Fighting the rotten duelist tanks my FPS

[Paleblood33]

The weirdest thing right now, was just cruising through consecrated snowfield and came across the rotten duelist staring down the edge of the cliff, so naturally I pick a fight with him, Every time this mf would swing his mace on a chain god of war style my GPU shoots up to 99% and my frames tank to single digits for a matter of 2 seconds or so until he pulls the chain swing attack back and then everything returns to normal which is 60 fps and 80% GPU. On a 4090 here with RTX enabled.
Is this happening to anybody else?

[Dre G Writer]

Well, turn RTX off, and turn the particle effects to low in the graphical settings, and fight em again and see what happens.

[Paleblood33]

It's not really RTX issue since when I turn it off it still shoots my GPU usage to almost 98%, obviously with the RTX it becomes 10x worse, and actually it's all the duelists including the ones by the West Capital rampart. Whenever they do that large AoE like chain swing attack my GPU has a seizure. I'm using MSI afterburner to monitor my GPU and can see the numbers in realtime, was wondering if anybody else observed this weird phenomenon

[SHOCKNUTZ]

Originally posted by 76561199566340351:

I'm using MSI afterburner

turn that off and crank your graphics settings to max.

[Paleblood33]

Originally posted by SHOCKNUTZ:

Originally posted by 76561199566340351:

I'm using MSI afterburner

turn that off and crank your graphics settings to max.

didn't do a single thing, I even uninstalled msi afterburner, still didn't to a thing, the chain attack from the duelist still sends my GPU into a seizure, I can't be the only one that this is happening to, right???

[nfinite.recursion]

Do me a favor OP. Go somewhere that has skeletons. Knock some down but DON'T stop them from respawning. Does your fps tank when they start respawning?

[Paleblood33]

Originally posted by nfinite.recursion:

Do me a favor OP. Go somewhere that has skeletons. Knock some down but DON'T stop them from respawning. Does your fps tank when they start respawning?

Went to wyndham ruins in altus plateau and started smashing skelies, honestly had no impact on my frames. Why, does it ♥♥♥♥ up your fps?

[nfinite.recursion]

Originally posted by 76561199566340351:

Originally posted by nfinite.recursion:

Do me a favor OP. Go somewhere that has skeletons. Knock some down but DON'T stop them from respawning. Does your fps tank when they start respawning?

Went to wyndham ruins in altus plateau and started smashing skelies, honestly had no impact on my frames. Why, does it ♥♥♥♥ up your fps?

In my case, something weird goes on between the respawn particle effects and the Resizable BAR feature on newer motherboards and GPUs. I had to manually turn it off in BIOS.

However, nVidia's drivers are supposed to automatically turn off ReBAR in games where it causes issues, so it shouldn't be a problem anymore.

[Paleblood33]

Originally posted by nfinite.recursion:

Originally posted by 76561199566340351:

Went to wyndham ruins in altus plateau and started smashing skelies, honestly had no impact on my frames. Why, does it ♥♥♥♥ up your fps?

In my case, something weird goes on between the respawn particle effects and the Resizable BAR feature on newer motherboards and GPUs. I had to manually turn it off in BIOS.

However, nVidia's drivers are supposed to automatically turn off ReBAR in games where it causes issues, so it shouldn't be a problem anymore.

did you buy a prebuilt or build your own pc

[nfinite.recursion]

This was on a laptop (prebuilt obviously) and a workstation I built. nVidia GPU users had this issue for awhile after newer motherboards came out with ReBAR enabled or they manually enabled it themselves. nVidia fixed it by using game profiles to automatically disable it as necessary. However automatic profiles can break between updates.