Low hardware usage in towns *SOLVED*

[Jumals]

I'm getting odd performance hit in towns, normally the game runs around 90-100+fps outside of towns, gpu and cpu usage is higher.

But in towns the cpu and gpu usage drops to 50-60% for gpu and 40-50% for the cpu.
So there is plenty of juice left in the machine but the game doesn't utilize it.

Anyone have an idea what could cause this?

PS. I have few mods but I tried to run the game without them and no impact.

https://i.ibb.co/pZ1tz8f/20220820102921-1.jpg

Specs:

RTX 2080
i7 8700k (stock)
32GB DDR4 3000mhz RAM
Seasonic Focus Plus Gold 650w PSU

Game running on a SATA SSD. - Windows 11

I'd like to add that I didn't have this issue before.

Any help is much appreciated.

FIX:

Originally posted by Jumals:

Fix found, even tho I was sure that I had my mods disabled when trying to solve this, I did not.
After a clean install of the game on another SSD, I was able to find that PDO (Ped Damage Overhaul) mod was the culprit.

It seems to be a pretty common issue with this mod.

Town FPS are back to normal and so is my GPU usage.

[JuiceWSA]

Set RDR2.exe process to 'High Performance'.

Disable your CPU's Integrated Graphics.

[Jumals]

Originally posted by JuiceWSA:

Set RDR2.exe process to 'High Performance'.

Disable your CPU's Integrated Graphics.

Did this, no help unfortunately.

Also set power saving settings to favor performance in nvidia's control panel
Set rdr.exe to high performance in display settings
Set rdr.exe to high priority in task manager

Still same issue :|

E: It feels like I'm hitting some invisible barrier in the game or something, like when I cross a certain point, the game drops from whatever fps (mostly 80+ near cities) to 60.

Like I'd be turning on a fps limiter or something, very weird imo.

[JuiceWSA]

Originally posted by Jumals:

E: It feels like I'm hitting some invisible barrier in the game or something, like when I cross a certain point, the game drops from whatever fps (mostly 80+ near cities) to 60.

Like I'd be turning on a fps limiter or something, very weird imo.

In towns there are more NPCs and they're all doing something in your generated view. It takes more resources.

Have you changed APIs?

60fps in town?
I'd be happy with what you have.
Watch the game - not the fps counter.

Windowed Borderless is smoother for many. I'm one of them.

[Jumals]

Originally posted by JuiceWSA:

Originally posted by Jumals:

E: It feels like I'm hitting some invisible barrier in the game or something, like when I cross a certain point, the game drops from whatever fps (mostly 80+ near cities) to 60.

Like I'd be turning on a fps limiter or something, very weird imo.

In towns there are more NPCs and they're all doing something in your generated view. It takes more resources.

Have you changed APIs?

60fps in town?
I'd be happy with what you have.
Watch the game - not the fps counter.

Windowed Borderless is smoother for many. I'm one of them.

Yeah I'm using Vulkan because it's more stable, DX12 causes crashes and no fps benefits whatsoever.

Also yeah ik, 60 is good in towns. it's simply that when you play most of the time over 80fps, 60 starts to feel like 30.

I know that towns take more resources, I'd have no issues if the gpu usage would be higher, same with cpu but the are lower than out of town and causing lower fps.

[Gunslinger THE one]

same here was running fine but now suddenly i get 15-20 fps after i changed from vulkan to dx12 and then back again. game is completely unplayble now even if every setting is on low, still getting extreeme low preformance. even in the menu and settings phane it lags.

my spec:

RTX 3080
i9-11900
64GB RAM
Gold 750w PSU

[Jumals]

Originally posted by Gunslinger THE one:

same here was running fine but now suddenly i get 15-20 fps after i changed from vulkan to dx12 and then back again. game is completely unplayble now even if every setting is on low, still getting extreeme low preformance. even in the menu and settings phane it lags.

my spec:

RTX 3080
i9-11900
64GB RAM
Gold 750w PSU

Here’s hoping for a patch, quite annoying.
Even tho my issue is nothing compared to yours.

[Jumals]

Fix found, even tho I was sure that I had my mods disabled when trying to solve this, I did not.
After a clean install of the game on another SSD, I was able to find that PDO (Ped Damage Overhaul) mod was the culprit.

It seems to be a pretty common issue with this mod.

Town FPS are back to normal and so is my GPU usage.