Major FPS drops and sound issues

[Tilen]

Hi there.

I own the GOG version, but am posting here because it's more likely to garner attention.

Love the game. However, with V-sync on the FPS for some reason not only isn't constant (at 75, as is my screen's refresh rate), but it drops to unplayable levels for a few moments, before returning to 60-75 range. I would think my laptop can handle the game at 75 FPS, uncompromised. System specs below.

The second issue, this time V-sync off (I am not sure if this is the cause), the sound will stop playing when soundtrack changes, i.e. when walking from one boss to another, the song loops will change. At every change, the sound cuts off for a few moments. It kills the mood entirely.

I've got all drivers up-to-date (at least I would think so), and do not experience this in any other game.

Here's what I play on:
Laptop model Asus ROG Strix GL702V
GeForce GTX 1070
i7 7700HQ
16GB RAM
Windows 10 Home 64-bit

I've tried restarting the game and the PC, the PC is a few months old, and I've tried looking for the solution online. The game has also been freshly installed via GOG Galaxy.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks.

[Natchave]

Hi there!
We had an Asus laptop that instead of using the GeForce graphic card used the motherboard GPU to run the game. So, of course, it didn't work out well.
To force the use of the Geforce, we had to do that:

From NVIDIA Control Panel
3D Settings->Manage 3D Settings
Tab "Global setttings"
Preferred Graphics Processor
Select : High performance NVIDIA processor

Hopefully it's the same problem and it's the right fix!
Cheers.

[Tilen]

Hey there! Thanks for the reply. I actually do know of this issue and haven't thought about trying it. :) So now that I have checked, the setting already was set to GeForce GTX 1070. In fact I think this laptop doesn't even have an integrated GPU.

Whatever the case, the game has been using the dedicated graphics card, unfortunately.

I am willing to send you DxDiag files or anything else that you might need. I really do like this game very much.

Thanks!

Edit: I wish I could be more specific about the problems I'm having. The FPS drops occur almost at random. I've seen them happen mostly when the camera pans out, like when the boss starts shooting, leading me to believe it could be something to do with the particles (?).

But that's not the only time. I feel the rain itself on the first boss could also be the cause, as the FPS *seems* most inconsistent there. Mind you, this could all still be due to the sound issue, because some of the musical transitions (between the loops) are subtle.

The actual freezing occurs when the sound loop changes. This means that between almost every boss phase, when the soundtrack changes, the game will freeze for a couple of moments. This can, especially when in duel mode, throw me off balance and get me K.O.-ed.

I'll be happy to answer any questions you might have.

[Natchave]

That's a difficult problem... because for what we know, unless you have a really low end config, the game runs pretty well.
Another thing that we did encounter during development, is that if we had Skype notifications in the background while we were playing a build, it caused small freezes (very short, not what I call a FPS drop, but more like a very short freeze that can still be very annoying in a fast-paced game like Furi). Maybe you have other software running in the background that could cause that?

[Tilen]

Yeah I expected it to be a difficult one to troubleshoot. :) In my experience any sound related issue in games is so much harder to resolve.

I don't use Skype, for one. The out-standing apps that are running in the background are Steam, GOG Galaxy and Discord. I *could* try closing these, but I've never had any such issue in any other game, and the laptop can probably take these three apps in the background, honestly.

In fact, now that I think about it, I lie. Perhaps this will shed some light on the issue: I've had a similar issue, unresolved, in Homeworld: Remastered Collection. Though no FPS drops occured, the sountrack would frantically freeze, and overloop (as in, it would play one part on top of the other) etc.

I could not find a solution, nor any help from the developers, unfortunately and since this was a one-off, I just cut my losses and wrote off an otherwise great game. Not before completing it, though, but you can imagine what it was like to have the drama ruined by terrible sound glitches.

I will try to update the sound drivers now, just to be sure, but I am sceptical of it being the culprit.

I realize how troubleshooting this can feel like, as I was a costumer support agent once, so please don't feel pressured at all. I am very grateful for your responses, and any other ideas I will appreciate.

[Tilen]

I updated the sound drivers from here: https://www.asus.com/Laptops/ROG-GL702VS/HelpDesk_Download/, and while the freezes seem to have reduced in duration, they have not stopped entirely.

I hope we can sort this out, because I want to stream this game.