Massive frame rate drop while moving.

[Aanorith]

I had no problems with the game up until the third day when I went hunting for food.
At first it was like normal but then out of nowhere framerate went from 75 to maybe 6. Like watching a slide show. But ONLY when I move. Looking around with the camera and standing still its perfectly smooth.

I never changed anything in the settings before this happend. I have tinkered with different settings now without any results. Anyone had similar problems and maybe know a fix?

[Drunk Zombie]

If you exit the game and restart is the problem still there?

[Aanorith]

Yes. The only thing I haven't tried in my limited experience of fixing things, would be a reinstall.

[Drunk Zombie]

That is strange. If a restart fixed it, that would point to a memory leak, but this is odd. Is it always the same map, or different ones? You stated you played with settings, I assume you have used auto-detect to set the video settings? Do you have the newest driver for your video card installed?

[Drunk Zombie]

Question, if you don't reinstall and instead just start a new game, how is it?

[Aanorith]

When I first started the game the only thing I changed was the resolution. Is it auto detected by default? I started a new game and the problem remains. Extreem choppyness while moving. Camera and character movement becomes sluggish.

Will try a reinstall next.

[Aanorith]

The reinstall did not help. I tinkered some more with the settings, the auto detect sets everything to the lowest, so I bumped it up a notch and enabled all the checked ghraphics options. Right now its working again but I am still suscpicious hehe.

[Drunk Zombie]

That could be your problem, bumping things above what the autodetect set. It might work on some areas but the busier ones might cause problems. I have a decent vid card and I have antialiasing and anisotropic filtering off, plus SSAO, HRD and Verticle Sync unchecked.

Well let me know how things go.

[Aanorith]

Thanks for taking the time to comment bud.

[Kosmos]

I just bought the game and experience the same problem : FPS drops down to ~15 from 150+ when i move.
It actually happens when I try to change Lighting quality from Custom (wtf? there's no such item in the drop-down list!) to any other, even lowest.

[morph113]

Yeah thats a problem I have had since the first beta patch with the game. For me it happens when I change the lighting quality to lowest. If I set lighting quality to anything else than lowest I don't get the fps drops while moving. I hope this will be fixed someday. Running the game on lowest graphic details shouldn't decrease the performance.

[Skaldy]

Also keep in mind larger the movement is more frame drops. if i go alone it is fine 2 people fine 3 is getting little slower 4 is getting slower then if dozens of zombies want to move it is a stop motion game for me.

[Drunk Zombie]

Make sure the game is using your vid card and not the onboard one. If using windows 8, play in win 7 compatibility mode.

[Kosmos]

Originally posted by Drunk Zombie:

Make sure the game is using your vid card and not the onboard one. If using windows 8, play in win 7 compatibility mode.

I am sure, I use descrete graphics.
And the problem is not 'on my side' since when i'm not running, fps is high. It's definetly the game's bug.

[Skaldy]

Game has issues with laptop cards because you are not the first one report this kind of thing

[Drunk Zombie]

Make sure SSAO and HDR are off. Currently some maps will reenable them. Will be fixed in the next patch.