GTX 980 Ti, i7 3770K, 16GB RAM. Massive performance drop & stuttering since 0.4. GPU usage does not exceed 45%

[faro06]

oh man, embarrassing it is
Unseating really helped. by securing the card by the screws, GPU got lifted out of the seat a tiny bit.
see here, bus load very low, fps on standard high and 1920x1080,±70fps, butter smooth
Good to see that early access games can help troubleshooting system. I mean i play a lot, all the new actual games, and never had a problem,always high fps, thats why i was wondering.
Many thanks for all your help and tips.
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[Urquhart]

@faro06 Well done….I wish you a lot of fun with the alpha now……

@napoleonic I think we have got a little misunderstanding here….
Faro06’s Problem was not a bit poor performance. It was an unplayable game.
I absolutely agree with you, the games performance is not good now but it’s playable….

And…Yea I also hope the beta will be better……

[Argoon]

If you are so sure care to explain why his PCI-E lane was at x1?

I have 5 PCI-E slotes a x1 smaler slot and 4 bigger PCI x16 slotes BUT they ONLY work at x16 if i use a single GPU, if i use Crossfire or SLI then they run at 8X. If i put a pci-e x1 card on a x16 slot it will only run at x1, but usually those cards have smaller connectors so it would be obvious.

Perhaps his motherboard or GPU bugged out on him, even tho he put a x16 card on a x16 slot perhaps some incompatibility or Hardware problem made it go to x1 speed only.

edit: it seams the developer was right has the affected user made the test and it worked, so i hope you have the amiability to admite your error and apologize.

[Alabie]

the lack of difference between high and low would suggest that graphics are not the source of the issue. i think it’s likely the ai is the source of the performance issue, and the fact that the camp is the source of lagging would seem to corroborate this. most of the major npcs are gathering there, the ai is performing combat routines, minor npc pass through there on various routines. and the game is looking same as before, just more assets at better quality only. so lets not go crazy with downgrade hysteria.

i think once they are able to make npc operate more efficiently in the background while maintaining

Then why do I still have a low fps in the middle of the forest with no AI around? I sure hope they arent simulating every npc in the world that isn’t being rendered with 100% accuracy. Thought I guess technically that can be considered an optimization, so we’ll see.

Honestly if they did a quick optimization pass now to get us all over at least 30fps i’d be a happy camper. Itll be much easier to test if I’m not constantly getting headaches.

[nmk]

They mentioned in one of the older videos about Alpha that this is indeed the case, they are simulating every NPC in the game world. And they were talking about optimizing this in various ways. So they probably haven’t implemented these optimizations yet. Once these land it should be a major performance boost. It makes sense that they don’t want to do it prematurely before their AI system is finalized.

[McWonderBeast]

I sure hope they arent simulating every npc in the world that isn’t being rendered with 100% accuracy.

You may have noticed the lack of loading screens, or that buildings can be entered freely without loading cells.

This is the reason waiting and sleeping takes so long its allot of information to process.

WH is working on optimization but please keep in mind that there are still features to be added.

[Alabie]

They mentioned in one of the older videos about Alpha that this is indeed the case, they are simulating every NPC in the game world

Ouch, that explains it then. Even if realism is important simulating every offscreen NPC with 100% accuracy is terrible.

[patton]

I have exactly the same setup, 970, 16gb ram, and have exactly the same problem as the OP

[scorpgul]

Hey guys, I’m back on this post now as Steam just downloaded a 3.7GB update and I got excited hoping for some performance improvements. However I quickly found out that this is in fact the worst performance I have seen yet.

I am running at 1080p, all settings maxed, Motion Blur OFF, all distance sliders maxed and my GPU usage is 25%-50% max.

Stuttering is now severe, occuring every 5 seconds, FPS is shockingly low averaging around 32. It is totally unplayable right now. It is a shame as I am a big supporter of this game and wanted to really dig into the beta but I dread going into swordfights with such bad performance. olooks like I will have to sit this Beta version out and wait for some patches.

My specs are:

i7 3770k @ 4.5GHZ with Hyperthreading enabled
MSI GTX 980 Ti GAMING 6GB @ 1454MHZ (Latest Geforce Driver 364.51)
Asus Sabertooth Z77 (Latest Bios)
G SKILL Ripjaws X 16GB RAM
Windows 10 Pro 64 Bit
Game installed on SSD.

[McWonderBeast]

all distance sliders

There is a known issue with adjusting any of the advanced settings (this is discussed in yesterday’s live stream).

Reset to default setting values (I.E. Low, Medium, High, Very) and see if this changes your experience.

[dinxsbumz]

I got the same Problem with a GTX 960 with 4GB, a Phenom II X6 1090T, 16GB RAM.

Framerate is between 15-20 FPS, equal which Setting i use. Tries all Standart ones and nothing really change anything to me, even changing the Resolution effects this. My CPU runs constantly at about 40-50%, my GPU did the same. (See Screenshot).

To me, it seems like a Driver Issue. As seen in some other Post, this depends mostly the newer nVidia-Chipsets.

[sh6690]

here is a video proof.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVIUIaXO0ko

ALL DRIVERS ARE UPDATED

[McWonderBeast]

Could you post some system information?

[sh6690]

Please see the description box in that video.I have explained it.

8GB ddr3 ram 2133
GTX 970 OC
i7 4790k 4GHZ 8 cores

[McWonderBeast]

Please the description box in that video.

Sorry missed that on Youtube.

Thank you you for posting it again here anyways this information will be useful will for QA department.

[sh6690]

I hope you guys fix it.Iv not been able to play the game ever since i backed it 8-9 months back

[Ganymed]

Hey guys, I can’t add much insight to why this is happening but I want to say that I experience the same problems (fps between 30-45 at all max settings, frame drops every 5 to 10 seconds) even though I have a quiet powerful system:

6700k@4GHz
GTX 1080 (8GB VRAM)
32GB DDR4
and I am loading the game from an SSD

At max settings the GPU never even reaches the default clock frequency, VRAM is at 3.9 to 4GB, and the game uses between 8 and 10GB memory, the game seems to utilize one core a bit more than the others but none reaches 100% usage.

So based on what I have experienced and what I have read in this thread I would agree with the others that is is some how an engine problem.

[Darayavush]

Hi,

I have the exact same problem with my GTX1080 AND i7 5700k, 16Gb ram.

I checked the lanes and I am on x16 so problem doesn’t come from there.

As usual, works well on other games except one.

I suppose it is the setback of a beta version.

This is not written to complain, this is written to inform.

[DrFusselpulli]

@Darayavush & @Ganymed this is because the game is not optimized yet, the final game will run much more smoother.

@faro06 you got a response at your support ticket.

[Darayavush]

I thought so, but I thought it was good for you to know