FPS Drops?

[lars2go]

Does anyone else got so weird FPS drops?

I play on a 4090 with i9 13900K and 64 DDR5 RAM

I get like over 120 FPS but sometimes the game is like standing still and drops to under 30 FPS while racing, i dont really know how to fix, maybe there's an nvidia update coming to release? Or is there a workaround for this

[Dance99Vv]

Its drriver 536.23

[(WTH) Fuzz]

Originally posted by Eleni:

Nope I have pretty old laptop with GTX 1650Ti and 16GB RAM and some i5-10 generation and game works good for me. Maybe some issues with RTX 40 drivers again?

I have a GTX 1650, 16GB ram and I'm having major major issues.

New graphics drivers did nothing

[(WTH) Fuzz]

Originally posted by Eleni:

Originally posted by 🧿 (WTH) Fuzz:

I have a GTX 1650, 16GB ram and I'm having major major issues.

New graphics drivers did nothing

What kind of issues? Also what is your CPU?

i5 9th generation.

I know my specs aren't amazing but F1 22 ran perfectly and it exceeds minimum requirements by 40-50% according to PC Gaming Benchmark.

I'm getting random stutters- 2-3 seconds of screen freezes and I'm getting bad fps drops especially when using flashbacks in the rain. The game is unplayable at this stage for me.

[(WTH) Fuzz]

Originally posted by Eleni:

Originally posted by 🧿 (WTH) Fuzz:

i5 9th generation.

I know my specs aren't amazing but F1 22 ran perfectly and it exceeds minimum requirements by 40-50% according to PC Gaming Benchmark.

I'm getting random stutters- 2-3 seconds of screen freezes and I'm getting bad fps drops especially when using flashbacks in the rain. The game is unplayable at this stage for me.

Check if you don't have any Windows Updates. Also you tried to lower graphics settings?

Lower graphics and even resolution to 720p didn't work. I do have a pending windows update but keep getting an error so it remains incomplete- maybe that's the issue

[Balduran di Midgard]

Same behaviour as F1 22. Try without internet connection (in TT). There's a sort of EA demon running in background and continuosly checking for internet.

[Interl@ce]

So did the driver update fix those specific dips under non-day circumstances in those two tracks or not? Including raytraced?

[CptnDumpz]

I found a possible cause for this problem.

So I had task manager open while playing to see if there are any changes in the hardware that occurs when the FPS Drop starts.

So I was racing and then like normal, it hits randomly.

The GPU was fine, the RAM was fine, storage, wifi, all that was okay.

The one thing that happened was my CPU Utilization tanked (From about 50% to 17%)

Does this mean that this issue is caused for improper CPU usage? Can anyone report back if this also happens to them when the FPS drop occurs??

Thanks y'all

[(WTH) Fuzz]

Originally posted by Eleni:

Originally posted by 🧿 (WTH) Fuzz:

Lower graphics and even resolution to 720p didn't work. I do have a pending windows update but keep getting an error so it remains incomplete- maybe that's the issue

Maybe. What error you get while trying to update Windows?

Managed to update Windows and my Bios.

There's definitely an improvement but still have a 1 second stutter which seems to happen at race start, when exceeding track limits (especially if it involves going onto more curb or gravel) and if I get hit from behind.

[Interl@ce]

Never realized this game was also "denuvo-protected" until someone just mentioned getting locked-out of his office system over it

The rest is an all too familiar story we've heard so many times before with so many releases:

Devs likely having to compensate for issues the publisher-picked DRM is causing, which may take a couple patches.

[Dance99Vv]

Originally posted by Mikawelll:

I have a workaround who works for me.
Launch the game at usual. Then press the Windows button near Alt Left. You are back into desktop. Then go back into the game by clicking of the F1 2023 icon on the bar. Normally the FPS issue drops is now gone.

Its sounding wird but it works, a thank you from me.

[Mikawelll]

Originally posted by Dance99Vv:

Originally posted by Mikawelll:

I have a workaround who works for me.
Launch the game at usual. Then press the Windows button near Alt Left. You are back into desktop. Then go back into the game by clicking of the F1 2023 icon on the bar. Normally the FPS issue drops is now gone.

Its sounding wird but it works, a thank you from me.

You're welcome mate. Enjoy the game.

[Interl@ce]

No dice here-- just like with '22 it takes 3 to 10 tries starting the game before both our pedals and wheel are working at once, and every time the game loses focus by jumping back to windows it switches between just the wheel or pedals working.

Unfixed since '22 while '20 and '21 never fail to work to this day, Tried every driver combo, win10 vs 11, different rigs-- it's a true post-EA game engine bug that never got fixed.

[Interl@ce]

Originally posted by Eleni:

Game engine is almost completely the same as in F1 2020 and 2021 so it's not "EA game engine bug".

Almost yet not completely; one look at the '22 technical support forums will show even console players complaining about their gear suddenly having problems they never had in '21 and '20, same here for pc.

If after 300+ starts both those games never once had input issues for us (even as we speak) while '22 and '23 do, it's clear where the difference is.

[Interl@ce]

Originally posted by Eleni:

the fact that F1 22 and F1 23 got some bug that 2021 or 2020 didn't have is not a fault of some "EA Engine bugs" but just a coincidence.

The same ego-engine codemasters built is still being used under the hood, but it's clear there's been some changes to input handling (perhaps after trying to make it multi-threaded or adding support for something else?) which broke support for separately-connected configs and hasn't been fixed since.

I can try and name the full list of games still working without any issue today including all F1 releases we own dating back to 2011, the Project Cars series, Dirt series, Assetto series, iRacing and more-- out of all the racing games we have it's just F1 '22 and F1 '23 with "sudden" problems.

(and yes for '22 you can even see PS and XBOX-players up to people owning $1k+ pedals being as baffled about it as we were)

[Zeroicetea0]

I am having a similar issue, especially during night races. For daytime, there were occasional FPS drops, fixing the frame rate to half of the screen refresh rate solved that issue, but as soon as I start the night races, it goes berserk.

Must be a bug, cause I was playing fine at Bahrain race, and things went south as soon as the night fell. Similar in Vegas, no issue with daytime races, but it's impossible to play at night settings.