Has the game gotten... laggier?

[Veeios]

I've been playing this game all day every day for the past week that it's been out and at launch it ran incredibly smoothly. Never any choppiness, lag, etc. I got through the entirety of act 1 and most of act 2 just fine. But near the end of act 2 my game started to get choppy and VERY laggy. I knocked it up to the area being too full of npcs or something. Act 3 wasn't as bad, but it's still been choppy and after creating a new campaign for a new character even act 1 has been giving me some lag issues that it NEVER had before (when I say I didn't have a single issue, I really mean it. I would have noticed it.)

I can't tell what the issue is? My memory and cpu usage are both below 50% while I'm playing. My drivers are fully updated, my graphics were on ultra when I wasn't getting issues but I bumped them down to high and still get the same issue. It feels like each hotfix has made my game run worse? lol I'm not sure if it's just me or not. It's not a crash or completely game breaking, but it gives me a headache trying to turn my camera around sometimes when it gets bad.

[roguekeychain]

Bumping this, because SAME.

[Birdmancer]

Yeah, I was running at about 60 FPS until I hit the end of act 2 and then all of the sudden I'm down to 30 FPS in some areas and even NINE in the area I'm currently in. Not sure if it was the last patch or what.

[Veeios]

I'm glad I'm not the only one! It was happening to me on Hotfix #3 and that's when it started for me. Not sure what happened but Hotfix #4 didn't help it. Hopefully the big first patch will help alleviate it, whenever that will be

[Jardikov]

Yep, game seems to be slower than before. They said they had some compiler issues, so I hope they didn't solve them by disabling optimizations ...

[Vindi]

Bumping this, having the same issue. All of Act 1 was lagless and when I revisited on a new playthrough suddenly my game is stuttering from only repositioning my camera. Hoping this is something patchable!

[Aeodwyn]

I too can say that after Hotfix 3 my game goes slower, mostly it's graphics lagging behind, character models not showing, particularly in cutscenes which really sucks.

Admittedly I don't have the best system (Nividia 970) but I never had issues before.

[Aruhen]

Yeah I've had this experience now too. Act 1 and 2 for the vast majority ran perfectly fine and act 3 was act 3. I've beaten the game now and decided to do another run and was met with similar issues as in act 3 such as stuttering when panning the camera.

On top of that just like you my CPU and GPU are not being fully utilized. I think the highest I saw my GPU being utilized was around 67% and CPU around 60% on a single core with a total usage of about 20%.

Specs:
1440P
RTX 3070
Ryzen 7700x
32GB 6000mhz

The only conclusion I can come to is as other people is that its one of the hot fixes. I'd imagine its hotfix 3 because I finished act 2 just before that one came out and outside of the final battle in moon rise I had no issues.

[Jardikov]

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On top of that just like you my CPU and GPU are not being fully utilized. I think the highest I saw my GPU being utilized was around 67% and CPU around 60% on a single core with a total usage of about 20%.
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I normally do not watch these performance things, but I looked at them now. GPU (Radeon 6900XT) is 80%-100% utilizitation, but CPU (AMD 3950X - 16C/32T) is just sitting at 20%...