LAG on Decent system / Cant find explination.

[CRUSADER (J)]

I am experiencing a crazy amount of LAG with Medium / Low settings in sons of the forest.. any pointers on to why or what could cause this?
I am getting around 40-55FPS avg and dip below 50 constantly, as well as frame drops like crazy! between 15-45fps Stutters that almost freeze the game for a second or two.

Its only SOTF that has me lagging this bad but it just doesn't make sense as I play games with WAAAAAAAY higher requirements and still get a better frame rate such as Forza Horizon 5 / Mechwarrior 5 Mercs / DEAD SPACE REMAKE - Just to name a few..

Does anyone have any explanation? or know if i am doing something wrong??

Specs -
CPU: R7 3800X
RAM: 32gb 3600mhz
GPU: RTX 2080 Ti
Install on: Samsung 970 EVO PLUS

In-game settings -
2560x1440 @144hz + Vsync
Quality Preset - Custom
DRAW Dis - High
Ambient occ - Med
Fog quality - Off
Anistropic textures - On
Shadow Quality - Med
Clouds - Low
Grass - Low
Water - Low
Parallax Distance - Med
Billboard Quality - Med
Texture Res - FULL
AA - TAA
ALL FEATURES TURNED OFF!
DLSS - OFF (runs way better with DLSS off + 15 FPS)

Style -
File grain - OFF
Color Grade - Default

Nvidia control panel - Prefer Maximum performance

[1234]

The game likes single core performance a lot so something like a Ryzen 5xxx or above will give better framerate than that.

What you can try is change from Fullscreen to Windowed Borderless and see if it improves a bit. There's a random bug that decreases performance when playing in Fullscreen.

[CRUSADER (J)]

Originally posted by Bleep:

The game likes single core performance a lot so something like a Ryzen 5xxx or above will give better framerate than that.

What you can try is change from Fullscreen to Borderless Fullscreen and see if it improves a bit. There's a random bug that decreases performance when playing in Fullscreen.

Ill try that

Edit: I did try it, it seemed to make me LOSE frames, I tried "exclusive Full screen and it sapped my frame rate / Borderless gave me + 20 Avg frames or so to at least playable but stutters ALOT more then fullscreen.. its just so odd

[Warrior 99]

Try turning off Anistropic textures. That's what made my fps low.

[Firsken]

There are SO many possible reasons...

Make sure your system is up to date (drivers for everything, system installs etc).

Then try:
Starting parameters: -window-mode exclusive -screen-fullscreen
Disable full-screen optimizations under Compatibility in SinsOfTheForest.exe Properties.
Change high DPI settings and override scaling behaviour ~
NVIDIA Control Panel: Manage 3D settings >
Program Settings > Add the game exe and change settings.
Disable/Enable Vsync in game and max out FPS (try switching between).
Disable steam overlay.
Clear your Steam cache.
Lower resolution.
Verify integrity of game files.
Uninstall the game (and delete settings in documents), before reinstalling.

There's endless videos online to give you step-by-step tutorials that improves overall FPS and remove stutter, lag and all that.

Good luck.

[CRUSADER (J)]

Originally posted by Firsken:

There are SO many possible reasons...

Make sure your system is up to date (drivers for everything, system installs etc).

Then try:
Starting parameters: -window-mode exclusive -screen-fullscreen
Disable full-screen optimizations under Compatibility in SinsOfTheForest.exe Properties.
Change high DPI settings and override scaling behaviour ~
NVIDIA Control Panel: Manage 3D settings >
Program Settings > Add the game exe and change settings.
Disable/Enable Vsync in game and max out FPS (try switching between).
Disable steam overlay.
Clear your Steam cache.
Lower resolution.
Verify integrity of game files.
Uninstall the game (and delete settings in documents), before reinstalling.

There's endless videos online to give you step-by-step tutorials that improves overall FPS and remove stutter, lag and all that.

Good luck.

I have already tried all of these, My system is def up to date as I get on it daily and check ALL of my drivers and OS version pretty much daily.

ive watched HOURS of panjino vids as well, and they dont seem to fix it

[CRUSADER (J)]

Originally posted by Warrior 99:

Try turning off Anistropic textures. That's what made my fps low.

Ill try that next and see, but from what I can tell it only gives me like 5 fps difference

[ryannorgreeves]

I might have missed this, but I"m assuming this is in solo play and not MP? I have been lucky with the game so far on fps, but one of the times was worst for me was joined on a MP game, and the host was having FPS drops and my performance was worse than the hosts. He resolved his issue, and FPS back up for both of us.

If the above more technical explanations aren't resolving, we do all know the game has some bugs affecting performance, and its not optimized yet here in EA. There was a hotfix a while back to help with crashes, so likely they've still got some problems to figure out as well.

[CRUSADER (J)]

Originally posted by ryannorgreeves:

I might have missed this, but I"m assuming this is in solo play and not MP? I have been lucky with the game so far on fps, but one of the times was worst for me was joined on a MP game, and the host was having FPS drops and my performance was worse than the hosts. He resolved his issue, and FPS back up for both of us.

If the above more technical explanations aren't resolving, we do all know the game has some bugs affecting performance, and its not optimized yet here in EA. There was a hotfix a while back to help with crashes, so likely they've still got some problems to figure out as well.

Multiplayer

[Ryzilynt]

Friend with best rig/connection should be host

[ryannorgreeves]

Originally posted by Ryzilynt:

Friend with best rig/connection should be host

Yep, that's why I was letting my friend host. He's got a more powerful machine than me. On ours it was background stuff eating resources, and when he eliminated that, we were back in business.

I feel like the best way to test out the "is it my machine" is to boot up a solo run to see if its repeating the issue. I think it is possible the host could get bogged down by other players too. We definitely need testing in MP too, but MP could offer some - false positives? (not sure best way to word that)

[Karumati]

forza is much easier to run

[CRUSADER (J)]

Originally posted by Karumati:

forza is much easier to run

not with Raytracing + EXTREME graphics which is what I run it on.
Not to mention FH5 is actually optimized
And between the two, FH5 takes 15% more CPU and 40% more GPU + 5 more GB of ram that Sons of the forest does so I disagree.

[Karumati]

Originally posted by CRUSADER (J):

Originally posted by Karumati:

forza is much easier to run

not with Raytracing + EXTREME graphics which is what I run it on.
Not to mention FH5 is actually optimized
And between the two, FH5 takes 15% more CPU and 40% more GPU + 5 more GB of ram that Sons of the forest does so I disagree.

Even with ray tracing fh5 is easy to run

[CRUSADER (J)]

Originally posted by Karumati:

Originally posted by CRUSADER (J):

not with Raytracing + EXTREME graphics which is what I run it on.
Not to mention FH5 is actually optimized
And between the two, FH5 takes 15% more CPU and 40% more GPU + 5 more GB of ram that Sons of the forest does so I disagree.

Even with ray tracing fh5 is easy to run

again... thats bc its optimized unlike SOTF

[Pistone Joe]

It gets worse with each patch. When the game came out I could play with everything high, now I put it in the middle and it's fatal. If I put it on Low if it runs more or less well. please fix it