Callisto protocol is CPU limited

[UltimateGammax]

This is SERIOUSLY CPU limited. Please can the devs work on optimizing the CPU performance of this game? It’s using only one thread and even core i9 can’t brute force it’s way and with an rtx 4090 still having sun per performance. They should look at how Ray tracing in implemented in this game. I’m no technical person but I’ve noticed that the performance of this game goes down the drain when you activate any form of ray tracing. It seems to task the CPU in a way that is not optimized at all. If you can fix the game by making is used all cpu cores instead of just one the performance would improve massively.

I don’t know, what you think?

[🍃🪻🪷Sylvie🩵🍸🍵]

Short answer: Striking Distance still have a lot of work to improve game engine optimization which they're currently testing and fixing more bugs & glitches before releasing another patch in public.

[Never-Ending_499!]

Yeah, same I have a 3070 and still have problems playing this game. They need to optimize it and make it playable.

[patrick]

ha, I just created a thread about that :

Why the game pumping only 60% of the GPU power??

I just found a "used" RTX 4080 (refurbished), I bought it and I am trying to understand how it works about power consumption. Among the benchs I did, I am pretty surprised by TCP. Whatever the power limit you use under MSI Afterburner, you get the same fps in the benchmark. When looking at the power itself, the benchmark is pumping 223W (out of 320 max). I just found a video where you see that it is about 150W most of time, with 200W max. What is going on here???

[Metro]

At this point i doubt they will solve the cpu issue.

[morko]

Originally posted by Metroplex:

At this point i doubt they will solve the cpu issue.

same. multiple UE4 games have this problem and they never do. not that it's the engine's fault. devs just don't want to put in the work.

[Chrille 🎃]

Originally posted by morko:

Originally posted by Metroplex:

At this point i doubt they will solve the cpu issue.

same. multiple UE4 games have this problem and they never do. not that it's the engine's fault. devs just don't want to put in the work.

Or more like the devs are F-ing incompetent. I do not want to say it was better 20 or so years ago, since the tech has developed alot. But seriously atleast back then you could buy a working product at release. Today, we as consumers act some F-ing Beta testers and the devs release unfinished garbage.

[✪ Wuhan Warrior 🍉🍉]

It is impossible most modern AAA games with exception to well known flight simulator can ever make a decent computer i5, i7, i9 CPU bound.

If it happens, it's probably due to one thing, DENUVO.

[PHANTOM]

Could the CPU limitation be the result of why the game will play smoothly for a few minutes, then sudden fps drops, and becomes more unstable as you continue to play?

Feels like a memory leak from bad coding within the game.

[Happy Feet]

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CPU limitation is definitely happening with this game. Pretty sure it's an Unreal Engine issue. Not sure how fixable it is for Striking Distance. Though it doesn't hurt to make it known to the devs.

[SirBaron]

it's for sure CPU limited, it barely touches many of the cores. my 4090 is sitting waiting for the CPU to catch up.

[Han]

Was wondering why my 3080ti was doing ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, seen all the topics on the forum, going refund.

[Wiesshund]

Originally posted by ✪ Wuhan Warrior 🍉🍉:

If it happens, it's probably due to one thing, DENUVO.

is that supposed to still be amusing or something?

[raphaelnariga]

Guys, I think this guide could be our temporary solution...

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2896575238

The guide is old, but worked for me really good! (Credits to Advaris for making it)

After all those official patches I got a massive improvement on stutters, but fps are still inconsistent, some areas my framerate dropped below 15 fps without any reason for some seconds and after it went back to normal.

I couldn't enjoy the game with all those frame dropping problems happening almost every new cutscene and/or scenario, so I locked the game on 30fps to have kinda frames parity and not feel it so different, but even doing this I could clearly notice the heavy frame dropping.

What I did from my side:

- Uninstalled the game and deleted all the remain game folders on appdata, including Directx and Nvidia caches, to install the game completely from scratch!

- On launch options I put -xgeshadercompile

- Ingame I put Shadows, Volumetrics and Particles on Medium, FSR2 on Quality and all the other options I let on High. (RT off)

- Opened Engine.ini file and paste those lines below the existent ones:

[/script/engine.renderersettings]
niagara.CreateShadersOnLoad=1
r.CreateShadersOnLoad=1
D3D12.PSO.DiskCache=1
D3D12.PSO.DriverOptimizedDiskCache=1
r.Shaders.Optimize=1

[TextureStreaming]
r.Shaders.Optimize=1
r.Shaders.FastMath=1
r.UseShaderCaching=1
r.UseShaderPredraw=1
r.UseAsyncShaderPrecompilation=1
s.AsyncLoadingThreadEnabled=True
r.TargetPrecompileFrameTime=13
r.PredrawBatchTime=13
r.AccelPredrawBatchTime=0
r.AccelTargetPrecompileFrameTime=0

[ConsoleVariables]
AllowAsyncRenderThreadUpdates=1
AllowAsyncRenderThreadUpdatesDuringGamethreadUpdates=1
AllowAsyncRenderThreadUpdatesEditor=1
s.AsyncLoadingThreadEnabled=True

And BAM!!!

Tested until Jacob find the first security robot and I got 60 fps all the time without any heavy frame dropping, it was like a magic!

My config: i7-11800H with RTX 3060 and 16GB Ram (yeah, a laptop!)

[󠀡󠀡]

i7 11700k @ 4.9ghz using all cores no issues with this game
its must be your pc, windows bloated with random crap
4090 here too
windows 10 pro debloated

[Kira]

Originally posted by 😈:

i7 11700k @ 4.9ghz using all cores no issues with this game
its must be your pc, windows bloated with random crap
4090 here too
windows 10 pro debloated

Yeah, ok buddy.