Terrible FPS?

[Seltonik]

Playing on a laptop and getting 15 fps in the main menu and like 10 fps in the starter area.

GTX1080 (yes, it's using the 1080)
16 GB RAM
i7-8700 3.70 GHz

[ubergeek77]

I have the same specs as you, except I have a GTX1070, so you actually have a better GPU than me. My PC is not a laptop, but it is a small form factor PC (MSI Vortex G25). I haven't had any severe performance issues so far - it seems to run at a silky smooth 60FPS, and only slows down during "cutscenes" where the camera pans around different playable areas. I think that's capped at 30FPS for some reason, but don't quote me on that. I've definitely never gotten anywhere near as low as 10FPS or 15FPS for sure.

Since you're playing on a laptop, your GPU could be thermally throttling. It's also possible you have other things in the background slowing things down, and in rare cases I've seen games perform miserably when the hard drive has started failing.

Anyway, I have no problems with similar specs, so I encourage you to see if there's something else going on with your laptop, as this is not a game problem.

[SillyChamp]

I have a gtx 970 with a i5 4690k and 8GB Ram and it runs smooth 60fps with upscaled 4k graphics even with chrome tabs open on the second monitor.

[Play Metaphor]

Have you checked toggling vsync and triple buffering off and play windowed?

[きょすけ]

Force your pc to use the dedicated card instead of the integrated one: I often read of people having such issues with many japanese ports.

[TrowGundam]

First, and I know this is stupid, make sure it is plugged in. I've had that problem a few times where the power cable came out of my laptop and games perform like crap. I doubt that is it, since it is an obvious problem. The only other thing I can think of is check the power mode. This game is not very demanding. The download size for the PC version and Switch are very close, I wouldn't say identical, but close enough that they are probably using the same assets with probably little to no changes. If you go into the Nvidia Control panel you can set the game's mode, the default is adaptive and some other lower end games that don't require a lot of power can result in the Graphics card never changes from its low power state, hence the game runs like crap.

[IchigoMait]

Triple Buffering off with vsync and/or half refresh rate will cause 2x less fps.
Unless your gpu can't handle it for whatever reason.

Or yeah the noob issue of not disabling your mobo gpu from the bios and then wondering why their games look so horrid or have such bad performance, because of using an integrated gpu.

[MasterOfPuppets_Linux]

For the OP ; use dedicated gpu. You are probably running this game with Intel igpu rn.

For the user who is telling cutscenes are capped to 30 fps ; yes it is.

https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Digimon_Story:_Cyber_Sleuth_Complete_Edition

For further info about game and technical aspects of it.

[Syd Montague]

Since I talked to OP via another channel: it was an issue with the Power Saving options of Windows.

[Chouchers]

Publicado originalmente por Seltonik:

Playing on a laptop and getting 15 fps in the main menu and like 10 fps in the starter area.

GTX1080 (yes, it's using the 1080)
16 GB RAM
i7-8700 3.70 GHz

So you use laptop that not on you gtx1080 so you need change that nvidia control panel (Also in display setting in graphics settings if your on win 1903).

[IchigoMait]

Publicado originalmente por Syd Montague:

Since I talked to OP via another channel: it was an issue with the Power Saving options of Windows.

Ah that issue, that reminds me Koei game Warriors Orochi 4 also has that issue when power setting in nvidia isn't set to max, in menus it was 60fps while ingame it was 14, and that fps difference was just a single button away.

[Cypher]

I've installed this game on my sister's laptop which is basically a potato (no gpu, very average cpu and 8gb ram), I was worried it wouldn't work but this game runs perfectly well on it, buttery smooth 50-60fps. If this runs on that awful PC, it should work on yours too with those specs!

[Nir777]

Publicado originalmente por ://Ultrawired +:

I've installed this game on my sister's laptop which is basically a potato (no gpu, very average cpu and 8gb ram), I was worried it wouldn't work but this game runs perfectly well on it, buttery smooth 50-60fps. If this runs on that awful PC, it should work on yours too with those specs!

Yep game runs great on my potato laptop too.
The problem is that the game uses OpenGL as the graphics API and that does not work good
on AMD GPUs that well.

[Seltonik]

No, something else entirely seems to be the issue. Sometimes the game will boot perfectly fine, and sometimes it'll be at an abysmal 10-20 fps.

[IchigoMait]

Publicado originalmente por Seltonik:

No, something else entirely seems to be the issue. Sometimes the game will boot perfectly fine, and sometimes it'll be at an abysmal 10-20 fps.

Someone already mentioned it was the power saving option that you had enabled. It has to be maximum, not adaptive, optimal or anything else.

[mimizukari]

one thing I learned as a gamer, it's imperative to have a MIDRANGE machine, because not every game is optimized for 1080's and 2080s and what not... That is, one midrange machine, and one VR beast for the hardcore gaming.

Regardless, there's a high possibility you just didn't go into nvidia control panel and force run the digimon game with your 1080 and your pc is trying to run it with your intel integrated GPU because that's what bandai namco games do, a lot.