FPS Bug (Slow Motion)

[Brother Maze]

I have a strange problem, not sure if its entirely game or hardware related, im inclined to think its the game, as it runs fine for 70% of the time, but after 15 minutes to 2 hours of playing the game
it will randomly drop from a somewhat steady 40 or so FPS to about 5 frame a second, and makes the game unbearable. any potential solutions?

Specs: Intel i7-3537U core cpu
Nvidia Geforce GT 735M
Windows 10
8Gb Ram

[Eggling]

same problem here mate

SPECS:
amd 8320
nvidia geforce gtx 660
windows 10
8 gb ram

desktop

i assume is a w10 problem?

[Brother Maze]

Set everything to lowest graphics and it hasnt fixed it, and ive tried several other things that have worked for others, still not working and it really annoys me

[Eggling]

someone find a fix?

[JamuThatsWho]

GT M cards are usually much lower spec than desktop equivalents. GT isn't really for gaming, you need a GTX tbh.

[Jonny Sparta]

sound like a memory leak, i see ur both using 8 gigs of ram as well. Ive noticed the game will use 10 gigs of pagefile but only 4 of my 16gigs of ram.

i wouldn't run out and buy more ram tho.. this games go somany issues. but maybe a larger virtual memory pool would help, might be worth a shot.

also try Razer Cortex, crazy auto optimizing might get some serious gains from it, in this and other titles

[gamertaboo]

I've read someone else say that they were able to Alt-Tab out and back in and it goes back to normal.

I would suggest watching your temperatures in-game though, this sounds very much like your GPU is throttling due to heat after playing for a while. You can use MSI Afterburner[download.msi.com] to watch your temps in-game if you don't already.

[Eggling]

Originally posted by gamertaboo:

I've read someone else say that they were able to Alt-Tab out and back in and it goes back to normal.

I would suggest watching your temperatures in-game though, this sounds very much like your GPU is throttling due to heat after playing for a while. You can use MSI Afterburner[download.msi.com] to watch your temps in-game if you don't already.

temperatures are normal, like 40-50 cº

[Eggling]

Originally posted by Jonny Sparta:

sound like a memory leak, i see ur both using 8 gigs of ram as well. Ive noticed the game will use 10 gigs of pagefile but only 4 of my 16gigs of ram.

i wouldn't run out and buy more ram tho.. this games go somany issues. but maybe a larger virtual memory pool would help, might be worth a shot.

also try Razer Cortex, crazy auto optimizing might get some serious gains from it, in this and other titles

i am using already razer cortex, and it should not be a problem with 8 gb ram, i am using 50% of ram ...

[gamertaboo]

Originally posted by Eggling:

Originally posted by gamertaboo:

I've read someone else say that they were able to Alt-Tab out and back in and it goes back to normal.

I would suggest watching your temperatures in-game though, this sounds very much like your GPU is throttling due to heat after playing for a while. You can use MSI Afterburner[download.msi.com] to watch your temps in-game if you don't already.

temperatures are normal, like 40-50 cº

There's no way your GPU is 40-50°C in-game in a notebook. I'm not trying to be crass here but I've been using gaming notebooks for years, and that is the temps they idle at.

[darkcynic]

I assume you are using high performance power settings so its not something like it going into power saving efforts?

[Brother Maze]

High performance power settings are what its set to, and the problem i have is the game is barely taking up half my Comps memory and CPU, so that might be the issue? My comp is a little old now (3 yrs) so i imagine it should be taking up more Memory and CPU than just half, might be part of the issue
It runs fine for a while then slows down completely.

[togetoge]

same here

[snipershotman]

It is recommended a video card with 4gb, if your have 2gb version of an old video card there is nothing you can do to fix lag. Some areas of the game require more than 2gb and if you only have 2gb, ur system will use ur ram to compensate which is slower.

You can make the fps drops less perceptable using a cap on ur max fps in game. I used the program rivatuner which came with msi afterburner to limit the fps to 50. Drops from 60 to 40 is much more perceptable than 50 to 40.

Lower your resolution from 1080p to 900p or 720p and lower graphics settings. Use the medium preset and low shadows, turn off antialiasing, depth of field and motion blur.

In my case lowering the resolution make the game playable w fps varying between 40-50 in most areas and on rare exceptions drops to 37 in firelink and even 30 in dragon barracks area.