ME1 Citadel FPS Drops
Hi, I started ME1 earlier and was having a blast...until I got to the Citadel. Now I'm just frustrated. Essentially, the game has been running pretty much perfectly at 144 FPS. However, if I walk o...
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Unfortunately, yes! ☹️
I actually did a clean reinstall of my graphics drivers after first getting to Edolus, which obviously involved a PC restart. I'm still getting hefty FPS drops and stutters when looking in certain directions.
I also tried going up a mountain to the north west of the map, and looked out to the east this time. It dropped into the low 40s! It seems to occur when looking out over large distances (i.e., standing at one end of the map and looking across to the other side).
This never happened in the original as far as I can recall.
I can confirm what @PilotGW reported, after restarting my pc and loading a safe on Edolus, the stuttering issue still persists. I can also confirm
that distance seems to play an important part in these instances.
But in my case, framerate drops can also occur in every situation on Edolus. I can drive around for several seconds in the middle of the map
with good performance, and then with no apparent reason, framerate takes a dive again.
Is the framedrops limited to just ME1? I haven't heard anything about ME2 or ME3.
Did you guys set the Windows energy settings to high and "Maximum Performance" in the "power management mode" of the NVIDIA driver?
Did you try to give the ME1 exe a higher priority in the Windows task manager?
Setting window energy settings to high and "Maximum Performance" in NVCP changes nothing. Neither did a higher priority for ME1 exe via Task Manager.
I've attached a screenshot that should show how the CPU boosts to maximum speed while 'idling', and the GPU as well while at around 50 percent GPU load.
Temperatures are clearly not an issue either.
Edit: A clean boot doesn't change anything, either.
Same here. I set power plan to Ultimate Performance and process priority to High and it didn't make a difference unfortunately.
For me, an older version of iCUE tanked performance in the past with a specific flight simulator that I use, so it was at the top of my suspect list and one of the first things I tried unfortunately. Disabling it and all of its services doesn't work for me in this instance. Fingers crossed it carries on working for you!
