@Dinaatio @REDRA-11 I have been experiencing EXACTLY the same issue since august. The past week it started to bug me a lot and I wen't a bit down the rabbit whole with console settings. I use vrr so I can track the fps throughout the lap and Bahrain is the worst by far. Vrr does not solve the issue because a new problem arrives: big fps drops. The fps drop from 100 approx to 60-58 and vrr is not able to smoothen out such big drop su you get a big stutter. However there are two partial solutions to this problem, but both are ridiculous. The first and most effective is to have a game in quick resume. When I open any game before F1 22 and just leave it in the menus or paused, and then switch to F1 22, the game runs at 120 fps flawlessly, not drops, stutters or tearing, perfect 120 fps and the experience is a bliss. The second solution which sometimes works and sometimes doesn't is to use flashback. I have found out that if you use flashback it sometimes gets the 120 fps and runs smoothly for the rest of the session. Like I said, both solutions are ridiculous. I was thinking it was my Xbox series x and was about to send it for repairs, but knowing you have the same issue is somewhat comforting.
It is really annoying that the issue has been here since august, bought the game that month so no previous information on how it ran before, however I was able to run an early version of the game as I have the disc version. I reinstalled it and did not update, played the game and it was SMOOTH 120 fps in all circuits and game modes, sooo smooth. Like I said, the version was a very early version, as a matter of fact Mercedes, Red Bull and Ferrari all had the generic My Team car design, the same one it appears on the back of the disc box. EA must have dropped the ball somewhere in an update and have refused to fix it but rather give us new liveries every month.
However I have another theory which is before I bought the disc version I played the EA play trial from Gamepass. I don't know if owning that version and the disc one causes the game to work this bad, but it's a theory.
Well, sorry for the long post, but I had to put this out in the open as I think it is a serious bug that makes the game unplayable and not enjoyable at all.
Edit: This happens also in races, not only time trial. The game just can't hit the 120 fps in performance mode.
@Dinaatio I can answer that, it doesn't work. I deleted everything in every possible way (all possible xbox dashboard ways and inside the game itself). I even tried using a different account, but again nothing. Lost everything, but I was only in Imola in the first season of My Team. I haven't been able to play that much, 50% races require a lot of energy. The peripherals part is interesting because I game on controller and no wheel or headset so that is clearly not the case. Maybe it is the Xbox after all and we are trying to blame EA, but Ockham's razors says otherwise, it must be EA. I don't know if this is the case with you, but I hate having multiple games opened. I play a game and immediately close it. It's a habit I have from PS4 of closing applications and only having the game I am playing running. So maybe all these people take advantage of Quick Resume and we do not. Also, I always unplug my Xbox at night because I don't trust my apartment's old wiring and country's power grid (Chile). I prefer to unplug it than have a fried Xbox. Maybe that also could be the reason, but I sincerely doubt it because power cycling the console helps rather than hurts. Like I said before, Ockham's razor states that EA are the problem here and not the Xbox.
@Dinaatio YouTube worked fine, I just don't get it why we can't run the game at 120fps in performance mode. I was reading some forums in Codemasters website on F1 2021 and several people had a very similar issue with stuttering and fps drops. I don't know if it was solved by EA. Yet again, I still don't discard a console issue.
