Frame drops after update

[Neyreyan_Youtube]

fix one thing, break another...
The game ran fine but now it's droping 15-20 fps at random

[Jay]

same

[JossyFoxxy]

You're not alone. Though the game's never run "fine" for me, I can tell you they did mess something up with the update, specially the shadows... If you turn them down to potato mode, which completely disables them and makes the game look plain and lacking depth, it runs fine... but if you set it to LOW frames just start dropping like flies.

[Cobbles]

perhaps related to the CPU, the newest patch introduced a lot of stutters and hangups that weren't there previously. Going into and out of menu now causes the game to stutter pretty badly

[☣ h@nnibal ☣]

Read The patch notes:

*Added a Detailed Geometry video option, which is enabled by default.

DEV NOTE: This option allows for users to disable the setting to reduce environmental geometry detail. This will improve the maximum performance for those with high end CPUs.
Added a lower Graphics Quality Preset named “Potato”.

DEV NOTE: The Potato preset allows for low end systems to more aggressively disable expensive rendering features. Helping them achieve higher frame rates and smoother gameplay.

[DEDloc_©]

If I disable detailed geometry, I lose about half my FPS.

Makes no sense. The potato settings seem fine though.

[☣ h@nnibal ☣]

Originally posted by DEDloc_©:

If I disable detailed geometry, I lose about half my FPS.

Makes no sense. The potato settings seem fine though.

You have to read the dev notes too under it. It does cause disabling it is for high end cpus and in your case you fall into the potato pc category apparently

[DEDloc_©]

Originally posted by ☣ h@nnibal ☣:

Originally posted by DEDloc_©:

If I disable detailed geometry, I lose about half my FPS.

Makes no sense. The potato settings seem fine though.

You have to read the dev notes too under it. It does cause disabling it is for high end cpus and in your case you fall into the potato pc category apparently :evil_tk:

Still makes no sense whatsoever LOL

[☣ h@nnibal ☣]

Originally posted by DEDloc_©:

Originally posted by ☣ h@nnibal ☣:

You have to read the dev notes too under it. It does cause disabling it is for high end cpus and in your case you fall into the potato pc category apparently

Still makes no sense whatsoever LOL

Potato setting fixed your problem tho didn't it so what's the problem?

[DEDloc_©]

Originally posted by ☣ h@nnibal ☣:

Originally posted by DEDloc_©:

Still makes no sense whatsoever LOL

Potato setting fixed your problem tho didn't it so what's the problem?

I didn't have a problem LOL
...and I can read, it says very clearly that turning off detailed geometry will help high end CPUs.
Explain to me exactly how turning OFF detailed geometry somehow HURTS low end performance?
It makes no sense.

[☣ h@nnibal ☣]

Originally posted by DEDloc_©:

Originally posted by ☣ h@nnibal ☣:

Potato setting fixed your problem tho didn't it so what's the problem?

I didn't have a problem LOL
...and I can read, it says very clearly that turning off detailed geometry will help high end CPUs.
Explain to me exactly how turning OFF detailed geometry somehow HURTS low end performance?
It makes no sense.

Never said it does. Simply that release notes say the feature was added in particular disabling it to improve the maximum performance of high end cpus.

[DEDloc_©]

Originally posted by ☣ h@nnibal ☣:

Originally posted by DEDloc_©:

I didn't have a problem LOL
...and I can read, it says very clearly that turning off detailed geometry will help high end CPUs.
Explain to me exactly how turning OFF detailed geometry somehow HURTS low end performance?
It makes no sense.

Never said it does. Simply that release notes say the feature was added in particular disabling it to improve the maximum performance of high end cpus.

Well thanks for your totally useless input on the topic LOL

[JossyFoxxy]

It still doesn't make sense.
Using a R7 5700, which is not a potato category cpu, if I disable it my fps drop quite a lot.

[DEDloc_©]

Originally posted by JossyFoxxy:

It still doesn't make sense.
Using a R7 5700, which is not a potato category cpu, if I disable it my fps drop quite a lot.

R5 5600 here. It's not the greatest, but not really "potato" either.

[Grimzy]

For me it still runs fine just as it did before the update, the only thing that "broke" for me with the patch was that it defaulted to potato mode so i had to redo all my video settings again back to max with detailed geometry on.

[☣ h@nnibal ☣]

Originally posted by DEDloc_©:

Originally posted by JossyFoxxy:

It still doesn't make sense.
Using a R7 5700, which is not a potato category cpu, if I disable it my fps drop quite a lot.

R5 5600 here. It's not the greatest, but not really "potato" either.

Take it up with the devs. I just consider it funny cause imo that's a very unwise direction for the devs to go with the wording. Specially due to the lack of optimization and heavily relying on up scaling on release.