Low fps after april 16th update

[Keelty]

note this is not for me personally, but my gf is experiencing 10-15FPS as of update on april 16th, it was fine before then, now her gpu is running on 20% load and cpu on 25% load with 10-15 fps, no in game settings changes these values in the slightest for her, setting low settings makes the game ugly but with the same load and fps, and just to repeat, game ran perfectly fine for her before update on april 16th (yep i edited because i wrote the wrong flippin month everywhere i mentioned it xD)

[samdobb]

I'm having the same issue and it seems like a few other people are as well. I think this something we have to wait on the developers to fix. Because I went as far as uninstalling and reinstalling the game and that didn't work.

[Keelty]

Originally posted by samdobb:

I'm having the same issue and it seems like a few other people are as well. I think this something we have to wait on the developers to fix. Because I went as far as uninstalling and reinstalling the game and that didn't work.

it's most definitely something they need to update to fix, seeing as verifying, reinstalling, any graphics change and so on does not change the fps at all, we went as far as to push her graphics to low like i said and it wasnt even 1 fps difference xD

[araylius]

Yes exactly. They broke it with the update and don't appear to be in any hurry to fix it. I'm running a dream build with a 4090 and it won't go over 20fps at all. I'm really regretting buying this game because everyday they introduce another problem. They launched with game breaking issues and still today they continue introducing new ones.

[Keelty]

Originally posted by araylius:

Yes exactly. They broke it with the update and don't appear to be in any hurry to fix it. I'm running a dream build with a 4090 and it won't go over 20fps at all. I'm really regretting buying this game because everyday they introduce another problem. They launched with game breaking issues and still today they continue introducing new ones.

ever since i got the game i've personally only had like 1 crash, but i've had a couple sessions drop out of nowhere, and my gf havent had any issues until the most recent update, so it's been generally fine for us until now that is, but it's kinda weird because i'm running a 1080 myself and the game runs as i would expect it to, sure i'm not getting 100+ fps but i'm stable over 60 at least on ultra so i'm happy with that, but i only really play the game with her so her being unable to play is quite the issue for us both as well as other friends we play with, so here's hoping they at least fix that performance issue they introduced recently, we can typically handle crashes fine, thats just an annoyance if it happens, but no matter what we do we cant get her over 15 fps when her system slam dunks mine easily xD at least on the gpu side of things

[that_one_guy]

Bro i thought i was the only one

[Keelty]

Originally posted by that_one_guy:

Bro i thought i was the only one

yeah i dont blame you, i've seen some posts about people having similar issues but not exactly as bad as i've described it, i'm glad more people are having this issue and not just one or two people because it will be easier to get info about whats going on and ultimately solve it, i dont quite like how silent they are being though, some more communication from the devs on stuff like this would be amazing

[Doc. Devil]

Man it's gotten worse for some reason. Now I legit get less than 20fps in-ship after missions. It only fixes when I restart the game.. or we load another mission.

EDIT: So now I only get 20fps or less in my ship PERIOD.
Game is fine. Relatively stable for my build.
But when I'm on my ship.. the game just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hates it.

Sometimes it'll fix itself randomly and the framerate will return to normal but I have no clue whats doing this. Other games work fine.

[Chari]

There is a new unmentioned thingy in the graphics setting ingame you can turn on to test.
Maybe it helps.
Other than that, nothing known has changed in the last patch.
FPS may differ from planet to planet due to particle density and effects.
If the above doesnt help, you may try DX11 mode until devs fix something they may have caused?

[Keelty]

Originally posted by ChariAUT:

There is a new unmentioned thingy in the graphics setting ingame you can turn on to test.
Maybe it helps.
Other than that, nothing known has changed in the last patch.
FPS may differ from planet to planet due to particle density and effects.
If the above doesnt help, you may try DX11 mode until devs fix something they may have caused?

and what is this unmentioned thingy in that case? :P doesnt help all too much when i dont know what we're looking for unfortunately :P also dont see a setting to change dx mode

[Paladin Actual]

same deal here. switching to dx11 gains nothing!

[OpDrewcifer]

I'm having the same problem. I opened a ticket on arrowheads website but we'll see where that goes... Everything ran beautifully aside from maybe 1-2 crashes total over weeks up until 4/16. I get no more than 11 fps no matter if I reinstall, drop quality, or verify the files on Steam. CPU: 5600X GPU: 3060

[OpDrewcifer]

I just did these three things and I don't know if they all fixed it or 1 or 2 or what.. but it's working for me again with full FPS on my system.

I started by going to Manage (gear icon)>Properties, then putting --use-d3d11 into Launch Options.

I am pretty sure I tried running the game at this point and it stil was 10-12 fps.

I then found these directions to wipe the shader caches:

Delete shader cache:
To do this, make sure you have "show hidden items" checked then go to C:\Users\<your username>\AppData\Roaming\Arrowhead\Helldivers2\shader_cache

Delete the file in the shader_cache folder. When you start Helldivers 2 you will have a black screen for 1-2 minutes while the game rebuilds the shader library. Be patient, then go smash.

There's also the DS3Dcache that should be cleaned out at;
C:\Users\<your username>\AppData\Local\D3DSCache

I ran the game and it was perfect. I tried taking the code out of Launch Options, ran the game, back to 10-12 fps. I then went and checked the wiped shader caches and the new files were there. I don't know why this worked tbh, but I am good at troubleshooting.

I found this info on older support posts. Hope this helps!
(The post suggested an NVIDIA cache be wiped as well but it wouldn't let me delete anything in the file and the game worked anyway.)

[The Frying Dutch Pan]

Same issue. Went from 60-65 fps to 40-45 fps. 20fps drop is insane in a single update.

[sjthompson0823]

Same thing happening to me, 3060 ti and I get 7 fps on my ship :/

[InfiKnight17]

I am having a similar problem, except my cpu is at like 80% load while gpu is stuck at like 20%, along to low fps despite everything working fine anywhere else