Memory Leak/Performance

[EmpurataN7]

Is there any fix to the memory leak that isn't deleting the PSN files?
Every time I load the game, I start at a consistent maybe 100 FPS with good performance before it DROPS to 20-30 after a bit of playtime OR whenever I start a quest/cutscene. I really want to enjoy the game, but with such performance rates completely lowering it makes it hard to. I've read different discussion posts, gone on articles, and even Reddit, and it seems MANY people are having the same problem. My computer typically has no problem running other games, I have a GeForce RTX 3070 TI, 15 GB ram, and my drivers are all updated; and like mentioned there are a lot of other people having the same problem. Are they going to fix this? Is it a NVIDIA problem? I really just want to enjoy the game without constant performance drops.

[AlienBoy]

im having similar issues, i can run the game fine for like 1-3 hours and then just freezes and crashes my pc to the point i have to restart it

[EmpurataN7]

Originally posted by AlienBoy:

im having similar issues, i can run the game fine for like 1-3 hours and then just freezes and crashes my pc to the point i have to restart it

It's really frustrating and I'm almost certain it has nothing to do with anyone's PC but instead it's with the game/drivers/whatever, I really wish it could be fixed. I really want to enjoy the game properly :'/

[BSM]

I'm trying to diagnose a problem with my own setup and I'm starting to wonder if it's an issue exclusive to Tsushima. Every time I try, I'm good for a while (maybe an hour to an hour and 30), but, inevitably, I get these pretty severe lockups. Like, everything halts for a good 2 or 3 seconds and it'll keep on like that until I restart the computer. It'll also not immediately load up my saves, making me wait about a minute before I can save to leave.

I'm thinking it might be Tsushima because everything else seems to run flawlessly. Since I've noticed, I've removed and reapplied my video driver, tested my ram, checked the health of my SSD's, made space on my SSD, monitored temps (one drive gets a bit hot, but nothing too crazy. Like 50c). I'm at a loss, haha

RTX 3080ti
Ryzen 5900
64 DDR4 ram
Win11

[Dooum]

I wonder if this could be a issue with the saves. Something's wrong going on with them causing a leak

[EmpurataN7]

Originally posted by BSM:

I'm trying to diagnose a problem with my own setup and I'm starting to wonder if it's an issue exclusive to Tsushima. Every time I try, I'm good for a while (maybe an hour to an hour and 30), but, inevitably, I get these pretty severe lockups. Like, everything halts for a good 2 or 3 seconds and it'll keep on like that until I restart the computer. It'll also not immediately load up my saves, making me wait about a minute before I can save to leave.

I'm thinking it might be Tsushima because everything else seems to run flawlessly. Since I've noticed, I've removed and reapplied my video driver, tested my ram, checked the health of my SSD's, made space on my SSD, monitored temps (one drive gets a bit hot, but nothing too crazy. Like 50c). I'm at a loss, haha

RTX 3080ti
Ryzen 5900
64 DDR4 ram
Win11

It is definitely Tsushima, everything else runs flawlessly for me too and my FPS and performance on other games is high. *Never* have I had this issue before with a game. I hope they fix it.

[EmpurataN7]

Originally posted by Dooum:

I wonder if this could be a issue with the saves. Something's wrong going on with them causing a leak

I haven't had any trouble with my saves but probably yeah.

[Fuwawa Abyssgard]

I have been trying as well. I initially thought my PC is throttling. I pushed up the settings for some of my other games and played them a bit. Namely: Need for Speed Unbound, Helldivers 2, Witcher 3. I played for 3 hours each, and seems Ghost of Tsushima is the only one that is able to replicate the FPS drop. So I have eliminated the guess, Ghost of Tsushima is either more resource demanding, or it does have memory leak, or the PSN connection is so bad that it tanks the processing of the gamer, but the game even suffers during singleplayer, so the memory leak seems very probable.

My specs:

RTX2070 Super Amp, 32GB RAM 2666MHz, AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core Processor, Aorus X570 motherboard, Windows 11

[[PBS] Draxthos]

Any fixes

[EmpurataN7]

Originally posted by Mogojan:

I have been trying as well. I initially thought my PC is throttling. I pushed up the settings for some of my other games and played them a bit. Namely: Need for Speed Unbound, Helldivers 2, Witcher 3. I played for 3 hours each, and seems Ghost of Tsushima is the only one that is able to replicate the FPS drop. So I have eliminated the guess, Ghost of Tsushima is either more resource demanding, or it does have memory leak, or the PSN connection is so bad that it tanks the processing of the gamer, but the game even suffers during singleplayer, so the memory leak seems very probable.

My specs:

RTX2070 Super Amp, 32GB RAM 2666MHz, AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core Processor, Aorus X570 motherboard, Windows 11

Likely the memory leak, no one's fault, just the games. So damn frustrating

[n_three]

changing the texture setting from "very high" to "high" resolved the fps drop issue for me

[EmpurataN7]

Originally posted by n_three:

changing the texture setting from "very high" to "high" resolved the fps drop issue for me

I'll try that when I get in next, but I still hope so badly that they fix it without us needing to change our texture settings. Just playing normally with no changing any settings or files and no FPS drops

[medion_no]

I noticed the frame drop starts after changing weather from really misty to sunny for example. After playing a few hours thats it.

[Iron|Cu!]

I've read somewhere that reverting to older nvidia drivers fixed the problem for many users. It seems the latest version has some weird issues. Give it a shot.

I havent had a slightest FPS drop and I havent updated to 555.99 version

[Rex]

It's the PSN overlay that's causing it. I found this out by process of elimination.

Short version: If your GoT boots up with the PSN SDK error, leave it be, you'll be able to play just fine. Unless you;re doing legends, then you need to quit and restart the game every 1-1.5 hours

I noticed that every time without fail the first I booted up GoT from a fresh start the PSN SDK had not initialised. Quitting and reopening the game fixed the issue With the PSN overlay and Legends mode now available, however after 1.5-2 hours later the game would without fail start to freeze at random, even when quitting the game that freezing/hitching would affect my pc (even the start menu would cause a long pause, as if it was checking for something.) until it was rebooted.

However if I didn't restart GoT and played the game without the PSN overlay active the game ran fine. I let it play for 8 hours once without incident, all I had to do was remember to reconnect once in a while to re sync trophies/steam achievements.

Now obviously this wont help if you;re doing legends mode, in that case you need to quit out of the game every hour or so, then come back in to avoid the glitch freezing up the PC. Tedious, but workable.

[medion_no]

Other scenarios where i experienced frame drops afterwards:
Explosive arrows, night-day cycle. tinkering with the technique points....
Never had this issues before latest patch. Happens after playing a hour or so.