Try turning off Shadows. There are issues in this game with Shadows.
You can also try running in Fullscreen(Windowed) -- I heard that helps with FPS.
I've got a pretty good computer and with Shadows on it gives me fits. I run everything else
full up.
Hello, and thank you for your reply.
I already tried changing fullscreen / windowed, and removing shadows. Lowering the graphic settings to the minimum for every setting, even then, I had FPS drops in a war zone.
EDIT - Example of a point where 40 FPS makes no sense what so ever. There is NOTHING on the screen to cause such an FPS drop.
The WZ FPS is a known issue. It's some sort of problem with the UI in that regards.
As for during a cutscene... I don't know. Are you drivers up to date?
@Bloodybolt wrote:The WZ FPS is a known issue. It's some sort of problem with the UI in that regards.
As for during a cutscene... I don't know. Are you drivers up to date?
Yes. Every single driver on my PC is up to date. From headset drivers to BIOS.
EDIT - Here's another example. Same conversation with the same NPC, half a second difference, different POV, and 40 FPS difference. The first picture is the 20 FPS one, the 2nd is the 60 FPS.
I have played the exact conversation with shadows off, and had 60 FPS and no drops.
Now, is there anything I could do to fix that ? Or am I doomed to play this game without shadows forever ? My machine can clearly handle the shadows, as some cutscenes are solid 60 FPS and some parts are 20. I wouldn't mind if the 20 FPS was limited to cutscenes, but it affects gameplay aswell.
Also, is there any chance the issue could be the shadow cascade resolution ? I have a 16:10 monitor, and play on 1680x1050, and there isn't a shadow resolution that fits either of those exactly.
FPS will vary depending on areas but as long as gameplay is smooth I would ignore it. (as mentioned warzones are a separate problem with the UI)
Your issue with AA is the Crimson drivers and setting medium or installing the beta or reverting to a driver prior to crimson is a workaround.
see https://community.amd.com/thread/193036 may also be contributing to your fps issue
it may also be being throttled with Crimson drivers as another possibility see here
Thank you for your reply. I realize now that this is a driver issue, and not something I could fix except roll back to previous version. Luckily, I don't have as severe problems as the guy with the 105C GPU temperature :P
I have done something that seems unrelated, but somehow solved the problem partially. In the settings.ini I changed D3DFullScreen to false, then re-entered the game and put it on windowed exclusive. This increased my average FPS by about 10~, and the random drops aren't as steep as before. Gameplay FPS still isn't as high as I'd like, but it's enough so I could play with Shadow Map Cascades on medium; that would have to do until a new GPU driver version comes out, as I have no intention to go through the ordeal of rolling back at the moment.
I really hope a new version of my GPU drivers would come out soon and fix that, as I've already dropped the game after the Shadow of Revan massive performance issues, and I try not to get attached to games that are badly optimized / perform poorly on my machine.
I think overall, what worked mostly was turning off BitRaider and doing that weird switch in the settings ini.
PS - Cutscene FPS is still horrible, haven't managed to fix that.
