Wild FPS issues on PC

[Comedy]

As the title says, Sekiro keeps lagging. I have 60 fps when doing nothing, but when I rotate the camera, move, or do anything really, it goes down to 30-ish fps. I tried loads of things, but nothing seemed to work so far.

I have i7 3770, 16GB RAM, Radeon RX 5500 XT.

What's even weirder, is that it doesn't matter if I'm playing on the highest possible graphics, or the lowest, it doesn't change a single thing, I still have the same drops, or just a 2-5 fps difference between Max and Low graphic settings.

I also noticed that I get less fps when looking in the direction of buildings, enemies, but it goes back to 60 when staring out the map, like before the Chained Ogre on the stairs.

[Crypto Gamer]

Have you tried turning off online mode and restart the game.?

It helped with random fps with many people including me.

That said your GPU likely can not do 60fps on maximum settings in a stable manner.
High likely be fine on 1080p.

[Comedy]

Originally posted by Crypto Gamer:

Have you tried turning off online mode and restart the game.?

It helped with random fps with many people including me.

That said your GPU likely can not do 60fps on maximum settings in a stable manner.
High likely be fine on 1080p.

Turned off online mode, restarted, still the same fps drops.

And I highly doubt my GPU can't handle 60fps. As I said before, I tried playing on Low, Medium, High and Max and I get the exact same fps.

I just tested it, when looking off into the distance, I have a stable 60fps, but the moment I rotate the camera towards some buildings, it drops down to 35fps, then continues to increase and decrease randomly between 30fps and 40fps.

This is how it goes all the time, regardless of the graphic settings.
EDIT: it's also quite interesting that I have stable 60fps in Cyberpunk 2077 on high graphics, but 35fps in Sekiro with low settings.

[Alanda]

Have you solve it? I tried different solution but still cannot solve it.

[Comedy]

Originally posted by Shiki:

Have you solve it? I tried different solution but still cannot solve it.

Nope, no solution. I've looked in many different discussions and forums, original AMD site, Sekiro Reddit, AMD Reddit, nothing.

I just accepted that the performance is trash.

[Sticky White Stuff]

It's not. I played it with a i5-7600K and a 1060 6GB FC OC, 16GB DDR4 RAM and an SSD and the Performance was 60 at max on 1080p or 60 at 1440p on High.

Now i have a Ryzen 5600X and an AMD RX 6600 TX FC OC, and the game holds a steady 144FPS with the FPS Unlocker. But i limit it to 120FPS, which is half of my G-Sync/FreeSync (G-Sync Compatible Monitor, Samsung Curved 27') 240HZ.

It never drops a single frame. Try removing all the weird gadgets or gamepads, bluetooth and other stuff and see how it goes. I have no problem with BT, X1S and DualSense and DualShock 4 controllers, even with the Sony Dongle.

[Comedy]

Originally posted by ＧＬＵＥ:

It's not. I played it with a i5-7600K and a 1060 6GB FC OC, 16GB DDR4 RAM and an SSD and the Performance was 60 at max on 1080p or 60 at 1440p on High.

Now i have a Ryzen 5600X and an AMD RX 6600 TX FC OC, and the game holds a steady 144FPS with the FPS Unlocker. But i limit it to 120FPS, which is half of my G-Sync/FreeSync (G-Sync Compatible Monitor, Samsung Curved 27') 240HZ.

It never drops a single frame. Try removing all the weird gadgets or gamepads, bluetooth and other stuff and see how it goes. I have no problem with BT, X1S and DualSense and DualShock 4 controllers, even with the Sony Dongle.

I had the same 1060 graphics card a few weeks before making this post. Everything was fine.

I switched to RX 5500 XT and the fps is suddenly bad in Sekiro, but way better in every other game.

Nothing has changed. I don't have any controllers, just keyboard, mouse, microphone and headset (and stuff like LAN, ofc).

[Sticky White Stuff]

Originally posted by ♱Taurus♱:

Originally posted by ＧＬＵＥ:

It's not. I played it with a i5-7600K and a 1060 6GB FC OC, 16GB DDR4 RAM and an SSD and the Performance was 60 at max on 1080p or 60 at 1440p on High.

Now i have a Ryzen 5600X and an AMD RX 6600 TX FC OC, and the game holds a steady 144FPS with the FPS Unlocker. But i limit it to 120FPS, which is half of my G-Sync/FreeSync (G-Sync Compatible Monitor, Samsung Curved 27') 240HZ.

It never drops a single frame. Try removing all the weird gadgets or gamepads, bluetooth and other stuff and see how it goes. I have no problem with BT, X1S and DualSense and DualShock 4 controllers, even with the Sony Dongle.

