Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart How to Fix Stuttering & Crashing on High End PC

Im currently running a RTX 4080 / 10900K system.

Stuttering and crashing happens when using the high and very high texture settings. These use GPU decompression to decompress assets instead of the CPU. You would think this would improve performance, however this is clearly not the case.

In order to disable it, navigate over to your game folder and delete “dstorage.dll” and “dstoragecore.dll”. This will disable direct storage, you can always restore these files later.

My CPU usage increased slightly however GPU performance has been greatly increased, with absolutely no frame time spikes. No observable impact to loading either, I played the portal sequence just fine with next to no difference in loading speed.

Link to tweet which shows some very nice comparisons between Dstorage on and off. Its pretty crazy…