How to keep 60 fps?

[𝕭𝖊𝖑𝖒𝖔𝖓𝖙]

I7 97500H RTX 2060 6VRAM 16GB RAM playing on high settings at 1080p, however, I can barely keep 60 fps in the free roam. Any tips to boost performance?

[Fluffy_Llama]

lower the cloud settings if they are not already but the game is a bit of a system hog and since you cant do anything about the draw distances there is not a lot that can be done. Im playing on a 13700k, 4090 with 64gb of ram at 1440p and still in some spots the game will drop down into the 60 fps range (i have it capped at 100 fps)

[DrTalhaMBBS]

Try using vulkan I get average 55 fps using rx 580

[𝕭𝖊𝖑𝖒𝖔𝖓𝖙]

Thanks, guys. I'll be sure to test your suggestions.

[Kitsububbles]

The clouds and small particle related settings are the most impactful as the CPU tries to tell the GPU to render each layer which becomes a massive slog on the overrall systems

[𝕭𝖊𝖑𝖒𝖔𝖓𝖙]

Thank you, Kitsububbles. I'll try to optimize this settings using the Nvidia Panel, hopefully I'll get better results.

[Fluffy_Llama]

Ive also seen people post they reduced stutters by disabling the in game vsync and instead force vsync via the GPU options, Nvidia Panel in your case. Ive tried just playing with vsync off but there is very noticeable screen tearing when i have.

[𝕭𝖊𝖑𝖒𝖔𝖓𝖙]

should I force vsync to 60fps using Nvidia Papel?

[longjohn119]

I would suggest using Fast Sync in the Nvidia Control Panel ..... Instead of syncing the entire game to 60 FPS it only syncs the monitor to 60 FPS but the rest of the game runs at a higher FPS so the gameplay is smoother and you get lower controller lag. Traditional V-sync is based on 1950's technology with the sync signal derived from the 60Hz (North America) or 50Hz (everywhere else) powerline frequency for interlaced analog video where the source is locked to a fixed rate. which is why it doesn't work so well with progressive digital video where the source FPS isn't fixed. Currently I'm playing Odyssey at 1440p with a Reshade as well as DLDSR 2.25x enabled and get around 80 FPS but have Fast Sync turned on to stop tearing while keeping the controller latency down and making gameplay crisper. Fast Sync is an underrated feature on Nvidia GPUs

[Amra]

Had the same problem and couldnt keep 60 fps no matter what.The change to vulkan was the only thing that helped

[Fluffy_Llama]

Capping the frame rate to 60 might help, depending on how good your PC cooling is you could be thermal throttling if you have the frame rate uncapped and its pushing your PC to hard. That kills your performance when it happens and causes a big old stutter as the clock speeds get lowered.

I use HWmonitor to keep tabs on like my GPU and CPU temps, most hardware will start to throttle as you push past 80c. Its a nice lite weight free program you can run from your desktop as you game.

Nvidia control panel has a frame rate limiter that works well, i use it with all Bethesda games since going over 60fps with them tends to break things like the physics engine.

[𝕭𝖊𝖑𝖒𝖔𝖓𝖙]

well guys, I tested everything, even Vulkan. The results are pretty much the same, except when is Vulkan, which the frame rate stays between 50 - 55 but never 60. At least there's no stuttering and the game overall is pretty playable. I must assume it's ubisoft problem, since they can't get a complete game at all.

[longjohn119]

This game has always had performance problems on laptops because of their lower CPU power ..... a 45 watt CPU just can't compete against a desktop 65 Watt and up CPU. You have a CPU bottleneck that's keeping you from feeding data to the GPU at a rate higher than 55 FPS

[𝕭𝖊𝖑𝖒𝖔𝖓𝖙]

That's most likely the reason, Russell. However, it's still playable anyway, I was just wondering from start that it could be my hardware or Ubisoft existence, it turns out it is both XD. Thank you guys for the tips, I appreciated!

[animal_PLANET]

This maybe a little late for suggestions but have you checked for updates specific to your laptop? Check the manufacturer's website and see. Check BIOS as well.

Have you tried a clean boot? Disable all non essential services, programs and tasks from starting with PC. So use services (services app or system configuration app), tasks (task scheduler app), and startup items (task manager) to disable them. Check all 3 areas. If anyone is enabled that software will load. This will free up system resources and help lower the load on CPU/RAM.

You could try a program called DDU and than install latest display driver from NVIDIA. It will completely remove your display driver. Thus ensuring a clean install of new display driver. Just like doing it for the first time on a new OS. This will help remove any potential conflicts from previous installs. Which in turn may help improve performance overall.

Here is link to DDU. It explains what it is/does. It also has a guide. Make sure to follow it if unfamiliar. https://www.wagnardsoft.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4518

When installing display driver do not install GeForce Experience. It adds a lot of unnecessary telemetry to system.

In NVIDIA control panel Keep 3D settings to default except for these. Enable low latency mode. Also set texture filtering - quality to performance.

Are you using Windows 10? Make sure you are on latest public release. No insider, preview, or optional updates.

I would suggest this for your in-game settings. Make sure your resolution modifier is at 100%. FOV set to 70 - 75. Enable V-Sync with 60Hz refresh rate and FPS limit to off. Set graphic quality to High as anything above has no difference in detail what so ever. Adaptive quality to off. Terrain to medium. Keep shadows, fog, clutter, water and screen space reflections to low. Clutter is actually a bit demanding in this game.

Put volumetric clouds to low as there is negligible difference in the way it looks. I would keep AO to low and Depth of Field off. Try that and see if it helps.

[𝕭𝖊𝖑𝖒𝖔𝖓𝖙]

Thanks for the tips and suggestions, unfortunately, I unstalled the game due the 100% achievements + all missions, damn! what an open world game it was. Still, I'll be sure to apply this settings for Origins, which I intend to purchase on this Summer Sale and it's the only one besides Odyssey with achievements on Steam, so I might try all the best settings possible to boost performance. Thank you again for the support!