Major lag spikes for seemingly no reason

[Nicholiae]

I can play this entire game with no problems but randomly while exploring I go from 100+ fps to no more than 14.

Its not a graphical issue because i can turn my graphics to any combination of settings and the FPS drop remains constant. A full shut down of the game and reload of the save is required to replenish the FPS but even that doesnt work sometimes.

It has happened at all intervals of the game as well.. Start of the game, end of the game, middle of the game. I sometimes get an error something along the lines of "zone does not exist", but its almost near impossible to play with only 14 fps.

[Cy]

I got similar Issues, where game fps drops very low and sometimes even stays there untill I restart. But it never happens right at the beginning, only if I already played for while. It could be our hardware. E.g. when we have other programs or browser with many tabs running in background for a very long time it could clog up the performance and also overheating could be another factor. Might also be on the games part as I was in the same area at the times I experienced this issue.

[Kryten]

That error sounds weird, have you already tried verifying the files or reinstalling?
Some slight FPS drops sometimes here as well, but no where close to what you have. Also I never had to restart/reload yet to fix it, always goes to normal again pretty fast. (The usual "loading stuff in the background" thing I suspect).

[Wingblaze]

Is it when the auto save kicks off?

[RadioIesbian Fluid]

I've had it happen once, my frame rate dropped to less than 1 fps from 100+ It lasted for about 3 minutes. Looking in the task manager and msi after burner i could see the game stopped using the cpu/ram and gpu fully, then it fixed itself and could play normally.

No idea what caused it, only happened once in 120-ish hours since 1.0 released.

[Omega420]

This can also happen if your game is installed on a mechanical hard drive and not a SSD, tho this can also happened on a SSD depending on its speed.

The game appears to lag or just stop because the system is to busy waiting on the drive to load in the new data the game has requested.

[Nicholiae]

So in order.... Ive had it happen with or without other windows open, running through steam, if that makes a difference.

The error is definitely butchered, I will have to capture the screen next time i catch the error in the console.

I havent noticed it around auto saves, but ive had it happen before an auto save, auto save happens then its still the same terrible FPS.

I dont think its a harddrive issue as i have an SSD and its only a year old top of the line when purchased.

I cant image it being the hardware as I'm running duel graphics cards with 64 G of DDR5 RAM and a 8 core Ryzen processor.

Ive ran multiple games at the same time and been streaming and held strong over 100 FPS. It seems to be when standing between or near the edge of two + biomes as far as i discern a pattern.

[Nicholiae]

I have verified game files to no fix.

[Wingblaze]

You should probably post to their QA site.

[Nicholiae]

Originally posted by Wingblaze:

You should probably post to their QA site.

got a link? Ive been to the website but didnt find like a forum to post to

[Nicholiae]

nevermind found it. lol its on the front page when opening hte game duhhh

[Paragon]

I haven't experienced any lag at all...most likely a software or hardware conflict.

[la merde]

Sometimes I encounter heavy lag spikes to. But only not for long. Difficult to see a pattern when they come. Mostly I have the impression it occurs when dawn comes. But it is for about 10 seconds and then it is over.

[Paragon]

Originally posted by Nicholiae:

I can play this entire game with no problems but randomly while exploring I go from 100+ fps to no more than 14.

Its not a graphical issue because i can turn my graphics to any combination of settings and the FPS drop remains constant. A full shut down of the game and reload of the save is required to replenish the FPS but even that doesnt work sometimes.

It has happened at all intervals of the game as well.. Start of the game, end of the game, middle of the game. I sometimes get an error something along the lines of "zone does not exist", but its almost near impossible to play with only 14 fps.

Originally posted by la merde:

Sometimes I encounter heavy lag spikes to. But only not for long. Difficult to see a pattern when they come. Mostly I have the impression it occurs when dawn comes. But it is for about 10 seconds and then it is over.

Are you guys using GeForce Overlay by chance?

[Nicholiae]

no im on a desktop

[Paragon]

Originally posted by Nicholiae:

no im on a desktop

GeFoce Overlay is part of the Nvidia driver package for recording etc...laptop or desktop