Constant 5 fps on RTX 3070ti

[1zboro1]

Ryzen 5 5600x
2x8GB 3600 CL18 RAM
RTX 3070TI
1TB Adata Gammix NVMe SSD

Hello, can somebody point me out on any solution to constant 5FPS after playing for 15 minutes?
Im running the game on low setting in 1440p DLSS balanced. On fresh launching the game I can play at ~50-60fps. But after around 15 minutes FPS drop to constant 5. I've noticed that while it occurs the GPU wattage sticks to 100W even though it's boosting to ~2000MHz. Vram usage is around 7,5GB and ram 11-15GB.

Is this some kind of CPU bottleneck or lack of RAM?

[SOLUTION]
Ok, so it looks like I fixed the 5FPS issues. Steps I did:
- delete nvidia shaders cache
- add optimisation mode (https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/2)
- set scaling method to TSR Ultra 100% resolution scale at 1440p, hair LOW, light shafts OFF, reflections LOW. Textures HIGH, other settings MEDIUM.

♥♥♥ U GSC GAYming!

[OldManSylar]

It's VRAM leak issue. A lot of people have it. Only patch from devs can fix it

[1zboro1]

Originally posted by OldManSylar:

It's VRAM leak issue. A lot of people have it. Only patch from devs can fix it

Thank you for your answer. It's unbelievable how big of a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ this game is.

[Suicidoman]

I solved it by disabling DLSS Frame Generation. No FPS drops from that time.

[† ⅤΣ†𝓤𝟝Ω †]

Originally posted by 1zboro1:

Originally posted by OldManSylar:

It's VRAM leak issue. A lot of people have it. Only patch from devs can fix it

Thank you for your answer. It's unbelievable how big of a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ this game is.

You might consider upgrading your RAM. I have 32 Gb and my settings are all on High except Hair and Foliage on medium.

Disable Light Shafts pronto and put FrameGen ON.
100 FPS

[Grizzly Adams]

I've seen people saying how amazing this game looks. it looks... fine. Cyberpunk path tracing is the standard, and they fell short of providing both ray tracing or path tracing options due to going the money route by catering to consoles with 6 year old hardware barely capable of holding 30fps in a small room.

The fact that this isn't the only glaring issue should give the devs pause. And by pause i mean pause development and finish the game before i spend $100 instead of $40, because it's 40% done.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

I see you have DLSS on Balanced. Try first turning DLSS and any other Frame-Gen off, save the changes and exit the game. Wipe the GPU Shader Cache from %LocalAppData% > either your AMD or NVIDIA folder per what GPU you have.

Then relaunch the game, wait for shader compile.
Once at main menu, enable DLSS only to Performance or Quality; not the others.

You might want to consider put game on Medium Graphics Preset, then only change a few things to High. Using all High or ANY Epic settings with 8GB VRAM + 16GB RAM is not enough. Needs 9-10GB VRAM and around 16GB by itself; so you should have 32GB system RAM or more really.

[krugg.the.gamer]

It's so weird, I've got a Ryzen 5 2600, Rtx 3060 12 gig and 31 gigs ram. So far other than some weird graphical hitches (like some guy's face tumor kept moving all over the side of his face while he was talking to me). But aside from that I've been getting 45-60 fps pretty steady at high settings across the board. I don't even want to say it and jinx myself. lol

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Because it could be a bug with DLSS too; we saw this in other games like CP2077 and RDR2

Also try changing Reflections to Low; as that can be bugged in some games too.

[D'yangel]

Originally posted by † ⅤΣ†𝓤𝟝Ω †:

Originally posted by 1zboro1:

Thank you for your answer. It's unbelievable how big of a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ this game is.

You might consider upgrading your RAM. I have 32 Gb and my settings are all on High except Hair and Foliage on medium.

Disable Light Shafts pronto and put FrameGen ON.
100 FPS

RAM it is not VRAM.

[† ⅤΣ†𝓤𝟝Ω †]

Originally posted by D'yangel:

Originally posted by † ⅤΣ†𝓤𝟝Ω †:

You might consider upgrading your RAM. I have 32 Gb and my settings are all on High except Hair and Foliage on medium.

Disable Light Shafts pronto and put FrameGen ON.
100 FPS

RAM it is not VRAM.

Of course. My intent was to tell him that he might need more than 16 Gb for this game because it's suggested. His card is like mine. I don't have issues like he does. Also i have i9 11900K. I hope he manages to fix it.

[yaji]

Originally posted by Suicidoman:

I solved it by disabling DLSS Frame Generation. No FPS drops from that time.

For some time I through frame generation is the root cause too, but after a while, fps dropped down to 10 again. For me, alt-tabbing sometimes solves the issue, but not always.

[Set-115689]

Frame gen might max out your vram. Basically turn frame generation off for now.

[1zboro1]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

I see you have DLSS on Balanced. Try first turning DLSS and any other Frame-Gen off, save the changes and exit the game. Wipe the GPU Shader Cache from %LocalAppData% > either your AMD or NVIDIA folder per what GPU you have.

Then relaunch the game, wait for shader compile.
Once at main menu, enable DLSS only to Performance or Quality; not the others.

You might want to consider put game on Medium Graphics Preset, then only change a few things to High. Using all High or ANY Epic settings with 8GB VRAM + 16GB RAM is not enough. Needs 9-10GB VRAM and around 16GB by itself; so you should have 32GB system RAM or more really.

I've already ordered 2x16GBs of RAM. As I said I'm running this game on low settings. Frame Gen is off bcs the mouse with this feels floaty.

As I was reading through some reddit posts it looks like VRAM memory leak. So here are things for me to do before the new RAM pack arrives:
- delete shaders cache
- add optimisation mod
- switch scaling method to TSR or OFF (this helped for some people) and maybe drop to 1080p

If this helps I'll let you know. If not I'll come back and tell you how it looks like.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

If you are forced to run this game on the ALL LOW preset you might as well refund it and grab it later down the road, or look towards a better PC.

While it took some tinkering with the settings, new game and all, it's natural... I had no problem running it smoothly enough on 4790K + 32GB RAM + 2x SSDs + RTX 3080

The sad part is that 3060 12GB does better then 3070 8GB; so yes the VRAM is a big issue. 8GB simply is not enough.

If you use NVIDIA you also will want to try using VSync if you can and use in-game FPS Limit of 60. For some reason the in-game VSync, Exclusive Full Screen as well as FPS Limit set to None causes problems as well. You also want NVIDIA Shader Cache set to 10GB or Unlimited.

You might even want to manually configure the Windows PageFile so that it's set to 8GB MIN and around 32-48GB MAX

Disable Fast Startup + Hibernation and then reboot the PC.

Avoid any 3rd party Overlays aside from Steam Overlay.

However the game does have some other issues as well. During cut-scenes the Steam Overlay even will completely disappear (confirmed when the FPS counter disappears) and this for some reason creates a serious lag issue; making the ability to take screenshots during in-game cut-scenes almost impossible. They still are grabbing but without any accuracy due t the lag going on, pressing F12 takes a screenshot like 10 secs later after pressing. Very odd bug. Once you are within the actual game, the Steam Overlay returns and doesn't have all the lag associated with it during cut-scenes.

[1zboro1]

Ok, so it looks like I fixed the 5FPS issues. Steps I did:
- delete nvidia shaders cache
- add optimisation mode [www.nexusmods.com]
- set scaling method to TSR Ultra 100% resolution scale at 1440p, hair LOW, light shafts OFF, reflections LOW. Textures HIGH, other settings MEDIUM.

FCK U GSC GAYming!