Weird performance problem

[Crow]

I have really weird issue with performance. Tutorial run just fine, but performance went down significantly in the very first real mission. The very first scene of the mission runs at about 50fps for me (the tutorial run way above 100), and moving screen causes it drop even more, unevenly.

The weird thing is that graphics settings don't seem to affect performance at all, speaking mainly about resolution. I would expect framerate to go up when decreasing render resolution or screen resolution, but that's not the case for me. The game still runs at 50fps on the same scene even after setting render resolution to 0.5. I can see GPU utilization to go down significantly, but framerate stays the same.

Any idea what's going on? I'm on Ryzen 2600 and GTX 1080.

[NeoX]

Originally posted by Crow:

I have really weird issue with performance. Tutorial run just fine, but performance went down significantly in the very first real mission. The very first scene of the mission runs at about 50fps for me (the tutorial run way above 100), and moving screen causes it drop even more, unevenly.

The weird thing is that graphics settings don't seem to affect performance at all, speaking mainly about resolution. I would expect framerate to go up when decreasing render resolution or screen resolution, but that's not the case for me. The game still runs at 50fps on the same scene even after setting render resolution to 0.5. I can see GPU utilization to go down significantly, but framerate stays the same.

Any idea what's going on? I'm on Ryzen 2600 and GTX 1080.

Yeah this issue is sadly known. This game is VERY CPU intensive (single thread) and the official Hardware recommendations are not correct. I recommend at least a Ryzen 1600x or an Intel 6700k. The hardware recommendations are still the same of the base SF3 game who was a lot more close to these hardware recommendations.

No frame dips so far only with ryzen 3000 so far.

What settings and resolution do you use?

Here you can see how many CPU-threads the game actualy only uses:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2278679060


Could you please post a ticket here on the bug-tracker to push this issue a little? thx!
https://redmine.thqnordic.com/projects/spellforce-3-fallen-god-community/issues/new

[Crow]

I'm not CPU bottlenecked, none of my CPU cores run at 100% while playing the game: https://imgur.com/a/95E8VYo

Also, if it was CPU bottleneck, then I don't think that GPU would run at 100%, which it does. I'm playing at 2560x1440. I tried switching to 1080p, but it weirdly has no impact on performance.

[Mud]

I don't think there is much you can do. The devs are reworking the game and the game engine, which hopefully will fix the poor performance.