[2022] Surviving Mars - Game stutter gets progressively worse the farther into the game I go

Micwlsn91 said: Settings are set to "optimized" by Nvidia Geforce recommendations, but again, changing them from Low, to Ultra does not effect this stutter.

I have seen that app make things worse. If you unload it entirely before starting the game, do you still get this?

I see some crashes in GPUTweakII.exe in there, which is apparently an ASUS utility. Please unload that before starting the game too.


If those don't help, please install and run the free utility Speccy. Send its output to a text file and attach that here , thanks.


Then can you test those saves on any other machine you have access to, to see if they get the same problem there?  

As you can see, numerous failed or In Progress Windows updates there, dating back 2 years! Whether they have anything to do with this problem I'm not sure. You could run the Windows Update utility and see if it finds anything to install; if so apply that and reboot.
Do you see anything like that in Speccy run on your other machine?

And does it also use Avast ? Make sure you disable realtime scanning of this game's Steam and C:\Users\{UserName}\AppData\Roaming\Surviving Mars\ folders.


I see GeForce Experience is still loaded in there - you did test with it unloaded, is that right?


And finally, see if you can unload \ASUS\AI Suite III and Nahimic for testing purposes, especially if they are on this second machine too.  

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Anything else ought to be okay, just no links.  

I assume you lodged a ZenDesk ticket, as these threads are never closed by us like that.

If so, they auto-close if we've replied to you, but you have not responded for two weeks. You can re-open it as a new ticket linked to the old one.