FPS drops and freezing.

[O1]

Not sure if anyone else has been having freezing with the fps drops. Been dropping to about 50 fps with some stutters and the game will freeze once on start up and also when i close the game my desktop will freeze everything for about 10 seconds. I have re installed graphics drivers and pretty much updated everything possible. Power has been set to maximum performance with no vsync on. Not sure if its the game or my PC at this point.

gtx evga 1080 ftw
i7 8700k
16gb ram

[SolidGEE]

Everyone is experiencing this problem even on console although not as bad i would say. i have a similar build with a 1080ti and ive tested all graphic options and different rez's and locked to 60 fps and it still seems to studder and drop frames no mater what. locking to 60fps does make the drops a little better cause the frames will drop to 50's and high 40 but when i lock at 120 the drops go from in the hundreds to the 70's and 60's so way worse stutter. in other words its the game not your machine.

[Andi3d]

I had also problems with fps drops....

i found a place, where i have a GPU usage of 75% and ~120fps, at same place i twist and have 55% usage of GPU and only ~68fps....that´s strange!

Now i found out (i have a I7 8700K+1080TI), when i open task manager (while game is running) and switch CPU affinity (sorry for bad english, i don´t know how to say ;-) ) from use all cores (0-11) to: use cores: 1,3,5,7,9,11 i have a GPU usage of ~97% (instead of 55%) and 76fps!

Now it´s made sence, maybe this helps others. ;-)

[iDrawBagman]

Originally posted by Andi3d:

I had also problems with fps drops....

i found a place, where i have a GPU usage of 75% and ~120fps, at same place i twist and have 55% usage of GPU and only ~68fps....that´s strange!

Now i found out (i have a I7 8700K+1080TI), when i open task manager (while game is running) and switch CPU affinity (sorry for bad english, i don´t know how to say ;-) ) from use all cores (0-11) to: use cores: 1,3,5,7,9,11 i have a GPU usage of ~97% (instead of 55%) and 76fps!

Now it´s made sence, maybe this helps others. ;-)

This... actually kinda worked? Changed my CPU affinity and performance is notably better! There's still some hitches in those areas when moving the camera quickly or performing quick actions (like dodging), but the fps is no longer hovering in those same lows and quickly hops back up to my 60fps target for the most part.

The hitching may not be entirely ideal, but its a huge step in the right direction for figuring out this issue. It makes the game more playable, but I'm worried about the amount of stress using only half my threads might be causing. I noticed the heat of my CPU skyrocket when doing this and my fans kicked into high gear which is even less ideal. Still interesting though.

[cronic0_0]

Try disabling hyper-threading then set The affinity to use only 4 threads. Some games run a lot better without hyper-threading enable. Similar to how back in the day Assassin's Creed Black Flag only likes to use three cores any more on that performance loss

[iDrawBagman]

Hmm. Disabling hyper-threading made no difference for me. I only saw a performance increase if I changed the CPU affinity in the task manager.

EDIT: my dumbass didn't disable hyper-threading fully. Doing so sees the same performance gain as CPU affinity.

[cronic0_0]

Originally posted by iDrawBagman:

Hmm. Disabling hyper-threading made no difference for me. I only saw a performance increase if I changed the CPU affinity in the task manager.

Thanks for trying that I'm not home at the moment so I wasn't able to test that idea.

I will try your idea to disable some threads like you did

[Gundies]

Not sure if it's related, but it's gotten significantly worse since the two graphics card updaates post game release. Was great and no issues before installing them. And it's gotten worse with each of them. Today it's nigh unplayable.

[cronic0_0]

Originally posted by Gundies:

Not sure if it's related, but it's gotten significantly worse since the two graphics card updaates post game release. Was great and no issues before installing them. And it's gotten worse with each of them. Today it's nigh unplayable.

If you'd only one getting worse performance after updates to graphic card drivers you may want to think about running a video driver cleaner completely clean out all graphic card drivers from the computer and reinstall from scratch I had to do that a couple of times. Here's the link to a sticky thread in Nvidia forms to the display driver cleaner

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/game-ready-drivers/13/1001/wagnard-tools-ddugmptdr-manipulator-new-cpu-core-a/

[Andi3d]

I tested it with hyper-threading disabled = same fps increase as set CPU affinity.
....i will not have hyper-threading disabled, so (for me) it´s better to disable the cores(for this game).

at another trys, i will get same fps increase, but not the GPU usage as before (97%), only a little bit higher, but the fps increase is the same and that is what counts.

