1-3 fps with higher than recommended system

[Noah Wan]

Windows 10, i5-6600k, gtx 1080, 16gb ram. Been messing around with options all day. Someone on here mentioned they running fine with a 1060. A patch to fix would be thumbs up.

Have done/tried these:
-Make sure game is using my gtx 1080 card
-Updated Windows
-Installed 466.47 nvidia driver
-toggled down to lowest settings and even tried 1280x800 resolution (same performance as picking high settings, so something weird.)
-turned off steam overlay, geforce overlay, windows gaming mode, xbox game bar
-toggled geforce options for max performance, this site has pretty much what I did https://guides.magicgameworld.com/how-to-fix-days-gone-pc-performance-issues-lag-low-fps/
-set priority of game in task manager to high/realtime and to use all cores
-tried reverting back to 460.97 nvidia driver

Have noticed that GPU usage is at like 1-5% when ingame. If i open up my menu, gpu usage goes to 90-100% and in the graphics area while paused it says 100+fps. As soon as I exit paused menu, gpu back down to 1-5% and slowmo 1-3 fps.

Has anyone with similar issue found any fix?

EDIT: found the fix, change audio output to 24 bits 48000hz and it fixes it for some reason, running at high fps now all areas and on bike too.

[Melman]

same boat

[Noah Wan]

found the fix, change audio output to 24 bits 48000hz and it fixes it for some reason, running at high fps now all areas and on bike too

[Melman]

but i have 24 bits 48000hz

[ANTFKBA]

Originally posted by Noah Wan:

found the fix, change audio output to 24 bits 48000hz and it fixes it for some reason, running at high fps now all areas and on bike too

thats a thing??? whats the setting you normally have it on?

[IchigoMait]

From what you described, in menus you get high fps, and when in game you get low fps, that is exactly what happened in Warriors Orochi 4, and I fixed that my changing the
"Power Management Mode" from "Adaptive ..." or "Optimal ..." to "prefer maximum performance". This part you can do just in the nvidia control panel. And I just left it globally as that, as I don't wanna get some weird performance drops or do per game settings.


Never set cpu priority high/realtime, that makes it worse, if the game gets a hiccup, the whole system will get a hiccup and thus will loop back into the game.
System cpu priority needs to be higher than the game, or just the game lower.

Also helps if you disable cpu parking, aka put it to 100%.
Via quickcpu it's easy.

I also use process lasso, you can permanently set programs to have a certain cpu priority or certain affinity, or io priority and etc. It's pretty easy to set it for all games ran by steam, if you set the steam exe to whatever you want, like with explorer.exe if you mess with it's priority, then all apps will use it's priority settings unless it uses custom settings.

Also with the nvidia drivers, try to make a clean install, if that doesn't help, get nvidia inspector and disable the unknown profiles for this game. If that doesn't help, use the previous driver, if that doesn't help, try changing power management mode to prefer maximum performance.
https://github.com/Orbmu2k/nvidiaProfileInspector/releases

[spencer]

Originally posted by Noah Wan:

Windows 10, i5-6600k, gtx 1080, 16gb ram. Been messing around with options all day. Someone on here mentioned they running fine with a 1060. A patch to fix would be thumbs up.

Have done/tried these:
-Make sure game is using my gtx 1080 card
-Updated Windows
-Installed 466.47 nvidia driver
-toggled down to lowest settings and even tried 1280x800 resolution (same performance as picking high settings, so something weird.)
-turned off steam overlay, geforce overlay, windows gaming mode, xbox game bar
-toggled geforce options for max performance, this site has pretty much what I did https://guides.magicgameworld.com/how-to-fix-days-gone-pc-performance-issues-lag-low-fps/
-set priority of game in task manager to high/realtime and to use all cores
-tried reverting back to 460.97 nvidia driver

Have noticed that GPU usage is at like 1-5% when ingame. If i open up my menu, gpu usage goes to 90-100% and in the graphics area while paused it says 100+fps. As soon as I exit paused menu, gpu back down to 1-5% and slowmo 1-3 fps.

Has anyone with similar issue found any fix?

dumb question but u try full screen yet it will force it to use all your gpu window fullscreen is locked to 60fps

[[ Col ] Chamberlain]

Originally posted by Noah Wan:

found the fix, change audio output to 24 bits 48000hz and it fixes it for some reason, running at high fps now all areas and on bike too

One Question...what have the Sound with the FPS to do ? never heard something like this.

[IchigoMait]

Originally posted by Col Chamberlain:

Originally posted by Noah Wan:

found the fix, change audio output to 24 bits 48000hz and it fixes it for some reason, running at high fps now all areas and on bike too

One Question...what have the Sound with the FPS to do ? never heard something like this.

Audio uses the cpu, unless you got dedicated soundcard, your games uses the cpu, loading and etc. Makes sense? Or you still have no clue?

[Noah Wan]

Originally posted by ANTFKBA:

Originally posted by Noah Wan:

found the fix, change audio output to 24 bits 48000hz and it fixes it for some reason, running at high fps now all areas and on bike too

thats a thing??? whats the setting you normally have it on?

Originally posted by Col Chamberlain:

Originally posted by Noah Wan:

found the fix, change audio output to 24 bits 48000hz and it fixes it for some reason, running at high fps now all areas and on bike too

One Question...what have the Sound with the FPS to do ? never heard something like this.

It does seem strange indeed. I had my audio on 24 bits 192000hz and changing it to 24 bits 48000hz completely fixed the issue.

[Melman]

it doesnt work for me

[Amitiou]

Hi, It doesn't work for me either. there is a lot of locations, and it is worse with a motorbike, where I get as few as 3 fps...(sometimes in mounts to 80 fps, really rarely).
I have the latest drivers, tried to lower settings to the max, still the exact same performances.

My specs :

Windows 10
RTX 2080 Super
AMD 5900x
32 Gbs Ram, 3600 mhz

[meshuggah12345]

Thanks for the help, I was having some stuttering issues and changed my global power settings and now it runs great. I was about to uninstall but the help I found on this thread helped. Thank again to all for your tech expertise!

[Javi]

Originally posted by Noah Wan:

found the fix, change audio output to 24 bits 48000hz and it fixes it for some reason, running at high fps now all areas and on bike too

Thanks friend, I had the same problem with 6700k and 3060TI, 100fps and on motorcycles it fell at 20fps or in camp 10fps. I have 24bit 96k and putting 48k has solved it completely!

[ANTFKBA]

Originally posted by Noah Wan:

Originally posted by ANTFKBA:

thats a thing??? whats the setting you normally have it on?

Originally posted by Col Chamberlain:

One Question...what have the Sound with the FPS to do ? never heard something like this.

It does seem strange indeed. I had my audio on 24 bits 192000hz and changing it to 24 bits 48000hz completely fixed the issue.

i have mine on 24 bits 192000hz as well and im having no issues so far, i had issues with cyberpunk2077 specifically but that was audio stuttering which was fixed with your solution but audio affecting fps that much seems weird.