Fps drops DRASTICALLY

[Crystal Pink 🦋🦄]

Hi

In Texas and Idaho the FPS drops drastically, I removed all mods, restarted the game and the problem is still there, no matter if it is on the lowest setting the problem is still there.

sclae is at 150%
SMAA is Low
SSAO is OFF

and I'm sure is not my Pc, because in the rest of maps is not happend this issue just Texas and Idaho. (RTX 2060, i7, 16 ram)

Anybody knows if SCS will fixit?

[WallysWorld]

I'm having the same issue ever since 1.46 both with ATS and ETS2 and I've changed nothing with my graphics settings. Before 1.46, I could easily maintain 60 fps with my i9-9900k and RTX 3080 Ti at 1440p. Now I'm seeing drops down to the low 40's and even high 30's now and then.

Others are also reporting fps issues on the SCS forum: SCS forum thread ATS[forum.scssoft.com]

SCS forum thread ETS2[forum.scssoft.com]

SCS said that they are investigating.

[Crystal Pink 🦋🦄]

Originally posted by WallysWorld:

I'm having the same issue ever since 1.46 both with ATS and ETS2 and others are also reporting fps issues on the SCS forum: SCS forum thread ATS[forum.scssoft.com]

SCS forum thread ETS2[forum.scssoft.com]

SCS said that they are investigating.

Thanks a lot for your reply

[Aspen Ridge]

Here's my settings I'm currently using (quite a few tweaks) and my card is a "shaved down" RTX 2070 Laptop version...about the same as a RTX1600 Series PC card....check it out.

Ok ...so here's the settings I'm using and they work very well (for now)

Values to set in the Config.cfg File

uset r_buffer_page_size "100"
uset g_bloom "0"
uset t_averaging_window_length "144"
Note- set this value to double what frame rate you are locking at
e.g. 60FPS=120 value set…72FPS=144 value set

IMPORTANT NOTE- There is a setting in the CFG File that blacks out the small convex mirrors on both left and right mirrors while leaving the large main mirrors active.
I found this setting to help frame rates as the GPU does not have to draw another set of mirrors. If you prefer to have them active just simply reset the uset r_mirror_group "2"
Back to the default value of “3” and all mirrors will be active.

NVIDIA Settings- Restore Global Settings to DEFAULT BEFORE USING THESE SETTINGS
Program Settings- SELECT American Truck Simulator (These will apply only to ATS)

Anis tropic Filtering -16X
AA FXAA- ON
AA Gamma-ON
AA Mode- Override any application
AA Setting-8X
AA Transparency- 8X (Supersample)
Low Latency Mode-ULTRA
MFAA- ON
Texture Filtering anistropic Sample Optimise- OFF
Texture Filtering Negative LOD-CLAMP
Texture Filtering-High Quality
Texture Filtering Tri-Linear Optimise-ON
Triple Buffering-ON

When done hit APPLY All settings that were changed will be in BOLD TYPE.


ATS IN-Game Settings

Resolution- 1920X1080 (or whatever your native resolution is)
Refresh Rate- 143hz (or whatever your monitor’s refresh rate is)
V-SYNC- Economic (saves energy on notebooks) This will set your FPS to half your refresh rate.
NOTE- If using a 60hz Monitor set V-SYNC to ENABLED (your frames will lock at 60FPS)
In my case it is locked at 72FPS (half my 144hz monitor) which is enough for me.

Scaling- 400% (or less if you get frame drops)
AA (SMAA) DISABLED
SSAO DISABLED
These two settings are controlled through NVIDIA so important to keep them OFF
DOF- ON
Sun shafts-ON
Color Correction- OFF/ON (play with it…I prefer OFF)
Reflection Scaling-100%
EVERYTHING ELSE- HIGH (NOT ever Ultra)
EXCEPT-MIRRORS- ALL 3 SETTINGS SET TO MEDIUM (Resolution Quality and Distance) IMPORTANT!
Anistropic Filtering- Slider all the way to the right (Max)
Normal Maps-ON
Traffic Headlights-ON
Secondary Vehicle Lights -OFF (IMPORTANT)
Light Visibility- I use a CUSTOM (set through Config.cfg File) but HIGH will work as well
Pedestrians-OFF
I also set HDR ON in Windows 10 as I find it tones down the over brightness that ATS has
But that’s just my preference.

Hope it might work well for you

[Micer]

fps has dropped since texas.

[Crystal Pink 🦋🦄]

Originally posted by Aspen Ridge:

Here's my settings I'm currently using (quite a few tweaks) and my card is a "shaved down" RTX 2070 Laptop version...about the same as a RTX1600 Series PC card....check it out.

Ok ...so
Hope it might work well for you

Hi, I did that you suggested, and it was helpful, just in the config file, something went wrong, and when I launched the game the screen was completley black but with sound, the file as default was created again after some tryes, and finally I recovered the image, and I was able to play it, and about the performance of the game is now much better but I got stuttering, and form 19 FPS to 30 FPS at night I think is better than nothing,

Thanks a lot for your help, I did 6 long deliveries.

[Crystal Pink 🦋🦄]

Originally posted by Micer:

fps has dropped since texas.

It was since Idaho release, and no one noticed, and still no one believes me, even the rework in las Vegas has fps drop

[ttower]

Originally posted by Butterfly Pink 🦋:

Originally posted by Micer:

fps has dropped since texas.

It was since Idaho release, and no one noticed, and still no one believes me, even the rework in las Vegas has fps drop :MotoGP21tools:

Newer game areas have more details, and will take more GPU power to run. This includes the reworks. The game doesnt get less FPS in these areas, it demands more from your PC for the better detail, which leads to lower FPS for many players.

