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1) AMD has always run poorly on Unreal Engine compared to Nvidia/Intel.
2) Most computers are CPU locked for speeds, with 6-8 cores at 3ghz a piece. And UE5 only uses 4 cores, so they are hooped. Fewer cores at 4.2ghz is better than more cores at lower speed.
3) What is your graphics card.
4) Reformating of C drive is only needed with HDD. Solid State drives don't have that issue, and if you reformat them, you can actually damage their ability to save data. So don't run defragmentation software on SSDs either.
5) Garbage collects in your registry, not the rest of the computer. Very few know how to clean out the Registry without borking their entire machine. Reformating however does clean out the Registry, resetting to factory values.
GTX 1060.
I don't do defregmentation, haven't since my HDDs size crossed over 20gb lmao.
Honestly, with how cheap SSDs (at least the small ones 120-240gb) are these days I don't really care if my regular reformatting does anything to it, since I can get a new Samsung SSD for cheap from a Hungarian tech retailer and I don't have anything except Windows on it anyway, so not gonna lose any data if it dies. Anything important is on a separate HDD on which I only store stuff, don't use for games nor programs, so it gets very little traffic.
I have the unlocked version of 4-core i5. Regular is iirc 3.2 GHz (I think?), I'm running at 4.2GHz with a Coolermaster Evo 2 cooler with 2 fans using my mobo's overclock features (i just choose GHz and then mobo itself sets the voltages, etc. , I don't have to mess with that). If I try to go higher than 4.2 the PC doesn't even boot lol. Also, DZ is on an ancient HDD, not SSD.
its personal preference, i respect that some people like tasty food whereas some like it simple and bland... good on you.
Wasn't trying to be an asshole and brag, my point was that the game itself is rock solid, the problem is having the unpreferred CPU brand.
Before I got the current system, I used to run ONLY AMD for over 10 years, but around 2010-12 I noticed that AMD started falling behind and that Intel was probably bribing dev studios to support their chips over AMD, that's why I switched over.
I know 0 about modern CPUs, how AMD performs, plus their bang for buck compared to Intel (honestly, looking at prices of new hardware I wanna puke); but for the lack of support for AMD from devs alone I wonder why would people buy it over Intel if prices are comparable. Again, I haven't followed prices or performances, so I know shit about that.
Wait... were you talking about CPUs or Stalker 2?
If I am correct, it's an issue with VRAM. Other users already provided solutions, but they don't have much of an effect. Just gotta have to reload the game every few times.
Well, at least the crashes that v20 introduced are over, thank god. What was it again? The game spawning stuff/clutter endlessly?