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Re: Low performance, FPS drops

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?

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  • Malabism's avatar
    Malabism
    10 years ago

    @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.

  • proxos666's avatar
    proxos666
    Hero+
    10 years ago

    @Malabism

    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

  • @proxos666

    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.

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