Whats going on with the fps in this game?

[Loco]

How do you fix these extremely low fps?

[Dumle]

I also had major fps problems and i ended up capping it to 30. Not ideal but in this kind of game i prefer a stable 30 over the fps being all over the place.

[† Shepard †]

Same problem here on I7 8700 and RTX 2060, the fps counter seems locked at 44. It's really annoying. Looks like I will have to do the same as Dumle

[Corro Dedd]

Same here. I only got 30somewhat to maximum 43FPS, graphics card is nowhere near limit (Vega64, running this game at around 1100MHz and 70-80W peak power usage), no thread on CPU is at 100%.
Also, it does not run on 144hz on my monitor, also adaptive sync (or freesync on AMD) is not working properly.

Edit: I think, it's an issue with thread managing by the game engine: When I limit it to 2 cores (real ones, not SMT/HT virtual Cores), I'm getting unstable FPS, but I also see up to 55FPS. Allocating it to 1 real and its virtual SMT/HT core, the game runs at 38FPS. Singlecore will result in below 30 FPS, BUT: If I move the mouse, I still get 38-40FPS? wtf...

Edit 2: I tried another tip from someone else by installing Blizzards battle-net and playing with a controller, but that didn't help.

[eZudo]

Worked fine for me after disabling fullscreen optimization. However I've read on another thread that this does apparently not work anymore with Windows 10 2004. Except cutscenes, those felt like they always play out in 30 fps.

[Corro Dedd]

OK, it seems, MS is really proficient in f***ing up their OS and creating incompatibilities, where none existed before

[RandyFisher]

Same here, espacially in the first 10 - 15 min after starting the game (while cpu and gpu usage is low) and only indoors. It seems to get smoother later.

[Dolf112]

I bought this game a few hours back because I've always like the idea of it and wanted to test it out but damn, those frames.

I've tried all the tricks, controllers, battlenet, optimization, vsync. Nothing I do works, I just sit at 42fps.

Switching the graphics settings, Switching resolution, switching to fullscreen, nothing changes a thing.

I've already requested a refund as it's not worth the headache.

I'm still interested to actually find out what the issue is though. I hope there is a fix.

[Carda NL]

I enabled VSync in Nvidia Control panel, disabled it ingame, set game fullscreen, just to make sure running battle dot net in the background (haven't tested without running it) and I'm getting 60fps locked in 1440p while not in dialogue indoors/outdoors. While in dialogue I notice the game desperately fighting the FPS to revert back to 30fps and it dips once a while. (GTX 1080). Hope this helps solving that 42FPS lock you guys are having. BTW, I also locked my display to 60hz in Nvidia control panel to help compensate for the 60 FPS.

https://ibb.co/PFBwp1F

[Corro Dedd]

I really don't get, what this game connects to battle-net? I've tried it but it still runs crappy. Also tried disabling enhanced sync, driver enforced vsync on and off and HBCC on/off, but no use.
https://abload.de/image.php?img=thecouncil_2020_09_13wfj69.png

//edit
I sent a crash report via the crashreporter executable and explained, this issue to them. Maybe the devs have a look at it.

[eZudo]

What Windows 10 version are you peeps running?

[Carda NL]

Originally posted by dhamokk:

I really don't get, what this game connects to battle-net? I've tried it but it still runs crappy. Also tried disabling enhanced sync, driver enforced vsync on and off and HBCC on/off, but no use.
https://abload.de/image.php?img=thecouncil_2020_09_13wfj69.png

//edit
I sent a crash report via the crashreporter executable and explained, this issue to them. Maybe the devs have a look at it.

Yeah somehow the game seems to render the dialogue scenes in 30fps, even if it's showing 60fps on your screen, you can see it's somehow rendering the animations slower. How is you FPS when you are not in a dialogue inside the manor?

More weird, your rendering MS is 16.6 but FPS shows as 42. An MS of 16.6 should be 60FPS (1000 / 16.6).

[Corro Dedd]

The frametimes are very jumpy from 8 to 50, most times between 15 and 26ms.
I made a short videoclip, mind, that the video is in 30FPS which makes the motion look even more laggy/unsteady as it appears in game.
https://youtu.be/nlW4HbsZEYA

@eZudo
I'm on Windows 10 Pro build 2004

[Carda NL]

@eZudo Windows 10 Pro build 1909. Hard to believe it's because a Windows build but I'm no expert what's going on in the background of Win10.

[eZudo]

@Carda: I'm actually on build 1903 still, but this might still work on 1909:

Tick both "disable fullscreen optimizations" and "run as Administrator" for the "The Council.exe" in steamapps\common\The Council.

After doing this (atleast on 1903) fps, except for dialogues, the game now always seems to run as high as the gpu can push it for me. It's still rather poorly optimized I might say, looking rather mediocre and only pushing around 80-90 or so FPS in most cases on a i9-9900k and a rtx2080, but at least fps no longer seem to be limited to an absurdly low framerate.

[Dolf112]

Originally posted by eZudo:

@Carda: I'm actually on build 1903 still, but this might still work on 1909:

Tick both "disable fullscreen optimizations" and "run as Administrator" for the "The Council.exe" in steamapps\common\The Council.

After doing this (atleast on 1903) fps, except for dialogues, the game now always seems to run as high as the gpu can push it for me. It's still rather poorly optimized I might say, looking rather mediocre and only pushing around 80-90 or so FPS in most cases on a i9-9900k and a rtx2080, but at least fps no longer seem to be limited to an absurdly low framerate.

I have tried this in pro 19041 and it doesn't change a thing sadly.