FPS drops after 30 seconds

[Ant ONE]

Context : I play on a laptop with i7 10th gen, 16Go RAM and RTX 3070

So the timeline is :
I've played ML on release day and ran it smoothly at 60 fps for hours.
Yesterday I loaded my save and I was playing at 15 fps.
I started a fresh save, still 15 fps.
I unplugged my laptop, replugged it, and my game instantly played at 60 fps for around 1 minute

What's the problem?/How can I fix this?

I updated my GeForce drivers and same thing happens

[RAZORUK2005]

Game needs patching desperately but dev seems to be taking a break or can't be bothered with the game after making a mint in money from the sales it made....has been total rubbish from the start and not all it was cracked up to be....

[Prikkiki-Ti]

Hi,

Try this,

Open Nvidia Control Panel and click on Manage 3D settings, which should take you to the global settings tab.

One of the settings is power management/energy saving - Change this to Maximum Performance if it's not on that already.

A few lines below that there's a setting called Preferred Graphics Processor.
This should be set to your RTX 3070.

Click apply and now you're done.

Hopefully this takes care of the problem but let me know.

[Lateralus]

Good suggestion above. If that doesn’t work, try turning down all your graphics settings for a short test. If the game runs smooth on lower settings with good FPS then I suspect your laptop is thermal throttling on the higher settings due to excessive heat.

A laptop based 3070 won’t be as efficient as a desktop based card due to the cooling and other cut down features.
Are you familiar with a thing called under volting?

[Ant ONE]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Prikkiki-Ti:

Hi,

Try this,

Open Nvidia Control Panel and click on Manage 3D settings, which should take you to the global settings tab.

One of the settings is power management/energy saving - Change this to Maximum Performance if it's not on that already.

A few lines below that there's a setting called Preferred Graphics Processor.
This should be set to your RTX 3070.

Click apply and now you're done.

Hopefully this takes care of the problem but let me know.

I just did both and tried again, same issues.

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Lateralus:

Good suggestion above. If that doesn’t work, try turning down all your graphics settings for a short test. If the game runs smooth on lower settings with good FPS then I suspect your laptop is thermal throttling on the higher settings due to excessive heat.

A laptop based 3070 won’t be as efficient as a desktop based card due to the cooling and other cut down features.
Are you familiar with a thing called under volting?

I had tried this in various configurations. When setting everything on Low, I run at 40-45 fps. With these settings, when I unplug/plug back the laptop charger I run at 250 fps.

I don't know much about undervolting, what about it ?

[Marshal]

Turn down all your settings to medium and turn on DLSS Quality. Adjust each setting accordingly until you get a happy compromise between graphics and performance.

[Lord_Chencho]

The game is being patched and can corrupt old saved games..

[Ant ONE]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Marshal:

Turn down all your settings to medium and turn on DLSS Quality. Adjust each setting accordingly until you get a happy compromise between graphics and performance.

As I said it doesn't seem to be a performance issue since I'm running at 90 fps with all settings on Ultra with DLSS enabled and set on Quality

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Lord_Chencho:

The game is being patched and can corrupt old saved games..

As I said I have this problem on both old and new saves