New to Kingdom Come -> low FPS

[Xamurai]

My PC struggles a bit with high graphic setting, i am not suprised by this. GTX 1080 and PC starts to age. but still manage on avg 50fps on very high graphics with drops now & to 30.

But what bothers me most cutscenes run at only 7-20fps. Even if i lower the graphics... this is unacceptable. Is this a bug?

[BimboGooch]

the game if I remember is kinda cpu intensive. But this game does not run too well. In open areas with a 1070 and a ryzen 7 4.5ghz 8 core 3800x cpu I can get like 60-70 fps, but that depends, in forest im getting maybe 60ish, in cities anywhere from 40 to 50.

Cutscenes are locked at 30 ive never gotten below. So that might be a bug. You should be getting more fps than me, but your cpu could be total ass.

[Xamurai]

My CPU is quite okay but i might manually destroyed the software over the years.

[2GenL]

Decrease render distance a bit - less assets for your cpu to load in and handle at each instance

[BimboGooch]

Originally posted by 2GenL:

Decrease render distance a bit - less assets for your cpu to load in and handle at each instance

Render distance doesnt really matter, that hardly makes a difference for me. What hurts fps the most is like foliage at high settings, at least for me. But then again by "not that bad of a cpu" isnt really something to go off, especially when they say "over the years" could be a 5 year old cpu that was mid tier back on launch xD.

[Valden21]

I would suggest that you lower the texture settings, especially on the foliage. There are a LOT of forested areas in the game, and you spend a lot of time in them.

[BimboGooch]

Originally posted by Valden21:

I would suggest that you lower the texture settings, especially on the foliage. There are a LOT of forested areas in the game, and you spend a lot of time in them.

textures on his card being lowered will not make a bit of a difference in this game.
Foliage though, yes I keep that on medium for me other wise it stutters a lot more when loading in the textures of foliage, and in general runs worse

[Xamurai]

Aah funny thing. My graphics were at very high on a 2K screen. So i moved to just high. It improved very little. But i noticed my Vsync was on. turned it off and the cutcenes now max out at 90 easily. (i capped max frames to 90fps in nvidea config settings) In game its now easy +70fps.

Anyway the game magically revived :)

[BimboGooch]

Originally posted by Xamurai:

Aah funny thing. My graphics were at very high on a 2K screen. So i moved to just high. It improved very little. But i noticed my Vsync was on. turned it off and the cutcenes now max out at 90 easily. (i capped max frames to 90fps in nvidea config settings) In game its now easy +70fps.

Anyway the game magically revived :)

I recommend turning textures to the highest, with a 1080 you can do that with little to no fps loss. I usually like to tweak all settings to get the best looks, for the least cost, and with a 1070 8gb of vram the only game that textures makes an impact, is red dead redemption to on ultra. So your card should 100% be fine for that. I even use the HD DLC texture pack

[vine]

cutscenes you say? is gsync on? try it without that? i happen to have gtx1080 as well and cutscenes run in 30 (prerendered) or 60fps (engine).

[DargonBlak]

Originally posted by Xamurai:

My PC struggles a bit with high graphic setting, i am not suprised by this. GTX 1080 and PC starts to age. but still manage on avg 50fps on very high graphics with drops now & to 30.

But what bothers me most cutscenes run at only 7-20fps. Even if i lower the graphics... this is unacceptable. Is this a bug?

Here's how to fix it.

Run GeForce Experience Optimization for the game to set a baseline, and then turn down a few items like "...Quality" and "...Lighting..." - check again.

To improve general image quality and edge tearing, set Vsync to On. (locks to 60 FPS, but really improves the image quality)

I run 1070Ti at 2k and have no problem maintaining 60 FPS

There is a Cutscene problem specific to NVIDIA users (as Vine alluded to).

Easiest fix is to set Graphics to "Windowed - Borderless".

Another fix is to set Vsync to On

[Bandy]

OP already solved their problem BTW...

Will be controversial, but, do NOT use geforce experience for any game. Spend a little time learning how to tweak your system (part of the PC gaming hobby, right?) and you will get much, much better performance than that bloatware. Search online and you will find plenty of verification.

KCD uses cryengine, so shaders and physics settings are the real perf hogs. At least turn these down before big battles b/c you don't need that eye candy, then up afterwards.

[Xamurai]

a decade ago whenever i had a crash or error it was Geforce experience problem. After i uninstalled the software. Everything was fine. 6 years later i installed it again, Since then i only use it for updating my driver.
So i guess Geforce experience isn't any better nowadays... ...

[BimboGooch]

Originally posted by Bandy:

OP already solved their problem BTW...

Will be controversial, but, do NOT use geforce experience for any game. Spend a little time learning how to tweak your system (part of the PC gaming hobby, right?) and you will get much, much better performance than that bloatware. Search online and you will find plenty of verification.

KCD uses cryengine, so shaders and physics settings are the real perf hogs. At least turn these down before big battles b/c you don't need that eye candy, then up afterwards.

I use it for shaders some times, unless the fps hit is too bad. Which recently their DETAILs part of the shader system has gotten less optimized. Use to be max a 4 fps hit, now its up to 10 fps. So I just use reshade.

Also OP should mark this as solved, if they did get it solved. Just so people stop trying to fix it for them, which wont stop many people still not seeing that being solved :^)