Performance Issues After 1 Hour

[ttower]

I just got the game and I am experiencing an issue with performance after playing for a while. Looking around online, I see this is (was) not an uncommon problem, but there were no good solutions I saw. Most of these posts were 2-3 years ago though, so I wanted to know if anyone had a current fix for the issue.

When playing normally, my PC runs 40% CPU, 30% GPU, stable limited 72 FPS on High/Ultra Graphics. No stutter, no tearing.

After around 1 hour of playtime, very suddenly, my GPU usage goes to 100%, CPU usage drops to below 10%, and my FPS goes to around 9 FPS. If I click off the game, say to task manager, the game will come back like normal for another minute or two then go back to 9 FPS. A full restart gives me another hour.

My Specs -
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
16GB 3200MHz Dual Channel
Nvidia RTX 3060ti
NVMe SSD C Drive - drive 86% full
SATA SSD D Drive - Game installed here, drive 85% full

I have tried updating my GPU drivers, currently running 566.14. I tried both Game Ready and Studio drivers. I dont know what my original driver version was, but at least a year old. All drivers acted the same.

Curiously, It seems like anytime I interact with Barn Finds, either finding them on the map or in the Festival to claim restored cars, my session starts running bad faster, maybe 30-40 minutes instead of an hour.

Let me know any steps to take or things to try to make the game run properly, or at least extend the time before it gives out.

[MinatoWantae]

i think the vram is full after few hours, you can try to restart pc to extend the game longer next time

[Dimon]

Same problem bro.
Ryzen 5 7500F + 4070 Ti + 32 Gb RAM.
After 40 min or 1 hour game is crashing to Windows without any error. Dont know what to do :(

[ttower]

Originally posted by OLED + PoE2:

Same problem bro.
Ryzen 5 7500F + 4070 Ti + 32 Gb RAM.
After 40 min or 1 hour game is crashing to Windows without any error. Dont know what to do :(

Thats interestingly similar, but not quite the same. I have only had my game crash once, and it seemed unrelated to the time-based issue. I tried to load something and the game hung up and crashed. I have to open the menu and choose Quit to Desktop to close the game when my issue happens.

[ttower]

As of today, my first session only lasted 19 minutes before I started having issues again. I could actually play when I had an hour between problems, but in 19 minutes I didnt even finish a second race. I had to quit halfway through because the game becomes unplayable.

[Dimon]

Originally posted by ttower:

As of today, my first session only lasted 19 minutes before I started having issues again. I could actually play when I had an hour between problems, but in 19 minutes I didnt even finish a second race. I had to quit halfway through because the game becomes unplayable.

Maybe this game needs some hotfix, I dont know.
Now I disabled all overlays, including Steam Overlay and Riva Tuner Statistics, will check it

[Phrostmourne]

I am having a similar issue. Forza crashes to desktop with no error message after ~60mins of gameplay. Does not appear linked to any one game mode or garage. I've closed out thrid party apps, removed nahmic audio & etc. Drivers & windows are updated.

System specs:
Windows 11.
I9 14900k, liquid cooled.
Asus rog maximus z790 apex.
4tb m.2.
32gb DDR5 8000mhz.
Rtx 3090 24gb.
1600w psu.

[Dimon]

Disabling overlays didnt help. Still crashing...

[Dimon]

Originally posted by Phrostmourne:

I am having a similar issue. Forza crashes to desktop with no error message after ~60mins of gameplay. Does not appear linked to any one game mode or garage. I've closed out thrid party apps, removed nahmic audio & etc. Drivers & windows are updated.

System specs:
Windows 11.
I9 14900k, liquid cooled.
Asus rog maximus z790 apex.
4tb m.2.
32gb DDR5 8000mhz.
Rtx 3090 24gb.
1600w psu.

Yep, didnt help. I think that problem is in game, probably version is broken or Nvidia Driver is broken...

[Phrostmourne]

Originally posted by OLED + PoE2:

Originally posted by Phrostmourne:

I am having a similar issue. Forza crashes to desktop with no error message after ~60mins of gameplay. Does not appear linked to any one game mode or garage. I've closed out thrid party apps, removed nahmic audio & etc. Drivers & windows are updated.

System specs:
Windows 11.
I9 14900k, liquid cooled.
Asus rog maximus z790 apex.
4tb m.2.
32gb DDR5 8000mhz.
Rtx 3090 24gb.
1600w psu.

Yep, didnt help. I think that problem is in game, probably version is broken or Nvidia Driver is broken...

Yeah from what I've been able to grasp from discussion boards, reddit. & Google is that it is either an issue/bug with the game, or a problem with the nvidia driver.

[ph!l]

i had zero crashes in 1500 hours then recently (2 months or so back) started getting intermittent crashes to desktop. Going back to 561.09 Nvidia driver stabilised it for over a month then started crashing again after the last update. Probably about every hour or so.

Now I've updated my gpu drivers and am on the 'turn the ray tracing down to high or off' method and has been surprisingly stable again. I'm only really playing a few hours each week, when I do the festival playlist, so I'm not going to say it's a certified solution but so far so good.

