Frame rate absolutely TANKS in certain areas

[Juub]

In Cauldrons in particular, the frame rate drops in half. I have an RTX 2080 Ti/9900K and easily maintain 70fps at 3440x1440 everywhere but Cauldrons destroy frame rate bringing it into the low 30's to high 20's.

Entering villages during rainfall also cripples FPS. The mission with Nil where you clear out the camp had my performance constantly hover around 30-40fps.

Anyone else experienced this?

[Catpuppy]

Publicado originalmente por Juub:

The hell, I tried again and performance is fine now. :/

Yup, experiencing this too. Sometimes just restarting the game and entering an area that was trash last time to find it actually runs fine for a while.

[Mfreak]

Publicado originalmente por Catpuppy:

Publicado originalmente por Juub:

The hell, I tried again and performance is fine now. :/

Yup, experiencing this too. Sometimes just restarting the game and entering an area that was trash last time to find it actually runs fine for a while.

It depends too in the night day cycle, some zones change alot in performance with just a couple of hours ingame difference, even lookin super similar.

[Juub]

Publicado originalmente por Mfreak:

It depends too in the night day cycle, some zones change alot in performance with just a couple of hours ingame difference, even lookin super similar.

I saved in the exact same spot and reloaded. Performance was trash and after relaunching the game it was fine. Time of day was obviously the same.

[brandmeist3r]

I have a Vega64 ROG in combination with a Threadripper 1900X and am really pleased, that the game runs at 4k high/medium 80% render scale with around 45FPS.

[doomsday_1986]

Play on mostly low/med setting in 4K and get 30-50 FPS.
Its Playable and fine so far, but a totaly unoptimized Game.
RTX 2080/ i7-8700/16GB DDR4

[EXPERIMENTONGOD]

Necroing this post for visibility.

The solution/workaround for "FPS tanking when entering cauldrons" is as follows:

Once you enter a Cauldron and FPS tanks (about half FPS).

Pause Game => Settings => Graphics => Set Textures to "Low", apply, then back to Ultra and apply again.

If it doesn't work try setting them to Low => Medium => High => Ultra and apply each time (it's instantaneous).

Got from 43 fps to 94fps on my RTX 2080.

You won't have FPS issues for the rest of the cauldron run.

This is a GAME BUG for sure.

For "raining villages" the performance drop is not so dramatic so I didn't test my workaround on those.

[Boardruned]

I'm playing on an RTX 3080 OC and it drops in the freakin 20s in cauldron XI for me as well.

Really? It stays a consistent 60fps most of the game.

[Carrot]

My fps tanks to 10 when entering Cauldron Sigma. Core i9 CPU + 2080 Super GPU.
If i set Texture Resolution to Low then i get 100+ FPS, anything else and it drops to 10.

[PotisMan]

Publicado originalmente por EXPERIMENTONGOD:

Necroing this post for visibility.

The solution/workaround for "FPS tanking when entering cauldrons" is as follows:

Once you enter a Cauldron and FPS tanks (about half FPS).

Pause Game => Settings => Graphics => Set Textures to "Low", apply, then back to Ultra and apply again.

If it doesn't work try setting them to Low => Medium => High => Ultra and apply each time (it's instantaneous).

Got from 43 fps to 94fps on my RTX 2080.

You won't have FPS issues for the rest of the cauldron run.

This is a GAME BUG for sure.

For "raining villages" the performance drop is not so dramatic so I didn't test my workaround on those.

This worked for me!

[Eye of Newt]

Interesting that this is still a bug (of sorts); that said, when I played on PS4 what I immediately noticed was that the graphics quality was absurdly high in cauldrons, like there was NIL pixellation on anything.

I've always suspected Guerilla cranked up the graphics and textures inside cauldrons to really emphasize how "old world" and different they are from anything an ordinary person in Aloy's world would ever see.

So I guess in terms of actual gameplay when translated to PC, this probably messes up texture unloading/reloading or general rendering somehow and the workaround fixes that by basically making the game refresh assets.

[Ibadgrammar]

what expect console port

[mario]

Publicado originalmente por EXPERIMENTONGOD:

Necroing this post for visibility.

The solution/workaround for "FPS tanking when entering cauldrons" is as follows:

Once you enter a Cauldron and FPS tanks (about half FPS).

Pause Game => Settings => Graphics => Set Textures to "Low", apply, then back to Ultra and apply again.

If it doesn't work try setting them to Low => Medium => High => Ultra and apply each time (it's instantaneous).

Got from 43 fps to 94fps on my RTX 2080.

You won't have FPS issues for the rest of the cauldron run.

This is a GAME BUG for sure.

For "raining villages" the performance drop is not so dramatic so I didn't test my workaround on those.

I figured out this myself before reading the comment, but replying for visibility. This is the bizarre solution to this problem.

[Nicholas Steel]

Game performed mostly fine for me at 1080p, 60FPS with most settings maxed out, some foliage dense areas would drop the FPS to 50~ while everywhere else, including Cauldrons, ran at consistent 60 FPS.

Geforce 1070Ti
Ryzen 3700X
16GB RAM
Windows 10

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3035844286
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3035844258

[Blake]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.