Game performance singificantly dropped after DLC release

[Lain Iwakura]

FPS drops are much more rn, and there are even some sound cut-offs happening. Like i'm in a middle of fight and the music just stutters, this wasn't happening like a month ago. Is this happening only for me? Can i solve this?

[Vana]

I emailed Bandai Namco support about the performance issues after the latest patch and was told they have a team looking into it, but no other mentions if theres going to be a patch or not.

[Dovah]

Originally posted by Vana:

I emailed Bandai Namco support about the performance issues after the latest patch and was told they have a team looking into it, but no other mentions if theres going to be a patch or not.

they did say on twitter that if you have FPS problems turn off Ray tracing. and Git Gud

[königplatzen]

The initial DLC released with Raytracing getting enabled. That was obviously unintended and they changed it, but you have to disable it again yourself.

From changelog:
"We have confirmed a bug where the raytracing settings are automatically enabled if you have previously loaded saved data from previous game versions.
　
If your framerate is unstable, please check in the 'SYSTEM' > 'Graphics Settings' > 'Raytracing Quality' settings from the title menu or in-game menu to check if it has been unintentionally set to 'ON'. Once set to 'OFF', Ray Tracing will no longer be automatically enabled."

[Lain Iwakura]

Performance issues aside, i'm having sound cut-offs. Is this related to the update? It's driving me crazy.

[Daynov]

Performance problems have nothing to do with ray tracing, lol. Not all people got that turned on automatically after the update. The message boards are brimming with people that have that setting off and the game still stutters constantly and their frame rate is all over the place.

[ezpz]

I fixed all of my many graphics issues (RTX 3090) by uninstalling the NVidia Driver with DDU and reinstalling it, using the recommended settings, via NVCleanstall.

[Lain Iwakura]

I also don't have RTX on, and the game still performs worse than before.

[Veltimere]

Its not your PC you can go and play other games and nothing like what this game is doing will happen , its the way they made the game and they need to fix it ..... for instance i never turn on HDR in windows to run games but for some reason this game will not run and look and work visually right unless i turn on HDR in windows and its aggrivating because windows HDR looks like a grey movie it sucks ... and even with it on to make the game run right it still gets studders and micro studders mostly around water . Pple with 4090's and awesome cpu are getting the same problems and its the way they made the game thats the problem .

[S R]

Originally posted by Racist Gaming:

I also don't have RTX on, and the game still performs worse than before.

Same here. No constant FPS drops, but I have seen a lot more stuttering.

[SoulSlayer]

same here the only way i made the game somewhat playable is with mods which I shouldnt have to install to fix bad optimization. With also being unable to go online. This honestly is the worst product fromsoft has ever released. Idc how good the game itself is if it doesnt function well.

[LeJulles]

I have a 4090 and an awesome pc. Before Patch 1.10 everything was super fine. Since than i have stutters the whole time and since the DLC even more.

[Loudness]

I notice zero differences between base game and DLC areas except eastern ruins of raoh in very rare cases.

Threads like these are kinda useless without mentioning specs and settings. I've watched several streamers play the game on PC and on PS5 with zero issues. If you have an nVidia card, set the shader cache to max in the nVidia control panel under 3D settings. Worked fine on my old 1080 TI.

For AMD, you may have to deleted the DX12 cache by clicking on your HDD and then use windows cleanup utility. Works fine on my 7900XT.

[königplatzen]

Originally posted by Loudness:

I notice zero differences between base game and DLC areas except eastern ruins of raoh in very rare cases.

Same. It seems the waterfalls causing it and GPU is at 80%. Rather tanks the CPU. (I've got an 5800X3D with 3600Mhz RAM, which should be plenty)

Originally posted by Daynov:

Performance problems have nothing to do with ray tracing, lol. Not all people got that turned on automatically after the update. The message boards are brimming with people that have that setting off and the game still stutters constantly and their frame rate is all over the place.

Of course, RT can tank performance massively, esp. on AMD cards.
If people get it auto enabled, it can be a reason. That doesn't implicate, that's the only reason, though