking my FPS.
Thanks.
Well a lot of people have to play on DX9, because DX10-11 crashes especially on AMD GPUs
Sadly EFP removed their texture pack, is there any other recommendation for those of us who are trying to get gamma to run above 60 lol.
Hey, could you do a version 4.2 video? Or is this still relevant?
Hello, I really like this build, but I can't figure out the mods, could you please make a video about what mods you use in the original build, thanks in advance (it will help a lot)
u shoulda include ur spec so we can really benchmark ours to ur settings
Nice guide man, but it seems like that the custom fonts don't work. Any solution?
For educational purposes, what is your rig?
One thing that worked nicely to me is fiddling with nvidia control panel especially with antialiasing. Saved me some good fps!
Oh really? Do you mind sharing what you changed in nvidia control panel?
I have i7-4770k / 8GB RAM / GTX 1060, so really nothing impressive!
@@CheekiBreekiTv Mainly AF and AA and texture detail, as an EFP discord mod suggested. Turned these in-game options off as well. Gonna try your AO setting when I come home, Agressor AO is pretty ugly imo.
Btw, my rig is gtx 1660, ryzen 7 and 16mb ram.
One more thing, I tried using HD Models Lite and it messed up itens icons! Don't know how and it doesn't make any sense lol
i'm missing the ui at the bottom left...stamina man.. had it at start.. now have to press a key for it to show in the middle of the screen... can't find the option... help
ok i found! i pressed big ui..... so many options
Ok so at the beggining - you're life saver with this video, i'm strugling to get my game run smooth, Definetly gonna try yours options later today, but the biggest ill for me is the jagged edges mostly on tress and stairs, it's killin g me :( i was thinking that you can't get rid of them on 1080p but seeing, that you too play on that resolution maybe you know whats the deal here?
I tried setting fxaa on 8x and supersampling 8x in nvidia control pannel, it helped, but very slighty.
That's a problem old as the game. However there are ways to combat it. One would be DLDSR in Nvidia CP which is quite resource demanding. Though my best personal method is to set x4 and SMAA on High. Then type this in the console "r3_msaa_alphatest st_opt_atest_msaa_dx10_1" Hit enter and restart the game. This command fixes the aliasing on trees, it was introduced a long time ago in Clear Sky :)
@@err404or The DLDSR is not a option for me i think i have just 1050ti 4gb lol :D Set x4 to what? i have SMAA on high i will sure test that command options later today, but do i need to type them everytime i load a save?
The anti-aliasing to x4 but you could set it to x2 as well. I’ve just noticed it looks the best on x4 for me but it impacts performance the higher you go. The command stays activated so you don’t have to type it every time :) This mainly helps with the trees. Unfortunately other objects are still going to have more or less aliasing. But personally for me that’s acceptable.
@@err404or I heard from various sources on efp discord that aa option is not working in anomaly, but yeah i tried your command and it did nothing ;/ maybe bcs im using dx11, and there's something about dx10 in this command idk. Anyway i managed to get it looks not that bad with reshade effects, do you know maybe some tricks about cpu optimization i think i done all of them, but still getting drops of fps when there's bigger combat. i7 4790 on my side
@@DarekkoZZ Do you have aa enabled at least by x2? If you don’t then the command won’t help much with the trees and foliage :) Yeah, aa is sort of broken but setting it to x2 or x4, paired with the command and SMAA on High or Very High will improve the image quality for sure. Works on DX11 as well. It won’t be 100% smooth but the foliage will look better. The command is meant for foliage especially.
strange my setting look correct however nothing looks wet when raining. hmm
The Lighting option for me atleast it dit show up as you did and the effect option dint show up to what should i do? Playing this on 1.5.1
is there a guide on how to use the mod config menu in EFP?
What is the name of the music playing in the background of this video?
Sorry for asking this but I was looking for a installation guide video for HD models for EFP since the note inside the file was confusing for me personally so anyone has guide for the mod ?
i have an issue. when i boot it up the whole screen is literally white. is there a fix?
4:48 lol I always go the opposite way with corpse despawn settings, it just bothers me when I'm shooting a bunch of dudes and a corpse despawns before I can loot it
Ahahahh same here! I want corpses around as long as i can! But it is a huge fps sink after a couple bodies and important to know if you have performance issues :)
For me on my old r9 270x it had micro freezes all time no matter which settings
Hello dude ! Are you french by the way :)?
Damn my guy just dissed all us potato users 😐🥶
Honestly my fps got fixed by extending my fps limiter to 60 to 70
tried to join the discord and the verify bot failed me, the hell with joining a community to download a free game just a waste of time
For some reason campfires and some anomalies cause extreme stuttering (God forbid I get a campfire&anomaly combo) Sure my rig is a few years old but I've got no problem running most games on high/ultra. What gives??
