Dear Funcom Devs,
after the patch 2.5 i had much problems in terms of animations and more serious performance problems. I play Solo.
The problems are:
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MAIN PROBLEM: sudden fps drops from 60 fps to 27 - but only for about 5% of the frames - i used the overlay of NVIDIA for it (also tested it disabled, stuttering remaining)
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Animation Problems - Character bobs up when no weapon is in Hand - because of the one Frame Knee Bending in IDLE State - there seems to be a timer of 5 sec, so that this happens often if u are in your base.
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More Animation Problems - If you have Weapons or Tools (Axe/Pick) in your Hand if you log out, it gets unequipped - but it remains in the hand of the character. If you select now after new start another Weapon or tool BOTH are visible in your hand. It can be fixed if you turn on and off the old and new tools a few times and is then ok for the rest of the session.
Most important for me are the frame drops. I have invested much time in looking for the reasons.
What i have tried to solve it:
- Complete new installation of the game (removing ALL Files from previous installation)
- New start of the game (siptah)
- Installation of the newest driver from NVIDIA for my RTX 3060 (also looking for all other drivers)
- Windows ist also on the newest patch
My System:
I5 6600 @ 3.3 Ghz
Gigabyte Geforce RTX 3060
16 GB Ram
Samsung 970 SSD 1 TB
Looking for Bootlenecks (CPU/GPU/Memory/Diskload)
On Ultra Settings (VSYNC on):
CPU Load is about 45% Spikes up to 60% never seen more (Taskmanager and Nvidia Tool)
GPU Load is between 60% and near 70% never goes above these
GPU Memory usage is at 3.5 GByte - the card has 12 GB - so much space left
Memory Usage is under 8 GB - so only about 50%
Activity on SSD is very low, seen there 1% Load, when everything is loaded
I also tried to lower the settings to see if it has some impact on the performance and the stuttering.
On lower settings nothing betters. It seems to have no impact at all. Setting all to Mid changes nothing. Every single option can be turned to low, the fps-drops to less than 30 fps stays.
Capping all to 60 fps ist a bit better, but the frame drops are only a bit rarer, the quality (less than 30) stays.
Where and when happens it more or less:
Standing still is without any drops
Turning 360 degree has drops to 45 fps, often not disturbing
Running and walking has then from time to time thes 27 fps drops, very disturbing.
Before 2.5 i never had problems, with or without mods, everything was smooth and it was really fun just to run and climb and swim and look everywhere. I hope there will be some patch for it, or if some configuration may help fast i am willing to give it a try. I looked a lot in things like Garbage Collection, tried mostly everything i could find in forums, but nothing helped, so i always come back to the original settings.