Something eating the FPS randomly?

[Takumi]

So my pc isnt the best, im running with everything on low and get 60 fps, good enough for me, however the game randomly dips under 10 fps and just stays like that even while paused.

For what I tested its not a pc problem because the game does this at very specific times, if not randomly 50/50 of the time:

Dying and reloading: The game spawns me in but i can see everything loading very slowly in front of me and the fps is dead at that point, however on startup it loads everything fine and works at 60 fps until 5-10 mins in.

Closing the map?: I was checking the map and after closing it the fps died again, im guessing the game hides everything while looking at the map, but it worked fine before, weird.

Switching from DLSS to No Upscaling, then applying: Doesnt always work, but sometimes switching between the two fixes it.

My thought was maybe needing to repaste, but this is a brand new laptop and i dont thin 66ºc is too hot for it.


Specs:
-11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz
-NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050Ti 4GB Laptop GP
-32GB ram

Now i know its not the best laptop and the 4GB is bricking it, but no other game does this and like i said, it runs at 60 fps perfectly until it decides to randomly ♥♥♥♥ the fps to 10, so idk whats up w that.

[Jaguar Sprint]

Originally posted by nut.meg:

Not sure if this will help but I do see that the latest Nvidia drivers are stating game ready for STALKER 2..

Trying these now.

Nah, they dont help, its a game issue with the mem leaks

[feetlover16]

Originally posted by Jaguar Sprint:

Originally posted by nut.meg:

Not sure if this will help but I do see that the latest Nvidia drivers are stating game ready for STALKER 2..

Trying these now.

Nah, they dont help, its a game issue with the mem leaks

Seems so. Switched to 1060 and no such issues, but there are visual glitches now. Will see if it's something with the gpu or if relaunching will help

[SwordSaint]

This is happening to me as well. Solid 60-80 and it will just dip to 30 but feel worse and even to 5-10 and stay there. So far it seems like cut scenes will trigger this as well and never recover.. I was hyped to play but we might have to wait for some patches.

[Warmen]

Originally posted by Takumi:

So my pc isnt the best, im running with everything on low and get 60 fps, good enough for me, however the game randomly dips under 10 fps and just stays like that even while paused.

For what I tested its not a pc problem because the game does this at very specific times, if not randomly 50/50 of the time:

Dying and reloading: The game spawns me in but i can see everything loading very slowly in front of me and the fps is dead at that point, however on startup it loads everything fine and works at 60 fps until 5-10 mins in.

Closing the map?: I was checking the map and after closing it the fps died again, im guessing the game hides everything while looking at the map, but it worked fine before, weird.

Switching from DLSS to No Upscaling, then applying: Doesnt always work, but sometimes switching between the two fixes it.

My thought was maybe needing to repaste, but this is a brand new laptop and i dont thin 66ºc is too hot for it.


Specs:
-11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz
-NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050Ti 4GB Laptop GP
-32GB ram

Now i know its not the best laptop and the 4GB is bricking it, but no other game does this and like i said, it runs at 60 fps perfectly until it decides to randomly ♥♥♥♥ the fps to 10, so idk whats up w that.

it must be radiation. Just wait for a patch guys, it will be so great , the performance will make you feel like you are playing Tetris and still have 500 FPS cushion left....

[FelstrikerAUT]

as far i see, if you want to play this game fine you need more than 8gb vram.

[RodroG]

Originally posted by Marek:

Originally posted by RodroG:

I also have noticed a possible memory leak issue that could impact performance over time. The shader recompilation process during each game launch eats about all my free system memory (32GB here). Until this problem is resolved, I recommend running the ISLC (Intelligent Standby List Cleaner) tool in the background while playing to help prevent performance degradation due to the memory leak/management issue.

How do you have that software configured? Have you managed to get it to work with that?

Yes, it worked very well for me. Keep everything as default (list size is at least: 1024 MB & free memory is lower than 1024) and do not check any timer resolution features, press Start, minimize it (it will be minimized to the taskbar and run in the background), launch the game. This worked for me. I also tried with "list size is at least: 1024 MB" & "free memory is lower than 10240 MB" and they worked. If possible, I prefer using 1024/1024 as it will lead to a less aggressive pattern at purging the standby list & system working set by the ISLC tool.

[NARUTO]

4060 is here too, same problem. the fix that guy sent before works but it destroy the textures. Not recommend.

[Jaguar Sprint]

Originally posted by NARUTO:

4060 is here too, same problem. the fix that guy sent before works but it destroy the textures. Not recommend.

Version 1 doesnt mess with them as hard

[IGOR!!!]

I can confirm i too had this issue. Got massive lags after 15-20min of game play untill i had to restart the game again. Tried lowering graphics etc..
I installed the game ready drive update on Nvidia's webpage and it resolved the issue for me.
Im using a RTX 2060 card. VRAM is however maxed all the time, but it works pretty well.

[🍕wallty🍕]

I followed this guide: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3369280920
Downloaded this mod: https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/7?tab=files
And also turned off Lighting Shafts, seems to be better now but tbh I have to try it a longer time.

[RodroG]

Originally posted by 🍕wallty🍕:

I followed this guide: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3369280920
Downloaded this mod: https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/7?tab=files
And also turned off Lighting Shafts, seems to be better now but tbh I have to try it a longer time.

Thanks, but a memory leak issue can't be fixed by editing a game .ini or updating GPU drivers. Downgrading visuals, and disabling or lowering graphics settings are partial ways to slow down the unavoidable occurrence of the performance drop over time. Also, using the ISLC tool is just a way to prevent the drop in performance, not the issue that will trigger anyway. The problem will continue there and its root cause will remain and only the developers can solve this mess of VRAM & System RAM mismanagement by the game.

[Sikuter]

Originally posted by Bigshrimp:

You have a 4 GB 3050 Ti video card in your laptop, which is pretty low for an Unreal Engine 5 game. You won't get great performance due to your video card being on the very low end. Most current generation graphically intensive games need at least 6 to 8 GB of RAM on the video card to work well. The more RAM the better.

I imagine that since you only have 4 GB on the video card, the game has to constantly swap out textures to load and that may be causing your hitching that you are experiencing. If the video card had more memory, like 8 GB, it could hold more textures without having to constantly unload/load into a small space like with 4 GB.

The minimum requirements for this game is a 6 GB video card, all of the others listed are at least 8 GB.

Minimum Requirement for Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB / AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB / Intel Arc A750 (*this is 8 GB).

I have a 3050ti as well. After the FPS drop, 1.5GB of video memory is loaded and the graphics chip is running at 7% capacity. You can't justify dropping FPS from 70 to 5 WITHOUT RESTORING in this way. It's not about lag for a while, FPS drops and doesn't go up. Before that, the video card was running at full power and was producing 60-70 frames on low settings.

[feetlover16]

I switched to 1060 and it works flawlessly. Not sure what's going on

[Pheex]

I had massive fps drops two times so far when I loaded a quicksave; I would load a quicksave, the game would spawn me in the world at literally 2 fps. Reloading the same quicksave right away the game was 60 fps (capped) again. Really strange. Wasn't my temps wasn't vram wasn't ram, just the game broke something during loading and reloading just fixed it immediately.

[bridgeman]

Many are reporting this issue with extremely high vram and ram usage consequently, I got a 4080 and having this issue after rather long game session every time as well. I only hope a fix will be out soon. You aren't alone with this and this is nothing to do with your laptop.