I've been playing Palworld on my PC with an RTX 3060 and since that patch came out two weeks ago I've been getting these weird stutters, especially when there are a lot of pals on screen. I turned down the graphics quality but it's still the same. Does this happen to you guys or is it something wrong with my setup?
I'm surprised you're getting those stutters out of nowhere, because the RTX 3060 usually handles Palworld pretty well. What happened to me is that after big updates the game gets stuck with weird caches or uncompiled shaders, and that causes brutal stuttering until it "settles down" 🎮 Try deleting the shaders folder in cache (it's usually in AppData\Local) and restarting the game, sometimes that works wonders. If that doesn't work, also update the chipset drivers for your motherboard, because people sometimes forget about that and it's what causes stuttering when there are tons of objects on screen.
With an RTX 3060 you shouldn't be having that many performance issues in that game, so the first thing would be to check if you updated your nvidia drivers after the patch - devs often push updates that need fresh drivers to run properly. Another thing that could be happening is that the patch messed with optimization and just affected more people than they expected, so it might be worth checking the official forums to see if others are reporting the same thing with your setup. If nobody else mentions it, it's probably something local: try verifying the game files' integrity on Steam or do a clean reinstall, because sometimes patches leave corrupted files behind.
The stuttering with lots of pals on screen sounds like the game is either maxing out your VRAM or your CPU is getting hammered processing physics. One thing almost nobody tries is turning everything to minimum temporarily (including object render distance) and seeing if the problem goes away. If it improves, you know it's a settings issue and not a patch bug. If it stays the same, then it's something weirder.
Another thing that usually works: close everything you've got running in the background - Chrome with 50 tabs, Discord, Spotify, that kind of stuff - they eat up RAM without you noticing. With Palworld especially it's important to have free memory because the game keeps dumping a ton of data while you're playing. Also check in Task Manager what percentage of GPU and RAM the game is actually using right when you get the stutters, so you've got actual numbers instead of just guessing.
If none of that works and most people with similar hardware aren't reporting problems, then yeah, the patch might've introduced something weird specifically on your setup. In that case you just gotta wait for them to drop a hotfix or rollback, because sometimes a patch breaks stuff only for certain drivers or configs.
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