Extremely low FPS despite having high end PC?

[Addsio]

I'm having an issue where the game has extremely low FPS, despite me running a 4070. It doesn't matter if I run the game on low or ultra, it's the same issue. Other games like Stalker 2 run just fine. Had the same issue with Snowrunner on my old PC, tf is this?

[Zoiyya]

I also have a 4070ti but never had any fps issues in Snowrunner with everything on max.
Check if you have MFAA enabled in your Nvidia control panel, maybe it works better with it disabled.
Problem is the game is really not well optimized for some computer setups.
Otherwise setting MSAA ingame from 8x down to 4x should give a nice fps boost

[SlowClick]

What FPS do you get typically?

[MegaDave]

The game is more CPU reliant than GPU, and extremely disproportionately so. The difference in performance between all settings at Ultra vs Low isn't significant, but the biggest culprits are Shadows and Terrain Draw Distance. I tend to set Shadows to Medium and Terrain Draw Distance to Low.

MSAA will also suck performance as well, and frankly is an antiquated form of anti-aliasing. Use TAA + AMDFiledelityFX for sharpening. FXAA is terrible all around.

[Rragar]

Originally posted by Äddsio:

I'm having an issue where the game has extremely low FPS, despite me running a 4070. It doesn't matter if I run the game on low or ultra, it's the same issue. Other games like Stalker 2 run just fine. Had the same issue with Snowrunner on my old PC, tf is this?

Do you have the framerate limiter enabled? There's an option to cap it either at 30 fps or at 60 fps

[Pawz]

Some days my game runs fine, other days it's dropping to 6-10fps every minute. I have no idea what is with it. I have graphics as low as possible and locked to 30fps. I don't mind low fps but having it go under 10fps is unplayable.

[SlowClick]

I have a i5-13500 and a RTX 3070 - I get 60FPS (I have a 60HZ 4K monitor - it only gets 60FPS) at mostly ultra settings, and the CPU hardly goes above 20% and the GPU runs about 75% and 70c without an additional cooler. Use the Nvidia app or GForce to fix the settings for you - it does a fairly good job at that.

[Addsio]

Already tried going through all the settings and Geforce Manager, nothing has helped so far. Had the same issue on my old, far worse, PC where it would underperform severly and then one day, it just randomly worked again perfectly. Very weird, haven't had this issue with any other game

[lanz]

6750xt and i5 12400 here at 1440p and the lowest i see my fps in certain areas is 55, i do definitely get cpu bottle necked though in this game

[Rragar]

Originally posted by Äddsio:

Already tried going through all the settings and Geforce Manager, nothing has helped so far. Had the same issue on my old, far worse, PC where it would underperform severly and then one day, it just randomly worked again perfectly. Very weird, haven't had this issue with any other game

Have you also tried the various windowed modes? If I remember correctly, some operating systems are more liable to performance issues as dictated by such modes.

[Addsio]

Originally posted by Rragar:

Originally posted by Äddsio:

Already tried going through all the settings and Geforce Manager, nothing has helped so far. Had the same issue on my old, far worse, PC where it would underperform severly and then one day, it just randomly worked again perfectly. Very weird, haven't had this issue with any other game

Have you also tried the various windowed modes? If I remember correctly, some operating systems are more liable to performance issues as dictated by such modes.

Yea already did that too. Only thing else I can think of, in Geforce it actually shows up 2 times (I have 2 Snowrunner-Game-Icons right next to each other), don't know if that has anything to do with it

[SlowClick]

In mine too. Let gforce optimise the game for you - doesn’t matter which one, but could do both just to be sure.

[smgunsftw]

Old game engine = poor multithreading performance = poor CPU utilisation = low FPS

The game is built on the Havok engine, an engine first introduced in 2000. Despite optimizations over the years, the engine is just really too old to properly take advantage of multithreading and processing pipelines of modern CPUs. You'll need a CPU with high single-core performance to improve your FPS at this point.

[SlowClick]

I have a similar setup to the OP and get good performance - see my 2 earlier posts in this thread. It's not the game it's the way the OP has things arranged - settings etc.

[SlowClick]

Another place for settings is the Nvidia Control Panel -- in 'Manage 3D Settings' - 'Program Settings' tab > Select a game to customise > select Snowrunner from the drop down box, then click 'Restore'. This should set things back to how they should be, or at least a good place to start adjusting things. Try this first before tweaking stuff - it should work fine after this.

[oubaasusa]

I'm running it fine with an i9 10700 @ 3.7 GHz, 32 GB RAM, and an RTX 3060 w/12 GB.

Try setting "Use 3D Application Setting" for V-Sync. That has fixed quite a few games for me, especially older games.

The older game engines don't seem to like anything meddling with the V-Sync. Your machine is very capable, it should be fixable. Good luck!