Lag issues

[AvinHonsus]

Anyone else having lag issues since the last patch? I've had no problem running the game up until the latest patch. Now it's choppy as all hell. Tried adjusting graphics, updated drivers, ect. All the bells and whistles. Just curious if its a patch/server issue with them, or if its just something that happened with my system.

[JoseyWales0331]

awful long time for something thats just a simple fix.

[Maxxium]

12900k z690 Godlike 2tb M2 drive 3090ti 32 gig 6000mhz Gskill kit laggy at times allmost like its loading something. crashed on game exit .....

[JoseyWales0331]

we're sorry but we can't address your issue now, as we are home for the weekend. Rest assured we will be back at our desks Monday morning, to send out messages reminding you we haven't a clue whats going on. Thank you for your patience :))

[GrizzlyBer]

since the last patch, my screen freezes as soon as I leave the shuttle. I hope for monday, but I don't think they can get Icarus to run stable and smooth anymore

[Manhattan]

I had to reset up everything to get things to work right again. I'm finding my biggest issues on 2 PCs were a Bios update(to stop icue interuptions), and conflicting sound drivers including mic. If there is more than one sound driver option/enhancements on my PC things will get tongue tied and I get the win64 crashes.

With only one sound driver option available including enhancements, mics disabled/uninstalled, updated bios, I was able to re setup all graphics setting after reinstalling the game to insure no conflicts.

I run DX12 no crashes in my last 3 sessions since patch.

[dullah]

Just got back into this game and immediately noticed this issue. And here i am on the forums for a solution. Even with the high FPS graphic draw rate chokes, stutters, and freezes. Really frustrating having to look at youtube vids all day with people claiming they have a fix too.

[Orthnit]

It has become unplayable due to this lag issue. It's an issue that needs to be fixed and fast, before reviews start to put people off buying it.

[Teyngo]

Yeah I get consistent stutters which really ruins the experience. Especially because those stutters are the only thing hard about the game. I'm pretty sure I can attribute any death I've ever had in this game to the stuttering. Whether it's stuttering near a cliff or right before a jump. Or stuttering while fighting a polar bear...

[Vidrak]

The game has worse performance now than it did on release. I just don't get it. Even just playing single player, it hitches/stutters like crazy. There also seems to be a loss in performance over time.

5600X, 32GB RAM, 3080, NVME SSD. I don't know why this isn't optimized more, it degrades from the experience so much.

[Lhosson]

I'm having the same hitching issues, with my framerate sometimes feeling like the sort of latency a TV gives with input. That, and constant, jarring, freezes for milliseconds, followed by tanking framerates.

My system should be fine: i7 8700K, 32GB RAM, 3080Ti, running on an NVME m.2 SSD. (full stats in my profile). Even The Witcher III NG with RT enabled runs smother than this; which is saying something.

I've tried diagnosing the issue, working my way through and changing every setting individually - using DX11 and DX12 - enabling and disabling XMP, as well as anything else I could think of, but nothing seems to change the lag spike issue. From the lowest to the highest settings, I get perfect framerates, followed by abysmal framerates. It's clearly not a graphic setting issue, per se.

I have also noticed particular areas (such as grid O12 on https://www.icarusintel.com/ ) begin smoothly, but after a few runs back and forth have enormous spikes, consistently and in the same specific spots where terrain textures are clearly being completely refreshed and redrawn. Add to that the caves in the area, where entering them also has massive frametime issues, followed by unplayable hitching and framerates dropping into single digits.

This feels like an optimization problem, along with possible memory leaks. It's begun to make the game exhausting to play, tiring the eyes and adding stress to already dangerous situations, such as defending against bear attacks etc. Good luck aiming at a charging bear when your hitching and the framerate drop to 2FPS.

I read somewhere that the dev's are aware of a graphically expensive oversight to do with mountains and their textures being expensive on hardware and that they are working on a fix, but there's no official word and it looks like the problem is getting worse.

I can confirm, though, that at this moment there seems to be absolutely nothing that can be done to solve the lag/hitch/FPS drop (whatever you want to call it) issue, short of restarting the game every 10 minutes.

[The_Feet]

SAME! Since the last patch I have noticed SERIOUS LAG when approaching a forge, campfire, fireplace anything to do with Lighting effects.... ESPECIALLY when there's a "flash storm" my FPS drops to less than 1fps when the lightning happens! Very annoying! Even running around inside my base, if i look AWAY from the fireplace/forge it goes away but as soon as any fire, including wall torches are in my field of view it is terrible! PLZ FIX! (Jan. 19, 2023) This started with the last patch!

[voidCaster]

Originally posted by AvinHonsus:

Anyone else having lag issues since the last patch? I've had no problem running the game up until the latest patch. Now it's choppy as all hell. Tried adjusting graphics, updated drivers, ect. All the bells and whistles. Just curious if its a patch/server issue with them, or if its just something that happened with my system.

Same problem today (almost 3 years later), with Flash Storms. It got worse when a nearby tree caught fire, going from "low FPS drag" to "full-on screen halt for a second or two."

Radeon RX 6650 XT is not a low-end card at all.

I found a Reddit post suggesting to disable "Image Sharpening" in the AMD Radeon software, hunted the setting down, and it was already disabled when the problem occurred.

[|ツ| Reeves | ♠]

Originally posted by voidCaster:

Originally posted by AvinHonsus:

Anyone else having lag issues since the last patch? I've had no problem running the game up until the latest patch. Now it's choppy as all hell. Tried adjusting graphics, updated drivers, ect. All the bells and whistles. Just curious if its a patch/server issue with them, or if its just something that happened with my system.

Same problem today (almost 3 years later), with Flash Storms. It got worse when a nearby tree caught fire, going from "low FPS drag" to "full-on screen halt for a second or two."

Radeon RX 6650 XT is not a low-end card at all.

I found a Reddit post suggesting to disable "Image Sharpening" in the AMD Radeon software, hunted the setting down, and it was already disabled when the problem occurred.

Reddit says it's an issue the game has on AMD cards only.
Other fixes suggested to turn off Light Shadows ingame but that was already turned off for me when the lag happened, I'm on 6600xt.

[KodeMan]

I've been having this issue for years.. Just a stutter fest even at a consistent 120+ fps

[Fibrosis]

ive had no issues like this but i play my game on an outside server which takes a lot of load off my computer. I also clear my cookies and cache often due to my work overloading it. I always get better response times after doing this than before.