Massive FPS Drop in Certain Areas

[Colorkage]

In Tartarus, the game stutters so much at certain locations that the game becomes unplayable. The velvet room has a weird spike in FPS dropping as well, when the window in the background shows up, my FPS tanks to the point where I have to wait until it passes before I can do anything. I've turned off reflections, messed with the game's resolution, but none have fixed this issue.

Is anyone else having this issue, and if so, have you found any other workarounds? Thank you!

[mmxii86]

I'm having the EXACT same issue. It has to do with the lights in the background.

Every 3 seconds or so in the velvet room, down to 20ish fps

[MeldinX2]

That's wierd. I have had no issues personally. The FPS have been at where i locked it permanently. However i have a very beefy computer with a RTX 4090 and one of the best CPUs money can buy. Some people are saying it stutters because of shader compilation issues that are known in many Unreal engine titles. Dunno if there is an easy fix for something like that. Especially since the game has bare bone in-game options.

[ffrasisti [ARG]]

It specially prominent on the steam deck

[Pyro3000]

Originally posted by ffrasisti ARG:

It specially prominent on the steam deck

Yeah, I got it on PC instead of console specifically because I thought portability on Steam Deck would be nice, but for some reason the framerate really struggles during some scripted events.

[nealiosis]

Same here... not sure if its a Linux issue or what but the game dips into the 5-7 FPS range in the Tartarus entry room, the velvet room, and anywhere there is a scripted event. The actual gameplay seems to run great (no issues holding 120 FPS)

[Pyro3000]

Originally posted by nealiosis:

Same here... not sure if its a Linux issue or what but the game dips into the 5-7 FPS range in the Tartarus entry room, the velvet room, and anywhere there is a scripted event. The actual gameplay seems to run great (no issues holding 120 FPS)

Turn off reflections. Those areas are reflection heavy (disabling them just uses a less system intensive version of reflections), and disabling it fixed all my issues.

[Frostea]

Do you have a GPU that supports ray tracing.

I’m not taking the piss, the game literally has forced ray tracing for some odd reason.

[nealiosis]

Turn off reflections. Those areas are reflection heavy (disabling them just uses a less system intensive version of reflections), and disabling it fixed all my issues.

Thanks for the tip. I'll give that a shot and see if it helps!

Do you have a GPU that supports ray tracing.

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No this machine is running an AMD Radeon 6600XT (on Linux)

[Logge1002]

Originally posted by ffrasisti ARG:

It specially prominent on the steam deck

Really hope they improve on that

[Mr_Tanooki]

Turn off reflections. The game defaults to using ray traced reflections. By turning off reflections in the game settings it will fallback to using screen space reflections and cube maps.

[Bucherebis]

I think the lights on Velvet Room are raytraced. That's why a lot of people are having performance issues there.

[Logge1002]

Originally posted by Mr_Tanooki:

Turn off reflections. The game defaults to using ray traced reflections. By turning off reflections in the game settings it will fallback to using screen space reflections and cube maps.

Doesn’t help especially in the velvet room.

[StackzGaming]

One thing about this game:

DO NOT do max res.

Whatever your native res is, go down a bit - so if it's 4k, go down to 1080p.

Then bump up the rendering as high as you can before you start seeing FPS drops.

[gob]

Yea give thanks to Denuvo for causing that.

[ko]

Runs fine at 4k with RT reflections on my 4070 Ti Super / 5900X. Not a dip/hitch anywhere.

Poster above can stop blaming Denuvo. I dislike that malware as much as anybody, but it's not messing with this game in any perceivable way.

Disabling reflections on slow hardware or hardware without RT support should fix it up.