fps issues on PC

@BearGrillsKills

What are your graphics settings in-game?  Ultra, High, Med, Low?  What is your screen resolution set to?

@BearGrillsKills

Could you do me a favor and answer my last questions?  Thanks!!

@BearGrillsKills

Would you be ok if your frames were locked at 60?  I can give you steps to lock your frames, and then you might not see the drops as much.

I'm in the same boat here, GTX960 4GB, i5, 8GB RAM, no difference between high or low settings, frame rate is still between 15 - 20FPS.

I have another PC that runs on high, with no issues on a GTX 680 2GB. I have tried VSYNC on/off, uninstall, update, graphics drivers. I have tried older drivers, I have tried turning off the Origin in game option. Nothing is working so far. This issue was not always prevalent though as I had the game running at ~100FPS on high settings before January, something happened in Jan, then boom.

I have tried other games also (Arkham City, Crysis 3, Far Cry 4, etc.), high settings, no frame issues at all.

Do you have a multi-core CPU?

What are your windows power settings?

Some CPU's will attempt to power-save when they are not using ~50% of CPU. This results in a reduction of the CPU frequency/clock to scale back the power consumed. Surprisingly, the CPU load can often drop below this even in a heavy game. When this happens, its noticeable as stuttering laggy framerate. (also make sure bios is set to use OS power management, which is usually the case by default)

You can turn this feature off by either choosing "High Performance" power option in windows or by creating a custom power scheme and changing the settings to suit.

http://superuser.com/questions/565347/how-does-windows-limit-the-cpu-power-options-battery-saving

This gives a general idea of how the settings can affect performance. You want to make sure that GPU, CPU and PCI-e link states are all running 100% at all times.

You can also google "Turn off CPU parking" which may also help.

You can check your graphics performance with the following console commands:

PerfOverlay.Enable true

PerfOverlay.DrawGraph true

PerfOverlay.DrawFps true

It may help to run windows task managers performance monitor and look for programs and or CPU frequency or load changes as you see spikes/lag in-game.

Hi, Thank-you for your response.

Unfortunately, I am already familiar with this information and had already taken these measures before making my last post.

My Windows power settings are set to High Performance, I have also checked the individual advanced settings to ensure nothing was set incorrectly.

I have checked my BIOS settings and disabled parking on all cores.

I  have checked the Task Manager for any process CPU or Memory usage during this issue.

I would not really class this issue (at least the issue I am having) as lagging though, rather a constant drop; Where my frame rate was once >100fps constantly, it is now <20 constantly.

Regardless of settings mentioned earlier.

I will also note that I have tried a few more things since:

Remove, reseat graphics card, check PCI-e power connectors to GPU.

Reinstall Windows 10 and install fresh NVidia drivers.

One very important note is that, one in every 20-30 launches, the game will work PERFECTLY, and as long as it is running, it works great, >100FPS!!

Just want to give you the most information I can, thanks again for the help.