Dramatic performance loss post patch in local splitscreen from second race
Reporting this again as i think it got lost in the forum migration. Report code: VTMH-RKVH-SRHB-KGXD Issue not present on v1.15 and earlier. Originally reported on v1.16 but still occurring on 1.17. Yet to try it on 1.18 but this issue is not listed in the patch notes. This is F124, on PC, on Windows 10. Since the most recent (v1.16) patch, when playing a splitscreen season (we ususally do 6 or 7 races), from the second race we experience a profound slowdown; dramatic loss of FPS, unresponsive menus, from the point of loading the pre-qualifying screen on the second race - the first race is always fine. We've tried this on a different PC too, and the exact same symptoms are observed. Peripherals: Razer DeathAdder Pro mouse Wisfox CE0142 USB Keyboard 2x Wireless Xbox one controllers To recreate: Play local splitscreen, create a season of 6 or 7 races of medium length, and play it. The symptoms are observed from the second race onwards (we did see it on the third race on one single occasion, but since then it has exclusively begun at the second race) Menus become extremely slow to respond to button presses. When you eventually reach the race, FPS has dropped to unplayable flip-book type levels. If you attempt to open Task Manager at this point the game will crash silently. The game continue to work smoothly as it has done until the most recent patch. This issue has driven me nuts - I've only recently realised it is patch related. Initially I thought it was Feedback Hub running in the background, but I uninstalled this and installed a microsoft patch, which had no effect. I also suspected CPU overheating for a time, and replaced my CPU cooler, but it is also not that (although it did need replacing). I have tried the suggested fix of deleting the hardware settings files and letting them regenerate, again to no avail. And as mentioned in the bug report form, when we began to suspect patch 1.16, we tried it on a different PC and observed the exact same symptoms, so we are now confident that this is a game issue rather than a local configuration issue. We can benchmark fine (Vegas avg: 87, Silverstone avg: 117), and we can also play a full single race and complete it without issue. 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