FPS in the game decreased from 100+ to 35-40 after one of the updates

[Lilith]

After the New Year's patches, on January 2-3 or so, I logged into the game as usual and saw that the game with unchanged settings (3440x1440, ultra settings; gpu, cpu: 3060ti, 5700x) was producing 45 frames instead of the usual 100+ frames. Reducing the graphics settings to a minimum or switching to a 2560x1440 monitor did not solve the problem. Before that, a patch was released, after which I did not log into the game for a couple of days. In the beginning, I thought that the patch was unstable and postponed the game, but it's been more than a month and I have the same problem. Who had a similar problem? How to solve it? I did not download or install any third-party programs or utilities on my PC at that time.

[sh3riff]

You should be lucky you could play till January 2025 1440p with 100 fps
I had same GPU and had performance issues since like April or so ..
It was so bad i had to go 1080p low/off and still had 40-60 fps, often less than more

Bought 4080 in November because of this .. and was running again 150 fps, perfect.
From December or something, game is randomly dropping to 49 or 59 fps .. very weird number
But its always when looking only in certain direction ..

Game had always performance issues. With this speed it will take couple of years to fix it .. if even.
Weird thing is .. From March to July/August or so .. there was an option to start the game WITHOUT GG, it was kind hard to pull off but most of the time it was working and i had almost zero crashes and almost no performance issues when the GG was off. Then there was an update and it was no longer working so playing with GG on was only option. So again, useless 3rd party program like Denuvo making the game kinda worse.

[Jedi Biscuit]

This patch killed my peformance, goes from 100fps to 30fps and just goes slow motion its unplayable!

[quack quack quack]

I was also noticing my framerate dropping from a stable 59 to barely above 30 today, it worsened progressively as the mission went on (Illuminate defense on Bellatrix).

[Residual Steve]

Same here. running at 1080p native with medium-high settings, I usually get decent performance around 55-60 fps in-game (dipping down to 45~50 with heavy action), which has been acceptable for me and my system. Recently however, my frames seem normal upon booting up the game and loading onto the ship until I join/start a match. My gpu usage has been shooting to 100% and my frames drop to around 30 after a few minutes of running around in a match and stay that low until I reboot the game. I know that this is like a 10-year-old engine, but c'mon man. Smells like a memory leak or smth, idk.

[[PCMR]Nerevar]

I dunno I still got my fps capped at 144

[Residual Steve]

Originally posted by Residual Steve:

Same here. running at 1080p native with medium-high settings, I usually get decent performance around 55-60 fps in-game (dipping down to 45~50 with heavy action), which has been acceptable for me and my system. Recently however, my frames seem normal upon booting up the game and loading onto the ship until I join/start a match. My gpu usage has been shooting to 100% and my frames drop to around 30 after a few minutes of running around in a match and stay that low until I reboot the game. I know that this is like a 10-year-old engine, but c'mon man. Smells like a memory leak or smth, idk.

*Update*
I seem to have found a fix on my end. I use an HP Omen laptop which uses the Omen Gaming Hub application to manage all sorts of video adapter, fan driver, and optimization settings. After changing only 1 setting, my graphics card stopped acting so strangely. Specifically in the Performance Control tab, I toggled the Power Mode setting from Balanced > Performance > Balanced (again). "Performance Mode" kicked my GPU fans into high gear and pushed my CPU temps to uncomfortable levels, so I set it back to "Balanced Mode", which is where it was to begin with. Within a few seconds of applying the changes, both CPU and GPU temps/usage went back to normal and stayed that way (further monitoring will be conducted, of course).

I'll definitely be keeping this method in mind and will apply it to remediate similar issues in the future. If you have a similar application to configure your computer, I'd highly recommend trying something close to what I did. Hopefully this solution is reliable!

[gothicpando]

happening to many people seems like.