Game is stuttering and slow since patch

[InsaneGenius]

I played last night before the patch, and it ran fine.

However, when I logged on this morning after the game updated, my game took a long time to open, and starting with the opening cinematic, it's very slow and stutters; however, the audio is normal. Getting out of the cinematic, the transition screens of the destroyer, my helldiver walking in, and then all gameplay is extremely sluggish and stuttery.

I've been playing on medium graphics, and switching to low does nothing. My graphics drivers are all up to date for my device, and when I verify game files, it says that 2 files could not be verified (but when I verify it again, it doesn't say it).

I've restarted my computer, uninstalled and reinstalled the game, and cleared the Steam download cache, but it still runs poorly. Has anyone else experienced these issues since the patch? I've checked online and on Reddit, and no one else seems to have these issues.

[Napalm_Bobby]

Same here, not sure why but RAM usage seemed to be very high too. I'm wondering if there's a memory leak.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by InsaneGenius:

Game is stuttering and slow since patch
I played last night before the patch, and it ran fine.

However, when I logged on this morning after the game updated, my game took a long time to open, and starting with the opening cinematic, it's very slow and stutters; however, the audio is normal. Getting out of the cinematic, the transition screens of the destroyer, my helldiver walking in, and then all gameplay is extremely sluggish and stuttery.

I've been playing on medium graphics, and switching to low does nothing. My graphics drivers are all up to date for my device, and when I verify game files, it says that 2 files could not be verified (but when I verify it again, it doesn't say it).

I've restarted my computer, uninstalled and reinstalled the game, and cleared the Steam download cache, but it still runs poorly. Has anyone else experienced these issues since the patch? I've checked online and on Reddit, and no one else seems to have these issues.

Delete the game's cache in Windows' AppData

Originally posted by Napalm_Bobby:

Same here, not sure why but RAM usage seemed to be very high too. I'm wondering if there's a memory leak.

Use this to counter memory leak
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3223025516

[ShalickGyro]

Pretty much the exact same problem for me. Was working just fine last night, as of the patch this morning the FPS is so bad as to make the game basically unplayable. Tried deleting the cache file, didn't help.

[DelightfullyMAD]

Pretty sure this is 100% on Arrowhead's end, not ours. My game was working perfectly fine yesterday, playing Ultra settings at like 144 fps, no problems. Get on today and the game will not exceed 30 fps. I made no changes to my settings, made no changes to my GPU settings, and all my other games are working perfectly fine.

So yeah, this is absolutely an issue with a borked patch. I doubt trying to do much on our end is going to fix it, Arrowhead will have to fix what they broke

[Ace Sleaze]

Are you all using an intel cpu?

[InsaneGenius]

Originally posted by Acey:

Are you all using an intel cpu?

Yeah. I have the recommended CPU for the game

[God_of_shinobi]

Same here was running great 144 fps then I log into today to 14 fps running with a 3080ti so what gives?

[DelightfullyMAD]

Originally posted by Acey:

Are you all using an intel cpu?

Using an AMD cpu which hasn't been a problem at all up to this point. So it seems kind of odd that they'd suddenly screw up performance on a whole line of cpu's now

[GoneTomorrow]

FPS went from 144 to 40-50. RTX 4080. GPU usage doesn't seem to go above 50% or so, was 99-100% yesterday.

[Mapheasto]

Exactly the same issue for me as well

[Shuxy]

This happened to me exactly. The game was working fine last night, but when I logged in this morning (post update), things seemed glitchy and sluggish. I joined a match, and my character was moving at a crawling pace (even when running!) and when I ran, the animation was bugged to the point where my character was still and hovering in a running pose while slowly moving forward. Also, I did not get any of the 55 medals from the most recent planet defense objective. I have no idea what is happening.

Edit: I did try updating my NVIDIA GeForce RTX Graphics card and that seemed to fix a lot of the issues. Definitely recommend updating drivers to help with this problem!

[bob74slyTuff]

I tried reinstalling the game, but to no avail. It takes forever to load and both the load screen and the game itself is extremely choppy and unstable.
(Update: Webroot is somehow causing the issue. Shutting the program off while running Helldivers 2 fixes the problem, but I don't understand why that's the case.)

[B.M. Fahrtz]

Originally posted by Shuxy:

my character was moving at a crawling pace (even when running!) and when I ran, the animation was bugged to the point where my character was still and hovering in a running pose while slowly moving forward. Also, I did not get any of the 55 medals from the most recent planet defense objective. I have no idea what is happening.

Same here, feet don't move, just glide. Cannot move at run speed, even though stamina drains like I'm running. No issues yesterday or prior. Been this way all evening.

The medals delay is a consistent issue. I read they're going to change how those are distributed, but I didn't understand the technical aspects of what the actual problem is.

[Shuxy]

I did try updating my NVIDIA GeForce RTX Graphics card and that seemed to fix a lot of the issues. Definitely recommend updating drivers to help with this problem!

Guys, let me know if this helps at all!

[DeathAgentX]

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