Huge FPS drop out of nowhere

[jerby]

I've been playing FS 22 for 40 hours with zero stuttering or any performance issues for that matter until now. Out of nowhere while I was chipping wood, the FPS drops to 4 from 144.

I've looked through all possible help articles for performance related issues but it's all for the micro stuttering that FS 22 is famous for apparently. Tried them anyway, but none of these fixes are working.

My PC is definitely high-end with an Nvidia 3080 and i7-9700K 3.6 GHz CPU and 32 GB RAM.

I do have mods installed, but only through the in-game mod installer and I've unchecked all of them to still no avail.

I do not have shader cache issues since I didn't even notice any of the initial buffering when I first started the game.

One more thing to note, when I load a separate game file, everything is back to normal. It's only on my one save game that I've spent 40 hours on so far that does this. Any help or suggestions on what's going on?

[jerby]

This isn't a stutter either. The FPS stays at 4 and does not move from there. It happened during gameplay. And it loads in like that now even from a complete restart of my PC.

[--JR--]

I was having stuttering and freezing lockups for 2-3 seconds.
I uninstalled icue for my keyboard and downgraded my nvidia graphics driver back to 537.58

My game runs smooth now...

[Chesty La'Rou]

GSync totally eliminates that stutter. Since I got a crazy high end monitor and use GSync I haven't noticed it since.

As for the FPS drop, it's possible to have like a small chunk of wood in the game do "something" the coding doesn't understand and you get that kind of FPS drop business.

Definitely some kind of "corruption" somewhere in that save. All you can do is try to ride it out and see if it fixes itself or nuke the save.

[jerby]

Originally posted by Chesty La'Rou:

GSync totally eliminates that stutter. Since I got a crazy high end monitor and use GSync I haven't noticed it since.

As for the FPS drop, it's possible to have like a small chunk of wood in the game do "something" the coding doesn't understand and you get that kind of FPS drop business.

Definitely some kind of "corruption" somewhere in that save. All you can do is try to ride it out and see if it fixes itself or nuke the save.

Yea, I already started a new file. I just hope it doesn't happen again. I think it may have something to do with me cutting the trees near the map edge and the wood gets stuck in the border never to be retrieved.

[Kue8all]

Originally posted by jerby:

Originally posted by Chesty La'Rou:

GSync totally eliminates that stutter. Since I got a crazy high end monitor and use GSync I haven't noticed it since.

As for the FPS drop, it's possible to have like a small chunk of wood in the game do "something" the coding doesn't understand and you get that kind of FPS drop business.

Definitely some kind of "corruption" somewhere in that save. All you can do is try to ride it out and see if it fixes itself or nuke the save.

Yea, I already started a new file. I just hope it doesn't happen again. I think it may have something to do with me cutting the trees near the map edge and the wood gets stuck in the border never to be retrieved.

That could be it, i cut some trees near the edge of the map and couldn't remove anything. Noticed huge frame drops the next time i loaded the save.

[Chesty La'Rou]

Originally posted by jerby:

Originally posted by Chesty La'Rou:

GSync totally eliminates that stutter. Since I got a crazy high end monitor and use GSync I haven't noticed it since.

As for the FPS drop, it's possible to have like a small chunk of wood in the game do "something" the coding doesn't understand and you get that kind of FPS drop business.

Definitely some kind of "corruption" somewhere in that save. All you can do is try to ride it out and see if it fixes itself or nuke the save.

Yea, I already started a new file. I just hope it doesn't happen again. I think it may have something to do with me cutting the trees near the map edge and the wood gets stuck in the border never to be retrieved.

Originally posted by Kue8all:

Originally posted by jerby:

Yea, I already started a new file. I just hope it doesn't happen again. I think it may have something to do with me cutting the trees near the map edge and the wood gets stuck in the border never to be retrieved.

That could be it, i cut some trees near the edge of the map and couldn't remove anything. Noticed huge frame drops the next time i loaded the save.

Ya both of those scenario's could or would lead to that kind of FPS drop. I couldn't explain it to you or tell you what it was doing. Just think of it as some spurious math calculations are hogging up 90% of your GPU.

[ProviD]

Originally posted by Kue8all:

That could be it, i cut some trees near the edge of the map and couldn't remove anything. Noticed huge frame drops the next time i loaded the save.

If you're up for it, you could try if using "Easy Dev Controls" to remove all branches and stumps from the world helps.

While upside is that it 'should' remove all, even the smallest, pieces of wood around the save, it'll also delete every log you have in non-internal storage.

[IamJames]

When that happens i alt tab out then back into the game. Works for me.