FPS DROPS

[Freeman[ITA]]

Am i the only one who can't reach 60 fps in the valley?
(I've got a RX5700 XT, ryzen 5 3600 and 16 gb ddr4)

[Eddie Van Halen]

are game processing issues in certain places

[Freeman[ITA]]

:(

[Benka]

Also have a rx5700xt with a i7-9700k. On some areas i struggle to get playable fps

[gold ;(]

dx11 or dx12?

[Freeman[ITA]]

Originally posted by g0Ld?:

dx11 or dx12?

i tried with dx11, but the online benchmarks seem to show that there's not big differences

[lucasj1210]

Originally posted by FreemanITA:

Am i the only one who can't reach 60 fps in the valley?
(I've got a RX5700 XT, ryzen 5 3600 and 16 gb ddr4)

Geothermal Valley was the area everyone was getting FPS drops since the day the game was released....you're not experiencing anything unusual.
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acually there were more complaints about the anti aliasing in that area
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if you had a GTX gpu I'd say use DirectX 12 for better FPS.

[wespe___o=/;;;:*]

Originally posted by FreemanITA:

Am i the only one who can't reach 60 fps in the valley?
(I've got a RX5700 XT, ryzen 5 3600 and 16 gb ddr4)

As long as you get 59/60 fps in Benchmark you´re good.. don´t worry too much about minimum frames.. as the Benchmark also tells you those might really drop to 30-40fps in some situations for a short moment, nothing you will really feel - it´s still fluent

[Wampa_Stompa]

lower your resolution.

[David Bowman]

thats why you shouldnt use an AMD gpu lmao

[Freeman[ITA]]

Originally posted by Human:

thats why you shouldnt use an AMD gpu lmao

Before the AMD gpu i owned a gtx 1060 6GB and in the valley there was the same issue...

[Xector]

SSAA is the biggest frame rate hog. Make sure that's not enabled.

[🉑 rezno[R].technology]

Originally posted by FreemanITA:

Am i the only one who can't reach 60 fps in the valley?
(I've got a RX5700 XT, ryzen 5 3600 and 16 gb ddr4)

— What are your settings in the game?
— What is your RAM speed?
— Are you sure your RAM is running in Dual Channel with XMP enabled?

Geothermal Valley is a great CPU and RAM benchmark in the game. It is much more CPU + RAM speed heavy than most other places in the game, so it will show you immediately if there is some kind of large bottleneck in your CPU + RAM config.

Examples from my earlier testing (i7-4790K + GTX 1080)

https://sta.sh/0c8t26oa9qz

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There are 3 graphs:

Blue: 2400MHz CL10 Dual Channel
81.92 FPS average, drops to ~62 FPS - GPU usage 71% average

Green: 1600MHz CL9 Dual Channel
72.87 FPS average, drops to ~58 FPS - GPU usage 64% average

Red: 1600MHz CL9 Single Channel
58.1 FPS average, drops to ~40 FPS - GPU usage 53% average

All these differences on the same CPU at 4.5 GHz. The only difference was RAM speed and/or RAM configuration.

If you are not CPU + RAM config bottlenecked (your GPU usage is over ~95%), then it is most likely SSAA.

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TLDR; Solutions:
1. Use DX12 mode (will decrease CPU bottleneck)
2. Enable XMP, use Dual Channel fast RAM (at least 3200MHz CL14)
3. Turn off SSAA (if you are not CPU+RAM bottlenecked, but GPU bottlenecked).

[phreaspirit]

Have no problems in FHD with just gtx1660s and 8400 (high-very high settings). Smooth framerates in that area. Maybe some rare drops to high 50's for a split second or something like that, not a significant impact nonetheless

[JohnMars78]

R7 3700X, rx 5600xt, 16GB @ 3200, very high preset, 1440p.
70+ fps in Geothermal Valley, with some drops into 60s. More than enough for a smooth gameplay.

Originally posted by greatbang:

thats why you shouldnt use an AMD gpu lmao

That's why I don't have to pay more for an Nvidia GPU. greatbang for buck

[PlanetLotus]

I've noticed improved performance with DirectX12 on my GTX 1080, but I've also had a few crashes on DirectX12 that didn't happen when switching to 11. The crashes happen when at the first base camp in Geothermal Valley, so I just avoid that base camp and things have been fine. I'd recommend trying DX12 to see if it helps.