The game runs at slow motion in races

[Eclex]

It runs fine in the open world but for some reason it goes slow motion in races, i tried using every single fix i can find and none of them works. I get like 40 to 50 fps on average using medium settings. Reminds me of a similar thing that also happens in NFS Rivals.

[Aristos]

- Monitor your hardware to identify the bottleneck. This would allow us to give more targeted tips and you to adjust the relevant settings.
- Update drivers
- Close background apps (eg: browsers with many tabs open eat alot of ram)
- use fast ssds and make sure thay have some cap left for cache things

[Wolfsblut]

what are the spec´s you do you. anything like dlss etc on?

[Eclex]

i have an i5 7400 1060 and 8gb ddr4, i installed the game on an ssd and i play on native resolution. I watched a lot of benchmarks running on lower spec pcs than mine and it runs fine so I'm curious if the issue comes from an update or something else because most benchmarks i saw were made 11 months ago

[Wolfsblut]

thanks for taking yur time. your spec seems fine. maybe a bit to slow CPU. on my i5-9300h, 32gb ddr4 2666MHz and a 1660 ti mobile (OCed +100 Core/+500 Memory clocks) was working fine in high-ultra settings 60 FPS stable.

one last question.. aside the FPS. can you maybe record the game´s slowdowns with a smartphone + shadowplay performance overlay and upload it on youtube to share it. i am interested in that matter. seeing the loads and when it slowdowns maybe i can see a reason for it.

[Eclex]

https://youtu.be/9XEpbB4UkTA

Sorry i couldn't get the overlay to show in the recordings no matter what i try, but if you're wondering the CPU utilization is at 100% and the GPU is around 90% and the game is running at 50-60 fps tho i was recording it at 30 fps.

As you can see in the video the game slows down in the races and after the race it goes back to normal.

[Wolfsblut]

from what i see it plays faily normal.

the lags could be ram/cpu but the video doesnt show any abnormal gameplay or slwodowns.

the slowdown you mean are proably cause by bottleneck https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i5-9300H-vs-Intel-Core-i5-7400/m744904vs3886 isnt to much change in cpu terms.

but gpu at 90% leave some room i sugget not highter then 80% average gaming so you have some sparement when the heavy scenery comes. 90% gpu loads usually gives you very quickly a gpu bottlenecking. my gpu as exsample bottlenecks at around 90-92% and stutters appear.

if you also can find someone handing you a 16gb kit of ram 4 free (from an old unused rig) that would benefit you very much. those lags i saw in this are proably cause by your ram. nfs like to have more then 8gb ram since nfs heat.

aside that i can really say why the slowdowns. i didnt saw anything unusual as said. i am sorry. there isnt much else i can say about it.

[AdamZealous286]

Yeah Vol 5 Criterion made it less stable and idk why but maybe it's something to do with rendering because changing upscaler or ambient occlusion kinda resets to normal speed but temporarily.

[Eclex]

I tried capping the game to 30 fps and it seems to work, no other workaround until i upgrade my cpu i guess

[AdamZealous286]

Update 5.10 I still have same problem

[Eclex]

same here, it seems there was an update on Vol 5 that is supposed to increase PC performance but it only lowers the FPS to increase stability which doesn't seem to work for everyone

[keshavk01]

i have ryzen-9 5900 16 gb rtx 3060
same problem facing, frames suddenly drops from 60-70 to 5-10, how can i rectify this issue any help would be great.

[AdamZealous286]

I think single player is just having problems because doing a online playlists there was no slowdown at all.

[АМУРНЫЕ КОЛБАСКИ]

Yes, its only in story mode, i cant play it. if someone moment i have that slow motion. When that present my car in online lost the speed

[Eclex]

ah i forgot i posted this a while ago, but i since i changed my cpu to a ryzen 5 7500f and 32gb of ram the game is buttery smooth with no slow motion going on, so i believe the game is way more cpu bound than before, ram might also be the culprit since it allocates 16gb and uses 10gb in my case on ultra 1080p

[RippER]

this will happens when cpu reach 100%
try fps locking, like 60. a stable 60 fps will fix it.
worst case scenario, u can play on 30fps with no slow motion problem