Is the game laggier than it used to be?

[Yournewstepmom]

Every match I get this mad lag from nowhere for like 5-10 seconds fps drop to like 15. In my 2k hours it's never been this bad. Anyone else?

[kronos]

It has always been laggy for me, and with the network issues I wonder if it's only a single bug causing it.

[TheCrazyCanuck]

There are places on some maps where performance seems to dip, I'm suspecting something highly detailed is being displayed nearby. Every time it happens to me I see the CPU utilization tank so I suspect the GPU is being starved of work to do for some whatever reason. This might be why the developers do not enable DirectX 12 support by default, perhaps these dips in performance are the reason why.

Are you passing any arguments to the game such as "-dx12"? Perhaps you are passing in a flag known to cause problems.

[Yournewstepmom]

I have dx12 enabled in launch settings but I've had that set forever with zero issues. I use other launch strings like 'use all cores' etc.
I overclocked my CPU a month ago, (which disabled 'boosting' locking it at a static number). There'd be no performance dip from 4 to 4.4ghz however. It feels like this started after the new snow map released with the brand new UI. Sure it's happened like this before but not this bad and not this consistent. Losing gun fights sucks because of this issue and I never know when it's going to harass me. At least this has made me level my tank lol

[Hylie Pistof]

overclocking is something UE4 handels very poorly.

and new maps always stutter a while, actualy every time you reinstall the game or make changes, the shaders need some ingame time to compile.

of course the new updates can have some bugs too ;) nothing new XD

[Yournewstepmom]

It's 'overclocked' but underclocked if that makes sense, since it has a boost option from 4 to 4.6ghz. So it's actually lower than 'stock'. Confusing, I know.

[Hylie Pistof]

XD
it can also be a side effect of many new players, often with high pings that then lag the whole server.
but i havent realy noticed any performance issues with my pc, to me the game is as inconsistant as it always was ;)

[Yournewstepmom]

I'm hoping it's from Steam sales yes