Severe FPS Drops and Poor Performance in EA SPORTS FC 26 on PC (Steam)
Hello EA Support, I am experiencing a serious performance issue in EA SPORTS FC 26 on PC (Steam). Every time I launch the game and start a match, the frame rate drops from around 144 FPS to 10-30 FPS, making the game almost unplayable. The performance does not return to normal, and the FPS remains low and unstable throughout the match. This issue occurs in all game modes, including Kick Off, Career Mode, Ultimate Team, Clubs, and every other mode I have tested. My PC specifications: CPU: Intel Core i5-12400F GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 4GB RAM: 16 GB DDR4 3200 MHz Storage: SSD I have already tried updating the NVIDIA graphics driver, reinstalling the driver, verifying the game files through Steam, changing all in-game graphics settings, clearing the DirectX Shader Cache, disabling all overlays, testing different NVIDIA Control Panel and NVIDIA App settings, and resetting the game settings. None of these steps solved the problem. Other games run perfectly on my PC without any FPS or performance issues. This problem only occurs in EA SPORTS FC 26. Please investigate this issue and let me know if there is a known fix. Thank you.
FC 26 ran at 60 FPS once, now it's permanently stuck at 20–30 FPS
I'm hoping someone can help because I'm completely out of ideas. My laptop is an Acer Aspire A515-57G-55N9 with: Intel Core i5-1235U NVIDIA GeForce MX550 2GB GDDR6 8GB RAM Windows 11 (Build 26200) BIOS V1.31 Original Acer charger connected FC 26 (Steam version) The strange thing is that FC 26 has always run poorly for me: Main menu: around 15–20 FPS Gameplay: around 25–35 FPS But one time, something really weird happened. After enabling Sync MMIO in ThrottleStop's TPL settings, I launched FC 26 and the game suddenly started running exactly how I expected: Menus were a smooth 60 FPS I started a Kick-Off match and gameplay stayed at 60 FPS Cutscenes dropped to around 30 FPS (which seemed normal) As soon as gameplay resumed, it immediately went back to 60 FPS I thought I'd finally fixed it. Then I closed the game. Every launch since then has gone straight back to 15–20 FPS in the menus and 25–35 FPS during gameplay, and I've never been able to reproduce that 60 FPS session, even after using the exact same settings. At this point I've tried almost everything I can think of: DDU in Safe Mode Latest NVIDIA drivers Acer's original NVIDIA driver Verified Steam game files NVIDIA Control Panel set to High Performance / Prefer Maximum Performance Windows Graphics Settings set to High Performance High Performance power plan Different ThrottleStop settings (including Sync MMIO on/off) WinSAT Formal Clean boot Multiple NVIDIA driver versions Latest BIOS Always using the original Acer charger I also wanted to rule out a hardware problem, so I ran Unigine Superposition (720p Low). Results: Score: 11,896 Average FPS: 88.98 GPU Utilization: 99% The MX550 seems to perform normally in benchmarks. While FC 26 is running, GPU-Z shows: GPU usage: 100% GPU clock: around 1800 MHz Board power: about 25W GPU temperature: around 80°C So the GPU appears to be working normally. The only obvious limitation I have is 8GB of RAM, and memory usage reaches 96–100% while the game is running. What confuses me is that the game proved it could run at 60 FPS once. If the hardware wasn't capable, that shouldn't have happened. Has anyone seen something similar? Could this be related to: Shader cache? DirectX initialization? NVIDIA Optimus? EA AntiCheat? A memory leak? Or some bug specific to FC 26? I've attached all of my screenshots, including: GPU-Z sensor readings ThrottleStop settings and limit reasons Task Manager (CPU/RAM usage) NVIDIA Control Panel settings Superposition benchmark results System information BIOS version Other diagnostic screenshots from my testing I'd really appreciate any suggestions because I'm genuinely running out of things to try.
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