CPU not strong enough to run the game, options.

[World's Coolest Old Guy]

I am going to speculate your RAM is currently the biggest culprit to your stuttering over your CPU. ESPECIALLY if you have a HHD not an SSD

I have a very good CPU & Graphics card, but unfortunately 8gigs ram and a HHD. I get stuttering and its a combo of the game being a ram pig/memory leaker + Windows 10 is terrible with disk usage, especially on HDD's. Limited ram will draw on your harddrive, requiring it to host virtual memory, and you get a stuttering death spiral.

That said your CPU may have some limiting factors to it as well, but my CPU usage when playing Bannerlord is pretty low compared to RAM/Disk usage.

I feel like it's not the RAM. A 2GB GPU barely meets the minimum requirements, while RAM is at recommended. A little more RAM couldn't hurt, to be sure, but I feel like of these, CPU and GPU are more likely culprits.

 

[duchuy613]

I feel like it's not the RAM. A 2GB GPU barely meets the minimum requirements, while RAM is at recommended. A little more RAM couldn't hurt, to be sure, but I feel like of these, CPU and GPU are more likely culprits.

It's most likely the RAM and HDD, he mentioned stuttering when entering towns, fights, even when moving on map when changing direction.

I can run the game, but stutters at every point that unless you have the patience of a saint, it's unplayable.

That doesn't sound like a GPU or CPU problem to me.

 

[World's Coolest Old Guy]

It's most likely the RAM and HDD, he mentioned stuttering when entering towns, fights, even when moving on map when changing direction.

That doesn't sound like a GPU or CPU problem to me.

Sounds like a CPU problem to me. I could be RAM, of course, we'd need to know how much of his RAM is being used while he's playing. But I know I experience these stutters from time to time in Bannerlord, and I have 32 GB of RAM. It's my CPU running at 100% that causes them.

 

[Skyvoice]

Sounds like a CPU problem to me. I could be RAM, of course, we'd need to know how much of his RAM is being used while he's playing. But I know I experience these stutters from time to time in Bannerlord, and I have 32 GB of RAM. It's my CPU running at 100% that causes them.

How do I check how much of my ram is used while playing Bannerlord? Task manager says that GPU is at 95-100% when I run bannerlord. CPU at 70-80 and ram not that much.

 

[World's Coolest Old Guy]

How do I check how much of my ram is used while playing Bannerlord?

When you notice a slowdown, tab out of Bannerlord and bring up your task manager (right click on the taskbar, it'll be in the menu that pops up). If necessary, click "more details", then click Memory to sort by what's consuming the most. That'll tell you how much it's using.

 

[SmattlePattle]

I feel like it's not the RAM. A 2GB GPU barely meets the minimum requirements, while RAM is at recommended. A little more RAM couldn't hurt, to be sure, but I feel like of these, CPU and GPU are more likely culprits.

Could well be. I might be projecting my own issue onto him, but I have the same HDD & RAM set up as him but with an above average CPU and GPU. I have a performance issue similar to his I can pin on the RAM/HDD that seems supported by a decent few accounts here of people upgrading from 8gigs RAM to 16 with a noticed improvement. That said every situation is unique, so I could absolutely be wrong. My CPU is almost never ever maxed out by Bannerlord, if ever.

How do I check how much of my ram is used while playing Bannerlord? Task manager says that GPU is at 95-100% when I run bannerlord. CPU at 70-80 and ram not that much.

What's your disk usage percent? Particularly when you're experiencing a performance issue/lag spike? Nothing you've listed is that unusual, GPU usage is supposed to run close to 100% when using a program that uses your dedicated graphics card. For me when I have a performance stutter issue my disk use is usually maxed at 100%.

 

[duchuy613]

Sounds like a CPU problem to me. I could be RAM, of course, we'd need to know how much of his RAM is being used while he's playing. But I know I experience these stutters from time to time in Bannerlord, and I have 32 GB of RAM. It's my CPU running at 100% that causes them.

How do I check how much of my ram is used while playing Bannerlord? Task manager says that GPU is at 95-100% when I run bannerlord. CPU at 70-80 and ram not that much.

Stuttering when loading in and changing direction is more likely a problem of RAM and HDD. It's not about how big the ram is, but more about the RAM's frequency, the higher the frequency, the faster the RAM. If it's your CPU, you'd notice a drop in FPS in places with many objects instead of stuttering.

His i5 3350P is enough to play GTA V at solid 60 FPS. I dont see why it can't run Bannerlord at atleast 40 FPS.
My CPU is not that much stronger, also 4 cores 4 thread 3.1 GHz, Ryzen 3. It's constantly running at 100% with my GPU only at 60%, but I don't really get much stuttering at high-very high setting (with everything enabled except motion blur) because my ram is DDR 4 at 3200 MHz compared to his DDR3 1200 MHZ, the small amount of stuttering after loading in is because my game is running on a 6-7 years old HDD instead of my main SSD due to lack of storage.

Edit: Skyvoice, try and download CrystalDiskMark to test your HDDs. Copy the game to the fastest one and see if it helps with the stuttering.

 

[Uscka]

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