Bad Performance

[Kronos Ice]

Is anyone else getting abysmal frame drops with this update? My frames drop to 10-20 for a few minutes after loading in, then shoot up to normal 72. This would only be a few second before, now its minutes for the graphics to catch up. Even on "Standard" graphics this is a problem.

I've also been stuck on a warp loading screen twice now and have had to reset. The game is unplayable for me at this stage.

Specs:
i7-8700k
RTX 2060S
32gb RAM

EDIT: Ensure NVIDIA drivers are up to date, fixed the issue.

EDIT: Issue still persists at times, even with updated drivers.

[Sanddrinker]

Yes the performance is inconsistent. Right after loading the game it's great, but eventually it gets really bad and I have to restart the game.
Traveled to a planet with big oceans and the FPS got unplayable, but then I restarted the game and it got okay for a while.
Then the inventory FPS got really bad, only when the inventory was open. This is an ancient FPS bug. Only fix is to restart the game.
Alt+Tab usually causes the FPS to get bad, sometimes it recovers after a while but usually it doesn't.
I've tried DLSS, FSR, and it doesn't seem to make any difference.
But this game has always had performance issues, it's nothing new.

i7-9700k
RTX 2080S (8G)
32gb RAM

[Kronos Ice]

Originally posted by Sanddrinker:

Yes the performance is inconsistent. Right after loading the game it's great, but eventually it gets really bad and I have to restart the game.
Traveled to a planet with big oceans and the FPS got unplayable, but then I restarted the game and it got okay for a while.
Then the inventory FPS got really bad, only when the inventory was open. This is an ancient FPS bug. Only fix is to restart the game.
Alt+Tab usually causes the FPS to get bad, sometimes it recovers after a while but usually it doesn't.
I've tried DLSS, FSR, and it doesn't seem to make any difference.
But this game has always had performance issues, it's nothing new.

i7-9700k
RTX 2080S (8G)
32gb RAM

The performance seems to be better for me after the hotfix. But Alt Tabbing will probably always kill FPS for a short period.

[Hot 4 Myers]

I really find the performance tanks after revealing Autophages on Dissonant worlds, almost to unplayable levels if those worlds are rainy - rain has always dropped FPS for me. Performance inconsistencies have always been an issue with this game, but I've found since the Worlds II update, the FPS drops on Dissonant worlds are awful.

I only have a GTX 1080 and my system is over 6 years old, but I've never played with crazy high settings (despite nVidia insisting I can run it on ultra)

[FutileSine]

Please see a breakdown I did here (specifically the entire section on C-States: https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/1icvtsq/weird_framerate_issues_underwater_with_specific/

With intel chips.

Basically finally got frustrated enough to do detailed profiling. If you disable C-States on your intel chip (in the bios) so you only have C0/C1 you'll notice the problem magically goes away. Has to do with how texture streaming works and slowness when doing rapid PCIe bus requests when your processor is chilling in power saving mode (NMS is not a CPU intense game and also isn't properly asking to "force" your CPU to move into a higher power state with the vulkan API).

This is why you'll notice if you've been doing a bunch of much more intense things on your PC for a while, somehow NMS stops having problems but the next day it's back to 45 second load times and massive stutter.

Caveat: I tested this with a few people with i7-i9 chips specifically combined with NVIDIA graphics & NVME drives, not claiming it fixes all problems for all people. Disabling power saving C states does not put your CPU in danger, but it does mean it's using more power all the time. To confirm if this is an issue before making changes, use HWINFO to see what C states your processor sits in while NMS is running.

Note: while this isn't impactful for folks who play lots of games anyway (machine always running at higher power) the real thing here is if it FIXES your problem, send a bug report to NMS with the info on what you did.

[Sanddrinker]

Update: possible fix for alt+tab bad FPS problem.
Nvidia Control Panel -> Manage 3D Settings -> Vulkan/OpenGL present method -> set to "Prefer native"

Some have said on other forums to set it to the other value. I tried that, it didn't help. But since setting it to "Prefer native", I have had the game running for several hours and alt+tabbed many times, and the FPS is still smooth. That setting was 'Auto' before I changed anything.

i7-9700k
32 GB
RTX 2080 Super (8G)
Windows 10
Nvidia driver 566.36

NMS graphics settings:

borderless, 3840x2160, vsync ON, max fps 60, High settings, anis filtering 4, GTAO Enhanced, DLSS performance, HDR off, motion blur 0

This could be a coincidence, maybe something else changed, but putting it here if someone else wants to try.