It isn't affecting everybody but hopefully enough to get their attention.

14900k + 4080s

[Dimon]

Originally posted by ph!l:

i had zero crashes in 1500 hours then recently (2 months or so back) started getting intermittent crashes to desktop. Going back to 561.09 Nvidia driver stabilised it for over a month then started crashing again after the last update. Probably about every hour or so.

Now I've updated my gpu drivers and am on the 'turn the ray tracing down to high or off' method and has been surprisingly stable again. I'm only really playing a few hours each week, when I do the festival playlist, so I'm not going to say it's a certified solution but so far so good.

It isn't affecting everybody but hopefully enough to get their attention.

14900k + 4080s

Yes, THANK YOU!
Switching RTX to Very High or lower helps me (just looks like)
Tomorrow will check 2-3 hours

[sintri]

RTX to off was the traditional method against these, which is weird given rtx is only on in the garages.

16GB isn't much these days, pends heavily on what you'd play but I'd recommend least 48 or 64, finding it far too easily to hit past 90% with 32GB these days. But yea see if you're hitting the ram, you don't need to hit 100 to start experiencing issues, 90% is sufficient to create slowdowns, especially on older CPUs. Also if it's a prebuilt, especially Dell prebuilt, check if you'e actually got 2 sticks of ram in there.

Otherwise 40% CPU and 30% GPU is almost 100% being bottle necked by your CPU, which also isn't great if the CPU ends up needing to do memory swapping.

[Phrostmourne]

Originally posted by sintri:

RTX to off was the traditional method against these, which is weird given rtx is only on in the garages.

16GB isn't much these days, pends heavily on what you'd play but I'd recommend least 48 or 64, finding it far too easily to hit past 90% with 32GB these days. But yea see if you're hitting the ram, you don't need to hit 100 to start experiencing issues, 90% is sufficient to create slowdowns, especially on older CPUs. Also if it's a prebuilt, especially Dell prebuilt, check if you'e actually got 2 sticks of ram in there.

Otherwise 40% CPU and 30% GPU is almost 100% being bottle necked by your CPU, which also isn't great if the CPU ends up needing to do memory swapping.

Yep RTX is turned off and not a pre-built. I have 2 sticks of 16gb teamgroup DDR5 ram. So far this is the only game that I'm getting a consistent crash. Black Myth wukong, star citizen, first descendant, ghost of tsushima among several others play amazingly at 4k ~100fps.

[Phrostmourne]

Originally posted by Phrostmourne:

Originally posted by sintri:

RTX to off was the traditional method against these, which is weird given rtx is only on in the garages.

16GB isn't much these days, pends heavily on what you'd play but I'd recommend least 48 or 64, finding it far too easily to hit past 90% with 32GB these days. But yea see if you're hitting the ram, you don't need to hit 100 to start experiencing issues, 90% is sufficient to create slowdowns, especially on older CPUs. Also if it's a prebuilt, especially Dell prebuilt, check if you'e actually got 2 sticks of ram in there.

Otherwise 40% CPU and 30% GPU is almost 100% being bottle necked by your CPU, which also isn't great if the CPU ends up needing to do memory swapping.

Yep RTX is turned off and not a pre-built. I have 2 sticks of 16gb teamgroup DDR5 ram. So far this is the only game that I'm getting a consistent crash. Black Myth wukong, star citizen, first descendant, ghost of tsushima among several others play amazingly at 4k ~100fps.

I do have my p-cores & e-cores tuned in BIOS, I can't recall the exact configuration. Running xmp on the ram as well.

[sintri]

Originally posted by Phrostmourne:

Originally posted by sintri:

RTX to off was the traditional method against these, which is weird given rtx is only on in the garages.

16GB isn't much these days, pends heavily on what you'd play but I'd recommend least 48 or 64, finding it far too easily to hit past 90% with 32GB these days. But yea see if you're hitting the ram, you don't need to hit 100 to start experiencing issues, 90% is sufficient to create slowdowns, especially on older CPUs. Also if it's a prebuilt, especially Dell prebuilt, check if you'e actually got 2 sticks of ram in there.

Otherwise 40% CPU and 30% GPU is almost 100% being bottle necked by your CPU, which also isn't great if the CPU ends up needing to do memory swapping.

Yep RTX is turned off and not a pre-built. I have 2 sticks of 16gb teamgroup DDR5 ram. So far this is the only game that I'm getting a consistent crash. Black Myth wukong, star citizen, first descendant, ghost of tsushima among several others play amazingly at 4k ~100fps.

Got confused, then saw p-cores and got even more lol, thought you were the op for a sec. Worth running nvidia-smi.exe in cmd after a crash, see if you've got any bad vram which'll show under the far right. Otherwise typically something's overheating, memory faulted, or driver issues.

Also likewise 3090s were essentially all made without heat sinks on the backplate which is where they tossed 1/2 the vram, which leads to pretty bad overheating issues in certain configurations. Also some of the AIBs really cheaped out on thermalpaste so worth keep an eye on hotspots and junction temps.