Sudden fps drops

[P90 ONLY]

I am playing the game at 60-90 fps at outworld and 100-150 fps at indoor areas. But in both places fps suddenly drops to 50s, maybe down to 30s. Im playing at high graphics. I am in the beggining of the game where they execute you but you survive and sneak into some indoor area. I cant proceed because those drops are very disappointing.
My specs: 12th Gen i5-12500h (16cpu's) 2.5Ghz
Rtx 3050Ti
16 gb ram

My laptop is fine with other games.Just finished kingdom come:Deliverence with no problems. I played dying light but i got fps drops(Actually i dont view my fps but i felt drops so i opened the game with fraps) and i got a lot of issue with fps. After a lot of research i finally found out dying light 1 hates laptop gpu's and it simply not supporting laptop gpu's. Then i decided to download exodus,but after having same problems i started to think that something may be wrong with my laptop .. Pls help

[Jig McGalliger]

Check your temps for thermal throttling.

[P90 ONLY]

Originally posted by Jig McGalliger:

Check your temps for thermal throttling.

Cpu 60's
Gpu 40's

[Jig McGalliger]

Does GPUZ's sensor menu tell you anything in perfcap reason?

Otherwise check if event viewer has some background process running.

[Wb_*]

I do wonder if it's because the gpu switches to the integrated graphics processor, I think nvidia has a technology about that ( optimus I think ).

[P90 ONLY]

Originally posted by Jig McGalliger:

Does GPUZ's sensor menu tell you anything in perfcap reason?

Otherwise check if event viewer has some background process running.

It says "idle" when the game is running in the background.(I had to open the taskmanager to go back to windows) I am in taiga and fps goes 20-25 to sometimes and it is really frustrating.

[P90 ONLY]

Originally posted by Xenophobe:

do you have the e-cores enabled on the i5-12500h? metro exodus is one of the games that does not like e-cores.

I don't know how to enable that and as far as i remember i didn't do anything about processor since i got the laptop.
Thing is,i am using RTSS to lock the fps to 60 and yesterday i played 3-4 hours in caspian sea without a single fps drop. Right after i got to the taiga, fps was around 55-60 and it suddenly started to drop to 20-25. I try take off the charger and put it back in and fps goes up to 55-60 level again and after couple of minutes it drops to 20-25. I really dont know if my system is not strong enough for this game but i think otherwise. I reckon my GPU does not working at %100 capacity but i checked nvidia control panel thousand times and game is using RTX,not integrated graphics. I also noticed that in the control panel game is using %30-35 of the CPU and %0 of the GPU. I dont know control panel is telling me the truth though. I finished KCD a month ago and that game has some good graphics too. I have never had a fps issue with that game. So either Exodus demans a lot or it got very bad optimization. As a third option my laptop got some problem that i fail to detect.

[BillyZane876]

I have also noticed those FPS drops on my desktop 12700kf + 4090. When those happen the GPU usage drops significantly ie. that's a CPU\memory bottleneck.
It's the reason why I stopped playing the game. The thing is I don't understand how this can be a true bottleneck as my CPU is barely used when that happens. For instance, in The Last of Us I'm also CPU bottlenecked but the CPU usage is 90% and even reaches 100 degrees Celsius.

So the only explanation I have is that this is some kind of engine issue in Metro Exodus. And it will probably never get fixed as this game is pretty much dead now.

PS. Yes, I tried disabling e-cores, I also switched to Windows 11 where it was even worse! Nothing worked, stopped giving this game a chance, I'm glad I've played it when it launched.

[Badman]

Same sudden fps drops/stutters here. (in the Original and in the Enhanced too)

Things I've tried:
- disable e-cores
- disable HT
- disable Resizable Bar
- change Nv driver
- change Windows 10 power plan to high performance
- change DX11 in the original Exodus
- disable DLSS in the Enhanced
- change XMP2 profile for my rams
- reinstall game to several storage (SSD, M2, HDD)
- Process Lasso
- Vsync, Gsync on or off

Nothing helped...

I5 13600k
RTX 4070 Ti
16gb DDR5 6000 Mhz

[P90 ONLY]

Originally posted by mihaisterpu:

I have also noticed those FPS drops on my desktop 12700kf + 4090. When those happen the GPU usage drops significantly ie. that's a CPU\memory bottleneck.
It's the reason why I stopped playing the game. The thing is I don't understand how this can be a true bottleneck as my CPU is barely used when that happens. For instance, in The Last of Us I'm also CPU bottlenecked but the CPU usage is 90% and even reaches 100 degrees Celsius.

So the only explanation I have is that this is some kind of engine issue in Metro Exodus. And it will probably never get fixed as this game is pretty much dead now.

PS. Yes, I tried disabling e-cores, I also switched to Windows 11 where it was even worse! Nothing worked, stopped giving this game a chance, I'm glad I've played it when it launched.

I just decided to believe that some games,such as exodus, hates some random systems and if u have one of those systems there is not much to do about it. Sudden fps drops feels so weird,you clearly understand something is wrong and it is not about capacity of your system. It is very disappointing that you pay a lot for those systems and assuming you can play any game you want, and you still fail to run some games properly.

[P90 ONLY]

Originally posted by Badman:

Same sudden fps drops/stutters here. (in the Original and in the Enhanced too)

Things I've tried:
- disable e-cores
- disable HT
- disable Resizable Bar
- change Nv driver
- change Windows 10 power plan to high performance
- change DX11 in the original Exodus
- disable DLSS in the Enhanced
- change XMP2 profile for my rams
- reinstall game to several storage (SSD, M2, HDD)
- Process Lasso
- Vsync, Gsync on or off

Nothing helped...

I5 13600k
RTX 4070 Ti
16gb DDR5 6000 Mhz

It's so disappointing that you have a 4070 Ti and still can't run a 4 year old game. It's obvious that exodus has some optimization issues and none of the developers seems to give a poop about it.

[BillyZane876]

hey what about me?! i've got the 4090, a bit of sympathy for me as well? :))

lol, I don't give a rat's ass about this game, when it launched I thought it was cool but nowdays, after so many good games, I found it boring as hell to replay. I could've get used to the fps drops, it's not like I've played TLOU 3 times now before the patches and endured crashes and stuterring worse then metro's.

[Daxst3r]

It's like in Dayz, the drops are not graphics related, it's caused by assets loading in from HDD/SSD, you'll see disk activity go nuts when these drops occur.

[✠Deser✞🅵☣⚔⚔♏✠]

Originally posted by Xenophobe:

I seriously have no issues like this with this game. I am on linux mint playing the native linux version of the game though ... maybe it's microsoft and their forced updates breaking everything (like usual).

linux mint 21.1
i7-11700
32GB DDR 4 @3200
RX 6700 XT using default mesa drivers
2TB M.2 NVMe 1.4 SSD
Old 1080p tv @60 Hz (keeps turning on)

There is software to fix Microsoft's BS, I have an update blocker that is a game changer, pun intended.

There is also another software below that also fixes in the same way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc7CIkZcWYE