This game makes my RTX 3060 run like a GTX 750 from 2014.

[Jinrooow]

While I do get around 60-80 fps outside and during combat, in base camp I get a solid 20-30 fps (high settings). Am I doing something wrong or the game just really runs like this?

[Ottomic]

The game really runs like this.

You need "high" textures (with the high-res texture pack installed) for the game to not look like a ps3 launch title, and you need to run ray tracing for the lighting not to look like TV static. This in turn means you are going to have incredibly high performance overhead, forcing you to run framegen to even be able to smell 60 fps.

The only advice I can provide in this regard is the fact that you can download a mod that lets you run FSR framegen with DLSS upscaling. DLSS on "performance" and FSR framegen is imo the best way to get as much performance as you can out of this.

[Kiririn]

What's your CPU?

This game is a mess. At base camp it is going to run worse.

[Gamefever]

The game is demanding.

The answers as to why your game is not getting high FPS is actually very simple.
You need more Video RAM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFlaymC-vZI

How important is having more VRAM than 8 in 2025, well I hope that video above gives you an idea.

Yes an RTX 3060 usually has only 8 gigs of VRAM, I am aware that there are models with more that those models didnt have a universal designation that made it obvious which one it was does not help.

Not to mention also the game is demanding on CPU, answers on that have been exhaustively gone over in other threads from the added physics to tracking life/rot cycles of various life forms in the game and so on.

As far as how the game looks you could get yourself a Re-Shade off nexus and solve that in about 5 minutes, so that is on you there are options that have low hit to performance and improve the game by removing the washed out colors. Heck you have options that remove post processing effects that will give you FPS as well so again go look around on mod websites for some solutions.

[Vethala]

Originally posted by Ottomic:

The game really runs like this.

You need "high" textures (with the high-res texture pack installed) for the game to not look like a ps3 launch title, and you need to run ray tracing for the lighting not to look like TV static. This in turn means you are going to have incredibly high performance overhead, forcing you to run framegen to even be able to smell 60 fps.

The only advice I can provide in this regard is the fact that you can download a mod that lets you run FSR framegen with DLSS upscaling. DLSS on "performance" and FSR framegen is imo the best way to get as much performance as you can out of this.

This game has raytraced lighting? I thought it was only reflections, and those are not worth it as they look terrible in the RE engine, specially the water, it looks opaque and muddy like it did in RE4 remake. Non RT reflections water is way better in both titles.

[Kiririn]

3060 cards have 12GB of VRAM. It might be possible that there are some region-specific models that have different amounts, but every single 3060 I have seen is 12GB.

So it has the same VRAM as a 5070.

Originally posted by Gamefever:

The game is demanding.

The answers as to why your game is not getting high FPS is actually very simple.
You need more Video RAM.

Yes an RTX 3060 usually has only 8 gigs of VRAM....

[Vethala]

Originally posted by Gamefever:

The game is demanding.

The answers as to why your game is not getting high FPS is actually very simple.
You need more Video RAM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFlaymC-vZI

How important is having more VRAM than 8 in 2025, well I hope that video above gives you an idea.

Yes an RTX 3060 usually has only 8 gigs of VRAM, I am aware that there are models with more that those models didnt have a universal designation that made it obvious which one it was does not help.

Not to mention also the game is demanding on CPU, answers on that have been exhaustively gone over in other threads from the added physics to tracking life/rot cycles of various life forms in the game and so on.

As far as how the game looks you could get yourself a Re-Shade off nexus and solve that in about 5 minutes, so that is on you there are options that have low hit to performance and improve the game by removing the washed out colors. Heck you have options that remove post processing effects that will give you FPS as well so again go look around on mod websites for some solutions.

The game is not "demanding". The game is just non-optimized. There's a difference. The game isn't doing anything spectacular or even remotely worthy of hogging up that much VRAM. This game is extremely resource wasteful. Let's not get confused here.

[Ottomic]

Originally posted by Vethala:

This game has raytraced lighting? I thought it was only reflections, and those are not worth it as they look terrible in the RE engine, specially the water, it looks opaque and muddy like it did in RE4 remake. Non RT reflections water is way better in both titles.

With ray tracing off the game uses a parody of a lighting system that creates these disco ball -like puddles that keep jittering like TV static. My recommendation to enable RT is more to avoid these than anything else lol.

(it looks much better in the screenshot than in movement)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3456026361

[Kiririn]

No idea what they were thinking with this lighting system. It even looks bad compared to a Switch from 2017.

Someone posted a screenshot "showing off" the game yet the indirect lighting is horrible. Take a look at the shaded parts of the hunter compared to a Switch game with a 2015 tablet SOC. Even the distant shadows are non-existent.

https://images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/22062835135908613/004B8258448771D88008CA7CE3DFE6CF1670C903/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

https://static1.thegamerimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/tearsofthekingdom.jpg

[Gamefever]

Originally posted by Kiririn:

3060 cards have 12GB of VRAM. It might be possible that there are some region-specific models that have different amounts, but every single 3060 I have seen is 12GB.

So it has the same VRAM as a 5070.

Originally posted by Gamefever:

The game is demanding.

The answers as to why your game is not getting high FPS is actually very simple.
You need more Video RAM.

Yes an RTX 3060 usually has only 8 gigs of VRAM....

Oh so this 8 gig VRAM 3060 card doesnt exist?
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-3060-8-gb.c3937

Someone should let Techpowerup know, that would make them look bad you know.

There is no way to easily tell without designation of the card that a RTX 3060 has 8 gigs or 12 gigs of VRAM.

