Game running at ~5 fps after running fine for 75 hours

[SirPikaPika (He/Him)]

I put 75 hours into the game then took a break for a few days when the Hades 2 early access dropped, but when I came back the game was running at like 5 fps on the same settings that had been running perfectly for the past 75 hours.

I had it on 60 fps cap, 100% render scale, fullscreen, reflections off, low shadows, native 1920 x 1200 resolution, Vsync off.

After this started happening, I could barely get decent framerate with 50% render scale and massively lowered resolution, though I don't remember exactly what I had to lower resolution to.

I even tried uninstalling Hades 2, I doubted it was the cause but I tried it anyways and it didn't help.

I've tried killing background programs to no avail.

I started Hades 2 on May 7th and had been playing P3R with no issues up until then, so I don't think it was the May 2nd patch that broke things, and as far as I can tell I didn't have a windows or driver update, so I just have genuinely no idea what could be causing this.

Operating System Version:
Windows 11 (64 bit)

Processor Information:
CPU Vendor: GenuineIntel
CPU Brand: Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-10885H CPU @ 2.40GHz

Video Card:
Driver: Intel(R) UHD Graphics
Driver Version: 27.20.100.9664

Memory:
RAM: 32512 Mb

[DaBa]

Check if reflections didn't turn on by themselves, if you're playing on an integrated GPU that would completely kill your performance.

I am surprised this game even functions on something as weak as Intel UHD

[SirPikaPika (He/Him)]

Originally posted by DaBa:

Check if reflections didn't turn on by themselves, if you're playing on an integrated GPU that would completely kill your performance.

I am surprised this game even functions on something as weak as Intel UHD

Nope, reflections are still off.

Honestly at this point the only explanation I can think of is that I somehow damaged my computer itself. It did crash once while playing Hades 2 and that's the only notable thing I can think of.

[someone]

You could try reinstalling your cpu drivers seeing as a crash happened and may have result in some corruption/errors. Assuming you're not on a laptop it would immensely help to get a dedicated gpu for gaming in general.