Strange performance drops?

[PROTEIN DELICACY]

Does anyone else have issues with strange performance drops during certain situations? All of a sudden my CPU is at 100% and cooking while the GPU drops down to 5% usage. My FPS is at 20-25 when this happens.

First time was during the Keepers' Vault quest after talking to the old man. As soon as the monsters broke the walls I started having the FPS drop until moving to the next area. If I pulled the monsters out of the area it was fine, but moving back in to the empty room caused my fps to drop again...

Second time was when I activated a shrine and got the 300% dmg reflection effect (Might have been the divine shield like effect around my character causing it?).

Third time was during a later quest on a boat with nighttime and rainy weather.

Specs:
GPU: RX 6650 XT
CPU: 5800X3D

I have tried these actions but I'm still having the problem:
* Verify files through steam
* Reinstall the game
* Reset shader cache in amd Adrenaline
* DDU and reinstalled latest driver

[ch_33k]

Hi, i also have hard FPS drops. I play in 4k with an RTX 4080 and a Ryzen 9 3900X CPU. In the lategame the FPS sometimes drops to 5 FPS with my Necromancer.

Some optimization and support for DLSS / FSR would be great

[I'm cucked]

Yuuuuuup. I genuinely don't get it. It just happens at random. Game will be a clean 80fps, then it'll drop to like 30, 20, 6fps at the drop of a hat. I have no idea why, it doesn't seem to be consistent at all, except in that while playing 3-player, one of my friends usually experiences similar drops as I do at the same time, but the other friend doesn't. It's very weird.

[PROTEIN DELICACY]

Alright, good to know I'm not alone experiencing this. I wish it was an optimization issue but I can get this when I am all alone on the screen with no enemies. Something is REALLY messed up and I hope it gets fixed sooner rather than later and that it doesn't get drowned by the already alarming server issues.

[DAOWAce]

I just played through that part of the quest and had absolutely 0 issues.

Though, I have a 5950x and RTX 4900, and game is running off an NVME SSD. Win10 on 537.58 driver.

The only thing I do notice is occasional stutter, something similar to shader compilation stutter. Other than that, no performance issues.

It's probably a game issue though; Unity is unfortunately known to have problems like this.

Curious though, if you limit the game to only non-HT cores and on one CCD (if applicable), does the issue stop happening? I know the game runs better this way regardless on Ryzen. (~8% FPS improvement if CPU bound)

[Frost]

I think the game may have a memory leak after playing for long periods of time. It was eating my ram yesterday when I was experiencing performance issues. A restart solved it.

Could be a separate issue but I thought it was worth mentioning.

[Smoket]

i bought a 4090 the other day and it still does the same thing 5 fps just like my $100 gpu

[Geist]

For me it happens when hovering items on the ground. Even opening inventory drops frames. Doesn't matter what settings I use. Really weird. Don't remember this happening in other patches.

[Ayk-]

It is Unity and this games performance was literally horrible in Early Access. It is probably the only thing improved with 1.0. Despite the improvements though, some major issues remain.

As others stated, game has severe memory leak, common in Unity games that had more memory optimization. Should not have released like this out of Early Access, but here we are. Depending on your RAM, you are forced to restart your play session. 8 gb ram specs should restart once every 60-90 minutes if they want stable performance.

If you are having performance issues, here is what I can advice:
-Lower resolution(I don't think this game is built with 4k in mind)
- Limit/cap your FPS. Monitor's refresh rate or the lowest comfortable.
-Lower settings. Ultra doesn't add anything visual, the differences are hardly visible. It is an ARPG tbh, low is the way, but just don't go for ultra, some settings are just eating resources with no useful output.

Despite these, you will still have momentary fps drops, but not as often and game should feel overall better.

[Balm]

same here
I can run most modern games without issues but this unity top down arpg chugs when there are a few dead bodies on screen

[Fatal Insomnia]

This game ran like ass during early access and it still runs like ass. Its a shame they didn't really do anything for optimization.

[It's An Otter]

Same issue. Running ultra settings consistently at around 120-165fps in empowered monoliths. Randomly I'll drop to single digit FPS despite everything being fine throughout the map. Picking up loot/glyphs (anything with AoE collect) also stutters the FPS pretty hard.

Playing warlock.

5900x CPU with 3080 GPU.

[M1lh0u53]

No spikes in CPU
The only problem i have is with fire, it kills my frame rate. Soon as it's gone it's fine again.
Run V-sync @60

AMD Ryzen 7 5700x
3080 10G

[Xander]

Disable Shared Access Memory (SAM). I had issues in the same areas and disabling SAM fixed the problem.

[Dailao]

I had similar issues but it seemed random. When I quit the game and went to the same area it would sometimes not happen again, but then 2 zones later the same thing. It might be tied to certain enemies or spells.

Playing warlock as well.

[Vicky Rira]

memory leaks abound and the game just consistently crashes when it hits around 7.5gb on my system