Originally posted by Vethala:

Originally posted by Gamefever:

The game is demanding.

The answers as to why your game is not getting high FPS is actually very simple.
You need more Video RAM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFlaymC-vZI

How important is having more VRAM than 8 in 2025, well I hope that video above gives you an idea.

Yes an RTX 3060 usually has only 8 gigs of VRAM, I am aware that there are models with more that those models didnt have a universal designation that made it obvious which one it was does not help.

Not to mention also the game is demanding on CPU, answers on that have been exhaustively gone over in other threads from the added physics to tracking life/rot cycles of various life forms in the game and so on.

As far as how the game looks you could get yourself a Re-Shade off nexus and solve that in about 5 minutes, so that is on you there are options that have low hit to performance and improve the game by removing the washed out colors. Heck you have options that remove post processing effects that will give you FPS as well so again go look around on mod websites for some solutions.

The game is not "demanding". The game is just non-optimized. There's a difference. The game isn't doing anything spectacular or even remotely worthy of hogging up that much VRAM. This game is extremely resource wasteful. Let's not get confused here.

I've not seen anything in the game that would suggest that the game is not demanding on hardware. I have not read anywhere that the game to be optimized to the degree that typical forum posters suggest and I have been in discussions that were a tad more serious about such a discussion than typical ones.
I've even offered some brutal options on how the game could be optimized for the low end systems listed in the suggestion spec sheet.
Ultimately if the game runs on those systems an it runs at ~30 FPS, that meets typical industry standards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mklCPWNyJC0
Speaking of which, these low end systems and end-users are likely not up to speed on the findings of system RAM and how it also effects performance.
Here is a video by Hardware Unboxed.

Interesting, looks like Dragons Dogma II is reported by Hardware Unboxed to use around 17.6 gigs of system RAM. Hmm what gaming company made Dragons Dogma II and on what game Engine?

[Kiririn]

Since you didn't read what I wrote I will write it again. "It might be possible that there are some region-specific models that have different amounts, but every single 3060 I have seen is 12GB."

I don't know where the OP is located but in my region I can't buy an 8GB 3060.

Originally posted by Gamefever:

Originally posted by Kiririn:

3060 cards have 12GB of VRAM. It might be possible that there are some region-specific models that have different amounts, but every single 3060 I have seen is 12GB.

So it has the same VRAM as a 5070.

Oh so this 8 gig VRAM 3060 card doesnt exist?
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-3060-8-gb.c3937

Someone should let Techpowerup know, that would make them look bad you know.

There is no way to easily tell without designation of the card that a RTX 3060 has 8 gigs or 12 gigs of VRAM.

[Gamefever]

Originally posted by Kiririn:

Since you didn't read what I wrote I will write it again. "It might be possible that there are some region-specific models that have different amounts, but every single 3060 I have seen is 12GB."

I don't know where the OP is located but in my region I can't buy an 8GB 3060.

Originally posted by Gamefever:

Oh so this 8 gig VRAM 3060 card doesnt exist?
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-3060-8-gb.c3937

Someone should let Techpowerup know, that would make them look bad you know.

There is no way to easily tell without designation of the card that a RTX 3060 has 8 gigs or 12 gigs of VRAM.

Fair enough.

[Ottomic]

Originally posted by Gamefever:

I've not seen anything in the game that would suggest that the game is not demanding on hardware.

I have not seen anything that would suggest the game is demanding, frankly. It has worse texture quality than Rise, it's draw distance is usually incredibly limited due to the fact that half the game happens either in caves or in 0 visibility weather, and both its environments and lighting system are notably worse than World's.

I'm sorry, but there is no reason this game shouldn't run acceptably in a computer that can run Elden Ring in "high" preset at 60fps (without framegen), other than shoddy optimization, and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ culling and asset streaming.

[Rastek]

The game isn't demanding, it's just the worst optimized piece of crap that's come out of the games industry

[Gamefever]

Here are Hardware related solutions.

1) install the game to a Solid State Drive or M.2 (NVME)

If you dont have the space or just dont have one consider purchasing one.
Depending on where you are this might be as affordable as purchasing system RAM.

2) Look at system RAM,
IF you have 16 or possibly less, consider that a 32 gig RAM kit of DDR4 does cost about 45 dollars that is less than a new game costs right now.
Very easy to install these, just hit the release lever an pull em out.
Push the new ones in you will hear a snapping noise, done.

3) Consider your graphics card.
Does it have at least 12 gigs of VRAM?
If no, than consider a new graphics card with 12 or even 16 gigs of video memory.
Check wattage on your PSU, how much does it have?
Check wattage on your current graphics card?
Check wattage on the graphics card you want to get.
IF wattage of new card is same as older card or less than its a simple upgrade.
Hit release lever, pull old card...Insert new card and done.
-This could be cheaper than the next option.

4) Consider the CPU and Motherboard.
Does the motherboard support a better model of CPU?
Would the better model of CPU require a better cooling fan?
What wattage does the CPU you have now need?
Would the new CPU go over the wattage your PSU provides?
If all that checks out well.
Now you have to use screwdriver to remove the fan and cpu.
Insert new CPU, apply PC paste, install cooling fan...
Potentially this upgrade is going to cost as much as a GPU upgrade but usually its less money and more effort than a GPU.

The easiest least cost solutions are RAM and storage drive those are fast upgrades work fine.

[Rexon]

the game is just bad optimize
even my 5070 struggle too on dessert camp and volcano it drop bellow 60 fps with many people