[TB-Death2-U]

Originally posted by ttower:

Originally posted by Butterfly Pink 🦋:

It was since Idaho release, and no one noticed, and still no one believes me, even the rework in las Vegas has fps drop :MotoGP21tools:

Newer game areas have more details, and will take more GPU power to run. This includes the reworks. The game doesnt get less FPS in these areas, it demands more from your PC for the better detail, which leads to lower FPS for many players.

Not only more GPU but CPU power as well.
Recently upgraded to Ryzen 5600 and Power Color 6700XT Red Devil and I never drop out of the 70's at 400% percent scaling and max settings on everything at 1440p.
As the game moves on upgrades are required.

[Wolfgang]

Originally posted by TB-Death2-U:

Originally posted by ttower:

Newer game areas have more details, and will take more GPU power to run. This includes the reworks. The game doesnt get less FPS in these areas, it demands more from your PC for the better detail, which leads to lower FPS for many players.

Not only more GPU but CPU power as well.
Recently upgraded to Ryzen 5600 and Power Color 6700XT Red Devil and I never drop out of the 70's at 400% percent scaling and max settings on everything at 1440p.
As the game moves on upgrades are required.

This!

You can NOT think that just because your setup worked 3 or 5 years ago with the highest settings that it will continue to do so. You have to move forward.

@OP: It would be great stating which CPU you have since there are a lot of i7 CPUs which have all widely different specs. Quite some of them have integrated GPUs and seeing that you state to have 30FPS makes me think that you are currently running the game on your integrated GPU instead of your dedicated GPU.

[Qrazy]

Originally posted by Wolfgang:

You can NOT think that just because your setup worked 3 or 5 years ago with the highest settings that it will continue to do so. You have to move forward.

I feel personally attacked!

My 2700x+1080ti system still plays this with zero issues. Admittedly I did finally have to drop down from maxed settings to high a few updates back to maintain the smoothness. Good thing I have a backup PC.

[Silverkite]

Originally posted by ttower:

Originally posted by Butterfly Pink 🦋:

It was since Idaho release, and no one noticed, and still no one believes me, even the rework in las Vegas has fps drop :MotoGP21tools:

Newer game areas have more details, and will take more GPU power to run. This includes the reworks. The game doesnt get less FPS in these areas, it demands more from your PC for the better detail, which leads to lower FPS for many players.

no, game sometimes goes to 60/50 fps down to zero even at minimum details, most of the times it seems that it tries to load different audio sources at once and it drops down to 1fps, the other thing causing excessive bumps is the automatic save system and the fact that WoT it's getting too intrusive for my likes as in the past it didn't tamper with truck settings, but now it is, lastly the economic sync it's also causing fps spikes, specially when it happens during a save

[Wolfgang]

Originally posted by Silverkite:

Originally posted by ttower:

Newer game areas have more details, and will take more GPU power to run. This includes the reworks. The game doesnt get less FPS in these areas, it demands more from your PC for the better detail, which leads to lower FPS for many players.

no, game sometimes goes to 60/50 fps down to zero even at minimum details, most of the times it seems that it tries to load different audio sources at once and it drops down to 1fps, the other thing causing excessive bumps is the automatic save system and the fact that WoT it's getting too intrusive for my likes as in the past it didn't tamper with truck settings, but now it is, lastly the economic sync it's also causing fps spikes, specially when it happens during a save

I can confirm NONE of these. If the auto save is too slow for you then your HDD is likely the cause of it.

[Silverkite]

Originally posted by Wolfgang:

Originally posted by Silverkite:

no, game sometimes goes to 60/50 fps down to zero even at minimum details, most of the times it seems that it tries to load different audio sources at once and it drops down to 1fps, the other thing causing excessive bumps is the automatic save system and the fact that WoT it's getting too intrusive for my likes as in the past it didn't tamper with truck settings, but now it is, lastly the economic sync it's also causing fps spikes, specially when it happens during a save

I can confirm NONE of these. If the auto save is too slow for you then your HDD is likely the cause of it.

My system can run ArmA 2/3 at high settings with no bumps, and ArmA games do have a whole lot of devils compared to a bunch of flipped assets contained on ATS and ETS2.
I did not say that the auto save it's too slow, it's a minus 5 to 10fps down, the they go up to 60.

If you disconnect from WoT or suspend a delivery then:
Truck Mirrors, FoV and seat settings (for now) will stay untouched
Suspension heigth, side windows, navigator, lights will be reset to close/off and the navigator map will default to 2nd option.
It didn't happen in the past, but right now each two or three minutes it save both truck and trailer position on the X,Y and Z axis, that means if you roll over due stupid AI torpedoing you and load your quicksave your are screwed, in the past a quicksave would just save your day.

Economy sync also does make me to drop 5fps or so

In the last days I had to shut down the game and also to reset my desktop twice on McAllen and Brownsville, due GTA effect and dumb AI tboning me too much while exploring dem new crappy romboid junctions I set g_traffic to 0, each time the plane flew over or other city sounds loaded AFTER TELEPORTING through external camera, game was freezing up, despite city assets being loaded at their fullest, another city located either in the midwest of Texas, can't remember which one has a garage nearby a train crossing, was freezing my game on start-up, for three times in a row I had to kill ATS process, at the fourth time I decided to quick travel on the garage that was basically 100 meters behind and the game loaded up fine.

[Wolfgang]

Are you sure this isn't a mod problem? Because my gaming notebook can handle the game without issues in 60FPS mid to low settings having an i5-8300H, 16GB RAM and a GTX 1050 mobile with 4GB VRAM and the game being on a M.2 NVMe SSD.

[ErnurWolf]

I have no mods not even the two new dlc and the fps drops almost to crashing in some locations since 2 updates ago.