Anyone else seeing performance dip after extended play?

[Sam I Jam]

Using a 3080 w/ DLSS, I'm seeing about 60% to 70% GPU usage initially and after an hour or so of gameplay (in the same area) I am pushing 80 to 90% and beginning to dip below 60fps.

The issue seems to resolve when I close out and restart the game, but that's not exactly ideal, especially since you can't just save and pop out. I have to deal with the issue until I'm out of the map section.

Curious if anyone else is experiencing this.

[davidsu]

yes

[Council]

Yes, same here (3070). I need to restart the game every 2-3 maps. Very annoying.
Also the game more often then not has loading times that rival or even exceed Fallout 4
on a HDD. It's of course installed on an SSD.
When in fullscreen, it sometimes helps to alt-tab out and back in so the game loads faster. But that seems to speed up the stuttering and performance loss.
Not one crash though (2nd run).
Let's hope they'll fix this.

[Sam I Jam]

Originally posted by Council:

Yes, same here (3070). I need to restart the game every 2-3 maps. Very annoying.
Also the game more often then not has loading times that rival or even exceed Fallout 4
on a HDD. It's of course installed on an SSD.
When in fullscreen, it sometimes helps to alt-tab out and back in so the game loads faster. But that seems to speed up the stuttering and performance loss.
Not one crash though (2nd run).
Let's hope they'll fix this.

Agreed on the loading times. I do think the level streaming (once you're in) is pretty amazingly smooth so I assumed the long load (it's an issue on PS5 too I believe) shows that either it needs to buffer far more into memory to avoid streaming issues or that it's just not SSD streaming optimized.

Other than some of these technical annoyances, the game is just a ton of fun.

[Council]

Originally posted by Sam I Jam:

Agreed on the loading times. I do think the level streaming (once you're in) is pretty amazingly smooth so I assumed the long load (it's an issue on PS5 too I believe) shows that either it needs to buffer far more into memory to avoid streaming issues or that it's just not SSD streaming optimized.

Other than some of these technical annoyances, the game is just a ton of fun.

I agree. The game is really fun. Even more so on the 2nd go.

Yeah you might be right about the loading. There's also differences between levels and daytime. Worst for me is Updaam at night.

I also monitored VRAM and RAM because I wanted to know if there's any kind of memory leak since the stutter (or might be bad frame times) always starts and there's nothing I can do but restart. The stats seemed fine to me.
Although I noticed almost constant loading from the SSD. But I guess that's normal.

[Ice]

I have noticed this issue as well. I opened task manager to monitor my vram usage and the longer i played the more vram it ate up. Caused massive stutters and it became unplayable. Hope they fix it soon because its a fun game

[COMMANDER BASH]

likely a memory leak, I experience the same issue

[kellogg]

Likely same issue as others reporting, but something needs to be done soon because crashes are pretty common

[Stram Jam]

I was wondering if it was just me! Hope they fix this!

[Scorthyn]

Jesus I swear I was driving crazy about this thinking it was just me or my 3070 vram reaching the limit (since game damn warns me each time, even tho no problem), yes, YES! After like 2-3 levels the game starts stuttering like crazy and even if i have 90fps or more it feels so laggy cuz its skipping frames for sure. Since you have a 3080 I'm not buying the lack of vram thingy. This game is just a pure mess lmao, im glad it's been shared with me, its fun af but also SO FULL OF PROBLEMS.

[Pegula]

Same here...3080 :/

[Sam I Jam]

Originally posted by Ice:

I have noticed this issue as well. I opened task manager to monitor my vram usage and the longer i played the more vram it ate up. Caused massive stutters and it became unplayable. Hope they fix it soon because its a fun game

Thanks for checking in on this. Lines up with the issue for sure. Usually I can hop around a few maps before the issue happens, but as soon as I get the VRAM chugs (on a 3080). I can confirm that my GPU goes from average 60% usage during baseline gaming in Deathloop to 90% usage when this issue strikes.

In terms of crashes, I've played about 15 hours and experienced two crashes, but they do seem to both be tied to GPU 'device detached' issue, so it lines up with the GPU being overworked unnecessarily after extended play.

[Wormerine]

I was wondering about that. Playing on 3070. Doing my third time day in the row and I started to notice visible FPS drops. Wasn't sure if it's the area I was playing in (the LARP fortress thingy) or some kind of memory leak.

[Sam I Jam]

Originally posted by Wormerine:

I was wondering about that. Playing on 3070. Doing my third time day in the row and I started to notice visible FPS drops. Wasn't sure if it's the area I was playing in (the LARP fortress thingy) or some kind of memory leak.

I can confirm it doesn't matter which area you're in. Quitting and restarting fresh resolves the issue for me each time. I'm usually able to get about 1+ hours in before it happens. Hopefully, it'll be in Game Update #2 for Arkane.

[Scorthyn]

Originally posted by Sam I Jam:

Originally posted by Wormerine:

I was wondering about that. Playing on 3070. Doing my third time day in the row and I started to notice visible FPS drops. Wasn't sure if it's the area I was playing in (the LARP fortress thingy) or some kind of memory leak.

I can confirm it doesn't matter which area you're in. Quitting and restarting fresh resolves the issue for me each time. I'm usually able to get about 1+ hours in before it happens. Hopefully, it'll be in Game Update #2 for Arkane.

Same here

[0li0li]

Changing motion blur settings did fix my stuttering that one time it happened. Strange, I know. Otherwise, it's smooth for hours, haven't really had this issue more than once.

Worth a try, it's a faster than restarting the whole game.