I had the same 1060 graphics card a few weeks before making this post. Everything was fine.

I switched to RX 5500 XT and the fps is suddenly bad in Sekiro, but way better in every other game.

Nothing has changed. I don't have any controllers, just keyboard, mouse, microphone and headset (and stuff like LAN, ofc).

Weird. I know AMD RX 580 dropped frames HARD on alpha objects. like when you deathblow/assassinate someone, because of the alpha effects, compared to the GTX 1060 6GB.

In fact, Digital Foundry showed it the best on their PC video. AMD couldn't keep up there.
Your card is around 10 FPS faster than the RX 580, which was often compared to 1060 6GB, and was a overall a better card, apart from some weird stuff in some games like Sekiro. It delievered a better overall performance.

https://youtu.be/RRahPd_JzsM?t=813
Go to 13:35.

It could be an AMD thing, but then again, i have no problems at High FPS, and i can even Downsample from 1440p or more. (Not when using FPS Unlocker, because the Injector for that needs AMD to be Windowed, so it can disable V-Sync and enable FreeSync, so it uses Borderless Windowed by default when launching the game.

Unlike NVIDIA which can be Fullscreen. Good thing the Injector is a DLL file you just put in the folder and that's it. You never have to do anything apart from setting the .ini for the first time.

https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Sekiro-Refresh-Rate-Fix

Try unlocking the FrameRate, Set Sekiro to Windowed Mode, and after you launch it for the first time, it will create an .ini settings file. Then set your max FPS and set it to borderless. It might be worth a try. Because the V-Sync won't be double buffered anymore (Meaning any FPS drops will be in single digits, opposed to default, when you drop a few frames, it chops the FPS in half).

For me d3d11.dll didn't work but dxgi.dll did. Also works with Mods/Randomizers.

[Comedy]

Originally posted by ＧＬＵＥ:

Originally posted by ♱Taurus♱:

I had the same 1060 graphics card a few weeks before making this post. Everything was fine.

I switched to RX 5500 XT and the fps is suddenly bad in Sekiro, but way better in every other game.

Nothing has changed. I don't have any controllers, just keyboard, mouse, microphone and headset (and stuff like LAN, ofc).

Weird. I know AMD RX 580 dropped frames HARD on alpha objects. like when you deathblow/assassinate someone, because of the alpha effects, compared to the GTX 1060 6GB.

In fact, Digital Foundry showed it the best on their PC video. AMD couldn't keep up there.
Your card is around 10 FPS faster than the RX 580, which was often compared to 1060 6GB, and was a overall a better card, apart from some weird stuff in some games like Sekiro. It delievered a better overall performance.

https://youtu.be/RRahPd_JzsM?t=813
Go to 13:35.

It could be an AMD thing, but then again, i have no problems at High FPS, and i can even Downsample from 1440p or more. (Not when using FPS Unlocker, because the Injector for that needs AMD to be Windowed, so it can disable V-Sync and enable FreeSync, so it uses Borderless Windowed by default when launching the game.

Unlike NVIDIA which can be Fullscreen. Good thing the Injector is a DLL file you just put in the folder and that's it. You never have to do anything apart from setting the .ini for the first time.

https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Sekiro-Refresh-Rate-Fix

Try unlocking the FrameRate, Set Sekiro to Windowed Mode, and after you launch it for the first time, it will create an .ini settings file. Then set your max FPS and set it to borderless. It might be worth a try. Because the V-Sync won't be double buffered anymore (Meaning any FPS drops will be in single digits, opposed to default, when you drop a few frames, it chops the FPS in half).

For me d3d11.dll didn't work but dxgi.dll did. Also works with Mods/Randomizers.

Will give it a try once I have time, thanks for your help.

[Chris12343]

What worked for me was disabling "texture filtering - trilinear optimization" in the NVDIA control panel. There might be a similar fix for Radeon cards? Best of luck and i hope this helps somone with an nvdia card searching for an answer.

[UTHØ]

o.o

[Comedy]

To anyone still wondering, I have not found a solution to this problem.

Interestingly, I only had framerate issues around the ogre. I got past that point - which was really annoying, but I did - and never had a problem ever again after.

[Bishop]

When I first launched the game I found the screen size resolution to be my issue. I had to downsize it a bit, but after that it worked fine.

[baxsus]

Special K will fix your problems. And many problems with many other games as well. Something weird is going on with Sekiro when it's fullscreen. I forced borderless windowed through Special K and everything is fine now. Also, I don't know why but the game starts with HDR on even though it's off in the settings. Yet again, Special K fixes that too.

[𝗦𝗮𝗺𝘀𝗲𝗗𝗞 ✌]

its because you got a potato pc its over 10 years old lol