Frame drops during combat

[Squidelius Qua]

I was playing with my friend when we came across noticeable frame drops during combat. It ranges from 10FPS to 30FPS in drops when an enemies spawn, explosions happen, and when he pulls out Moze's mech. I have no idea how to alleviate this. We both run different specs, but I will leave mine below.

Ryzen 5 5600X
AMD Radeon 6700XT
16GB RAM

[Pyro]

try changing to DX11 in the settings

[Fat Gamin']

It's best to play around with the settings and try both DX11 and DX12. This game is a pretty horrendously bad port, at times my 4090 gets crippled but at other times my 5900X is being crippled just depending on what's going on, not a lot of other games that shifts from extreme CPU bottleneck to extreme GPU bottleneck depending on the area, what's happening onscreen and what direction I'm facing besides Fallout 4 and 76

[Caramel_Clown]

I've been having overall less stuttery performance on dx12. I'd start trying to experiment with that, see where that takes you.

[vee-kay]

Game is not optimized well by the devs anyway, as it was not ported well for PC.
Issues are even worse for the newer BL games.

Try changing the DirectX from 11 to 12, or vice versa, and see if it makes any difference.
Update the graphics driver.

Make sure to update your AMD/NVIDIA settings control panel, to have the 3D device mapped to this game exe.

If your GPU has 8+ GB VRAM, you can try the -NOTEXTURESTREAMING launch parameter for this game, as that'll preload the game textures into memory, and hopefully reduce stuttering. But it'll cause more problems unless you have a beefy PC with sufficient VRAM and RAM.

Disable any antivirus or other background apps, before playing this game.

Get a faster SSD.

[DarthSyphilis08]

Originally posted by vee-kay:

Game is not optimized well by the devs anyway, as it was not ported well for PC.
Issues are even worse for the newer BL games.

Try changing the DirectX from 11 to 12, or vice versa, and see if it makes any difference.
Update the graphics driver.

Make sure to update your AMD/NVIDIA settings control panel, to have the 3D device mapped to this game exe.

If your GPU has 8+ GB VRAM, you can try the -NOTEXTURESTREAMING launch parameter for this game, as that'll preload the game textures into memory, and hopefully reduce stuttering. But it'll cause more problems unless you have a beefy PC with sufficient VRAM and RAM.

Disable any antivirus or other background apps, before playing this game.

Get a faster SSD.

As others have stated, the game's issue is with shader optimization/caching. The first time or 2 you play BL3, or after updating your GPU drivers you'll get hitching and frame drops, micro pauses, etc. Along with the -NOTEXTURESTREAMING launch parameter that was mentioned, I would also recommend not turning your graphics settings to Badass as it's been pretty well known to be a resource hog for negligible fidelity gain. Honestly I would just use the high setting with your GPU and call it good. You'd have great visuals and a mostly rock solid framerate outside of a few dips here and there.