PC Performance Degradation
Adding an additional report to the PC performance concerns being documented here. Observed issue: framerate and frametime performance degrades rapidly from an acceptable state of high performance to...
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This game was butter smooth on my PC with the release version, but not after the Jan 30th, 2023 Update. As soon as the update occurred the game is now in an permanent unplayable state.
Just trying to load the game takes 3-5 minutes forever, even the initial game load now stutters heavily, even on initial game load just to the menu and can take minutes to reach the main menu which is not responsive at all and takes 2-3 mouse clicks just to get the game to respond to inputs.
What happened? And has anyone seen this? If so what did you do to fix this?
Troubleshooting Steps:
- Restarted my computer, No improvement.
- Try a different game, smooth as butter so the issue is specific to this game and not my machine as a whole.
- Update to the latest version of GeForce Experience, no improvement.
- Running the latest GeForce driver on my GeForce 3800, no improvement.
- The issue is not with my computer or my Steam.
Result:
Something in the latest patch totally broke my ability to play. Now I have to spend hours wading through various settings in the hopes of resolving what the patch broke in my game.
This is on a 8 Core Intel I-9 with 32GB of RAM, Nvidia 3800 GPU, and an 2TB SSD.
This did help me somewhat - Posting as a possible clue.
1: Go to C:\Users\YOURNAME\Documents\Dead Space (2023)\cache. It could also be C:\Users\YOURNAME\OneDrive\Documents\Dead Space (2023)\cache if you use OneDrive..
2: Delete everything that's in the "Cache" folder
3: Start the game up and don't touch any key, let it do the shader compilation again. It may not tell you but if you use Window's Resource Monitor (RESMON) on the Overview section if you expand the disk section you will see it heavily hitting the Shader Cache folder. This could take 5-10 minutes.
4. If it has improved but still a bit laggy, go into Dead Space 2023 game and turn motion blur off. This helped even more.
For whatever reason the game after the update is heavy stuttering either due to Shader Recompilation due to not telling us after the update, or by forcing it to rebuild the cache it does appear to help.
Wait to change any of the in-game settings after the initial shader compilation the game will have stutters, even in the in-game menu.