Biggest problem with this mod is the glossy look of the ground. Anyone know of a way to tone it down?
I was complaining jn their discord today. I think the more I play warfare the more laggy it gets
Warfare is a nightmare in terms or performance tho, even with a very, very good rig. Stalker population has a huge impact and well, in warfare...
Disabling HD models would be my priority tbh
@@CheekiBreekiTv but i have rtx 3080 ti and amd 5900x...
can someone please point me in the right direction to even obtain this game so i can get this mod? ive had tons of trouble finding the correct download, i definitely want to play this mod too
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I have an intel core 2 duo
4gb ddr2 ram
1gb gtx 710
And i play it at 35 to 40 fps no problem
anything below 60 is a major problem lol
I get constant stutters and mini freezes that refuse to go away. I don't know what happen because i've played through this game and have done everything. this is my favorite game. Everything was fine. then after i beat it its been randomly downhill since then. This is my favorite game and i cant even play it. i played before using JSGME and multiple mods including boomsticks and sharpsticks. My game stutters regardless of any mods installed and and i can reinstall and nothing changes. My pc runs every other game fine and when i play this game my pc is beyond quiet. I don't understand anymore... i cant find anyone to help
In order of importance:
- Running the game on a SSD
- Reducing Stalker/mutant population (takes a couple in game days to get effect)
- Getting optimized texture packs
Thats the 3 main factors in min-freezes / stutters
@@CheekiBreekiTv does it need to be ran off an SSD or that's not good to do that. I got a C drive and a D drive
@@CheekiBreekiTv yeah man idk I put it back on my SSD. Even without mods it stutters. Population is mutants .75 stalkers .5
Same as it's always been. I don't know. Guess I'm just not allowed any type of fun lmao
@@RxL3gEnD I should be ran if possible from a SSD (solid state drive). They're much faster than the regular spiining hard-drives and it makes a huge difference.
If your computer is not too old, chances are your C is a SSD (to run applications from) and D is for storage.
Just check if your C is a SSD and if yes make sure Stalker is installed on it!
To be fair, Using DX9 does not necesarily means your PC is a potato... It can also means the game runs in a AMD GPU...
I have a 5700xt, and if I use DX10 or 11, I have frequent driver timeout crashes. I've done extensive researches and found that is a common problem.
Could you do it with gamma too?
"nobody wants to watch a 30 minute video on this" *me aggressively looking up stalker performance info*👀
i play this game for the past week and i just know that this game have a graphic preset wtf?
Thought it was a new Murky Spirit vid :[[, still a good video :b
#potatopc
Unfortunately old saves are not compatible with EFP 3.0, I'll do a new ironman run soon in the future anyways! back to Invictus!
@@CheekiBreekiTv hype
@@CheekiBreekiTv GL on the 2nd run man, will you change factions or you'll stay with Freedom?
I will probably change, I was thinking Ecologists but it might be too easy and boring as they're basically neutral to everyone. I'm open to suggestions!
@@CheekiBreekiTv I reccomend Duty, you can grab quests from Petrenko, Voronin, Barman, Sidorovich, Cold, Kuznetsov - a lot of money, sticking to south locations - easy fights, you can go to Army Warehouses for a harder challenge to fight with Freedom and the Mercs. Petrenko sells a lot of types of AKs and Warsaw pact guns, and some modern guns too. GL
Keep experiencing crashes any help?
l'accent francais 🤣ca fait plaisir quelques frenchs dans ce youtube game hahaha😂😝🤪😜
We Gina need to admit it we need better hardware 😂 we need to face it guys
Can anyone describe what shadow map is??
The places where shadows fall are calculated with granularity. The finer the granularity the higher the required resolution of the texture map. If you have a low res the shadows may look blocky, but require less RAM and processing.
@@MikeRenouf thanks man much appreciated!! I have my settings at extreme 3840x2160 with the lowest shadow map and I finally maintain 30+ fps with no choppyness
My game won't start anymore after doing this. 😭
Just reset graphic settings from the launcher.
@@silverblack78 woah that actually helps, appreciate it! 👍
*Better PERFORMANCE and FPS Tutorial*
*Set Aniso to x16*
xd
mine, runs better at shadowmap 2500
sadly its the game engine ... no matter what u do u will always have small stutters ... even if they are barely noticable ... 🤷 Its not utilizing modern rigs especially not cpus .
6022 Ruecker Villages
where can i see fps
Only works if you're using or the mod you're playing uses reshade (GAMMA, EFP etc.. do).
Press home key to open the menu while in game and it's in the settings, somewhere at the bottom :)
Thank you ;D
Why are stalker players so obsessed with say potato all the time?
is this among us
ｐｒｏｍｏｓｍ ?