Still having low FPS

[Maxx.Sev]

I meet the requirements for the recommended specs they posted, bought an SSD today and its still struggling to maintain FPS above 20 and I have also tried lowering everything to the minimum, resetting the game after changing settings and I still have a horrible audio crackling issue that lowers the FPS even harder

[Merrydoc]

What are your Specs?

Game runs amazing for me.

[Maxx.Sev]

Originally posted by Merrydoc:

What are your Specs?

Game runs amazing for me.

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9700F CPU @ 3.00GHz 3.00 GHz
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER
Installed RAM 16.0 GB
DirectX 12

[the_randomizer1889]

Don't have textures on high, set to medium. There's no difference in quality.

[Maxx.Sev]

Originally posted by the_randomizer1889:

Don't have textures on high, set to medium. There's no difference in quality.

they've been set to medium

[Tiearian]

Do you have your RAM clocked correctly to your processor? or at the very least have XMP enabled? This game requires fast asset streaming, which in turn requires both a fast Storage method(your SSD) but also requires your CPU and GPU to be sync'd as much as possible. The problem is, is that if your RAM isn't correctly matching your CPU's optimal scenario, your likely to experience erratic behavior in a game like this.

Your CPU recommends DDR4 2666mhz RAM. If your RAM isn't running at that speed, your CPU will easily get bottle-necked. But that aside, 2666mhz is fairly slow in comparison to whats in a PS5. The PS5's ability to move bandwidth is quite a bit faster then your computers specs. Also because DirectX12 has on the fly asset streaming, the performance of this game will be heavily dependent on how fast data can be taken off your SSD, requested through your CPU, and loaded into your GPU. And your RAM speeds are required to match the optimal specs for your CPU, in-order for your CPU to react in a efficient manner.

In other words, your setup doesn't have a fast enough way to handle the assets that's are being streamed in on the fly via DirectX12.

As your hardware in this particular case is less then a PS5. The only way to redeem a bit of performance, is to ensure the response timing of your hardware is as fluent as possible. In this case your RAM is the first stop, and ensuring that it is clocked correctly can improve performance. If not, then you just gotta upgrade your computer in general.

PS: with all the above considered, it's also worth mentioning, the PS5's base CPU speed is 3.5Ghz. Your's being at 3.0Ghz already sets it back a fair bit, in it's ability to get the assets to your GPU fast enough. Your CPU can boost to 4.7GHz I believe(?) but that's only for split seconds, and can't be done for a prolonged situation, like playing a game. Considering this game is a Port, I'd use a PS5 as the baseline requirement to play this game. That or if the game has DirectX11, try switching to that. In theory it would increase your framerate, but at the same time Ratchet and Clank was made with Global illumination in mind, not Rasterisation, so disabling DirectX12, and not playing with raytracing in general, would in-deed put any system into a situation where bugs, and performance problems are much more likely.

[Turtle]

1080p low settings dlss balanced

[Kellyekkoe]

I'm running the game on my i9-10900K + GTX 3080 Ti + 32 GB DDR4 3600mhz rig in 4K, and it is installed on my 970 Evo plus. I set the game in very high graphic setting with DLSS quality and high RT setting, and I got stable 60 FPS on the first planet Carson V. But FPS dropped dramastically when I flew to the second planet Sargarsso, it runs only 35 to 45 fps the most time, when in the boss fight, I only got horrible sub-20 fps. Sargarsso has many water areas, so I guess it got something to do with the RT reflections setting and I turned it off and lower the other RT settings from high to medium, but the FPS remain the same if I just tuned it in in-game setting without quit the game. And I found that if I lower or even higher several graphic settings in the main menu when the game is in fresh-start state, I could get stable 60 FPS in like 20 to 30 seconds before it drop to 35-40 FPS. Haven't tried to lower all of them at once, I just thought lower some most demanded ones should improve my FPS while remain in high-fidelity graphics, but it didn't work like that, I suppose a 3080 Ti can handle this game in 4K DLSS with RTs right? Because when I get that 20 seconds stable 60 FPS (set to half refresh rate), it runs really smoothly, and then suddenly drops to 30ish FPS. Just got no clue at all, oh one thing I forgot to mention is that I found my CPU is only running at 6-8% usage in this game.

[Captain Furious]

Have you tried disabling DirectStorage

[Turtle]

Originally posted by Kellyekkoe:

I'm running the game on my i9-10900K + GTX 3080 Ti + 32 GB DDR4 3600mhz rig in 4K, and it is installed on my 970 Evo plus. I set the game in very high graphic setting with DLSS quality and high RT setting, and I got stable 60 FPS on the first planet Carson V. But FPS dropped dramastically when I flew to the second planet Sargarsso, it runs only 35 to 45 fps the most time, when in the boss fight, I only got horrible sub-20 fps. Sargarsso has many water areas, so I guess it got something to do with the RT reflections setting and I turned it off and lower the other RT settings from high to medium, but the FPS remain the same if I just tuned it in in-game setting without quit the game. And I found that if I lower or even higher several graphic settings in the main menu when the game is in fresh-start state, I could get stable 60 FPS in like 20 to 30 seconds before it drop to 35-40 FPS. Haven't tried to lower all of them at once, I just thought lower some most demanded ones should improve my FPS while remain in high-fidelity graphics, but it didn't work like that, I suppose a 3080 Ti can handle this game in 4K DLSS with RTs right? Because when I get that 20 seconds stable 60 FPS (set to half refresh rate), it runs really smoothly, and then suddenly drops to 30ish FPS. Just got no clue at all, oh one thing I forgot to mention is that I found my CPU is only running at 6-8% usage in this game.

10900k rt bottleneck. I had 10900k and its ass in rt. 13900k never issues

[Maxx.Sev]

update my fps is in a weird state where the game runs well for my mid rig at like 60+ fps but as soon as too many sfx play it causes this audio stuttering and crackling and then the fps tanks hard so I have been trying to do anything to fix my audio issues but to no avail

[Tiearian]

Originally posted by Maxx.Sev:

update my fps is in a weird state where the game runs well for my mid rig at like 60+ fps but as soon as too many sfx play it causes this audio stuttering and crackling and then the fps tanks hard so I have been trying to do anything to fix my audio issues but to no avail

Audio stuttering and abnormalities are the first thing that occur when the CPU is struggling.

[Maxx.Sev]

[quote=Tiearian;3801652762283811588

Your CPU recommends DDR4 2666mhz RAM. If your RAM isn't running at that speed, your CPU will easily get bottle-necked. [/quote]

my RAM matches that

[Mav]

Is your GPU on the right slot?
This game needs high GPU troughput, so make sure it is running at pcie 3.0 x16, you can use GPU-Z for that.
Could be as easy as moving it to the upper PCIE slot.

[Maxx.Sev]

Originally posted by Mav:

Is your GPU on the right slot?
This game needs high GPU troughput, so make sure it is running at pcie 3.0 x16, you can use GPU-Z for that.
Could be as easy as moving it to the upper PCIE slot.

I am running at PCIE 3.0 (8.0 GT/s) so im guessing thats not good enough? I am not too tech savvy sorry

[-=SaRuMaN=-]

Originally posted by Maxx.Sev:

Originally posted by Merrydoc:

What are your Specs?

Game runs amazing for me.

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9700F CPU @ 3.00GHz 3.00 GHz
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER
Installed RAM 16.0 GB
DirectX 12

Reduce the shadows to medium or lower. Do not use Raytracing.

Your GPU is technically middle-low.

This game needs like a 3080 to run perfect at 1080p and 4090 at 4k.