Memory leak? Massive performance drops after a few races

[flaccidfella]

Anyone else experiencing this? Game runs perfectly, holds a strong framerate on every track and every car. But it seems like after a handful of times of backing out to the menu and starting a new race it hits a wall and you start experiencing massive performance drops. Close the game and it runs perfectly when you reopen it.

[mayhem]

yes. For me it's after 3 or 4 races (5 laps each). Performance suddenly drops dramatically, restarting the game fixes it. Rinse & repeat.

[valentinofoggy]

Yep also for me, the sides of the track Starts flikkering very hard and Doesn't load the Textures Well.. 1 time today all my screen went red. Closed Evo And restarted and it runs fine.

[stynger]

Hi, I have the same problem and no solution for it. Persist also in 0.140

[Foxi]

Running the game on an RTX3070FE and AMD Ryzen 3800X at 60FPS with DLSS Quality and Medium Graphic Preset with 16 opponents...BUT only on the first race after the game was started. Everytime i finish the first race and start another (same track , same daytime, same cars) it drops down to 30 fps or lower. After full restart of the game it works fine again for one race. Got no idea what was messed up but something is still wrong :( waiting for the next patch. Until now i like what the game looks and feels like. Its a promising start.

So back to your question: Even in the box after loading screen the game is lagging as hell.

[gimlikos84]

I also have this issue.For the first time in main menu and playing a race , I have good fps.After going back to main menu again , and change to new car , and track ,I have 12 fps.

[Thomaso]

Same here

[Some Call Me Tim]

Not tried the latest patch yet but I do get the same issue with FPS loss after a few races. For me this only happens when driving with AI opponents. The FPS loss even happens at the same track when having to restart a race repeatedly after you keep getting rammed off the track by the AI. This is rather annoying but hey it's EA and I'm sure they will fix these issues as long we keep diligently reporting bugs on the 505 games website.

[stynger]

it is still there in 0.150 :(

[LabPong]

I installed the update yesterday, ran a couple events in driving academy. Closed game and did a file verification. Found 187 files. Yup, still massive memory leak going on.

[flaccidfella]

Originally posted by Lab Pong:

I installed the update yesterday, ran a couple events in driving academy. Closed game and did a file verification. Found 187 files. Yup, still massive memory leak going on.

yeah im starting to wonder what exactly they are working on. 5 updates and they are all almost exclusively online features that most people cant access. Really souring my taste on these guys

[rtazz17]

Originally posted by flaccidfella:

Originally posted by Lab Pong:

I installed the update yesterday, ran a couple events in driving academy. Closed game and did a file verification. Found 187 files. Yup, still massive memory leak going on.

yeah im starting to wonder what exactly they are working on. 5 updates and they are all almost exclusively online features that most people cant access. Really souring my taste on these guys

Obviously you dont read the updats. Its not exclusively on line updates. Games been out 3 weeks. Rome not built in a day. You bought a work in progress. Dod kunos put a gun to your head and force payment?

[LabPong]

Originally posted by rtazz17:

Originally posted by flaccidfella:

yeah im starting to wonder what exactly they are working on. 5 updates and they are all almost exclusively online features that most people cant access. Really souring my taste on these guys

Obviously you dont read the updats. Its not exclusively on line updates. Games been out 3 weeks. Rome not built in a day. You bought a work in progress. Dod kunos put a gun to your head and force payment?

SHILLING FOR KUNOS?

NO s h i t its an obvious work in progress, your cliche excuse is tiring. Did Kunos put a gun to your head and make you say this over and over and over? It seems like it.

[GrimJerr]

I have had a similar experience, had to quit game and restart to refresh to usable frame rate.
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[Trip]

Just thought I'd chime in and subscribe to the discussion. I too am getting massive performance drops after several sessions (v 0.1.5, though it's been a problem since the very first version.)

It seems like what brings it about is loading different cars and then progressing into whichever track. Usually after two or three sessions, when the car loads in and I'm ready to go out on track, FPS takes a massive nosedive down to about 5-10 and stays there.

In order to get things going again, I first need to turn all my graphics settings to minimum. Restart the game so that it loads with those minimum settings, and only THEN can I apply my "normal" preferred settings. If I try to load the game with my preferred settings after the fps has tanked, performance is still bad.

I'm not sure how much of this is due to the game obviously being in EA, and how much is due to my trying to run the game on a potato (Xeon E5 1660, RX6600, 16GB RAM, 2TB SSD). Hopefully things will get better with further updates.

[flaccidfella]

Originally posted by rtazz17:

Originally posted by flaccidfella:

yeah im starting to wonder what exactly they are working on. 5 updates and they are all almost exclusively online features that most people cant access. Really souring my taste on these guys

Obviously you dont read the updats. Its not exclusively on line updates. Games been out 3 weeks. Rome not built in a day. You bought a work in progress. Dod kunos put a gun to your head and force payment?

Nobody asked for your cliche shill opinion. I bought a game in early access expecting it get better through updates. We are 5 updates in and the game has not changed in the slightest for the majority of people. There are real issues being ignored in favor of content that most people can't even access. All of this because of an always online feature that nobody even wants and is ruining the racing genre.