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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EA_Atic
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DICE TeamHey @SageBalance @PilotGW @Crookedpinkies Can you add a Dxdiag so we can see what hardware and drivers you have?
You can also try to do a clean boot to see if there any programs messing with Mass Effect: Legendary Edition and turn off any overlay programs for example Discord or Nvidia experience.
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Thanks @EA_Atic
My dxdiag is attached. I think I've managed to turn off every overlay I could think of, but not sure. I'll look into that and the clean boot, and if I notice anything fixes it, I'll post them later today.
@holger1405 Yes I've tried both of those but thanks for the suggestion.
EDIT UPDATE: A clean boot results in good performance. Now to try to figure out what's causing the problem.
EDIT UPDATE 2: I seem to have fixed my problem!!! (For now?) For me the culprit was Corsair's iCUE app that i manages my AIO CPU cooler.
How I did it: After confirming that a clean boot resolved the issue, I would minimise my game and close apps in Task Manager until the game stabilised. After closing iCue the game ran smoothly in the Citadel Presidum (which I found to be one of the easiest spots for replicating the issue). I restarted my PC with everything running again, started the game, and then force shutdown ONLY iCUE. Lo and behold - stable at 100-120fps and even stable with VSYNC on. I even had the nvidia overlay running without issue.
I'll play for a couple hours later today. If I get the issue coming up again I'll post it here.
EDIT UPDATE 3: Well I played for three or for hours today, mostly in the Citadel. The game was much, much smoother without iCUE but there were still a few instances of stuttering, especially once I got back onto the Normandy, but it's much more tolerable. However, moving the mouse around the galactic map is a bit of a painful exercise. Must be the mouse acceleration in action. Hopefully this is fixed soon but at least it's not ME3 where you actually need real-time control of your ship.
Good luck everyone. Keelah se'lai.
Hey everyone. Just wanted to provide an update on my progress in case it helps anyone else.
After I uninstalled iCUE I thought the game was running better but I soon ran into more of the same stuttering issues. A clean boot seemed to fix things but despite SEVERAL HOURS of trying to figure out which program (or programs) was causing the issues, I wasn't able to isolate it. Blocking some programs had more of performance impact than for others, but I could never get rid of the stuttering entirely.
In the end I thought to check my BIOS - I thought I had disabled CPU overclocking a while back but it turned out I hadn't. After switching off overclocking, the game runs perfectly smoothly. I've since played the rest of ME1 without seeing the stuttering again.
I have an intel i5 9600K in case that's relevant information for anyone.
