Avoiding slowmo gameplay

[PTRG]

Hi, I have only recently bought 2K19, and straight away ran into the slowmo gameplay issue. In standard 1920x1080, I had no issues, but when selecting 4k, it would be a (dead smooth) slowmo painful experience. 

Now if you go to the countless threads on the 2k19 steam forum, and 2ks own, there are many people there with below par PCs.

But also, like me, there are many with good to excellent gaming rigs, who still mysteriously suffer the slowmos. (1080gtx i7 6700). I also believe there are players on here who also settle for non-4k based on screenshots due to the above.

After further research reading, I have come to believe that the game has a built in requirement for a steady 60fps, or it will automatically apply the breaks. This is frustrating if running in the high 50s with no issue. This is further evident when you see the intros and everything else run dead smooth, due to being 30fps, even while running at 4K.

I initially tried changing audience density, shadows, lighting etc etc in the games settings, nothing worked. Except vsync. Turning it off allowed a smooth 4K expierence, but with MAJOR screen tearing. Everything and anything else resulted in a slow down.

So I then went into the Nvidia inspector program, and experimented with vsync settings in there (I just did it all with global application).

By default, it’s of course in the “let 3d app choose for me”, so having the vsync off in game resulted in no vsync, and related tearing.

I then changed to each alternative setting, and they all resulted in Slowmo.

Except for one.

Selecting “fast” in Inspectors vsync settings (with vsync selected off in game) is the solution. There is still very rare and minor tearing, but 99.99% of the time, there is none, and I now am able to enjoy 2k19 in glorious 4k, butter smooth. The additional bonus of this over 1080, is that a lot of the lighting issues that make wrestlers faces and body textures look creepy, are now gone!

This may be common knowledge, but for me it wasn’t. Hopefully it helps others with decent Nvidia cards, who had to settle for mediocre 1080 when they could be enjoying it in full 4K.

Any questions, let me know! (Or delete if common knowledge)

Edited January 29, 2019 by PTRG