...hmmm, maybe i should try this at other games too. :-)

EDIT: ah i found out, what´s the reason i don´t have the same GPU usage, it´s the resolution in game, if i use 1440p, it´s again 97% with disabled cores.

[IchigoMait]

It's just shader caching nothing else. For some reason it's using it very badly or not at all.
I experience this kind of ♥♥♥♥ only when shader caching is turned off in nvidia (steam shader cache works by downloading from a database from other users that have a similar pc).
Also similar thing happens in 3d emulation games, like Breath of the Wild on Cemu, the very first time you see something new loading in the game will stutter like hell at that time it's generatating the shader and saving it into the cache, next time it will preload the cache and then it won't stutter anymore when (animation) textures are loading in.

[BoogieMan]

I've got an older monitor, so I'm running at 1920x1080 but all settings are maxed, except for film grain which I disabled, and it runs super smooth at all times. I stream it through my wired Steam Link to the TV and it's been great. I've had a few slight stutters from time to time when it loads a new area, but that's it.

Windows 10 Pro x64
Operating system and games on seperate SSDs.
Intel Core i7-4790K Devil’s Canyon Quad-Core 4.4GHz (Liquid Cooled)
EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 8GB GDDR6
ASUS SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1 USB 3.1
G.SKILL TridentX Series 16GB DDR3 SDRAM 1866 (PC3 14900)

My board and RAM are a bit behind the curve now, but that's a solid CPU and I'm very happy with the RTX 2070. That and probably the SSDs, which every PC gamer should strive to have, I guess is why it runs so well. I should count myself lucky, I guess.

[cronic0_0]

Originally posted by BoogieMan:

I've got an older monitor, so I'm running at 1920x1080 but all settings are maxed, except for film grain which I disabled, and it runs super smooth at all times. I stream it through my wired Steam Link to the TV and it's been great. I've had a few slight stutters from time to time when it loads a new area, but that's it.

Windows 10 Pro x64
Operating system and games on seperate SSDs.
Intel Core i7-4790K Devil’s Canyon Quad-Core 4.4GHz (Liquid Cooled)
EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 8GB GDDR6
ASUS SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1 USB 3.1
G.SKILL TridentX Series 16GB DDR3 SDRAM 1866 (PC3 14900)

My board and RAM are a bit behind the curve now, but that's a solid CPU and I'm very happy with the RTX 2070. That and probably the SSDs, which every PC gamer should strive to have, I guess it why it runs so well. I should count myself lucky, I guess.

What is your fps . The problems that people are having don't usually crop up until you start getting a 60 plus frames per second

[BoogieMan]

Originally posted by cronic0_0:

Originally posted by BoogieMan:

I've got an older monitor, so I'm running at 1920x1080 but all settings are maxed, except for film grain which I disabled, and it runs super smooth at all times. I stream it through my wired Steam Link to the TV and it's been great. I've had a few slight stutters from time to time when it loads a new area, but that's it.

Windows 10 Pro x64
Operating system and games on seperate SSDs.
Intel Core i7-4790K Devil’s Canyon Quad-Core 4.4GHz (Liquid Cooled)
EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 8GB GDDR6
ASUS SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1 USB 3.1
G.SKILL TridentX Series 16GB DDR3 SDRAM 1866 (PC3 14900)

My board and RAM are a bit behind the curve now, but that's a solid CPU and I'm very happy with the RTX 2070. That and probably the SSDs, which every PC gamer should strive to have, I guess it why it runs so well. I should count myself lucky, I guess.

What is your fps . The problems that people are having don't usually crop up until you start getting a 60 plus frames per second

I don't know what it tops out at unlocked, but I have it locked at 60 because it looks smooth on my TV and doesn't dip.

[FulISpray]

I had the same problem with this game, a lot of FPS drop and freezing, but I found the solution and it works for me, so the problem was my wireless Xbox one controller when I use it in wireless mode (Bluetooth) I got a huge FPS drop and freezing, but when I use it with the USB wire the game works great and smooth, so I think the source of the problem was the Bluetooth connection.

So I suggest to you guys if you are using a wireless controller, try to play the game with the controller plugged in your PC with the USB wire.

I hope this will help you.

Thank you.

[OR12]

Originally posted by FPSJxsh:

Not sure if anyone else has been having freezing with the fps drops. Been dropping to about 50 fps with some stutters and the game will freeze once on start up and also when i close the game my desktop will freeze everything for about 10 seconds. I have re installed graphics drivers and pretty much updated everything possible. Power has been set to maximum performance with no vsync on. Not sure if its the game or my PC at this point.

gtx evga 1080 ftw
i7 8700k
16gb ram