This game took a huge arrow in the knee with its trash optimization

[SparkzMentalz]

I'm so glad I tried this on PC Gamepass before buying into the hype. The optimization is pure ass crack for this. Once I escaped the sewers, the frame rate immediately dipped into single digits, making a simple mudcrab battle almost feel like an Elden Ring boss fight.

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runs fine for me

upgrade potato?

[FolkloricRex]

fine for me

[Smooth Operator]

Single digits is wild. What are your specs?

[SparkzMentalz]

Originally posted by Smooth Operator:

Single digits is wild. What are your specs?

Intel i7
RTX 3090
32gb ram

The sewers were fine but the frame rate went to ♥♥♥♥ once I hit the open world. I can't even get 60 FPS on medium settings.

I've seen players with much better specs than me also say they get low frame rates so it's looking like it's just bad optimization.

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Originally posted by SparkzMentalz:

Intel i7

which i7? just saying i7 means nothing

[SparkzMentalz]

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which i7? just saying i7 means nothing [/quote]

And neither does any of your replies. You should buy me a new PC since you care so much.

Why edit your first reply just to type "upgrade potato?" And from looking at your profile, we're playing similar "potato games." Only you got waaaaaaaay more free time on your hands obviously.

[Ollof]

My AMD/Radeon main rig runs it perfectly. My 12700/3060 rig is horrible. It runs fine to a point then the FPS drops to 10-15, save and reload on the spot and it runs fine again until I've travelled a fair distance on the map.

[Edelgris]

Originally posted by Ollof:

My AMD/Radeon main rig runs it perfectly. My 12700/3060 rig is horrible. It runs fine to a point then the FPS drops to 10-15, save and reload on the spot and it runs fine again until I've travelled a fair distance on the map.

Yeah, this is one of the main problems. Feels like a memory leak. I think the game keeps loading stuff into memory, but doesn't remove unneeded data properly. So it just gets full after a while and chokes.

[SparkzMentalz]

Originally posted by Ollof:

My AMD/Radeon main rig runs it perfectly. My 12700/3060 rig is horrible. It runs fine to a point then the FPS drops to 10-15, save and reload on the spot and it runs fine again until I've travelled a fair distance on the map.

It runs better for me in caves and interiors. Soon as I step outside the FPS drops immediately. Save and reload will start me off at 30 FPS but then it quickly drops to single digits even on low settings.

Many Gamepass reviews say this game ran fine before some recent patch update that removes DLSS and frame generation options. It's definitely something on Bethesda / Virtouso's end.

[TheRandomGuy]

My 12700K / 4080 Rig runs it OKish.

I have everything at Ultra, DLSS on Quality w/ FG on, get around 100-120 FPS in Open World, 170 in indoor areas. Have had a few crashes, once on loading and most others on closing the game.

Do have stutters tho. Usually in Open World, not so much in cities. Honestly think it's more so due to how the original game loaded cells as you moved through the open world.

I've also heard a few people say that FSR seemed to have less stutters than DLSS, possibly a bad implementation of it?

[Smooth Operator]

Originally posted by SparkzMentalz:

The sewers were fine but the frame rate went to ♥♥♥♥ once I hit the open world. I can't even get 60 FPS on medium settings.

I've seen players with much better specs than me also say they get low frame rates so it's looking like it's just bad optimization.

Have you gone through the different settings and trying to set each one to low?
There might be one or two that are tanking your system.
Hardware lumen will do that.
Try going software - low. Game still looks amazing with it.
If that doesn't work, try the Lumen begone trick with the engine.ini file.
Shadows on vegetation and indoors will look like dark noise, but the game should run way better.

[Fluffy_Llama]

i was having a lot of stuttering in the open world area, im using a 4090 with a 13700k, but after i disabled DLSS and lowered AA to FXAA the game is very smooth now

[Yosun]

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[Lucidess]

Would you say, it's a Ballista arrow to the knee?

[SparkzMentalz]

Originally posted by Lucidess:

Would you say, it's a Ballista arrow to the knee?

Yes, one of those magic arrows looted from the Dark Brotherhood sanctuary.