low fps in higher difficultys

[18th Nerd]

My FPS is around 60-70 on difficulty 1-3
But as the game gets harder my FPS drops
For example on difficulty 10 I get around 40 FPS

[McPhil]

Yes, more enemies means more stuff on the screen for your GPU to calculate.
Also, the maps are bigger.

[18th Nerd]

Originally posted by McPhil:

Yes, more enemies means more stuff on the screen for your GPU to calculate.
Also, the maps are bigger.

Do you have this problem too? How many FPS are you getting and what is your graphics card?

[Roy]

It's normal.
On my steam deck i can reach solid 60+fps on 1-3, but at diff 10 i can sometimes dip to 20fps.

On pc i have a similar difference.
It's indeed just more stuff to process = heavier toll on performance.

[Caldari Ghost]

What's your cpu op?

[Little Leo]

As someone playing on or below minimum specs calling 40fps low is pretty funny.

[McPhil]

I have a RTX 4080 Super and yes even with that my fps go down. You will have this in any game.
Bigger armies in Total War, bigger worlds in Minecraft, zombie horde in 7 Days to Die everything taxes the GPU (and CPU) and will drop your frames.

[Pierre117]

More enemies on higher difficulties

[Helldivers™ 2]

Yes, unfortunately more enemies, combined with incompetent devs that dont know the engine = low fps

Imagine this, 4 players's CPUs are used simultaneously to calculate the scripts of 30something dumb enemies that just run towards you

[McPhil]

The game does not have DLSS or FSR but it has basic render scaling. Try to lower the render scaling and find the setting that gives you the most fps but doesn't look bad.

[18th Nerd]

Originally posted by Caldari Ghost:

What's your cpu op?

Ryzen 5 5600x

[18th Nerd]

Originally posted by McPhil:

The game does not have DLSS or FSR but it has basic render scaling. Try to lower the render scaling and find the setting that gives you the most fps but doesn't look bad.

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[the ouch mouse]

Originally posted by ALFRED:

Originally posted by Caldari Ghost:

What's your cpu op?

Ryzen 5 5600x

I have this same CPU and a 3060, and can confirm that messing with the graphics makes the game look like ♥♥♥♥ while not helping much with performance.

Any scaling other than native looks super blurry past a couple meters, and I haven't even seen any real benefits to using the performance/ultra performance scales.

Just use the Steam Deck preset. It won't stop sub-50 dips, but it'll be more tolerable in resource-heavy missions. Remember to always turn volumetric fog/cloud setting to their lowest, they're the real killers.

[Nakatomi]

The games engine is awful and unsupported no matter what hardware you have it still gives poor performance. They need to start doing performance improvements while also releasing bug fixes

[18th Nerd]

Originally posted by Nakatomi:

The games engine is awful and unsupported no matter what hardware you have it still gives poor performance. They need to start doing performance improvements while also releasing bug fixes

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[McPhil]

When I had a RTX 3060ti and Ryzen 5 5600X I did play this game with a mix of medium to high settings and I did achieve mostly stable 60fps.
It didn't look bad.