FM7 using 100%cpu less than 20% gpu stuttering

Forza Motorsport Legacy Motorsport FM7 Discussion
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So I bought Forza Motorsport 7 just over a week ago now and I find myself wishing I hadnt.

Anyways ive tried numerous “fixes” and suggestions and still the same issues i go from 120+ frames to somewhere in the 20fps range then back to 120+ in less than a second and its making the game unplayable. I checked my cpu im task manager because someone said the game dislikes monitoring software anyways my cpu is maxing out the cores that i have to set as an affinity 0,2,4,6 they are pegged at 100% whenever i go into a race but my gpu drops from 60% in a menu to 10%-15% … Now i could be wrong but shouldnt it be the other way around? Cpu intensive in menus and gpu intensive in gameplay?

PC specs are

Ryzen 5 2600x
16gb Corsair Vengeance 3000mhz
120gb SSD (Boot drive)
2tb 7200rpm Seagate Barracuda (Game drive)
EVGA GTX 1070 ACX 3.0
MSI B450 Pro-M2 motherboard
EVGA GQ 850w psu

Any help would be great seeing as Microsoft refuse to issue a refund for a product they know to be defective and has been for 2 years gong by other people having the same/similar issues

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I used to have the same issue until I limited the FPS to 60 FPS. No more issues ever since setting it to 60 FPS.

It’s a shame because it looks so nice at 120-144 FPS but the stutters make it unplayable.

Menus are still laggy sometimes but that doesn’t bother me as much.

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I did try that and it actually got worse. I have managed to mitigate a lot of the stuttering or just got used to it by running everything on low and getting 180-200+ frames and it only stutters and drops into the 40s which is less invasive but in doing that its started to lock the game up fully lasting upto 8-10 seconds and sometimes multiple times per lap.

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Under the Advanced area for the Video settings there is a field called Resolution Scale – i’ve found setting that to 100% and explicitly matching the game resolution to the monitor resolution seems to stabilise things.

YMWV.

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I did try that lowered it and raised it with no luck… The best experience ive had so far was having that set to 120% with everything on medium and Atistropic Filtering and MSAA set to off.

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Try the V-sync and take it off unlimited when it comes to frames. Should stabilize it as it will match your monitors frames. Worst comes to worst just set it to 60 V-sync, the game still plays well. I get drops every now and then even at 60. Just terrible optimization for pc on turn 10’s part. Will be in the vid options on forza.

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Yea I did try that and it gets worse… I have vsync enabled now but that doesnt make any difference as I have a 144hz monitor. I did try 60fps locked but was getting drops down in the 10-20fps range every 2-3 seconds.