Helldivers 2 - Help plz, I randomly drop in fps from 60+ to almost single digits

[PrimusOmega5]

Every time I load up helldivers on my pc I have this random issue with lag. I'll be playing the game fine and then I load into a ship or drop onto a planet and out of nowhere my frames are suddenly terrible. My setup is a laptop running windows 11 with a 3050Ti, i7, and 16GB of ram. I can typically run the game at around 60 fps at medium graphics settings. If I adjust the quality of everything to max it stops, or at least lowers the impact of the random lag spikes but my overall framerate is at around 30 and I dont want that. Sometimes the lag spikes are only in specific locations on the map and I will be in a match doing fine but if I use my scope or go in a certain area my frames drop drastically. I dont understand why this is happening and I would appreciate it if someone has any solutions.

[Little Leo]

I have the same issue but I'm playing well below minimum specs with ini tweaks. my best guess is the games performance is heavily impacted by the connection to the server. When I play solo missions I get 85+ fps but if anyone joins its instantly cut down to 40 or less. sometimes it just gets worse as the mission goes on to the point I'm down to 15 fps or less, but then sometimes it plays perfectly fine.

[PrimusOmega5]

Originally posted by Little Leo:

I have the same issue but I'm playing well below minimum specs with ini tweaks. my best guess is the games performance is heavily impacted by the connection to the server. When I play solo missions I get 85+ fps but if anyone joins its instantly cut down to 40 or less. sometimes it just gets worse as the mission goes on to the point I'm down to 15 fps or less, but then sometimes it plays perfectly fine.

This isn't my issue, I can be do a solo mission and just be strolling about at 60 fps and then all of the sudden drop to 13. sometimes even when I leave or finish a mission and come back to my ship by myself I have really low fps for no apparent reason

[Chocbomb]

The game has some weird frame drop and stutter problem.
I don't know anyone who has not experienced it.
There has been 2 people that said they did not, but they were both banned from the forum for trolling, so i assume they lied to be a nuisance.

[SimpleSiren]

Originally posted by Chocbomb:

The game has some weird frame drop and stutter problem.
I don't know anyone who has not experienced it.
There has been 2 people that said they did not, but they were both banned from the forum for trolling, so i assume they lied to be a nuisance.

I9 4070 never get a stutter luckily

[El_ Artifice]

Nothing will fix it outright, game is built on an outdated engine and six months out there’s no sense of those stutter being fixed outright. Verify files, update drivers, little things help but expect it not be stable until the developers announce some silver bullet update to performance.

You either enjoy the gameplay enough to stomach the performance issues or you move on. My 1080ti at 1440p still holds up well enough for me, but I can understand that those that invested in better stuff want better and steadier performance.

[Myth Alric]

I don't really have any problems but any time I am near a stalker nest the fans on my GPU goes into hyperdrive. It isn't enough to cause issues but it is definitely adding extra stress for really no reason. What is a stalker nest compared to like 50 enemies on screen, and why would it be more graphically intense?

My theory is there are abnormally high polygon items on the map, at least one of which is in the stalker nests(it might also be from the samples, since it seems to happen near them some times too). So any time you come across these items, it taxes your system more than normal, which could cause stuttering and what not.

In which case this is a pure optimization issue, and they need to rework those items. There is no reason why an empty stalker nest should be more graphically intensive than a large nest with 50 monsters spewing out a bug breech and the holes and explosions going off all over the place, yet at least for me, it is.

[Wanderbis]

has anyone found a fix for this yet? or are people STILL experiencing this three months later???

[PrimusOmega5]

Originally posted by Wanderbis (jolly edition):

has anyone found a fix for this yet? or are people STILL experiencing this three months later???

I have done a bunch of messing around with things and have gotten it to work a lot better. I'm running the game in borderless window with DX12 and verified the integrity of the game files(helldivers very frequently downloads updates with missing files and this fixes that) plus I turned on accelerated GPU scheduling in my computer's settings and the problem seems to have mostly faded. Probably plenty of other stuff I've changed too, but I can't remember. It still happens occasionally but overall I have managed to reduce it pretty darn well. Updates have also effected it so who knows, it was completely fixed for a while but then it came back the next update 🤷

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by PrimusOmega5:

Originally posted by Wanderbis (jolly edition):

has anyone found a fix for this yet? or are people STILL experiencing this three months later???

I have done a bunch of messing around with things and have gotten it to work a lot better. I'm running the game in borderless window with DX12 and verified the integrity of the game files(helldivers very frequently downloads updates with missing files and this fixes that) plus I turned on accelerated GPU scheduling in my computer's settings and the problem seems to have mostly faded. Probably plenty of other stuff I've changed too, but I can't remember. It still happens occasionally but overall I have managed to reduce it pretty darn well. Updates have also effected it so who knows, it was completely fixed for a while but then it came back the next update 🤷

Use this and try again
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3235564264
make sure not to miss a single step