Sudden fps drops during intro/outro cutscenes

[Quantum]

Played this game since launch, and everything was just fine. Now, came back after a long break, only to see that, during many of the characters intros and outros, fps suddenly drops (in game is fine). These very same cutscenes were running just fine before. Anyone else experiencing that or is it just me?

[Scrub]

If you have an nvidia card you can try to downgrade your drivers, there is some problem with recent-ish nvidia drivers

[Maydic]

I have this problem recently, too, but can't remember which driver version was stable for me.

[Spardacus]

Check your monitor refresh rate, if it 144 leave it at 144hrz dont change it, make sure the refresh rate is the same in the game options, if you did a gpu driver update, they shader have to recompile again.

[dinaru]

Originally posted by Spardacus:

Check your monitor refresh rate, if it 144 leave it at 144hrz dont change it, make sure the refresh rate is the same in the game options, if you did a gpu driver update, they shader have to recompile again.

Unless your screen has Variable Refresh Rate you'd definitely want a multiple of 60Hz so that the frames are displayed evenly, otherwise you'll get something that will feel like stuttering.

Some lower quality screens might have those issues even if you have VRR. Mine, for instance, goes up to 165Hz, but at anything over 150Hz the VRR won't work properly, resulting in choppy gameplay.

Originally posted by Quantum:

Played this game since launch, and everything was just fine. Now, came back after a long break, only to see that, during many of the characters intros and outros, fps suddenly drops (in game is fine). These very same cutscenes were running just fine before. Anyone else experiencing that or is it just me?

Keep in mind that the game is still synced while those are going on. You will get the slowdown whether the FPS has fallen on your end or on your opponent's end. Most people out there set up their game to have the maximum quality they can get, which means they're already around 90%+ usage in most scenarios (these people tend to have FPS drops during CAs or resource-intensive moves, too), so these people have huge drops during the more expensive parts (iirc, intros and outros usually spike to around 2x resource usage, probably because the FPS doesn't matter so much here and devs just made it pretty).

Check if the issues occur outside of Online matches. If they do, and they didn't use to, you can try reverting drivers if on Nvidia, as the newest Nvidia drivers caused some problems. I'm on October's version since it was the last 545 release, but I also have a 2080S which doesn't really benefit from the DLSS3 patches on newer drivers (since Nvidia has decided to lock it to newer cards). If you have a more recent GPU you'd want to try out newer drivers in case you play the games mentioned on them. October's version also fixed some screen issues regarding SF6 specifically for me (at 150Hz VRR, full screen at 60FPS would shake the screen up and down, this doesn't happen in October's version, but happens on 2024's drivers, I guess sometimes tech is more like magic than science).

[Stnank]

Same ♥♥♥♥ happening to me. Drops to 30-40FPS during the win screens. Never did this before.

[C4MPM4N]

same problem, any fix?

[Chewie]

Minor solution I currently use is to lower the Resolution Scaling (I think that's what it is called) from 5 to 1. Yeah, the game looks a little worse but it fixes the issue, for me at least.

[Prof Funkenstein]

Originally posted by Chewie:

Minor solution I currently use is to lower the Resolution Scaling (I think that's what it is called) from 5 to 1. Yeah, the game looks a little worse but it fixes the issue, for me at least.

This also worked for me I was able to get away with pushing the resolution scaling to 3