Performance issues

[Houseki Yarisuke]

Ryzen 7 5800X
3070ti
32GB RAM
Samsung 980 1TB M2
Windows 10

I'm unable to maintain 60 fps at 1080p. Steam overlay show framerate hovers between 30 and 50 in all environments. This persists at low resolutions, with DLSS and/or Fidelity turned on at different settings, and with all settings set to low. I've tried emptying my shader cache, as well as increasing its size, but the low framerates persists. I've also updated my GPU drivers, as well as the disk firmware and drivers, but still no change. And, of course, I verified the integrity of the game.

I'm stumped. Other games I play from this drive don't share this issue. The low framerate isn't enough to cause me to lose fights or anything, but it's really distracting and bothersome. I'm pretty deep into the game (I just beat Romeo) and I feel like this wasn't a problem yesterday, but that might just be the mandela effect. Any ideas?

[SteelaiRizel]

Originally posted by Emerald Lance:

Ryzen 7 5800X
3070ti
32GB RAM
Samsung 980 1TB M2
Windows 10

I'm unable to maintain 60 fps at 1080p. Steam overlay show framerate hovers between 30 and 50 in all environments. This persists at low resolutions, with DLSS and/or Fidelity turned on at different settings, and with all settings set to low. I've tried emptying my shader cache, as well as increasing its size, but the low framerates persists. I've also updated my GPU drivers, as well as the disk firmware and drivers, but still no change. And, of course, I verified the integrity of the game.

I'm stumped. Other games I play from this drive don't share this issue. The low framerate isn't enough to cause me to lose fights or anything, but it's really distracting and bothersome. I'm pretty deep into the game (I just beat Romeo) and I feel like this wasn't a problem yesterday, but that might just be the mandela effect. Any ideas?

Well my frames dropped like hell when i had Forge up on firefox(the server for Foundry a thing to host dungeons and dragons campaigns on digitally). After i exited that, i was back to my 120 fps goodness.

So you might have something you wouldn't expect to drop your frames doing it anyway.

[Houseki Yarisuke]

The weird thing is that task manager doesn't show any strange numbers. Disks hover between 0% and 1% unless loading something, RAM rests at about 30%, and CPU usage is also super low. Nothing is getting maxed out, and the game is using about as much resources as i would expect.

Originally posted by SteelaiRizel:

Well my frames dropped like hell when i had Forge up on firefox(the server for Foundry a thing to host dungeons and dragons campaigns on digitally). After i exited that, i was back to my 120 fps goodness.

So you might have something you wouldn't expect to drop your frames doing it anyway.

I make a habit of closing any programs I'm done with; I almost never have a browser or other programs running in the background when playing games, except maybe discord sometimes. I'm generally pretty strict and clean with my machine.

[SteelaiRizel]

Originally posted by Emerald Lance:

The weird thing is that task manager doesn't show any strange numbers. Disks hover between 0% and 1% unless loading something, RAM rests at about 30%, and CPU usage is also super low. Nothing is getting maxed out, and the game is using about as much resources as i would expect.

Originally posted by SteelaiRizel:

Well my frames dropped like hell when i had Forge up on firefox(the server for Foundry a thing to host dungeons and dragons campaigns on digitally). After i exited that, i was back to my 120 fps goodness.

So you might have something you wouldn't expect to drop your frames doing it anyway.

I make a habit of closing any programs I'm done with; I almost never have a browser or other programs running in the background when playing games, except maybe discord sometimes. I'm generally pretty strict and clean with my machine.

I have no idea then, i typically have discord and like 10-15 tabs open on firefox and run 120 fps. I am weird in that i want specific music ready to listen to at any time.

Personally i am not sure, i mean i don't think there has been an update yet to change how it should affect your system. And i am sure given what you have said, you checked if steam was updating something.

All i can think is to maybe verify your files on steam and reboot steam itself after. *shrugs*

[Houseki Yarisuke]

How strange. I started playing today and the game is buttery smooth. I restarted my PC multiple times yesterday while trying to figuring out what was wrong, but nothing ever came of it.

I'm still stumped, but at least I'm enjoying the game again.

EDIT: I came back again a day later, and low framerates are back. However, I turned off steam overlay for this game, and now I have smooth 60 at all times. For people with similar issues looking for answers, try that. Been playing for hours with regular framerate and no dips other than loading new assets for the first time.

[GReddy86]

I can confirm the bad performance, sadly.
My system is pretty old but matches the recommended specs perfectly.

i7 6700K
RTX 2060 6GB
32GB RAM
Game runs on a SSD
Edit: Game runs at 1080p

Chrome is closed, Discord closed to. The only thing running is the game itself and Steam.
I even scanned for any Windows processes ruining the performance, but there aren't any noteworthy.

Have to set DLSS to Balanced and presets to low. That is the only way I am able to maintain 60fps. I wanted to report this to the developers, but can't find any viable way to do that.

So I am open for any suggestions on troubleshooting and will gladly report anything results here!

[Baron01]

Originally posted by GReddy86:

I can confirm the bad performance, sadly.
My system is pretty old but matches the recommended specs perfectly.

i7 6700K
RTX 2060 6GB
32GB RAM
Game runs on a SSD
Edit: Game runs at 1080p

Chrome is closed, Discord closed to. The only thing running is the game itself and Steam.
I even scanned for any Windows processes ruining the performance, but there aren't any noteworthy.

Have to set DLSS to Balanced and presets to low. That is the only way I am able to maintain 60fps. I wanted to report this to the developers, but can't find any viable way to do that.

So I am open for any suggestions on troubleshooting and will gladly report anything results here!

Let's be honest, that system is old-as-****. Expecting anything to run even remotely well is these day let alone UE4 game. I have much beefier righ: 12900KF, RTX 3080ti, 32GB DDR5 RAM, NVMe SSD and I would not run modern games at 4k and high settings.

Lies of P is a remarkable game from technical performance. There are no stutters during gameplay so common on other UE4 games. There are few bugs/glitches when low-res textures appear after load and you can spot occasional texture flickering but that is about it.

[GReddy86]

Originally posted by Baron01:

Originally posted by GReddy86:

I can confirm the bad performance, sadly.
My system is pretty old but matches the recommended specs perfectly.

i7 6700K
RTX 2060 6GB
32GB RAM
Game runs on a SSD
Edit: Game runs at 1080p

Chrome is closed, Discord closed to. The only thing running is the game itself and Steam.
I even scanned for any Windows processes ruining the performance, but there aren't any noteworthy.

Have to set DLSS to Balanced and presets to low. That is the only way I am able to maintain 60fps. I wanted to report this to the developers, but can't find any viable way to do that.

So I am open for any suggestions on troubleshooting and will gladly report anything results here!

Let's be honest, that system is old-as-****. Expecting anything to run even remotely well is these day let alone UE4 game. I have much beefier righ: 12900KF, RTX 3080ti, 32GB DDR5 RAM, NVMe SSD and I would not run modern games at 4k and high settings.

Lies of P is a remarkable game from technical performance. There are no stutters during gameplay so common on other UE4 games. There are few bugs/glitches when low-res textures appear after load and you can spot occasional texture flickering but that is about it.

That's what I mentioned, yes. My system is very old. But if the devs declare hardware back from 2015 as recommended. I as a customer who paid the full price for the game can expect good results using the recommended hardware.
Saying that the game runs great on much more recent hardware is not the point, sorry.

[chosenxeno]

5800x3D and a 4090(Also a Neo G9 monitor. Gotta throw it in here lol). No issues.