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2SMOKE_TM
Seasoned Veteran
1 year ago

Re: HUGE FPS DROP VOL 7

Today I noticed that the game does not create shader cache. It creates it in the documents/nfs unbound/cache folder, but not in the excalibur/shadercache folder. This folder is empty. Previously, there were cahce files in this folder.

I delete all caches, I also delete them from the EA app, I also delete them from the AMD software, all other games are recreated at the beginning of the game and play smoothly. But this game never creates and the processor is stressed unnecessarily.

Before Vol 7, even if I installed a new driver, it would wait up to 5 minutes at the beginning of the game to create the shader cache. Therefore, the game could be played easily at high fps. Now no matter what I do, the game immediately starts and driving becomes impossible.

There are stutters, freezes, sudden fps drops, everything. 51 fps with 5600x-32g ram-6900xt-m2 nvme is truly incredible. Yes, I started to see 51 fps, especially in urban drift races. The game was a disgrace.

Last night, I installed Win11 from scratch and installed the game without installing anything. Maybe it's my fault. But unfortunately nothing has changed. A lot of my time was wasted.

I don't even want to think about what would happen if I had the recommended requirements on the game's purchase page

In Forza Horizon 5, the system I got 2k 160 fps with ray tacking turned on at extreme settings, but there is not even ray tracing in this game, it drops to 51 fps. Like a joke.

7 Replies

  • Yes.. Same problem I am also having.. after the VOL 7 update. Many users are encountering this issue. EA needs to fix this with patch update soon or else the players will leave this game. @EA_Groguet  Please have look on this. 

  • EA_Groguet's avatar
    EA_Groguet
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    1 year ago

    @D_M_DMAX_A_X wrote:

    Yes.. Same problem I am also having.. after the VOL 7 update. Many users are encountering this issue. EA needs to fix this with patch update soon or else the players will leave this game. @EA_Groguet  Please have look on this. 


    This was escalated to the game team and It is being investigated. Once I have more information I will let you know.

    -Groguet

  • 65Zulu's avatar
    65Zulu
    New Rookie
    1 year ago
    @EA_Groguet Pretty sure everyone is experiencing this issue across all platforms. It's using alot of cpu, and we are all getting stutters, low fps, high heat and i've also been getting alot of game CTD. It's unacceptable! My 4 year old son plays this for abit of fun but even he is getting annoyed with the constant crashing that never used to occur before this latest update. Please fix this !
  • 2SMOKE_TM's avatar
    2SMOKE_TM
    Seasoned Veteran
    1 year ago

    There is probably no other company that is as indifferent and upsets its customers as EA. We have been waiting for days for a slight answer. The answer that comes at the end is very different from what we expected, Robotic nonsense like wifi or ethernet, is your driver up to date, is your windows up to date. It seems like it's always the user's fault. 

    I haven't seen any problem solved in this forum yet. Users try to solve problems by exchanging ideas among themselves. The company only advertises on Twitter. There is no solution or help from here, Twitter or the help desk.

    I think they'll be relieved when everyone's PC explodes from overheating.

  • 65Zulu's avatar
    65Zulu
    New Rookie
    1 year ago

    I found that locking the FPS to 60 using Nvidia control panel helped. It stop all the crashes (CTD) for now. CPU usage seems up there still but least this has solved one problem

  • 2SMOKE_TM's avatar
    2SMOKE_TM
    Seasoned Veteran
    1 year ago

    CPU usage seems to have improved slightly with the 7.1.0 patch. But it still doesn't come close to Vol 5. Thank goodness for that.

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