Severe FPS Drops (5-10 FPS) in every game mode, even in Menus

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Hello EA Support / Community, I'm experiencing a serious performance issue in EA Sports FC 26 on PC. My FPS is stable and smooth (60+ FPS) during the first half of a match, but after halftime (or sometimes during cutscenes), the FPS drops drastically to around 5–10 FPS and never recovers for the rest of the match. My system specs: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X, AMD Radeon RX 6600XT, 32GB RAM, Windows 10/11, latest AMD Adrenalin drivers. What I've tried: Lowering all graphics settings, editing overrideAutodetect.lua to disable strand-based hair and motion blur, setting the file to read-only, disabling V-Sync and FPS cap in-game, enabling Frame Rate Target Control via AMD software, setting Windows to High Performance mode, and reinstalling both the game and GPU drivers. None of these fixed the issue. The FPS drop consistently happens after halftime even in Kick-Off mode with no overlays or mods. The game becomes nearly unplayable. Based on Reddit and EA forums, it seems many users are having the same issue. Please look into this. Let me know if you need any logs or system info. Thanks.

Same here bro. Its bcoz You GPU is going to 99% in 2nd half all the time - Ive checked by Nvidia widget layer. For now there is only 1 way to fix that, exit the game during the match or close app immediately. I know its frustrating and count as loose and warning for us, but dont see any other way till the fix that. Its sad.

Hey bro. Can You confirm that after that FPS drops in 2nd half gone?

EVERY single FUT game I try to play, it all works fine until half time. As soon as the cutscenes start playing in the background of the half time-menu, the game drops to like 5-10 fps and it becomes impossible to play. I've tried troubleshooting it and messing with the files for hours and nothing works. Can't even get a refund through steam anymore. So disappointed, and I don't seem to be the only one with this problem. Idk anything about my specs but I have AMD Ryzen 5000 series 5 and Nvidia 3050.

Hey vikkaz69​ can you grab me a DxDiag to take a look at your system: https://help.ea.com/en/articles/platforms/dxdiag-information-pc/ 

Darko

same problem....

same, it is a shame that this problem is not fixed

From a diagnostics perspective, a DxDiag won’t meaningfully narrow this down:

DxDiag is static, not time-series.

It captures DirectX version, drivers, and basic hardware, but no runtime telemetry: no frametime curves, no Present/Flip timing, no per-frame CPU/GPU utilization, no I/O spikes, no shader compilation events. The symptoms here are intermittent/runtime by nature.

Stutter & slow-motion are engine runtime/scheduling issues.
Typical root causes are frame pacing, thread scheduling (simulation/render/input), shader compilation, asset streaming (I/O), DX12 barrier/queue contention, V-Sync/frame cap/Reflex/Frame Generation interactions, etc.—none of which are visible in DxDiag.

Another common problem is the controller stops working:
Controller dropouts are HID/XInput runtime path issues.
These often stem from the HID stack, USB/Bluetooth polling, overlay/input mappers, focus/foreground changes, or engine deadzone/rate limits. DxDiag lists devices, but it doesn’t show polling rates, packet loss, or HID errors around the time of failure.
Anti-cheat/overlay/DRM hooks are runtime interactions.
Conflicts between EA AntiCheat and overlays (GeForce Experience, Discord, RTSS), or with Reflex/FG, occur at runtime. Hook chains and API intercepts aren’t represented in DxDiag.
Problem prevalence suggests build/engine scope, not a single machine.
With many users reporting identical symptoms on heterogeneous hardware, collecting individual DxDiags adds noise but little diagnostic signal.

Actionable data that would help engineering instead:
-> Game logs & crash/debug dumps from the current EAFC 26 build (happy to provide exact files/paths if you share them).
-> PresentMon or ETW frametime traces (per-frame CPU vs. GPU bound, missed presents, flip model).
-> GPUView/ETW trace with DXGI/D3D12/Disk I/O/Network providers to surface shader-compile hitches, streaming stalls, ISR/DPC spikes.
-> In-engine telemetry (simulation-ms, render-ms, RHI-ms, shader-compile markers, streaming queue depth, net-tick drift).
-> EA AntiCheat logs to check for hook/block latency.
-> Windows Event Viewer extracts (System + HIDClass/USB/Bluetooth) around the controller dropout timestamps.
-> Network telemetry (RTT/packet loss/tick-rate) if the “slow-motion” correlates with online sessions.
-> Settings snapshot: V-Sync, frame cap, Reflex, DLSS/FG, exclusive fullscreen vs. borderless, controller path (XInput for example), and overlay status.

Can we as a community help with this?

Hey EA_Darko​  I confirm that problem described by vikkaz69 is exist.  Have same problems with FPS drops. Every time in 2nd half after cut scenes break or sometimes even during walkout animation. My GPU is working about 40-50% in 1st half and after cut scenes its going to 99% all the time (fps is going down to 5-10, cant play). Only closing the game fixing the problem and then GPU is going back to normal work.

I have fresh W11 install with drivers (including NVidia newest one).

EA_Salmon​ , EA_Kalina​ , EA_Barry​ , EA_Lanna​ , EA_Universa​ , EA_Aljo​, EA_Garrus​ plz do something with this, bcoz problem is global as You see. So many cases about that from PC players.