FPS drops when loading assets

[Tourette's Guy]

I run the game on a nvme M.2 SSD, I have a RTX 3060Ti and basically my system is capable of running this game with a framerate over 100fps most of the time. But when I'm traveling around the map, from time to time I experience framerate drops for a 2-3 seconds, then the framerate goes to normal. I realized this has something to do with loading certain map zones, or game assets.

Any way to fix this? It ruins the game experience, honestly. This is the only game that gives me this kind of issue.

[pega3]

Are you sure it is related to the game? I had the exact same symptoms and very quickly found out it was actually my graphic card, doing a powersaving thing and not being able to resume to proper frequencies fast enough.
Solution was to create a profile for the game in Nvidia Control Panel and to set the Power Management Mode to "Prefer maximum performance".

[Tourette's Guy]

Originally posted by pega3:

Are you sure it is related to the game? I had the exact same symptoms and very quickly found out it was actually my graphic card, doing a powersaving thing and not being able to resume to proper frequencies fast enough.
Solution was to create a profile for the game in Nvidia Control Panel and to set the Power Management Mode to "Prefer maximum performance".

Considering it's the only game that gives me this issue, yes, definitely I think it's something related to the game. I did what you suggested and nothinh changed, I still experience sudden fps drops out of the blue for 2 seconds.

Originally posted by Xenophobe:

also, did you allow shader optimization to completely hit 100% on the main menu before continuing?

Yes, of course.

[pega3]

Originally posted by Tourette's Guy:

I did what you suggested and nothinh changed, I still experience sudden fps drops out of the blue for 2 seconds.

You could try to run a monitoring tool like GPU-Z in the hopes that it will tell you more about why the frames are dropping.

[Tourette's Guy]

I think it's just stuttering, not fps drops. Because I highly doubt it's something related to performance. I have a i5 8600k slightly OCed and a RTX 3060Ti, more than enough to run this game at max settings way above 60 fps.

Apparently, despite all the updates, the stuttering is still present. A bad port is a bad port after all, although the patches partially fixed it.

[Seamus]

Actually, depending on resolution, your 3060 Ti isn't powerful enough for things like the maxed out cloud settings.

They take an absurd amount of extra power for almost nil visual difference.

[Tourette's Guy]

Originally posted by Seamus:

Actually, depending on resolution, your 3060 Ti isn't powerful enough for things like the maxed out cloud settings.

They take an absurd amount of extra power for almost nil visual difference.

I don't think it's anything related to performance, because it only happens for 2 seconds and after that, fps go back to 100. The screen contain the same models and same things, so if it was something related to performance, then the framerate would consistently drop. But it's not like that. It's more like stuttering, and of course, that stuttering translates into visual fps drops.

[Tourette's Guy]

I have tried to lower the cloud settings and I still get the same stuttering. Definitely this is unrelated to performance, because it's like fps drop "spikes" that are very brief and then the framerate goes to normal again.

And this is the only game that is giving me this kind of issues.

[ESOS]

Try limiting your FPS in Display Setting

[Uniquitous]

It may be also related to the april windows cumulative update, people have been reporting stuttering, frame rate drops and v-sync issues since it installed

[Tourette's Guy]

Originally posted by Uniquitous:

It may be also related to the april windows cumulative update, people have been reporting stuttering, frame rate drops and v-sync issues since it installed

Well, I have been playing Cyberpunk 2077 and I don't experience that stuttering. Only ocassional fps drops (specially when driving at fast speeds), but that's pretty normal since although the 3060ti is powerful enough to handle Cyberpunk at a nice framerate mostly, there will be some fps drops here and there.

With Horizon Zero Dawn is a completely different story. The game basically run at stable 90-100fps all the time, and randomly stutters and framerate goes to 60-70 for a couple of seconds, then go back to 90-100. This happens while exploring the map, mostly.