Periodic framerate drops

[jez]

This game seems to mostly run fine but I keep having it drop to a super slow framerate (15fps) for about 5 seconds every 30 seconds or so without any particular reason, could be looking at the exact same scenery as when it was running at 60+ and it'll just grind to halt for no apparent reason and then go back to running normally. It's been fine for some levels (Loboto's lab, Hollis's mind) but has been terrible after. Running game on medium settings across the board.

Specs:
nvidia RTX 2060
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-10300H CPU @ 2.50GHz 2.50 GHz
8.00 GB (7.87 GB usable)

[WarBucks]

Laptop?

That could be a lot of stuff really. GPU drivers, GPU settings, antivirus, Shaders recompiling after a driver update, something throttleing from heat.

Easiest thing to try first is clearing the "directx shader cache". type disk cleanup in the taskbar, press enter. in the selection menu youll see "directx shader cache" if you clear that it might help.

If that doesnt fix it, do you have the game locked to 60fps? in the nvidia driver panel?

[kotekzot]

Heat throttling is the first thing to check when dealing with a laptop (10300H is a laptop CPU). You can use software like HWMonitor to check the temperature of your CPU and GPU.

Massive intermittent FPS drops are a solid indicator of throttling.

[Photonboy]

(may be fixed already but I just thought I'd add this in case it helps someone)

1)You have GSYNC enabled?

2) I wouldn't expect thermal throttling to happen that quickly.

3) on my desktop setup I had to force 60FPS (60Hz monitor) even though VSYNC was enabled to get rid of a weird juddering that made the game not feel smooth.

4) I've seen big FPS drops in rare games where they drop in MULTIPLES of the refresh (60FPS to 30FPS then 20FPS then 15FPS..) but I wouldn't expect that here.

5) Adaptive VSYNC... could force this on in NVidia CP for just this game. It simply enforce VSYNC (i.e. 60FPS/60Hz) and then disables VSYNC if you can't output 60FPS (or your monitor's refresh).

Again, you shouldn't need that but then I shouldn't need to CLAMP the FPS to make it smooth.

6) Shader compilation?
I just started the game but haven't had much issues yet (one hour). You can't do much about this but then EVERYBODY should have the same issue.

[dreamre]

Asus TUF Gaming FA506IV Laptop
OctalCore AMD Ryzen 7 4800H
GeForce RTX 2060 (6 ГБ)
16 Gb
I have the same problem. started on the level with a huge cube. after launching 144 fps but almost after a minute or even earlier drops to 15 fps and then stays like that

[kotekzot]

Originally posted by dreamre:

Asus TUF Gaming FA506IV Laptop
OctalCore AMD Ryzen 7 4800H
GeForce RTX 2060 (6 ГБ)
16 Gb
I have the same problem. started on the level with a huge cube. after launching 144 fps but almost after a minute or even earlier drops to 15 fps and then stays like that

Originally posted by kotekzot:

Heat throttling is the first thing to check when dealing with a laptop (10300H is a laptop CPU). You can use software like HWMonitor to check the temperature of your CPU and GPU.

Massive intermittent FPS drops are a solid indicator of throttling.

[dreamre]

Originally posted by kotekzot:

Heat throttling is the first thing to check when dealing with a laptop (10300H is a laptop CPU). You can use software like HWMonitor to check the temperature of your CPU and GPU.

Massive intermittent FPS drops are a solid indicator of throttling.

nope. i play cyberpunk on middle setting with 40-55 fps, and i start Elder Ring on Very High setting and its 60 fps, i play first mission Psychonauts 2 with 30-40 fps, i cant understand why so low, when i quit from mission i have 15-20 fps -_-

[kotekzot]

Originally posted by dreamre:

Originally posted by kotekzot:

Heat throttling is the first thing to check when dealing with a laptop (10300H is a laptop CPU). You can use software like HWMonitor to check the temperature of your CPU and GPU.

Massive intermittent FPS drops are a solid indicator of throttling.

nope. i play cyberpunk on middle setting with 40-55 fps, and i start Elder Ring on Very High setting and its 60 fps, i play first mission Psychonauts 2 with 30-40 fps, i cant understand why so low, when i quit from mission i have 15-20 fps -_-

Just because games A and B don't overheat your laptop CPU doesn't mean game C isn't going to either, especially if your FPS goes as high as 144.

[dreamre]

Originally posted by kotekzot:

Originally posted by dreamre:

nope. i play cyberpunk on middle setting with 40-55 fps, and i start Elder Ring on Very High setting and its 60 fps, i play first mission Psychonauts 2 with 30-40 fps, i cant understand why so low, when i quit from mission i have 15-20 fps -_-

Just because games A and B don't overheat your laptop CPU doesn't mean game C isn't going to either, especially if your FPS goes as high as 144.

Oh my god! I finally managed to run it without a drop in fps!
Just used everything at once, and it worked!
Okay, not everything, but something)
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Step 1) Launch the game with DirectX 11
-dx11 or -d3d11
Step 2) Do a clean installation of graphics driver.
https://www.nvidia.in/Download/index....
https://www.amd.com/en/support
Step 3) Allow the game exe file to antivirus or Windows Security.
Step 4) Verify the game files.
Step 5) Install Visual C++ files: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/h...
Step 6) Update Windows to the latest version
Step 7) Run the game as an administrator, Try launching the game from installation folder.
Step 8) Laptop users with dual graphics card run the game on dedicated graphics card.
Step 9) Disable steam overlay, also close other overlay application, Disable Steam cloud save, perform clean boot, close all the overclocking and background application.
Step 10) Try to lower down graphics settings
Step 11) Uninstall and reinstall the game