How is the performance so bad?

[D]

I just started the game to see how it runs and the fps is all over the place (I have a 3080ti). I go from 60fps to 35 with three enemies in front of me. I kill them and it goes up to 60 again (without even moving). Even when it runs over 100 fps (putting a couple of settings to high and in performance mode), moving the camera feels off (like its dragging the image) and the stuttering is constant. This game is reminding me a lot to Steel rising in that sense.....

After waiting for two weeks, I was expecting a lot more than this crappy performance. I normally run games with everything topped, but this game doesn't feel right at all even at higher fps.

Also, I can already see that even in the tutorial they throw at you three enemies at the same time and they take almost half of your life in one hit (two in the front and in hitting from the back...), when they haven't even told you how to block, dodge or parry...... extremely disappointed, to be honest. There's a difference between being difficult and being unfair. And I can already see that this game is going to be more annoying to play than anything else.

I'll play something else for now. We'll see if they actually fix something. Because I see a lot of patches, but the performance is pathetic and five minutes in I can already tell that the gameplay is going to be a nightmare.... What a waste...

[ZooL]

Originally posted by Hallucinating Honey Badger:

Originally posted by ZooL:

well having a 3080ti or even a 4090 means nothing without other specs. And even then, so many people have tons of crap installed that slows down their system. I know its frustrating when a game does not run well, but its not always the developers fault. in this case i think it is part their fault and part on some users end. my friend has a 3080 (non ti) and i have a 4090. we both played the game without any issues. he at 1440p locked to 60fps and me at 4k with frame gen at 120fps. I also maxed out all settings.
So there are people who can run this game just fine. in our cases we both have decent CPUs, fast ram and the game installed on a NVM pcie 4.0 SSD.
I think people need to realize that these newer UE5 games need more than a good GPU.

So why is the game only using 70 % of the Cpu and 40% of the GPU ? ♥♥♥♥♥♥ optimisation and nothing else sorry to say .

see, this is why we end up in situations like this. your CPU is a hard bottle neck for the game. its "only" sitting at 70% CPU because if you had an 10 core CPU and 7 of those 10 cores where running at 100% it would show as 70% CPU. so most likely your CPUs single core performance is not enough to keep up with your GPU shown by the 40% GPU load. this has nothing to do with bad optimization but with a bad PC build.

[Nyah]

Originally posted by ZooL:

Originally posted by Hallucinating Honey Badger:

So why is the game only using 70 % of the Cpu and 40% of the GPU ? ♥♥♥♥♥♥ optimisation and nothing else sorry to say .

see, this is why we end up in situations like this. your CPU is a hard bottle neck for the game. its "only" sitting at 70% CPU because if you had an 10 core CPU and 7 of those 10 cores where running at 100% it would show as 70% CPU. so most likely your CPUs single core performance is not enough to keep up with your GPU shown by the 40% GPU load. this has nothing to do with bad optimization but with a bad PC build.

https://youtu.be/SxpSCr8wPbc?si=GfA8PCqeYeaivtCE&t=1089
Digital foundry video analysis of new games that use UE5. Pretty good video.
Now take a look as UE5 for now have a strange behavior regarding cpu power, getting more fps with less cores... seems it can't use cores efficiently right now.

[ZooL]

Originally posted by Nyah:

Originally posted by ZooL:

see, this is why we end up in situations like this. your CPU is a hard bottle neck for the game. its "only" sitting at 70% CPU because if you had an 10 core CPU and 7 of those 10 cores where running at 100% it would show as 70% CPU. so most likely your CPUs single core performance is not enough to keep up with your GPU shown by the 40% GPU load. this has nothing to do with bad optimization but with a bad PC build.

https://youtu.be/SxpSCr8wPbc?si=GfA8PCqeYeaivtCE&t=1089
Digital foundry video analysis of new games that use UE5. Pretty good video.

exactly my point. UE5 (and UE in general) is limited by singel thread/core performance. if you run this with an old/slow 8 core CPU it will be a bottle neck.
But this is not the devs fault and there is nothing they can do about it.

[black_domina]

Originally posted by JellyBean:

a. Go to: "X:\Users\MYUSER\AppData\Local\LOTF2\Saved\"
b. Delete the *.UPIPELINECACHE file

THIS worked for me

Yes same for me, it works!

[Ted]

Originally posted by ZooL:

Originally posted by Nyah:

https://youtu.be/SxpSCr8wPbc?si=GfA8PCqeYeaivtCE&t=1089
Digital foundry video analysis of new games that use UE5. Pretty good video.

exactly my point. UE5 (and UE in general) is limited by singel thread/core performance. if you run this with an old/slow 8 core CPU it will be a bottle neck.
But this is not the devs fault and there is nothing they can do about it.

I have said this many times, UE5 is pushing the limits of current hardware big time and it is going to be far worse for those with old/lower end PC's. The devs can do some things to make it run a bit better but they cant change UE5.

UE4 was getting the same whinging and complaining when it came out as it also stuttered a lot and was making PC's of the day sweat to spit out decent FPS. Not the devs fault

[Hallucinating Honey Badger]

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ making excuses for us beta testing their crap for them while they learn to use UE5. I have tested single and multi core use. Dont come say a 5ghz cores cant get proper use. Thats a developer issue not hardware. Stop making excuses for developers not finishing their games. 10 patches in as many days. But sure they where ready for realease.

Originally posted by ZooL:

Originally posted by Hallucinating Honey Badger:

So why is the game only using 70 % of the Cpu and 40% of the GPU ? ♥♥♥♥♥♥ optimisation and nothing else sorry to say .

see, this is why we end up in situations like this. your CPU is a hard bottle neck for the game. its "only" sitting at 70% CPU because if you had an 10 core CPU and 7 of those 10 cores where running at 100% it would show as 70% CPU. so most likely your CPUs single core performance is not enough to keep up with your GPU shown by the 40% GPU load. this has nothing to do with bad optimization but with a bad PC build.

[chosenxeno]

Ran great on my 4090 and 5800x3D build. What issues?

[Kriss Hietala]

I'd rather get 10 paTCHES and fixed game within week than 2 patches in few months and game still broken :p

[5style_]

I have a 9900k and a 3070 and 16gb of ram, game runs at 80-100fps and is smooth as butter for a while. Then suddenly every time my character finishes an attack animation the game drops to 45 fps for like 2 seconds, then goes back to running 80-100. This makes combat pretty much unplayable until I quit to main menu and reload the game, it will run fine for a while then the same thing happens.
I've also had my frames drop to 40-50 and remain there like a slideshow after being invaded, again have to reload the save file to fix it.

I have no problems with any other games.

[Assassinfaiter]

Originally posted by 5style_:

I have a 9900k and a 3070 and 16gb of ram, game runs at 80-100fps and is smooth as butter for a while. Then suddenly every time my character finishes an attack animation the game drops to 45 fps for like 2 seconds, then goes back to running 80-100. This makes combat pretty much unplayable until I quit to main menu and reload the game, it will run fine for a while then the same thing happens.
I've also had my frames drop to 40-50 and remain there like a slideshow after being invaded, again have to reload the save file to fix it.

I have no problems with any other games.

Same problem on 3070 TI, 5600x, 32 Ram

[Æsir]

Raytracing

[galacticjab]

Originally posted by JellyBean:

a. Go to: "X:\Users\MYUSER\AppData\Local\LOTF2\Saved\"
b. Delete the *.UPIPELINECACHE file

THIS worked for me

Thankyou...been trying to fix this for ages and this worked for me..thankyou