Low FPS and No Audio (for some reason)

[syahmi2002.sa]

UPDATE 13/02/2022: Someone by the name of ChapChanai made a post that explains the issues I'm dealing with the game better than I am. So, here are most of his words:

Originally posted by ChapChanai:

After playing for a while, loading from campaign to campaign, there will start to be times where most of the game sound effects and music go silent, and my frames drop and stay at around 20-30 fps......Not sure what is this sound bug/glitch called. I notice it likes to happen on tank/horde/finales, but there was also a time where the campaign just began and the lag/silent sounds already started.

Since the October update, my game sometimes starts to drop its FPS to less than 60 FPS without any audio. Here are the occasions where this issue occurs, which all of them take place in custom campaigns:

Dark Carnival: Remix

• Concert finale section in the final chapter.

Infected City by Super Fly ​

• From starting area to the saferoom in Chapter 1.
  
• Area around the starting safehouse in Chapter 4 or the entire chapter (sometimes).

Infected City 2 ​

• From pool area to the saferoom in Chapter 1.
  
• Area around the starting safehouse in Chapter 4 or the entire chapter (sometimes).

These mods are considered red flags for me:

• Extended Common Infected ​
  
• Correction to Population ​
  
• RE8 Village M67 Frag Grenade (Pipe Bomb) ​
  
• Battlefield 3 Assault for Coach ​
  
• Battlefield 3 Support for Ellis ​
  
• Coach - U.S.M.C (Desert MARPAT) ​
  
• Nick - U.S.M.C (Desert MARPAT) ​
  
• Ellis - U.S.M.C (Desert MARPAT) ​
  
• Rochelle - U.S.M.C (Desert MARPAT) ​

I still subscribed to the latter 4 mods though as I like to use military themed survivor mods. I also have turned off V-Sync in the settings, but this didn't solve the issue at all. In order to solve this, I only have two options; either set paged pool memory available to low, which will make models' overall quality (polygon and texture quality wise) to go s***, or unsubscribe these red-flagged mods altogether including the latter 4 that I still subscribe to.

If you have any other ideas to solve this issue, let me know.

Here are my gaming laptop specs:

OS - Windows 10 Home Single Language 64-bit
Processor - Intel Core i5-9300H CPU @ 2.4GHz (8 CPU)
RAM - 8 GB
Graphics Card - Intel UHD Graphics 630 & NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
DirectX version - DirectX 12

[upsidaisium]

check with task man or hwmonitor to see if your game is using intel or nvidia. but you still should have audio even on intel, so i would suggest you to check files integrity and/or disable all mods and reenable them one by one.

[syahmi2002.sa]

Originally posted by FLoriNu:

check with task man or hwmonitor to see if your game is using intel or nvidia. but you still should have audio even on intel, so i would suggest you to check files integrity and/or disable all mods and reenable them one by one.

Both GPUs have audio by default. In regards to mods, when I subscribed to the former 5 mods, the game starts to stutter and play without audio in these occasions I mentioned in the main comment. After I unsubscribed them, the game runs fine and dandy. That was until I subscribed those latter 4 mods, when I have the issue again. However, this issue only happens in the either starting saferoom area of Chapter 4 or the entire Chapter 4 of Infected City 2, at least as far as I can tell. After changing the game's GPU preference to run on NVIDIA's GPU, the issue toned down a bit with the former occasion (mentioned in the previous sentence). I already verify the integrity of the game's cache, but it resulted to nothing. I'll try to unsubscribe those latter 4 mods one by one later.

[syahmi2002.sa]

The main post has been updated with a quote of ChapChanai, which gives you a better context of what's going on. If there's anyone that has potential solutions to fix this issue, let me know.

[Tangleywarrior]

i am having the same problem some custom maps have this bug and the sad part its some custom maps with this bug make the game VERY unplayable

[Tangleywarrior]

Originally posted by tangleywarrior:

i am having the same problem some custom maps have this bug and the sad part its some custom maps with this bug make the game VERY unplayable

and also when i played a campaign called Cambalache by roku where the train station part when this bug happen i saw the lighting on the map flickering by everysecond. i dont know what cause this bug i think every custom campaign not updated to the TLS haved this bug even campaign with updated to this day sometimes this bug happens

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[Lynx Eichel]

I have this issue as well. Its really annoying. Mostly caused by High polygon model or high vertice model. Using many rng model and sometimes 4k texture
Its not only happen in custom maps but in original maps too.
These mods are considered red flags for me is
- High polygon / vertice models
- RNG / DMG RNG models
- HD Particle effect
- 4k models/texture
Mostly rng and high poly model caused this issue

[¦ღ¦ Teta Derecha]

uwu

[syahmi2002.sa]

Originally posted by Lynx Eichel:

I have this issue as well. Its really annoying. Mostly caused by High polygon model or high vertice model. Using many rng model and sometimes 4k texture
Its not only happen in custom maps but in original maps too.
These mods are considered red flags for me is
- High polygon / vertice models
- RNG / DMG RNG models
- HD Particle effect
- 4k models/texture
Mostly rng and high poly model caused this issue

This is what I talked about in the 2023-follow-up post here. To put it simply, don't install too much HQ-ish mods at once, only use some of them when needed.

[BRodieT]

i feel like the recent updates are responsible too, back in 2021 i can play with as many mods as long as they dont trip the indices overflow message but now even the smallest change to the environment can make the game ♥♥♥♥ itself or crash after the loading screen. Turning on multi-core rendering seems to help a little for me.

[R󠀡F]

I explained why this happens with a fix in another thread before.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/550/discussions/0/3782498683133933141/